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Boy Scouts did the same thing with popcorn, but not to the extent that Girl Scouts does.

@jaredbusch said in Girl Scouts - Training Girls to Run MLMs, Change My Mind:

@bnrstnr said in Girl Scouts - Training Girls to Run MLMs, Change My Mind:

@dashrender said in Girl Scouts - Training Girls to Run MLMs, Change My Mind:

Which makes me wonder - how does the boyscouts exist? Where does their funding come from? I can't believe they make enough in popcorn sales to do what they do?

When I wanted to be in the Boy Scouts years ago parents had to pay for it and the time was volunteered, I have no idea if it is still this way.

It is. The fundraising in Boy Scouts strictly pays for the camping trips and supplies.

Our troop broke free from the popcorn enslavement just before I turned 18. One of the parents knew a business in town that was shutting down that had a snow cone machine to liquidate.

He convinced the other parents to use the funds to buy it. We then started going to all the summer fairs with a snow cone booth. Made tons of money for the troop and none of the boys had to pay their own money to go to camps anymore.

Just CAN'T +1 this enough. Also teaches the boys a little bit about entrepreneurship.

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Pot number two of coffee underway here.

I read that as "Port number two". I was thinking "when did coffee go into port 2? Is that TCP or UDP?"

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Coffee and doughnuts.... mmmmmmm.....

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@itjuggler said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:

Hi Eric Q here. I occasionally post things as ITJuggler. Mostly I just read.

Systems Administrator northwest Atlanta metro area
18 years in IT
20+ years in previous career
(certified Old Guy)

10 years as a 1-man IT department in commercial Real Estate
Now at a telecom firm supporting systems in our datacenters. VOIP servers (Linux), iSCSI SANs, access and distribution layer switches (and a bit in the core switches as well) are all in my area of responsibility.

I found this site by reading a 'What happened to SAM?' thread elsewhere. Just read SAM's pithy advice about goals -- not tech for tech's sake, so I joined.

Now back to work; lots to do around here...

Hehehehe, new converts. Welcome.

Still waiting on my Klingon to hit the Android app.

@kelly said in I’d rather be....:

Why the bikini shots? It isn't very professional imo, and adds nothing positive to the thread or tone of the overall site.

What bikini shot? I was looking at the bridge in the background.

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Working on Git push today

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ARES training (tornadoes) in the morning, then the last soccer game in the afternoon.

@scottalanmiller said in I’d rather be....:

I'm claiming photoshop'd just because of the clouds. I've never seen clouds that tall.

Eh. At least they have somewhat of a sense of humor.

@obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

This is why i don't do Hyper-V

Then where did that screenshot come from?

From the Hyper-V Manager on his computer.

Me liking the phone.

@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Working with a Server 2003 machine

I have a couple of those left. Almost done retiring them. Then I begin to work on retiring my Server 2008 machines.

Went to a Ham Convention with my dad. Pretty cool stuff still going on in amateur radio. Then went to dinner with family and DIL for his birthday.

@jmoore said in Weekend Plans:

@nerdydad Sounds fun!

Watched a guy work an amateur radio satellite with 2 radios and a cell phone. Everything else he built himself with a tripod, some copper, PVC, and a dowel rod.

@rojoloco said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@momurda said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@penguinwrangler Id disagree and say who cares about what food kids like? They havent earned it. Let them eat that garbage, esp if parents are too stupid/lazy to give them worthwhile food. Also, who in the world likes elementary school food? It is the worst food of all time. Horse meat and sawdust sandwiches...

Agreed. Schools should be run more like prisons and less like special snowflake conventions. But then they would need teachers and administrators who are willing to take responsibility for their actions, so obviously it will never happen.

it would also require for the teachers and administration to be proper adults and not just kids who didn't want to grow up.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Found a way of moving my linux machines from XenServer to HyperV. Used Clonezilla

Can you write a how-to?