If it’s true that it’s the cover up that gets you and not the crime, then things don’t look good for the folks in the Veep’s office, who seem to have been doing some digital shredding.
Update: georgia10 at Daily Kos connects some dots and speculates as to why this could be a really big deal.
Progress Now has an amusing No-Spy Video. Catchy tune, ok film. Important issue.
A reader writes:
“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.”
– Evan Esar (1899 – 1995)
But we do tend to have longer careers.
Anyway, it depends on the sport. And whether by “average” person you mean the median person, or if you really want to average the salaries.
And for the ones with bigger teams, do you look just at the stars, or the median player? After all the average (not median) baseball player ‘only’ made $2,476,589 in 2005, and I bet the median player made less than that. That’s under $47,626 per week on a 52-week basis. There definitely are professors in the humanities who make more than that, and the professional schools are loaded with them. (The 52-week comparison isn’t as unfair as it seems since many professors have 9-month contracts, which is only a little longer than the baseball season, if you count spring training.)
Update: I think as regards baseball at least, this isn’t quite accurate, although it’s close: Median baseball salaries on a team range from $ 322,500 on the Colorado Rockies to $ 5,833,334 on the NY Yankees. The median salary on the median team is either the Seattle Mariners’ $ 800,000 or the Minnesota Twins’ $ 750,000 depending if you round down or up. Which puts it just under 12 times the average professor’s salary!
Of course, if you throw in other professional sports, who knows, it might be true…
Ska-Punk (!) words to live by from Reel Big Fish: Don’t Start A Band.
Something called HTCPIP.DLL is trying to access 213.105.33.222:8080. My firewall blocked it. Normally when a new program tries to phone home, I do a search of my disk to find out what directory it lives in, to see if it is part of something I approve of. And I do a google search to see what other people say it does.
In all the years I’ve been doing this, this was the first time both searches turned up negative. Regedit reveals one entry with the value HTCPIP.DLL in the registry at My Computer\HKEY_CURRRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Explorer Bars\{C4EE31f3-4768-11D2-BE5c-00A)C9A83Da1}\FilesNamedMRU\000\ (Type REG_SZ)
This is of course as clear as mud.
So I ran an online virus-checker. The only thing worth worrying about was a downloaded file carrying something that identified as “Backdoor.Win32.Breplibot.v”… but there’s nothing with that exact name at google either. (The Backdoor.Win32.Breplibot family doesn’t sound very nice, though.)
Have I got a virus so new that no one has recorded it? Is it sitting in some Sony-rootkit-like partition I don’t even know about?
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