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LPH™ and his dog P™
It's more fun when you put your arms up like this. ... ... ... ... ... ... Classroom website: http://www.thechembook.com
The House Health Care Bill: Read It - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009...
"House Democrats have posted the bill online. A summary can be read here and the full version is here."
- LPH™ and his dog P™
from Bookmarklet
All individuals will generally be required to get coverage, either through their employer or the exchange, or pay a penalty of 2.5 percent of income, subject to a hardship exemption.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
I hope all you young healthy people who don't need health insurance enjoy paying for the health care of we older folks. I'm 15 years away from Medicare, so how convenient that you're going to be forced to pay for my cancer follow-ups soon. Of course, we baby boomers will bleed the country dry over the next two decades and by the time you need it, it will be impossible for you to get great care. But, hey, that makes it all the more generous that you're backing all this. Utterly stupid, but generous. Thanks.
- Dawn
[Extension:Dhflashplayer] - Installed this extension so I could embed videos added to chemvideos.com onto www.thechembook.com - works well. - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki...
[The Chemistry Book Videos] I'm finally setting up the site for uploading videos. I'm mainly interested in uploading lectures for students to view before or after class. - http://chemvideos.com/
[First Fire] Time for hot chocolate and warm slippers.
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Moodle, Tablet PCs, and Atomic Models - http://www.technologyquestions.com/2009...
TCB Virtual Classroom - http://www.thechembook.com/2009...
[Goodbye Novell/Groupwise]: Our school district is moving to a Microsoft Active Directory and Exchange email system.
[Tablet PC List]: OK - who on Twitter has made a list of Tablet PC people that I can follow? Warner? Rob? Loren? Lora? Anyone? Don't make me make this list ;)
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Make the list and then we'll all follow it. ;)
- Warner Crocker
Sounds like a great idea :)
- James Tallman
[I must b stopid department]: Why do tech sites talk about Google Wave when so few people have it? Yeah yeah ... gottabefirst syndrome or ihavesomethingyoudon't syndrome or ... what is your thought?
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Well, what's more interesting to a group of readers? Technology that's on its way or technology that's already spent? In other words, should they be writing about ICQ or Google Wave? I'll take the latter.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva - true - unless we consider that there used to be a time when people didn't write about products until it was widely available - this way the writing showed up on the day of the major release. Guess this doesn't matter with the way Google releases by invites.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
And the fact that so many products are in perpetual beta.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Google Wave has potential, but I do agree that it is silly for people to write about it and made judgments so early, considering it is still just a small preview of what Google Wave may become. As for right now, I was honestly severely disappointed when I first tried Google Wave. I still have faith that it will become something usable, fun, and productive, but right now it just isn't. I...
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- Devin Gaughan
Thank you Devin for an honest appraisal of the current state of Wave - like you - the early judgment was really the core of my point. For me, it takes a long time to try something and see if it is really worth a long term investment.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
@WarnerCrocker OK Warner - list is made and would you do me a favor and ask on GBM (forum/post) to contact me through twitter to be added
Now that lists are out - I'd like to view twitter using these lists - sorta like I did with steroidfeed.com as a view of FriendFeed.com
@steverubel I think a whole group of teens are not using twitter yet. My students got into an argument about twitter just the other day.
[Machine >|< ]: Walt Mossberg says "don’t buy more machine than you need." -- and I say "Always buy more machine than you need." .. How do you advise purchasers of new computer equipment?
[Method to Find People to Follow]: Want a great way to discover people you might accidentally overlook? Go to http://twitter.com/Scoblei... and look who placed Robert on their list ... Pascal thought of this one ... it's the sniff the backend first approach ....
@WarnerCrocker LOL.. and I noticed that listorious.com doesn't show one either ..
[Zkatter]: I was checking this out (just before checking out listorious.com) and am wondering how they tie this in with Twitter rather than try to compete.
[Rude by Accident]: This sucks. I was checking out listorious.com and saw my name on a list of "social-media-must-follow" - and I don't know the person who made the list. Now I feel rude and am motivated to find out more about this person. Have you checked to see if you are on a list and didn't know it?
Pew Report Finds Deceptive Credit Card Practices Remain Widespread - Duh - http://www.pewtrusts.org/news_ro...
"99.7 percent of bank cards allowed issuers to increase interest rates on outstanding balances – a jump from 93 percent in December;"
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from Bookmarklet
95 percent of bank cards permitted issuers to apply payments in a way the Federal Reserve found likely to cause substantial financial injury to consumers; and
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90 percent of bank cards had penalty rate hikes with the vast majority imposed by “hair triggers” of one or two late payments in a year.
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<sigh />
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How well the new law [Credit CARD Act] works, however, will depend significantly on how the Federal Reserve creates new rules under the law to protect consumers.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
[33 pages and going ...] Whew. Lots of hidden money makers for the insurance industry. This isn't shaping up to be good reform for everyone but a money grab for companies. http://docs.house.gov/rules...
p. 67 - Behavioral change component -- ugh
- LPH™ and his dog P™
[Median Income in California]: Taken from the US Census, it looks like dollars are close to numbers from 20 years ago. Figure in rate of inflation and that means ... ew
Thats all of California people. Not just LA or the Bay Area where this is a seriously small salary and extremely hard to live on.
- CW™
Correct -- I was looking for the poverty line for LA -- because I think that uses different numbers.
- LPH™ and his dog P™
"a single adult in Los Angeles needs to make $28,126 a year to live modestly, while a single parent needs $62,393," AND "A two-parent family in Los Angeles with one working member needs $51,035, while a two-working-parent family needs $74,044, the report calculated." http://articles.latimes.com/2007...
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And thats 2007... wonder what it is now three years later and harder.
- CW™
"A family of four in the Bay Area with two working adults must earn $77,069, equaling an hourly wage of $18.53, just to pay for basic necessities, a study released today calculates. If only one adult works, that figure falls to $53,075, largely because the family doesn't have to pay for child care, according to the report by the California Budget Project, a liberal Sacramento research...
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- CW™
Amazing numbers. This gets me thinking about the "jobless recovery" phrase being used by politicians ... what recovery?
- LPH™ and his dog P™
@LPH as long as the banks and corporations are breaking even or making a profit, it's a recovery. Remember the whole spiel about 'Mainstreet not Wall Street?' Yeah, neither do the Congresscritters.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
from fftogo
People keep telling me I'm too pessimistic but ... incomes are down, home values are down, employment is down. Earnings are up ... though largely to do with operational costs (e.g. - we fired people) and while company purchase of technology might seem like a good sign, could it be that they decided to upgrade their technology instead of keeping workers? The short term 'recovery' for...
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- AJ Kohn
@MVB - Mainstreet v. Wall Street is a dichotomy - and the same as saying poor v. rich. It's word games because politicians can no longer speak in terms of 3 classes (poor, middle, and rich). Instead of taking their bait, focus on middle class incomes disappearing over the past 20 years due to the rate of inflation. @AJ - not pessimism but thoughtful , a "jobless recovery" is just...
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[WordPress for iPhone 2] Now available in the Apple app store for a free download. - http://www.technologyquestions.com/2009...
@ilike2cook Nice find. The headline "cooking tablet pc" caught me off guard.
RT @TheNextWeb The 10 Lies and Misconceptions that Web Entrepreneurs tell http://thenextweb.com/2009...
WordPress for iPhone › WordPress for iPhone 2 now available in the App Store - http://iphone.wordpress.org/2009...
5 Life-Improving Technologies - http://www.technologyquestions.com/2009...
"Quick. Name 5 technologies you’ve purchased over the past 5 years that improved your life."
- LPH™ and his dog P™
from Bookmarklet
[FLIR for WordPress]: The plugin installed but configuration must have been wrong because images were broken. I'll try a different approach.
[Lists]: OK. The note says don' tweet about it yet - so ignore this tweet - I'd love to be able to rearrange or add to lists I follow.
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