http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294632,00.html
Passenger Arrested After Trying to Open Door During Flight
Sunday, August 26, 2007
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DENVER — A passenger tried to open a plane door during a Frontier Airlines flight on Saturday morning but was subdued by airline staff and passengers, an airline spokesman said.
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Duct tape to the rescue
We need Homeland security? No one is ever hijacking a plane again.
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Posted by reinkefj
Interesting that it would let you look up just one email address. You have to create a file that it can import and check. And, it doesn’t always do that correctly!
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http://thelibertarianforum.com/Videos/Ron-Paul-Federal-Reserve.html
Video: Ron Paul on the Federal Reserve – TheLibertarianForum
(Source: thelibertarianforum.com)
Ron Paul on the federal reserve bank.
Money is not a store as value as it is supposed to be. Ron give “Helicopter Ben” a rudimentary lesson in what is wrong with the current system.
* Congress unConstitutionally created a central bank and ceded all oversight of that bank to a private cartel to the detriment of the American people.
* The dollar is inflated year after year. This results in a 96% loss in purchasing power (Ron Paul’s number) since 1913. (Other statisticians say it’s 95% from 1970 to 2000). Regardless of whose numbers you believe the purchasing power of the dollar erodes dramatically impacting everyone , but especially the people least able to cope.
* Inflation is a tax. Hidden. Silent. This permits the Congress to spend without limit.
All financial planning must treat the USD as a depreciating asset. YMMV!
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Posted by reinkefj
FROM A POSTING:
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I am really, really skeptical and as of right now, I am scheduled to get vaccinated tomorrow. Honestly, I’m a little worried and I still think this may have been a screw-up. I’d prefer that they do the blood test again but I don’t want to seem like an asshole. I’m also not sure if that’s even an option.
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Dear XXXX,
Please don’t worry about being an a double q!
(Us old fogeys are uncomfortable using rough language around ladies; any minute we expect the sky to open and one of the good Nuns or Brothers of our past to administer an “reminder” painfully somewhere on our anatomy!)
Ever hear of the fable of the pig and the chicken? No! In a ham and egg breakfast, the chicken is involved, while the pig is committed. In this case, the doc is the proverbial chicken. Guess your role?
If you are in doubt, stop. It’s the Universe and your gut warning you that something is wrong. Humans didn’t survive long in the wild by not listening to your instincts.
You have every right to determine what gets done with your tush!
If you want a repeat blood test before proceeding, demand it! If the insurance doesn’t want to pay, pay for it yourself and fight with them later.
Get a second, independent opinion! Open the phone book, look up the nearest teaching hospital, call them, and get an appointment with the head chickenpox guy or the youngest girl doc in the department tomorrow! Don’t take the “barbara streisand” that there are no openings. I use the line “if your Mom was sick would he have an opening. Yes! Good news, your Mom’s not sick. Give me her slot!” :-) (It works once in each office!)
I’ve been thru a ton of stuff with my wife over the years. Docs are nothing more than “good guessers”. 95% of the time they are running fixed plays right out of the playbook. UofK, UCLA, Joslin, and Mayo even have their handy dandy diagnosis decision trees in pdfs on their website. When my wife was in real trouble, I printed the cardiology one from Duke and stuck it under her cardiologist’s nose and made him explain every thing again in little words. While not pleased, he did it. (She’s snoozing on the couch now rather than in a coffin!)
Please do what you need to assure yourself that your getting the correct treatment. If the doc kills you, or worse disables you (i.e., there are real horror stories about medical blunders), the doc will say “Ooops! Next patient!”. You’ll be cleaning up his mess forever.
I can NOT afford to lose any fellow XXXXX that know how to blog!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://washingtontimes.com/article/20070823/NATION/108230096/1002
Bush hit over jobs for illegal workers
By Stephen Dinan
August 23, 2007
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If President Bush is serious about getting tough on U.S. employers who hire illegal aliens, he can start with his own administration, which employs thousands of unauthorized workers, says the top Republican on the House immigration subcommittee.
A 2006 audit showed federal, state and local governments are among the biggest employers of the half-million persons in the U.S. illegally using “non-work” Social Security numbers — numbers issued legally, but with specific instructions that the holders are not authorized to work in the U.S.
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You know how I love it when the gooferment looks foolish!
Like who’s the biggest polluter, yet we get the EPA. Like ICE raids businesses! Like ribbon cuttings aot maintenance.
Here’s one for that file!
Wake up sheep. The gooferment is the problem.
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http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/15-09/ff_estonia_bots
When Bots Attack
By John Robb Email 08.23.07 | 2:00 AM
Feature
Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe
Washington Ignores Cyberattack Threats, Putting Us All at Peril
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If you want to bring down a country’s information infrastructure and you don’t want anyone to know who did it, the weapon of choice is a distributed denial of service attack. Using rented botnets, you can launch hundreds of thousands — even millions — of infobombs at a target, all while maintaining total deniability. In this hypothetical scenario, a single attack launched by China against the US lasts only a few hours, but a full-scale assault lasting days or weeks could bring an entire modern information economy to its knees.
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This has been seen already in the wild. But the fix is on the horizon … IPv6.
In the meantime, one has to examine the paradigms and the mems around the Internet. Questioning the Internet service Providers and what actually are they providing.
Clearly, the all you can eat buffet for 19.99, 29.99, 39.99, 49.99 per month leads to “stuffing yourself”. That probably has to change.
Unlimited email with no postage leads to spamming. ISPs that deal with the end user probably have to move to a charging model with micropayments. That makes spam uneconomical.
Unlimited byte transfer rates leads to similar excesses. BitTorrent and other P2P hogs that literally take over the local loop. So probably like the power company, we will probably have to pay for MegaBytes by a similar micropayment. That make caps and shaping unnecessary.
So perhaps the basic monthly charge for internet access is X per month with say 30k of email messages and 100 gigs of transfer. Additional use gets charge extra.
With that type of a meme, botnets would be quickly cleaned up or cut off.
imho!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://south-brunswick.blogspot.com/2007/08/thank-you-planning-board.html
So you are suggesting that anyone be allowed to do anything, or build anything on whatever property he owns?
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Well, if it is not a deed-restricted community where the buyer was aware of the restrictions and agreed in advance, then yes. If it’s your property, then yes you can do what you want. You have to live with your neighbors so being a “good neighbor” is like the golden rule. In the Matrix situation, it’s the after the fact begging for the komisars to permit the serf to use the “common”. And you thought when you bought something, it was “yours”. Silly taxpayer! You’re just renting it from the gooferment and have to kow tow to their diktats. I feel sorry for all of us at becoming such slaves.
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http://www.haloscan.com/comments/irisheagle/4732432862564584667/?a=40594
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I heard that result. Incredible. I was listening to the Met game and the announcer said “And, in Baltimore, Texas has added another touchdown – they missed the extra point – in the 9th to make it 30-3.
Baltimore was up 3-0 in that game after three innings. Hard to believe they scored all those runs in 4 innings (failed to score in the fifth and seventh innings).
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And doesn’t everyone agree that (1) the ball is different; (2) the strike zone is smaller; (3) the players are on steroids; (4) the ball parks are smaller; (5) the pitching is poorer; (6) the bats are “livelier”; (7) the owners are raking it in; (8) so are the players; AND (9) the “stars” have a feeling and give off an air of entitlement. Makes me lot less of a fan!
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Posted by reinkefj
Does anyone know how to work with Look Out (aka Outlook2003sp2) rule in any other way than the cruddy microsnooze user interface?
For example, when junk gets caught by LookOut or spam gets caught by CloudMark and I say “It’s OK”, they put it back in the inbox. Well my inbox is empty by design. I have rules that sort my inbound mail extensively. For example, if it’s coming from a known address, or to certain secret addresses, or has a secret word in the subject line, it gets sorted automagically to a specific folder. It allows me to allocate my time in priority order. But, when LookOut or Cloudmark just drop in the INBOX folder, the rules never execute against it. Argh! Help?
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.collectivex.com/intro
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What are Groupsites?
Groupsites make it easy for groups to share, communicate and network, by combining the best features of discussion forums, email lists, calendars and social networks.
Groupsites are powered by the CollectiveX platform; are FREE to set up; and can be configured to be public, semi-public, or private and secure.
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FREE social network?
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