RANT: Clueless White Guys

Monday, August 18, 2008

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/the_clueless_white_guy_vote.html

August 17, 2008
The Clueless White Guy Vote
By Russ Vaughn

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Contrary to their politically correct aims, the advertising industry in this country has created a voting bloc that I am positively sure they never intended. I refer to all us Clueless White Guys, that resentful constituency that for years has endured a constant onslaught of television commercials in which the white male is always the bumbling buffoon, while minority males, black, Asian and Hispanic are always the cool, in-tune, in-the-know dudes who always, effortlessly get it, whatever it may be.

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I’ll be dipped in you know what if I EVER buy anything from AT&T after listening to their whiny white father in the “milky rollover minutes texting thumbs” commercial.

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TECHNOLOGY: Passwords are so passe as are password reset questions!

Sunday, August 17, 2008

http://www.itworld.com/tech-society/54193/beware-meta-password-reuse

Crimeware
by Markus Jakobsson
Security
What is worse than reusing passwords?
August 12, 2008, 09:22 PM —

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Do you use the same password all over the place? Yes, you probably do – whether you know it or not.

The fact is, while some people still casually use the same password for many sites, almost all of us reuse what we may think of as “meta passwords” – the information used to reset passwords. That, I argue, is worse than reusing passwords – but harder to avoid!

When you have forgotten your password, some sites send you an email with a link for you to click. Phishers who have stolen access to your email account can do that, too. Other sites will ask you for your mother’s maiden name, the name of your best friend, what city you grew up in, or what brand your first car was. Did you know that phishers can answer those questions, too?

Like the city you grew up in, your mother’s maiden name can be derived from public records – from birth certificates and marriage certificates to be specific. (Download PDF for details.) Facebook might unwittingly tell the name of your best friend. And,until quite recently, Ford with its 25% market share had a pretty good chance of being the brand of your first car!

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Nope, sorry, not on my accounts.

My mother’s maiden name has been successively — NU4H_ZQMQ, WUK6_BBV5, TJRC_UGLS, PFE8_RVSM, KZCW_Z8V8!

Score one for ROBOFORM’s ability to generate pseudo random trash.

I carefully inscribe these values to my book. You have to know that Page 72 is Yahoo. See on the first page it says Yahoo with 377251.

:-) and then I make my password “password”. :-)

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POLITICAL: why I’ll never be President

Sunday, August 17, 2008

http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/08/16/obama-says-pointed-abortion-query-above-his-pay-grade

Tales from the Trail
Tracking the 2008 U.S. campaign
August 16th, 2008
Obama says pointed abortion query “above his pay grade”
Posted by: Ed Stoddard

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DALLAS – U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama side-stepped a pointed query about abortion on Saturday by “mega-pastor” Rick Warren during a televised forum.

Asked at what point a baby gets “human rights,” Obama, who strongly supports abortion rights, said: “… whether you’re looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective, answering that question with specificity … is above my pay grade.”

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Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who followed Obama onto the stage of the nationally televised event, was more blunt and more emphatic.

He said a baby’s human rights began “at the moment of conception … I have a 25-year pro-life record.”

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1. “Pay Grade”! Hey, man, you are running for the most powerful job in the world. There ain’t NOTHING above your paygrade!

2. This IS a tough question. Akin to any genocide question.

I’d have said: “Life begins at conception. That’s science 101. When rights are assumed to begin is arguable. I DO know that when the Gooferment gets involved in tough questions, with one size fits all solutions, it muddies the waters. Abortion is a tragedy for all involved. I’d move the Gooferment out of people’s most heart wrenching decisions. Politicians don’t know sqwat! To think we can tell people what is right and wrong with one broad brush rule is absurd. We’ll leave that decision to the individuals involved and pray they make the right decision. As President, I’d remove rules and funding that push people around. My advice to the American People is: Zip it up folks! If you don’t dip your pen, there would be no need for abortions! Women control the situation. Demand a ring, a bank account, and fidelity. It’s your right. This is not one of those erasers on the end of a pencil. This is human life we talking about! Think about all the beautiful productive human beings we’ve nuked by our own stupidity! Have we killed the person who is going to cure cancer? Wise up and wake up. Next question!?”

But, then that’s why I’ll never be President. Too blunt!

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POLITICS: A comment on “Catholic Case Against Barack”

Saturday, August 16, 2008

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=27992

Catholic Case Against Barack
08/12/2008
Pat Buchanan

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In the Pennsylvania primary, Barack Obama rolled up more than 90 percent of the African-American vote. Among Catholics, he lost by 40 points. The cool liberal Harvard Law grad was not a good fit for the socially conservative ethnics of Altoona, Aliquippa and Johnstown.

But if Barack had a problem with Catholics then, he has a far higher hurdle to surmount in the fall, with those millions of Catholics who still take their faith and moral code seriously.

For not only is Barack the most pro-abortion member of the Senate, with his straight A+ report card from the National Abortion Rights Action League and Planned Parenthood. He supports the late-term procedure known as partial-birth abortion, where the baby’s skull is stabbed with scissors in the birth canal and the brains are sucked out to end its life swiftly and ease passage of the corpse into the pan.

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Before any devout Catholic, Evangelical Christian or Orthodox Jew votes for Obama, he or she might spend 15 minutes in Chapter 10 of Freddoso’s “Case Against Barack.” For if, as Catholics believe, abortion is the killing of an unborn child, and participation in an abortion entails automatic excommunication, how can a good Catholic support a candidate who will appoint justices to make Roe v. Wade eternal and eliminate all restrictions on a practice Catholics legislators have fought for three decades to curtail?

And which Catholic priests and prelates will it be who give invocations at Obama rallies, even as Mother Church fights to save the lives of unborn children whom Obama believes have no right to life and no rights at all?

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Pat nails the pseudo Catholic right to the Cross. How can one claim the label “Catholic” and yet be pro-aboirtion. Or, in anyway support such a pro-abortion candidate.

And, I’m not judging anyone. Far above my pay grade, and I have my own flaws to fix.

HOWEVER, I’ll make an excpetion for the pseudo Catholic politicians we see int he media today. They beg for a come uppance!

Now there are many issues that one can have a debate about, but abortion, speciifcall partial birth or live birth abortion, is hard to see the other side’s pov. Think of all the Einsteins, Pastuers, and Hawkings that have been vacuumed from their mother’s womb. The Free Love generation has given us a travesty far worse than “back alley abortions”. Now, clearly we need a lot less “laws” and a lot more common sense. I trust Moms and their Doctors to do the right thing without some politician “helping” them with a bunch of one-size fits all “laws”. Tossing people in jail or forcing folks to do what they don’t want is not the basis of a peaceful society.

I hope Pat keeps up the heat on these very confused people (aka pseudo-Catholics).

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LINKEDIN: Groups “broken”; where competition!

Saturday, August 16, 2008

http://getsatisfaction.com/linkedin/topics/new_linkedin_group_issues

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New LinkedIn Group Issues
LinkedIn just changed (translation: “broke”) many things about LinkedIn Groups

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Unfortunately, when LinkedIn went for the big buxs, it showed the Leadership’s true colors. It tells you a lot about people. How do they follow their principles. I’ve become unenamoured with LinkedIn over the years. When they were struggling for traction, it was come one and come all. Then, they got testy with the super connectors. Then, they got testy with me, even though I am a paying customer, not a super connector, and not an open networker. Then, the final straw, they lawyered up on Vincent Wright, one of their early and most popular “champions”. He did more support then they did … for free. He single handly did more to keep their start ont he rise than they did. He finally got disgusted.

The LinkedIn folks better hop that no comptitor targets them. I think they’ll be lunch. No one is suggesting that they don’t have the right to make their rules. But, a little openness, gratitude, and appreciation of why they got all those big buxs.

It wasn’t them. It was all the Vincent Wrights, and a grazillion little people.

Where is the competition?

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WRITING: TEOTWAWKI fiction — It happened in Church – Chapter Eighty Five – No Rest Area

Saturday, August 16, 2008

It happened in Church – Chapter Eighty Five – No Rest Area

It happened in Church – October 19, 1962
Chapter Eighty Five – No Rest Area

It Started In Church – October 19, 1962
http://www.itstartedinchurch.com

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JOBFINDING: Director Billing Operations

Friday, August 15, 2008

POSITION WAS FILLED ACCORDING TO MY SOURCE

WE ARE ACTIVELY SEEKING QUALIFIED CANDIDATES
FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITION:

Director Billing Operations

The Director of Billing Operations is responsible for End User billing from end to end. This position will have responsibility for the accuracy and timing of billing

Position Respsonsibilities:
” End User Billing Table Administration – All table entries into the system with the exception of plant tables.
” CRM Table Administration – all table entries to include new product launches
” Bill Verification – Validation of billing against new products, fixes, and tariffed rates
” Message Processing – Usage validation, tracking and correction
” Heat Ticket Resolution – Initial triage of all billing system specific heat tickets.
” The billing operations team is responsible for first level heat ticket resolution.
” Direct/Indirect Supervision – Multiple levels of management are required for all levels reporting up to this position.
” Direct interface with Marketing, Accounting, Regulatory, Call center
” Responsible for definition and adherence to SOX controls and narratives.
Position Requirements:
” 10 years of end user billing system administration experience in the telecommunications industry. 5 years of management experience
” Strong Billing Conversion experience.
” Experience in the ILCE and CLEC industries
” Tables and CRM experience
” In depth understanding of industry and market changes that effect billing
” Strong leadership skills
” Strong communication skills
” 4 year degree

My client is actively interviewing for this position. Should you or someone you know have an interest in this exciting career opportunity, please

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I have no more information. {Sargent Shultz says “I know nuthin, Nuting, Nothing at all”!} I put it all in the post. Writing me for more info is a waste of your time and mine.

If you’re interested, leave a blog comment with your name and email. I’ll either send you the contact info, or forward your info to them. Depending upon what they prefer. Either way, you’ll get something back from me.

Note: Don’t put your email in the comment itself unless you want spam from a trollbot. The comment form allows you to put your name, email, and website address.

You might want to include a link to a http://www.emurse.com/ resume or such similar site. I recommend making oneself easy to be found.

You might want to take time to write a short cover on it. You never know who reads these things. You might find your own lead from it (i.e., someone, looking to hire an X, finds me saying someone is looking for X, and ‘poaches’ all the people who responded.). YMMV

Good luck and good hunting.

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LIBERTY: And, you say Libertarians are insane?

Thursday, August 14, 2008

> but not the powerful capitalists who corrupt the government,
> buy politicians and abuse the law to prey on poorer folks.

These “capitalists” are creations of the gooferment that gives them life. In a
Libertarian society, there would be NO SUCH THING as a limited liability company created by the gooferment. Sam Walton, Ray Kroc, and all the others would still do business but gooferment wouldn’t insulate them from marketplace discipline.

>How do you not blame the rich predatory capitalists who engineer these
>eminent domain frauds.

It STARTS with the guns of gooferment. I can LUST over Herb’s stately Kalet’s manor, but it’s the gooferment that allows me to take it from him by force. Legally.

>It would be even worse under a libertarian government which is no government
> at all, no rules , no regulations.

Sorry but the fifth Amendment that we used to have before the Socialist Supreme Court gave us Kilo came from the DOWG’s liberty loving ideals.

>Just survival of the fittest, that’s the libertarian way.

NO! It’s just that NO ONE will be FORCED to do ANYTHING. That’s survival of
the fittest. Charity will bloom because people will get to keep their earnings instead of giving it to heartless bureaucrats to dole out. With a tremendous handling fee.
Americans have always been very charitable. But they insist on EFFECTIVE and EFFICIENT charity. Not just hand outs; hand ups. Everyone will be stronger as a voluntary society.

>Rich athletic teams use tax money to build their stadiums and use eminent
> domain to confiscate land from unsuspecting home owners.

That is a function of YOUR system; not mine.

>As bad as it is now,

Finally we agree on something!

>it would be even worse under libertarian rule

It couldn’t possibly worse. Let’s try it. Visualize the prosperity of the 1880 to 1913 before the big gooferment really started to manipulate us. Visualize the peaceful society prior to Lincoln’s War of Northern Aggression. Visualize the effect of honest money on the whole size of gooferment, the ability to grow unrestrained by fiscal discipline, and it’s ability to fund welfare / warfare by theft from the hated central bank that Jefferson and Jackson warned about.

And, don’t get me started on Social Security!

Don’t blame the Libertarians for proposing something different. What you advocate CAN NOT work. Force never serves as a basis for a peaceful honest society.

Insanity is doing more of the same and expecting different results. More force aka more gooferment will NOT yIeld different results.

And, you say Libertarians are insane?

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PRODUCTIVITY: Losing your email address!

Thursday, August 14, 2008

My favorite Socialist was just forced, due to exasperating availability on his cable system, (No, he didn’t have Comcast!), to switch to another Internet Service Provider. So he has to change his email address.

What folks don’t realize is the you LOSE all the people who have your email address that:

  • you don’t know about (i.e., the recruiter stores your email in the search firm’s database),
  • can’t reach (i.e., the recruiter with your dream job is unknown to you), and
  • are stored in a static form (i.e., your old resume has the old email address on it)!

You can offset the loss by have robust presences on social networking sites where you can be found or “looked up”. Like LinkedIn, Facebook, the much despised Plaxo, or even MySpace. You can somewhat compensate by a free updater like Plaxo or CardScan.

But, bottom line, there is no substitute for your own domain, with a supporting website, and your own email connected to that domain. It’s so cheap there is no excuse. It’s so easy and executive can do it.

No sympathy here!

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TECHSERVICE: AKAPOST for an email buffer

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

http://www.akapost.com/

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akapost is a simple and easy way to protect your email identity from being exposed on the Internet.

With akapost, you can send and receive emails from any of your existing email accounts but still keep your actual email addresses private.

akapost works with any email client or device such as computer, cell phone, or handheld, etc. No software download or installation is required. Simply sign up and register your email address, it’s ready to go.

Protecting email identity has never been so easy – and yet it’s FREE!

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Hey, for free, how can you miss?

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