the random musings not worthy of new thread thread

[SunMo]

everbody pretty much agrees it's necessary for either company to survive.

i'm anxious to see if the ala carte pricing is available on older hardware.

[Susquehanna Birder]

1 big unprofitable venture + 1 big unprofitable venture = 1 huge unprofitable boondoggle

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Party at Dio's!

[Seabiscuit36]

My brother is graduating from UD this May.  He is a Med Tech major, and apparently UD is the 3rd rated school for the major.  He has to do 2 years in a hospital setting so he can make bank in the private sector.  He found out about a program in Oahu that he could live out in Hawaii for 2 years to get his experience.  Pretty sweet deal, ended up getting a good bonus for moving from Delaware to Hawaii, and they are buying him a surfboard.  Apparently Hawaii is in a Code Red in the medical industry, and they are doing whatever they can to get people over there. 

Makes me wish i hadnt farged around in college, and actually had a good major. 

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

B.A. in Basketry from the University of Phoenix?

[Seabiscuit36]

B.A. in Basketry from the University of Phoenix?

Psychology from Wilmington College

[ice grillin you]

same difference


is that your brother who slept thru the tailgate?

[Seabiscuit36]

same difference


is that your brother who slept thru the tailgate?

one and the same.  He drank until 5am before i picked him up at 8am.  No more comatose brother attending the tailgate. 

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

SD_Eagle obviously is one of the whiners

[Rome]

SD_Eagle obviously is one of the whiners

I don't even know what to say to that.  It makes me question the species as a whole, though.

[SD_Eagle5]

First I heard of that movie, admittedly with school and my daughter its harder to keep up with Star Wars. I'd check it out regardless of the freaks boycotting it.

[Seabiscuit36]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Music/03/27/combs.tupac.ap/index.html

That Pdiddy Tupac story was a fake

[ice grillin you]

From Times Online
March 26, 2008

Woman, 19, forced to swim with piranhas at circus
Richard Owen, Rome

Police have closed down a circus in southern Italy after a terrified 19-year-old woman was forced to swim in a tank full of piranha fish while her younger sister endured the company of snakes and tarantulas.

Three men have been arrested and charged with holding the Bulgarian women in slavery and breaching international human rights conventions.

The trio, who are accused of running a "circus of horrors", were named as Enrico Raffaele Ingrassia, 57, the owner; his son William Ingrassia, 33; and his son-in-law, Gaetano Belfiore, 25.

The Marino Circus has been offering shows at Petina, south of Naples in southern Italy, in a tent with 200 plastic seats inside.

Mr Ingrassia's daughter, who was not named, told police that a Bulgarian couple and their two daughters, aged 19 and 16, had been held as slaves "in a state of fear" since January.

They were forced to work 15 to 20 hours a day for €100 (£78) a week instead of the promised €480, with €380 deducted as "expenses for their upkeep".

An appalled spectator tipped off the police after seeing the show, in which Giusi, the 19-year-old, tried to escape from the piranha tank "trembling with terror". Her head was held down by Mr Ingrassia.

Her sister, Olga, 16, was bitten by snakes that she was forced to drape on her body, and she had injuries to her stomach where the snakes had wound themselves too tightly around her. The circus owners had rubbed ointment on snake bites on her legs but had refused to take her to a doctor.

Police said that the Bulgarian family had lived in the back of a cockroach-infested lorry used for animal transport. The only meat they had been given since January was in leftovers from the circus owners' Easter lunch last weekend.

Reports said Giusi had a tumour on her ear for which she had twice been operated in Bulgaria. Doctors had told her never to get water in her ears, especially cold water. However the water tank in which she was forced to swim with eight piranhas was kept at a temperature just above zero in order to make the piranhas lethargic.

The Bulgarian family has now been taken to "safe premises". Police said that the raid on the circus followed an undercover operation in which plain clothes officers took their families with them as cover and filmed the show as evidence. The arrested men had appeared surprised, they said, but made no attempt to justify their behaviour.

Corriere della Sera said that the incident appeared to be "something out of the 19th century" but showed that slavery was still "very much a reality" in modern Italy. La Stampa said that the treatment of the Bulgarians was "unfortunately not an isolated incident" of illegal immigrant labour, with many East European women brought to Italy as street prostitutes.

Police said they were investigating "trafficking in humans" by organised crime to supply circuses with cheap labour. The Bulgarian women's mother worked as a cook at the site, while their father moved tents and equipment and cleaned the camper vans and lorries. The mother had once tried to run away but had been captured and beaten, police said.

Livio Togni — a former left-wing senator whose family ran Italy's best-known circus for generations — said: "I've never in my life heard anything like this. There is a strong sense of solidarity in the circus world, and violence is not part of it".

[ice grillin you]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03272008/news/regionalnews/and_there_he_hos_again_103741.htm

[mussa]

at least he was putting money back into the economy