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I dont know if it is Time Warner or not, does the name Cox Communications ring any bells? They are who we make the checks out to.

I am really satisfied with the service, we get cable TV on three sets (only one of the connections is Digital) Digital telephone service, and one DSL connection all on one bill for about $139 a month.

Combining a cable box with Tivo is a great idea, I look foward to the day (someday) at least one of our VOD channels would be a 24hr Star Trek channel, that would rock my ST world :lol:

The New Company Policy DRESS CODE:

It is advised that you come to work dressed according to your salary. If we see you wearing $350 Prada sneakers and carrying a $600 Gucci bag, we assume that you are doing well financially and therefore you do not need a paycheck.

SICK DAYS:

We will no longer accept a doctor's statement as proof of sickness. If you are able to go to the doctor, you are able to come to work.

SURGERY:

Operations are now banned. As long as you are an employee here, you need all of your organs. You should not consider removing anything. We hired you intact. To have something removed constitutes a breach of your employment contract.

PERSONAL DAYS:

Each employee will receive 104 personal days a year. They are called Saturday and Sunday.

VACATION DAYS:

All employees will take their vacation at the same time every year. The vacation days are as follows: Jan. 1, July 4, and Dec. 25.

BEREAVEMENT LEAVE:

This is no excuse for missing work. There is nothing you can do for dead friends, relatives or coworkers. Every effort should be made to have non-employees attend to the arrangements. In rare cases, where employee involvement is necessary, the funeral should be scheduled in the late afternoon. We will be glad to allow you to work through your lunch hour and subsequently leave one hour early, provided your share of the work is done.

OUT DUE TO YOUR OWN DEATH:

This will be accepted as an excuse. However, we require at least two weeks notice as it is your duty to train your own replacement.

LUNCH BREAK:

Skinny people get an hour for lunch as they need to eat more, so that they can look healthy. Normal size people get 30 minutes for lunch to get a balanced meal to maintain their average figure. Fat people get 5 minutes for lunch because that's all the time needed to drink a Slim Fast and take a diet pill.

Thank you for your loyalty to our company. We are here to provide a positive employment experience. Therefore, all questions, comments, concerns, complaints, frustrations, irritations, aggravations, insinuations, allegations, accusations, contemplations, consternations or input should be directed elsewhere.

Have a nice week.

Management

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Any woman over 40 yrs. of age reading this, I strongly advise ya to take a bathroom break FIRST !!!!

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"Women over 50 don't have babies because they would put them down

and forget where they left them. Isn't that the TRUTH!!!

One of life's mysteries is how a 2 pound box of candy can make a woman gain 5 lbs.

My mind not only wanders, it sometime leaves completely.

The best way to forget all your troubles is to wear really tight shoes.

The nice part about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are really good friends.

Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today.

Sometimes I think I understand everything, then I regain consciousness.

I gave up jogging for my health when my thighs kept rubbing together

and setting my pantyhose on fire.

Amazing! You hang something in your closet for awhile and it shrinks two sizes!Skinny people irritate me! Especially when they say things like, "You know, sometimes I just forget to eat." Now I've forgotten my address, my mother's maiden name, and my keys. But I've never forgotten to eat. You have to be a special kind of stupid to forget to eat.

A friend of mine confused her valium with her birth control pills.

She had 14 kids, but she doesn't really care.

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing

and then they marry him.

I read this article that said the typical symptoms of stress are: eating too

much, impulse buying, and driving too fast. Are they kidding? That is my

idea of a perfect day.

I know what Victoria's Secret is. The secret is that nobody older than 30

can fit into their stuff.

Celebrate Womanhood! Share this with all of those amazingly brilliant and tremendously talented women who are intelligent enough to call YOU their friend :-!!!"

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The average age of the military man is 19 years.

He is a short haired, tight-muscled kid who, under normal circumstances is considered by society as half man, half boy. Not yet dry behind the ears, not old enough to buy a beer, but old enough to die for his country.

He never really cared much for work and he would rather wax his own car than wash his father's; but he has never collected unemployment either.

He's a recent High School graduate; he was probably an average student, pursued some form of sport activities, drives a ten year old jalopy, and has a steady girlfriend that either broke up with him when he left, or swears to be waiting when he returns from half a world away.

He listens to rock and roll or hip-hop or rap or jazz or swing and 155mm Howitzers.

He is 10 or 15 pounds lighter now than when he was at home because he

is working or fighting from before dawn to well after dusk.

He has trouble spelling, thus letter writing is a pain for him, but he can field strip a rifle in 30 seconds and reassemble it in less time in the

dark.

He can recite to you the nomenclature of a machine gun or grenade launcher and use either one effectively if he must.

He digs foxholes and latrines and can apply first aid like a professional.

He can march until he is told to stop or stop until he is told to march.

He obeys orders instantly and without hesitation, but he is not without

spirit or individual dignity.

He is self-sufficient. He has two sets of fatigues: he washes one and

wears the other. He keeps his canteens full and his feet dry.

He sometimes forgets to brush his teeth, but never to clean his rifle.

He can cook his own meals, mend his own clothes, and fix his own hurts.

If you're thirsty, he'll share his water with you; if you are hungry, his food.

He'll even split his ammunition with you in the midst of battle when you run low.

He has learned to use his hands like weapons and weapons like they were his hands. He can save your life -- or take it, because that is his job.

He will often do twice the work of a civilian, draw half the pay and still

find ironic humor in it all. He has seen more suffering and death then he

should have in his short lifetime.

He has stood atop mountains of dead bodies, and helped to create them.

He has wept in public and in private, for friends who have fallen in combat and is unashamed.

He feels every note of the National Anthem vibrate through his body while

at rigid attention, while tempering the burning desire to 'square-away'

those around him who haven't bothered to stand, remove their hat, or even stop talking. In an odd twist, day in and day out, far from home, he

defends their right to be disrespectful.

Just as did his Father, Grandfather, and Great-grandfather, he is

paying the price for our freedom.

Beardless or not, he is not a boy.

He is the American Fighting Man that has kept this country free for

over 200 years.

He has asked nothing in return, except our friendship and understanding.

Remember him, always, for he has earned our respect and admiration

with his blood.

A Prayer For our Military;

"Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they

protect us.

Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in

our time of need. Amen."

I have not seen the movie, I was referring to the trailer shown at the link provided above, I thought that was what we were talking about but I see now the question raised is about whether the same thing is said in the movie, sorry.

There probably isn't one but if anyone could come up with a reason it would save me a lot of frusration.

Quite a bit of thought has gone into the theroy of how ships generate gravity. I was just reading from the ST TNG Technical Manual page 144, and it is quite technical but I will try to say it in a way you might understand (layman’s terms).

Take a compass and place it near any operating motor such as a fan for creating a breeze to cool off with, notice how the needle of the compass changes its direction as you bring the compass near. You are witnessing a Magnetic Field in action.

On board ships, lets say the 1701 D, there are six hundred Gravity Generators placed all around which simply put are kind of like the same motor in your fan, a "thing" spins inside the Generator creating a Magnetic Field and the same way your motor caused the compass needle to "move to align itself with the field", a Gravity Generator causes your body to "align with the field of the generator" keeping you erect (not floating around) and your feet planted on the floor because of a magnetic attraction between yourself and the Generator. See?

This is one of the MANY marvels of Trek. Every bit of the technology in Trek are examples of every day things in our reality, evolving to become the marvels of the future.

The following is a comment from my wife of 20 years, we'll call her "M". Now M, if you please...

I am M, Alterego's wife, and I just want to say that Trek has a heck of a lot more substance that the generic swill that most deem we females flock to, i.e., soap operas, romantic dramas and comedies (excluding independents), and the like.

And there you have it folks, words of wisdom!

Have fun!

:lol: Please tell any celebrity hello from me!

Our cable company has this; it is called Video On Demand. We have a digital cable box (Dolby Digital) installed with 3 channels of different VOD programming available 24 hrs a day with the promise of more VOD channels to come.

We choose the channel, chose the program we wish to view, push 1 button and viola! We can pause fast forward and rewind and restart a purchased program for 24 hrs after the time of purchases. We also have, for a flat rate of 10 bucks a month 40 channels of CD DD quality commercial free music stations, the screen shows info about the artist currently playing but the cable box also connects to the home theater.

I thought our cable company was just tooting their own horn when they say they are on the cutting edge of TV entertainment, but I guess maybe they weren't kidding.

I am glad I do not know enough about pc's to be able to post a pic of me, there would be no members left!

I'll bet you make a great Klingon at conventions, huh? (goatee)

If you want to have a close idea of how myself appears, think Phlox! Which is cool cause I have been waiting a long time for a Trek character I do not need a lot of makeup to go as.

I think of him along the same lines as Jim Jones or David Koresh or that other maniac whom led those people to suicide by convincing them heaven was waiting for them in the tail of the comet Hail Bopp (SP?), all they had to do is die. Sybok tried to differentiate himself from those kinds of kooks by being against death to achieve his goals but you will notice he failed there to.

Shatner does deserve more credit for this film than he got, thanks to the studio MAKING him do the film on a shoestring budget. They are now also denying him the right to re-release the film in a Directors Edition, what a shame.

You were just a baby! The important thing is that you came back.

I think I read somewhere, all space junk eventually loses orbit and falls back to Earth and burns-up. The trick for us is to not create new space junk faster than it deorbits.

Yeah I know, pretty shallow of them. I was glad they displayed their character flaws before I trusted them with any thing important.

Trek is always good for revealing to me if anyone is worth the effort for building a friendship with.

How sneaky of me huh?