OT: Fraudulent Postings in My Name

[Jonathan Kirwan]

On Wed, 01 Sep 2004 11:52:50 -0500, John Fields <jfields@austininstruments.com>
wrote:

O'Rourke seems to be able to invoke anger in some of us with his
biting commentary, which may say more about us than we'd like to hear.

....as well as his willingness to capitalize on it and encourage people to "lose
it."

To me, politics should be about finding a set of mutually agreed compromises
that allow us to live __in peace__ amongst each other. Those who work for or
even gleefully strive for a "winner take all" approach, without any intent on
listening or respecting the opinion of others to help better find a common
ground, almost always do more damage than good.

Jon

 

[Charles Schuler]

Reminds me of a prank I pulled around 1985.

A friend of an employee of mine was the sound man on 60 Minutes. The
sound man wanted a way to remote sync sound recording with the video.
Employee and I made up a simple-minded RF link to do it.

Sound man was so impressed that he asked what he could do for us.

Since Wallace was in town we asked could Wallace come and stake out
the boss' office.

Scared the piss out of the boss when he returned from lunch; then we
all had a good rip-roaring laugh ;-)

Mike Wallace (at least once) failed to intimidate. A friend of mine drifted
away from science and engineering for chiropractic. He set up a post-doc
school in Florida for chiropractors and Mike Wallace interviewed him since
the school was mostly slanted toward maximizing profits and was therefore
questionable. My friend handled Mike very well and I was surprised that the
interview went public on 60 Minutes.

Anyway, Mike serves a purpose and shining some light on sleaze is generally
good for the rest of us.

 

[Tom Del Rosso]

"Winfield Hill" <Winfield_member@newsguy.com> wrote in message
news:ch2d1n0jep@drn.newsguy.com

Right now I'm pissed at the free ride he gave the midwest power
plants that are causing our acid rain - we only get 4 years for
house paint now, and I spent last weekend working on the 3rd
re-painting of our new 10-year-old house.

We had a few days of remarkably clean air when the blackout
occurred last summer and all the horrible plants were forced
to shut down for a few days. Some "Clear Sky Initiative" Bush
gave us, cravenly pandering to the fat-cat special interests.

Most members of that special interest group are people who like to use
electric lights. We wouldn't have this problem if we used more nuclear
plants, but we haven't even considered building one in almost 30 years
(not a Republican idea by any means).

 

[Winfield Hill]

Tom Del Rosso wrote...

Winfield Hill wrote ...

Right now I'm pissed at the free ride he gave the midwest power
plants that are causing our acid rain - we only get 4 years for
house paint now, and I spent last weekend working on the 3rd
re-painting of our new 10-year-old house.

We had a few days of remarkably clean air when the blackout
occurred last summer and all the horrible plants were forced
to shut down for a few days. Some "Clear Sky Initiative" Bush
gave us, cravenly pandering to the fat-cat special interests.

Most members of that special interest group are people who like to
use electric lights.

A very misleading statement.

The special interest group here is owners of the old coal-burning
powerplants who refused to upgrade the emission scrubbing equipment,
thereby saving a modest amount of money, as against a much larger
amount that we then have to spend dealing with their pollution.
Under EPA rules they had finally run out of time delaying upgrades,
but "W" fixed that for them, permanently as I understand it. And
screwing us here in the Northeast (no doubt another motivation).

We wouldn't have this problem if we used more nuclear plants, but
we haven't even considered building one in almost 30 years (not a
Republican idea by any means).

I agree completely. China seems to be leading the way now for new
nuclear plants, finally. And with new safer nuclear technology.


--
Thanks,
- Win

(email: use hill_at_rowland-dotties-org for now)

 

[Winfield Hill]

Frank Bemelman wrote...

I painted my house ten years ago. A couple of weeks ago I checked
and it is still okay. I use paint from 'Sigma Coatings' which is
also used by professional painters. The stuff they sell in typical
DIY places is, without exception - plain rubbish. Lifetime also
depends on the type of wood. Meranti is better than pine.

Where do you live? (BTW, most of us here in NE have our houses
painted by professional painters. They now all quote only a 4
to 5 year expected lifetime, and that matches my observations.)


--
Thanks,
- Win

(email: use hill_at_rowland-dotties-org for now)

 

[Chuck Harris]

Winfield Hill wrote:

Frank Bemelman wrote...

I painted my house ten years ago. A couple of weeks ago I checked
and it is still okay. I use paint from 'Sigma Coatings' which is
also used by professional painters. The stuff they sell in typical
DIY places is, without exception - plain rubbish. Lifetime also
depends on the type of wood. Meranti is better than pine.


Where do you live? (BTW, most of us here in NE have our houses
painted by professional painters. They now all quote only a 4
to 5 year expected lifetime, and that matches my observations.)

Hi Win,

The 4 to 5 year life of your paint job is due to the paint, not the
acid rain. Since the EPA has, uhmm, strongly discouraged the use of
petroleum solvent based paints, there hasn't been a decent exterior
house paint on the market. All of the latex paints leave a covering
that under a microscope looks like foam rubber. The water comes and
goes through the paint as it pleases. This causes the wood underneath
the paint to swell and contract making fractures in the paint that
allow even more water to get under the paint, and soon the paint is
coming off in sheets. Same effect on metal, the water gets through
the pores in the paint, and keeps the metal moist, with the usual
expected results.

Find some good old stock oil based paint, and your problem will magically
go away. Well, after you replace all of the wood that was destroyed
by the latex paint, that is.

Also, lead based paint had some very good qualities that helped in
exterior applications. You are old enough that most of the good paint
jobs you remember were both lead based, and petroleum solvent based
paint.

-Chuck Harris

OBTW, out our way, the highway department has been spending great amounts
of money to have all of the old lead based paints sandblasted off of the
metal beams on the bridges. Naturally they are using all of the latest
gear to protect the environment from the lead. Well, in less than a year
after they have "fixed-up" a bridge with some new non-lead based paint,
the rust starts to appear once again. They never had that problem with
lead based paints. How much risk is their really of children eating
paint chips off of highway bridges?

 

[Frank Bemelman]

"Winfield Hill" <Winfield_member@newsguy.com> schreef in bericht
news:chetn60ila@drn.newsguy.com...

Frank Bemelman wrote...

I painted my house ten years ago. A couple of weeks ago I checked
and it is still okay. I use paint from 'Sigma Coatings' which is
also used by professional painters. The stuff they sell in typical
DIY places is, without exception - plain rubbish. Lifetime also
depends on the type of wood. Meranti is better than pine.

Where do you live? (BTW, most of us here in NE have our houses
painted by professional painters. They now all quote only a 4
to 5 year expected lifetime, and that matches my observations.)

Netherlands, 10 Km. from the coast. The paint I used ten years ago
was a two-pot system. Different paint for ground and second layer,
petroleum based. Two years ago I had a small extension build to
my house, which was painted by a professional. He used the same
type paint. They are supposed to use water based paints only, but
for outdoor jobs he still uses the 'good old stuff'.

--
Thanks, Frank.
(remove 'x' and 'invalid' when replying by email)

 

[Fred Bloggs]

Winfield Hill wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote...

Win is a "thoughtful leftist", though he insists he's not ;-)


Thoughtful? Me with all my anger at Bush? Crowds out thought!

Right now I'm pissed at the free ride he gave the midwest power
plants that are causing our acid rain - we only get 4 years for
house paint now, and I spent last weekend working on the 3rd
re-painting of our new 10-year-old house.

We had a few days of remarkably clean air when the blackout
occurred last summer and all the horrible plants were forced
to shut down for a few days. Some "Clear Sky Initiative" Bush
gave us, cravenly pandering to the fat-cat special interests.

Don't get me started.

The relatively unpublicized record on Bush dismantling all the health,
safety, and environmental regulations is clear- he has made thousands of
political appointments to the agencies form either management or
lobbyists for the very industry they regulate. If Bush can't outright
remove the regulation, he eliminates all the inspector jobs so that it
can't be enforced. The prime mover behind most of the regulatory abuse
is this John Graham from the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis.
http://www.citizen.org/congress/regulations/graham.html

 

[Bill]

what has he done?

Bill


"Jim Thompson" <thegreatone@example.com> wrote in message
news:be9ki05077p44s12ojajicgu80md2bon9k@4ax.com...

Who, lurking here, would be posting fraudulent information, in my
name, from <ci.fresno.ca.us> ??

My lawyers want to know.

If I catch your ass I guarantee maximum pain and suffering, and
financial ruin.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 22:08:16 GMT, "Bill"
<trappedspam@noemailaddress.com> wrote:

what has he done?

Bill

[snip]

The problem seems solved. I located the originating site (in the
U.S.) and expounded on what my lawyers could do to them... the posts
and E-mails mysteriously stopped, but no one is admitting anything ;-)

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

 

[Watson A.Name - \"Watt Su]

"Bill" <trappedspam@noemailaddress.com> wrote in message
news:kV05d.650$lu4.399@newsfe1-win.ntli.net...

what has he done?

Bill


"Jim Thompson" <thegreatone@example.com> wrote in message
news:be9ki05077p44s12ojajicgu80md2bon9k@4ax.com...
Who, lurking here, would be posting fraudulent information, in my
name, from <ci.fresno.ca.us> ??

My lawyers want to know.

If I catch your ass I guarantee maximum pain and suffering, and
financial ruin.

That domain is likely 'city' government of 'fresno' in 'california' in
the U.S. But nowadays with the zombie computers, it could've been done
remotely. However, the admins there should be informed that their
equipment might be being used for spoofing. Or if their police dept is
a part of that domain, then it's a good idea to file a complaint with
them.

...Jim Thompson

>

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 20:35:39 -0700, "Watson A.Name - \"Watt Sun, the
Dark Remover\"" <NOSPAM@dslextreme.com> wrote:

[snip]

That domain is likely 'city' government of 'fresno' in 'california' in
the U.S. But nowadays with the zombie computers, it could've been done
remotely. However, the admins there should be informed that their
equipment might be being used for spoofing. Or if their police dept is
a part of that domain, then it's a good idea to file a complaint with
them.

I don't know why this topic is recirculating. Problem solved several
weeks ago.

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.