LIBERTY: Penalize the specific person who violates some one’s rights

Saturday, May 5, 2007

http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2007/tle415-20070429-03.html

What Else is there to Say?
by L. Neil Smith

 

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4. Government employees, including elected and unelected officials—previously granted immunities to the contrary notwithstanding—accused of violating or evading these measures, shall be removed summarily from office, and upon conviction, fined, imprisoned for no fewer than twenty-five years at hard labor, and forbidden to occupy any position, at any level of government, for the remainder of their lives.

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orrectly identifies ONE of the mistakes the Dead Old White Guys made in drafting the Constitution. They didn’t penalize the specific person in the Gooferment who violates a citizen’s rights. That’s a flaw. But then, the DOWGs never foresaw the IRS, BATF, DEA, TSA, and the countless other private armies created by the Gooferment. Sigh!

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LINKEDIN: Why a “NIDEKNIL”?

Saturday, May 5, 2007

http://linkedinbusinessdiscussionindex.blogspot.com/2007/05
/open-letter-to-linkedin-552007.html

http://tinyurl.com/2p4vq4

Saturday, May 05, 2007
An Open Letter To Linkedin (5.5.2007)

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We’re confused.

Some of us are downright dismayed.

Even some renown evangelists among us have stopped evangelizing. And
others are watching to determine whether or not they should continue
evangelizing.

Still others of us are intensely looking at other networking platforms
to join or to start.

Why?

Because of the indecipherable policies, inconsistent practices, and
unclear procedures that leave us in the dark regarding what IS and
what ISN’T acceptable ways to use Linkedin.

The confusion is compounded by inordinately long dry spells of
communication – coming after we’d been introduced to professionals
whom we expected to hear from on a more frequent basis.

Of course, Linkedin doesn’t owe us a response and doesn’t owe us
regular communication – or anything else.

But, nor do we owe Linkedin anything – beyond abiding by Linkedin’s
policies when on their platform.

Some of us have really championed the name of Linkedin. But, now,
some of us are so desperately looking for a respite from the confusion
of Linkedin’s current behavior that there’s a growing chorus of
“NIDEKNIL”, the opposite of Linkedin. (Think “Oprah and Harpo”.)

{Drop Over To Vincent’s Blog For The Rest}

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Vincent Wright, the instigator of a bunch of LinkedIn Yahoo Groups to gather like minded people around some aspect (i.e., City; School; Interest), has become really exasperated with the LinkedIn management. He’s been getting conflicting messages from various parts of the LinkedIn hierarchy. Like Yahoo supplanted with Google, LinkedIn could be vulnerable to a competitor.

In the time I’ve known Vincent, which is longer than I’ve been blogging, I’ve never seen him so … … annoyed. He’s got a following, that would follow him to a better service site.

Perhaps the current LinkedIn management is buffing it up for a sale at jugundo prices. But they, or whoever buys it, could be holding an empty bag if all the users take their attention elsewhere. It’s happened before and it can happen again.

Be afraid LinkedIn. Be very afraid.

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RANT: Then they came for me

Saturday, May 5, 2007

FROM MY EMAIL TO 101.5 Radio Station

http://www.nj1015.com/station-info.shtm

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Eric Johnson
Program Director
New Jersey 101.5 FM Radio
PO Box 5698
Trenton, NJ 08638

Dear Mr. Johnson,

No I’m not going to nag about putting Free Talk Live on the station this time. (Although I think it would be great idea).

This email is about the recent dust up over ticket blitz, breaking news, and the reaction to it. I don’t care for the afternoon’s entertainment. I think it crass and crude, but that’s why they have a tuning dial and an off switch. However, unpopular speech was exactly what the dead old white guys had in mind when they formulated the First Amendment. The recent disclosure of information and the threat of disclosure was criminal and inexcusable! It’s a direct threat to the station’s people and their families. The gooferment, by way of its union, is way over the line. (The gooferment by “negotiating” with a union of its employees is the height of absurdity. And, by that fact, the union is its creation and its agent!) SO, in a sense, the gooferment is attacking the press. So count me in for the fight. Me, my pitchfork, my blog, and my vote are at your disposal.

I’m reminded of First they came… is a poem attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984).

Then they came for the Jersey Guys,
and I didn’t speak up because I didn’t like them.

Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak up.

Let’s put the pig pen in Trenton back in order and in balance. They need to be afraid of the people.

Ferdinand J. Reinke
Kendall Park, NJ 08824

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RANT: The Police Abuse Authority, I’m shocked!

Saturday, May 5, 2007

http://www.nj1015.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=6558&z=3

State Trooper Agrees to Not Release Any More Personal Information
Saturday, May 05, 2007 – Associated Press

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After meeting with New Jersey’s State Police superintendent, the head of the troopers union has agreed to hold off on plans to reveal personal information about New Jersey One-Oh-One-Point Five radio personalities.

The union president, David Jones, denies any wrongdoing in his war of words with the station.

But he agreed to comply with a request state Police Colonel Rick Fuentes made during a meeting yesterday to discuss the matter.

Meanwhile, officials are probing whether Jones broke any rules in the squabble.

On Thursday, Jones displayed for T-V cameras the home address and license plate number of the station’s afternoon co-host Craig Carton.

Carton and his partner on Wednesday had discussed anonymous postings on the union’s password-protected Web site threatening a ticket blitz. The posters were upset about the treatment of the trooper who drove Governor Corzine’s S-U-V when it crashed.

The union leader denies there was a ticket-writing campaign.

The radio hosts have demanded an apology from Jones and want him punished. But Jones says he abused no police authority in getting Carton’s information.

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I think that this needs to be examined in great detail. It’s an abuse of power AND it’ll have a chilling effect on freedom of the press!

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TECHNOLOGY: What I want is an “agent”

Saturday, May 5, 2007

I know what I want now. It’s a software agent that is like a robot. My idiot clone.

I can describe to myself what I want to do:

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VISIT website.

QUERY Find out who came to visit yesterday.

FOR EACH visitor:

IF NEW:

Create an Outlook record. Create flat file record. Send invite. Retrieve LinkedIn. Create JibberJobber entry. Flag for further review.

ENDIF NEW

IF OLD:

Compare their information to their last visit.

IF UNCHANGED

EXIT

ENDIF UNCHANGED

IF CHANGED

Update Outlook. Update flat file. Update JibberJobber. Flag for further review.

ENDIF CHANGED

ENDIF OLD

ENDFOR visitor

EXIT

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Now I just want an idiot to do that. It’s a lot of hard work. It should be all able to be done in software. Argh! Where’s my FORTAN compiler?

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TECH SERVICE: FEEDBLITZ fails me again … Argh!

Saturday, May 5, 2007

Included in the May 4th blitz

INTERESTING: Adding my Yahoo Answers
May 4th, 2007

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Missed
LINKEDIN: LINKEDIN changing their rules a little
May 4th, 2007

Missed
YAHOO ANSWER: Another Job after being fired?
May 4th, 2007

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Included in the May 3rd blitz
LIBERTY: Economics more powerful than government
May 3rd, 2007

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