What a long strange journey it’s been. Since mid-1996, we’ve been searching for the perfect accounting and operations software package. We’ve asked literally dozens of VARs and others in the business what kind of software do they use in their business. We’ve carefully evaluated more than 10 products. Nothing seemed to meet all of our criteria:
A fully integrated system that covered everything from quote management through sales, along with a full service management system, and complete A/R, A/P, G/L with serialized Inventory.
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Entertainment
program, technology, VAR
HealthGate - Living with a chronic condition can be costly. Between regular doctor’s visits and ongoing prescriptions for medications, the out-of-pocket costs may be a burden. One way to lessen the costs of prescriptions is to explore the possible of substituting generic drugs. Read more…
Alternative Medicine
brand, prescriptions, reactions
On Choosing Not to Reproduce
Authority
I wonder now whether my attitudes towards reproduction, parentage, fatherhood, and the responsibilities I would have are completely conditioned by society. Am I reacting against “natural” feelings that I would have regarding the children or child, or am I reacting against what I have been taught to believe are my responsibilities and duties? And so…is my antipathy towards these responsibilities just a reaction against compulsion from without?
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Song
emotional, intimacy, stress
A Stairway, A Sketch
This decision supposedly places me directly in opposition to the wishes about/from the body, and it is now literally (at times) as I had always imagined (projected?) my main conflicts to be: staring at my body across the table, or in a mirror, eyeing its desires, its potentials, what it claims to be its destiny and its main purpose in its life. What of my life? What of the life of the will, the personality, the mind, the parts of the body that are free from these desires? Are we (they) to have no part in the decision? Are we to just bow before the “lesser” (baser) will of the body because we are told (by the body, by the world, by the way the body interacts with the world and its own desires…most of all by the way the world seems to reflect its desires, the way that the world fits into its desires like interlocking puzzle pieces) that this is the way it must be? With the despair of not reproducing, of feeling like I am missing something in my life that not only should be but which is almost a divine (or natural) mandate, comes into conflict the opposite despair (fear) that to reproduce is to miss what I consider my destiny (yes, illusion), something that I will not achieve if I have to care for children or, what’s worse, I have the responsibility for other lives, a responsibility I could not take lightly and which would change my life forever: changing my character, my goals in life, my pleasures and pains. Is the fear of fatherhood a fear of change?
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Song
body, freedom, pain
Net funds were once the bastard children of investing. Until their returns blew away the big boys.
Born in a Long Island, N.Y., basement rather than a Silicon Valley garage, The Internet Fund (WWWFX) nonetheless has much in common with the Web startups in which it invests: It is recasting a staid industry as it rockets past offline competitors.
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Entertainment
business, funds, games