the art of writing is discovering what you believe
By TIM ARANGO
The tension between Apple and the music industry stems from Apple’s power over the industry, but it also echoes the traditional divide between suppliers and distributors.
Um, aren’t the labels just packagers and distributors themselves? The artists are the suppliers and the labels are a threatened middleman.
And the newspapers wonder why they are in trouble . . .
Three widely-read web.personalities opine on twitter. I think I’m with TBogg on this one.
Bob Corker and Richard Shelby like to claim that union labor is a failed business model.
But I haven’t heard much about Bob Corker and Richard Shelby saving 155 people’s lives.
[From Daily Kos: This Miracle Brought to You by America’s Unions]
I fixed the WordPress issues I was seeing by simply deleting the rewrite_rules from the database, just wiped ’em out. WP generated a new set and all seems to be well now.
So, to be clear, it had nothing to do with apache server configuration, nothing to do with php, nothing to do with FreeBSD or OS X, and everything to do with WordPress and its self-appointed experts who couldn’t pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
Color me annoyed.
But I respect the sentiment and that they are upfront about it.
American Made products from a 50 year old family run, veteran owned, American company. We have done quite a bit of research to determine which of our products to place on our new American made products web site. Please note that when we say that a product is made in America, that may mean that the raw materials have come from outside United States. For example, If an item is made is made of plastic, the oil used to make the plastic may have come from outside the United States. If one of our fire starters is on this site, the striking rod may have come from Europe, but the product itself was made by a small business person probably in his basement in the United States. On the other hand, you might notice that we don’t have any radios on this site. That is because while even though it may be assembled in the Unites States, all the components are made elsewhere and then the product is assembled in the United States with no American made skills or ideas and that is not truly an American made product to us. If you have questions for more detail about an American made product, please contact us[From American Made Campaign Hat]
Someone who rails against, well, everything shows his usual rigor by misspelling his own name.
[edited to clean up flu or whatever-related quality issues]
1. The so-called welfare queen who drives a Cadillac to the food stamp office. Assume she owns it, needs it to get around, and selling it means she has to find some other way to get around, to look for opportunities or look after her family. The benefits she gets have been exhaustively determined and are inflexible, no matter that they have not kept pace with inflation or any other real costs. The cost of getting rid of it might well outweigh the one time cash she would get.
2. The highly compensated CEOs of the Big 3 carmakers who have decided to hit up the US taxpayer for a bailout. They travelled on corporate jets to meet with Congress and had no idea how much money they wanted or what they would do with it, and had no clue how refusing to fly on commercial airlines would appear to the people whose money they want (that it, the US taxpayer). What about them selling their jets? I suspect the cost of fuel, the pilot’s salary, the landing fees, all would go a long way to helping a local family in Detroit, probably more than one. (According to this, the cost for just one of the mendicants to make an appearance was $20,000.)
Ford owns five jets, GM three, with two more leased (those may be dropped). A Gulfstream IV — commonly used by these plutocrats — costs about $36 million. The CEO of Ford lives in Seattle: his jet is part of his $28 million pay package, since he uses it to return home on weekends.
If these companies are throwing this kind of money around just to keep executives happy — I know they say it’s not about money, that’s just how they keep score at that level — why would anyone want to give them any more? Or even loan it to them?
From the infrequently updated recipe files:
Better Than Store-Bought Hot Chocolate Mix
Mix in a cup or jug:
Add 8 oz hot water.
Stir.
Enjoy.
This is better and cheaper than the packaged varieties, and you know what’s in it, unlike the other stuff:
sugar, modified whey, cocoa (processed with alkali), hydrogenated coconut oil, nonfat milk, calcium carbonate, less than 2% of: salt, dipotassium phosphate, mono- and diglyderides, artificial flavor, carrageenan.
I have been making hot cocoa from scratch (oooh, tricky: heating milk and adding the other two ingredients) for a while, and after talking to someone about an upcoming girl scout camping trip, I decided to try a dry mix that they could take along without needing to heat up milk.
The 44th President of these United States.