LIBERTY: FIFTEEN REASONS TO LEGALIZE DRUGS

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/policy/policy_writing1.shtml

FIFTEEN REASONS TO LEGALIZE DRUGS

1. Legalizing drugs would make our streets and homes safer.
2. It would put an end to prison overcrowding.
3. Drug legalization would free up police resources to fight crimes
against people and property.
4. It would unclog the court system.
5. It would reduce official corruption.
6. Legalization would save tax money.
7. It would cripple organized crime.
8. Legal drugs would be safer. Legalization is a consumer protection
issue.
9. Legalization would help stem the spread of AIDS and other diseases.
10. Legalization would halt the erosion of other personal liberties.
11. It would stabilize foreign countries and make them safer to live in
and travel to.
12. Legalization would repair U.S. relations with other countries and
curtail anti-American sentiment around the world.
13. Legalization would prevent children from consuming drugs.
14. Legalization would encourage pharmaceutical companies the research
of safer and healthier drugs.
15. Legalization could teach people to live safe with drugs.

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LINUX: KNOPPIX50 doesn’t recognize LUGGABLE’s inboard wireless

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Arghhh! Have to do some poking around!

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LIBERTY: Security Theater is a jole — on us!

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/09/18/D8K7ECP03.html

Businesses Adapt to Airport Restrictions
Sep 18 2:32 PM US/Eastern
By ANNA JO BRATTON Associated Press Writer
OMAHA, Neb.

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Fifteen live lobsters? Those you can take on a plane. But the ice or gel packs to keep the lobsters cold are not allowed under the recent ban on liquids and gels in carryon luggage

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I like their solution frozen vegetables. I don’t like that we allow the gubamint to “run” security at the airports. What we have is what Bruce Schneier calls “security theater” http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/09/more_than_10_wa.html Nothing of what we are seeing would make an iotas difference. What it does do is to put the gubamint firmly in control of the population. Real Id, sneak ‘n’ peek, imprisonment without trial, and even more restrictions on our liberties are all steps on the way to the next genocide. It can happen here. Think the Civil War, the Indian Wars, and the Japanese Internment. We need to object. I don’t consent.

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LIBERTY: Gubamint at work — sort of — another gubamint crime!

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/09/18/D8K7F8580.html

Report: N.J. Senator Had No-Work Job
Sep 18 3:31 PM US/Eastern
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A powerful southern New Jersey politician was paid for a no-work job at a scandal-ridden state university while helping the school garner millions of dollars in new state funding, according to a report released Monday.
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey paid state Sen. Wayne Bryant, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, $35,000 a year “to lobby himself in his capacity of state senator,” according to the report of a federal monitor who had investigated the school’s finances.

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Ahh, only in the Peeple’s Repulik of Nu Jerzee, does a politican not get rebuked by the voters. But, it’s business as usual. His party doesn’t roast him like the sacrificial pig that he should be. And, the voters just reward all the incumbent by returning them to power. We condemn the Soviet Union for one party Communism. What’s the difference here? Hey, with McSleezzey hitting Oprah. Christie being nailed for lying about WTC air. It’s just a joke. On the voters and taxpayers. There’s just no hope here.

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JOBSEARCH: Have no fear being fired is not the worst that can happen

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

How to lose your fear of being fired

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TECH: What To Do When Your Computer Bogs Down — cry?

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

http://www.lewrockwell.com/tucker/tucker74.html

What To Do When Your Computer Bogs Down
by Jeffrey A. Tucker
Editorial vice president of http://www.Mises.org
September 19, 2006

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Relentless development in software, hardware, and the online world means living life in Beta with all its attendant problems. Each machine is different, and yet the Windows-based machines I’ve worked on for the last four months have all had the same trouble, and require the same steps to resolve it. Some of the problems result from the very first days that the computer was fired up, but use (along with spyware, adware, malware, viruses, and enormous software muck) only makes them worse.

Here are the steps that have worked for many Windows machines in recent days.

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That’s it! Your machine should be vastly improved in every way.

(Please don’t write to tell me about the wonders of Mac [granted] or of the feasibility of end-user Linux systems [please!]. You aren’t telling me anything I don’t already know, so I’ll just delete your email.)

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What you are describing is a phenom which I believe is generally called winrot. (I’ve blogged about it. https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2006/02/24/prepare-for-winrot/ on several occasions.)

The only real solution is to reinstall from scratch.

Some fanatics urge a quarterly reinstall. I usually try during the End Of Year holidays when stuff is slow. The week between Christmas and New Years is deadly slow.

It assumes, and presumes, that you:

(1) have good backups of all your data.

(Entertaining exercise. Hand the corporate user a new laptop. Take the old one. And, then you see just how good your backup and recovery strategy is. I have had the equivalent happen to me when a hard disk drive dies and the first time I lost four months of work. Now I am a fanatic about backup and recovery. My worktop has been replaced three times with no loss. My personal one probably would be OK, but not as good, nor as crisp and easy.)

(2) have all your program distribution media. (All those darn CDs!)

(3) have all your program serial numbers (All those darn 29.5 character random strings. Sometimes on the last page of manuals.  Sometimes on folders. Sometimes on envelopes. Sometime on convenient easy to lose slips of paper.)

Arghhhh!!!

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TECH: Problems are opportunities, in disguise, to avoid bigger problems

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

http://kentblumberg.typepad.com/kent_blumberg/2006/09/focus_onstrengt.html

Focus on…Strengths and Success

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Drucker wrote that we tend to get pushed into focusing on problems, and distracted from the positive opportunities that were there for the taking.

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Well, I don’t necessarily agree with him on that.

I like to use my “patented” Power of Negative Thinking, with apologies to Norman Vincent Peale. “Problems” deserve a special laser-like focus. At least four times in the last year, I have seen small problems that were really precursors to big problems. If there had been a true “autopsy” on that small problem, then it would have exposed the potential for a “big hairy one”. But, the small problem was dismissed, (over my objections), as a “fluke”, “isolate incident”, “network blip”, or “who cares because we’re done”. Now don’t misunderstand, not only did I not say “see told ya so”, but it not an academic inquiry into “how many angels can dance on the head of a pin”. It’s is about, at least in my IT world, stuff happens for a reason. And, that reason usually portends, when neglected, a big alligator arising from the swamp to take a big bite out of your butt when you least expect it and have the least ability to deal with it. Then, your left with the coulda, shoulda, and woulda, usually in front of people you’d rather not spend time in front of.

It’s nice to be positive, but, imho, you need to take care of the negatives. Or at least get far enough away from the swamp, so that when the alligators come home to roost, (yeah yeah it’s chickens!) they don’t roost, or feast, on you.

Problems are opportunities, in disguise, to avoid bigger problems.

At least they are in my world.

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TECH: ASTERIK – could be the home pbx that unlocks great value

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/091206-von-sam-houston.html?t5
Subject: Network World reports “University dumps Cisco VoIP for open-source Asterisk”

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I’ve got the book.

(Wall Street types believe that they can … do brain surgery … with a book and a tool … while doing everything else … driving in traffic at 90mph … on themselves!)
And, have been toying with the idea of deploying it at home. If I rewire and home run all phones to the “pbx” in the garage, I have all the centrex like services AND, probably can figure out how to use voip to the voip-able, cell minutes on weekends, and pots when all else fail. It has GREAT promise!

For example, I pick up any phone in my house and Asterix can decide if my call to my friend in NC should go: by yim because he’s available; by voip;  by  free after hours cell phone minutes; or by pots line. (Least cost call routing in the pbxjargon!). And if he doesn’t answer, and I say “unimportant” it will ring his cell phone if it is in his free minutes. Or if I say “important”, it calls his cell anytime. And if I say “urgent”, it rings his cell every five minutes to deliver my recorded message. (Follow him by priority in pbx jargon). And if he calls me back, same scenario, except it’s “following me”. And, if I’ve gone to bed or don’t want the phone to ring, it can say “Wake him up?” and act on a response.

From my pov, you could “do voip” plus Asterix with say a consortium of internet people (talk about herding cats) and everyone supply a local jump off to the ptsn. Voila! Free phone service for everyone?

Example, I have a pots line and a broadband connect. My friend in NC has a pots line and a broadband connect. With Aterix at both ends, it should be “possible” for: someone to call my local NJ phone number, give codes to Asterix, My Asterix connects via the net to his Asterix, his Asterix dials a local number in NC (wouldn’t want to pay for a freeloaders toll calls), and (Voila! Poof! Shazam!) free long distance service.

Now granted there was a lot of things that have to go right, but now let’s go “corporate”.

The example is use Asterix for your remote office and you don’t need no business Centrex lines unless they are very very cheap. You probably have broad band to the remote locations already. You don’t need expensive CPE or PBX or Cisco IPBXs. Old hardware, free software, and WOW! you’re in competition with a phone company.
Looks like things are getting very interesting – soon – real soon – soon !
Hmmm, note to self, sell verizon stock.

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RANT: Hey Governor Corzine … … still wanna hear about state cars? … (continued) …

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

You don’t? TOO BAD!

This morning 19 September at 0715 edst on Route 1 thru Pton … …

… … a yellow panel truck td01475 … …

… down route 1 at a leisurely 70 (Your serf speed limit is 55) …

… tailgating the poor peon in his way …

… never left the left lane (at least until I lost sight of him way way far ahead of me ; i can’t afford to pay of your highway robbers aka “speedin tix police” aka revenue raisers) …

(This is not a duplicate of my 01August report. The truck was there today again. Doing the same stuff that bothered me last time.)

Any way I am sure that he was hurrying to get to I assume trenton to protect and serve me.

Arghhh!

And, since I have your ear — yesterday on the way home a state van, with one person in it, SG25957, whizzzed past me, also tailgating the poor person (every one in Jerzee is impoverished by the high taxes, the high cost of living here in the people’s paradise of nujerzee, and corruption) in front of him, near 295 North exit 47A at 1715 local time. No doubt another dedicated state worker hurrying to protect and serve. I assume he was hurrying to return “our” car to the mother ship in Trenton, so he (it was a he I think; hard to tell at those speeds) could then begin his commute home. Yeah right!

Double Argh!!

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