There isn't much about Issa that can be release that would lower my opinion of him. He's already leaking (classified) information and there's some pretty shady stuff from his past.

Alan Grayson lends a touch of credibility to this request.

I wrote a shell script that looked at the datestamp for each photo and then moved it to a directory called YYYY/MM/DD (so 2000/12/25). I'm going off the assumption that there weren't two photos taken on the same day with the same filenames. So far that seems to be working.

Given those services are usually a money pit for the city in question (albeit a necessary one), they'd probably love to have that taken off their hands.

Hence the reason why decoupling your insurance from your employer is a great idea.

Or hoping that someone else in the area purchases the item.

I have a server in the basement with all the media files (DVDs and BluRays that I own) and I use XBMC on a few Raspberry Pi devices around the house to organize and play.

Well and the fact that it wasn't just conservative/tea party groups that were targeted - plenty of liberal groups were as well. So it's unlikely this was done because of retribution or because of political ideology.

ABC's inability to make a buck off that is not my problem, nor should it rise to the level of copyright infringement.

If they ignore it, there could be a very big mess for them to clean up. They can't let someone else scoop up this prize. These researchers have it in the bag.

So you want single payer too? I'm okay with that.

It really depends on how good a manager they are (technical or not).

A good manager (as others have alluded to) is there to make sure their employees are able to get their work done. If that means doing back-end stuff to make sure they get the equipment/staff/priorities to meet the deadline, then that's the job of the manager and it doesn't matter if they've never written a line of code.

Yes, a technical manager can understand the lingo and be of use. Then again, people who are technical and became managers quickly get away from the latest technologies and get stuck on what they did 3-5 years ago rather than what is common practice now. That can be a huge disadvantage to the team.

In my case, I let my staff go they way they wanted to and did what I could to encourage them to do so. I had my own opinions, but allowed myself to be swayed if they made a good reasoned argument that went against what I thought was the way to go. And they were able to get it done.

In return you'd get all of those services for just the price of co-pay (maybe not the gasoline, since it's the equivalent of buying food). But certainly repairs and routine maintenance would be at a lower cost.

Then again, we only keep cars for a few years. I can't really trade my body for a new model.

Technically correct is the best kind of correct.

Bzzt.

I currently have my choice of Comcast or Verizon FIOS. There's a number of areas in eastern MA where this is the case, probably other locations too.

There needs to be a lot of cross-pollination of ideas and technology between companies. It's far easier these days to get stuck in an IT rut and stick with what you know (since it works) rather than expanding into a different technology. I was at my former employer for 11 years until I got laid off over the summer. Took my knowledge, went elsewhere, and have been able to merge what I leared there with the new place and while my former employer is still struggling, the new place is doing a lot better, thankyouverymuch.

It's difficult though. Once you get into a job with good benefits and pay it becomes way more tempting to stay and stick out political BS and non-technical co-workers than strike out on your own and find something to do.