Politicians lament Rover's plight

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My tricycle lament

My tricycle lament 05/16/2004 07:24 PM

I've seen a lot of advertising gimmicks, but wrapping an outdoor ad kiosk in clingwrap is a first. The ad is trying to make paying 50€ for a shrinkwrapped pack of the local telephone books seem alluring. There is a blue 'city info' book that is valuable for the street maps and other very useful information, but it's not worth 50€. I can't remember the last time I used a big, heavy, treeware phonebook to find a phone number so it's a mystery who parts with their cash for them.

We had a good time at the flea market today and managed to sell most of the books we lugged there from our apartment. The economic equation of the buyers wanting everything for less than 5€ and your desire to not haul anything back home makes for a good day for tightwads. What you paid originally for an item vs. what you think it's worth vs. what the buyer is willing to pay is an enlightening experience in capitalism in it's most raw form. It also reminds me why neither Jarkko nor I are in sales or marketing. If I ever go again, I'll take a Finnish sales shark to man the table and deal with the more hardcore old ladies haggling over a few cents. :) A couple people also came by and introduced themselves which was really cool, too.

I promised myself that I wouldn't buy anything today and I kept to that promise but there was an adorable, rusty, old three-wheeler bicycle in need of some work that someone in our group was selling which I took a fancy to. It was mechanically sound but it needed a good cleaning and the frame needed painting. I also envisioned redesigning the baskets behind the saddle and decorating the bike in an art car style with a Nordic flair...like maybe making it into a giant herring or Moomin on three wheels with a large enough basket in the rear for groceries for a family of 12. A trailer for HB to ride in was also a fleeting vision which was quickly replaced by the thought of him glaring at me in a decidedly irate and indignant manner. Sadly, someone came along and rescued me from my vacillation by purchasing the bike. If I would have had a proper garage for the project it was sure to become, I would have bought it without a second thought. My pragmatic side is a happy camper while my inner, impractical engineer is a bit miffed.

"The Epicure's Lament" by Kate
Christensen

"The Epicure's Lament" by Kate
Christensen 03/08/2004 11:07 PM
Hugo Whittier has no interest in humanity -- except to insult it and deprive it of his company. But the embittered and eloquent antihero of this delightful farce isn't quite ready to let go.

"Rover's journal"

"Rover's journal" 03/06/2004 02:05 AM

A Lament for Ancient Games in Modern
World of Doping

A Lament for Ancient Games in Modern
World of Doping 08/03/2004 02:06 AM
Thomas H. Murray, a social psychologist, spends a large part of his day considering the culture, philosophy and ethics of the sporting world.

Highway workers lament increase of human
waste

Highway workers lament increase of human
waste 12/17/2003 05:01 AM
2,666 Jugs of Urine; 67 Bags of Feces .. fuck

seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/152686_waste16.html
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Confusion over MG Rover's future

Confusion over MG Rover's future 04/07/2005 05:58 PM
MG Rover denies comments by Trade Secretary Patricia Hewitt that it has gone into administration.

Plight of the zombies

Plight of the zombies 02/17/2004 09:56 AM
USA Today Feb 17 2004 1:58PM GMT

The Plight of the SME Webmaster

The Plight of the SME Webmaster 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

The plight of the postdoc

The plight of the postdoc 03/27/2005 12:46 AM

The postdoc is arguably the backbone of research these days. A state between working for a PhD and landing a faculty position, where once postdoctoral fellowships were less common and short lived, now it is common for a scientist to spend 5+ years as a postdoc before landing that prize, a research grant.

Science.Ars looks at the issue, as well as the week's other science news.

beautiful animation of the rover's trip
to mars

beautiful animation of the rover's trip
to mars 01/19/2004 12:38 AM
makes me want to visit the place myself

New Scientist - Mystery of Mars rover's
'carwash' rolls on

New Scientist - Mystery of Mars rover's
'carwash' rolls on 12/25/2004 05:03 PM

New Scientist - Mystery of Mars
rover's 'carwash' rolls on

New Scientist - Mystery of Mars
rover's 'carwash' rolls on 12/24/2004 01:08 PM
Mystery of Mars rover's 'carwash' rolls on .. cleaning the solar panels .. Opportunity a cleaning

newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6824
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Mars Rover's Trip: Millions of Miles,
Plus 10 Feet

Mars Rover's Trip: Millions of Miles,
Plus 10 Feet 01/16/2004 10:56 AM
Twelve days after its arrival, all six metal wheels of the robotic rover Spirit finally rested on the reddish surface of Mars after a successful drive off its landing platform.

Nikhil, you have a serious point there.
Imagine the plight

Nikhil, you have a serious point there.
Imagine the plight 09/02/2004 02:07 AM
TechTree Sep 2 2004 5:36AM GMT

Net Helps Activists Expose Plight

Net Helps Activists Expose Plight 04/20/2004 04:50 AM
Seven community activists win this year's Goldman Environmental Prize, and the awards highlight how the Internet and other new technologies have helped strengthen the global environmental movement.

Rover plight 'threatens 600 jobs'

Rover plight 'threatens 600 jobs' 04/08/2005 09:55 AM
Hundreds of car components jobs in Wales could be at risk if MG Rover collapses, an industry figure warns.

Rebooting a rover's computer on Mars
takes a lot of preparation on Earth

Rebooting a rover's computer on Mars
takes a lot of preparation on Earth 02/15/2004 02:38 PM
AP via New Jersey Online Feb 15 2004 6:40PM GMT

Puppy's plight sparks Internet interest

Puppy's plight sparks Internet interest 06/22/2004 05:52 AM
King5.com - Tue Jun 22, 06:05 am GMT

Exposé of Peasants' Plight Is Suppressed
by China

Exposé of Peasants' Plight Is Suppressed
by China 07/09/2004 05:05 AM
A muckraking best seller about abuses against peasants has angered the Chinese government.

As Bigley's plight grips Britons,
Internet emerges as a potent terrorist
tool

As Bigley's plight grips Britons,
Internet emerges as a potent terrorist
tool 09/24/2004 01:55 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Sep 24 2004 5:24AM GMT

Politicians tell men to have more sex
(Reuters)

Politicians tell men to have more sex
(Reuters) 06/25/2004 08:43 AM
Reuters - Conservative politicians are urging German men to have more sex to boost birth rates or risk being labelled "limp" abroad, a newspaper has reported.

Politicians start to get the net

Politicians start to get the net 03/24/2005 04:31 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Wed Mar 23, 12:13 pm GMT

Damn you Japanese politicians!

Damn you Japanese politicians! 05/08/2004 07:53 AM

I rarely say "fuck" on my blog, but "Fuck you Japanese politicians!" (Lucky the FCC doesn't control my blog... yet.) I've paid about 1/2 of all of my life earnings in tax to the Japanese government and have paid my premiums to the national pension system even though studies that I worked on at the Association of Corporate Executives showed that I would most likely not benefit from these pensions. Now it turns out many Japanese politicians don't pay their national pension premiums. Actually, a third of the cabinet members haven't paid their pension premiums. The "Vice President" of Japan, Yasuo Fukuda just resigned for not paying his premiums. This is all amid a move by the government to increase premiums and lower pay-outs. The study we did showed that unless you were about retirement age today, would would most likely receive "0" from the pension system.

What's worse is that they use strong arm tactics like using the agricultural union (which hires retired bureaucrats and takes a commission) and other semi-public organizations to collect premiums from average citizens.

This is totally disgusting and I really wonder why I live and pay taxes in such a corrupt country.

Sorry I don't have links and references. This is a spur of the moment emotional post based on newspapers and radio that I skimmed today while I was trying to relax.

Celebraties turned Politicians

Celebraties turned Politicians 07/19/2004 11:40 PM
Top 25 Celebrities Turned Politicians

State Politicians Don't Understand P2P
Either

State Politicians Don't Understand P2P
Either 08/05/2004 03:50 AM
What is it with the difficulty politicians seem to have understanding what a P2P file sharing network is, and why none of the networks have control over the content being shared? The latest is that a group of 40 states have teamed up to write a threatening letter to file sharing companies accusing them of all sorts of bad things. In whose name are they doing this? Even though the courts have recognized file sharing networks for what they are, it appears that the state attorneys general seem to believe that they can ignore what the law says when the entertainment industry starts telling them how evil file sharing networks are. Update: Ernest Miller asks, "why shouldn't the state attorneys general condemn email and FTP as well? An awful lot of child porn is shared via email. Shouldn't email providers be doing more to stop it?"

No Communion for Pro-Abortion
Politicians

No Communion for Pro-Abortion
Politicians 04/23/2004 12:23 PM
No Communion for Pro-Choice Politicians
Apparently they have some issue with women having control over their own bodies so they'll deny communion to pro-choice politicians.
Hey, isn't John Kerry a pro-choice Catholic? This couldn't have anything to do with him could it?
Isn't a divisive move like this more likely to result in more people leaving the "faith"?

ProNet: Politicians with Permalinks

ProNet: Politicians with Permalinks 03/26/2005 05:38 AM
The Christian Science Monitor has a broad look at politicians using blogs to better communicate with their constituencies. Anything that improves transparency, increases accountability and encourages communication from elected officials can only be considered a good step....

""I can stand anything from politicians
except being taken for an idiot.""

""I can stand anything from politicians
except being taken for an idiot."" 11/03/2003 03:37 PM

Guatemala politicians were racist

Guatemala politicians were racist 04/05/2005 02:30 AM
Five Guatemalan politicians are found guilty of racism to indigenous Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu.

Amazon Peddles Politicians

Amazon Peddles Politicians 01/26/2004 12:41 PM
Amazon Peddles Politicians
http://snipurl.com/432k
http://www.amazon.com/g p/misc/flag.html

Amazon shoppers now have something new they can spend their money on -- the presidential candidates of their choice. The new feature, which allows visitors to make contributions of up to $200 to their favorite candidate, is an effort "to take the friction out of grassroots contributions to presidential candidates," according to the Amazon Web
site. For that reason it is not endorsing any candidates and is charging each campaign its usual processing fees, which will be donated to a nonprofit, non-partisan group. "For us, we think this is an interesting but natural extension of what we do every day. Our goal here was to make it as easy for people to make contributions to presidential campaigns as it is to buy the latest Harry Potter book," says an Amazon spokesman. [Reuters 24 Jan 2004]

Politicians For Sale... On Amazon

Politicians For Sale... On Amazon 01/23/2004 07:41 PM

Politicians join the e-mail avalanche

Politicians join the e-mail avalanche 09/05/2004 06:06 AM
Boston Globe Sep 5 2004 9:54AM GMT

Politicians put on TV to improve
behaviour (Reuters)

Politicians put on TV to improve
behaviour (Reuters) 12/19/2004 03:23 PM
Reuters - Fed up with disruptions by unruly MPs and lazy lawmakers opting for a siesta over debate, India has launched two TV channels to show parliament's proceedings live, hoping this will improve the MPs behaviour.

China's Politicians Ease Into Digital
Age

China's Politicians Ease Into Digital
Age 06/27/2004 01:13 PM
AP via Los Angeles Times Jun 27 2004 5:01PM GMT

Politicians Go Courting on Indian
Reservations

Politicians Go Courting on Indian
Reservations 09/22/2004 10:37 PM
In the last few years, political races from Congress to county sheriff have begun to hinge on the American Indian vote.

Half an hour in front of DC politicians

Half an hour in front of DC politicians 04/25/2004 08:17 AM
It's been a week of light blogging because of my 2-day trip to Portugal and then a set of, um, computing setbacks that involved technical support groups on several continents and the reinstalling of anti-virus software. Then, for the past couple of days, I've been working on two presentations I'm giving on Monday in DC. Both are new and both are important to me. In the morning, I'm keynoting a conference of research librarians and am doing a mainly-new presentation about how we managed to "informationalize" the world so that it consists of thin gruel, and how it is...

Canadian Politicians Denouncing 'Conan'
(AP)

Canadian Politicians Denouncing 'Conan'
(AP) 02/17/2004 08:52 AM
AP - Canadian politicians are denouncing "The Late Show with Conan O'Brien" over a sketch in which a cigar-chomping sock puppet hurled insults at French Canadians.

Dean Criticizes Washington Politicians
(AP)

Dean Criticizes Washington Politicians
(AP) 01/23/2004 02:22 PM
AP - Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean on Friday derided Washington politicians who "say anything just to get elected," a slap at his Beltway-based rivals. He expanded his target to Alan Greenspan, saying the Federal Reserve chairman "has become too political" and should be replaced.

Yet more public racism by Japanese
politicians

Yet more public racism by Japanese
politicians 01/16/2004 11:31 AM

Domo Domo Weblog

Shigefumi Matsuzawa, Govenor of Kangawa during a speech campaigning for the Nov. 9 House of Representatives election

Foreigners are a bunch of sneaky thieves. As Ishihara has cracked down on them, they've all flowed into Kanagawa.

If anyone has any grand unified theories as to why Japanese politicians often say such dumbass things in public, I'd love to hear.

Because they can get away with it and the media doesn't call them on it.

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