LIBERTY: What happened to America as a “free speech zone”?

Sunday, December 3, 2006

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=4818233

Peaceful remembrance and angry protest mark farewell to man killed in police shooting

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Members of the New Black Panther Party and other angry demonstrators used the word “pigs” to describe police. It was clear from the start this group had no permit for their protest, but given the escalating racial tension here in Queens the NYPD wasn’t going to stop them. And some of the extremists in this crowd would have kept right on going had police tried.

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On both the TV and radio stations, they are continually pointing out that there was no permit for the demonstration.

Permit?!?

What happened to America as a “free speech zone”?

This is just the media trying to propagandize us into to believing that we need the massa’s permission to speak out.

Argh!

May I suggest that we all email the Newsroom at eyewitness.news@abc.com and point out their ignorance of the First Amendment.

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PRODUCTIVITY: Adding plus signs to email — It’s a great spam preventive

Sunday, December 3, 2006

Some website’s registration edits don’t support the gmail plus sign option.

We have to insist that they do or not use their sites.

To refresh your memory, GMAIL (to their credit) has innovated by adding the capability to allow a plus sign in the email address. So if your gmail email address is abcdef @ gmail dot com, then you can put anything you want after a plus sign. So if email comes addressed as abcdef + fedcba @ gmail dot com will get delivered to your email account and you can test on that stuff after the plus sign.

It’s a great spam preventive.

For example, I give each use of my gmail address a unique unguessable random code. (You expected different from a fellow who uses long strange email addresses?) Any email that arrives without a “plus code” is suspected of being spam. Should I get spam, I can pinpoint where the breakdown occurred.

So, if a website would will NOT accept a plus code, I don’t use it.

(Note correcting an instance where the fingers led a life of their own.)

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LIBERTY: Reforming education across New England

Saturday, December 2, 2006

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/
oped/articles/2006/12/01/reforming_education_across_
new_england/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+–+Op-ed+columns

http://tinyurl.com/vwbjr

 

Reforming education across New England
By Evan Dobelle | December 1, 2006
Evan Dobelle is president and CEO of the New England Board of Higher Education.

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Addressing higher education access and success should be a top regional priority for New England’s governors. Problems and solutions will vary somewhat from state to state, but here are some regional strategies for the six chief executives to consider:

Hold a summit meeting on how public education is financed. New England is failing its urban, rural, low-income and first-generation students from the Berkshires to Boston. All the best intentions about making these underserved students “college-ready” and closing the “education gap” are empty as long as tax-poor cities are dependent on local property taxes to finance their schools.

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Isn’t interesting how when, on the rare occasion when they will admit the system is a failure, no one ever says “let’s try something else”. It’s always more big gubamint solutions, more taxes, more programs, more funding, and ad nausum.

Look at technical education in the marketplace for an exemplar of how it COULD work.

You can be “certified” in Cisco, Microsoft, and bunch of other stuff.

For example, if you invest ~30k in your education and get a Cisco certification, then you can expect to make ~75k per year. That’s a ROI!

In the technical education field, there is tremendous competition. So costs are low and benefits are high.

Now compare that to “public education”?

Mandatory attendance. Drug problems. Performance problems. Graduating functional illiterates. Any entrenched unionized bunch of “public employees” with big pensions, lifetime employment, and guaranteed employment.

Can you imagine a bigger disaster?

So let’s close the gubamint propaganda reeducation camps and let people figure out the “education problem” free from government interference.

Then stand back and watch what freedom can deliver.

 

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FUN: Laughing at Drug “War”; Crying at the results.

Saturday, December 2, 2006

http://zena.secureforum.com/cartoons/show_toon.cfm?toonID=22
48&toonList=2248,2247,2246,2245,2244,2243,2242,2241,2240
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index=index.cfm

http://tinyurl.com/wkrbu

If we laugh at them, they lose the battle for people’s minds.

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TECHNOLOGY: Letters 2 My Child

Saturday, December 2, 2006

http://www.letters2mychild.com/

Letters 2 My Child

Letters to my child is my domain that I bought from GoDaddy for several years.

I then used “Google Apps for Your Domain” (free) to host the web site and handle the email.

If your interested, I can show you what I did for this site.

Seems like an easy way to seed your business.

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ALUMNI: Another week; another issue of Jasper Jottings

Saturday, December 2, 2006

Shipped! Tme to start next week’s.

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RANT: FOXNEWS is reporting a Social Security tax hike

Saturday, December 2, 2006

They have to be kidding.

I can’t believe that the republicans, the administration, and all the congress critters could be so stupid.

It’ll make it a bigger blood bath than the last election.

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PRODUCTIVITY: the book The Virtual Handshake is available

Friday, December 1, 2006

FROM THE LINKEDIN INNOVATORS

with a great tip on a pdf book!

Reintroduction and “The Virtual Handshake”
Posted by: “John-Patrick Skaar”
Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:47 pm (PST)

I think it is time to reintroduce myself again to my fellow Innovator’s. Since I haven’t been too active lately I see this as the best way to make
sure that you all know that I am still around.

I am John-Patrick Skaar, resident in Oslo, Norway. I have a small family and work as BD for IT security vendors (mainly Israeli and American) and do have several other projects hanging around that keep me busy.

I am a strong believer in networking, and arrange several “LinkedIn and virtual networking” workshops for sales organizations and recruiters. I
believe that nothing comes into a closed hand, and in order to take, you have to give.

Anyways, I just found out that the book “The Virtual Handshake” is available as a free download from http://www.thevirtualhandshake.com/home.html

I am open to expand my already very strong network, and mainly within the Nordic region, within the IT security industry or relevant recruiters.
Others are also welcome, but please use a non standard invitation.

My email address is <To prevent spam, get it from the group.>

Have a GREAT day around the world!

//patrick

Senior Business Developer – Nordic region

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jpskaar

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§ “The best way to predict the future is to invent it”
[Alan Kay <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Kay> ’71] §

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TECHNOLOGY: Microsoft says “Don’t wait to buy a new PC”

Friday, December 1, 2006

FROM A MICROSOFT EMAIL RECEIVED TODAY

Don’t wait to buy a new PC

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There’s no need to wait to buy a new PC this holiday season. When you buy a Windows Vista Capable or Premium Ready PC, you can be confident that it will run Windows Vista. When you shop, just follow these tips:

Look for a PC with the “Windows Vista Capable PC” logo.

For an even better Windows Vista experience, including the breakthrough Windows Aero user experience, ask for a Windows Vista Capable PC that is also “Premium Ready.”

Be sure to ask your retailer about an Express Upgrade to Windows Vista.

***End Quote***

No need to wait indeed.

Nothing like a self-serving email from the evil empire.

I’m filing this under “ewe gotta be kidding”.

While I may be forced at work to move to Vista, and I’m not so sure that the penny pinchers there aren’t going to have sticker shock at the true TCO of Vista, I personally am not upgrading.

I have not yet identified an requirement that would induce me to move. If anything, the onslaught of the Web 2.0 services is challenging the whole paradigm.

Hmmm! What will you do?

 

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RANT: A new month and I’m unmotivated.

Friday, December 1, 2006

Sigh. Maybe it Seasonally Affected Disorder. I can’t even get fired up about the stupid politicians. My plates, those things I’ve been spinning, are even starting to wobble. And, I can’t get excited about that. Sigh.

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