SOFTWARE: TEXTEXPANDER good but dangerous

Friday, February 19, 2010

After my visit to the Apple store for them to replace my Mac Book Air display, I found that TEXTEXPANDER had “lost its mind”. All my registration and abbreviations were gone.

Great Brother Jasper’s Ghost!!! No real backup. Argh!

I started the rebuild from an old old print and griped at the maker. Software; not THE Maker! Please, no lightening bolt for me. Surely not for something so trivial as lost data. Lost date maybe; lost partial data not so much.

Here’s their response.

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Sorry about that, on rare occasions TextExpander can reset. If you have v 2.8 then there is a backup in TextExpander. Go to:

[Home]/Library/Application Support/TextExpander/Settings.textexpander

That Settings.textexpander file is what you need to replace with a backup to restore your snippets and registration information. Also, you will see a SettingsBackup.textexpander. Rename that to Settings.textexpander when you need to restore your settings.

Thanks for using TextExpander from SmileOnMyMac!

Regards,

TextExpander Support

http://www.smileonmymac.com/textexpander

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Another less that satisfying reply. At least next time it happens, I will know where to go and restore a file from my Time Machine. (It just keeps chugging away. I’m kinda looking forward to a bare metal restore. How’s that for over confidence?)

And, I’ll keep a weekly print of my abbreviations file.

My response to “support”:

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Too late. I already started rebuilding it.

Really need a explicit back up and recovery option. Over on window, my copy of ROBOFORM has a really nice UI. Explicit menu choice to BACKUP and RESTORE from a user chosen location. Suggest same.

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And not a WTx, Argh, or other expletive in it. (One small checkmark for the Final Judgement?)

So my opinion hasn’t changed much on TEXTEXPANDER. Great utility; dangerous as a falling knife.

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RANT: “Queen of Nice” calls Rush Limbaugh a junkie

Friday, February 19, 2010

http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/people_and_politics/rosie-odonnell-calls-rush-limbaugh-a-junkie-84750982.html

Posted on Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 09:53 PM
Rosie O’Donnell calls Rush Limbaugh a junkie

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Rosie O’Donnell was on the Janeane Garafolo show letting off steam about conservatives in general and Rush Limbaugh in particular. Her remarks will not endear her to the Tea Party Titan.

The two liberal ladies got to musing about Rush Limbaugh and his enormous influence on the right. They also were quite cutting about those on the right Here is a brief clip.

O’Donnell : ….And how is it that he’s able to be a junkie, literally, and sort of still have reverence, respect, and be heralded as the leader of these, you know…

GAROFALO: Well, look at who he’s talking to.

O’DONNELL: I know.

GAROFALO: Look at who he’s talking to.

O’DONNELL: Those are the kind of people who if it was a junkie, right? What, because he buys the Oxycontin from a doctor?

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And, this from the “lady” who, when she needed the viewers, billed herself as the “Queen of Nice”. Sure fooled me and a lot of others. Sadly, I henceforth and forever more dismiss her to the dustbin of “nasty people”. Please ignore her as well. Until she earns our attention. Garofalo too.

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FUN: MARTINET

Friday, February 19, 2010

http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2003/09/22.html

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GOVERNACIDE: Hazelwood man dies; gooferment fails, no penalty

Thursday, February 18, 2010

http://www.postgazette.com/pg/10048/1036403-53.stm#ixzz0foHdeppW

Hazelwood man dies after 10 calls to 911 over two days
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
By Sadie Gurman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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In his first call to 911, Curtis Mitchell sounded calm, explaining to dispatchers that his “entire stomach [was] in pain.”

By the time his longtime girlfriend made a 10th call nearly 30 hours later, she was frantic. He wasn’t breathing. He was cold to the touch.

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The city planned today to start dispatching firefighters as first responders on medical calls of the two highest grades of severity, and on calls of the third highest level that remained unanswered for more than 30 minutes. Firefighters are currently only called as first responders to the most severe incidents.

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The gooferment has inserted itself into so many areas that it fails at most of them. In trying to be all things to all people, it has to disappoint. And, the costs.

I find it hard to believe that volunteers would be as inept. When I was on the First Aid squad, we’d have just dismounted and proceeded on foot. We’d have called on other volunteers if the need was so urgent.

Paid bureaucrats need to drive up to the door.

Sad.

Sad for us, in that, we’ve bought into the myth. The myth that the gooferment does great stuff and it’s all “free”!

Argh!

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FUN: You and me; and, you’re there sitting … …

Thursday, February 18, 2010

FROM LUDDITE FORWARDING AN INET CHAIN LETTER. (FUNNY AND A GRAIN OF TRUTH!)

Subject: FW: We are in trouble…

We are in trouble…

The population of this country is 300 million.

160 million are retired.

That leaves 140 million to do the work.

There are 85 million in school.

Which leaves 55 million to do the work.

Of this there are 35 million employed by the federal government.

Leaving 20 million to do the work.

2.8 million are in the armed forces preoccupied with killing Osama Bin-Laden.

Which leaves 17.2 million to do the work.

Take from that total the 15.8 million people who work for state and city Governments.

And that leaves 1.4 million to do the work.

At any given time there are 188,000 people in hospitals.

Leaving 1,212,000 to do the work.

Now, there are 1,211,998 people in prisons.

That leaves just two people to do the work.

You and me.

And there you are,

Sitting on your ass,

At your computer, reading jokes…

Nice. Real nice.

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QUOTE: On the Constitution

Thursday, February 18, 2010

FROM THE “MANY A TRUE WORD IS SAID IN JEST” FILE

When the Iraqis were endeavoring to enact a new constitution … …

“Let’s send them ours. It served us well for two hundred years, and we’re not using it anymore!”

— Jay Leno

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And it was a pretty good one. It did last more than 200 years.

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FUN: pedestrian

Thursday, February 18, 2010

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pedestrian

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TECHNOLOGY: The Intel Windoze treadmill

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Vol. 2, # 5 – Feb 4, 2010 – Issue # 21
How Well does Windows 7 Run on a Notebook with Modest Specs?
Deb Shinder, Editor

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I bought the Sony TX back in January 2007, right after Vista was released. I had specifically waited for the release so I could get a new notebook that came with Vista pre-installed, because my Sony T didn’t support an upgrade to Vista. The TX came with Vista Business edition. The hardware was very nice, but the operating system ran as slowly as molasses. I had been running Vista Ultimate on my Dell XPS for over a year (in beta and RC) with no problems, so I was shocked at the lousy performance on my brand new notebook.

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Ahh, yes, the planned obsolescence of the Intel Windoze platform.

Here we have an tech editor, who by her own figures, has spent about 6k$ over 4 years on platforms. To accomplish basically the same computing tasks.

(I’d accept buying new hardware if she had a catastrophic failure, like a smoking hard disk, spill or drop. Or if she wanted to do them new flangledy U Tubby videos that need editing. But, for no “GOOD” reason?)

That doesn’t count all the “administration” costs of the platform and switching.

No, for the average use, who wants a tool, the Intel Windoze platform doesn’t make sense.

And, what happened to all the “greenies” saving the planet? (Not that I think the planet needs saving!) How about the “footprint” of three machines?

Argh!

I’m on my way to Linux when my current hardware dies.

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INTERESTING: A screw job

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

http://www.impactlab.com/2010/02/14/a-screw-in-coffin/screw-coffin2/

February 14th, 2010 at 10:54 am
A Screw-In Coffin
in: Great New Product, New Inventions, Science & Technology News

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A series of burial containers having means by which they can be pressed, agitated, screwed and or self bored into a receiving material, provide low cost interment methods with hermetic sealing, security locking, plaque and memorial markers and built in flower and flag receptacles. They greatly excavation labor and burial costs while providing the respectful funeral services currently practiced. They also decrease the land space required for each burial and provide for burials in normally unused areas within the cemetary, greatly increasing the number of burials possible in each cemetary. The apparatus and methods can be used for all sizes of humans and pets as well as for undergound storage of equipment. supplies, food, water, fuel or other such material as may be reaquired to be made.

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Most interesting.

Seems like it could be a cemetary space saver. Or a way to cache “contraband”!

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FUN: persnickety

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/persnickety

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FUN: Lobo gets asked an interesting question

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Last night on ESPN, the crew was razing Rebeca Lobo about Tina Charles creeping up on her records at Conneticutt. She said she was cut down to size when earlier a little boy asked her if she was Tina Charles.

Frau, I, and the ESPN crew had a good laugh about that one.

(Lobo is taller than Charles. Among other things.)

I think this is funny. (Funny ha ha! Not funny peculiar.)

p.s., Lobo is getting too thin.

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RANT: No cuts without blood on the payroll

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2010/02/colorado-springs-and-future-of-american.html

Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Colorado Springs and the future of American government
Hank Kalet

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And it is here and has been for quite a while. And yet, everytime we talk about making tough decisions, we flinch. We think we can balance our books by eliminating waste and corruption, as if waste and corruption make up more than just a tiny fraction of our structural deficit. We have no interest in making real sacrifices — though we are willing to have others sacrifice on our behalf (the suburbs want spending on the cities cut, for instance, while many seniors are willing to skimp on school spending and so on).

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Please don’t fall for the sucker punch. The FIRST thing that entrenched politicians and bureaucrats do is cut services to the people. It is a sham. A pretense. A fraud. Did they cut the internal costs? How many honchos and hangers on did they nuke.

When I worked on (Wall) Street, I had to cut my budget 50%. Part of my submission was to cut my service to my internal customers. My boss called me on the carpet to explain to me that I must have been “smoking funny cigarettes”. I was to keep my service at its then exceptional level and still cut my budget by half. Ominously, he told me “to wise up” otherwise he’d do it without me. With sweat running down my leg, I went back to my office and “figured it out”. We had to redesign every business process we used, but I “figured it out”!

Soooo, let’s hold these bozo’s feet to the fire. Same rules: keep services at current level and still cut the budget as needed. If you can’t do it, resign!

Like my comment about the bailouts to Wall Street, if there was no bail out, the bozos on Wall Street would have (as if by magic) would have figured out how to save their skins.

No bailout was needed.

Similarly, no cuts to customer-facing services UNTIL we have resignations accepted!

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POLITICAL: Don’t cut back; eliminate!

Monday, February 15, 2010

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_14361726

Lawmakers discuss early high school graduation

By Lisa Schencker

The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated: 02/09/2010 09:53:52 AM MST

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Sen. Chris Buttars isn’t talking about dropping 12th grade any more.

Now, he’s talking about making 12th grade optional for those students who finish their required credits early — and some lawmakers are listening to the idea with interest.

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When will the legislators have the stones to eliminate gooferment education entirely?

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FUN: Okoge!

Monday, February 15, 2010

The unwanted crust left stuck to the bottom of the rice cooker is called okoge — the same word used as slang for a single woman who spends a lot of time with gay men.

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RANT: Freedom and the Audi commercial

Sunday, February 14, 2010

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/02/14/big_brother_out_of_control/?rss_id=Boston+Globe+–+Jeff+Jacoby+columns

The Boston Globe

Big Brother out of control

By Jeff Jacoby

Globe Columnist / February 14, 2010

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Of course, the notion of an environmental police state terrorizing citizens for not being sufficiently “green’’ is just parody meant to be laughed at. Or is it? On its website, Audi USA earnestly describes its Green Police as “caricatures’’ created to “help’’ consumers “faced with a myriad of decisions in their quest to become more environmentally responsible citizens.’’ And what better way to “help’’ them than with scenes of ruthless Greenshirts handcuffing hot-tubbers whose water is too warm, or raiding the home of residents who threw a used battery into the wrong trash bin?

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Nothing in the Constitution authorizes the federal government to take charge of “revamping the way American children eat and play.’’ It is only our passivity that makes such an encroachment possible. This used to be the land of the free. Is it still?

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Jeff Jacoby hit the nail on the head. We are no longer free. Nor brave.

Why else do we let the gooferment propagandize children — future voters — in what they call schools?

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INTERESTING: Meme, like genes for ideas

Sunday, February 14, 2010

meme: A cultural element or behavioural trait whose transmission and consequent persistence in a population, although occurring by non-genetic means (esp. imitation), is considered as analogous to the inheritance of a gene.

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RANT: Politicians lie; we suffer

Saturday, February 13, 2010

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/us/politics/13obama.html

Obama Making Plans to Use Executive Power

By PETER BAKER

Published: February 12, 2010

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Already, Mr. Obama has had to reconcile his campaign-trail criticism of Mr. Bush for excessive use of so-called signing statements to bypass parts of legislation with his own use of such tactics. After a bipartisan furor in Congress last year, Mr. Obama stopped issuing such signing statements, but aides said last month that he still reserves the right to ignore sections of bills he considers unconstitutional if objections have been lodged previously by the executive branch.

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Argh! Forked tongue.

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JOBSEARCH: Resiliency and Learned Helplessness

Saturday, February 13, 2010

http://artofmanliness.com/2010/02/03/boosting-your-resiliency-part-2-avoiding-
learned-helplessness-and-changing-your-explanatory-style/?utm_
source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+
TheArtOfManliness+%28The+Art+of+Manliness%29

Boosting Your Resiliency-Part 2: Avoiding Learned Helplessness and Changing Your Explanatory Style
by Brett & Kate McKay on February 3, 2010

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Len gets fired from his job:

   * If Len tends to a Me, Always, Everything thinking style then he might explain this event by saying, “I’m such an incompetent accountant. I was always out of my league at the office (Me). I’ll never be able to find another good job. (Always). My wife is probably going to leave me now. Man, my life is so screwed up. (Everything).”

   * Now if Len has a Not Me, Not Always, Not Everything explanatory style, then he might explain this event by saying, “I got fired because there just isn’t very much work for me to do anymore, and the company is trying to be more efficient. (Not Me). The economy is really making holding a job difficult. But things will eventually turn around. (Not Always). The job wasn’t a good fit for me anyway; I really wasn’t using my true talents. At least I have a good wife at home to help me through this (Not Everything).”

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That’s why I preach the Turkey’s Credo:

“It’s not you (job seeker). It’s not me (a fellow seeker). It’s them (bastards)!”

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RANT: Ipods are stimulating?

Friday, February 12, 2010

http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2010/2/11/582040.html

UPDATE: Polk Schools won’t proceed with iPod incentive

Thursday, February 11, 2010

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POLK COUNTY (Bay News 9) — The Polk County school district has decided to suspend a program that would have given away iPods to some parents.

The school district was going to use the device to reward parents of children with disabilities who filled out a 10-minute online survey.

The money was going to come from a federal government program for developmentally disabled students. About $150,000 would have been spent on the iPods.

The money from the federal government program cannot be used for salaries or bonuses, but must go towards other expenditures.

   * Press release from Polk County School District

Correction: Our original story incorrectly said money for the iPods was from federal stimulus funds. The money the district was going to use is from the federal government and is to be used specifically for programs for developmentally disabled students. It is separate from federal stimulus dollars.

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Argh!

This is typical of the way the Feds spend our money!

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SOFTWARE: TEAMVIEWER recommended

Friday, February 12, 2010

When the screen died on my Mac Book Air, unless you twist the top bezel, I thought I was screwed until Apple can fix it.

1-3 days for parts; 1-3 days for repair.

Argh!

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GAMBLING: Expanding casinos will lead to Chapter 11 all around

Friday, February 12, 2010

— On Tue, 2/2/10, Casino City Times News Desk <newsletter@mail.casinocity.com> wrote:

From: Casino City Times News Desk <newsletter@mail.casinocity.com>
Subject: Casino City Times: Delaware approves table games for racetrack casinos

On Feb 2, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Luddite wrote:

Nice slot strategy, and table games at Delaware Park and Dover? Cool. LV continues to suffer over years from not being the only place to gamble…still has the magic though.

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I think imho that they (the politicians) are going to kill their own “golden goose”. “Gambling” doesn’t help build the mindset of a vigorous energetic people building “wealth”. I have read some stuff that it impoverishes the bottom strata and extracts net 15% from the local economy. In addition, all the venues makes it less “special” and divides the pie in to infinitesimally small slices that can’t support economic activity. Thus, their “slice” wanes over time. imho!

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RANT: Schools and the Fourth

Thursday, February 11, 2010

http://www.thestatenj.com/engine/2010/02/do-constitutional-rights-end-at-the-schoolhouse-door/

Do Constitutional Rights End at the Schoolhouse Door?

John Witherspoon February 4th, 2010  

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This week, the NJ State Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion upholding the ability of a school administrator to search a student’s car parked on school property using a reasonableness standard of proof, rather than the more stringent, probable cause standard that would apply to a police officer’s search.

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Another nugget of fact appears from a close reading of the opinion. The Egg Harbor Township High School, where the events leading up to this case occurred, utilizes a school resource officer, employed by the Egg Harbor Township Police Department. After the school administrator searched the student’s vehicle, the officer took possession of the evidence and transported the student to the police station. So the officer was available to take the student into custody, but couldn’t be available to perform the search. Is that because the officer would be held to a higher standard of proof before he could perform the search?

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Unfortunately, if we were being true to the Constitution, then the school, which is the gooferment disguise, MUST observe the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment!

Why do we have gooferment skrools again?

To allow the gooferment to propagandize the yutes so they always vote the “right” way!

Silly sheeple, just do what your betters tell you to do. Or, else!

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POLITICAL: Marines on Okinawa, why stay?

Thursday, February 11, 2010

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=123846

Bring our Marines home
Pat Buchanan

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Indeed, why are we still defending Japan? She is no longer the ruined nation of 1945, but the second-largest economy on earth and among the most technologically advanced.

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Seems like a good place to start!

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HARDWARE: MAC BOOK AIR has a hinge problem

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

mac book air has a hinge problem! screen disconnected?

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POLITICAL: China dictates American policy

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6183KG20100209

China PLA officers urge economic punch against U.S.
Chris Buckley
BEIJING
Tue Feb 9, 2010 12:00pm EST

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BEIJING (Reuters) – Senior Chinese military officers have proposed that their country boost defense spending, adjust PLA deployments, and possibly sell some U.S. bonds to punish Washington for its latest round of arms sales to Taiwan.

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Doesn’t anyone find this dangerous?

(1) Immediately balance the budget. Nuke functions. Lower taxes (i.e., the Laffer curve will increase revenue).

(2) Create a debt-reduction plan (i.e., whatever reasonable interval to pay it off — fifty years? a hundred years?).

(3) Adopt something with teeth that can keep this from happening again!

Argh!

Your gooferment at work!

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INTERESTING: Reduce signs; reduce accidents to zero?

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=271482

A sign of movement: Don’t Walk
BY BRUCE KAUFFMANN FOR THE  
Telegraph Herald – Dubuque, IA

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In 2004, the good citizens of Christianfield, Denmark — libertarians to the core — decided to remove all of the traffic signs and signals, including the Denmark equivalent of “Don’t Walk” signs, from their most dangerous intersection. This was done to determine if they would be safer without government intervention, which is what traffic signs unquestionably represent.

“What if,” these citizens asked themselves, “it was up to us, not Denmark’s transportation department, to determine the safest way of crossing an intersection?”

After several months of forgoing government traffic signs and depending on their judgment — including approaching the intersection cautiously — the number of serious accidents dropped to zero.

An isolated, non-representative example? Maybe.

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Maybe we can try “freedom” and “liberty”?

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