LIBERTY: The New England Secession Tradition

Thursday, May 31, 2007

http://vtcommons.org/node/763

Donald Livingston: The New England Secession Tradition, Part 1
Submitted by Rob Williams on Wed, 05/30/2007 – 11:31am.
The New England Secession Tradition
(Part One of a Three-Part Series)
By Donald W. Livingston

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Everywhere the vast nation-states created since the French Revolution are fracturing. Allegiances are shifting to supranational or sub-national organizations. The Second Vermont Republic is possible because we live in interesting times. George Kennan, one of the 20th century’s great geopolitical strategists and architect of the United States’ Cold War containment policy, argued in his autobiography, Around the Cragged Hill, that the public corporation known as the United States has become simply too large for the purposes of self government. When any corporation becomes so large that it is on the verge of collapsing under its own unwieldy bulk, the only remedy, Kennan concluded, is to downsize it. And he suggested that we begin a public debate on how to divide the U.S. empire into a number of independent unions of states associated under a commonwealth model. George Kennan, who ended his career at Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Studies, endorsed the idea of a Second Vermont Republic a few years before his death as a worthy effort to begin a debate about how such division should proceed.

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Maybe the Free State Project isn’t such a wacky idea.

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INTERESTING: LULU publishing as an interesting solution

Thursday, May 31, 2007

FROM MLPF

>know when your autobiography comes out

With the cheap publishing available from Lulu, there’s no reason that people don’t have an ongoing autobiography. Update it, publish it, and use it as a job search aid?

:-)

But, it is “do-able”.

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http://www.lulu.com

An interesting way to self publish anything. Maybe I’ll schedule an autobiography. Now we just need a ghost writer web20 application.

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YAHOOANSWER: 20070531 declared best!

Thursday, May 31, 2007

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http://tinyurl.com/3cpegs

YAHOOBIS20070531

Yeah! Happy dance time. More meaningless points.

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YAHOO ANSWER: How do you settle into a good job

Thursday, May 31, 2007

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How do you settle into a good job with prospects instead of falling into the “McDonald’s” category ?

Im 19, went to college to study IT, did my year course in it and now i’m stuck. I’m in and out of just stupid places with no real place to end up. Iam still not sure what i want to do as a career but i thought doing a course in IT would benefit me as nearly all jobs have computers involved. I dont want to be 30 and scanning tills, any advice ?. Where you in a ever similar position to this ?

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I’ve been working in IT for decades and I’m still learning. How you learned it in one course is astonishing? And, you’re young; so there’s lot left for you to do.

One never “settles into a good job”. You’ll have, if the averages are right, between 5 and 10 “jobs” during your 45 year working career. You’ll have good jobs, bad jobs, and jobs somewhere in between. Get ready for a roller coaster ride.

May I suggest my “patented copyrighted and often repeated” strategy? (Just jesting)

You need an education for a white collar job, a blue collar skill, and one or more “internet businesses”? Off to school to get a degree. And, get that white collar job.

Don’t spend a lot of money getting skills or education. Often employers had tuition refund and employer provided. As a matter of fact, be ruthless about not getting into debt. Work relentlessly for several reasons — to learn “stuff” — earn money — get experience. Get a blue collar skill — plumber, carpenter, electrician — to fall back on.

And, since you’re now a computer expert, or at least computer literate, look into creating an internet-based business. Don’t spend money on scams. But try to sell “stuff” on ebay. Help others get their businesses on the net. Do things like that.

I think you’re in a great place. You’re young with endless opportunities. Start seizing them.

I’m around for further questions, or dialogue. Let me know how you make out,

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http://www.lowestcostcolleges.com/
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north524.html
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north533.html

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UPDATE 31 May 2007 @ 13:30 edst This answer was selected as “best”. Happy dance time.

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INTERESTING: Spam comments

Thursday, May 31, 2007

FEEDBACK TO the free, and unequaled, wordpressdotcom

I am taking between gobs and gobs squared of spam comments daily for the past few days. I don’t understand exactly how they are doing it but “we” (i.e., you need to do something). I have “comments require approval” so nothing is getting thru. But “you” must be spending grazillions of cycles with this trash. Time for a challenge response system to ensure that there’s a human on the other side of the glass?

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RESPONSE FROM SUPPORT

Challenge systems stop commenters.
They also stop people who are visually impaired.
There is no solution.

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MY REJONDER

How about an option that require the commenter to be an authenticated “user” (i.e., setup an id, not necessarily a blog, with a unique uid – password, and a validated email. Seems like that’s pretty common. Or any of the other Open Id type systems?

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