Around here the illegals generally stay in very small apartments with many more people than the dwelling would normally support. So you have 2 major things going here, first, they are living in a much higher density than typical legal residents do (even poor legal residents) and second, the areas that they do live in are very poor and cater almost exclusively to illegals, thus, very low property tax is usually levied on these areas. There are pockets all around the city with old mobile homes and one room 'apartments' with 4-8 people living in them. As a side note, there are a few of these pockets around that combine to making up 80% of the police calls for the entire city. eighty freaking percent, that costs money too. It should also be noted that this particular city where this occurs is a well known 'sanctuary city'.

An Arizona drivers license is sufficient and will end the inquiry on the spot. A drivers license/id card from any state that require proof of citizenship, residency or other legal right to be in the country to obtain is sufficient. Not all states have this requirement.

Robert Johnson, Django Reinhardt, Elvis, Nat King Cole, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Glen Miller, Benny Goodman, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, BB King, Early Metallica, etc, etc...

How about Mr. Obamas other interests... http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/09/21/baracks-wall-street-problem-is-now-americas/[^]

Now that is really funny. He asked me those exact questions in a job interview with him(or someone with the same name) a few months ago.

Exactly, and very, very few *real* senior positions. I tire of seeing Senior positions listed that only require 1-3 years of experience and some kind of degree from some school nobody has ever heard about. Yeah, that's senior, in dog years maybe... Anyway, most of the stuff out here is limited at the moment, which is why I work in San Jose now and still live in the Phoenix area.

Not many decent jobs in Phoenix at the moment unless you are junior to low mid level Java or C# guy and even then I can name all 6 open positions to you from memory. If you have secret clearance there are some pretty cool defense contractors here and even then they are hard to get into.

www.mobiliti.com[^] Look at their Mail Harmony feature, it's not free, developers gotta eat too you know.

Yup, my favorite is a house blend from my old tobacconist back in Sarasota, FL called Union Jack. Haven't found anything else like it anywhere so I still have it mailed to me. I'm generally more likely to smoke a cigar these days but usual enjoy the pipe during a football or baseball game.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxmHEGy7JUU[^] I actually felt a little bad for the dude until 58% of the audience missed it too...

29 from a friends child. Was pretty miserable, still have some scars on my forehead.

\m/ \m/ Holy Diver, one of the best metal albums and songs EVER! I've been playing with several acoustic variations of it lately an it does go into some odd musical directions.

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Download OutlookSpy[^] and use the MAPI navigational tools to view your calendar folder. You will be surprised at how much trash gets left behind there. You should be able to identify the offending object and delete it from your calendar. Post back if you need more help...

Yes they have servers, great big steaming ones. Multi processor, multi-core kind of machines. The OS is pretty much the same with the main differences being different 'packeges' installed, not too much of a different paradigm from 'doze. They actually have a REALLY cool web dev technology called Web Objects, I've only played with it a little but been to many sites based upon it and it is quite slick. Most development now is mainly done with the free (from Apple) XCode which comes with a compiler for C, C++, Objective C and several others. It includes different application frameworks for targeting apps at varying levels of service from daemons up to web sites. I have been doing Carbon and Cocoa type apps for a bit (C with a really nice framework and and Objective C with an amazing framework). You can also use plain old GCC if you wish to torture yourself. There are a few other ports of other products to Mac but XCode is pretty good, the GDB front end works well enough but still has it's moments. I was able to make the transition from Windows with ease (been doing DOS/Windows since 88). As far as databases, there are a few options a *nix underneath, PostGres and MySql being more recognized, dunno if Oracle or others have a Mac port. Contrary to popular belief, these things can and do run many smaller businesses, just not a huge share. As you would expect from any *nix box it has all of the inter/intranet services readily available (DNS, DHCP, gateway/firewall, web, LDAP) as well as mail/collaboration, seamless CIFS/SMB, etc... I don't know how that rest of the hardware stacks up, but feature for feature, tick for tick, my MacBook Pro was actually a little CHEAPER than the nearest similarly configured brand name Windows laptop last time I did the comparison (about 3 months ago). Hope that helps answer some of your questions.

At the same interval as your pay period which for me has usually been twice monthly.

Well, being a white male in America who, for a few moments at least, is a minority. I hated it at the time but looking back I firmly believe that the experience gave me at least a tiny glimpse of the 'other side'. I don't know how else to really put it into words. Let me give you a little bit more of a story here... My grandfather was a great man that shaped my life in many, many ways. He and my grandmother took a large hand in raising us as my parents both worked since we were part of the 'working poor' back then. He was the son of Polish immigrants and served in WWII, landing at Normandy on D-day. He was one of the few to make it out alive, actually made it all the way to Paris before getting shot in the ankle. He was a devout roman Catholic and hard core 'blue collar', Kennedy loving Democrat. Anyway, for as much as I love and respect this simple man, he had one serious flaw in that he was extremely bigoted and racist. He knew it, the whole family know it. One day when I was like 10 or so he told me that he knew in his heart that it was 'wrong' but it's just the way he was. So before I started getting shipped to this school, I had very little exposure to blacks, Mexicans or anything else other than our white Polish, German, Czech, Irish and Italian family and hence, my grandfathers racist influence was on me. Going to this school and befriending these kids I think really prevented me from becoming like my grandfather in that way (well, that and the Democrat thing ;P).

Yeah, that's how I eventually got out. Both my brother and myself were 'tested' the same year. Once the results were in they allowed my parents to take us to another school for 'gifted' kids, but my parents had to arrange for transportation. It wasn't such a big deal since this school was pretty close to our house. A few months after that we moved to Ocala anyway and back to sort of normal, well, if boots, cowboy hats, horses and tractors are 'normal' ;)

Yeah, I think this area was where people that didn't qualify for the projects ended up.