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February 22, 2006
Chicken Licking Good
Rain falls on everyone, the same old rain...
The sun will shine again, one day, and tropical storms will be a thing of the past. Just not yet. And all familiar and fair unless it's Carnival time and kiddo has got herself a princess's suit along with all garments and jewels that fit the trade, schematics of what the princess, prince, queen and king are supposed to look like and Wizard of Oz on, on her G4, with new spanking 160GB of additional storage space. It shines at her place with the firstborn's privileges and the casual nap, deep in the car, back from the store.
Life is grim if your name is Callahar.
Hello, my name is Kallahar (well, it's an alias, but Kallahar really is a family name of an 1800's Irish family Ancestry of William Kallahar, born 1830). I recently tried to create a user on Yahoo with my name. Unfortunately, Yahoo said it was unavailable...
Kafka reborn under the american flag and on the Kodak filtering. More rejoicing can be found in the full PDF with Mrs. Kallahar's narrative here.
Why Allah? Why now? And why an eyebrow when corporations keep shaping the body legal and ethics as they have been for a century, around the economics and an avalanche of lawyers? Or praise American ingenuity vs. opportunity, hailing to First Amendment again and again over our thousand-islands-mushroom-guacamole with taleggio on the toothbrush.
We know where we are going, we just don't know where we are.
Busy as he is in the daily command-post-like blog reporting, Juan Cole gives his best from a comfy spot at MetroTimes. It is an excellent, long interview that expands the topic to American psychology, motivations and trade strategies.
The debate is big about subcontracting handling of major American ports operations to a UEI (United Emirates) contractor. The anger in the face of the possibility that Arabs may acquire control of such operations is visible all over the blogosphere. It turns odd to me that no debate exists over the fact, not just a possibility, that 15% of McDonald's is currently owned by Pakistanis. Hush, your cheeseburger may be listening...
As you can imagine, with no big support from quantum mechanics, shares don't mind what religion you like.
Do you really want to know who owns the remaining 85% of McDonald's? I know you won't. The jucy part is unrelated to Terrorism. Joshua M. Marshall explains it well here.
The administration did not require Dubai Ports to keep copies of business records on U.S. soil, where they would be subject to court orders. It also did not require the company to designate an American citizen to accommodate U.S. government requests. Outside legal experts said such obligations are routinely attached to U.S. approvals of foreign sales in other industries...
The failure to require the company to keep business records on US soil sounds like a pretty open invitation to flout US law as near as I can tell. Forget terrorism. This is the sort of innovative business arrangement I would think a number of Bush-affiliated American companies might want to get in on. Perhaps Halliburton could be domiciled in Houston, pay its taxes in Bermuda, do its business in Iraq and keep its business records in Jordan.
Does that sound better?
Originally on Samizdata a collection of amazing aerial photos of Mexico City, here. Bizarre.
Macs are good at sharing resources with minimum effort on the user. We are sharing our ADSL via Firewire on several macs. The good is Firewire is extremely fast and the whole family can go online simultaneously from several computers. She is playing a DVD but does not really know where the physical disc is actually and I am sucking in data from one of the two storage units that I am not physically connected to and the kid is streaming Disney off of the shared Internet comm. I guess you can do the same on a PC but then again you probably have to be a Microsoft Certified Engineer with lots of days off and a double pack of painkillers. 3 macs just in the bedroom and the kid knows what works on mine must work on her.
Go explain kids to Microsoft.
Fear not, we have an update the finest. here. Yes, Yahoo Mail reverses ban on 'allah' in usernames. As everybody but some know, gods are celebrities. Left out of the grapevine? No way.
Posted by lck at February 22, 2006 11:29 PM
Comments
No! The Paki's are making my double cheeseburgers?! NO!!!!
Posted by: Wendy at February 23, 2006 04:47 AM
