Lets Paint The Kettle Black,Do You Have A Bitch On Whats Going On Around The Site Or Any Thing Negative To Report

Careful Ireland ... remember, we both have Visioneer's ! Lets hope it'd not the company in bad Karma! Actually, I smacked it really hard by accident when I was moving things about. Now, I try to scan, but while I have the green light on, the light inside goes on and off and screetches like some poor tortured critter. If I try it again, I fear my neighbors will call the cops that I'm doing weird cruel things to animals.

 

gerry are ye sure the scanner lock did not engage when ye bumped ye scanner..it happened to me once..
the lock should be on the bottom of the scanner..

 

Regarding Black Friday, (For our non US and Canada friends)
Yes, it is a myth that this is the one day when many of the retailers "Went into the black" for the year, meaning that all sales past this point in time for the year were pure profit. Looking back into past history, many people did not even think about Christmas shopping until Mr. Macy was thoughtful enough to put on a parade in NYC in front of his store, and who should appear at the end of the parade? None other than Santa Claus, hence the official kick off to the Christmas Shopping Season. 30 years ago, many stores had shorter hours, weren't open on Sunday due to local blue laws, Saturday was the ONLY day of shopping for many people so the number of actual shopping days were, like 5. The friday after Thanksgiving was a heavy shopping day because most everyone was off from work at that time. But, as time passed, merchants lengthened their opening hours around the holidays to accomodate the 9-5 people, Blue laws went away and Sundays became fair game, then Sunday the stores stayed open late as well, so now the Christmas shopping season is over a month long now. And we wonder why kids think only of materialism around the time attributed to the birth of Christ.

 

@Ireland....tried it but that's not it. I gave it one hell of a whack not long ago and I think I screwed it up really bad. I'll keep trying as I don't cry uncle quickly but methinks I'm going to have to hold a little funeral service as my visioneer is a vision no more.

 

gerry1
dose it have a LPT1 port on it(parrale)
small chance that might work better,my HP Office jet G85 is still working *L*

 

Thanks Zippy but it doesn't. Go Figure!

 

gerry1
this is how I double check stuff

1.smack it
2.try another plug
3.smack it harder
4.take it apart
5.put it back together if this fails repeat 2-3

 

LMAO! My method exactly! Still no luck though!

 

gerry1
well its not like a scanner or printer are not cheap now adays.

hell you can get a decent combo unit for under 150 or jsut a printer or scanner for under 80

 

ireland
got any pics of Roni/rurouni warriors with the water(torrent) guy saying in text never doubt the power of the torrent?

it soemthign that poped into my head lately....0_o

 

My bitch, this man isn't getting the respect he has earned!

A PETITION TO PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH TO AWARD THE PRESIDENTIAL MEDAL OF FREEDOM TO C.R.”RICK” RESCORLA FOR HEROISM AND GALLANTRY BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY ON SEPTEMBER 11,2001.



MR. RESCORLA CAME TO THIS COUNTRY AS AN IMMIGRANT TO BECOME AN OFFICER IN THE ARMY. MR RESCORLA SERVED WITH SUCH DISTINCTION AS AN OFFICER IN VIET NAM THAT ALL WHO SERVED WITH HIM CONSIDER HIM THE BRAVEST MAN WE HAVE EVER KNOWN. HE WAS HIGHLY DECORATED FOR HIS BRAVERY AND LEADERSHIP IN COMBAT. HE BECAME A US CITIZEN AND SOUGHT A HIGHER EDUCATION OBTAINING A BACHELOR AND MASTERS DEGREE AT UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA AND FURTHER OBTAINING A LAW DEGREE BEFORE SERVING A AS TEACHER AT USC LAW SCHOOL BEFORE BEING LURED TO THE WORLD OF COMMERCIAL BANKING. MR. RESCORLA’S SPECIALTY WAS SECURITY AND SECURITY LAW. IN 1993 HE WAS THE LAST MAN OUT OF THE TRADE TOWERS AFTER EVACUATING EVERYONE. ON SEPT.11TH IN SPITE OF BEING TOLD HIS BUILDING WAS NOT IN DANGER, HE IMPLEMENTED THE EVACUATION PLAN HE HAD DEVELOPED FOR HIS FIRM, MORGAN STANLEY. AS A DIRECT RESULT OF HIS EFFORTS THAT DAY AND HIS QUICK ACTION, OVER 2600 EMPLOYEES WERE SAVED. MR RESCORLA WAS LAST SEEN GOING UP TO RESCUE PEOPLE WHO WERE UNABLE TO GET DOWN. HIS ACTIONS REFLECT THE VERY BEST ABOUT AMERICA, ITS CITIZENS AND ITS DREAMS.


THE UNDERSIGNED URGE YOU TO RECOGNIZE MR RESCORLA BY BESTOWING THIS HIGHEST HONOR TO THIS MOST DESERVING MAN.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

You can sign the petition here:

http://www.petitiononline.com/pmfrick/petition.html

There was a huge article on him. Google it. He lived a very interesting life. In the book "We Were Soldiers... and Young" he appears on the cover as a silhouette. The movie, "We Were Soldiers" was based off that book and he was actually sent an advance copy. He played a crucial role in the intense and bloody fights in both Landing Zone X-Ray and Landing Zone Albany in the Ia Drang Valley in 1965.

He was recommended for the Congressional Medal of Honor but never received it. Help him get his well deserved Presidential Medal of Freedom.

 

@Zippy ... just went out and bought a new HP Scanjet 4890.

And now, in celebration of my new toy,....voila, an as yet unretouched photo of Gerry1 as a boy...I have no idea how old as I'm not good at guessing such things.



While I might appear like some poor deprived child from the wrong side of the tracks, my parents were merely cheap to an indescribable degree! No new cloths for gerry1 when he had two older brothers LOL! (Parents had the ol' depression mentality bigtime though). Kind of young to have those dark circles under my eyes ... must have been up drinking the night before.

From an 1972 drivers licenseafter an operation that decended my testicles. Not bad for a photo only about three quaters of an inch:



O.k. No more abuse of my adoring public LOL! But I must remember to renew the license.

 

gerry1 use this pix for ye new driver license pix.

 

Oh look "The plane, the plane" Sorry LOL

 

LMAO!!! Damn that's good Ireland. I should send that to my dad and sister. Everyone at home loves that pic of me as a kid....my dad laughes to this day that he could have been so cheap as to allow his kids to look like poverty strickened urchins from a dickens novel. I'm having fun with my new toy and I'm sure everyone will love my new driver's license. I'll keep using my photoshop elements instead of what they have in the enclosed software but it came with a photocataloging system I'll have to look at....tis a blessing in disguise really, I need to clean all that out and backup. My collection is no where as extensive as yours but probably have more than most as I use it for my artwork. You know, I should draw something for dRDs consideration for his site's homepage ... someone could use photoshop to give it modernized touches and he could replace that clip-art quality logo with something imaginative...perhaps use the current logo and work on it or design a real "after-dawn". What do you think? He'd probably never go for it but it would be fun.

 

@Shado36...LMAO! ... and I'm french too, just like the other ugly midget LOL!

 

Britain's unluckiest man falls down manhole


16 major accidents during lifetime of mishaps
By Lester Haines → More by this author
Published Friday 24th November 2006 11:49 GMT


A 54-year-old Doncaster unfortunate - dubbed "Britain's unluckiest man" - has continued a lifelong tradition of mishaps by falling down a manhole, Ananova reports.

John Lyne, of Stainforth, near Doncaster suffered injuries to his back, left leg and both knees as a result of the tumble, and will be out of action for 32 weeks, according to the Doncaster Free Press.

Lyne's career began as a child, when he fell off a horse and cart and was run over by a delivery van. As a teenager, he fell from a tree and broke his arm. On his way home from hospital - on Friday 13th - the bus he was in crashed, provoking another fracture in the same arm.

Since then, he's been hit by lightning twice, fallen victim to a rock-fall in a mine, has nearly drowned and has enjoyed three car crashes.

Lyne said: "I don't think there is any reason or explanation for it though, it has just happened really. I have to particularly be careful on the Friday 13ths, when a few accidents have fallen."

The poor bloke added: "Everyone thinks it is just hilarious. My mates, family and wife Susan just laugh about it."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/24/britains_unluckiest_man/

 

Ouch! I've only been in one nasty one and have been paying for it since!

 

MY BITCH FOR TODAY


The newest list of exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is out, and the Register of Copyrights is recommending six exemptions this time around. If you've been hankering for the legal authority to remove Sony's rootkit or to unlock your cell phone, then this will be big news. If you were hoping for the ability to make backup copies of your legally purchased DVDs, you're (still) out of luck.

STORY HERE
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/46/295688#2571311

 

MY SECOND BITCH OF THE DAY..

Radioactive element found in blood of Russian ex-spy

* 18:09 24 November 2006
* NewScientist.com news service
* Debora MacKenzie



Traces of radioactive polonium have been found in the blood of the deceased Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko, the UK’s Health Protection Agency (HPA) said on Friday. His urine also tested positive for radiation.

“This is an unprecedented event in the UK,” said HPA chief executive Pat Troop. “It is the first time someone in the UK has apparently been deliberately poisoned with a radioactive agent.”

The agency is now assessing the health risks posed to members of the public who may have come into contact with Litvinenko, including family members and hospital staff who cared for him during the weeks he spent in hospital. They are also trying to decide the safest way for pathologists to conduct an autopsy of his body, and indeed whether such a procedure is safe enough to be performed at all.

Litvinenko, aged 43, died on Thursday of heart failure after claiming he had been poisoned in a London restaurant. He was formerly an agent of the Soviet, then the Russian, security service. He specialised in investigating organised crime and its involvement with corrupt officials.

High levels of radiation have been discovered in a central London hotel that Litvinenko frequented, and at the sushi restaurant where he said he ate on 1 November 2006. The restaurant has now been closed, said the HPA.

“Tests have established that Mr Litvinenko had a significant quantity of the radioactive isotope polonium-210 in his body,” the HPA announced on Friday. “It is not yet clear how this entered his body. Police are investigating this.”
Dissolvable salt


Litvinenko was not admitted to London's University College Hospital until 17 November. His symptoms, reported to include hair loss, dehydration, vomiting and a very low white blood cell count, are consistent with poisoning by a radioactive material.

To poison someone, polonium would most likely have been chemically combined in some type of dissolvable salt, for example polonium nitrate, experts told New Scientist. In this form the material could easily have been added to his food and ingested.

Polonium is a radioactive element that is used industrially as an anti-static material. It is difficult to get hold of and not used regularly by research scientists, but very small traces of it occur naturally. The metal is usually made by bombarding the element bismuth with neutrons.

"To poison someone, large amounts of polonium-210 are required and this would have to be manmade, perhaps from a particle accelerator or a nuclear reactor," said Dudley Goodhead at the UK's MRC Radiation and Genome Stability Unit. “Polonium has a half-life of 138 days. This means that if that was the poison it will still be in the body and in the area – which makes it relatively easy to identify.”
Knocking out electrons

Polonium-210 decays to lead-206, which is stable. During the decay it emits alpha particles – two neutrons combined with two protons. These are not able to penetrate most materials, including skin. This means that Litvinenko would have had to ingest the polonium or have it enter his body through a wound or by inhaling it, said Roger Cox, director of the UK’s Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards.

“Alpha particles are ionising. When they strike tissue they knock electrons out of molecules. Such damage can in serious cases wreck cellular machinery resulting in cancer, radiation sickness, or worse," said chemist Andrea Sella at University College London.

But the short-range action of alpha particles decreases the risks faced by people who may have come into contact with Litvinenko. Normal hygiene practices would reduce the risks still further, since people would have to ingest or breathe in his bodily fluids or faeces to be at risk, Cox added.

Many details are still unknown, such as how much of the material may have been given to Litvinenko. Cox was only able to say that a fatal dose would have to be something greater than 5 grays (a gray is a measurement of the amount of radiation absorbed by body tissue).
Organ malfunction

Determining the amount of polonium originally given will involve a “backwards analysis”, taking into consideration the radiation currently in his body, the days that have passed since it entered his body, and the half-life of the isotope.

In low doses over a long period of time, radiation poisoning produces few symptoms, but an increased risk of cancer. In high doses – as in this case, apparently – organs begin to malfunction within a few days to a few weeks, Cox said.

Radioactive poisoning was once used against dissidents by the Stasi, the former security service of East Germany. The Stasi favoured the element scandium (see Cold war, hot secret).

Litvinenko left Russia after reportedly falling out with President Vladimir Putin over a failure to crack down on corruption. His job is said to have made him many enemies. Those enemies, he claimed, poisoned him at a meal in a London restaurant on 1 November 2006. He was reportedly a close associate of exiled Russian billionaire Boris Berezovsky, himself a politically controversial figure in Russia.

On Friday, the British Home Secretary John Reid stated that police have called in experts “to search for any residual radioactive material at a number of locations".
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