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    #2 Darryl on Python effective TLD library update

    Hi,

    Coming from the DNS world, the notion of "effective" TLDs is a little foreign to me. That aside, I see some results that looks a little odd.

    example 1. this works as expected:
    something.org.uk ==> etld='org.uk' domain='something'

    example 2. not what I expected
    www.something.org.uk ==> etld='something.org.uk' domain='www'

    I would have expected that the etld would be the same as the first
    example and the domain would change. Am I missing something?

    Thanks,
    Darryl

    #42 cheri bailey on A pretty good day

    Hey, yea I had my gallblatter removed when I was 13 and I was twelve when the stones started to develop. He was I was the youngest person in md to get it done( don't kno if its true)but the doctor was overwhelmed by it it seems.they thought it was my liver at first. The pain was terrible until the surgery but everybody in my family gets them removed at some point. My dear departed aunt had it when she was 17.
    #1 joseph on INVOL RER DUE TO OVERSOLD LX40

    Boo Hoo! Mini-Jeremy had to ride in First Class! You poor bastard ;-) Funny read, esp the line "Oh, and I also don't care if you give a crap."
    #13 Fred on Updated: linux.conf.au 2007 MythTV tutorial homework

    Would you have a link to a public website for the video from the conference? I would like to get it mirrored by my ISP here in Australia to save on restricted download quotas, but they required a public link with licensing information.

    Thanks, looking forward to watching the video.

    Fred
    #1 Michael Carden on Starship Troopers

    Bob Heinlein did like to get a bit rantypants, and he was in the navy so you can see where his military leanings might come from.

    It's always exciting when an old SF book is made into a movie, even though I can't bring to mind one where the movie is true to the book.

    Having recently re-read Farnham's Freehold I'm reminded of just how fun he is to read. I think I may have to revisit all those big ole paperbacks soon.
    #1 Bernhard on Blathering for Sunday, 04 October 2009

    In that article they refer to the Travel Promotion Act making its way through congress as a way to improve the picture of America in the world. Never mind that that act comes with a $10 fee charged to every visa-exempted visitor to bolster this marketing budget. I.e. if you don't need a visa to enter the US for business or pleasure, you're getting charged $10 to support a marketing campaign so that more people like you come to the U.S. How backwards is that?
    #1 Adrian on An awesome weekend

    Happy Birthday

    Im only a little late
    (was informed saturday I think by your brother inlaw but forgot)
    #53 pissed off on Comcast Lies

    comcast lies. when ordering service (with my first home), they told me that both my new phone numbers would not be published in the phone book or directory assistance. i was told that it would cost $4.95 per line a month to have that happen. two weeks later both phone lines began ringing with people trying to sell me their crap. i called comcast and complained about this and they told me they were "sorry" or "it must have been a mistake". i just learned to live with it for years until i moved to another home.

    the second home - when ordering all their products - i specifically told the guy about 3 times during the conversation "i don't want my information published anywhere". same thing... i was told for $4.95 per line, this would not happen. once again, about 2 or 3 weeks later, both phone lines start ringing away with idiots soliciting their crap. this time i blew up. i started calling back all the numbers i could (that would show their numbers on my caller id) to ask where and how they got my number. some said it was purchased from a company. i contacted that company and they told me they didn't know exactly how the information was compilied and that they didn't keep any record of it. yeah... ok.

    i called comcast about 100 times about this (yes, at least one hundred times or more for months and months to come). after being on hold for 20 or 30 minutes at a time and then sometimes being disconnected while i was waiting, or even disconnected while i was talking to customer service (useless people) and/or supervisors/managers (useless as well), all i kept getting was the same old story... "we're sorry" and "it must have been a mistake". some of them even denied making the mistake by saying "we would never have done that seeing a customers privacy is very important to us". lies, lies and more lies.

    they tried to buy me off by telling me they would credit my account. i told them i didn't want that and that this isn't going to fix the problem. the phone numbers i got were great numbers ending in 00's. i asked them to change both the numbers and this time NOT TO PUBLISH THEM or SELL MY INFORMATION. they told me there were no other numbers available ending with 00's. they go on to tell me "we'll just make sure that your numbers are unlisted and not published. i said "what good is that"? the damage is already done. it's like having unprotected sex and catching a disease, then wearing a condom after to protect yourself. fools.

    not only were my phone numbers ruined by idiots calling all the time (the do-not-call list is useless as well), now i start seeing my information all over the web! and to prove to comcast that this is their fault and that they sold my information, i explained it to them how i knew this.

    when i placed the order for my new phone lines (2nd house), i told them i did not want my full name to be seen on peoples caller id (my first and last name are long and truncate on caller id machines - which looks silly). so i told them to use my first and middle names initials followed by my last name. this would be something like "sa smith" as opposed to "stephen smith" (the "a" for my middle name) showing up on your caller id.

    a couple of months later i went online and started poking around on sites like "people search", "intelius", online directories, etc... guess what? i see "sa smith" in all of them! not only am i seeing the caller id name in them, but my street address and city along with it.
    now i get the local phone book in the mail and even some other type of phone book and they both have my information in them! what do i see in them? "sa smith" instead of my actual first and last name. comcast would have been the only ones to have dont this seeing i told them to make it like that for my caller id. what did they say about this? "we're not sure how that could have happened" and "we're sorry". do you see the pattern here? everything with these people is a dead end. even the ones that seem nice and pleasant over the phone with you can't help you resolve a problem like this. there is no one to take the blame for this and there is no one person that can do anything about it.

    i'm telling you, comcast trains their people to "tell you" that by paying an additional $4.95 a month for an unpublished number, that your information will not be published, then when you hang up with them, they just proceed with publishing it as if you never even mentioned it to them at all. they must also train them to tell you "we're sorry" or "it was a mistake" when you call up to complain about it. comcast makes a lot of money by selling our information. some corporate moron way up above is responsible for running this type of scam operation.

    "a mistake". i could see if this happened to me once... but twice?

    finally, after being fet up with this whole thing, i decided to drop comcast. unfortunately for me, the city i live in only has one cable company - comcast. so i had to switch over to direct tv (which i love, by the way) and get a verizon phone line and verizon dsl. sad to say, i have had nothing but trouble with the dsl since i've had it (constantly disconnects - not to mention the speeds are nothing compared to cable speeds). i will never go back to comcast because of what they've done to me and the headaches they've caused me... so i'm stuck with dsl until fios comes along.

    bottom line - i'm a nobody and they are a giant who cares nothing about someone like me. who pays the price here? me. comcast sucks and they are bad, bad people.
    #2 Dave on The Wild Palms Hotel

    Oh, I hate that one. The Joie De Vivre closer to the office is much nicer.

    As I recall they've got internet that runs through some absurd captive portal that injects spam/ads into web pages. Hopefully that service has at least gone away.

    Never stay at a '... bar and hotel'. And the full name of that place is Wild Palms Bar and Hotel.
    #1 James Morris on The Wild Palms Hotel

    Were you tipping the cleaners? It took me a long time to realize that you're supposed to leave $1 or so under the pillow each day in the US or face some consequences.
    #17 kioopi on Universal Feedparser and XML namespaces

    That was exactly what i was searching for. This is quite hacky but does the job. thank you.

    i ended up changing:
    new_lines.append('%s%s%s' %(...)
    to:
    new_lines.append('%s%s%s' %(...)

    The whole thing might need revisiting for the case of multiple annotatins to an entry.

    Thanks again, your entry has been a great help!

    cheers