POLITICAL: Too many different Gooferments

Monday, August 23, 2010

http://www.impactlab.net/2010/08/19/a-nation-of-90000-governments-maximizing-our-own-failure-points/

August 19th, 2010 at 8:23 am

A Nation of 90,000 Governments – Maximizing Our Own Failure Points

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Thomas Frey: The total number of governmental bodies in the U.S. is approaching a staggering number – 90,000. During normal economic times there is plenty of money to go around, but now every city, state, county, parish, township and special taxing district is competing for the same tax dollars that the federal government is.

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Sounds like this fellow has hit the nail on the head.

I’d suggest localization.

Only the lowest level of government should be able make “people” impacting laws or collect taxes. Let the State regulate the locals. Let the Fed regulate the States.

And, they will spend so much time fighting with each other they won’t have time to bother us.

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TECHNOLOGY: SPAM kills; even good messages

Monday, August 23, 2010

http://www.barracudacentral.org/

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Welcome to BarracudaCentral.org, devoted to sharing information with Barracuda Networks customers and the Internet security community. Here you will find a wide range of statistics, threat information, and a number of useful services to help manage and secure your network.

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http://www.emailreg.org/index.cgi?p=about

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About EmailReg.org

EmailReg.org creates responsibility for email sent from an IP address. EmailReg.org associates specific domains with a sending IP address. By creating a responsible party and identifying IP addresses, we greatly enhance our ability to fight spam and to eliminate false positives.

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I emailed an acquaintance. And that one email, didn’t get thru, and I was accused of spamming based on IP address. My IP address comes form my ISP. I have no control over it. Further, I have no control over the mail server run by the ISP.

So telling me:

— to fix it is a waste of your time and mine.

— “suggesting” that registering and pay you 20$ a year is toll boothing!

— I’ll recommend to everyone that this is not the solution.

Argh!

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