[ale] Heya folks! Any suggestions for a geek movingto/near Atlanta?

[Jeff Lightner]

I missed the atheist thing in the post.   There are (or were last time I
looked) so called "free thought" organizations in Atlanta metro.   Also
you wouldn't be the only one sporting the Darwin fish - but you're more
likely to see the "Truth" fish that eats the "Darwin" fish.   The
regular "Jesus" fish however is the one you'll see most often.

The South IS called the Bible Belt for a reason.  It is also a bastion
of right wing ideology.  That doesn't mean all of us are fundamentalists
or republicans - just that those of us who aren't are outnumbered.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
To: ale at ale.org
Jeremy T. Bouse
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 11:19 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Heya folks! Any suggestions for a geek movingto/near
Atlanta?

Brian Schenken wrote:
> We live in Tracy now, about a 2 hour commute to my old work.  (Yup,
> four hours a day) There's a two lane highway into Tracy and it's
> always packed - mostly because folks can't PICK A LANE.  They jump
> back and forth and the folks behind them have to slow down, rinse and
> repeat.  Maybe they should just make the freeways one big lane.
> 
	I lived in Pittsburg when I was back in CA and worked down in
Palo
Alto. Took me about 3 hours one-way.

> Jeremy: We've been using Comcast here, but <boggle>they don't support
> relocating business class connections with static IP's</boggle>.  So,
> if we had a standard connection we could just pick up where we left
> off, but because we spend three times the normal amount for a bit more
> bandwidth and a few static IP's (which I would have thought would have
> made us particularly valuable suckers) we are forced to shop around
> when we get to town.  Of course broadband is life to us, more
> important than clean drinking water.
> 
	Yeah I had business class Covad SDSL back in CA and found they
couldn't
provide me service when I moved and ended up having to pay the fews for
breaking my contract early. Since I don't do cable modems I only had
Bellsouth to go with.

> We're Atheists too, which I understand is even_worse_than_gay down
> there.  Might be time to peel off the Darwin fish if we wan't to keep
> from having our windows smashed...  I can live with treating my ideals
> like a terrible secret, but I don't think I'll be buying a gun...  I
> qualified with my m16 in the Army and  haven't any reason to pick up a
> gun since.  Plus with kids around...  I prefer the mouse.
> 
	Then avoid Kennesaw where I believe there's still a law that
ever home
owner must have a firearm. I thought that was a funny law but I do hear
the B&E rate is quite low.
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