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16 May 2006
Tue, 16 May 2006 23:02:00 GMTIf granted probation, I plan to continue to mow yards during the summer and fall, and, whenever I am able, to pick up cans. I will continue to live with my wonderful wife whom I been married to for twenty-nine blessed years. I will slowly learn how to read and write the best way I can. I will spend time at home with my wife, looking at TV, and sitting outside together. Mainly the only activities I have are mowing yards, running people around, looking at TV, and sitting in the yard with my wife in the cool of the evening.
74 year old man convicted for selling crack. He couldn’t make ends meet because in retirement he got $600 a month and needed to spend $350 of it on the treatment of his wife’s cancer. He was let off, this is from his confession.
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07 January 2006
Sat, 07 Jan 2006 21:07:00 GMT Tuition-free MITvia Kjell Olsen1096 days agoCollege tuition today is extortion. And not just at MIT. The U of M charges $8,000/semester, and that doesn’t cover your room and board or your books.
my ideal world: a high school girl in Vietnam with a cable modem attending all the MIT classes that she wants. Philip Greenspun
And why not?
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04 January 2006
Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:42:33 GMT US government warns it's running out of cashvia Kjell Olsen1099 days agoAt that time, unless the debt limit is raised or the Treasury Department takes authorized extraordinary actions, we will be unable to continue to finance government operations. John Snow, US Treasury Secretary
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19 December 2005
Mon, 19 Dec 2005 11:28:00 GMT Presidential Pipeline: Bush's top fund-raisers see spoils of victoryvia Kjell Olsen1115 days agoThose (548) who paid more then $100,000 to Bush’s reelection fund dictate his presidency. Doesn’t quite sound representative to me.
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14 December 2005
Wed, 14 Dec 2005 11:13:35 GMT War Costs Poised To Reach $500Bvia Kjell Olsen1120 days agoThats $500,000,000,000. One zero zero, zero zero, zero zero zero zero zero -o -o -o…
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12 October 2005
Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:04:00 GMT Cheney's Halliburton stock options rose 3,281% last year, senator findsvia Kjell Olsen1183 days agoCheney banks 3,281% on shares of Halliburton stock. The value of HB skyrocketed because it was handed contracts to rebuild disaster areas caused by the bush Administration, of which Cheney is second in command (assuming bush actually does something). Cheney used to be the CEO.
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26 September 2005
Mon, 26 Sep 2005 09:55:34 GMT Greenspan: US has lost control of budget deficitvia Kjell Olsen1199 days ago -
26 June 2005
Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:40:55 GMT Call Me Fishmeal.: Student Talk from WWDC 2005.via Kjell Olsen1291 days agoNice talk on writing (mac) software for a living, from former OmniGroup employee and current CEO of Delicious Monster. I want audio.
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19 June 2005
Sun, 19 Jun 2005 13:54:00 GMT JustinFrench.com: Dear Justin, Part 1via Kjell Olsen1298 days agoJustin French, who managed to get a sweet job at textdrive, on how to start your web entrepreneurship.
In my humble opinion, the key to starting a freelance career or small business boils down to a few very simple ideas:
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18 June 2005
Sat, 18 Jun 2005 15:36:53 GMT GPL Programming: A Lucrative Hobby || kuro5hin.orgvia Kjell Olsen1299 days agoEasy to make money off gpl’d scripts, use directory sites like freshmeat or sourceforge to link back to your site, generating pagerank, and then selling ads. But I hate ads.
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09 June 2005
Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:33:00 GMT How to Make a Million Dollars, by Marshall Brainvia Kjell Olsen1308 days agoThis isn’t exactly my goal in life, but hey – what will happen will happen.
Yes – you need to start a business. In America, starting a successful business is the surest, most controllable path available to you for making a million dollars in less than 42 years. 3
Instead go get some books-on-CD that talk about starting businesses. I’ll give you some examples at the end of this talk. Put those on your iPod and listen to them over and over again. The first time you listen, they might not make much sense. That’s because all of the material is new. The second time through the book it will make a lot more sense. And then the third time you will understand what is going on. Practice makes perfect. 6
Your job is to look at the American economy and all the people in it. Now think to yourself, “What can I do that some of these people need? What can I do that would make their lives better in some way, and they would be willing to pay money for?” All you need to do is figure out a way to snag 0.00001% of the money flowing around in the American economy in one year and you have made a million dollars. 7
And to sum it all up, a great list of links on page ten.
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07 June 2005
Tue, 07 Jun 2005 10:35:00 GMTBummer
I almost got a job at the apple store! Now I’m pissed that I didn’t. Oh well.
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22 May 2005
Sun, 22 May 2005 21:50:02 GMT Creative summer & side jobs | Ask MetaFiltervia Kjell Olsen1326 days agoI really need to get a summer job, and outside of the guy at the hardware store saying he would call me back last week to give me a job (which he didn’t), I really got nothing. C’mon metafilter, lets do this together.
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29 April 2005
Fri, 29 Apr 2005 16:58:00 GMTBum
I’m 18. I don’t have a job. Why is that?
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18 March 2005
Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:47:41 GMT U.S. National Debt Clockvia Kjell Olsen1391 days agoThis just about choked me: the only word that comes to mind in expressing this sort of thing is, well, fuck!
The estimated population of the United States is 295,692,676
so each citizen’s share of this debt is $26,300.01.
The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$2.35 billion per day since September 30, 2004!
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15 March 2005
Tue, 15 Mar 2005 13:45:00 GMT Profit at any cost | MetaFiltervia Kjell Olsen1394 days agoStuff like this just ought to break everyones heart – but I guess it doesn’t, and looks ready to pass and become reality. Fuck.
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