Yes. I designed them myself. They do on on demand manufacturing. I made $5 today.

Rossi should run with a big campaign with a few other people wrangling for his position. After Murry totally slaughters Rossi (he should let them) they would have spent so much time and money on him they would have forgotten about the other contenders who will, up to that point, be invisible.

Is it possible to run for office for the primary, change your mind and have someone else run in your stead? You know, bait and switch?

If they are unwilling to play nice, I see no reason anyone else should.

Best reply evah.

Nice work. I just wish it were possible to bring back Blue Frog. They were so successful at the time that the spammers fought back and won.

Fixing calculations isn't rain. Thanks for the info. I knew that there were going to be errors which is why I was encouraging feedback. If there are still issues, please let me know.

It should now be modified to reflect actual weight and size. "Cord of wood" references are now eliminated.

What would really get attention, though, is if you tracked down the salaries of the top 100 people or something like that, then figured out how many years it would take to pay it back if the government taxed them at 100%.

100 in the US or 100 in the world?

I've been trying to find a way to provide a method of debt visualization that is accessible to everyone. When I started I had no idea where it would take me, but it did open my eyes a bit.

I have provided links to sources and bundled everything into a Google Doc. If you find an error or a better or additional way of visualizing this I would appreciate any and all feedback.

Google Doc:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AmfLkI3jKthqdHZkdjhJTkFNTDFVT284T0RXU1RkcHc&hl=en

Here are my sources:
U.S. National Debt Clock:
http://www.usdebtclock.org/

Debt to the Penny:
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/BPDLogin?application=np
$12,545,490,013,032.29

Weight of a Dollar Bill (1 gram):
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_weight_of_a_dollar_bill

Grams in one pound (453.59232):
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_grams_are_in_a_pound

Weight of one cord of wood (5,600 pounds):
http://www.times-georgian.com/view/full_story/5588992/article-Wood--An-excellent-source-of-fuel?instance=farm_secondarystory

Volume of one cord of wood (128 cubic feet):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cord_%28volume%29

Volume of the SuperDome (1st PDF link) (152,895,600 cubic feet):
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=volume+of+superdome

Weight of a Nimitz class aircraft carrier (101,000 long tons at 2,240 pounds. At a short ton of 2,000 pounds the weight becomes 113,120 tons):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimitz_class_aircraft_carrier

Years for Bill Gates to pay off debt: 1,603.71
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_Bill_Gates_salary

Years for Michael Jordan to pay off debt: 500,357.77:
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_high_was_Michael_Jordan%27s_salary

Everything else is pocket change, including Warren Buffett who has a yearly salary of $100K but a net worth of $62B.

Bleak enough yet? If not, here is a little tiny bit more.

Gross Domestic Product for the United States:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28nominal%29
$14,441,425,000,000

Remember the debt of $12,545,490,013,032.29? Subtract the debt from the GDP and we have: $1,895,934,986,967.70

That $1.8T is all we have left. Perhaps it is just a coincidence that there was talk recently of raising the debt ceiling exactly $1.8 trillion.

Or just about anywhere else for that matter.

I look forward to the next installment with baited breath.

Your story reminds me of this clip from Robot Chicken.

The Worlds Most One Sided Fight Fights! Caught On Film! Television too brutal to watch yet you can't turn away!

Thank you again for sharing your journey through the land of the brazenly stupid.

This makes me happy. Not his jerking around of both you and the court system, but his getting smacked down repeatedly.

As to your suing him for defamation? I'd do it. Scar his record so if he does this to others then they can point to him being difficult to deal with.

Your journal on this subject is about the only reason I continue to visit Slashdot.

I may be way off of base right here but as I understand it the teachers are under contract to the state (through the district) to perform educational duties as requested. Currently the teachers in Kent are not under contract so are not subjected to union busing legislation. Current employees under contract are.

How can I be sued for not doing a job I do not have a contract for? That said if they are under contract currently then they may be breaking the law. Some contracts even have in them a non-strike clause.

I am obviously missing the section of the law to which they are referring to that states that employees of the state (police, fire, teachers...) are disallowed from striking due to the citizens needs for service.

Update while writing this. I think that they are referring to RCW 41.56.120 Right to strike not granted.

Nothing contained in this chapter shall permit or grant any public employee the right to strike or refuse to perform his official duties.

If they are not under contract then they are not public employees. They are unemployed.

From the article you linked to:
For smaller class size? The system is providing funding for enough adults to lower the class size IF they would put more adults in their Kent classrooms.

The issue here is classroom funding. The district gets extra money based upon class size. If it dips below a certain number (I think that is 25) then the schools do NOT get that extra funding that they are relying on. The current system rewards district with additional money by keeping classroom sized high. Unfortunately for teachers they have better results when classroom sizes are lower.

For the touchy-feelie stuff, how are teachers expected to pay off their student loans (A master's degree is required to teach public education and a doctoral when becoming a principal) when they do not generally make as much as they would in a non-teaching capacity? According to market forces they should all quit being teachers and go get different and higher paying jobs. Which is what they should do if they are not under contract but are forced to work anyway.

If she survives long enough to go prison she will wish she hadn't.

If the rendering engine can be optimized for multi-core or GPU based acceleration then the render times can be reduced significantly, probably to real time or faster is my guess.

The frame size is restricted because it can only use the portion of the video that can be stabilized and not hit the edges of the original video.

The key here would be to shoot a wider shot, apply smoothing, crop scenes to be the same resolution and then edit them together. HD for the win on this one.