http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7959?hq_e=el&hq_m=1174302&hq_l=4&hq_v=e357d8d5d7
LibreOffice
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Sure, LibreOffice 3.3 is basically a recolored OO.o, at this point. But, adding its own fixes and features sets it in a new direction. LibreOffice should retain its compatibility with OO.o so that extensions, fixes, patches, and code enhancements can be used in either product.
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RECOMMENDED!
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Commenting on:
http://libertyslifeline.com/2011/02/17/let%E2%80%99s-get-serious-about-k-12-education/
Let’s Get Serious About K-12 Education
by Bill O’Connell on February 17, 20112012
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Does anyone see any mention about students or learning in that quote? It focuses on teachers. How to pay them and how to evaluate them; it is about the unions, not the students. The delicate negations about pay (unions favor) and evaluation (unions oppose) has nothing to do with our children learning. The unions can run all the TV and radio ads they want about “the children” but when you hear the tag line about who paid for the ad, it is not about the children.
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Despite having no children of my own, I fought about this during the NJ Tax Revolt of the 80’s. This is a multi-part problem. And, it’s not ALL the fault of the Teachers’ Union. The politicians and bureaucrats have created a mess and “We, The People” have allowed it to happen.
First problem is the Parents. Yup, they are part of the problem; probably the most important part. They tolerate this “barbara streisand”. No one has children and wants to see them ruined. Yet, that very decision they make to procreate, I am expected to pay for. Education is the parent’s responsibility. First and foremost. No one else’s. To assume that the Gooferment has a role, any role, in “education” is to cede the very ground that the battle must be fought on.
So now let’s deal with the situation at hand. We can’t wave a magic wand and make it “magically delicious”. People have been trained, like dogs doing tricks, into thinking that this is the best or only way. We have to reverse that over time and allow people to adapt.
Right now, “we” have Gooferment Skrules. The Gooferment “pays” and “operates”. So I would suggest we have to adapt out of it in two steps. Two twenty year plans! (Yeah, I know it sounds like the USSR and its always failing Five Year Plans.) Focus first on operation. Create vouchers equal to 20k and give them to 5% more students each year. At the end of 20 years, parents will have been trained to “buy” their children’s education. Then, for the next 20 years, reduce the voucher by 5%. This will push the bill more and more to the parents. (They decided to have them and they will have to pay to educate them.) Churches, businesses, and a civil society will create new forms of schooling for new subjects and the poor. (Remember Catholic schools were created for the poor.)
I think this would solve the problem. Not quickly but eventually it would. Permanently!
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Posted by reinkefj
I wuz robbed! Can’t fool me. I ain’t that tired, drunk, or stupid not to know when I’m being cheated.
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Now it probably doesn’t mean a hill of beans to the advertisers, but I’m going to take a stand.
I REFUSE to buy any product whose advertising denigrates men!
First candidate: Hillshire Farms. You know the “Go Meat!” folks.
Who think that young girls can make young boys look dumb.
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In your recent commercial, who backs up over another car, who is the young woman who plays the girl friend? Or who are the two women? Idle curiosity. Yeah, I know, shouldnt let little things bug you. But, no one has a definitive answer — one girl, two, or twins? Inquiring minds want to know. Thanks, fjohn
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From: Tim J Thomas @ statefarm.com
Subject: Actress in
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:07:29 -0700
The actress playing the “Before” girlfriend is Gabrielle Dennis. The “After” girlfriend is model/actress Salita Ebanks.
Thanks for your interested in our advertising!
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Amazing invention the internet!
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http://www.impactlab.net/2011/02/08/hole-digging-competition-in-japan/
February 8th, 2011 at 9:28 am
Hole-Digging Competition In Japan
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Over a thousand people gathered on the outskirts of Tokyo, shovels in hand, to dig it out for the top prize in the Japan All-National Hole Digging Competition and claim the coveted Golden Shovel award.
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When I read this story, I went nuts! Life imitating art. Or some sort of repressed memory? Did I hear this, forget it, and it bubbled up in my novel?
Here’s the passage from CHURCH 10●19●62 (Vol 1) 978-0-557-08387-9 page 14
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He wanted to teach life skills, encouraging boy scouts, track, and public speaking. He knew that one couldn’t stand in a corner and pray. Like the old joke about praying to win the lottery and God says ‘help me out a bit; buy a ticket’. He had weekly awards, monthly awards, special recognition, and anything he could to motivate his children. He had ‘dig a hole’ competitions with prizes for deepest, widest, best teamwork, fastest fill in, and even prettiest. He focused on all the children — boys and girls.
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… For a quick dinner. Steak, mashed, and cole slaw. Had it a ton of times before. I take a gob of cole slaw and I almost puke. It’s rotten?
Give it the bartender and tell Hume to have the manager taste it. He comes back — the bartender, not the manager — and says it a new formula. The other bartender says “I should have warned you no one likes it” — are you kidding me?
There’s enough lessons in this to choke a horse. Now how can I make my displeasure hurt?
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Users of devices jailbroken by one of the methods that allows Apple’s test binaries to successfully run who attempt to open content purchased from the iBookstore are met with the following error message:
There is a problem with the configuration of your iPhone. Please restore with iTunes and reinstall iBooks.
Restoring a device from iTunes obviously removes the jailbreak, again rendering the device in compliance with Apple’s standards.
Apple’s tactics are of course drawing some scrutiny from jailbreak fans, many of whom are pointing to recent actions by the U.S. government to explicitly allow jailbreaking. Consequently, Apple’s move to prevent access to legitimately purchased iBookstore content just because the user attempts to view it on a jailbroken device is seen as interference with legal usage.
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Now, I remember why I didn’t like LOTUS. And, why I shouldn’t like APPLE.
DRM!
APPLE sells me some hardware and dares me to use it.
Henceforth and forever more, all APPLE hardware is, be definition, “NOT RECOMMENDED”. Windoze may be “bad”, but at least you can be “OPEN”!
On to Linux!!!
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http://www.survivalblog.com/2011/02/the_nitty_gritty_on_nickels.html
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$300 face value (150 rolls @$2 face value per roll) fit easily fit in a standard U.S. Postal Service Medium Flat Rate Box, and that weighs about 68 pounds.) They can be mailed from coast to coast for less than $25. Doing so will take a bit of reinforcement. Given enough wraps of strapping tape, a corrugated box will securely transport $300 worth of Nickels
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Everyone will laugh at “investing” in nickels, but he who laffs last …
Today, pre-64 silver coins command a 20 times face value. And, that’s what you get retail.
2011 – 1964 = 47 years
20x = 2000%
2000 / 47 = 42% roi
There is NO reason to think that nickels won’t have a similar experience.
Like the author says, the only the things that are certain in life are death, taxes, and inflation!
In fifty years, you’ll be saying “Shoulda, coulda, and woulda! if I’d a listened to that crazy fat old white guy injineer, I’d be rich.” I will be dealing with other problems when you say, so I will be unavailable to say “I told you so.”
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.cnbc.com/id/41372870
http://www.loweringthebar.net/2011/02/immigration-officer-puts-wife-on-the-no-fly-list.html or http://tinyurl.com/4qghpxg
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A UK immigration officer decided to get rid of his wife by putting her on the no-fly list, ensuring that she could not return to the UK from abroad. This worked for three years, until he put in for a promotion and — during the routine background check — someone investigated why his wife was on the no-fly list.
Okay, so he’s an idiot. And a bastard. But the real piece of news here is how easy it is for a UK immigration officer to put someone on the no-fly list with *absolutely no evidence* that that person belongs there. And how little auditing is done on that list. Once someone is on, they’re on for good.
That’s simply no way to run a free country.
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Gooferment just does stuff. No appeal. No checking. No oversight.
There’s a reason that the judicial systems requires a battle of adversaries to determine the truth.
Where’s the “Appeal to God” when you need it? You know like in the movie “Ivanhoe”.
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