I'd sooner not have government be able to say what organizations a company can give money to...

Personally if I disagree with how a company does business, I don't go there. Simple and effective from my side. I don't stage an attempt to do everything I can to make them go out of business, ignoring the fact that hurts far more innocent people than the intended target, and triggers people to go out of their way to buy stuff there to offset the protest? (Wisconsin saw a lot of that during the collective bargaining debates, local grocery stores that sold X product or that didn't put up a pro union sign were boycotted, making others feel obligated to drive 2-3 hours to buy stuff from those stores in a counter protest)

major theaters can do much more than the smaller chain I use to work for. We were large enough to be able to get some of the blockbusters for also showing some of the bad movies, but not big enough to make deals for all of the bigger ones like Marcus can.

If you don't show a movie at a huge chain with hundreds of locations you lose money. If you don't show a movie at a chain with maybe 20 theaters across 6 locations, you won't notice much.

I also fully expect my numbers for stuff like a bag of soda to be low, that was 15+ years ago...

As a former movie theater employee (some 15+ years ago) when you pay for a movie, the theater sees very little of it.

I think the way it broke out then was they kept ~2% of opening week ticket box revenues, after a few weeks it jumped to ~6% and I think topped out around 10% before they weren't around anymore. Budget theaters keep a much higher percentage, but they have really old movies...

The theater makes all their money on concessions (thus the ultra expensive popcorn and soda) one of those bags back then cost maybe $30 for mountain dew syrup (which btw pours out as an interesting sludge/slime that tastes nasty without mixing), it makes a crapload of soda, and as you know, popcorn kernels are cheap, the canola oil is also reasonable, but that is where they make the money (or did) not sure if the 3d surcharges go to the theater or not... I'd imagine the distributor keeps a good amount of that too!

My then pregnant wife wanted to see District 13 about 3 days before our daughter showed up... We made it to about when the aliens started talking and that was the end of that...

Wives and movies just don't seem to work out well...

I thought Job's deal was that his gift to the world is his design in products you can buy. He didn't do charity because he was already giving oh so much to the world. Once he wasn't part of Apple I think they now will match contributions employees make.

I've been using the transformer prime with dock and just love it... some things are easier with touch than finding where the mouse is at that point. Now whenever i am on a regular laptop, I find myself trying to touch the screen now and then and for a second being surprised it didn't work...

Exactly... if you are the IT person running the cloud, it had better not just be a cloud to you... It NEEDS to be these servers with these names doing these things instead of some abstract thing that just kinda works and no one knows why... More server and citrix based stuff just means you move support personnel from the desktop to the server, but you still need the people.

I see what you did there... If i had mod points I would mod you up for the reference. However, the correct answer is Naggers...

I'd say not worth it...

I have a 2.5 (mine) and a 1.5 year old (foster child) and to me if you would need this I think they would probably have an indication of it before the kid is born. Things are so far along these days with the 4d ultrasounds and such...

Enjoy fatherhood. every 6 months they get more fun with the first 6 month being more of a family pet than a real person. Now at 2.5 years we are running around the backyard having squirt gun fights and she is coming up with all kinds of crazy views on the world. It goes quickly...

But yea, if you and the wife are healthy and she took care of herself the past number of months, the chances of ever needing it are very low.

Indeed. for businesses 2000 was an incredible step up from NT...

Granted I didn't have to work with NT for long, but the annoyances that 200 and XP resolved were more than welcome.

I am also now looking for the same sort of thing in the near future moving from XP to 7. Enterprise management features like BITS looking at the WAN connection instead of local adapter for bandwidth... big big stuff. (BITS change came in Vista)

I would go with Win95 as a tick Win98 as a tock and Win98SE as the tick...

If you are going to throw XP out before NT, then the order doesn't matter much anyway.

Why post this AC? Party labels have screwed us over quite a few times. Not all republicans want the same things, and not all democrats want the same thing.

When the new Milwaukee County Exec took over (a philanthropist dem that never really held a job before this) I expected the floodgates of spending to open and taxes to shoot through the roof, but he's actually done a good job of saying we can't afford to do things. If the money were there and not needed badly elsewhere then sure, but we can't spend the money to put juvenile delinquents through a Shakespeare program right now.

If we start going the British way and have factions leading things, it could get messier or nothing might get done... (or it could be glorious)

Either way, vote for the person, not the party. And voting AGAINST someone is not the same as voting FOR someone... you might end up voting for the worst person ever (that you know little about) just to vote against someone you don't like.

12345? That's amazing! I have the same combination on my luggage!

they never do say what kind of sites, just that they are sanitized and are real world web pages... but if you are comparing IE to itself or Chrome or FF, whatever site you use should be similar in speeds, except for ones that detect clients and do different things...

"Content servers are web servers that stand in for the millions of web hosts on the Internet. Each content server hosts real world web pages that have been captured locally. The captured pages go through a process we refer to as sanitization, where we tweak portions of the web content to ensure reproducible determinism. For example, JavaScript Date functions or Math.Random() calls will be replaced with a static value. Additionally, the dynamic URLs created by ad frameworks are locked to the URL that was first used by the framework.

After sanitization, content is served similarly to static content through an ISAPI filter that maps a hash of the URL to the content, allowing instantaneous lookup. Each web server is a 16-core machine with 16GB of RAM to minimize variability and ensure that content is in memory (no disk access required).

Content servers can also host dynamic web apps like Outlook Web Access or Office Web Apps. In these cases, the application server and any multi-tier dependencies are hosted on dedicated servers in the lab, just like real world environments."

no no... those are what COMPILE the results...

They have a wide range of high end to low end PCs running the tests down to a 1.6ghz netbook with a Atom N270 processor.