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For all you tool freaks…..and then some!
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=E3mzhvMgrLE&NR=1
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I expect that we’ll see this in a lot of tools over the next century!
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INTERESTING: Luddite comes up with a good find
Saturday, January 12, 2013
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RANT: How about a simple preventative measure?
Sunday, January 6, 2013http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/01/02/wrong-way-driver-went-18-miles-on-pa-road/?intcmp=HPBucket
Wrong-way driver went 18 miles on Pa. road
Published January 02, 2013
Associated Press
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Police say a wrong-way driver ended up going 18 miles on an interstate in northeastern Pennsylvania.
The Times-Leader of Wilkes-Barre reports (http://bit.ly/S4zLIf ) police say traffic was light when it happened around 5:30 a.m. on New Year’s Day, and no one was hurt. Police responded after getting calls about a vehicle going at high speeds the wrong direction on Interstate 81 north.
Troopers say they tried unsuccessfully to get the driver’s attention using emergency lights and a spot light. Authorities say she was eventually stopped using a roadblock in Laflin, about 18 miles from where she started in Dickson City.
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Anyone ever see the barrier at the rental car lots or parking lots?
Drive the wrong way and you’ll get a few feet and then you;ll need new tires.
Why are these roadways unprotected?
Seems simple enough to me.
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INTERESTING: Genetic testing already shows promise; except the Gooferment wants to control it
Tuesday, July 27, 2010http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/should-you-be-allowed-to-know-whats-in-your-dna/?singlepage=true
Should You Be Allowed to Know What’s in Your DNA?
“You can’t handle the truth!” That’s the federal government’s latest message to Americans seeking to learn the content of their own DNA.
July 15, 2010 – by Paul Hsieh
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Opponents of direct-to-consumer genetic testing typically raise three standard objections, including: (1) the test results may be inaccurate; (2) even if the results are accurate, customers will not know what to do with the information; and (3) customers may learn about genetic defects that could make health insurance prohibitively expensive or impossible to purchase. However, a truly free market in health services and health insurance would address all of these concerns.
Customers concerned about the reliability and accuracy of their test results are best served by a free market that subjects products to the pitiless scrutiny of consumers seeking the best value for their money. Of course, if an unscrupulous company makes fraudulent claims about its services, it should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Protecting consumers against fraud is one of the proper functions of government. But if personal genomics companies otherwise truthfully describe the capabilities and limitations of their tests, then the early adopters should be left free to exercise their best judgment as to whether they wish to purchase those services.
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If it’s my body, who is the Gooferment to interfere?
Prevent force or fraud, fine. Keep me from making a mistake, not so good. Tell me I can’t have the use of my own body, tyranny.
Time to pound the FDA back into historical irrelevancy. Who would you trust with your health? (1) Politicians and bureaucrats; or (2) a free market with Walmart, Walgreens, and innumerable competitors “supervised” by Consumer’s Reports, Underwriters Laboratory, the media, the general public, and the Trial Lawyers?
Give me the market any time. Keep your Gooferment “help” to yourself.
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INTERESTING: Corporations shift their IT costs
Wednesday, April 21, 2010http://www.forbes.com/2010/04/20/smartphone-mobile-iphone-technology-cio-network-blackberry.html
JargonSpy
The End Of The BlackBerry Elite
Dan Woods, 04.20.10, 06:00 PM EDT
Companies are increasingly allowing workers to use their personal smartphones for work.
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And now that smartphones are relatively inexpensive and many workers own one, companies are encouraging employees to use their personal phones for work. One retail executive told me that most of his employees were eager to use their personal phones to stay in touch with work e-mail, and some workers could be reimbursed for their phone and texting charges.
Increasingly, companies are attempting to bring personally owned smartphones into the fold of corporate IT, which in practice usually means providing access to MS Exchange or Lotus Notes. This fits into the vision of Organic IT in which corporate IT is delivered through personal technology.
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This brings up some interesting questions like ownership, liability, wage ‘n’ hour, and exhaustion. All questions that the CxOs really don’t want to recognize.
When corporate data leaks onto an employee device with the corporations blessing, who owns it? Customer lists take to a competitor by a job changing employee leaps to mind.
What are the liability issues with agreeing to this? An employees answers a email while driving and crashes defends with “the boss made me do it”.
If an employee has to support “off-hours”, what’s the wage ‘n’ hour implications?
If an employee is exhausted and burnt out, what is the costs of the mistakes and replacing them?
And I’m not even a lawyer; just a fat old white guy injineer who has had to “do” it.
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MONEY: Beat Airline Fees
Sunday, February 21, 2010Travel
How To Beat Airline Fees
Quentin Hardy, 02.18.10, 07:00 PM EST
Garments and gadgets that let you travel light and avoid extra charges on your next trip.
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This was before plausible roller bags, Web sites for lightweight travelers, and all the digital folding headphones, smart phone stands and nanofiber clothing that make the light life easy. It was also before the cursed baggage fees–now beating them is almost like flying for free.
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Of course, I would only fly if I couldn’t get an appointment for a colonoscopy!
It also makes the “safety” case that all that junk dragged into the cabin makes us ALL unsafe should an emergency occur. The TSA should be the bad guy, (It is already.) By enforcing the number and size restrictions on carry ons. The airlines SHOULD charge for all the carry on crap. That’s what SHOULD be discouraged! Make checked bags free; carry on costs!
Argh!
If I were “king”, I’d proclaim the diktat throughout the land. And the serfs would rejoice.
If not for that, then for the fact we’d be using gold as a monetary standard and the gooferment would be cut down to size. (And, the airlines would be running the terminals, schedules, and “security”. Where passengers could sue in the “king’s” court for damages.)
And, peace and prosperity would be the rule though out the “kingdom”.
I can only wish!
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