9. August, 2003 - gun sale at the church!
- Hey, the Minnesota Weapons Collectors gun show is this weekend in St. Paul. I bet I’m going to be too busy to get over there to walk around, though. Turns out I checked in some broken code on a Friday for the second week in a row, and I need to figure out a way to fix it. Plus there’s all the other normal weekend stuff to get done. Ugh.
- Whenever I think about going to a gun show, I end up hearing Gun Sale at the Church (MP3) in my brain. Maybe after this, you will too. (I hear the Beat Farmers version, but Buddy’s is pretty darned close).
- Huh. The other Bill’s Muzzle Energy Computer looks fairly handy. And it’s all in javascript, so you can save a copy on your computer to use when you don’t have a network handy.
- Heard about Operation Oily Immunity? Probably not. See, President Bush signed Executive Order 13303 back in May. It basically immunizes oil companies who are working Iraq from judgements in the US. Sweet deal, if you can get it.
- Huge headaches as U.S. suspends layover loophole. See, up until now, citizens of other countries could stop over in US airports without having a visa, as long as they were flying out of the country again (without leaving the airport). The government has said they need visas to do that now, which means that people will probably start using airlines where they don’t have to transfer in the US to get from, say, England to Mexico. Hey, it’s not like we’ll have to pick up the tab when the airlines lose even more money, right? [strib]
- Swollen Orders Show Spam’s Allure, as shoddy security at a spammer’s website reveals orders that would have grossed them over a half-million dollars in a month. Guess to some people, that kind of money is worth pissing off millions of people.
- Who profits from spam? Surprise , it’s the big companies who’s crap the spammers are selling. The way to stop it would be to make the big companies liable for what their affiliates are doing, but the odds of a law like that passing are about as good as those of your typical Congressman voting to shrink the size of government. [fark!]
- Hey, I’m not the only one who lives by the
If it ain’t in my email, it didn’t happen
philosophy. jr’s got the Phear of Phones, too. And that’s what makes spam so annoying. It’s other crap cluttering up my list of things I have to do. [jr]
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Sat, 09 Aug 2003 09:45:25.