“By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll be happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates
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Not clear what happens after you’ve had a good wife?
Do you become “philosophical”?
Spouses should die together.
Push off on that proverbial iceberg.
The surviving spouse SHOULD voluntarily throw themselves on the pyre.
Argh!
Grief is a funny thing.
It sneaks up on you when you least expect it!
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Posted by reinkefj
Interesting use for it.
My friend Pete’s in the hospital in Jacksonville FL.
I know where is phone is!
Laff.
I assume he still has it with him.
So, without bothering anyone, I know he’s still there.
Now if it could just tell me the altitude, I’d know if he’s still in ICU or moved to a regular room.
Laff!
Stalking to a new level.
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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/19/white-house-insists-obama-knew-nothing-about-irs-scandal/
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WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) — A top White House adviser insisted Sunday that President Barack Obama learned the Internal Revenue Service had targeted tea party groups only “when it came out in the news” while Republicans continued to press the administration for more answers.
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Doesn’t anyone think he should have known?
Is the News Media his only information channel?
I’d start asking hard questions.
What are all the other agencies doing?
Shake a haystack and some needles fall out, you can be sure there are MORE in there.
This stuff doesn’t happen in a vacuum.
A national disgrace.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/137474.html?utm_source=feedly
May 12, 2013
More Idiocy on the Idiotic TSA’s Idiotic TWIC
Posted by Becky Akers on May 12, 2013 07:04 AM
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One “consulting engineer in the offshore oil business” writes that “If you want to fly to any offshore oil platform, like in the Gulf of Mexico, you must have a TWIC card just to board the transport helicopter because being on an offshore oil platform requires a TWIC.” So though he only “occasionally attend[s] loading of ships for my job,” he duly “applied for the card, got the electronic fingerprint scan and facial 3-d hologram and the card with my picture and embedded chip.”
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And, what does this prevent?
Argh!
How much does this cost “We, The People”?
The terrorists ties us in knots with lost freedoms and productivity while attacking us with sub $100 pressure cookers.
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.impactlab.net/2013/05/11/pilotless-passenger-planes-ready-for-takeoff/?utm_source=feedly
May 11th, 2013 at 9:30 am
Pilotless passenger planes ready for takeoff
in: Alternative Transportation,Analysis,Robots,Science & Technology News
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While everyone seems confident that the technical challenges of such visions can be overcome, there is perhaps one more significant hurdle to overcome – persuading the general public that a plane without a pilot is safe.
On that point, Professor Cummings says the data is increasingly in favour of unmanned systems. “About three years ago UAVs became safer than general aviation, meaning that more general aviation planes are crashing than UAVs, per 100,000 flight hours,” she says. “So UAVs are actually safer than a weekend pilot, flying a small plane.”
That may not be a huge surprise. But what is perhaps more telling is that last year UAVs became safer than highly trained military fighters and bombers. “I knew that was coming, and it’s one of the reasons I jumped into this field and left commercial piloting and military piloting behind,” says Prof Cummings
Yet data may not be enough, she acknowledges. “The reason that you like a pilot in the plane is because ultimately he or she shares the same fate that you do,” she says. “So if the plane is about to go down, you feel better knowing that there is a human in the front seat doing everything that they can to save their own life.”
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Not for me thanks. Let’s have driverless cars for a while to get a future generation ready for these.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://thomsinger.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-coffee-meal-or-beer-rule-of-social.html?utm_source=feedly
Saturday, May 11, 2013
“The Coffee, Meal or Beer Rule” of Social Media
thom singer
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Not every one of my contacts originally met this criteria, but a majority of those in my LinkedIn and Facebook lists are those with whom I have had a substantial initial conversation. A few got in before I established the policy, and I often make exceptions for meeting professionals and recruiters whose industries practices are to utilize LinkedIn as a way to reach out to people they may wish to do business with in the future.
There are those who disagree with my policy and believe one gains more from linking to everyone, but this has served me well. When I get a request, I will often ask for a personal meeting or a call. If the person reaching out cannot make the time for a chat, I am not sure why they want the connection at all.
My advice to others is to have a policy (even if it is different from mine), and then to be respectful of others who use these tools in different ways! (Lack of respect for those with differing opinions is an epidemic online, and we must get beyond that!).
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I agree one needs rules.
In the early days of LinkedIn, I loaded my address book.
Now I regret that.
Not enough to go back and clean it up, but enough to have printed copy of my connection and disconnection criteria.
I also dislike this new trend on LinkedIn of people saying you have a skill. (Dumb!)
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Posted by reinkefj
KABUL, Afghanistan – A suicide car bombing tore through a U.S. convoy during rush hour in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least 15 people, including six U.S. military advisers and two children, officials said.
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