Will we survive the 2007 March 11 deadline?
JB
Time change: Y2K all over again?
By Charles Babington
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON ? It seemed so simple and familiar: Spring forward, fall
back. For 20 years, that's what Americans ? and their technology ?
have done with their clocks on the first Sunday in April and the last
Sunday in October.
No longer. When few people were paying attention in August 2005,
Congress lengthened daylight-saving time by four weeks in the name of
energy efficiency. The change starts this year ? on March 11 ? and it
has angered airlines, delighted candy makers, and sent thousands of
technicians scrambling to make sure countless automated systems switch
their clocks at the right moment.
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Who coulda thunk?
JB
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Bob Brock
>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003552323_daylight02.html?syndication=rss
>
>Time change: Y2K all over again?
>
>By Charles Babington
>
>The Washington Post
>
>WASHINGTON ? It seemed so simple and familiar: Spring forward, fall
>back. For 20 years, that's what Americans ? and their technology ?
>have done with their clocks on the first Sunday in April and the last
>Sunday in October.
>
>No longer. When few people were paying attention in August 2005,
>Congress lengthened daylight-saving time by four weeks in the name of
>energy efficiency. The change starts this year ? on March 11 ? and it
>has angered airlines, delighted candy makers, and sent thousands of
>technicians scrambling to make sure countless automated systems switch
>their clocks at the right moment.
It's gonna be tough, but somehow we will muddle through. Glad to see
you are still kickin...
JB
wrote:
> It's gonna be tough, but somehow we will muddle through. Glad to see
> you are still kickin...
Howdie Bobby!
Yeah still kickin' but backfirin' once in a while..
Hope your son is ok..
My youngest sister took her own life last week at 44. My father left us a
year ago.
Momo, my beloved yeller for 12 years, gone last summer..
I need a stiff bug..
docd...@panix.com
>On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:34:19 -0500, Bob Brock <bbr...@i-americia.net>
>wrote:
>
>> It's gonna be tough, but somehow we will muddle through. Glad to see
>> you are still kickin...
[snip]
>Momo, my beloved yeller for 12 years, gone last summer..
M Bernier, average canine gestation period is sixty-three days; sufficient
time has passed to satisfy this requirements, for those who place stock in
reincarnation... and there is no patch for a heart like a puppy.
DD
Bob Brock
>On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:34:19 -0500, Bob Brock <bbr...@i-americia.net>
>wrote:
>
>> It's gonna be tough, but somehow we will muddle through. Glad to see
>> you are still kickin...
>
>Howdie Bobby!
>
>Yeah still kickin' but backfirin' once in a while..
Yeah, wait until you get to be my age.
>
>Hope your son is ok..
He discharged from the Army a while back. Called me about two weeks
ago to tell me that I'm going to be a grandpa.
>
>My youngest sister took her own life last week at 44. My father left us a
>year ago.
The sad truth is that it looks like I may survive my second wife.
She's in the hospital now after surgery for a brain tumor. They
couldn't get it all and it's going to require radiation therapy.
Statistically, it's not a very good outlook in five years.
>
>Momo, my beloved yeller for 12 years, gone last summer..
>
>I need a stiff bug..
Don't dwell on the setbacks life has dealt you. Move forward. It
makes the present and past easier to deal with. My advice is to get a
puppy. We did about six months ago. Right now, she's the only thing
keeping me from coming home to an empty house.
Bob Brock
I agree.
JB
wrote:
>> Hope your son is ok..
>
> He discharged from the Army a while back. Called me about two weeks
> ago to tell me that I'm going to be a grandpa.
Bravo!
snip
> Don't dwell on the setbacks life has dealt you. Move forward. It
> makes the present and past easier to deal with. My advice is to get a
> puppy. We did about six months ago. Right now, she's the only thing
> keeping me from coming home to an empty house.
I'm looking at a 40 years old blond named Josée, generously endowed, who
digs mature men (put that in your pipe Mr.Hamasaki) and rides a white
Harley. I'll be haulin' ass with my 1987 450 Honda Nighthawk watching her
behind (cough)!
How do you like them puppies?
JB
> M Bernier, average canine gestation period is sixty-three days;
> sufficient
> time has passed to satisfy this requirements, for those who place stock
> in
> reincarnation... and there is no patch for a heart like a puppy.
Well I've been travellin' lightly.
I had a pup as a gift in December. A Border collie-Irish wolfhound mix but
she was way too agressive. She's on a farm now.
How about yer budgies Doc?
docd...@panix.com
>On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:10:45 -0500, <docd...@panix.com> wrote:
>> M Bernier, average canine gestation period is sixty-three days;
>> sufficient
>> time has passed to satisfy this requirements, for those who place stock
>> in reincarnation... and there is no patch for a heart like a puppy.
>
>Well I've been travellin' lightly.
Then I'd suggest one of the Toy breeds.
>
>I had a pup as a gift in December. A Border collie-Irish wolfhound mix but
>she was way too agressive. She's on a farm now.
As such an animal should be; those are Breeds with Jobs and if you're
travelling then they have difficulties working.
>
>How about yer budgies Doc?
They fill the house with their happy burble-and-peep... something's
been added to the menagerie and I guess I never mentioned it here due
to its timing.
Back in '02 I became a dog-owner, myself; a fellow I know, an engineer,
was being badgered by his daughter (aged 2.5 years) for a puppy so he did
some Engineer's Research and decided on the Pug breed. The puppy turned
out to be too active (and, to my eye, maybe a little too
attention-drawing) for his Little Princess and when I came over for the
Thanksgiving holiday he told me 'The two of them don't get along... take
the one, take the other but they both can't be under the same roof.'
I took the one that wouldn't be going to college and am now the delighted
owner of an almost six-year-old, seventeen-pound (7.7Kg) Pug-dog whom I
have named Killer. Now, some dogs have jobs, like the breeds you
mentioned above... Border collies get upset if they cannot herd flocks,
Irish wolfhounds are bred to be hunters, various kinds of retrievers
get... itchy if they are too dry for too long... these dogs have to
*work*. The Pug? The Pug is the result of 2,000 years' worth of breeding
by Chinese royalty/nobility and is designed to sit in your lap, snore and
fart... and put a smile into your chest while doing so.
Sometimes I will wake up in the middle of the night and tend to matters of
waste-disposal... and Killer, sound asleep in my bed, stays in Dreamland.
Other times I will wake up in the dark of night... *blang*, eyes wide
open, cannot sleep, what do I do now? I'll get out of bed and surf the
Web, we live in wonderful times where there are alternatives to late-night
television or Yet Another Trip through one of Dostoevsky's tomes... and
she'll wake up, *blang*, and follow me downstairs so she can magically
appear in my lap - vvvllloooooopp! - circle three times and settle down
with a soul-emptying *ssssiiiiiggggghhhhhh*... and start snoring again...
... and all of a sudden insomnia doesn't seem that much to lose sleep
over. No, she's not a Manly Dog... but that's all right, I believe I
carry enough masculinity to be able to sacrifice a bit at the times when I
am seen in public with a Pug-filled satchel over my shoulder. I've
entered shops where an officious clerk has looked at my carry-bag and
sniffed 'I'm sorry, sir, but you can't have a dog in here'...
... and I will put on a pair of sunglasses I carry just for that purpose
and said 'I'm Stevie Wonder, what do you mean I can't have my dog
here?'... and even if they still insist on my going I leave behind a grin
or two.
So that's my suggestion, M Bernier... not a Real dog, demanding you keep
up with its idea of necessary work but, rather, one of the Toy breeds, of
heart-patching size.
DD
JB
>> Well I've been travellin' lightly.
>
> Then I'd suggest one of the Toy breeds.
You mean the dwarf breeds?
snip
> The Pug is the result of 2,000 years' worth of breeding
> by Chinese royalty/nobility and is designed to sit in your lap, snore and
> fart... and put a smile into your chest while doing so.
Eeeeoow! Fit fer a pugnacious King o' England I say!
> Sometimes I will wake up in the middle of the night and tend to matters
> of
> waste-disposal... and Killer, sound asleep in my bed, stays in Dreamland.
> Other times I will wake up in the dark of night... *blang*, eyes wide
> open, cannot sleep, what do I do now? I'll get out of bed and surf the
> Web, we live in wonderful times where there are alternatives to
> late-night
> television or Yet Another Trip through one of Dostoevsky's tomes... and
> she'll wake up, *blang*, and follow me downstairs so she can magically
> appear in my lap - vvvllloooooopp! - circle three times and settle down
> with a soul-emptying *ssssiiiiiggggghhhhhh*... and start snoring again...
With yer famous zzzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz, it must make a mahvelous
duo..
> over. No, she's not a Manly Dog... but that's all right, I believe I
> carry enough masculinity to be able to sacrifice a bit at the times when
> I
> am seen in public with a Pug-filled satchel over my shoulder. I've
> entered shops where an officious clerk has looked at my carry-bag and
> sniffed 'I'm sorry, sir, but you can't have a dog in here'...
>
> ... and I will put on a pair of sunglasses I carry just for that purpose
> and said 'I'm Stevie Wonder, what do you mean I can't have my dog
> here?'... and even if they still insist on my going I leave behind a grin
> or two.
WOW! For a Grandie, allegedly looking like Vincent Price on a bad hair
day, and wearing pink shades, no wonder the Stevie Wonder's routine
misfired.
Except if some of us have been fed smoked eels and yer in fact the King o'
Ethiopia.
> So that's my suggestion, M Bernier... not a Real dog, demanding you keep
> up with its idea of necessary work but, rather, one of the Toy breeds, of
> heart-patching size.
Much obliged bro! My eternal taste goes for German or Belgium sheperds and
recently for Rothweiler (very friendly dawgs).
On the smallish size a Jack Russel terrier could do the trick. Provided he
fetch babes..
Momo was a mix of Collie, yellow Lab, German sheperd, Golden, etc. I'm
still laughing at his clownings. He had his own bed at gLItcH gULch and I
would rise out of bed and bite his ears or blow into his nose so that his
jowls would flap. Merry we were indeed. He was very appreciative of my
cooking by drooling profusely on the floor. Hope there is a heaven for
them great compagnions.
I've been thinking at running a kennel for a long time, bit of breeding.
Can you imagine rolling in the hay with dozens of mutts?
I already feel better..
JB
docd...@panix.com
[snip]
>I already feel better..
Glad to have been of service, M Bernier; let it be hoped that the
implementation is at least half as enjoyable as the contemplation.
DD
Bob Brock
>On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:12:06 -0500, Bob Brock <bbr...@i-americia.net>
>wrote:
>
>>> Hope your son is ok..
>>
>> He discharged from the Army a while back. Called me about two weeks
>> ago to tell me that I'm going to be a grandpa.
>
>Bravo!
I'm glad that he's out. However, in today's Army, one never really
knows if they are out for good or not.
>
>snip
>
>> Don't dwell on the setbacks life has dealt you. Move forward. It
>> makes the present and past easier to deal with. My advice is to get a
>> puppy. We did about six months ago. Right now, she's the only thing
>> keeping me from coming home to an empty house.
>
>I'm looking at a 40 years old blond named Josée, generously endowed, who
>digs mature men (put that in your pipe Mr.Hamasaki) and rides a white
>Harley. I'll be haulin' ass with my 1987 450 Honda Nighthawk watching her
>behind (cough)!
>
>How do you like them puppies?
From what you have said, they must be a nice set of puppies indeed.
>
>JB
Rea...@knowall.org
> It's gonna be tough, but somehow we will muddle through. Glad to see
> you are still kickin...
Statements like this are nothing less than MURDER. Statements like this
cause the Sheeple to be unprepared. You are a lying murderer!
docd...@panix.com
Are there still 'unprepared Sheeple' out there? One might have thought
that they all were killed off during the mass disruptions following the
Big Rollover.
DD
JB
Whois say we have a visitor from the UK.
Could it be our old friend from Scotland?
As Milne moved over the pond?
How thrilling, really!
JB
> Are there still 'unprepared Sheeple' out there? One might have thought
> that they all were killed off during the mass disruptions following the
> Big Rollover.
As I explained to you many times, the damages were mostly financials.
Remember the SEC numbers years late in coming. The pro-formas. Why, just
recently Fanny Mae, Fredie Mac and the Pentagram cannot account for untold
'trillions'. M3 is not published anymore because it would be meaningless
anyway. Ford and GM bankrupt because of the Hamasaki effect. On and on..
Plus that law that did forbid 'any' corporation from suing software codin'
fools. How tellin'!
Some bought dime-a-rands and are still holding 'em. Having so far hit the
350% appreciation mark.
Will Skulls and Bones make a move? The Illuminatis get a kick at occult
numbers. How does 3-11 grabs ya, old hubcap?
Elementary I say..
Dr J R Stockton
2007 15:16:26, JB <hon...@yahoo.ca> posted:
>WASHINGTON ? It seemed so simple and familiar: Spring forward, fall
>back. For 20 years, that's what Americans ? and their technology ?
>have done with their clocks on the first Sunday in April and the last
>Sunday in October.
No longer will it be *Spring* forward. And Election Day will
occasionally be in Summer Time.
>No longer. When few people were paying attention in August 2005,
>Congress lengthened daylight-saving time by four weeks
They did not. They lengthened it by four or five weeks (respectively in
about 3 & 4 years of each 7).
> in the name of
>energy efficiency. The change starts this year ? on March 11 ?
Formally, the DST rules change on March 1st - see the legislation.
--
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Web <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/> - w. FAQish topics, links, acronyms
PAS EXE etc : <URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/programs/> - see 00index.htm
Dates - miscdate.htm moredate.htm js-dates.htm pas-time.htm critdate.htm etc.
Bob Brock
Oh for the good ole days.
docd...@panix.com
>On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:27:27 -0500, <docd...@panix.com> wrote:
>
>> Are there still 'unprepared Sheeple' out there? One might have thought
>> that they all were killed off during the mass disruptions following the
>> Big Rollover.
>
>As I explained to you many times, the damages were mostly financials.
>Remember the SEC numbers years late in coming.
M Bernier, if I recall correctly in the United States of America a
specific law was pass which limited the damages any company could be
forced to pay because of computer errors caused by the Big Rollover to, I
believe, US$250,000.
If I also recall correctly... *no* claims were made in accordance with
that law.
DD
JB
> M Bernier, if I recall correctly in the United States of America a
> specific law was pass which limited the damages any company could be
> forced to pay because of computer errors caused by the Big Rollover to, I
> believe, US$250,000.
>
> If I also recall correctly... *no* claims were made in accordance with
> that law.
This in itself, if correct, is 'way' fishy nay?
JB
docd...@panix.com
>On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:29:30 -0500, <docd...@panix.com> wrote:
>
>> M Bernier, if I recall correctly in the United States of America a
>> specific law was pass which limited the damages any company could be
>> forced to pay because of computer errors caused by the Big Rollover to, I
>> believe, US$250,000.
>>
>> If I also recall correctly... *no* claims were made in accordance with
>> that law.
>
>This in itself, if correct, is 'way' fishy nay?
Perhaps it might be to some, M Bernier... whether that says more about the
conditions of the Rollover or of the some I'll leave to others to
determine; I find little else I might have to say on the matter is
beneficial at this time.
DD
JB
>
> Perhaps it might be to some, M Bernier... whether that says more about
> the
> conditions of the Rollover or of the some I'll leave to others to
> determine; I find little else I might have to say on the matter is
> beneficial at this time.
Right! Are you aware that 'thousands' of files to be investigated by the
SEC just happened to have been buried when WTC7 was 'pulled'.
If you have a look at the lovely groups of tenants at the time, massive
amount of evidence of many criminal cases were blown to kingdom come. All
by the sheerest of coincidences of course, barely 18 months after 1-1-2000.
You know that in the USA, it take 'years" before cases are brought to
justice.
I knew you could..
http://www.wtc7.net/articles/FEMA/WTC_ch5.htm
Floor Tenant
28-45 Salomon Smith Barney (SSB)
26-27 Standard Chartered Bank
25 Inland Revenue Service (IRS)
25 Department of Defense (DOD)
25 Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
24 Inland Revenue Service (IRS)
23 Office of Emergency Management (OEM)
22 Federal Home Loan Bank of New York
21 First State Management Group
19-21 ITT Hartford Insurance Group
19 National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC)
13 Provident Financial Management
11-13 Securities and Exchange Commission
9-10 US Secret Service
7-8 American Express Bank International
docd...@panix.com
>On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:14:19 -0500, <docd...@panix.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Perhaps it might be to some, M Bernier... whether that says more about
>> the
>> conditions of the Rollover or of the some I'll leave to others to
>> determine; I find little else I might have to say on the matter is
>> beneficial at this time.
>
>Right! Are you aware that 'thousands' of files to be investigated by the
>SEC just happened to have been buried when WTC7 was 'pulled'.
>
>If you have a look at the lovely groups of tenants at the time, massive
>amount of evidence of many criminal cases were blown to kingdom come. All
>by the sheerest of coincidences of course, barely 18 months after 1-1-2000.
Post hoc ergo propter hoc has been called a logical fallacy, M Bernier;
that one can draw a line between two points might say less about the
points and more about one's ability to draw lines.
DD
JB
> Post hoc ergo propter hoc has been called a logical fallacy, M Bernier;
> that one can draw a line between two points might say less about the
> points and more about one's ability to draw lines.
Good to see that you do not deny the fact that WTC 7 was filled with files
of pending SEC investigations about untold evaporated billions.
This 'post hoc ergo propter hoc' technique has been employed with great
success recently by your very own power structure. Indeed, how 19 freedom
haters armed with box cutters managed to highjack 4 intercontinental
aircrafts (each filled at +/- 30% capacity), confuse the almighty
NORAD-FAA apparatus, vaporised to fine dust mighty structures with
kerosene, doing a 360 degree turn to ram the most fortified and nearly
empty part of the Pentagram at ground level instead of a dead ahead
plunging attack on Rumsfeld's ass and other amazin' feats. The laws of
physics and logic were turned upside down.
The guilty parties identified in a matter of hours of course by the 'post
hoc ergo propter hoc' method.
But nary of word o' protest by yer Highness then and now. Why the double
standard?
Perplexed
--
docd...@panix.com
>On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:14:51 -0500, <docd...@panix.com> wrote:
>
>> Post hoc ergo propter hoc has been called a logical fallacy, M Bernier;
>> that one can draw a line between two points might say less about the
>> points and more about one's ability to draw lines.
>
>Good to see that you do not deny the fact that WTC 7 was filled with files
>of pending SEC investigations about untold evaporated billions.
I neither deny it nor confirm it, M Bernier... it has been a few decades
since I regularly spent time in the area.
DD
EskW...@spamblock.panix.com
> Whois say we have a visitor from the UK.
> Could it be our old friend from Scotland?
Not very likely.
--
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russel
JB
>> Could it be our old friend from Scotland?
>
> Not very likely.
Howdie old barrister!
How's the litigation?
EskW...@spamblock.panix.com
> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:14:42 -0500, <EskW...@spamblock.panix.com> wrote:
> >> Could it be our old friend from Scotland?
> >
> > Not very likely.
> Howdie old barrister!
> How's the litigation?
I leave that to other lawyers - the ones who like to fight about
everything. Me, I make deals, and when I'm done, I don't consider it a
success unless everyone is smiling.
Bradley K. Sherman
<EskW...@spamblock.panix.com> wrote:
>--
>The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
>certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
> -- Bertrand Russel
>
You're one ell short of a Lord there, counselor.
--bks
EskW...@spamblock.panix.com
Oops!
--
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell
Better?
JB
> I leave that to other lawyers - the ones who like to fight about
> everything. Me, I make deals, and when I'm done, I don't consider it a
> success unless everyone is smiling.
Way to go!
Look like some will need top lawyers soon!
Hear the first guy..
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/80.html
And this one seem already way under scrutiny..
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0208/S00068.htm
What a trial it will be!
Cheer,
Bradley K. Sherman
<EskW...@spamblock.panix.com> wrote:
>
>Better?
>
If only I'd invested in Gold when they told me to!
--bks
JB
wrote:
> If only I'd invested in Gold when they told me to!
There is at least 2/3 of the way pricewise to go but it is probably a lost
cause with you, old beak!
Maybe an easier concept for you to understand is, at long last, the
revival of the nuclear industry.
No, no, not in California naturally. Granolas and smart alecks still clog
the pipes there.
Anyway I double the pot in last than 6 months with uranium mining, namely
Denison Mines.
Hope that helped!
JB
Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t
The Web site for KDFC.com got trashed by this. For a while their
listings of what they played were *two* hours ahead of standard
time instead of just one. Then the last time I checked they were in
transition to new facilities so links were broken and it wasn't
possible to even reach the pages affected by the double-DST bug, so
I couldn't even check the current state. I checked just now, and
their new Web site has an indirect link to their old Web site which
is still showing two hours ahead of standard time for the last hour
of music, and the old lookup for any specified time within the last
month is no longer even present in the menu. If I directly
enter the URL http://old-kdfc.bonnint.net, I get the old menu,
and if I click on "Look Up By Date and Time", I get ...
Error: 404 Page Not Found
So I can't show you where to verify that all program listings of
the past several weeks are two hours ahead of standard time,
causing in the most obvious way to show the 10 PM major work
broadcast to be listed 11 PM instead. (The rest of the day it's
hard to tell they're an hour off unless you actually rememeber
something they played, but at 10 PM they play a major symphony or
similar work all the way through, so you see a solid block of about
40 minutes for one work instead of the usual 10-15 minutes per
piece-of-work like just one isolated movement, so that you can
recognize the full 40-minute block as displaced even if you weren't
listening at the time.)
docd...@panix.com
Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t <rem...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> From: JB <hong...@yahoo.ca>
>
>The Web site for KDFC.com got trashed by this. For a while their
>listings of what they played were *two* hours ahead of standard
>time instead of just one.
Quelle fromage... errrrrr, dommage!
DD
docd...@panix.com
Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t <rem...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Quelle fromage... errrrrr, dommage!
DD
docd...@panix.com
Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t <rem...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>The Web site for KDFC.com got trashed by this. For a while their
>listings of what they played were *two* hours ahead of standard
>time instead of just one.
Quelle fromage... errrrrr, dommage!
DD
Nope
In case you didn't get it from Doc's three posts.....
Hey Doc, are you impatient or what?
<docd...@panix.com> wrote in message news:etuc8v$e78$1...@reader2.panix.com...
docd...@panix.com
Nope <sp...@filter.com> wrote:
>Quelle fromage... errrrrr, dommage!
>
>In case you didn't get it from Doc's three posts.....
>
>Hey Doc, are you impatient or what?
That might have been obvious by my other posting here; my apologies for
the repeat barrage... there was a difficulty on my end that caused each of
my posting attempts (except for the last) to be met with an error message
about a full /tmp directory; I tried to (C)ancel the error-producing
posting and try again... with, apparently, the results you observed.
Now in the Oldene Dayse there might have been someone who complained that
my efforts Cost Him Money because every bit he downloaded over his
1,200-baud modem was charged for by his Telephone and Postal-System of
State... but, as I recall, all my challenges to such folks along the lines
of 'Tell me how you calculated it and what I owe you and I'll send you an
internationally-accepted money order for it' were answered with either a
resounding silence or a nonsensical '... but it's the *principle* of the
money, not the money, that counts!'
DD