WRITING: Newsvine seems like a better use of my time
Sunday, February 4, 2007
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XPfails – luggable – Microsoft WORD kludges my doc
Saturday, February 3, 2007I was doing the alumni ezine. As I was finishing the index, poof! WORD decided I needed a new page placed along side the first page. In effect, it folded my doc as if it was a two column newspaper.
I fired up Open Office and could see some of the problems.
I wriggled around like a dead fish.
Finally I had the idea of saving it as an RTF. That didn’t clear the problem but it put me on the track of a solution.
I saved it as WORD60 format. Then, when I reopened it I could delete the break.
Argh.
Very very ugly.
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RANT: “ostensibly competitors in the recording industry, are a cartel acting collusively”
Friday, February 2, 2007http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/55483.html
Teen Strikes Back in Clash With Record Labels
By Jim Fitzgerald
AP
01/31/07 9:36 AM PT
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Robert Santangelo, 16, his sister and his mother have all been sued by record companies for allegedly sharing music files illegally. Now Santangelo has struck back, raising a 32-point defense, demanding a jury trial and filing a counterclaim against the companies that accuses them of damaging his reputation and conspiring to defraud the courts of the United States.
A 16-year-old boy being sued by five record companies accusing him of online music piracy accused the recording industry on Tuesday of violating antitrust laws, conspiring to defraud the courts and making extortionate threats.
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Robert Santangelo also claims that the record companies, which have filed more than 18,000 piracy lawsuits in federal courts, “have engaged in a wide-ranging conspiracy to defraud the courts of the United States.”
The papers allege that the companies, “ostensibly competitors in the recording industry, are a cartel acting collusively in violation of the antitrust laws and public policy” by bringing the piracy cases jointly and using the same agency “to make extortionate threats … to force defendants to pay.”
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Way to go kid!
That’s punching the big bully right in the nose.
What’s more, if I was on your jury, I’d give you punitive damages.
Hit with a RICO charge. Level the playing field.
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ALUMNI: Another idea!
Friday, February 2, 2007
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LIBERTY: Minimum Wage Means Minimum Jobs or Laughing at the fools in DC.
Friday, February 2, 2007http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/aboutus/ArticleView.aspx?id=1390
Center for Economic Prosperity
Minimum Wage Means Minimum Jobs
Raising the minimum wage hurts workers at the lower end of the pay scale.
Goldwater Institute Today’s News
February 01, 2007
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Yup, all we have to do is get the people laughing at the stupidity of government and it’ll topple of its own weight.
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TECHNOLOGY: Surfing net is top pastime for elderly
Friday, February 2, 2007http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?
xml=/news/2007/02/02/net02.xml
Surfing net is top pastime for elderly
By David Derbyshire, Consumer Affairs Editor
Last Updated: 1:51am GMT 02/02/2007
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Browsing the internet has overtaken DIY and gardening to become the favourite pastime of older people, according to a survey. The current generation of “silver surfers” spends an average of six hours online each week, research by the insurance company AXA found.
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“on the internet no one knows you’re a dog”
to quote a famous New Yorker magazine cartoon. Nor do they know you are old.
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TECHNOLOGY: SKYPE me (reinkefj) for free.
Thursday, February 1, 2007http://www.skype.com/helloagain.html
SKYPE
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Call other people on Skype and it’s free – anywhere in the world.
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WordPress doesn’t make it easy. There’s nothing that I can put on the blog that will make it easy for you to tap one icon, get skype, install it if needed, call me, and talk to me free.
You can get it and install it. Then skype me as “reinkefj”, or “732-917-4816” is my skype phone number.
(Or you can Yahoo me at reinkefj or 609-489-5893!)
I’m just playing around and love to try technology.
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MONEY: Could the negative savings rate be due to a hidden inflation?
Thursday, February 1, 20072006 Personal Savings Drop to 74-Yr. Low
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
AP Economics Writer
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WASHINGTON (AP) — People once again spent everything they made and then some last year, pushing the personal savings rate to the lowest level since the Great Depression more than seven decades ago.
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Now we know that the FED (The Federal Reserve Bank which is neither Federal, a Reserve, or a Bank) tells us there is no inflation. We know the politicians tells us there is no inflation. And, we know that we are not in the Jimmy Carter era of runaway 18% inflation.
But, could one explanation for the negative savings rate be that there is an underlying belief that cash is crap?
Why save if tomorrow will be worse than today in buying power?
Could we be seeing the marketplace discounting for an expected future inflation?
In a variation of the “Customer is always right”, the marketplace is always right.
If people are not saving, whatever the reason, they are “right”. Even when they are wrong, they’re “right”.
The cost of the war, the cost of social security, the cost of medicare, the cost of the drug benefit, the cost of all the social programs, and the cost of the TSA’s security kabuki dance is all going to come due.
Hmmm?
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FUN: The hedgehog with ‘global balding’ (2w3v84)
Thursday, February 1, 2007http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/
news.html?in_article_id=432937&in_page_id=1770
The hedgehog with ‘global balding’
Last updated at 21:38pm on 31st January 2007
A nice, soft fluffy coat is of little use to a hedgehog.
But poor old Glen is having to make do without any prickles – apparently thanks to global warming.
I’m not sure which is funnier. The poor animal who missed his nap. Or, the “climatologists” who have some more government programs and taxes to fix it!
p.s.: do pictures work?
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FUN: SUDOKU on the AARP site will help you learn how to play
Thursday, February 1, 2007http://www.uclick.com/client/mma/sudoc/
I’ve been playing a while. My personal opinion is I’m somewhere between “hard” and “evil”. My objective is to ward off dementia. Though some would say I’m already demented. I have shown many people that it’s really not a hard puzzle.
The AARP site allows you to turn on hints. That puts the possible combinations on the screen. You can then focus on the “rules” to find the right answer.
I only have one gripe. It’s not possible, or I couldn’t figure out how, to turn OFF a hint. If it thinks that 1 is possible for a cell and you KNOW by the rules that it isn’t there’s not way to nuke that little 1! Argh.
Otherwise, it is a good training site for learning.
On a technical note, the “put in all the values and start methodically erasing” technique has allowed me some success with the “evil” class of puzzle. But that’s for another blog posting.
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