Ceiling In A Smoking Room!

What a great statement!!

 

Only a mediocre person is
always at his best.

W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
British writer
highest paid author in the world during the 1930s

Urban Myth or True Fact?

 Subject: Cruise Control Warning

   I wonder how many people know about this?


  A 36 year old female had an accident several weeks ago and
  totaled her car.
  A resident of Kilo , Texas , she was traveling between
  Glade water & Kilo. It was raining, though
  not excessively, when her car suddenly began to
  hydroplane and literally flew through the air. She
  was not seriously injured but very stunned at the
  sudden occurrence!

  When she explained to the highway patrolman what
  had happened, he told her something that every driver
  should know 

-         NEVER DRIVE IN THE RAIN WITH
  YOUR CRUISE CONTROL ON.      

-         She had thought she  was being cautious by setting the cruise control an maintaining a safe consistent speed in the rain. But the highway patrolman told her that if the cruise control is on and your car begins to hydroplane -- when your tires lose contact with the pavement, your car will accelerate to a higher rate of speed and you take off like an airplane. She told the patrolman that was exactly what had occurred.

The patrolman said this warning should be listed, on the driver's seat survivor - NEVER USE THE CRUISE CONTROL WHEN THE PAVEMENT IS WET OR ICY, along with the airbag warning. We tell our teenagers to set the cruise control and drive a safe speed - but we don't tell them to use the cruise control only when the pavement is dry.

The only person the accident victim found, who knew this (besides the patrolman), was a man who had a similar accident, totaled his car and sustained severe injuries.

FireFox Portable and TOR Proxy servers

Activists unveil stealth browser | Tech News on ZDNet

Hacktivismo, a group of human-rights advocates and computer security experts, has released a Firefox-based browser designed to allow anonymous Web surfing.

Difference between ATI and nVidia video card drivers

I just spent 2 hours upgrading an existing driver pack along with the feature set for an ATI video card.  Now don't get me wrong, I like both card companies equally.  They both have great products.  It is just that when working off of the ATI web site, you have to dig around looking for things, then you have to go get this and that from Microsoft before you can install their updates.

 

NVIDIA is a whole different story.  They usually package everything in one install kit, maybe 2, and it does all of the work to finalize your update much quicker.  Both companies offer great feature sets on the video cards and I think they steal engineers between the two companies, however, it just seems to be a lot easier to find and upgrade the bug fixes and improved code with NVIDIA.

 

Here's to being up to date on drivers!!!

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EMail Petitions

 

The truth about Email Petitions

Please take note

 

Just a word to the wise.  Email petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or any other municipality. To be acceptable petitions must have a signed signature and full address. Almost all email that ask you to add your name and forward on to others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida who wants to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards.  All it was and all this email is  to get names and "cookie" tracking info for tele-marketers and spammers to validate active email accounts for their own purposes.  Any time you see an email that says forward this on to "10" of your friends, sign this petition, or you'll get good luck or whatever, has either an email tracker program attached that tracks the cookies and emails of those folks you forward to or the host sender is getting a copy each time it gets forwarded and then is able to get lists of "active" emails to use in spam emails or sell to others that do.

 

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Ah, good ol Dave Barry:

16 THINGS THAT IT TOOK ME OVER 50 YEARS TO LEARN - by Dave Barry, Nationally Syndicated Columnist

1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and
a laxative on the same night.

2. If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meetings."

3. There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."

4. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

5. You should not confuse your career with your life.

6. Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.

7. Never lick a steak knife.

8. The most destructive force in the universe is gossip.

9. You will never find anybody who can give you a clear and compelling reason why we observe daylight savings time.

10. You should never say anything to a woman that even remotely suggests that you think she's pregnant unless you can see an actual baby emerging from her at that moment.

11. There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age eleven.

12. The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers.

13. A person, who is nice to you, but rude to a waiter, is not a nice person. (This is very important. Pay attention. It never fails.)

14. Your friends love you anyway.

15. Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

16. Thought for the day:Men are like fine wine... They start out as grapes, and it's up to the women to stomp the crap out of them until they turn into something acceptable to have dinner with.

Hey Patty

Just wanted you and the world to know that I love you!

It's Just AMAZING

I'm not sure if the following is all true. I have no source of actual facts. Received this in an email and thought that if it were true, it is JUST AMAZING.

Time once again to review the winners of the Annual "Stella Awards." The Stella Awards are named after 81 year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued McDonald's (in NM). That case inspired the Stella Awards for the most frivolous, ridiculous, successful lawsuits in the United States.


Here are this year's winners:

5th Place (tie):
Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas, was awarded $80,000. by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The owners of the store were understandably surprised at the verdict, considering that the misbehaving little toddler was Ms. Robertson's son.

5th Place (tie):
19-year-old Carl Truman of Los Angeles won $74,000 and medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Mr.Truman apparently didn't notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbor's hubcaps.

5th Place (tie):
Terrence Dickson of Bristol, Pennsylvania, was leaving a house he had just finished robbing by way of the garage. He was not able to get the garage door to go up since the automatic door opener was malfunctioning. He couldn't re-enter the house because the door connecting the house and garage locked when he pulled it shut.

The family was on vacation, and Mr. Dickson found himself locked in the garage for
eight days. He subsisted on a case of Pepsi he found, and a large bag of dry dog food. He sued the homeowner's insurance claiming the situation caused him undue mental anguish. The jury agreed, to the tune of $500,000.

(In my opinion this is so outrageous that it should have been 2nd Place!)


4th Place:
Jerry Williams of Little Rock, Arkansas, was awarded $14,500. and medical expenses after being bitten on the buttocks by his next door neighbor's beagle. The beagle was on a chain in its owner's fenced yard. The award was less than sought because the jury felt the dog might have been just a little provoked at the time by Mr. Williams who had climbed over the fence into the yard and was shooting it repeatedly with a pellet gun.

3rd Place:
A Philadelphia restaurant was ordered to pay Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, $113,500. after she slipped on a soft drink and broke her tailbone. The beverage was on the floor because Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument.

2ndPlace:
Kara Walton of Claymont, Delaware, successfully sued the owner of a night club in a neighboring city when she fell from the bathroom window to the floor and knocked out her two front teeth. This occurred while Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the window in the ladies room to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge . She was awarded $12,000 and dental expenses.

1st Place:
This year's runaway winner was Mrs. Merv Grazinski of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Mrs. Grazinski purchased a brand new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, (from an OU football game), having driven onto the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver's seat to go into the back & make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the RV left the freeway, crashed and overturned.

Mrs.Grazinski sued Winnebago for not advising her in the owner's manual that she couldn't actually do this. The jury awarded her $1,750,000. plus a new motor home. The company actually changed their manuals on the basis of this suit, just in case there were any other complete morons around.


"What experience and history teach us is this?that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it." G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831)

AOL Instant Messenger Security Flaw

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6117401.html?tag=nl.e589

A new AOL instant-messaging worm is making the rounds, carrying a malicious payload disguised as a JPEG, according to security researchers.The worm provides a path for rootkits

Second Open IE Security Flaw

Sites exploit new IE flaw | Tech News on ZDNet

Miscreants are using an unpatched security bug in Internet Explorer to install malicious software from rigged Web sites, experts warned Tuesday.



The vulnerability lies in a Windows component called "vgx.dll." This component is meant to support Vector Markup Language documents in the operating system. VML is used for high-quality vector graphics on the Web.



This is the second known and unpatched flaw for IE to surface in as many weeks. Last week Microsoft confirmed a flaw in an ActiveX control related to multimedia. Attack code that exploits the flaw and could be used to hijack Windows PCs running IE 5 or IE 6 has been posted on the Net. Microsoft also has yet to provide a patch for a Word 2000 flaw being exploited in targeted cyberattacks.

Fw: Meaning Of 100%

>>
>>This is a strictly mathematical viewpoint...it goes like this:
>>
>>What does giving 100% really mean?
>>What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder
>>about those people who say they are giving more than 100%? We have all
>>been to those meetings where someone wants you to give over 100%. How
>>about achieving 103%? What makes up 100% in life?
>>
>>Here's a little mathematical formula that might help you answer these
>>questions:
>>
>>If:
>>A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
>>
>>is represented as:
>>1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.
>>
>>Then:
>>
>>H-A-R-D-W-O-R-K
>>8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%
>>
>>
>>and
>>
>>
>>K-N-O-W-L-E-D-G-E
>>11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5 = 96%
>>But,
>>
>>A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E
>>1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%
>>
>>And,
>>
>>B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T
>>2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%
>>
>>AND, look how far ass kissing will take you.
>>
>>A-S-S-K-I-S-S-I-N-G
>>1+19+19+11+9+19+19+9+14+7 = 118%
>>
>>So, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that While Hard work and
>>Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, it's the
>>Bullshit and Ass kissing that will put you over the top.
>>
>>
>>
>>"REMEMBER SOME PEOPLE ARE ALIVE SIMPLY BECAUSE IT IS ILLEGAL TO SHOOT
>>THEM."
>>
>>
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