Actually, soldiers are considered and essential, as far as ATC said yesterday. It's just civilian contractors stateside where it gets iffy. Civ.cons overseas are more likely to not be furloughed, but at US bases, well...
And remember, if you hurt her, I will beat you to death with a shovel.
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Apr 07, 2011 7:41:53 am PDT #2164 of 30001
Jesse - Apr 07, 2011 7:42:24 am PDT #2165 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You know what really sucks about the furlough? Soliders are not considered essential, so that the people fighting overseas aren't going to get paid. Guess what, Congress? You can't just stop fighting a war because you're on furlough
HMOG.
Frankenbuddha - Apr 07, 2011 7:44:44 am PDT #2166 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Tsunami warnings cancelled: [link]
Thank God for that.
flea - Apr 07, 2011 7:48:23 am PDT #2167 of 30001
information libertarian
Font geeks, can anyone tell me off the top of their head what the title font on the page is? [link]
Also, can anyone explain to me why photoshop got so complicated? I want to do some really simple stuff that I could have done in 1995, and it's so freaking complex!
Amy - Apr 07, 2011 7:50:39 am PDT #2168 of 30001
Because books.
Looks like Ariel, maybe bold, to me.
Maria - Apr 07, 2011 7:50:41 am PDT #2169 of 30001
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Soldiers are essential, but won't get paid until the shutdown is over. Since this Friday is the halfway point in the pay period, they'll get a paycheck for one week instead of two. It's going to screw up the financial lives of a lot of enlisted soldiers. They're already paycheck to paycheck in the best of times.
I have to admit that the system is kind of fubar.
It's totally fubar, but I can't see a way to fix it that gets a buy-in from all concerned parties.
Fingers crossed that the latest earthquake in Japan is relatively minor in terms of damage.
amych - Apr 07, 2011 7:58:04 am PDT #2170 of 30001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
can anyone tell me off the top of their head what the title font on the page is?
Depends on the fonts you have installed on your machine, but:
font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, "Nimbus Sans L", sans-serif;
In other words, your browser looks for Helvetica Neue first (which is well-known but not universal), then falls back to Arial, and so on down the list.
I'm only vaguely afraid anymore of my tendency to play spot the wordpress theme and then go straight to the css for that theme.
Typo Boy - Apr 07, 2011 8:00:38 am PDT #2171 of 30001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
It's totally fubar, but I can't see a way to fix it that gets a buy-in from all concerned parties.
And yet, even with the Fubar, Medicare works better than most private insurance. Government contracting with all of its screwups manages to get roads built. Having done contract programming in both the private and public sector, I would say both are fubared in their own way.
flea - Apr 07, 2011 8:00:55 am PDT #2172 of 30001
information libertarian
It looks pretty good in Ariel, bold, on the graphic I'm making. Thanks. (I did know it was a sans-serif font!! I can learn from you people!)
DavidS - Apr 07, 2011 8:01:50 am PDT #2173 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Anyone know when the next onerous task day is?
Let's find out...
The Random Date Generator says:
Thursday, April 14th