LIBERTY: Pot becomes top cash crop in US

Thursday, December 21, 2006

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1975161,00.html

All-time high for homegrown as pot becomes top cash crop in US
Dan Glaister in Los Angeles
Tuesday December 19, 2006
The Guardian

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Marijuana is now the biggest cash crop grown in the US, exceeding traditional harvests such as wheat, corn and soy beans, says a new report.

The study shows that 10,000 tonnes of marijuana worth $35.8bn (£18.4bn) is grown each year; the street value would be even higher. This dwarfs the $23bn-worth of corn grown, $17.6bn-worth of soybeans and $12.2bn-worth of hay. Marijuana is the biggest cash crop in 12 states, with the value of pot grown outstripping peanuts in Georgia and tobacco in North and South Carolina. In California, the biggest producer, it is worth $13.8bn.

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Only in America could we figure out how to make a weed the most important crop. What a joke! Yup, that “war” on drugs is really working.

Perhaps, if we really want the nation to be drug free, then we should direct Governments at all levels to try to require us to be drug addicts. In a decade, we’d be drug free. All thanks to, what I will call, “The Gooferment can’t do anything right” Law. Rule of thumb. Safe bet.

Can you answer the best question I ever heard from the boys over at Free Talk Live —- name a government program that works?

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TECHNOLOGY: Bloggers Must Disclose Sponsored Posts

Thursday, December 21, 2006

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/T/
TECHBIT_BLOG_DISCLOSURES?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME
&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-12-20-19-54-08

http://tinyurl.com/yf6qd7

Dec 20, 7:54 PM EST
Bloggers Must Disclose Sponsored Posts
By ANICK JESDANUN
AP Internet Writer
Technology Video

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NEW YORK (AP) — A company that helps advertisers connect with bloggers willing to write about their products for payment will now require disclosures amid criticism and a regulatory threat.

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Oh thanks goodness, mommy government saved us from the big bad bloggers selling their souls and an unsuspecting public down the river.

Save me, save me, mommy government, from the big bad internet.

Yeah, like anyone should ever trust the net as the source of truth.

For the record, I haven’t found any one dumb enough to pay me for these rantings. And, when I do, you’ll be the first to know.

Could it be that the FTC saw the criticism moderating the blogosphere’s behavior and they ran up to the front of the parade to lead it? Nah, that would assume that they could do anything during the holiday season.

Sheesh!

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TECHNOLOGY: Borgata Casino in AC NJ has computer problems

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

I guess I should try to get me resume in here. The “computers in the pits” have been down all day. And, everyone has frayed tempers. They can do the table accounting, order chips for the tables, rate players, give comps, or whatever else they do. :-) Guess they skipped reliability in their specs. Entertaining! I think they run windoze.

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RANT: Clean needles are a poor solution for the “drug war”!

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Never let is be said that mommy government does care about you. Guv Corzine now has regally allowed for needle exchange. Sheesh! How about getting out of the drug war business completely. Let the marketplace give “addicts” and patients access to what ever they need when they need it. The marketplace will make it very inexpensive. Perhaps they could even hold down a job while supporting their habit, regardless if it is nicotine, alcohol, or other drugs. Get the government out of our medicine chest!

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TECHNOLOGY: The fellows over at Free Talk Live have a problem …

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

… the fellow that made up their monthly torrent of their shows went MIA. They’ve asked me to help.

One problem: I don’t know squat about torrents.

By muddling around I made one torrent for demo purposes.

If you use torrents, please click on the link and let me know if you can get my torrent and play it.

Then, I’ll be a torrent guru having made one!!

http://www.inpursuitof.com/FTL2006-12-18.mp3.torrent

Try this a see if you can get their show.

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RANT: PA opens more “racinos”

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Doesn’t anyone think that Government is a joke when it comes to gambling. Don’t get me wrong, I gamble. I just think that anything is ok as long as they get taxes, can hold up developers for campaign contributions, and the unions get work. It’s all part of the intellectual dishonesty around the “vice” crimes. Gambling, drinking, drugs, and prostitution are all “terrible” unless the government can make a buck out of it. Anyone who thinks that the gubamint’s “laws” actually prevent or stop anything is sadly deluded. Not only that, but they don’t really want it to go away. It keeps them in power.

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TECHNOLOGY: SKYPEIN not working

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Being an old bell shaped head, I am always fascinated with when the web can touch the PSTN (public service telephone network). Imagine being able to turn a ~4k laptop or desktop into a $9 phone. Great. Ever since Judge Green threw the snowball that started an avalanche! (He decided that the Bell “monopoly” would have to open up. We did have the best phone service in the world, universal service, a dedicated workforce, and Bell Labs. (That was a national treasure!) This was all for the sake of supposedly cheaper phone rates for business. Interesting that I don’t think we have seen the benefits of competition. It’s really not a free market. Now that would be great, if we had gone to a truly free market. Instead, we have a sort of regulated, sort of free, definitely regulated market.

So I’ve been playing with SKYPE. You can skype me at “reinkefj” (I know the name is a real surprise.) You can call me on 732 – 917 – 4816.

SKYPEIN isn’t working. For calls from a phone, it doesn’t “ring” on the laptop, but it will take a message. For calls from a pc, it does work correctly.

Yahoo Instant Messenger With Voice has a similar offering. Again, I’m “reinkefj”, or you can call from 609-489-5893.

Call me if you want to chat or just want to turn my notebook into a nine dollar phone.

Interesting! What the real future of the public telephone network will really be?

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TECHNOLOGY: Topix says “trust us”; they miss the point

Monday, December 18, 2006

From: Admin, Topix [mailto:topixadmin@ex.topix.net]
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 1:49 PM
Subject: RE: Feedback: BUG Sign up none

Hi there,

Thanks for letting us know. We are constantly working to improve our site, and I have forwarded your issue to our engineers. In the meantime, feel free to sign up using another email address. We will never share your email address, and it is not displayed publicly.

Admin @ Topix

—–Original Message—–
Sent: Sun 12/17/2006 8:20 AM
To: feedback2@ex.topix.net
Subject: Feedback: BUG Sign up none

Can’t use a gmail plus for an email. It’s a way of preventing spam. https://reinkefj.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/productivity-use-two-gmail-accounts-to-protect-an-isp-email-account/

Sorry can use your site until you support gmail plus signs.

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Just trust us. We’d never spam you. Or, make a mistake.

Yeahhhhhh

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FUN: 2do when I retire

Monday, December 18, 2006

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/art/2006/12/the_50_artworks_you_rate_highe.html

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RANT: Are government workers “special”

Monday, December 18, 2006

… or at least are they allowed to flaunt the law?

Yesterday, in NYC, I traveled my usual route, and on this one block with a firehouse, the block was wall to wall cars. Cars on the sidewalk. Cards double parked for the length of a long block. It was tight just to get through. I had to wait while some one was dropped off.

It was “obviously” the fire house’s holiday party.

If you or I did that, cars would get towed.

So are government workers above the law?

Silly serf, obviously yes!

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