It forgot where the internet was? Symptom nothing was resolving by name. Ping worked fine. DNS worked on other boxes. All that was left was a reboot. Argh!
XPfails – luggable – WINDOZE developed Alzheimer’s
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
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WRITING: BLOG2BOOK project – Aachanon Publishing?
Tuesday, January 16, 2007Starting to circle in on Aachanon Publishing for about $800!
Any feedback?
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INTERESTING: An old French vet dies
Tuesday, January 16, 2007http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2007/01/16/523257-french-wwi-veteran-dies-at-age-108
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PARIS — One of France’s last World War I veterans, Rene Riffaud, has died at age 108, leaving just three known French survivors of the 1914-18 conflict, the National Veterans Office said Tuesday. Riffaud died overnight Tuesday, said Marie-Georges Vingadassalon, a spokeswoman for the office. Of the three surviving World War I veterans, the oldest — Louis de Cazenave — is 109, according to the veterans’ office.
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What a unique experience has been lost. What could he have told us?
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TECHNOLOGY: WalMart offers a 398$ Linux box
Tuesday, January 16, 2007http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=3762908
WalMart offers a Linux box
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Microtel SYSWM4008 Desktop System, 2.8 GHz Intel Celeron w/CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive $398
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Very interesting. I’d like one just to see how good it is.
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RANT: Seaside Heights property tax “reevaluation”
Tuesday, January 16, 2007Well, the fist salvo in what will be a long expensive war was fired last night.
I was mildly surprised that the “reeval company rep” was there last night. But, they were. And we, Frau and I, got another taste of what it’s like to “rent” one’s property from the gubamint.
In essence, they gave us some verbal Barbara Striesand about computer model. (And, you know how much that was worth to me. I gotta few computers and can “model” too.)
Basically, they took two sales on our block, as comparable, subtracted their swag about what the building was worth, and divided by the square footage to come out with a number. Take that number and multiply by the 20 by 100 lot we “own”. And, pouf, the land was worth 315k.
(Sell!)
After some fast thinking, I pointed out that these “comparables” were:
(1) Year round legal two families hence they may have under-valued the buildings and thus over-valued the underlying land.
(2) That small undevelopable lots are not worth the same as larger developable lots.
(3) The read of the lot was “unusable” because it is “landlocked” and as such you can’t practically or economically do anything with it. I cited just putting some rocks down in the back to control weeds was three times as expensive for us because they had to be wheel barrowed down an alley. Takes a lot of wheel barrows to make tons.
(4) We were preempted by zoning from using that back 40 feet from making a two family like our neighbors making the land less valuable.
(5) Everyone else has parking; we don’t. Makes our property worth a lot lot less. And, there was no way to remedy that defect.
I couldn’t think of anything else. Did I miss anything?
He dutifuly took notes on all our points, nicely promised to send it back to HQ, and we would get a response shortly.
Guess the next step is to hire an attorney?
I’ve been “drafted” as a foot soldier in this war on our pocketbook.
I wonder how much success I’ll have with Constitutional issues. No taxation without representation. I didn’t agree to government schools or spending.
I’m also warming up my tactical arguments. Did everybody get charged the same square foot rate? Politicians, businesses, landlords, voters? That will be an entertaining question. I don’t think so!
Let the games begin.
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XPfails – luggable – Reinstall, reboot, try again and again
Tuesday, January 16, 2007I guess the XP gnome — annoying creature that it is — decided that if I was really going to keep rebooting until I got wireless connectivity back to my home network, then it’d eventually relent and give it back. Argh!
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XPfails – luggable – DELL’s wireless fails
Monday, January 15, 2007Luggable’s wireless stopped working. Argh! Wrassled witht he drivers. Uninstall, reinstall. NG! Latest drivers loop and drive cpu to 100%. Argh! Not working, System restore, still ng. Arghhh!
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MONEY: What does the euro really mean to the dollar?
Monday, January 15, 2007http://www.ft.com/cms/s/
572b41a6-a414-11db-bec4-0000779e2340.html
Euro displaces dollar in bond markets
By David Oakley and Gillian Tett in London
Published: January 14 2007 22:08 | Last updated: January 14 2007 22:08
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The euro has displaced the US dollar as the world’s pre-eminent currency in international bond markets, having outstripped the dollar-denominated market for the second year in a row.
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Is this the beginning of the end of the US Dollar as the world’s reserve currency?
Try to envision what that means.
(1) Dollars stored overseas will come back to us as sort of IOUs. Foreigners will buy something with those dollars to take home. Anything of value. Remember the Japanese buying Rockafeller Center in NYC? The inflation that we exported overseas will come home to roost.
(2) Imports will get more expensive. Big Time! As we will have to pay for them in Euros, not Dollars.
(3) The general rise in prices caused by too many dollars chasing to few goods will hurt the poor, the elderly on fixed income.
(4) The non-productive parts of our economy (think government) will become more expensive as the prices go up. Government costs will rise faster. (Why? Only real people pay for things. Government and business are really fictions that just pass along costs to real people for payment. There’s “shipping and handling” on every transfer. Corporations, because of competition are motivated to minimize that. Governments are not. Thus if the cost to government goes up a dollar, I’d expect the cost to me goes up four dollars. While me quibble about the multiplier, it’s definitely there.)
Plan your finances accordingly.
Don’t hold dollars; buy things that will “surf” in inflation. Gold, Commodities, Equities, Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, things that appreciate in value.
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LIBERTY: Thinkin’ bout “social security insurance”. Ugh!
Monday, January 15, 2007http://www.cato.org/dailys/12-17-97.html
December 17, 1998
Chile’s Social Security Lesson For The U.S.
by José Piñera
José Piñera is Chile’s former secretary of labor and social security and is co-chairman of the Cato Institute’s Project on Social Security Privatization.title
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America’s Social Security system will go bust in 2010. As political leaders scramble to save it, they’ve overlooked an obvious free-market solution that works. They need only look at Chile.
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A blog comment spun me up on this one again. So, I pulled up the url to the Chilean solution. And, marveled that we had the answer in ’98 and did nothing with it. It was NOT just an academic answer, but a running system in a large country! In my world, a working field trial of an idea is evidence!
Here’s a fellow with a proven answer to “our” “social security insurance” problem.
(Note: I don’t have such a problem. I wrote off the theft decades ago. It’s nice of the robber to send me “statements” telling me how much they are going to restore to me. But, I’m not planning on getting it. AND, I object to the fact that it was stolen from me in the first place! I never agreed to it.)
It won’t work here because he was dealing with smart but illiterate people, Here in Amerika, we’re too smart for our own good.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me for decades, like American politicians do, and you deserve everything you get.
In Chile, the government served as a referee and “licensed” a bunch of investment companies to accept deposits. Due to the people’s illiteracy, the companies picked colored animals to be there logo. 93% of those illiterates opted for the new system. And, they were not limited to how much they could save for retirement — all tax free — and so the national savings rate is about 27%. What’s it in the US, negative 5?
Yup, we’re too smart for our own good.
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GUNS: “Gun Control” is “Victim Disarmament” and “Genocide Preparation”
Sunday, January 14, 2007http://www.davekopel.org/2A/OthWr/People_Control_in_Japan.htm
Gun Control and People Control in Japan
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The Japanese National Police Agency wins the applause of the American gun control crowd by keeping close tabs on gun owners, down to counting how many round …
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Certainly, just like in the Warsaw Ghetto, when the police come to take you to your “final solution”, they should be allowed to count every bullet you have. Fire it at them. And, hopefully your neighbors will rise up and protect you.
I can here the choruses of “It can’t happen here”!
Yea right.
Do the words “Japanese Internment” mean anything?
How about Ruby Ridge, Waco, Elian Gonzales, and NOLA?
The State is a ruthless oppressor and your only defense is the Second Amendment and your liberty minded neighbors.
For those that think you can fight the State with your puny guns, just look at Iraq. The American military won the war and lost the peace there. I’d also site the Afgan resistance to the Russians as a “success”. And, there were a bunch of bloody failures.
So push back now when it easy to rant and rave, lest you be in a worse position later.
The government is NOT your friend. It’s not here to help you. It does not “protect and serve” you.
And, you have no obligation to feed its insatiable desire for power and money.
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