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{Privacy Invoked} Went to bed in a sequin dress. Woke up like I put out with a cheese grater. Never again.
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I read this and for some reason it struck me funny.
After I stopped ROFL, I decided that this was worth memorializing. No idea why? But it just grabbed my attention. Sad really, but very funny.
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http://www.hardwaregeeks.com/index.php/site/samsung_and_google_introduce_series_5_chromebook
> Samsung and Google introduce Series 5 Chromebook
> Posted by: Michael on Wed, May 11th, 2011
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Today Samsung and Google announced thie Samsung Series 5 Chromebook running on the ChromeOS. I am a huge fan of Samsung notebooks, I love their design and style, but I have a feeling Samsung will regret this product as much as Logitech and Sony regretted their Google TV products.
> Key Specs:
> ● 0.79-inch thin case designed for comfort and mobility
> ● Full-size Chrome keyboard
> ● Oversized multi-touch trackpad
> ● Intel® Dual-core Processor
> ● 16:10 resolution
> ● 12.1-inch SuperBright Display – 36% brighter than standard display
> ● Starts up in less than 10-seconds
> ● Resumes instantly from standby
> ● Up to 8.5 hours battery life*
> ● HD Webcam, built-in digital microphone and stereo speakers
> ● Two USB ports capable of charging mobile phones and accessories, connecting digital cameras and media storage devices
> ● Support for removable media cards (SD, SDHC, MMC) for photos, videos, music and documents
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Hold off any hardware purchases, especially notebooks or tablets, until we see the reviews. These sound like “winners” to me. A game changing piece of hardware.
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Ever hear of the guru’s of the human performance movement talk about “the zone”.
It’s that magical time when the stars align and all is right with the world. Or at least your part of it.
At this dance recital, if you watch very carefully, you could see it.
A young child, mostly girls, would have a practiced routine. And, every once and a while, they’d “get it”.
Maybe it was the music striking their ear put them in sync. Maybe it was the endless practice. Maybe it was the crowd.
But you could see it.
There would be a realization on their faces that I’m doing it. And, I’m doing it well. And, it’s fun.
Then a big smile would break out. They may be sweating, panting, and exhausted. But they had done it. Whatever it was supposed to be.
That was worth the sore butt from sitting.
Hope I have a day like that some day. Hope everyone does.
I appreciate them sharing that moment with me.
Made me smile too.
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Canadian couple’s missteps shock Nev. town locals
By JOHN MILLER The Associated Press
Posted: 10:36 a.m. Wednesday, May 11, 2011
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MOUNTAIN CITY, NEV. — At about 6,000 feet in a narrow valley surrounded by bulbous, snowcapped mountains, this tiny northeastern Nevada town sits roughly two hours from anywhere, in the middle of nowhere.
It’s that remoteness and grandeur that apparently drew Rita and Albert Chretien to the area around Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest as they made their way from Canada to Las Vegas. Albert Chretien has been missing in the wilderness since late March after the couple, guided by a new GPS, ventured off the highway onto muddy, washed-out forest service roads winding deep into the high country.
Rita Chretien was found Friday by a trio of hunters after spending seven weeks in the couple’s van stuck in mud, surviving off trail mix, hard candy and water from a nearby stream. Her husband set out on foot to find help, hoping to make it to Mountain City. He hasn’t been seen since.
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Death by technology?
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What is the audience’s responsibility to the performers?
I was shocked and amazed at a few things.
(1) Maybe I’m an old fuddy duddy. But … the first act on stage was a number by a group of several age groups. I don’t remember anything other than the costuming left little to the imagination and the dance moves were comparable to what one would see in a “strip club”. If, of course, if I had ever been to one. Being in what I would have perceived as the “Bible Belt”. This surprised me. While the youngest bumped and ground, I saw many men facing their wives and children and talking. Perhaps, this was to avoid the near occasion of sin. Or, that they could not look at the cherished girl member of their family “performing”. I knew no one on the stage at that time and I was embarrassed for them. Yeah, I know fuddy duddy.
(2) Opening announcement was something like “don’t use the fire doors. it screws up our video and distracts the dancers.” Shouldn’t have bothered. Those doors were used. Frequently. And, it was distracting to this audience member. It was like they were saying: “Screw You. I’m a VIP. And, I’m more important than you.” I have to admit I was tempted to go down and stand by the door and play policeman. Maybe they should, like most good strip clubs, hire a Arnold Schwarzenegger type bouncer. I’m told that all the clubs have them.
(3) Now, maybe some of the performers were “less than good” or even down right “bad”. As a fat old white guy injineer, I wouldn’t know how to tell. Any more than I can score Olympic Ice Dancing. But, I did notice if the performer was smiling. And, I did notice when they were out of sync. But I also remembered my Father saying to me one time at a baseball game: “You’re not allowed to boo the umpire unless you can do it better.” Now, to me, imho, not applauding is the equivalent to booing. By the same token, I applauded every “act” since there was no way I was getting up on the stage and making a fool out of myself. Especially, not in those costumes! That would have cleared the joint!
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http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2011/05/more-extensives-tax-reforms-needed-in.html
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
More extensives tax reforms needed in New Jersey
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My sense is that the system has collapsed. I’ve been complaining that the state’s government structure was unsustainable and broken, but it has been functioning. That seems no longer to be the case. The governor is proposing a tool kit that contains some nominally useful tools but still leaves the basic set of problems in place. A more comprehensive structural change is needed that includes a review of the corporate and income tax rates, the inefficiency of having 566 towns, nearly 600 school districts and more than 1,400 total taxing districts, and a frank discussion about priorities.
New Jersey continues to provide some useful and necessary services. We could save money if we were willing to further gut our social safety net, but then we would put our residents in the same position as my friend Lynn, who moved to North Carolina and has now been kicked off the unemployment insurance roll because the governor down there views unemployment insurance as an incentive to laziness. That seems a dubious tradeoff.
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Unfortunately, there is some academic research that correlates the end of “insurance” to reemployment.
The Gooferment should not be in the “social safety net” business. Their job is to prevent force or fraud on “the folks”. Like a giant referee.
The Gooferment really can’t do ANYTHING well. Or cost effectively.
Does it make any sense to do “charity” by giving loads of money to this piggish organization that will spend most of it on itself.
True charity comes from individuals helping other individuals. In churches, fraternal organizations, or “small” charities. (Note the UnitedWay pays it’s executives way too well. But the Salvation Army works better.)
We need to DOWNSIZE DC and shrink Trenton.
We need lower taxes and more liberty.
imho!
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Once upon a lifetime dreary,
I went to a place leery,
And what did I behold,
Children “dancing” as they were told.
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Interesting that parents spent a lot of money for “dance lessons”. I guesstimated that this was 200k$ biz. Not counting the time, attention, and effort that was going into it by parents.
They, in their heart of hearts, knew that the US “Eddykation” system, was giving their children the bare minimum of “life tools” and thse parents, perhaps instinctively, knew that the children needed more.
Be it boy / girl scouts, sports leagues, or even dance classes, parents know their children need more. (The Chinese kids will eat their bfast, lunch, and dinner.)
Also, I thought that these “dance” parents were trying to get their children to capture a little wisp of childhood joy to take with them.
I saw once again — several times that day — that when a young girl both knew she knew her “routine” AND had the physical skills to execute it, she lit up with joy. The face showed she was in the zone. And she was alone in the room with her “art”.
Hope that they all capture that.
Amazing was that it was 99% girls.
Is our society and its TV show messages that sexist?
The same muscle memory on a sports venue is just as good as dance. Surely, they all can’t be delude into thinking they can make it into the NBA.
Besides a good male dancer would find it easier to find a mate.
As a former young man, I’d have gone where the girls were. But there weren’t even boys in the audience. Where do these guys go to pick up chicks. Dumb! Easy pickins! Buy some flowers, go see a beautiful gals run around on stage in her undies, applaud for one, give her the flowers, and you’ve got a date. Dumb to skip that oppty.
Like shooting fish in barrel!
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http://newmedia.ufm.edu/gsm/index.php?title=Sorenssecessioncontinuum
Secession as a Continuum
Jason Sorens
April 4, 2011 | Roatán Honduras | Duración:21 minutos
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Sorens is the architect of the Free State Project and came up with the idea that 20k Libertarians in a small state mught be all that was needed to be the “tipping point”.
Essentially, his point is that secession may not look like we are expecting it to look. That’s a modern day South Carolina – Vermont – Texas – New Hampshire with Federalies rolling tanks down Main Street.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul739.html
On the Elimination of Osama bin Laden
by Ron Paul
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The elimination of Osama bin Laden should now prompt us to declare victory and bring our troops home from Afghanistan and Iraq. Al Qaeda was never in Iraq and we were supposedly in Afghanistan to get Osama bin Laden. With bin Laden gone, there is no reason for our presence in the region – unless indeed it was all about oil, nation-building, and remaking the Middle East and Central Asia.
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Sounds like a great idea!
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http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/an-alien-in-my-own-land-120563539.html
An alien in my own land
Vin Suprynowicz
Posted: Apr. 24, 2011 | 2:16 a.m.
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I got a little postcard from the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles a few weeks ago, reminding me it’s been eight years since I last had my picture taken, and that I had to go renew my driver’s license in person.
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I asked to speak to a supervisor. One Sheri Olsen, who is paid $49,614 per year plus amazing benefits for the job of refusing to renew valid driver’s licenses for native-born Americans with an unusually large number of authentic identification documents, was finally located to (of course) repeat the same lunacy.
“Your name doesn’t match,” she said.
Why was this never a problem before? Especially when Franklin Roosevelt swore up and down that our Social Security numbers would always remain confidential between us and the single appropriate federal agency — never to be used for purposes of identification the way the Nazis did?
“It’s because of 9/11,” she said.
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Amusing.
A superb writer, Vin skewers the stupidity of “The Real Id” Act.
Funny, too, because Frau Reinke had to prove her marriage. But I didn’t. Then, was told that her “Hudson County” birth certificate was “no good” because of rampant fraud in that office. So she had to trek back to “order”, (and pay 16$ for), a “replacement” that took 4 weeks to get.
(Needless to say she wasn’t pleased and my anti Gooferment rant wasn’t well received either. She may have told me to “shuddup”. Lovingly, of course. But it was funny to see her get upset with the stupidity. She didn’t tolerate stupisity well. Especially when it cost her tim, effort, attention, and money. Sh had to have a money order. No cash, no checks, no credit card. So she had to go across the street to a bodega where a very funny Hispanic man had a stack of 16$ money orders all printed out. 19.50! So back across the street. “It’s not filled out”. So she gives me the priv of filling it out. (I had a pen.) For address I put “Suite EV01”. Away we go home to await her cert. Yup, you guessed it. We got junk mail to “EV01” before the cert arrived. She wasn’t pleased at that either.)
(That junk stopped quickly after I applied my BSR correction technique. If some one spamming you gives you a BSR, you have a moral obligation to return it. Suitably filled. They pay by weight for the return. Junk mail for the junk mailers.)
When do “We, The Sheeple” rise up and say “No more”?
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