Care and Maintenance of Mouse Balls
If a mouse fails to operate or should it perform erratically, it may need a ball replacement.
Mouse balls are now available as FRU (Field Replacement Units). Because of the delicate nature of this procedure, a replacement of mouse balls should only be attempted by properly trained personnel.
Before proceeding, determine the type of mouse balls by examining the underside of the mouse. Domestic balls will be larger and harder than foreign balls. Ball removal procedures differ depending upon the manufacturer of the mouse.
Foreign balls can be replaced using the pop off method.
Domestic balls are replaced by using the twist off method.
Mouse balls are not usually static sensitive. However, excessive handling can result in sudden discharge. Upon completion of ball replacement, the mouse may be used immediately.
It is recommended that each person have a pair of spare balls for maintaining optimum customer satisfaction.
Any customer missing his balls should contact the local personnel in charge of removing and replacing these necessary items.
Please keep in mind that a customer without properly working balls is an unhappy customer
As many of you know, I live in Central Pennsylvania. I live about 10 miles from where last weeks school house shooting took place.
We are, of course, pretty upset that this could happen, to not only our neighbors, the Amish, but to anyone’s children, anywhere.
Many people, since then, have been very critical of the Amish stance on forgiving the man who shot their children. And, many people have come here to gawk at a shot up school house, the home of the shooter, and the simple folk who are trying to get on with their everyday lives.
But, just like passing a wreck on the freeway, people have got to stop and look.
But folks, where these people live ain’t a freeway, this ain’t a car wreck or a tourist stop to pick up souveniers.
This is a small, quiet, farming community on a very small back road.
They didn’t ask for or desire National attention, or for the slack jawed gawkers who clog their small roads all weekend long.
So, a little advice for the curious. Stay home. Keep your dirty money. And, make sure you lock your guns up, so I don’t have to read about your half breed son from Missouri taking an AK-47 to school again.
Historian Tony Judt, a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books and director of the Remarque Institute at NYU, writes,
I was due to speak this evening, in Manhattan, to a group called Network 20/20 comprising young business leaders, NGO, academics, etc, from the US and many countries. Topic: the Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy. The meetings are always held at the Polish Consulate in Manhattan.
I just received a call from the President of Network 20/20. The talk was cancelled because the Polish Consulate had been threatened by the Anti-Defamation League. Serial phone calls from ADL President Abe Foxman warned them off hosting anything involving Tony Judt. If they persisted, he warned, he would smear the charge of Polish collaboration with anti-Israeli anti-Semites (= me) all over the front page of every daily paper in the city (an indirect quote). They caved and Network 20/20 were forced to cancel.
Whatever your views on the Middle East I hope you find this as serious and frightening as I do. This is, or used to be, the United States of America.
Someone has got to put an end to these Son of a Bitchs. This is America. Fuck the ADL.
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Religious Right Strangely Silent About Foley
If there’s one thing you have to concede to America’s Religious Right, it’s that these folks have an amazing media and public relations network and can issue press releases, get on television and radio and, when they really want to, mobilize their lemming-like flock faster than Jack Abramoff can bribe a Republican Congressman.
And yet here we sit, four days after it was revealed that Republican Congressman Mark Foley was using the Internet to go after teenaged boys, and all you can hear from our own little version of the Taliban is dead quiet and crickets chirping.
Odd, isn’t it? The same people who can move their followers to boycott any company that believes gay people even have the right to exist, can’t muster much outrage over one of their own preying on young boys and, more importantly, the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives ignoring it to save their political hides.
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