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LINKEDIN: Never use your employer’s email on LinkedIn or any site like it
Sunday, February 11, 2007Seems like an obvious “tip” to me.
Lose your job? You lose a lot of things. Not the least of which is your paycheck, “your” email address, and access to it.
You add to the disaster when you use the employer’s email address to register for sites.
Stay in control, use your “personal” email address for anything that isn’t strictly related to your employment.
I personally recommend you establish your own “stuff”.
Go register your “name” as a web site. Most commercial grade web site providers throw in a slew of email addresses with most packages.
I chuckle when I see a 6 figure executive using his employer’s email address on a networking, job, or resume site; that makes him “clueless” imho.
Or even worse is some lame internet service provider’s address like AOL for email or a free kid’s site for webpages.
But, the truly worst is when they use a “lame” email name. In the last year, I’ve seen: “bigexec@”, “expertmgmt@”, and even “irishstud@” … on resumes. (I busted a gut getting out a “helpful suggestion” email.)
At least, GOOGLE GMAIL for email or GPAGES for web sites makes you look avante garde.
“My” WSP offers a “beginner” package for $36/year that includes: 1 FREE domain name; 10 GB web space; 300 GB traffic; 600 e-mail accounts; and bunch of other stuff. http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251 I’m sure that all the comparable professional sites offer similar. (I laugh at consumer sites that charge lot’s more for lot’s less!)
They now all have “fill out a form” interfaces to do what used to be complicated stuff! Build a web page, you worry about content, not html. Forward your special personal email address (i.e., corporate drone @ my first mi last name dot com) to my business one (i.e., corporate drone @ corporate dot com) by a different form. Use your “seeking address” (i.e., corporate drone seeks new hive @ my first mi last name dot com) for your networking activities.
So, it’s control. You control “your” email.
Note, while you can check your email via the web interface from your workplace, if you really need to, I don’t recommended is. Don’t mix business with “pleasure”. At least, not without encryption. Your employer has the “right” to look at everything on their stuff, and many do. Some archive as search everything. Reprisals are commonplace. It’s a snooper’s paradise. Don’t be a victim.
Yell if you need help!
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INTERESTING: The “Ministry of Love” sends 1984 to politicians!
Sunday, February 11, 2007http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOq5yHDkQgY
I loved this video. It’s the little people speaking out. Think the gooferment will get the message?
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LIBERTY: we’ll wind up with BOTH the “far tax”, a bad hidden sales tax, AND the income tax
Sunday, February 11, 2007FAIRTAX NEWS
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Congressman John Linder (R-Ga), co-author of The FairTax Book and the father of the FairTax in the U.S. Congress has shared some news with stalwart FairTax supporters. I received this email from him yesterday and thought I would share it with you:
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> See? The news from Washington isn’t all bad.
No it’s terrible. These fools think they are making the situation better.
Consider:
(1) Unless they repeal the 16th amendment, we’ll wind up with BOTH the “far tax”, a bad hidden sales tax, AND the income tax.
(2) It increase the dole. Everyone in the USA will be getting a check and conditioned to “get something for nothing” from DC.
(3) Create work for a whole new class of bureaucrats. Social Security will need new staff to send out these checks. The IRS will need more staff to catch “cheaters”.
(4) It rearranges the deck chairs on the Titanic by doing nothing to reduce the size and cost of gooferment.
(5) It revalidates (i.e., reauthorizes) the idea that Americans approve of the slavery of taxation, the theft of property, the abuse of government, because the majority of voters voted for these fools in DC.
Arghhh,
Fjohn
LIBERTY: REALID is real bad
Sunday, February 11, 2007Stopping the Real ID Train
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Is it possible? Yes, but it won’t be easy. For every state-level official who complains about the Real ID Act (and their objections usually center on the lack of funding for the law), others seem eager to pitch in and help — or even to make it “better”. Better for them, that is, not us.
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TECHNOLOGY: “Pimped out John” Not me. The latrine. The loo. Sigh, the other john.
Sunday, February 11, 2007http://www.profy.com/2007/02/10/web20-flushed/
Breaking News – Web 2.0 in the Toilet!
Posted by Phil Butler on February 10th, 2007
Filed in General, Technologies, Web 2.0, Press releases
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Roto-Rooter® has arrived on the scene in the nick of time and has developed a customized, one of a kind throne! This new “Pimped out John”, as it has been dubbed, is designed to fulfill all of our bathroom dreams. Roto-Rooter will build this shining monument to productivity to the lucky winner of their online sweepstakes. Everyone is invited to participate and anyone can win a throne fit for a king! It should be obvious how far we have come.
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Now I have heard people at work, in the stall, talking on their cell, tapping on their berries, and reading the traditional newspaper. I’ve even read about the toilet for Japanese women that play disguising music. (I would have thought women were much more practical.)
But, clearly fmpov, this is taking tech too far.
Besides, from my career in the military, I know you could never clean it. But, then you can never clean anything to a Drill Instructor’s, a mother’s, a wife’s, or any woman’s standard.
But, this ever strains my credibility.
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TECHNOLOGY: Tor — an acronym for The Onion Router
Saturday, February 10, 2007http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=zht45qPrsddjvvgfcjwWPjxhFwqxyfVX
OBSERVER
Caught in the Network
By PAUL CESARIN
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Tor — an acronym for The Onion Router — is a freely available, open-source program developed by the U.S. Navy about a decade ago. A browser plug-in, it thwarts online traffic analysis and related forms of Internet surveillance by sending your data packets through different routers around the world. As each packet moves from one router to the next, it is encoded with encrypted routing information, and the previous layer of such information is peeled away — hence the “onion” in the name.
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Everyone should be trying that.
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GUNS: “Saturday Night Special” aka poor minority women are disarmed
Saturday, February 10, 2007http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/tonso4.html
‘Unspeak’ and the Gun Prohibitionists by William R. Tonso
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Isn’t it interesting that while the Founders trusted the citizenry more than they trusted government, ongoing attempts to ban military-style “assault weapons” and bullets that can penetrate the body armor of the armed agents of government indicate that nowadays a significant part of the ruling class we’re not supposed to have would have us trust government more than the citizenry?
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Yup, while it may be too soon to start the Third American Revolution, we should at least recapture the high moral ground of language. We would do well to learn from Pre-Hitler Germany. For those who say it can’t happen here — Japanese Internment, Ruby Ridge, Waco. For those who say not now — free speech zones, Military Commissions Act, the new Berlin Wall for the Mexican border, and the erosions of our Bill of Rights. Maybe that revolution might be sooner rather than later?
JOBSEARCH: An email advising a newly-minted baby turkey
Saturday, February 10, 2007An email to a fellow who just got nuked form his government job.
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Dear So and So,
http://home.comcast.net/~v2y2r0n27rhj6y/TURKEY/index.htm
My “turkey farm” is my series of webpages that I use for counseling newly minted turkeys.
Turkeys are those good people who get nuked from their jobs. It’s a loving term from the first time it happened to me. The first time I was fired, I was sent to the “outplacement firm”. I ran into a group of guys, much wiser than I, who welcomed me to the “turkey farm”. We were all turkeys went the popular wisdom, having been axed by our employers as valueless to that organization. Or at least less valuable than the salary one was drawing. Everyone would rejoinder “Oh not I. I’m different! I did X, Y, and Z.” in a defensive manner. But, they’d be “gobbled” down, by a chorus of gobbling fools, because by being there it was defacto evidence that they were a “turkey”. Hence when it happened to me, I embraced my “turkey-ness” and learned as much as I could. I’ve been “nuked” FIVE times — fired twice, set myself up to leave twice, and a once by mutual agreement — in my career. Each time it was a “blessing”. Painful, but still a great blessing. I used the severance to open my first consulting business. And would have never done it without the “push”.
It’s not easy to admit that I am a “turkey”. I believe that it will happen at least once more. (Strangely, perversely, I’d welcome the severance payment.) So, I’m a “turkey in waiting who is getting a paycheck right now”, but I have no illusion about corporate loyalty. The winds of change can make my version of “left handed paper hanging” obsolete overnight. I KNOW I could be “outside” looking “in” in a heartbeat.
But, now I am a wise old turkey. And, I share the principles of “turkey-ness” with baby turkeys. One wag, now employed after accepting some of my foolishness, called me the “turkey master”. Like Yoda, making “turkey warriors”. He also called me a “turkey baster” (for pouring ideas, time, and attention over him until some of it stuck). He also accused me of “stuffing” him with “stuff” (data, info, knowledge, and wisdom?) about being a “turkey” until it was popping out all over. I’ve also been accused of giving “baby turkeys” whiplash when I deluge them with my “stuff”. The analogy is the “baby turkey” is standing by the road hitchhiking, and I zoom by, grab them by the thumb, and make them run to keep up.
When you were “in”, I was giving you some of my particular brand of thinking. Now that you are “out”, you’re still welcome to it.
I don’t envy the road you have to travel. It’s hard to pick yourself up metaphorically and emotionally, dust yourself off, and get moving again. Some people NEVER do it. They are consumed by the past, what could have been, and how they were wronged. In your case, I think that a certain amount of effort is worthwhile in consulting with people about your particular situation. With a State job, it may be possible to “go home again”, I don’t know. At the very least, it may be possible to extract a settlement, better severance, another State job, or some other kind of windfall. But, at some point, you will have to move beyond where you were Thursday and today. It nature. You can’t feast on yesterday’s kill forever.
I hope that getting back on “your road” is quick and easier than it was for me. Every time I “fall”, it seems to hurt more because I know enough that I should have seen that “bump” coming.
Best wishes, advise how I can help,
FJR
The big fat old turkey
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Of course, I extend the offer to all.
Use the “force”.
“Do, or do not. There is no TRY!”
Turkeys are just eagles who don’t know how to soar yet?
Yeah, I know, knock off the “turkeying” around and get back to real work.
By The Way, speaking of me as the BFOT {Big Fat Old Turkey!} have you heard of my new LinkedIn_New_Jersey effort?
No? http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LINKEDIN_NEW_JERSEY is yet another of my “get ready for your next transition” projects. Why not get all the New Jersey people to come to a yahoo group and network. Beats me trying to find them all by myself. Build it and they will come. ;-)
L8r.
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PRODUCTIVITY: Starting next week I’m going to do one task in each genre towards my long term goal
Friday, February 9, 2007Sunday – COACHING
Monday – CONSULTING
Tuesday – CODING
Wednesday – INVENTING
Thursday – LEARNING
Friday – TEACHING
Saturday – WRITING
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INTERESTING: FUP Exodus army of shmoes quote
Friday, February 9, 2007What was the quote from the movie starring Kurt Douglas and written by Leon Urris?
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WRITING: My Turkey Book
Friday, February 9, 2007Reformulate website content into a book?
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RANT: Never cut spending
Friday, February 9, 2007Today’s news on 1015 quoted Corzine as considering 4 measure to “increase revenue to close the budget gap”. I translate that to mean “steal more money at gun point form the unsuspecting”. Notice how lowering spending is never an option. How about: (1) eliminating state pensions by creating 401ks; (2) eliminate spending by an across the board cut; (3) nuke all the earmarks and other pork; and (4) roll back the tax increase represented by the 1% sales tax. That’s without getting on the big ticket items: (1) the dole and (2) the gubamint reeducation camps!
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PRODUCTIVITY: Use TINYURL in innovative ways
Friday, February 9, 2007“seeing everything thru Joe and Harry’s window”
To which, I say YUDATL!
Now you say what the heck is YUDATL?
See I like tinyurl. Like many other url economizers, it takes long urls and smashes them down to size.
So
has a length of 110 characters and resulted in the following TinyURL which has a length of 25 characters:
Hence YUDATL.
I have a text file on my machine of tiny links. You’d be surprised at how useful this is.
So don’t give people long links. Or, when you give it over the phone, give the tiny link. It’s a lot less error prone.
You can also make a TinyUrl out of a mailto:crazyguy@theuniverse.org and that resultant short link will trigger an email.
Neat.
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TECHNOLOGY: DIIGO has some features for blogging
Friday, February 9, 2007- Social Annotation: Seamless Integration of Social Bookmarking, Web Highlighter, Sticky-Note & ClippingI
A tool for blogging input?
Usefulness tbd.
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PRODUCTIVITY: The wisdom of five year plans?
Friday, February 9, 2007Worked so well for the Soviet Union? Why shouldn’t I have one?
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GUNS: Even without MMD and SYG, victims have a RIGHT to defend themselves.
Thursday, February 8, 2007http://www.kotv.com/news/topstory/?id=119714
Intruder Killed By Homeowner Had Long Criminal History
KOTV – 2/5/2007 8:49 PM – Updated 2/8/2007 9:05 AM
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There are deadly consequences for a man police say tried to force his way in to an East Tulsa home. Now the question is will the shooting fall under the “Make My Day” law and protect the homeowner? News on 6 reporter Jennifer Loren reports on the latest in the investigation.
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That means Oklahoma’s “Make My Day” law will likely apply in this case. The “Make My Day” law allows people to use deadly force in their homes when they fear for their safety.
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The “Stand Your Ground” law extends victim’s protections to other locations, like a car. It also clarifies the law’s boundaries, so deadly force cannot be used against someone who has the right to be there.
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Now, where are all the bleeding heart liberals suggesting that the victim should have just dialed 911 and left it to the police?
I’m all for thinning the gene pool of the bad guys. And, I’m pro-life.
The Castle Doctrine, Make My Day, Stand Your Ground, and any other legal doctrines aside, I’ll stand by the old gun adage “better to be judged by 12, then carried by 6”.
Hope I’m on your jury should you fall afoul of the “victim disarmament” laws. Not they are not “gun control” laws.
“Gun Control” is EITHER hitting what you aim at OR keeping a careful inventory of the government’s arsenals.
I call laws that infringe on people’s natural right to arm themselves …
… … “unconstitutional”. Thus, null and void.
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TECHNOLOGY: Capture a webpage and act on it (e.g., email it)
Thursday, February 8, 2007Jump Knowledge
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Have you ever wished you could add your two cents to a site—anywhere you wanted—not just in an itty bitty blog area?
Have you ever wished you could email a web page with your comments inside it?
Then welcome to JumpKnowledge: to a world without limits, where the web is your canvas and you can paint your thoughts anywhere you want.
Isn’t it time you spread a little jump Knowledge?
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http://jkn.com/View?j=772318.592020301527
This seems like a nifty little freebie. I am not exactly sure that I understand it. But, it does allow the emailing of a capture page. I’m going to try it.
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TECHNOLOGY: Visual aid for the tiny fonts for the old turkeys like me
Thursday, February 8, 2007{Begin Quote}
Free! The nice screen magnifier, moves together with the cursor Windows, the overlay is used.
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This is a five gobble goble in my book.
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RANT: NJ wants to take DNA from those arrested
Thursday, February 8, 2007Today on 1015, the news reported that NJ wants to take DNA from those arrested (yes, arrested not convicted), for submission to the Feds.
Argh!
(1) Arrested, not convicted.
(2) It’s their body. It violates the most basic of human rights. Everyone owns their own bodies.
(3) This is the use of aggressive force.
(4) And the FED, STATES, and gooferment are so good at securing stuff.
(5) Do we really trust the gooferment with the essence of who we are?
(6) That essence will be sold to the drug companies and everyone who will fork over a few bucks.
(7) Slippery slope. Take it from babies. Match with the SSN. Now they can be “tracked”. “Vere isss yur paaapers?”
(8) Sure we “matched” your dna! We know that you killed Jack Kennedy from dna taken on the grassy knoll. Trust us, were the gooferment.
And, the prosecutor’s quote about making their job easier? Get a real job. You’re job is supposed to be difficult. You’re supposed to prove something.
And, did you believe the Barbara striesand about how they use dna to clear people. Right. Those prisons are just full of people proven innocent.
Sheesh, how dumb do you think we are? Pretty dumb.
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JOBSEARCH: How do you fit “work” into your real work!
Wednesday, February 7, 2007>”When do top networkers work?”
I don’t regard my self as a “very good networker”; some will argue with me that I’m better at it than they are. BUT I don’t regard that as an appraisal; just an urging to try harder. Some of my concepts are: differentiating “networks” by objective, measuring “days outstanding” by group, and “build it; they will come”. Those make me look more like a “very good networker” than the shy fellow I really am.
So, I can say that this mediocre networker works every chance he gets. I try to multitask, innovate, and use “power” whenever I can.
Part of the realization that I came to after I was fired for the first time, (Quite a shock to a kid who grew up with the concept of lifetime employment in a big company. Where only drunks, thieves, and philanderers were fired! So what was I? Just unlucky.), was that my most important “job” was finding my “next job”. If you adopt the “me, myself, and I incorporated” mentality, then networking is “working”. Finding the next job is the highest priority. Sorry to say that, even if you sacrifice the oft-cited kid’s softball game, dance recital, skool play, even if you give it “all” to mother company for that paycheck, even if you bleed company ink, it ain’t gonna matter when the layoff notices come.
You have to realize the cold hard facts.
=> You have to generate value to keep retaining value (You deserve a “pay check” today. Do You?). [[I think that was the ‘work” you were asking about!]]
=> You have to keep your head screwed on straight as to what is your long term value generation strategy (Where do I retain value tomorrow?).
=> You have to think about how you retain some of that value for yourself (No margin; no mission).
=> You have to think about WHERE you’ll find that situation that allows you to retain it (How will I sell myself?) going forward.
=> You have to ANTICIPATE what will change (Silent traumatic violent changes will upset your nice plans?) in the future.
IMHO “working” on one thing must be integrated, mutiltasked, folded into the overall activities of the day.
When someone is “networking”, then IMHO they are “working” on facets #2, #3, #4, and #5!
All I can say is that goodness for long boring mandatory attendance conference calls that give considerable time for introspection.
From my point of view, as a big fat old turkey,
Fjohn
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PRODUCTIVITY: Don’t sent to the “dog pound” by LinkedIn
Wednesday, February 7, 2007I notified 7 of my contacts that they have been “pounded”. I don’t think they could know that they had been “pounded” by any other method than by someone telling them. (The commercial “even you best friends won’t tell you” comes to mind. Yeah, I know, too much teevee!)
So why don’t you check your LinkedIn contacts and see if any are pounded. (Maybe I’ve been pounded and I don’t know it?) It seems like a cheap way to add value to your networking relationships.
Here’s what I sent:
Your profile has been sent to the “dog pound” by LinkedIn. I think you need to take some action on that, but I don’t know what to tell you.
Is Your Profile Ending Up In The Linkedin Dog Pound?
Posted by: “Vincent Wright”
Tue Nov 7, 2006 10:01 pm (PST)
Because of the way the symbol for it is pronounced, I think of the “#” Section of Linkedin’s Remove Connections as “The Dog Pound” . (Some may think this a good name for certain types of profiles. :-))
In case you’re not familiar with the “#” Section on Linkedin, it’s located at the end of the alphabetized list of your contacts at: http://www.linkedin.com/connections?displayBreakConnections
You and I cannot place any contacts in this area. Profiles are assigned there by Linkedin’s contact algorithm based on certain types of elements
being present in the name field – I believe.
Food For Thought: Some people may use this as a way to clean up “weak” connections en masse. If this happens, your profile may unintentionally be removed even by a connection who may know you pretty well as a “strong” connection.
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Thanks!
Vincent Wright
Chief Encouragement Officer
Feel free to steal!
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RANT: NJ property tax “relief”
Wednesday, February 7, 2007JimG on 1015 was on the bandwagon this morning saying that there were three state senators that deserved kudos for their actions in this joke in trenton.
I prefer to judge the entire corpus on what it produces … nothing, nada, nyet.
An unconstitutional income test on property tax relief.
Even over and above that it is unconstitutional, it’s more progressive socialism right out of the Communist manifesto.
The same day the news broke that state worker benefits cost 2 billion this year and are unfunded by 80 billion over some time period.
If I was in Trenton, then I say “Sorry, we can’t afford to pay benefits. Sorry, we can’t afford pensions. Sorry we can’t afford this nonsensical public government education. Sorry, we can’t afford the dole.”
Dual office holding would end, tomorrow. Pick your favorite job and that’s it. Freeze retirements. Age becomes 65! Pensions, no. 401k, yes. Benefits, phase out.
It’s my way or the highway.
Oh, and can that feather brained scheme. Selling the highway to give the politicians more money to blow. “I”, the New Jersey Taxpayer paid to build it. Why sell it? So, I can pay more for it again. Are you idiots out of your collective minds?
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INTERESTING: Systematically Aligned
Tuesday, February 6, 2007http://www.systematicallyaligned.com/
Global consulting to create a framework for normalizing business requirements and technical constraints.
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TECHNOLOGY: Moving from a wsp is like getting away from AOL
Tuesday, February 6, 2007I’m consolidating all my Web stuff on one WSP 1and1 (http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251) and getting away from old wsps is like escaping aol!
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INTERESTING: Obedience versus conscience?
Tuesday, February 6, 2007_news/2007/02/06/554919-dale-noyd-vietnam
-objector-dies-at-73-new-york-times?
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Dale Noyd, Vietnam Objector, Dies at 73 – New York Times
News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Feb 6, 2007 7:58 AM EST
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Dale E. Noyd, who as a decorated Air Force captain and fighter pilot attracted worldwide attention in the 1960s as a conscientious objector who objected to only one war, the one in Vietnam, died Jan. 11 in Seattle.
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Interesting that while the Nuremberg defense (“I was just following orders”) was disallowed for Nazis, he was convicted for not following orders. An interesting paradox. I remember in Heinlein’s novel “Starship Troopers” that soldiers were never forced to do anything. And, unless there was something about “in the face of the enemy” or other factors, in his novel troopers were just sent on their way. Seems like the gooferment wants it both ways whenever it suits their mood. Gooferment is a terrible master. I wonder how much of his two divorces and his death are related to his ordeal.
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