Trade Show Displays Knowledge Base
Trade shows Displays? Which way should be best to promote small business because here i can found alots of way at http://www.vividads.com.au 1. Trade shows Displays 2. Exhibition Displays 4. Banner Displays 5. Roll Up Banner Stands 6. Banners 7. Displays 8. Pop Up Displays
Can I hang a 32inch LCD screen from the wall of a trade show booth? I want to use a 32inch LCD display at a trade show. Is it possible to hang a screen of that size from the top of one of the shell walls of a trade show booth? Is there already a solution for this? Where can I buy a mount that would allow me to do this? Are there any other solutions?
Any tips for a good trade show? I am starting a family company and we are trying to get our product out in the public eye (the product is golf club bookends you can see them at http://www.greatsportbookends.com... [click on the picture of the golf club bookends, Yahoo! was having trouble with a direct link]) We will be attending a PGA show for our area of the country this October. Our display will be set up in a 10' x 10' booth. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get the most out of our time at the show? Are there trade show "do's" and "dont's?" Any advice you can give will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. : ) The link is www.greatsportbookends.com. Sorry it didn't come out well on the first post.
How to hang posters in a display booth? We have a display booth that my company uses for trade show conferences. The booth has carpeted panels. What's the best way to hang posters on it? I've tried double-sided tapes.
How to make the Trademark Symbol on Myspace Display Name appear correctly? When I put the trademark code (& trade;) in my display name it shows ™ everywhere, except in friend spaces it show the code. Also when I copy the actual trademark symbol and paste on my display name only two commas (,,) appear. The "Alt 0153" way displays ",," also. Does anyone know any other way without these glitches or why this happens?
need to know where to find a list of farm and ranch trade shows in u.s.? an starting a small business selling a new slam latch and catch system for metal or wood farm gates would like to find a list of shows and fairs to display this at but can't find any listings on upcoming events. this works better than anything thats on the market right now with almost 100%closesure each time gate is closed
Make my own jewelery/watch displays? I am looking for an inexpensive way to showcase my watches at home shows that I do and also for trade shows/expos. I do purse parties- but carry at least 12 watches to sell. Besides laying them on the table, and without spending a lot for fancy jewelry counter displays- does anyone have any ideas on some displays i could make myself? I like the ideas of t-bars- but some of the watches are like bangel braclets where they dont have a 'chain'... they are solid and fit around the wrist.. I would prefer something for each watch to have it's own holder. I am crafty and have access to tons of fabric and a sewing machine- so go ahead-- could I make my own t-bars? Something with dowels? Maybe make some small pillows? I want the items to showcase the watches and add some visual interest to my tables instead of just laying them out over the table cloth! Thanks in advance!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone hear of a site called Now Pics Trade (.com)? I received a message from someone on my Myspace list saying "Somethings up with ur pics being copied on to nowpicstrade .com." As I entered the site a popup immediately displayed saying that my IP address had uploaded a pic within the last 48 hours, in which I've never been yet heard of the site before, neither has anyone else in my household. Then it asks for my name and full email address, and "the friend" that referred me. So I exited the site and a popup appeared saying something like "If you exit, you wont be able to view your pics and give your friend a referral, you're giving us permission to delete your pics and the pics wont be traded or shown, click continue to exit or cancel to stay." I then clicked "canceled" and the site closed; has anyone ever heard of this site, sounds somewhat fishy to me?!?
what should you pay a web site designer for a simple website? we have a small landscaping company and want to put signs on our truck and direct people to our website. we have a web site and it hasnt generated a single sale to date---the guy that put it together for us wants 800 dollars again this year to service us. all it is is a single page with a picture of a display we had at a trade show with a list of the things we do and doesnt even have our phone number on it,,also if someone were to try and contact us there is no way for us to capture their contact information which i understand is one of the major goals of a website and that usually happens when you offer them a free booklet or newsletter,. what should we do and how much should it cost? search engines come next.
looking for a post event form.? Looking for a form to fill out after an event or trade show. With Questions about the event , activity of the display. ect...A report aboput the event after it has taken place...
illegal immigrants want to make a statement Monday Right? What can we do for our Country? Subject: Re: Illegals want to make a statement > Hi - I received this in an email from a friend today. Just thought > y'all might want to know about this. > Glo > > WASHINGTON (AFP) Immigrants' rights advocates, elated by the > resounding success of Monday's "National Day of Action," which drew > the backing of hundreds of thousands of protesters across the United > States, now are planning a national boycott which they hope will have > an even greater resonance. > > > Organizers are planning the May 1 "Great American Boycott," urging > illegal immigrants -- who cannot vote and who have only limited > political power -- to flex their economic muscle. > > > Protesters are being urged to refrain from shopping, and to stay away > from school and work. > > > > > > > > > You should take a moment to let that sink in. > > > > > > This is a movement orchestrated by people who entered the US > illegally, and then want to scream about their "rights." WHAT RIGHTS? > YOU DON'T EVEN BELONG HERE! > > > > > > Let's take a look at some of the many benefits that illegal aliens > have blessed our great country with: Street gangs, graffiti, drugs, > skyrocketing healthcare, depreciation of property value, illiteracy. > The list could go on. What they actually have to offer (cheap labor) > pales to what they have given our country to deal with. I'll take > expensive vegetables over expensive healthcare anyday! > > > > > > And now, like terrorists, they are going to attack our economy -- the > one entity that makes our nation stand out from all the others. The > backbone of our nation. The country they came to like locusts so they > could reap the benefits is now the focus of their boycott. You've seen > it on TV: Marching on our American streets waving their Mexican > flags, boldly showing that they can be more racist than who they > accuse of, and yet the obvious is totally oblivious to them...... > > > > > > IF YOU'VE GOT IT SO BAD HERE, THEN LEAVE!!! > > > > > > To all the real Americans, you can do one small thing on May 1st, > 2006. It won't be racist, nor will it be violent. It will not be > boastful, arrogant, selfish, nor distasteful. It will not be any of > those things that our "guests" have already displayed. What it will > do is nullify a movement. > > > > > > All you have to do is buy something on May 1st. Make up for what they > will try to take away. It doesn't have to be a new car or house > (unless you were already planning on getting one). It simply needs to > be a day of trading. > > > > > > Hold off grocery buying until May 1st. > > > Take your wife out to eat that night. > > > Get the kids pizza, hamburgers, whatever! > > > Make several trips to the convenience store. > > > Buy your meals at work. > > > Fill up your tank. > > > Shop for clothes, furniture, outdoor equipment. > > > If it needs to be bought, BUY IT MAY 1st! > > > > > > Those are just a few suggestions. We're not asking you to spend your > inheritance that day, but just to spend more than you normally would. > Even if it's only a few dollars, this will help soften the blow that > the Mexicans will try to inflict on our economy that day. It sounds > trivial at first, but if this idea gets around, what the Mexicans set > out to do will fail. > > > > >
AMP requirements? I need to provide a trade show organization with what the amp requirements will be for a laptop, large flat panel display, and a lighting rail for our booth. What would be typical?
Is there something "New" about Breyer Model Horses being re-made/customized? It seems like the model horse industry has reached a new level - the traditional Breyer-brand plastic horses are being stripped of original finishes, polished, re-painted and resold. This time, the detail & definition is UNREAL! So realistic, beautiful to behold! Are there contests using these newly re-vamped horses, or just for display for personal enjoyment? One sale said "ready to hit the show scene", which makes me think that there are some kind of contests using these models shared between collectors of these fine models. What can you share with me about this? Any links? Do they show up at Trade Shows? Seems kinda fun for those who can't afford the "real" flesh-n-blood horses ownership... Thanks! 041008 4:00
If your good at maths please can you help me? I have this investigation and I'm so stuck on it. A manufacturer supplies Display Boxes which are used to protect exhibits at trade shows etc. The boxes have no base, but the walls are made of good quality wood to enhance their experience and the tops are made from a high quality of laminated glass. All the wood used is the same thickness and material. The cost of the boxes depends only on the amount of wood and amount of glass used. The following six boxes (which are shown below with the cost and dimensions) were sent to a museum for an exhibition. The curator was anxious to save money and queried the bill. She maintained that one of the boxes had been wrongly priced. By considering the two materials used in the construction of the boxes investigate the curator's claim. I'd be so grateful if anyone could give me an idea on how to solve this. I'm so stuck These are the boxes. A £56.20 3ft length, 2ft breadth, 1ft height B £94.60 5.5 length, 2ft breadth, 1ft height C £82.50 6ft length, 2ft breadth, 0.5 ft height D £171.50 5ft length, 4ft breadth, 1.5ft height E £66.30 3ft length, 3ft breadth, 0.75ft height F £127.35 12ft length, 1.5ft breadth, 0.5ft height.
Question for anyone thats good at maths? A manufacturer supplies Display Boxes which are used to protect exhibits at trade shows etc. The boxes have no base, but the walls are made of good quality wood to enhance their experience and the tops are made from a high quality of laminated glass. All the wood used is the same thickness and material. The cost of the boxes depends only on the amount of wood and amount of glass used. The following six boxes (which are shown below with the cost and dimensions) were sent to a museum for an exhibition. My question - How can I find out how much the wood is per sq. ft and how much the glass is per sq. ft. for the following boxes. A £56.20 3ft length, 2ft breadth, 1ft height B £94.60 5.5 length, 2ft breadth, 1ft height C £82.50 6ft length, 2ft breadth, 0.5 ft height D £171.50 5ft length, 4ft breadth, 1.5ft height E £66.30 3ft length, 3ft breadth, 0.75ft height F £127.35 12ft length, 1.5ft breadth, 0.5ft height. Please show all your working so I can learn!
Afterhours/Premarket Trading? When I click to view certain ticker symbols on Yahoo! Finance in afterhours or premarket trading, only the Bid and Ask prices are displayed, and the Last Trade value is not shown; it only shows the close price. Now if I were to actually buy stock afterhours, what price would I get it for? Would I get it for the close price, or the average of the Bid and Ask prices?
Do you get a warm fuzzy knowing that the Democrat Congress has the full support of governments who said this? VENEZUELA: "(We) demand that the government of President Bush explain the self-inflicted attack on the World Trade Center and its victims" ''evidence and testimonies had emerged in the United States and that for the rest of the world, there is no longer any question that 9/11 was not an al Qaeda attack." An exhibition called ''Truths About the Empire'' was on display in the foyer of the Foreign Ministry. It included a photo montage showing Bush dressed in the uniform of the German SS. Foreign Affairs Commission, Carlos Escarrá said the comparison might indeed be considered unfair -- but to Hitler, not to Bush. ''Hitler was a babe in arms compared to Bush." IRAN: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday called U.S. President George W. Bush's defeat in congressional elections a victory for Iran. Congratulations to the Democrats! You're in good company with some real nice people. Someone below asked for sources. I should have provided them initially, but forgot. Here they are: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/special_packages/5min/15965767.htm http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyid=2006-11-10T140135Z_01_L10266591_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-ELECTIONS-IRAN.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
What does "Unled" mean in this paragraph? What does "unled" mean in this paragraph? There are arrows to show where it is. This year's Spectacular will feature a class array of top led and >>> unled <<< bulls, led females and steers, as well as a quality judging line-up, speaker and seminar program, industry breakfasts, displays and trade exhibitors. As seen on www.farmonline.com.au From agricultural news, weather, classifieds and market reports to properties for sale, job vacancies and rural events, farmonline has it covered. Reply to BillRuss: Why does it matter? Who cares?
Should "Dark Pools" trading be outlawed or regulated for full transparency or left alone...and why? Dark pools of liquidity (also dark pools or dark liquidity) are crossing networks that provide liquidity that is not displayed on order books. This is useful for traders who wish to move large numbers of shares without revealing themselves to the open market. Dark liquidity pools offer institutional investors many of the efficiencies associated with trading on the exchanges' public limit order books but without showing their hands to others. Dark liquidity pools avoid this risk because neither the price nor the identity of the trading company is displayed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pools
How is this essay I typed? 123456? James Fenimore Cooper produces a series of novels known as "The Leatherstocking Tales" depicting the adventures of Hawk eye, a white man raced by idians and his involvement with the activities of the Americans who built the frontier towns and drove the indians and there culture, out. James Coopers wealth of knowledge in history and folklore made these books amazing works of art and are considered American Classics. The Last of the Mohicans, the most famous book of the series puts Hawkeye right in the middle of the Massacre of Fort William Henry in 1757, while addressing the issues of interracial relationships, and the white mans view of the Indians. The book was adapted to several films which were reproduced and even made into a mini-series. They provide a view into the mindset of the time and all show the attitude toward settlement of the American frontier at the time, while including religous, romantic and other aspects of Hawkeyes life. James Fenimore Cooper suggests that interracial mingling is both desirable and dangerous. He shows the realtionship between Hawkeye, a white man and Chingachgook, a Mohican Indian. There bond threw there knowledge of nature enables them to transcend race, team up against the Huron Tribe,to fight with the white man. One of the prevailing themes is that nature brings all the men together in a battle field not at all like the ones of Europe, adds danger and even more challenge to the battles going on around them. The Europeans, being used to the flat laid out battle fields, tatics prove to old for the new war style, arena, and oppenent. In the movie, it seems that the mens skills in the woods reflect there all around character. Hawkeye, the protaginist of the story, has a respect and admiration for the woods, understanding its workings, and being able to us it to his advantage. Duncan's misunderstanding of the woods shows his obvious incompetence toward leading. The story also displays interracial romantic relationships as doomed and undesirable. The interracial love of Uncas and Alice ends in tragedy. The issue of interacial relationships is still around today, a taboo that in recent times is seeming more easily broken in America then ever before. During the French Indian War, in which this story takes place France, England, and there Indians allies were fighting for control of America. The indians choice alliances based on neccesity and the thought that if on the winning side, they would recieve better treatment. This was a misconception that would eventually lead to the near complete destruction of there culture and people.The title forshadows the tragedy of the film. Although the title specifically refers to Chingachgook, it also alludes to a much larger event: the murderous removal of the Indians by President Andrew Jackson’s policies of the 1830s. The book was written in this time period and reflects the extermination of the culture native toward America. Also during the time period of the novel, interacial marriage between Indians and Whites were allowed by many states, while black and white marriage was not. This is an idea streching far threw out American history and did not change for some time. The frontier is another key theme in the movie, resembling the fresh start and feeling in the new world. Another issue addressed is the old religons of Europe had no place in the new land, Calvinism, no longer had its place. Only threw hard work could you achieve success in this new world. The Indians alliances also drew from economical alliances with Indians. The English and French both traded with Indians, this helped shaped the alliances they formed threwout the fighting. The French Indian War, was a chapter of the seven year war, a global war that all of Europe was participating in. Hawkeye: Chingachgook told me, "Don't try to understand them; and don't try to make them understand you. For they are a breed apart and make no sense." A quote from the movie about the white people accoring to hawkeyes father Chingachogook. This was true of the time period, the Indians could not understand the new settles or there ways. The whole movie is a story around a key battle in the war for america. Showing its historical accuracy threw the battle resulting in the French victory, and eventullay British massacre.
pink v3m razr problems......basically the outer display is not cooperating...? ...on my phone, the outer display is only showing a gross burnt-orange color behind the date and time rather than a wallpaper. My sister got a silver one at the same time I did and she's able to change it. So is it a bug with the pink ones? Is it fixable or should I just trade it for a different one? I really like the color and everything but if its only going to give me issues then I'll do what's best. ...on my phone, the outer display is only showing a gross burnt-orange color behind the date and time rather than a wallpaper. My sister got a silver one at the same time I did and she's able to change it. So is it a bug with the pink ones? Is it fixable or should I just trade it for a different one? I really like the color and everything but if its only going to give me issues then I'll do what's best. We just got them yesterday and the two menus are slightly different and as I said earlier, there are absolutely no options for me to change my outer display. how do i go in and modify the software though.....this is my first actual cell phone, before i just had a tracfone...
Were Egyptian pharohs Black? Which ones? A few years ago the King Tut display was shown in Los Angeles. There were many complaints the mummy did not appear black enough as US Blacks claimed King Tut was Black. On return to Egypt, DNA tests were done on the body. King Tut was not Negro. It appears, in fact, that his race was more closely European and particularily Greek. This according to Dr. Hawass, director of Egyptian antiquities. Now there is little doubt Egyptian kings from the Sudan were Black. I would like to see much more history of Africa and Asia taught in schools though. Both have very rich histories and not everything came out of Europe. I know that navigators from Dilmun and Phoenicia had been circumnavigating Africa from at least 1500CE. Obviously trading. A new discovery in South Africa, 280,000 years old shows people who steamed clams as well as used makeup for sexual attraction. Pushing back the use of fire and cosmetice well over 200,000 years.
Will Johan Santana last in New York? ( Mets fans are already booing him after 3 starts. )? Here you have this nice soft spoken guy playing in New York wherein the fans and media will display their dissatisfaction in a heartbeat. In Minnesota Santana was loved and could do no wrong even after a bad outing. If Mets fans continue to show no mercy will Santana crack and asked to be traded at the end of the year? The big apple just isn't for everybody. Just so you guys know he was no happy in the post interview.
Tougher action against booze industry over binge drinking = usual smokescreen after very embarassing stats ?? Press Assoc. - 41 minutes ago The Government has promised tougher action against the alcohol industry unless it steps up efforts to encourage sensible drinking. Research has shown the drinks trade is failing to adhere to its own voluntary code on providing alcohol unit information to consumers. More than 10 years after industry and the Government agreed a way forward for clearer labelling, only 57% of products contain details of the alcohol units in a drink. Meanwhile, just 3% of products contain all the information ministers want to see, including a warning to pregnant women to avoid alcohol. The Government is considering banning happy hours, forcing pubs and clubs to serve drinks in smaller glasses as well as larger ones, and stopping off-licences and other retailers from displaying alcohol at checkouts. Industry representatives reacted by saying existing laws around the sale of alcohol were not currently enforced >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news & 'Have your say' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7518843.stm - links to 3 background/analysis features http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=5143&edition=1&ttl=20080722140924 How can alcohol consumption be curtailed? New government figures show that in England more than 800,000 people were admitted to hospital last year for injuries and diseases linked to drinking. Do we as a nation drink too much alcohol? The Public Health Minister, Dawn Primarolo, has announced that alcohol-related illnesses costs the NHS £2.7bn a year. Health Secretary Alan Johnson said people should start taking more responsibility for their lifestyles. Mandatory regulation and labelling could be on the cards as government proposals are thought to include tighter regulation of the drinks industry, such as a ban on happy hours in pubs and clubs. Should there be tougher laws for the drinks industry? Do you agree with Alan Johnson's view? Have you suffered from an alcohol-related illness? Have you stopped drinking alcohol? Have you drastically reduced your intake to within healthy recommendations? Tell us too, OK? As 3 wet days forecast, I'll extend expiry News said last week that we are likely headed for a 'summer of discontent', likely including riots, etc - that usually involve some degree of drunkenness? Any thoughts @ that aspect? What slogans can remind folk who use any hot weather as an excuse that alocol, far from quenching thirst, tends to make ya thirsty? Who else asks regularly @ best bargains in pubs, to be told lager, & when ya say, "Isn't a J20 cheaper?" No Wanna campaign for more, better, cheaper NON alcoholic cocktails? Other aspects I asked @ not commented on yet too: who will email Sir Terry Wogan @ a cewrtain Kaiser Chiefs hit - with funny story to boot - @ http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2 How @ this tough action? http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20080723232229AAvvHlo
Would you be willing to pay more for products made in America? If yes, how much more? 10%, 20%, 30%? Do you remember walking into Wal-Mart ten years ago and seeing the displays by the door that showed a product, were in America it was made and how many people the company employed? What ever happened to that practice? Guess it wasn't profitable. While I have nothing against free trade, it is disturbing to see how many things that used to be made here are now being imported. As a specific example, I have this great pair of shearling lined rubber soled slippers from Cabela's. They were a gift eleven years ago and I finally wore a hole in the toe of the left one. I went to get a new pair and noticed they were now made in China. It got me thinking about how much more I would be willing to pay for a pair if they were still made here. I put the new slippers back and am slogging around with my toe poking out. So -- how much more would you pay for made in America goods and have you been thinking about buying American more lately?
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By accepting the terms of this Agreement and Using the Licensed Software you represent that you are over the age of 18. 5. IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING FUNCTIONALITY OF LICENSED SOFTWARE. 5.1 Functionality. Certain applications in the Licensed Software recognize keywords from your Internet browser and URL targets from the sites you visit to display relevant contextual advertisements. These advertisements may be displayed on your computer screen at any time while you are searching and shopping online (and not necessarily while you are using any product or service related to or downloaded with the Licensed Software) and pop-up on your screen in a separate browser. The Licensed Software gathers and stores personal identifiable information and records concerning your Internet browsing behavior. Please refer to Section 10 (below) for further information about Licensor’s privacy policies. 5.2. Display of Advertising. The Licensed Software starts automatically when you start your computer, runs in the background on your computer, and may periodically direct you to our sponsors' websites. By installing and/or using the Licensed Software you grant permission for Licensor to periodically display sponsors' websites to you. The frequency of these advertisements (which will pop up on your screen in a separate browser) will vary depending on your use of the Internet. Please note that you will receive Adult-oriented ads if you utilize keywords related to such content or if you view Adult-oriented websites. On occasion, you may search for a website and receive an error from your browser software indicating that the site cannot be found. When this occurs, the Software includes a function that may redirect your web browser to our sponsor's websites based on the content of the website address, or URL, which you entered. You hereby consent to these actions. Content Licensor considers “Adult” is defined as any audio, video, audiovisual, images, sounds or text that contain or reference any of the following: profanity, crude or off-color humor, violence, blood and gore, weapons, use of alcohol, drugs, tobacco or other controlled substances, online gambling, pornography, erotica, erotic images, nudity, sex, sexually explicit images, and sexual references. 6. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS. The Licensed Software is the intellectual property of, and owned exclusively by, Licensor, its affiliates or suppliers or the companies that own or control the Third Party Software. The structure, organization and code of the Licensed Software are the valuable trade secrets and confidential information of Licensor, its suppliers or affiliates or the companies that own or control the Third Party Software. The Licensed Software is protected by copyright, including without limitation by United States copyright law, international treaty provisions and applicable laws in the country in which it is being used. Except as expressly stated herein, this Agreement does not grant you any intellectual property rights in the Licensed Software, and all rights not expressly granted are reserved by Licensor and its affiliates or suppliers. 7. UNINSTALLATION. You understand and agree that the presence of the Licensed Software on your computer is voluntary and that you may remove the Licensed Software from your computer at any time going to the “Add/Remove Software” function on your computer and clicking “Remove Software”. The program name for the software is Browser Optimizer Dcads. Should you choose to download additional software from Licensor’s affiliates or advertisers, those programs may be named differently and require you to remove them separately. Please note that the above is the only proper way to ensure complete removal of all Licensed Software files - many anti-spyware or other software tools do not completely or properly remove the Licensed Software. Some Internet content and software publishers require that their users have certain of the Licensed Software installed on their computer in order to access their content or use their software applications ("Content Providers"). Uninstallation of such Licensed Software may impact your ability to access such content and/or use such software. You may be required to restart your computer in order for the uninstallation to take effect. Should you have any questions regarding the removal of the Licensed Software, please contact <removal@dcads.biz <sendto:removal@dcads.biz>>. 8. UPDATES. Licensor, in its sole discretion, may provide you with Updates to the Licensed Software as part of this Agreement. The Licensed Software may check with Licensor or its affiliates for the existence of any Update released and, in the event that one is available, the Licensed Software may update itself automatically or prompt you to update the Software. Nothing herein shall be construed or interpreted as requiring that Licensor provide Updates. The companies that own or control the Third Party Software may also provide you with Updates to their Licensed Software. Licensor has no control and accepts no liability for Updates that may (or may not) be provided for the Third Party Software. 9. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND REMEDIES; INDEMNITY. 9.1 No Warranty; Disclaimer. YOUR USE OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE LICENSED SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. LICENSOR, ITS AFFILIATES OR SUPPLIERS, AND THE COMPANIES THAT OWN OR CONTROL THE THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. LICENSOR, AND ITS AFFILIATES AND SUPPLIERS, MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT (i) THE LICENSED SOFTWARE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (ii) THE LICENSED SOFTWARE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, (iv) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION, OR OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE LICENSED SOFTWARE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS, OR (v) ANY ERRORS IN THE LICENSED SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED. ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE IS OBTAINED AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM LICENSOR OR THROUGH OR FROM THE LICENSED SOFTWARE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY. LICENSOR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTENT HOSTED BY CONTENT PROVIDERS. 9.2 Limitation of Damages. LICENSOR, ITS AFFILIATES OR SUPPLIERS, OR THE COMPANIES THAT OWN OR CONTROL THE THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE WILL NOT HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR, AND YOU HEREBY RELEASE LICENSOR, ITS AFFILIATES AND SUPPLIERS AND THE COMPANIES THAT OWN OR CONTROL THE THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE FROM ANY, LIABILITY (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) FOR ANY DAMAGES SUSTAINED BY YOU ARISING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE LICENSED SOFTWARE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR LOSS OF DATA, SAVINGS, OR PROFITS OR THE COST OF PROCURING SUBSTITUTE GOODS, EVEN IF LICENSOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT WILL LICENSOR’S ENTIRE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT EXCEED $100.00. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. 9.3 Indemnity. Licensee agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold Licensor and all of the directors, officers, shareholders, affiliates, employees, and agents of Licensor (collectively referred to as "Licensor’s Agents") harmless against and in respect to any and all claims, demands, losses, costs, expenses, obligations, liabilities, damages, recoveries, and deficiencies, including interest, penalties, expert witness fees, and reasonable attorneys' fees that Licensor, Licensor’s Agents and the companies that own or control the Third Party Software shall incur or suffer, which arise, result from, or in any way relate to: (a) any breach of, or failure by Licensee to perform any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements in this Agreement; (b) Licensee’s violation of any applicable law or regulation, whether or not referenced herein; and (c) Licensee’s violation of any rights of any third party (including, without limitation, the right of the third parties who own the Third Party Software). 10. USE OF INFORMATION; PRIVACY POLICY. 10.1 Use of Information. By entering into this Agreement, Licensee agrees that Licensor may collect and retain information about Licensee, including Licensee’s name and email address. Licensor may employ other companies and individuals to perform these functions on its behalf. Examples may include fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail and e-mail, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance and processing credit card payments. These third parties may be given access to personal information needed to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes. In addition, Licensor will collect and use anonymous information relating to your use of the Licensed Software application for statistical and related purposes. Licensor may disclose the information to third parties for these purposes but will not use or disclose information about your use of the Licensed Software for any other purpose (unless required to do so by law). Licensor may keep track of your Internet history in order to customize the advertisements provided to you as part of the Licensed Software. 10.2 Privacy Policy. Without limiting the generality of Section 10.1, by installing the Licensed Software, you grant permission for Licensor to collect and use certain information. You acknowledge that you have reviewed the applicable Licensor Privacy Policy, which describes Licensor’s general practices with respect to the collection, use and disclosure of information in connection with your Use of the Licensed Software, which is incorporated herein by reference. Licensor reserves the right to change the provisions of its Privacy Policy from time to time. Your Use of the Licensed Software following the posting of such changes to Licensor’s Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of any such changes. Licensor does not make any and hereby disclaims to the maximum extent allowed by law any and all covenants, representations and warranties with respect to its compliance with the statements of intent contained in Licensor's privacy policy. 11. COMPATIBILITY. Licensor does not warrant that the Licensed Software will be compatible with your hardware or other software installed on your computer system. Compatibility issues may cause your computer's performance to suffer. In the event that the Licensed Software is not compatible with your hardware or other software installed on your computer system, the Licensed Software can be uninstalled as provided in Section 7, above. Like all software, the Licensed Software utilizes some of your computer's resources to run, including system memory and Internet connection. Use of the Licensed Software on a computer with inadequate system resources will cause such computer's performance to suffer. 12. USER REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. You acknowledge, represent and warrant that: (a) you own the computer on which you are installing the Licensed Software, or have the authority to install the Licensed Software on such computer; (b) your installation and/or Use of the Licensed Software will not violate any local, state or federal laws that apply to you, or the Use or installation of the Licensed Software; (c) Licensor is not causing the Licensed Software to be installed on your computer, but has provided the Licensed Software to you, which you are installing of your own volition; and (d) you have read and fully understand the terms of this Agreement. 13. EXPORT. You agree that the Licensed Software may not be acquired, shipped, transported, exported, or re-exported (A) into (or to a national or resident of) any U.S. embargoed country or (B) to anyone on the U.S. Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated Nationals or the U.S. Department of Commerce's Table of Denial Orders. By using the Licensed Software, you represent and warrant that you are not located in, under control of, or a national or resident of any such country or on any such list. 14. MISCELLANEOUS. 14.1 Entire Agreement. This Agreement and any Third Party Software Agreement set forth the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof. There are no representations, warranties, agreements, arrangements or understandings, oral or written, between the parties relating to this Agreement which are not fully expressed in this Agreement. No waiver, amendment or modification of any of the terms of this Agreement shall be effective unless in writing and signed by the party affected by the waiver, amendment or modification; provided, however, that that Licensor may unilaterally amend or modify this Agreement or a company that owns or controls Third Party Software may modify their Third Party Software Agreement at any time and you shall have notice of these changes by reference to the Version number of this document and the effective date for such version (or the Third Party Software Agreement may be amended according to that company’s particular policies). Further, no waiver of any term, condition or default of any term of this Agreement shall be construed as a waiver of any other term, condition or default. In the event of a conflict between this Agreement and any Third Party Agreement with respect to the use of the Licensed Software and the obligations, duties or liability of Licensor, this Agreement shall control notwithstanding such conflicting language. 14.2 Severability. In the event that any provision of this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable, the validity of the remaining provisions shall not be affected, and the rights and obligations of the parties shall be construed and enforced as if the Agreement did not contain the particular provisions held to be unenforceable and the unenforceable provisions shall be replaced by mutually acceptable provisions which, being valid, legal and enforceable, come closest to the intention of the parties underlying the invalid or unenforceable provision. 14.3 Governing Law and Venue. This Agreement and each and every portion of this Agreement shall be interpreted pursuant to the internal laws of the Country of Costa Rica, without giving effect to the principles of conflict of laws. Each of the parties hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to the exclusive jurisdiction of any court located in Cost Rica for any actions, suits or proceedings arising out of or relating to this Agreement (and the parties each agree not to commence any action, suit or proceeding relating thereto except in such courts and not to plead or claim that any such court is an inconvenient or otherwise improper or inappropriate forum). 14.4 Injunctive Relief. Licensee acknowledges that the injury that would be suffered by Licensor as a result of a breach of the provisions of this Agreement by Licensee would be irreparable and that an award of monetary damages to Licensor for such a breach would be an inadequate remedy. Consequently, Licensor will have the right, in addition to any other rights it may have, to obtain injunctive relief to restrain any breach or threatened breach or otherwise to specifically enforce any provision of this Agreement, and Licensor will not be obligated to post bond or other security in seeking such relief Should you have any questions concerning this Agreement, or if you wish to contact Licensor for any reason, please e-mail us at dcads.biz <sendto:info@dcads.biz>. SuperiorAds.Biz - (If applicable)* Version 2.1 (June 27, 2007) END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT NOTE TO USER: BEFORE YOU INSTALL, COPY OR OTHERWISE USE THE LICENSED SOFTWARE (AS DEFINED BELOW), CAREFULLY READ THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT AS WELL AS THE OTHER SIMILAR AGREEMENTS FOR THE THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE (AS DEFINED BELOW) THAT MAY BE BUNDLED WITH THE LICENSED SOFTWARE. BY INSTALLING, COPYING OR OTHERWISE USING THE LICENSED SOFTWARE, YOU ARE CONSENTING TO BE BOUND BY AND ARE BECOMING A PARTY TO THIS LEGALLY ENFORCEABLE AGREEMENT AS WELL AS THE OTHER SIMILAR THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE AGREEMENTS (INCLUDED HEREWITH). YOU ARE ALSO ACKNOWLEDING AND AGREEING THAT, UPON INSTALLATION OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE, YOU WILL RECEIVE AND CONTINUE TO RECEIVE CONTEXTUAL POPUP AND CONTEXTUAL LINK ADVERTISING VIA HIGHLIGHTED LINKS. YOU MAY ALSO CHOOSE TO INSTALL (OR UNINSTALL) THIRD-PARTY SOFTWARE FROM SELECT ADVERTISERS. THE LICENSED SOFTWARE CAN BE UNINSTALLED UTILIZING THE “ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS” COMMAND OF YOUR COMPUTER (SEE FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS BELOW). This End-User License Agreement (the “Agreement”) is an important legal agreement between you (the “Licensee”) and Danube International inc., a Costa Rican corporation (“Licensor”). Licensor is willing to license the Licensed Software (as defined below) to you, provided that you agree to and accept all of the terms and conditions in this Agreement. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT, DO NOT INSTALL THE LICENSED SOFTWARE. UPON INSTALLATION, YOUR USE OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE IS SUBJECT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT. Special Notice for Non-English Speakers: The Licensed Software is suited primarily for the use of English speakers and, therefore, this Agreement is written in English and is addressed to English speakers. If you are not proficient in English and feel that you cannot properly understand this License Agreement, we recommend that you either retain the help of an English speaker to help you understand and accept the terms of this Agreement or, alternatively, refrain from installing or using the Licensed Software. In any event, if you choose to install or use the Licensed Software, you will be bound by this Agreement and the Privacy Policy incorporated herein. Special Notice for Residents of the State of Alaska, USA: Unfortunately, according to SB 140 (Alaska), persons who reside in the State of Alaska may not install the Licensed Software. Therefore, by installing or using the Licensed Software you represent and warrant that your computer is not located in the State of Alaska. To the extent that our system is reasonably able to recognize that your computer is located in the State of Alaska, we will not enable you to install the Licensed Software. Notice for All Users: By downloading the Licensed Software, you get free access to sponsored content across the Internet. The Licensed Software may, among other things, show you ads that pop up on your screen in a separate browser, provide you with a toolbar to make your use of the internet more efficient and enjoyable and allow you to access or otherwise link to programs from our affiliates. The pop-up ads that may appear on your computer are based on keywords and URL targets from the sites you visit. Please note that you will receive Adult-oriented ads if you utilize keywords related to such content or if you view Adult-oriented websites. The Licensed Software is a service of Licensor. 1. DEFINITIONS. The capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined in this Agreement shall have the following meanings: 1.1 “Agreement” or “License” means this End User License Agreement. 1.2 “Licensee” or “you” means the individual who agrees to license the Licensed Software in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement. 1.3 “Licensed Software” means collectively the Software, Third Party Software and Updates. 1.4 “Third Party Software” means the software of third parties bundled together with the Software and/or made available to or installed by Licensee in connection with the installation, use and/or maintenance of the Software, which software includes or displays, without limitation, cookies and pop-up advertisements of third parties, or links to third-party websites not affiliated with Licensor. You may choose not to install Third Party Software or may uninstall such software using your “Add/Remove Software” function on your computer. Each company providing Third Party Software has its own agreements and privacy policies (or other policies) that may be different from this (Licensor’s) Agreement and Privacy Policy . By clicking “I Agree” you also agree to be bound by the Third Party Software Agreements that are included herewith. In the event of a conflict between a Third Party Software Agreement and this Agreement, this Agreement shall control with respect to Licensor’s obligations, duties or liability. 1.5 “Software” toolbar, contextual popup and contextual link applications installed by Licensee pursuant the terms of this Agreement, together with the software applications, documentation and local computer files installed or utilized by Licensee in connection therewith (excluding the Third Party Software), and all updates, modifications or patches thereof. 1.6 “Updates” means any bug fixes, upgrades, modified versions or updates to the Licensed Software. 1.7 "Use”, "Used" or "Using" means to access, install, download, copy or benefit from using the functionality of the Licensed Software 2. PERMISSION/AUTHORITY TO DOWNLOAD LICENSED SOFTWARE 2.1 Permission to Download Licensed Software. This Agreement contains important legal obligations. Pursuant to applicable laws including, without limitation, the Electronic Signature Law and Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (“UETA”), by clicking “I Agree”, Licensor will treat Licensee’s affirmative action as equivalent to a signed written contract that will legally bind Licensee to the terms of this Agreement. Licensee should carefully review the terms of this Agreement (as well as any Third Party Software Agreements included herewith) before clicking “I agree”. 2.2 Obligation to be Bound by Current Version of EULA. Licensor may revise this EULA or its Privacy Policy at anytime, and may (but shall not be obligated) to notify Licensees of such revisions. By agreeing to the terms of this EULA, Licensee agrees to read and review this EULA and privacy policy in order to stay current on any changes. 3. SOFTWARE LICENSE AND RESTRICTIONS. 3.1 License Grant. Upon acceptance of the terms and conditions of this Agreement, as evidenced by clicking “I agree” and continuing with the installation procedure, Licensor grants Licensee a non-transferable, non-exclusive, revocable, non-sub licensable license to Use the Licensed Software, in binary executable form only, solely in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement. The Licensee agrees not to Use the Licensed Software in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden or impair the Licensed Software, including, without limitation, Using the Licensed Software in an automated manner or in any other manner which could interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of the Licensed Software. 3.2 Restrictions. As a material condition to the license granted in Section 3.1 above, you will: (a) not reverse engineer, disassemble or decompile the Licensed Software or attempt to discover or recreate the source code to the Licensed Software, except as otherwise required by applicable law, (b) comply with all applicable laws, including U.S. export control laws, in your Use of the Licensed Software, (c) not make any modification, adaptation, improvement, enhancement, translation or derivative work of or to the Licensed Software, (d) not remove, alter or obscure any proprietary notices (including copy notices) of Licensor or Licensor’s affiliates in the Licensed Software, (e) not Use the Licensed Software for purposes for which it is not designed, and (f) only Use the Licensed Software for personal, non-commercial use. 4. OWNER OF COMPUTER; ALL USERS BOUND; AGE LIMITATION. You represent and warrant either that you are the owner of the computer up which you intend to download the Licensed Software and that you have authorized the download and installation of the Licensed Software or that the owner of the computer has authorized you to do so. You agree, with respect to all users of the computer on which you have caused the Licensed Software to reside, to provide a copy of these terms and conditions and to obtain their consent to these terms and conditions before allowing them to Use the Licensed Software. Alternatively, if you have the legal right to accept this Agreement on behalf of one or more users of the computer on which you have caused or authorized the Licensed Software to reside, then you hereby accept this Agreement on behalf of all such other users. You understand that the presence of the Licensed Software on any computer is voluntary and that you may remove it at any time. You must be at least 18 years of age to Use the Licensed Software. By accepting the terms of this Agreement and Using the Licensed Software you represent that you are over the age of 18. 5. IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING FUNCTIONALITY OF LICENSED SOFTWARE. 5.1 Functionality. Certain applications in the Licensed Software recognize keywords from your Internet browser and URL targets from the sites you visit to display relevant contextual advertisements. These advertisements may be displayed on your computer screen at any time while you are searching and shopping online (and not necessarily while you are using any product or service related to or downloaded with the Licensed Software) and pop-up on your screen in a separate browser. The Licensed Software gathers and stores personal identifiable information and records concerning your Internet browsing behavior. Please refer to Section 10 (below) for further information about Licensor’s privacy policies. 5.2. Display of Advertising. The Licensed Software starts automatically when you start your computer, runs in the background on your computer, and may periodically direct you to our sponsors' websites. By installing and/or using the Licensed Software you grant permission for Licensor to periodically display sponsors' websites to you. The frequency of these advertisements (which will pop up on your screen in a separate browser) will vary depending on your use of the Internet. Please note that you will receive Adult-oriented ads if you utilize keywords related to such content or if you view Adult-oriented websites. On occasion, you may search for a website and receive an error from your browser software indicating that the site cannot be found. When this occurs, the Software includes a function that may redirect your web browser to our sponsor's websites based on the content of the website address, or URL, which you entered. You hereby consent to these actions. Content Licensor considers “Adult” is defined as any audio, video, audiovisual, images, sounds or text that contain or reference any of the following: profanity, crude or off-color humor, violence, blood and gore, weapons, use of alcohol, drugs, tobacco or other controlled substances, online gambling, pornography, erotica, erotic images, nudity, sex, sexually explicit images, and sexual references. 6. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS. The Licensed Software is the intellectual property of, and owned exclusively by, Licensor, its affiliates or suppliers or the companies that own or control the Third Party Software. The structure, organization and code of the Licensed Software are the valuable trade secrets and confidential information of Licensor, its suppliers or affiliates or the companies that own or control the Third Party Software. The Licensed Software is protected by copyright, including without limitation by United States copyright law, international treaty provisions and applicable laws in the country in which it is being used. Except as expressly stated herein, this Agreement does not grant you any intellectual property rights in the Licensed Software, and all rights not expressly granted are reserved by Licensor and its affiliates or suppliers. 7. UNINSTALLATION. You understand and agree that the presence of the Licensed Software on your computer is voluntary and that you may remove the Licensed Software from your computer at any time going to the “Add/Remove Software” function on your computer and clicking “Remove Software”. The program name for the software is Browser Optimizer SuperiorAds. Should you choose to download additional software from Licensor’s affiliates or advertisers, those programs may be named differently and require you to remove them separately. Please note that the above is the only proper way to ensure complete removal of all Licensed Software files - many anti-spyware or other software tools do not completely or properly remove the Licensed Software. Some Internet content and software publishers require that their users have certain of the Licensed Software installed on their computer in order to access their content or use their software applications ("Content Providers"). Uninstallation of such Licensed Software may impact your ability to access such content and/or use such software. You may be required to restart your computer in order for the uninstallation to take effect. Should you have any questions regarding the removal of the Licensed Software, please contact removal@dcads.biz or removal@rightonads.biz. 8. UPDATES. Licensor, in its sole discretion, may provide you with Updates to the Licensed Software as part of this Agreement. The Licensed Software may check with Licensor or its affiliates for the existence of any Update released and, in the event that one is available, the Licensed Software may update itself automatically or prompt you to update the Software. Nothing herein shall be construed or interpreted as requiring that Licensor provide Updates. The companies that own or control the Third Party Software may also provide you with Updates to their Licensed Software. Licensor has no control and accepts no liability for Updates that may (or may not) be provided for the Third Party Software. 9. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND REMEDIES; INDEMNITY. 9.1 No Warranty; Disclaimer. YOUR USE OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE LICENSED SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. LICENSOR, ITS AFFILIATES OR SUPPLIERS, AND THE COMPANIES THAT OWN OR CONTROL THE THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. LICENSOR, AND ITS AFFILIATES AND SUPPLIERS, MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT (i) THE LICENSED SOFTWARE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (ii) THE LICENSED SOFTWARE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, (iv) THE QUALITY OF ANY PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION, OR OTHER MATERIAL PURCHASED OR OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE LICENSED SOFTWARE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS, OR (v) ANY ERRORS IN THE LICENSED SOFTWARE WILL BE CORRECTED. ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE LICENSED SOFTWARE IS OBTAINED AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL. NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM LICENSOR OR THROUGH OR FROM THE LICENSED SOFTWARE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY. LICENSOR IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTENT HOSTED BY CONTENT PROVIDERS. 9.2 Limitation of Damages. LICENSOR, ITS AFFILIATES OR SUPPLIERS, OR THE COMPANIES THAT OWN OR CONTROL THE THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE WILL NOT HAVE ANY LIABILITY FOR, AND YOU HEREBY RELEASE LICENSOR, ITS AFFILIATES AND SUPPLIERS AND THE COMPANIES THAT OWN OR CONTROL THE THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE FROM ANY, LIABILITY (WHETHER IN CONTRACT, WARRANTY, TORT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) FOR ANY DAMAGES SUSTAINED BY YOU ARISING FROM THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE LICENSED SOFTWARE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR LOSS OF DATA, SAVINGS, OR PROFITS OR THE COST OF PROCURING SUBSTITUTE GOODS, EVEN IF LICENSOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. IN NO EVENT WILL LICENSOR’S ENTIRE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT EXCEED $100.00. SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. 9.3 Indemnity. Licensee agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold Licensor and all of the directors, officers, shareholders, affiliates, employees, and agents of Licensor (collectively referred to as "Licensor’s Agents") harmless against and in respect to any and all claims, demands, losses, costs, expenses, obligations, liabilities, damages, recoveries, and deficiencies, including interest, penalties, expert witness fees, and reasonable attorneys' fees that Licensor, Licensor’s Agents and the companies that own or control the Third Party Software shall incur or suffer, which arise, result from, or in any way relate to: (a) any breach of, or failure by Licensee to perform any of the representations, warranties, covenants or agreements in this Agreement; (b) Licensee’s violation of any applicable law or regulation, whether or not referenced herein; and (c) Licensee’s violation of any rights of any third party (including, without limitation, the right of the third parties who own the Third Party Software). 10. 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Licensor may disclose the information to third parties for these purposes but will not use or disclose information about your use of the Licensed Software for any other purpose (unless required to do so by law). Licensor may keep track of your Internet history in order to customize the advertisements provided to you as part of the Licensed Software. 10.2 Privacy Policy. Without limiting the generality of Section 10.1, by installing the Licensed Software, you grant permission for Licensor to collect and use certain information. You acknowledge that you have reviewed the applicable Licensor Privacy Policy, which describes Licensor’s general practices with respect to the collection, use and disclosure of information in connection with your Use of the Licensed Software, which is incorporated herein by reference. Licensor reserves the right to change the provisions of its Privacy Policy from time to time. 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The "Day without immigrants". How can you help America? WASHINGTON (AFP) Immigrants' rights advocates, elated by the resounding success of Monday's "National Day of Action," which drew the backing of hundreds of thousands of protesters across the United States, now are planning a national boycott which they hope will have an even greater resonance. Organizers are planning the May 1 "Great American Boycott," urging illegal immigrants -- who cannot vote and who have only limited political power -- to flex their economic muscle. Protesters are being urged to refrain from shopping, and to stay away from school and work. You should take a moment to let that sink in. This is a movement orchestrated by people who entered the US illegally, and then want to scream about their "rights." WHAT RIGHTS? YOU DON'T EVEN BELONG HERE! Let's take a look at some of the many benefits that illegal aliens have blessed our great country with: Street gangs, graffiti, drugs, skyrocketing healthcare, depreciation of property value, illiteracy. The list could go on. What they actually have to offer (cheap labor) pales when compared with what they have given our country to deal with in terms of problems. I'll take expensive vegetables over expensive healthcare any day! And now, like terrorists, they are going to attack our economy -- the one entity that makes our nation stand out from all the others. The backbone of our nation. The country they came to like locusts so they could reap the benefits is now the focus of their boycott. You've seen it on TV: Marching on our American streets waving their Mexican flags, boldly showing that they can be more racist than those whom they accuse of racism, and yet the obvious (to most of us) is totally not obvious to them... IF YOU'VE GOT IT SO BAD HERE, THEN LEAVE!!! To all the real Americans, you can do one small thing on May 1st, 2006. It won't be racist, nor will it be violent. It will not be boastful, arrogant, selfish, nor distasteful. It will not be any of those things that our "guests" have already displayed. What it will do is nullify a movement. All you have to do is buy something on May 1st. Make up for what they will try to take away. It doesn't have to be a new car or house (unless you were already planning on getting one). It simply needs to be a day of trading. Hold off grocery buying until May 1st. Take your wife out to eat that night. Get the kids pizza, hamburgers, whatever! Make several trips to the convenience store. Buy your meals at work. Fill up your tank. Shop for clothes, furniture, outdoor equipment. If it needs to be bought, BUY IT MAY 1st! Those are just a few suggestions. We're not asking you to spend your inheritance that day, but just to spend more than you normally would. Even if it's only a few dollars, this will help soften the blow that the Mexicans will try to inflict on our economy that day. It sounds trivial at first, but if this idea gets around, what the Mexicans set out to do will fail. I did not write this. I am merely passing it on. And to answer cisco: My great grandparents came here on a boat straight from Italy. They registered, took citizenship classes, learned some of the language, and became productive tax paying citizens of this great country. So no, I am not singling out Mexicans and I have no sympathy for anyone who believes themselves above our laws.
Dell Laptop XPS M170 question? I am considering trading my desktop in for this laptop. Only problem is, the laptop shows lines both on the lcd and external display in certain resolutions. I am guessing this is a video card problem. Can this problem get worse? I am not looking at it so much for the games but to replace my desktop and so I can use it for school. If the video card ends up dying on me, does this laptop have built-in video memory so I can run it without the video card?
Candidates Clash Over Character and Policy Short summary? Candidates Clash Over Character and Policy Senator John McCain used the final debate of the presidential election on Wednesday night to raise persistent(lasting) and pointed(indicate something) questions about Senator Barack Obama’s character, judgment and policy prescriptions in a session that was by far the most spirited and combative(aggressive) of their encounters(meetings) this fall. At times showing anger and at others a methodical determination to make all his points, Mr. McCain pressed his Democratic rival(opponent) on taxes, spending, the tone(atmosphere) of the campaign(battle) and his association with the former(previous) Weather Underground leader William Ayers, using nearly every argument at his disposal(getting rid of something) in an effort to alter the course of a contest that has increasingly gone Mr. Obama’s way. But Mr. Obama maintained a placid(calm appearance) and at times bemused demeanor(outward behavior) — if at times appearing to work at it — as he parried the attacks and pressed his consistent(stays the same) line that Mr. McCain would represent a continuation of President Bush’s unpopular policies, especially on the economy. That set the backdrop for one of the sharpest exchanges of the evening, when, in response to Mr. Obama’s statement that Mr. McCain had repeatedly supported Mr. Bush’s economic(financial) policies, Mr. McCain fairly leaped out of his chair to say: “Senator Obama, I am not President Bush. If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago.” Acknowledging Mr. McCain had his differences with Mr. Bush, Mr. Obama replied, “The fact of the matter(consideration) is that if I occasionally mistake your policies for George Bush’s policies, it’s because on the core economic issues that matter to the American people — on tax policy, on energy policy, on spending priorities — you have been a vigorous(strong) supporter of President Bush.” The debate touched on a wide variety of issues, including abortion, judicial appointments, trade and climate change as well as the economy, with the candidates often making clear the deep differences between them. But it also put on display the two very different temperaments of the candidates with less than three weeks until Election Day. The lasting image of the night could be the split screen of Mr. Obama, doing his best to maintain his unflappable demeanor under a sometimes withering(make someone look embarrassed) attack, and Mr. McCain looking coiled, occasionally breathing deeply, apparently in an expression of impatience. Sitting side by side with only the host, Bob Schieffer of CBS News, between them on the stage at Hofstra University, Mr. McCain made clear from the start that he was going to follow the prescriptions of many of his supporters — among them his running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska — and try to put Mr. Obama on the defensive(preventing) and shake him from his steady debate style. Seizing on an encounter in Ohio this week with a voter — Joe Wurzelbacher, a plumber — who told Mr. Obama that he feared that his tax policies would punish him as a small-business owner, Mr. McCain pressed his attack on Mr. Obama as a tax-and-spend liberal(generosity). Mr. Obama’s plan would raise taxes on filers earning more than $250,000 a year, a category that includes some small businesses, but would cut taxes on households earning less than $200,000 a year. Seeking to suggest that Mr. Obama would hurt the economy and many entrepreneurs(people who are willing to risk their own to make a profit in any kind of business), Mr. McCain said, “The whole premise(explanation) behind Senator Obama’s plans are class warfare(armed struggle) — let’s spread the wealth around,” repeating a phrase Mr. Obama had used to Mr. Wurzelbacher in explaining the rationale(reason) for his upper-income tax increase. “Why would you want to do that — anyone, anyone in America — when we have such a tough time, when these small-business people like Joe the Plumber are going to create jobs unless you take that money from him and spread the wealth around,” Mr. McCain said. The plumber came up directly or indirectly 24 times during the debate, an Everyman symbol of the divide between the candidates on how best to address the economy. As he has done in previous encounters, Mr. Obama looked into the camera and repeated his plan: “Now, the conversation I had with Joe the Plumber, what I essentially said to him was, five years ago, when you weren’t in the position to buy your business, you needed a tax cut then. And what I want to do is to make sure that the plumber, the nurse, the firefighter, the teacher, the young entrepreneur(person who starts a business alone) who doesn’t yet have money, I want to give them a tax break now.” Coming on a day that the Dow Jones average had one of its worst drops in history, Mr. Schieffer tried something other moderators(peacemaker) had failed to do this fall: get the two candidates to enume
Do you believe in coincidences? The Coincidence Theorists Guide to 9/11 That governments have permitted terrorist acts against their own people, and have even themselves been perpetrators in order to find strategic advantage is quite likely true, but this is the United States we're talking about. That intelligence agencies, financiers, terrorists and narco-criminals have a long history together is well established, but the Nugan Hand Bank, BCCI, Banco Ambrosiano, the P2 Lodge, the CIA/Mafia anti-Castro/Kennedy alliance, Iran/Contra and the rest were a long time ago, so there's no need to rehash all that. That was then, this is now! That Jonathan Bush's Riggs Bank has been found guilty of laundering terrorist funds and fined a US-record $25 million must embarrass his nephew George, but it's still no justification for leaping to paranoid conclusions. That George Bush's brother Marvin sat on the board of the Kuwaiti-owned company which provided electronic security to the World Trade Centre, Dulles Airport and United Airlines means nothing more than you must admit those Bush boys have done alright for themselves. That George Bush found success as a businessman only after the investment of Osama's brother Salem and reputed al Qaeda financier Khalid bin Mahfouz is just one of those things - one of those crazy things. That Osama bin Laden is known to have been an asset of US foreign policy in no way implies he still is. That al Qaeda was active in the Balkan conflict, fighting on the same side as the US as recently as 1999, while the US protected its cells, is merely one of history's little aberrations. The claims of Michael Springman, State Department veteran of the Jeddah visa bureau, that the CIA ran the office and issued visas to al Qaeda members so they could receive training in the United States, sound like the sour grapes of someone who was fired for making such wild accusations. That one of George Bush's first acts as President, in January 2001, was to end the two-year deployment of attack submarines which were positioned within striking distance of al Qaeda's Afghanistan camps, even as the group's guilt for the Cole bombing was established, proves that a transition from one administration to the next is never an easy task. That so many influential figures in and close to the Bush White House had expressed, just a year before the attacks, the need for a "new Pearl Harbor" before their militarist ambitions could be fulfilled, demonstrates nothing more than the accidental virtue of being in the right place at the right time. That the company PTECH, founded by a Saudi financier placed on America's Terrorist Watch List in October 2001, had access to the FAA's entire computer system for two years before the 9/11 attack, means he must not have been such a threat after all. That whistleblower Indira Singh was told to keep her mouth shut and forget what she learned when she took her concerns about PTECH to her employers and federal authorities, suggests she lacked the big picture. And that the Chief Auditor for JP Morgan Chase told Singh repeatedly, as she answered questions about who supplied her with what information, that "that person should be killed," suggests he should take an anger management seminar. That on May 8, 2001, Dick Cheney took upon himself the job of co-ordinating a response to domestic terror attacks even as he was crafting the administration's energy policy which bore implications for America's military, circumventing the established infrastructure and ignoring the recommendations of the Hart-Rudman report, merely shows the VP to be someone who finds it hard to delegate. That the standing order which covered the shooting down of hijacked aircraft was altered on June 1, 2001, taking discretion away from field commanders and placing it solely in the hands of the Secretary of Defense, is simply poor planning and unfortunate timing. Fortunately the error has been corrected, as the order was rescinded shortly after 9/11. That in the weeks before 9/11, FBI agent Colleen Rowley found her investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui so perversely thwarted that her colleagues joked that bin Laden had a mole at the FBI, proves the stress-relieving virtue of humour in the workplace. That Dave Frasca of the FBI's Radical Fundamentalist Unit received a promotion after quashing multiple, urgent requests for investigations into al Qaeda assets training at flight schools in the summer of 2001 does appear on the surface odd, but undoubtedly there's a good reason for it, quite possibly classified. That FBI informant Randy Glass, working an undercover sting, was told by Pakistani intelligence operatives that the World Trade Center towers were coming down, and that his repeated warnings which continued until weeks before the attacks, including the mention of planes used as weapons, were ignored by federal authorities, is simply one of the many "What Ifs" of that tragic day. That over the summer of 2001 Washington received many urgent, senior-level warnings from foreign intelligence agencies and governments - including those of Germany, France, Great Britain, Russia, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, Afghanistan and others - of impending terror attacks using hijacked aircraft and did nothing, demonstrates the pressing need for a new Intelligence Czar. That John Ashcroft stopped flying commercial aircraft in July 2001 on account of security considerations had nothing to do with warnings regarding September 11, because he said so to the 9/11 Commission. That former lead counsel for the House David Schippers says he'd taken to John Ashcroft's office specific warnings he'd learned from FBI agents in New York of an impending attack - even naming the proposed dates, names of the hijackers and the targets - and that the investigations had been stymied and the agents threatened, proves nothing but David Schipper's pathetic need for attention. That Garth Nicolson received two warnings from contacts in the intelligence community and one from a North African head of state, which included specific site, date and source of the attacks, and passed the information to the Defense Department and the National Security Council to evidently no effect, clearly amounts to nothing, since virtually nobody has ever heard of him. That in the months prior to September 11, self-described US intelligence operative Delmart Vreeland sought, from a Toronto jail cell, to get US and Canadian authorities to heed his warning of his accidental discovery of impending catastrophic attacks is worthless, since Vreeland was a dubious character, notwithstanding the fact that many of his claims have since been proven true. That FBI Special Investigator Robert Wright claims that agents assigned to intelligence operations actually protect terrorists from investigation and prosecution, that the FBI shut down his probe into terrorist training camps, and that he was removed from a money-laundering case that had a direct link to terrorism, sounds like yet more sour grapes from a disgruntled employee. That George Bush had plans to invade Afghanistan on his desk before 9/11 demonstrates only the value of being prepared. The suggestion that securing a pipeline across Afghanistan figured into the White House's calculations is as ludicrous as the assertion that oil played a part in determining war in Iraq. That Afghanistan is once again the world's principal heroin producer is an unfortunate reality, but to claim the CIA is still actively involved in the narcotics trade is to presume bad faith on the part of the agency. Mahmood Ahmed, chief of Pakistan's ISI, must not have authorized an al Qaeda payment of $100,000 to Mohammed Atta days before the attacks, and was not meeting with senior Washington officials over the week of 9/11, because I didn't read anything about him in the official report. That Porter Goss met with Ahmed the morning of September 11 in his capacity as Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence has no bearing whatsoever upon his recent selection by the White House to head the Central Intelligence Agency. That Goss's congressional seat encompasses the 9/11 hijackers' Florida base of operation, including their flight schools, is precisely the kind of meaningless factoid a conspiracy theorist would bring up. It's true that George HW Bush and Dick Cheney spent the evening of September 10 alone in the Oval Office, but what's wrong with old colleagues catching up? And it's true that George HW Bush and Shafig bin Laden, Osama's brother, spent the morning of September 11 together at a board meeting of the Carlyle Group, but the bin Ladens are a big family. That FEMA arrived in New York on Sept 10 to prepare for a scheduled biowarfare drill, and had a triage centre ready to go that was larger and better equipped than the one that was lost in the collapse of WTC 7, was a lucky twist of fate. Newsweek's report that senior Pentagon officials cancelled flights on Sept 10 for the following day on account of security concerns is only newsworthy because of what happened the following morning. That George Bush's telephone logs for September 11 do not exist should surprise no one, given the confusion of the day. That Mohamed Atta attended the International Officer's School at Maxwell Air Force Base, that Abdulaziz Alomari attended Brooks Air Force Base Aerospace Medical School, that Saeed Alghamdi attended the Defense Language Institute in Monterey merely shows it is a small world, after all. That Lt Col Steve Butler, Vice Chancellor for student affairs of the Defense Language Institute during Alghamdi's terms, was disciplined, removed from his post and threatened with court martial when he wrote "Bush knew of the impending attacks on America. He did nothing to warn the American people because he needed this war on terrorism. What is...contemptible is the President of the United States not telling the American people what he knows for political gain," is the least that should have happened for such disrespect shown his Commander in Chief. That Mohammed Atta dressed like a Mafioso, had a stripper girlfriend, smuggled drugs, was already a licensed pilot when he entered the US, enjoyed pork chops, drank to excess and did cocaine, was closer to Europeans than Arabs in Florida, and included the names of defence contractors on his email list, proves how dangerous the radical fundamentalist Muslim can be. That 43 lbs of heroin was found on board the Lear Jet owned by Wally Hilliard, the owner of Atta's flight school, just three weeks after Atta enrolled - the biggest seizure ever in Central Florida - was just bad luck. That Hilliard was not charged shows how specious the claims for conspiracy truly are. That Hilliard's plane had made 30-round trips to Venezuela with the same passengers who always paid cash, that the plane had been supplied by a pair of drug smugglers who had also outfitted CIA drug runner Barry Seal, and that 9/11 commissioner Richard ben-Veniste had been Seal's attorney before Seal's murder, shows nothing but the lengths to which conspiracists will go to draw sinister conclusions. Reports of insider trading on 9/11 are false, because the SEC investigated and found only respectable investors who will remain nameless involved, and no terrorists, so the windfall profit-taking was merely, as ever, coincidental. That heightened security for the World Trade Centre was lifted immediately prior to the attacks illustrates that it always happens when you least expect it. That Hani Hanjour, the pilot of Flight 77, was so incompetent he could not fly a Cessna in August, but in September managed to fly a 767 at excessive speed into a spiraling, 270-degree descent and a level impact of the first floor of the Pentagon, on the only side that was virtually empty and had been hardened to withstand a terrorist attack, merely demonstrates that people can do almost anything once they set their minds to it. That none of the flight data recorders were said to be recoverable even though they were located in the tail sections, and that until 9/11, no solid-state recorder in a catastrophic crash had been unrecoverable, shows how there's a first time for everything. That Mohammed Atta left a uniform, a will, a Koran, his driver's license and a "how to fly planes" video in his rental car at the airport means he had other things on his mind. The mention of Israelis with links to military-intelligence having been arrested on Sept 11 videotaping and celebrating the attacks, of an Israeli espionage ring surveiling DEA and defense installations and trailing the hijackers, and of a warning of impending attacks delivered to the Israeli company Odigo two hours before the first plane hit, does not deserve a response. That the stories also appeared in publications such as Ha'aretz and Forward is a sad display of self-hatred among certain elements of the Israeli media. That multiple military wargames and simulations were underway the morning of 9/11 - one simulating the crash of a plane into a building; another, a live-fly simulation of multiple hijackings - and took many interceptors away from the eastern seaboard and confused field commanders as to which was a real hijacked aircraft and which was a hoax, was a bizarre coincidence, but no less a coincidence. That the National Military Command Center ops director asked a rookie substitute to stand his watch at 8:30 am on Sept. 11 is nothing more than bad timing. That a recording made Sept 11 of air traffic controllers' describing what they had witnessed, was destroyed by an FAA official who crushed it in his hand, cut the tape into little pieces and dropped them in different trash cans around the building, is something no doubt that overzealous official wishes he could undo. That the FBI knew precisely which Florida flight schools to descend upon hours after the attacks should make every American feel safer knowing their federal agents are on the ball. That a former flight school executive believes the hijackers were "double agents," and says about Atta and associates, "Early on I gleaned that these guys had government protection. They were let into this country for a specific purpose," and was visited by the FBI just four hours after the attacks to intimidate him into silence, proves he's an unreliable witness, for the simple reason there is no conspiracy. That Jeb Bush was on board an aircraft that removed flight school records to Washington in the middle of the night on Sept 12th demonstrates how seriously the governor takes the issue of national security. To insinuate evil motive from the mercy flights of bin Laden family members and Saudi royals after 9/11 shows the sickness of the conspiratorial mindset. Le Figaro's report in October 2001, known to have originated with French intelligence, that the CIA met Osama bin Laden in a Dubai hospital in July 2001, proves again the perfidy of the French. That the tape in which bin Laden claims responsibility for the attacks was released by the State Department after having been found providentially by US forces in Afghanistan, and depicts a fattened Osama with a broader face and a flatter nose, proves Osama, and Osama alone, masterminded 9/11. That at the battle of Tora Bora, where bin Laden was surrounded on three sides, Special Forces received no order to advance and capture him and were forced to stand and watch as two Russian-made helicopters flew into the area where bin Laden was believed hiding, loaded up passengers and returned to Pakistan, demonstrates how confusing the modern battlefield can be. That upon returning to Fort Bragg from Tora Bora, the same Special Operations troops who had been stood down from capturing bin Laden, suffered a unusual spree of murder/suicides, is nothing more than a series of senseless tragedies. Reports that bin Laden is currently receiving periodic dialysis treatment in a Pakistani medical hospital are simply too incredible to be true. That the White House went on Cipro September 11 shows the foresightedness of America's emergency response. That the anthrax was mailed to perceived liberal media and the Democratic leadership demonstrates only the perversity of the terrorist psyche. That the anthrax attacks appeared to silence opponents of the Patriot Act shows only that appearances can be deceiving. That the Ames-strain anthrax was found to have originated at Fort Detrick, and was beyond the capability of all but a few labs to refine, underscores the importance of allowing the investigation to continue without the distraction of absurd conspiracy theories. That Republican guru Grover Norquist has been found to have aided financiers and supporters of Islamic terror to gain access to the Bush White House, and is a founder of the Islamic Institute, which the Treasury Department believes to be a source of funding for al Qaeda, suggests Norquist is at worst, naive, and at best, needs a wider circle of friends. That the Department of Justice consistently chooses to see accused 9/11 plotters go free rather than permit the courtroom testimony of al Qaeda leaders in American custody looks bad, but only because we don't have all the facts. That the White House balked at any inquiry into the events of 9/11, then starved it of funds and stonewalled it, was unfortunate, but since the commission didn't find for conspiracy it's all a non issue anyway. That the 9/11 commission's executive director and "gatekeeper," Philip Zelikow, was so closely involved in the events under investigation that he testified before the the commission as part of the inquiry, shows only an apparent conflict of interest. That commission chair Thomas Kean is, like George Bush, a Texas oil executive who had business dealings with reputed al Qaeda financier Khalid bin Mafouz, suggests Texas is smaller than they say it is. That co-chair Lee Hamilton has a history as a Bush family "fixer," including clearing Bush Sr of the claims arising from the 1980 "October Surprise", is of no concern, since only conspiracists believe there was such a thing as an October Surprise. That FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds accuses the agency of intentionally fudging specific pre-9/11 warnings and harboring a foreign espionage ring in its translation department, and claims she witnessed evidence of the semi-official infrastructure of money-laundering and narcotics trade behind the attacks, is of no account, since John Ashcroft has gagged her with the rare invocation of "State Secrets Privilege," and retroactively classified her public testimony. For the sake of national security, let us speak no more of her. That, when commenting on Edmond's case, Daniel Ellsberg remarked that Ashcroft could go to prison for his part in a cover-up, suggests Ellsberg is giving comfort to the terrorists, and could, if he doesn't wise up, find himself declared an enemy combatant. I could go on. And on and on. But I trust you get the point. Which is simply this: there are no secrets, an American government would never accept civilian casualties for geostrategic gain, and conspiracies are for the weak-minded and gullible. go to http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/08/coincidence-theorists-guide-to-911.html for links for every statement made here. http://truthmove.org
Any Canadians? Why do we let US policy dictate our policy? We might be trade partners but we don’t have to be like them. The US trades with Holland. Holland has some of the most liberal laws in the world when it comes to prostitution and narcotics. Their penalties are stiff but their laws are not. Canadians are more like Europeans than US citizens. Take for example the CBC: They will show full frontal nudity (in the context of a film and not just for gratuitous display). The CBC is a national network. Have you ever seen full frontal nudity on NBC, CBS, ABC or FOX (all national networks)? The FCC fined CBS $500,000.00 for the Janet Jackson Super Bowl incident. In Canada we’d laugh at something like that. OOOOH NUDITY! It wasn’t even nudity but a single breast with the equivalent of a pasty over the nipple. You can see more at the news stand when you look at FHM, MAXIUM or the SI swimsuit issue.
Should we begin to focus our military south of our border....? BOGOTA, Colombia - Venezuela and Ecuador sought Monday to make Colombia pay a high diplomatic and economic price for killing a leftist rebel leader in the Ecuadorean jungle — expelling its diplomats, ordering troops to the border and largely halting trade at key points along the frontier. But Colombia quickly struck back, revealing what it said were incriminating documents seized from the rebel camp that suggest its neighbors have been secretly supporting the rebels' deadly insurgency. And in a tit-for-tat move, Venezuela later displayed the laptop of a slain drug trafficker, which it said contained information implicating Colombia's national police chief in the cocaine trade. Colombia's national police chief said the documents show Venezuela recently paid $300 million to the rebels, among other financial and political ties that date back years, and that high-level meetings have been held between rebels and Ecuadorean officials. And this shocker: Colombia says some documents suggest the rebels have bought and sold uranium. "When they mention negotiations for 50 kilos of uranium this means that the FARC are taking big steps in the world of terrorism to become a global aggressor. We're not talking of domestic guerrilla but transnational terrorism," Gen. Oscar Naranjo said at an explosive news conference. Naranjo didn't give any details on when, where or from whom the uranium was allegedly bought. He provided no proof of the payment and wouldn't release copies of the documents, which he said are "tremendously revelatory" and are being examined with the help of U.S. experts.
The coon caricature? The coon caricature is one of the most insulting of all anti-Black caricatures. The name itself, an abbreviation of raccoon, is dehumanizing. As with Sambo, the coon was portrayed as a lazy, easily frightened, chronically idle, inarticulate, buffoon. The coon differed from the Sambo in subtle but important ways. Sambo was depicted as a perpetual child, not capable of living as an independent adult. The coon acted childish, but he was an adult; albeit a good-for-little adult. Sambo was portrayed as a loyal and contented servant. Indeed, Sambo was offered as a defense for slavery and segregation. How bad could these institutions have been, asked the racialists, if Blacks were contented, even happy, being servants? The coon, although he often worked as a servant, was not happy with his status. He was, simply, too lazy or too cynical to attempt to change his lowly position. Also, by the 1900s, Sambo was identified with older, docile Blacks who accepted Jim Crow laws and etiquette; whereas coons were increasingly identified with young, urban Blacks who disrespected Whites. Stated differently, the coon was a Sambo gone bad. The prototypical movie coon was Stepin Fetchit, the slow-talking, slow-walking, self-demeaning nitwit. It took his character almost a minute to say: "I'se be catchin' ma feets nah, Boss." Donald Bogle, a cinema historian, lambasted the coon, as played by Stepin Fetchit and others: Before its death, the coon developed into the most blatantly degrading of all black stereotypes. The pure coons emerged as no-account niggers, those unreliable, crazy, lazy, subhuman creatures good for nothing more than eating watermelons, stealing chickens, shooting crap, or butchering the English language.1 The coon caricature was born during American slavery. Slave masters and overseers often described slaves as "slow," "lazy," "wants pushing," "an eye servant," and "trifling."2 The master and the slave operated with different motives: the master desired to obtain from the slave the greatest labor, by any means; the slave desired to do the least labor while avoiding punishment. The slave registered his protest against slavery by running away, and, when that was not possible, by slowing work, doing shoddy work, destroying work tools, and faking illness. Slave masters attributed the slaves' poor work performance to shiftlessness, stupidity, desire for freedom, and genetic deficiencies. The amount of work done by a typical slave depended upon the demands of individual slave owners and their ability to extract labor. Typically, slaves worked from dawn to dusk. They were sometimes granted "leisure time" on Saturday or Sunday evenings; however, this time was spent planting or harvesting their own gardens, washing clothes, cooking, and cleaning. A slave owner wrote: "I always give them half of each Saturday, and often the whole day, at which time...the women do their household work; therefore they are never idle."3 Slave owners complained about the laziness of their workers, but the records show that slaves were often worked hard -- and brutally so. Overseers were routinely paid commissions, which encouraged them to overwork the slaves. On a North Carolina plantation an overseer claimed that he was a "'hole hog man rain or shine," and boasted that the slaves had been worked "like horses." He added, "I'd ruther be dead than be a nigger on one of these big plantations."4 After the closing of the African slave trade, the price of slaves went up, thereby causing some slave owners and their hired overseers to be more careful in their use of slaves. "The time had been," wrote one slave owner, "that the farmer could kill up and wear out one Negro to buy another; but it is not so now. Negroes are too high in proportion to the price of cotton, and it behooves those who own them to make them last as long as possible."5 Slaves are generally associated