INTERESTING: Economics that a child can understand

Sunday, January 16, 2011

http://www.economnomnomics.com/index.html

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Nom nom nom” is said to have originated with the Cookie Monster. *nom nom nom* It has become a preferred way to express voracious eating. Today the meme has spread to everyday conversation.

  Jen – “How’s that sandwhich?”   

  Mark – “Nom nom nom!”

  Jen – “I need to get some more noms.”

It is almost certain that the word economics was coined without *nom nom nom* in mind. But if it was not intentional, it was prophetic to put NOM right in the tummy of “economics,” as the concept of noming is so central to economics.

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Even politicians and bureaucrats?

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FLASH: Three American Soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Saturday, January 15, 2011

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704323204576083633043852612.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLETopStories

Time to bring the boys and girls home!

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SOFTWARE: CHROME in the doghouse; end of the queue

Saturday, January 15, 2011

GOOGLECHROME, aka CHROME, goes into my doghouse and is relegated to the back of the queue.

The symptom is that all available space is consumed on the hard drive. Only a restart gets it back. It might be POSTBOX2 to blame. But maybe not.

APPLESAFARI, aka SAFARI, is next on the batting lineup.

Argh!

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QUOTE: “Most everything else is just excuses.”

Saturday, January 15, 2011

http://rushthecourt.net/2011/01/06/chris-otule-kevin-laue-remind-us-to-stop-complaining/

” …if you’re unhappy with something about it, you can work to change it. Most everything else is just excuses.”

— unknown writer on the RushTheCourt dot net website

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RANT: Al Gore still pitching

Friday, January 14, 2011

http://insights.execunet.com/index.php/comments/the_new_global_deal/best-practices/more

Published on: Wednesday, January 12, 2011
The New Global Deal
Posted By: Robyn Greenspan

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The farmer began to tell a long, involved story of the events of the car accident, culminating with the other vehicle hitting him and his cow. When the police arrived on the scene, they saw the injured cow and mercifully shot him. “So when the police asked the farmer how he felt, he said, ‘I feel fine.’ Many of us are feeling like that, said Gore.”

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Gore cited three major contributors to the climate crisis:
* the global population explosion, which taxes resources
* the dramatic expansion of the power-draining technologies we use
* the way we think about capitalism
*** and ***Gore urged World Business Forum delegates to affect change through political action, and pressure the Senate to release its use of filibusters to place a stranglehold on policies, which, he said, are influenced by special interest groups. “It’s important to change light bulbs, but it’s more important to change the laws.”

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Dear Ms Robyn,

May I respectfully suggest that that proverbial cow was lucky. It didn’t have to listen to Al Gore.

You, unfortunately, have parse out fact and fiction. “Global Warming”, “Global Cooling”, and all the fads in between are just attempts to “sell” us on a meme that allows them to control us and enriches them. It’s well documented just how much old Al has made from his “Global Warming” efforts. So how do you know where the conflict of interest ends. “Population Overgrowth” aka Malthusianism, “power draining tech” aka Peak Power, and “capitalism” which is not what we have now are all just justifications for the Mundanes to be led by the Elite. Of course, Gore is just one of the Elites to “lead” any that will follow.

The Elite always want to erode anything that stands in the way of following their agenda. Space doesn’t permit a comment to go into depth. And, I’m not sure I have the credentials to do it. But, I do know, what is being shoveled, that poor proverbial cow could produce as well.

:-)
fjohn

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JOBFINDING: Senior Jave Developer

Friday, January 14, 2011

Sargent Shultz says “I know nuthin, Nuting, Nothing at all”!

“Senior Jave Developer”

If it’s you, leave me a comment with a resume link.

If it passes my eye, I’ll share it with the fellow who asked.

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PRODUCTIVITY: Always have a email account to spare?

Friday, January 14, 2011

No secret I use a lot of email accounts. For a purpose. For a community. For relatives. For friends. For projects.

Interesting that some ISPs (i.e., Saint Peter’s University Hospital and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital) offer free wifi.

Unfortunately, like most things you get for “free”, they both have their own “unique” opportunities.

Not everyone has a VWBBIE (i.e., a Verizon Wireless Broad Band Service for 70$/month) or an IPAD with the AT&T 3G turned on!

SPUH doesn’t permit email. I chatted with a fellow nerd from a past employment and he had no idea why or even who “decreed” this. But the diktat couldn’t be overturned.

Now clearly with web access, you can use the web front end that most email providers have. But that’s not a very efficient or effective imho. Your really want a unified mailbox for the different account with the capability to send from the correct account.

GMAIL to the rescue.

It was trivial to set this up so that “emergency” could read and write in the “important” accounts.

Now when I need it, I have it.

Kudos to GMAIL.

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MONEY: End the FED!

Thursday, January 13, 2011

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rep2/if-fed-had-never-been-created.html

10 Things That Would Be Different If the Federal Reserve Had Never Been Created
Economic Collapse Blog

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The vast majority of Americans, including many of those who believe that they are “educated” about the Federal Reserve, do not really understand how the Federal Reserve really makes money for the international banking elite.

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Now, the only way that the U.S. government can inject more money into the economy is by going into more debt. But when new government debt is created, the amount of money to pay the interest on that debt is not also created. In this way, it was intended by the international bankers that U.S. government debt would expand indefinitely and the U.S. money supply would also expand indefinitely. In the process, the international bankers would become insanely wealthy by lending money to the U.S. government.

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#1 If the U.S. government had been issuing debt-free money all this time, the U.S. government could conceivably have a national debt of zero dollars. Instead, we currently have a national debt that is over 14 trillion dollars.

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Time to “face the music” or, in this case, the unelected “Fourth Branch of Gooferment” the banking cartel, the Federal Reserve Bank, which ain’t “federal”, “reserves” nothing, and is in no way a “bank”.

We need Ron Paul to pull back the covers and see how badly we have been screwed by a cartel that has monopoly powers enforced by its “friends” in the Gooferment!

Why do we need “anyone” in Gooferment involved in “money”?

When we had gold circulating as money, we had zero politicians and bureaucrats on the payroll to “manage” it.

And, we had gradually declining prices.

We need to get back to that!

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SOFTWARE: DROPBOX and TRUECRYPT

Thursday, January 13, 2011

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rounds/rounds15.1.html

How To Use Dropbox and TrueCrypt To Securely Transfer Files Privately
by Bill Rounds

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USING DROPBOX AND TRUECRYPT

Using Dropbox and TrueCrypt should appear fairly self-evident by now. For example, you can travel with a laptop that contains no information across borders and when you arrive at your destination just install Dropbox and sync with your files from the cloud. Because Dropbox has control of the encryption key you can use TrueCrypt for an added layer of protection. That way if the Dropbox servers were compromised for whatever reason the your files would still be encrypted.

Another wonder aspect of setting up your information architecture to use TrueCrypt and Dropbox is that you no longer need to worry about backing up the files. This can save lots of time and headache.

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So much for the child pornographers being caught at the border crossing.

I’m advising that all international travelers NOT carry ANY computing platform through “security”. (Not that it makes us any more secure; it’s just theater to amuse the rubes.)

That means phone, ipads, netbooks … … nothing.

You can’t know what they will “find” when they do their “data proctology” exam. Or, what they will place on your hardware when it’s outside of your control.

Come to think of it that’s good advice even inside the US.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Palin answers back on the media’s attempt to blame her for shooting

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-fiNFCbsz8

[JR: Well done, “presidential”, and right on point about the greatness of America. imho!]

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MONEY: The US$ is worth less; dramatically less

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

http://seekingalpha.com/article/244020-coins-vs-bags-comparing-two-options-in-physical-silver

Coins vs. Bags: Comparing Two Options in Physical Silver – Seeking Alpha

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The 90% Silver Bags consist of coins — dimes and quarters — that were once used as money in the United States. In 1964, one could take a dime to the store and buy a loaf of bread (if you are old enough to remember). Today, that same 90% silver dime is worth $2.10, enough to buy a loaf of bread.

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Interesting? It’s not that the cost of that loaf of bread has increased. It’s that the value of the money has decreased. Even though, I KNOW that, and I think I UNDERSTAND that fact, still concrete examples like this are a punch to the solar plexus. Leaves you sucking wind. By the same formula, I bout gas for 40¢/gallon. That equates to $8.40/gallon. So, gas has gotten “cheaper”! Argh! Makes me sick to my stomach. And, it’s only getting worse.

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SOFTWARE: Apple’s IWEB NOTRECOMMENDED!

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

IWEB is Apple’s version of a webpage builder.

It doesn’t do a table?

I have a spreadsheet of my High School alums with a link to their page. I thought it would be easy to put it into an IWEB site.

Thought wrong!

Argh!

Even if I had to rebuild the table in IWEB, that, while upsetting, would be “good enough”.

Argh!

So, it seems there’s no way to do it.

Hence, “NOTRECOMMENDED”!

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HARDWARE: Verizon and the IPHONE4 — NOTRECOMMENDED!

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

http://support.vzw.com/faqs/iphone/iphone_faq.html

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Pricing

Are there minimum service and data pricing requirements?

Yes, iPhone customers will need to choose from any of the current Nationwide plans. Customers will also be required to activate a data package, pricing will be announced at a later date.

Back to top

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Argh!

Pig in a poke.

“We have to pass it to learn what’s in it.”

Sorry, but you have no idea what they are going to charge you!

What happened to “unlimited”?

NOTRECOMMENDED!

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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/011111-verizon-iphone-facts.html

Sounds like the real tech writers are putting up “red” flags.

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QUOTE: What about tarriffs, dumping, and “protecting domestic industries”?

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

http://cafehayek.com/2011/01/an-open-letter-to-erin-ennis.html

“I am bound to say that it is our interest to buy cheap, whether other countries will buy cheap or no.”

— British Prime Minister Robert Peel’s 1843 statement to the House of Commons explaining his decision to support a repeal of the British tariffs known as “corn laws”:   

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Like the correct rate for corporate taxes which is zero, so to the correct rate for tariffs is zero as well.

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GUNS: The lesson of Arizona is more guns for self-defense and the defense of others

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

http://agebuster.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/gun-control

Gun control

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Should just anyone be allowed to buy a gun?

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Yes, anyone should be allowed to guy a gun.

Remember, that we have a Federal Instant Check, no one is reporting on that. Wasn’t that supposed to stop that? No one’s calling that to account. And, what about all the folks, who knew he was a “nut case” and did nothing.

The purpose of the Second Amendment is to empower the people to protect themselves from both bad people and their own government. The first thing that tyrants do is to disarm the people. Look at all the genocides in history, and the ESSENTIAL thing you’ll find is an unarmed citizenry.

The Government, which I call the Gooferment based on their track record, can’t protect you. What’s even funnier is its courts (no conflict of interest in that) have thrown out suits saying that the police have no duty to protect you. Restraining orders, “dial 911”, and the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs” are gigantic examples of stupidity.

I wish no one harm, but we can’t let this incident sway us from the principle, the RIGHT to keep and bear arms in our own defense.

Think how much different it would have been if there was an armed citizenry at this incident. It may have stopped the “shooting gallery” before it started. Criminals are cowards. Victims shouldn’t be defenseless.

“Gun Control” is victim disarmament. What “gun control” should be is hitting what you aim at!

THAT’S the lesson we should take from Arizona.

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RANT: A digital “national ID card”?

Monday, January 10, 2011

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20027837-501465.html

January 7, 2011 4:31 PM
Obama Eyeing Internet ID for Americans
Posted by Declan McCullagh

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STANFORD, Calif. – President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today.

It’s “the absolute perfect spot in the U.S. government” to centralize efforts toward creating an “identity ecosystem” for the Internet, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt said.

That news, first reported by CNET, effectively pushes the department to the forefront of the issue, beating out other potential candidates including the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security. The move also is likely to please privacy and civil liberties groups that have raised concerns in the past over the dual roles of police and intelligence agencies.

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“We are not talking about a national ID card,” Locke said at the Stanford event. “We are not talking about a government-controlled system. What we are talking about is enhancing online security and privacy and reducing and perhaps even eliminating the need to memorize a dozen passwords, through creation and use of more trusted digital identities.”

The Commerce Department will be setting up a national program office to work on this project, Locke said.

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Schmidt stressed today that anonymity and pseudonymity will remain possible on the Internet. “I don’t have to get a credential if I don’t want to,” he said. There’s no chance that “a centralized database will emerge,” and “we need the private sector to lead the implementation of this,” he said.

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“Don’t Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It’s Raining” …. book title by the pre-eminent jurist of our day Ms. Judy Sheindlin!

(BHO44 should pit her on the Supreme Court!)

Remember Social Security?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_number

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Social Security Cards up until the 1980s expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes. Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the message was removed.[11]

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Yeah, right! Identity theft would be IMPOSSIBLE without the Gooferment mandating SSN!

They couldn’t get “Real Id” past the American Sheeple. So let’s try the digital equivalent!

“We, The Sheeple” are so stupid they’ll let it slip by.

“I wouldn’t believe you, if your tongue came notarized.” … attributed to Judge Marilyn Milian, but may have an earlier history.

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MONEY: Pensions are an attractive pot of money

Monday, January 10, 2011

http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/01/europe-starts-confiscating-private-pension-funds#ixzz1A4bDsXPq

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The article goes on to detail other pension grabs in Bulgaria, Poland, France and Ireland. Obviously, this is a cautionary tale for America. If fiscal austerity becomes a real issue in the U.S. the way that it’s been reaching critical mass in Europe — don’t think that U.S. lawmakers regard your either your personal wealth or money they might owe you as sacrosanct. Government has a habit of looking out for itself.

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Too arms! To arms! Bad ideas have a way of flowing over “the pond”. Where will politicians find a lot of quick easy money? Sure, your retirement! And, the politicians and bureaucrats only have to strong arm about 2200 “custodians”. Who happen to be the very people that were “bailed out” with taxpayer money last year. So how much of a bonus did you get, Taxpayer? Mine must have gotten lost in the mail. I’d suggest that everyone take keyboard to hand and share this story. Then, get to your congress critter with a stern warning — keep your mitts off my retirement! Argh!!!

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SOFTWARE: My personal version of the “Browser Wars”

Monday, January 10, 2011

If the BROWSER is the “eyes” into the Web, then I’m having worries about being “blind”.

Safari 5.0.3 (6533.19.4) — too Apple centric; object to “Yet Another” Microsoft!

Chrome 8.0.552.231 — don’t understand / object to the WEBAPPSTORE

FIREFOX 3.6.13 — broken (LASTPASS not active; toolbars broken)

Opera 11.0.1156 — leader (LASTPASS barfs)

INTERNETEXPLORER whatever — not even installed; object to the “Evil Empire”

Any others I can audition?

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SOFTWARE: App Stores are multiplying like rabbits

Sunday, January 9, 2011

https://chrome.google.com/webstore

Interesting, now I see, we have a “CHROME app store”.

Argh!

I’m not sure I like that either.

Where’s the Opera, Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer ones?

(Does any one still use IE after all it’s security problems?)

So we’re in the midst of a “software” revolution?

Time will tell if this is a paradigm shift or a meme shift? Or, is it just yet another way for vendors to extract money from the User’s pocketbook quicker and easier?

Sorry, but I don’t see how this is better.

… but then I’m just a fat old white guy injineer!

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http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/more/webstore.html

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The Chrome Web Store is an online marketplace where you can discover thousands of apps, extensions and themes for Google Chrome. To start exploring the store, visit chrome.google.com/webstore or click the store icon in Chrome’s New Tab page.

Web apps are advanced interactive websites. They may provide a wide-ranging set of features or focus on a single task like photo-editing or shopping. You can easily access the web apps you install from the Chrome Web Store through shortcuts in Chrome’s New Tab page. Learn more about installing apps in Chrome.

* Apps are currently not available in all countries. We are working hard on launching apps everywhere in the world. Stay tuned!

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Note! That they are now “WEB APPS” not just “apps” that you buy form any old “app store”.

Why do I feel like I’m the victim in a slasher movie before the villain strikes?

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Soon after watching their propaganda piece, I received the ultimate wake up call. The distillation of what my nagging doubt was:

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Yes kiddies, after hearing that WEBAPPS mean never having to update, (which to this old COBOL programmer means “you never have change control!” and “you can never go home again!!” and “what about malware?”) and after hearing that CHROME is designed to work disconnected from the inet, BANG! Reality strikes home. “Try later!”

At least with the Apple APPSTORES (I “whatever” and the MAC APPSTORE), I have a unit of code (a traditional application) that I can run without further permission and without automatic update. Or, is that just for now?

I’ve had a belly full of “Windoze Genuine Advantage” always accusing me of piracy, failing to run “MY” software, and making my life miserable.

And, does the “APP STORE” concept mean that I am “buying” and no more of this fiction of “licensing”?

So if I buy and APP from an APPSTORE, how do I sell it at my garage sale?

And, before you answer that, how do I return it when it doesn’t work or otherwise disappoints me?

Finally, how the heck to clean up after all these installed apps? Reinstall from scratch? Sounds like the famous WINDOZE “bare metal restore” all over again.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Government schools

Sunday, January 9, 2011

http://wiki.freetalklive.com/Main_Page

Welcome to the Free Talk Live Wiki, the libertarian wiki where almost anything goes.
2,322 articles in English

Government schools

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Some libertarians have the radical idea that parents should actually be responsible for making sure their children are educated. It worked before the twentieth century, and literacy rates were actually higher than they are today. Such people are a threat to all reason and civility, saying parents should be responsible for their children, and should be rounded up and placed into camps until further notice.

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I’d like to see the Separation of State and School!

During the tax revolt in New Jersey in the 80’s, I pitch a 40 year plan — two twenty years plans in succession. First, get the Gooferment out of the operation in 20 years. Second, get the Gooferment out of funding in 20 years. It’s baby steps, but it moves in clear distinct steps.

We can’t go from the current system to zero without a transition time. People need time to adjust and learn.

Argh!

But, we can’t even do that!

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WEBSITE: BADOO is a “badie”!

Saturday, January 8, 2011

http://badoo.com

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Received a message from some one I know.

Curious, I looked.

They hold his message hostage uless I give them an email address they “support”.

Nahh!

NOTRECOMMENDED!

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TAGONIST: Suspect dies by tasar; police refuse to cooperate

Saturday, January 8, 2011

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/dec/31/officers-refuse-answer-questions/

Officers refuse to answer questions in death of man shot with Taser
By Joe Schoenmann (contact)
Friday, Dec. 31, 2010 | 2 a.m.

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In the first test of the county’s new rules for reviewing police-involved deaths, officers connected with the Dec. 11 death of a suspect who was shot with a Taser are refusing to cooperate with investigators.

Their refusal to make voluntary statements to Metro’s Force Investigation Team is on the advice of the Las Vegas Police Protective Association, said Chris Collins, president of the officers union. From Collins’ standpoint, not only is the officers’ refusal to cooperate the right thing to do, it marks the beginning of the end of the coroner’s inquest system.

The system, in use for 40 years, has come under fire in the wake of controversial shootings involving Metro officers, prompting Clark County commissioners to undertake a revision of the ordinance that lays the ground rules for the courtlike hearings.

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[ANTAGONIST: It’s the Brett Farve defense. If I don’t cooperate, you can’t do squat. Try that in a private enterprise! It’d be “pick up your last check and forget any severance”. Why do the police think that they are immune to any consequences? I guess, like “star” athletes, who get away with everything forever, they get a mindset of ‘entitlement’. In short, the people should fear the cops. They are out of control. By any standard!]

[PROTAGONIST: The officers did cooperate, they gave complete statements which then can be used in any future inquest. Note from the article below…. QUOTE Collins said he wants officers to avoid being questioned four times about the same incident — during the criminal investigation, at the inquest, and then, if there is a civil suit, a deposition, and at a trial. To paint a picture of the problems that might arise, Collins gave a fictional example: After shooting a suspect, an officer tells homicide investigators he was 6 feet away when he shot; during the inquest, the ombudsman grills him and gets him to say it was “6 or 7 feet”; then a civil suit is filed and the officer has to go into a deposition and answer again; then he answers one more time during the civil trial. UNQUOTE This is exactly the tactic that defense attorneys use. They claim, “See, he wrote 6 feet in his statement, but now he says 6 or 7 feet. Gee, which was it? See, this guy doesn’t know what he saw!” That stuff kills me….just trial trickery They gave their statements, let them stand by them…at the appropriate time, not because some media trenzy wants to prosecute them before any inquest begins. ]

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FUN: Angry Romanian Witches Use Cat Excrement to Protest New Taxes

Friday, January 7, 2011

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/05/ap/strange/main7216288.shtml?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.12

Jan. 5, 2011
Romanian Witches Use Spells to Protest New Taxes
Angry Witches Use Cat Excrement and Dead Dogs to Cast Spells on President and Government; Politicians Aren’t Laughing It Off

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Romanian witch Mihaela Minca, right, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, as her daughter and apprentice Casanndra, left, looks on, in Mogosoaia, Romania, Jan. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

(AP) MOGOSOIA, Romania – Everyone curses the tax man, but Romanian witches angry about having to pay up for the first time are planning to use cat excrement and dead dogs to cast spells on the president and government.

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ROFL, that’s one approach. If it works, we should try it here!

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SOFTWARE: Mac App Store; any “app store”, the implications are scary!

Friday, January 7, 2011

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The MacAppStore opened Thursday. I, of course, checked in. And, downloaded some free applications.

After the experience, I’m not so sure I like this.

Maybe my tin foil hat is on too tight, but it seems that the whole concept puts the App Store “vendor” in complete control of what you can get.

In playing with it, I experienced slow downs.

We’ll see what other issues arise.

(1) If I had the source file, that I had downloaded (i.e., DMG, Zip, or make file), then I could always install or reinstall. If there’s no installation file (i.e., it comes by “magic” from the App Store), then I have to go back to the App Store and buy it again. Does that mean I have to pay again? Does the App Store give “receipts”?

(2) During play, the App Store became “unavailable”. Demonstrating that it is itself a single point of failure in the infrastructure.

(3) It’s very “easy” to load your hard drive with apps. (A few dollars or free makes one willing to “try it”. Toss if NG.) BUTT (there’s always a big but) (3a) How do you get rid of all the vestiges of applications? (3b) How much money, time, attention, and effort will be wasted in “applications”? (When you have to go to the store or wait for Amazon, FedEx, or UPS to deliver the disk, you evaluate the “purchase decision” more carefully.)

What else am I missing?

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RANT: Let’s get adicts “pure” drugs and treatment

Friday, January 7, 2011

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Gerry-Ryans-cocaine-was-laced-with-worming-powder-113063449.html

Gerry Ryan’s cocaine was laced with worming powder
By CATHY HAYES , IrishCentral.com Staff Writer
Published Friday, January 7, 2011, 4:59 AM
Updated Friday, January 7, 2011, 5:01 AM

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Gerry Ryan’s autopsy report showed that cocaine he has consumed contained trace amounts of the veterinary drug Levamisole, usually used to treat parasitic worms in cattle and sheep.

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A good argument for legalizing drugs and allowing the marketplace to protect these poor unfortunates from adulterated drugs.

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JOBSEARCH: “Office parties” are work; very very dangerous to jobs and careers

Friday, January 7, 2011

Stimulus: A fellow alumni’s tale of a “business party” with drinks

Response: Suggest that you think about how many careers have been ruined or good jobs lost by “office parties”. Had a boss, who go so wasted at one, he and his secretary did the deed, fell asleep, and got locked int he venue. The police respond to a silent alarm and they were arrested. Cleared, but the boss and secretary were nuked right before Christmas. So, my personal rule became: “parties were just an extension of the work day; unpaid, and very very dangerous.”

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