'We, in Ireland, can't figure out why you people are even bothering
to hold an election in the United States.
On one side, you had a pants wearing female lawyer, married to
another lawyer who can't seem to keep his pants on, who just lost a
long and heated primary against a lawyer, who goes to the wrong
church, who is married to yet another lawyer, who doesn't even like
the country her husband wants to run !
Now...On the other side, you have a nice old war hero whose name
starts with the appropriate 'Mc' terminology, married to a good
looking younger woman who owns a beer distributorship !!
What in God's name are ya lads thinkin over in the colonies
Friday, September 12, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
COMCAST, YOU DOG!
Comcast Adjusts Way It Manages Internet Traffic
Published: March 28, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO — Comcast, the country’s largest residential Internet provider, said on Thursday that it would take a more equitable approach toward managing the ever-expanding flow of Web traffic on its network.
The cable company, based in Philadelphia, has been under relentless pressure from the Federal Communications Commission and public interest groups after media reports last year that it was blocking some Internet traffic of customers who used online software based on the popular peer-to-peer BitTorrent protocol.
Comcast said it would change its fundamental approach to playing Internet traffic cop. Instead of interfering with specific online applications, it will manage traffic by slowing the Internet speeds of its most bandwidth-hogging users when traffic is busiest.
“In the event of congestion, the half percent of people who are overutilizing an excessive amount of capacity will be slowed down subtly until capacity is restored,” the chief technology officer for Comcast, Tony G. Werner, said. “For the other 99.5 percent, their performance will be maintained exactly as they expect it.”
Mr. Werner said he hoped to have the new system in place by the end of the year.
Published: March 28, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO — Comcast, the country’s largest residential Internet provider, said on Thursday that it would take a more equitable approach toward managing the ever-expanding flow of Web traffic on its network.
The cable company, based in Philadelphia, has been under relentless pressure from the Federal Communications Commission and public interest groups after media reports last year that it was blocking some Internet traffic of customers who used online software based on the popular peer-to-peer BitTorrent protocol.
Comcast said it would change its fundamental approach to playing Internet traffic cop. Instead of interfering with specific online applications, it will manage traffic by slowing the Internet speeds of its most bandwidth-hogging users when traffic is busiest.
“In the event of congestion, the half percent of people who are overutilizing an excessive amount of capacity will be slowed down subtly until capacity is restored,” the chief technology officer for Comcast, Tony G. Werner, said. “For the other 99.5 percent, their performance will be maintained exactly as they expect it.”
Mr. Werner said he hoped to have the new system in place by the end of the year.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
BIG BOAT
This is a new ship Wal-Mart had built to make 10 day cycles betweenChina and the USA . It can load and refuel in less than one day. A ships beam is its width if you are a landlubber.
All I can say is if it ever sinks, Wal-mart and a lot of US consumers will be in trouble.
Wal-Mart SHIP FROM CHINA
This is how Wal-Mart gets all its stuff from China . Get a load of this ship!
15,000 containers and a 207' beam! And look at the crew-size for a ship
longer than a US aircraft carrier which has a complement of 5,000 men and
officers.
Think it's big enough? Notice that 207' beam means it was NOT designed for
the Panama or Suez Canal . It is strictly transpacific. Check out the
cruise speed: 31 knots means the goods arrive 4 days before the typical
container ship (18-20 knots) on a China-to-California run. So this
behemoth is hugely competitive carrying perishable goods.
This ship was built in three, or perhaps as many as five sections. The
sections floated together and then were welded. The ship is named
Emma Maersk. The command bridge is higher than a 10-story building
and has 11 crane rigs that can operate simultaneously.
Additional info:
Country of origin - Denmark
Length - 1,302 ft
Width - 207 ft
Net cargo - 123,200 tons
Engine - 14 in-line cylinders diesel engine (110,000 BHP) Cruise Speed - 31
knots, Cargo capacity - 15,000 TEU (1 TEU = 20 ft3 container)
Crew - 13 people First Trip - Sept. 08, 2006 Construction cost - US
$145,000,000+
Silicone painting applied to the ship bottom reduces water resistance and
saves 317,000 gallons of diesel per year .
Monday, March 17, 2008
iPOD TOUCH and SLINGBOX
I JUST SET-UP A SLINGBOX CLASSIC ON MY HOME NETWORK.
IT WORKS GREAT
CLICK the THIS link to see the discussion about iPOD TOUCH and SLINGBOX THIS ! It looks FANTASTIC
IT WORKS GREAT
CLICK the THIS link to see the discussion about iPOD TOUCH and SLINGBOX THIS ! It looks FANTASTIC
Friday, March 07, 2008
MEAL-IN-A-BAG SOURCE INFO
HI
CLICK to see the source and discussion about MEAL-IN-A-BAG THIS! I think it is interesting.
CLICK to see the source and discussion about MEAL-IN-A-BAG THIS! I think it is interesting.
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
MEAL-IN-A-BAG
HI
FEELING LIKE HAVING A NICE FRESH GARDEN SALAD?
WITH YOUR FAVORITE SALAD DRESSING?
EAT HEALTHY-BUT WAIT--WHERE'S THE PROTEIN?
YOU KNOW YOUR BODY NEEDS PROTEIN TO STAY HEALTHY.
TRY NEW MEAL-IN-A-BAG FROM CANONIGOS. IT'S COMPLETE!
GET ONE TODAY!--FROM YOUR FRIENDS SOUTH OF THE BORDER
GRACIAS AMIGOS
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
DEL TAG #6=$675K---WOW !!
Del. tag goes for $675,000
By ROBIN BROWN, The News Journal
Twenty-five-year-old Frank Vassallo IV of Wilmington smiles after winning the plate. (
The News Journal/SCOTT NATHAN
Family members of the tag's previous owner, Charles Murphy -- who died in November -- congratulate the winner.
(Buy photo)
The News Journal/SCOTT NATHAN
Sherri Klemkowski of Emmert Auction Associates shows off the license plate during bidding Sunday at the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center.
The News Journal/SCOTT NATHAN
During the process, Vassallo gets approval from his grandfather in California to bid higher.
The News Journal/SCOTT NATHAN
REHOBOTH BEACH -- Cheers and applause filled the packed convention center as Tim Ayers of Seaford bid $625,000 for the coveted No. 6 black-and-white Delaware license plate.
As the bidding grew more spirited, so did the noise.
Over the boom, 25-year-old Frank Vassallo IV of Wilmington, who had bid $625,000 moments earlier, yelled into his cell phone to his grandfather in California. He reported that they had the high bid at $625,000.
Auctioneer Butch Emmert, realizing he had two bids for the same amount, returned to Vassallo to ask if he was in for $650,000.
Vassallo's hand trembled slightly on his cell phone as he repeated the question and then nodded to Emmert, then hollered to his grandfather.
"We're at $650,000, and we're the high bid."
Then Emmert worked on Ayers, who owns The Guide in Sussex County, likening the plate to the Mona Lisa, saying, "Anything worth $650,000 is worth $700,000."
Amid the ruckus, Sheri Klemkowski of Rehoboth Beach smiled serenely like a model, showing off the plate in a Delaware-style "Deal or No Deal."
Cheers and shouts of "Go for it!" grew.
Then Emmert, after more banter, said a "third and final call" at $650,000 -- and Ayers raised by $10,000.
"Six-sixty!"
"Six-seventy-five?" he asked Vassallo, sparking more roar, then all eyes were on the young man with the cell phone.
"Six-seventy-five," he told Emmert calmly. "
"It's a world record!" Emmert proclaimed. "Six-seventy five!"
Then Emmert again courted Ayers, sharing a report of a license plate with the No. 1 from Abu Dhabi that sold over the weekend for $14 million in the United Arab Emirates.
"Come on, Tim!" someone yelled.
Going once, going twice, a third and final call at $675,000. Then Emmert asked Ayers to raise to $685,000, saying, "What is $10,000 on this?"
But Ayers shook his head as Emmert repeated, "Going once at $675,000, going twice."
"Third and final call," he said over cheers. Then finally, "Sold!"
Vassallo beamed, yelling into the phone, "We got it at six-seventy-five."
He was swarmed like a buzzer-beating hero, but he turned to the people behind him, relatives of the tag's previous owner, Charles Murphy, a prominent Milford resident who died in November at age 87.
"Congratulations," Murphy's son John, also of Milford, told Vassallo, extending his hand.
"Thank you very much," Vassallo said "I just wish my grandfather could be here."
Despite the cross-country bidding, he said, "the plate will stay in Delaware."
Vassallo's grandfather is Anthony Fusco of Wilmington, the owner of Fusco Management, a development company that has worked on projects such as the College Square Shopping Center in Newark. Fusco is wintering in California and will decide what car wears the tag, Vassallo said.
"Everyone in the family has them," he said. "It's a family thing. It's a Delaware thing.
"We develop in Delaware, and it will stay in Delaware and in our family and the company."
The same family bought No. 9 for $185,000 at a 1993 auction by Emmert, with an annual appreciation coming out to about 7 percent, said Vassallo, who drives No. 27.
Among other black-and-white Delaware tags sold Sunday, No. 507 went for $50,000, No. 839 for $40,000, No. PC 627 for $8,000, and No. 9030, also for $8,000.
An invalid, or "dead," No. 6 sold for a mere $1,100.
Mike Firetti of Rehoboth Beach said his winning bid of $16,000 for tag C 108 is "going to be a good investment" -- and fun while he uses it.
Likewise, Ernie Sando of Rehoboth Beach said his $3,500 for No. PC 3759 -- an outdated designation now used on many types of vehicles -- is "a real bargain and a perfect complement to my Mercedes."
Sando was among nearly 500 auction guests who registered as bidders. He was not among those who paid the $50,000 deposits that were required to bid on tag No. 6.
But he scanned a large inventory of furniture and housewares in the three-estate auction. Among the day's many bargains were a near-mint 2003 Mercedes ML 350 for $18,000 and a show-restored 1958 Chevrolet Apache pickup that sold for $13,500. Sando snagged a pair of brass candlesticks for $75, but the best part, he said, was Vassallo bidding by phone -- a rare sight at the many auctions he attends.
"This auction generated an excitement I haven't seen in Delaware in a long time. Wasn't this fun?" he said.
As Vassallo made his way outside, he admitted he was a bit surprised by the many requests for interviews. He said his family had no set amount in mind.
"We did it all off the fly with no number," he said. "We didn't have any set price, more than five hundred [thousand] and less than a million."
Then Joan Jester of Pike Creek was first to ask for his autograph and to pose with him for a photo. Winnie Kee of Rehoboth Beach, who drives a car bearing a black-and-white PC 79 tag, clapped Vassallo on the back and shook his hand, saying, "We were rooting for you!"
"That was what I was here for," he said
Ayers stayed to watch more of the auction, although he wasn't buying anything because No. 6 "was what I was here for." But he said he is glad the tag will stay in the state.
"I just came to see what this one goes for so I get an idea of what mine's worth," said Doris Dayton of Seaford, who inherited her father's No. 191. "Where do they get the money from?"
Curiosity also brought out Jim Murray of Dover, given No. 67 by a friend with several black-and-white tags about 45 years ago.
"I just enjoy having it," he said. "It's part of me."
The event's successful bidders Sunday at the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center paid Emmert Auction Associates of Rehoboth Beach a 12 percent buyer's premium if paying by credit or debit card and 10 percent for cash or check purchases.
The balance on the No. 6 tag is due within a week, Emmert said, when the registration is transferred at a Division of Motor Vehicles office.
Vassallo, who said he was glad not to disappoint his grandfather, said he never bid on anything before -- and probably won't again for a while.
By ROBIN BROWN, The News Journal
Twenty-five-year-old Frank Vassallo IV of Wilmington smiles after winning the plate. (
The News Journal/SCOTT NATHAN
Family members of the tag's previous owner, Charles Murphy -- who died in November -- congratulate the winner.
(Buy photo)
The News Journal/SCOTT NATHAN
Sherri Klemkowski of Emmert Auction Associates shows off the license plate during bidding Sunday at the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center.
The News Journal/SCOTT NATHAN
During the process, Vassallo gets approval from his grandfather in California to bid higher.
The News Journal/SCOTT NATHAN
REHOBOTH BEACH -- Cheers and applause filled the packed convention center as Tim Ayers of Seaford bid $625,000 for the coveted No. 6 black-and-white Delaware license plate.
As the bidding grew more spirited, so did the noise.
Over the boom, 25-year-old Frank Vassallo IV of Wilmington, who had bid $625,000 moments earlier, yelled into his cell phone to his grandfather in California. He reported that they had the high bid at $625,000.
Auctioneer Butch Emmert, realizing he had two bids for the same amount, returned to Vassallo to ask if he was in for $650,000.
Vassallo's hand trembled slightly on his cell phone as he repeated the question and then nodded to Emmert, then hollered to his grandfather.
"We're at $650,000, and we're the high bid."
Then Emmert worked on Ayers, who owns The Guide in Sussex County, likening the plate to the Mona Lisa, saying, "Anything worth $650,000 is worth $700,000."
Amid the ruckus, Sheri Klemkowski of Rehoboth Beach smiled serenely like a model, showing off the plate in a Delaware-style "Deal or No Deal."
Cheers and shouts of "Go for it!" grew.
Then Emmert, after more banter, said a "third and final call" at $650,000 -- and Ayers raised by $10,000.
"Six-sixty!"
"Six-seventy-five?" he asked Vassallo, sparking more roar, then all eyes were on the young man with the cell phone.
"Six-seventy-five," he told Emmert calmly. "
"It's a world record!" Emmert proclaimed. "Six-seventy five!"
Then Emmert again courted Ayers, sharing a report of a license plate with the No. 1 from Abu Dhabi that sold over the weekend for $14 million in the United Arab Emirates.
"Come on, Tim!" someone yelled.
Going once, going twice, a third and final call at $675,000. Then Emmert asked Ayers to raise to $685,000, saying, "What is $10,000 on this?"
But Ayers shook his head as Emmert repeated, "Going once at $675,000, going twice."
"Third and final call," he said over cheers. Then finally, "Sold!"
Vassallo beamed, yelling into the phone, "We got it at six-seventy-five."
He was swarmed like a buzzer-beating hero, but he turned to the people behind him, relatives of the tag's previous owner, Charles Murphy, a prominent Milford resident who died in November at age 87.
"Congratulations," Murphy's son John, also of Milford, told Vassallo, extending his hand.
"Thank you very much," Vassallo said "I just wish my grandfather could be here."
Despite the cross-country bidding, he said, "the plate will stay in Delaware."
Vassallo's grandfather is Anthony Fusco of Wilmington, the owner of Fusco Management, a development company that has worked on projects such as the College Square Shopping Center in Newark. Fusco is wintering in California and will decide what car wears the tag, Vassallo said.
"Everyone in the family has them," he said. "It's a family thing. It's a Delaware thing.
"We develop in Delaware, and it will stay in Delaware and in our family and the company."
The same family bought No. 9 for $185,000 at a 1993 auction by Emmert, with an annual appreciation coming out to about 7 percent, said Vassallo, who drives No. 27.
Among other black-and-white Delaware tags sold Sunday, No. 507 went for $50,000, No. 839 for $40,000, No. PC 627 for $8,000, and No. 9030, also for $8,000.
An invalid, or "dead," No. 6 sold for a mere $1,100.
Mike Firetti of Rehoboth Beach said his winning bid of $16,000 for tag C 108 is "going to be a good investment" -- and fun while he uses it.
Likewise, Ernie Sando of Rehoboth Beach said his $3,500 for No. PC 3759 -- an outdated designation now used on many types of vehicles -- is "a real bargain and a perfect complement to my Mercedes."
Sando was among nearly 500 auction guests who registered as bidders. He was not among those who paid the $50,000 deposits that were required to bid on tag No. 6.
But he scanned a large inventory of furniture and housewares in the three-estate auction. Among the day's many bargains were a near-mint 2003 Mercedes ML 350 for $18,000 and a show-restored 1958 Chevrolet Apache pickup that sold for $13,500. Sando snagged a pair of brass candlesticks for $75, but the best part, he said, was Vassallo bidding by phone -- a rare sight at the many auctions he attends.
"This auction generated an excitement I haven't seen in Delaware in a long time. Wasn't this fun?" he said.
As Vassallo made his way outside, he admitted he was a bit surprised by the many requests for interviews. He said his family had no set amount in mind.
"We did it all off the fly with no number," he said. "We didn't have any set price, more than five hundred [thousand] and less than a million."
Then Joan Jester of Pike Creek was first to ask for his autograph and to pose with him for a photo. Winnie Kee of Rehoboth Beach, who drives a car bearing a black-and-white PC 79 tag, clapped Vassallo on the back and shook his hand, saying, "We were rooting for you!"
"That was what I was here for," he said
Ayers stayed to watch more of the auction, although he wasn't buying anything because No. 6 "was what I was here for." But he said he is glad the tag will stay in the state.
"I just came to see what this one goes for so I get an idea of what mine's worth," said Doris Dayton of Seaford, who inherited her father's No. 191. "Where do they get the money from?"
Curiosity also brought out Jim Murray of Dover, given No. 67 by a friend with several black-and-white tags about 45 years ago.
"I just enjoy having it," he said. "It's part of me."
The event's successful bidders Sunday at the Rehoboth Beach Convention Center paid Emmert Auction Associates of Rehoboth Beach a 12 percent buyer's premium if paying by credit or debit card and 10 percent for cash or check purchases.
The balance on the No. 6 tag is due within a week, Emmert said, when the registration is transferred at a Division of Motor Vehicles office.
Vassallo, who said he was glad not to disappoint his grandfather, said he never bid on anything before -- and probably won't again for a while.
Saturday, February 09, 2008
GOOD TO BE BACK IN DELAWARE
Well, it was a GREAT trip (more on that to come) but it is good to be back home in Delaware!!
Speaking of Delaware, here are a couple of sites I hope you will enjoy-----
If you are a history or trivia nut, try THIS! I think it is interesting.
AND THIS! It's The Best !!
If you are a RAP fan, tryTHIS! T think it kind of SUCKS !!
TOM
Speaking of Delaware, here are a couple of sites I hope you will enjoy-----
If you are a history or trivia nut, try THIS! I think it is interesting.
AND THIS! It's The Best !!
If you are a RAP fan, tryTHIS! T think it kind of SUCKS !!
TOM
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