RANT: NJ cuts back item in car inspections

Thursday, February 22, 2007

1015 reported this morning that the NJ MVC was going to not fail cars for minor windshield cracks (gotten while on their crappy roads?), watery headlights, and other such items.

Argh!

Why is the State gooferment inspecting cars?

Well they have DO something to justify the money they waste. Can NOT tell you home many cars I see that are rolling with smoke coming out or been followed by out of alignment headlights. And the trucks.

Clearly, they have been failing cars for these “trivial reasons” up to now. What changed?

And, they will warn you that you can be stopped and ticketed for these violations. Could it be revenue raising?

Or, what?

Clearly, the condition of your vehicle is between you and your insurance company.

The state has no role in it. And, even if they did, they are the Gooferment.

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LIBERTY: Increasing State budget; Decreasing my freedom

Thursday, February 22, 2007

1015 news this morning reported that the Guv was pitching a 7½% increase in the state budget with “no tax increase”.

Now I may be an “injineer”, but I know a tax increase when I hear one. Where to people think that money is going to come from?

There was also the whine about state workers having to pay 1½% towards their benefits.

And, the news mentions the 2B$ budget short fall next year.

Here’s a clue! Stop spending NOW.

It’s simple, Stop.

I bet when the Guv was on wall street, he had zero based budgeting exercises. A famous wall street strategy is “just say no”. Not no to drugs. No to any spending at all. Those drills were famous and epidemic. If Merrill did it today, you were assured that Goldman would do it tomorrow.

So, here’s a little list of some “modest steps” for the guv to take:

(1) No increase in spending by anyone. No cuts in taxpayer services allowed. you want to be a honcho with the state figure it out.

(2) No pensions for anyone. 401ks for all. Recognition bonds for obligation we have incurred. But zero going forward.

(3) Half pay for all state executives and legislators when the budget and the budget forecast isn’t in balance. (Betcha that gets fixed faster than a Jersey pothole!)

(4) End the dole. No one collects from the state. Wean everyone off the “welfare”. That includes corporate and charitable and “insurance”.

(5) End the propagandizing of the youth. No more gooferment skools. Privatize now. Put a transition plan in place for the state to get out of the education and education financing business.

How’s that for a start, guv?

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INTERESTING: Recent surge in readership volume

Thursday, February 22, 2007

I have been getting a huge surge in readership. WordPress is telling me that I’m getting over a hundred a day readers and over 40 a day “feed-ings” (feed readers). I am truly humbled. Not all of them can be spammers and harvesters? I don’t have that many relatives who need to see if I have taken my meds.

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LINKEDIN: Make your profile link “personal”

Thursday, February 22, 2007

I like LinkedIn.

And I think people make a mistake when they don’t complete their profile.

But, I think they make an EVEN bigger mistake, when they don’t simplify the url to their public profile.

For example, mine is http://www.linkedin.com/in/reinkefj and it’s easy.

I use the character string “reinkefj” on everything.

So, if you were on AOL and wanted to IM me, I’m “reinkefj”. Want to send me a GMail or a yahoo in, yup, it’s “reinkefj”.

So why would I have public liinkedin profile that was /b32/0/7/ something?

All you have to do is:

(1) Go to the LinkedIn main page.

(2) Tap on “MyProfile” (Tab #6).

(3) Tap on “Edit My Public Profile” (tab #2).

(4) Then by the URL for your public profile, tap on “Edit”.

(5) The screen morphs into a filling box.

(6) You can choose a descriptive ending.

(7) Tap on “Set Address” and you’re done.

Now I suggest that you choose wisely (Like Indy was told in the “holy grail” move). I’d avoid “big stud”, “sexy lady”, or anything other than your last name. But that the details and it’s your problem.

It about being easy to find and easy to do business with. A memorable simple url for your public LinkedIn profile won’t get you your next check. But, a bad one might prevent a payday!

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INTERESTING: Go to sleep – or you’ll grow up short and fat

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/our_experts/article1362805.ece

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A generation of children brought up in Britain in the Thirties were regularly warned that if they didn’t go to bed on time, and instead stayed up all hours of the night as they did when on holiday in Italy and France, they would end up stunted. Any hope of us achieving the first rugby XV, or growing to a height that would enable us to find useful employment, would be forfeited. We had to eat up our good plain food and have 12 hours’ sleep even when aged 10 or 11, and ten hours during adolescence.

*** end quote ***

So that’s what happened to me!

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INTERESTING: Every platform should have it’s own email address

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Using multiple platforms is a pia. It really requires thought about everything one does. That’s one advantage of web based applications. Unfortunately we based apps can change (i.e., disappear, morph into someone or something else, or change their operation) that make it not suitable for “production”. Web based apps can lock up your data as well. So to, multiple platforms may not be identical in the various dimensions (i.e., user, platform, application, data, or connectivity). It would seem useful to have each platform monitoring a unique email address. Anything found on one platform could then be transmitted to the others via those email addresses. It’s an insecure medium so encryption is important. And, since the ids should never be used outside the closed community, spam shouldn’t be an issue. Comments?

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TECHNOLOGY: Now what is the impact of blogging?

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

http://tinyurl.com/26mk3j

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/21/nemail21.xml

Recovery programme for email addicts

By Sarah Womack, Social Affairs Correspondent
Last Updated: 2:32am GMT 21/02/2007

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Alcoholics have a 12-step programme to tackle their addiction, drug addicts too, and now there is one for those addicted to email.

***AND***

Email users suffered a 10 per cent drop in IQ scores, more than twice the fall recorded by marijuana users.

***End Quote***

If email is 10%, then blogging must be 20%.

Like all addictions, you have to wait until the poor soul hits rock bottom. So when I start liking politicians, pop stars, and myself, then take away my keyboard.

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RANT: Mexico exports poverty to the US .. .. give me a break!

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

FROM THE MLPF GROUP

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If we are speaking of the U.S standard of living, then there are some facts that cannot be avoided. Our so-called neighbor Mexico, should list “poverty” as their number 1 export to the United States. The depression of wages by caused by the ability to pay less than market value wages to illegal immigrants is a fact. Our health care system is teetering on collapse because of the ongoing illegal invasion and people who cannot pay their fair share of health costs. Of course, they are not supposed to be here in the first place because they have not taken the legal course to immigrate to our country. Let me also send this little jewel of knowledge out as well. The title is, “An American Suicide”.

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I don’t want to drag the group into a political discussion. But, the “mexico exporting poverty” comment makes me crazed. The USA’s version of socialism is what causes the problem. Welfare for everyone! Done at the expense of the productive class with absurd taxation (theft by force). Supported by paper money not backed by anything that destroys thrift. And producing sheep people with a “public education system” that would make a German National Socialist and a Communist equally pleased. So, if you think that “importing Mexican poverty” is the problem, then put a giant plastic bag over the Statue of Liberty. After all your relatives got here before you slammed the “golden door” shut behind you. No, my list mates, the problem isn’t that we import “mexican poverty”. The problem is that we have forgotten what this country great. Individuals took responsibility for their choices. It was only when we started thinking that the government could morally do something we couldn’t ourselves. When we learned that we could steal from our fellow citizens via the ballot box. When we fell victim to the siren’s song of a fiat currency unbacked by anything that allowed the government to spend whatever it wanted. That’s when we started down the slippery slope towards socialism. It took 70 years for the Communist USSR to self-destruct. It should be our turn soon. I notice that the writer didn’t discuss that the USA exports inflation to the globe by printing unbacked “Federal Reserve Notes” and sending them overseas for real products. That we “meddle” in everyone’s business. And, that “the great American Experiment” has failed. Guess he didn’t notice: That Habeas Corpus has been suspended by WashingtonDC. That at least half of everyone’s earnings is stolen from them in taxes. (No one can tell the real number because the politicians have done a great job pulling the wool over our eyes.) That we have deficits, unfunded liabilities, and a ton of post dated checks that will eventually come due. And, yet we still blissfully kid ourselves that it is the poor Mexican coming here to make a better life than he can have in Mexico is the source of all our ills. Sorry, but that makes me crazed. fjohn

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TECHNOLOGY: BLOGDESK suggestion … … everyone’s a comic!

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

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Note: I did reduce the autosave from 5 to 1.

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Follow up: I didn’t think that there could be any offense taken by sharign what was a very good joke on me. I griped that his software could protect me from my own network losing my post. He correctly pointed out that I could have just saved it BEFORE I pushed “send”. I thought it was funny. He seems to object. He’s a good guy, with a good free product, and I want him to know I thought it would make people laff at me, not him and his product. Maybe it’s an “international thing”. I appologize for my presumption.

The only saving grace is that I don’t have a big readership. Heck even my Mom doesn’t read this stuff. That’s why I had to put it in a book. That, and to torture my friends and relatives with a “white elephant”.     ;-)    With all the polite comments thanking me, when under their breath they probably think I’ve lost my mind?

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FUN: What IS special about 226?

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html

Perhaps it is that it is the first number with nothing special about it?

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