Not for me. Apple has demonstrated that it’s not the “champion of the people”.
Don’t like the Evil Empire, Microsoft.
But Apple is no better.
Argh!
So I’m not upgrading or otherwise investing in their products.
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TECHNOLOGY: MAC OSX 10.7 LION
Thursday, July 21, 2011
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RANT: Bring ’em home now!
Thursday, July 21, 2011http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/07/21/letter-from-a-marine
Thursday, July 21st, 2011 | Posted by Robert O’Dowd
LETTER FROM A MARINE
Marine reports on life in the Afghanistan sandbox.
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My son’s FIRST birthday was July 12th. My 3 year anniversary is August 14th. When I left my son, he could barely roll over flawlessly and now he is just doing all types of things. I was skyping with my wife, my son was in her arms, I forgot that he was all grown up and he jumped out of her arms. The first thing I think is OH NO my son fell, BUT NO!! He jumped out of her arms and WALKED away. Like he thinks he’s grown. He might as well get a job and get a license while he’s at it. I did get him a birthday present. I hope he will like it.
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I’m hard pressed to explain why this fellow has missed so much.
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MONEY: Is gold money?
Thursday, July 21, 2011ECONOMY
Bernanke Fights Ron Paul In Congress: Gold Isn’t Money
Jul. 13 2011 – 11:26 am
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“Is gold money?” he asked. Clearly bothered, Bernanke told the representative, “No. It’s a precious metal.”
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“Money is a matter of functions four, a medium, a measure, a standard, a store.” He repeated that four times like poetry. “Six Characters in Money: Portable – Durable – Divisible – Uniformity – Limited Supply – Acceptability.” — CHURCH 10●19●62 (Vol 1) 978-0-557-08387-9 page 110
Clearly, the Federal Reserve Banknote is NOT a store of value. 95% loss of value from 1970 to 2000.
But, Ron Paul has to admit that gold isn’t either. It’s not a medium of exchange. Was; could be; ain’t.
Argh!
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TECHNOLOGY: Verizon pulls the rug on FTP webpage update
Thursday, July 21, 2011http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,26111924
Dear Verizon Internet User:
As part of our ongoing enhancements to the online customer experience, Verizon continues to ensure security for our Internet customers. As a result of this ongoing effort, Verizon Online is making modifications to the Internet access provided to you. These modifications will occur on August 21, 2011. For security reasons, Verizon will no longer allow users to FTP their HTML files to the personal web site Verizon offers.
Verizon recommends that current FTP users download their files prior to August 21, 2011 to prevent any data loss.
If you still wish to have a Verizon website, please go to our site builder tool available with Personal Webspace which can be found under My Services in My Verizon at:
»my.verizon.com/central/vzc.porta···WebSpace
Remember, after August 21, 2011, you will not be able to use FTP for uploading your files.
Thanks for being a valued Verizon Online customer. We encourage you to act now to protect your private information.
Sincerely,
Verizon Online
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And, why would you allow an ISP to control you?
Don’t use their email address, their webspace, and certainly if you do, don’t use it for anything important.
Cloud? Use it on whose terms?
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: More wasted money
Wednesday, July 20, 2011http://hamptonroads.com.nyud.net/2011/07/two-neverfinished-navy-ships-head-scrap-heap
Two never-finished Navy ships head to scrap heap
By Scott Harper
The Virginian-Pilot
July 15, 2011
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They were the only two that went unfinished, and were part of a 1985 budget request from the Navy for three oilers for a combined $567 million, according to records.
The two were built at the Pennsylvania Shipbuilding Co. in Philadelphia, which defaulted on its Navy contract in 1989. The ships were then sent to Florida to be finished. But disputes over costs and materials in Tampa led to the termination of that contract in 1993, according to records.
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Waste, more waste, and ongoing waste.
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POLITICAL: ½ California and ½ New Jersey to freedom?
Wednesday, July 20, 2011http://dumpdc.wordpress.com/2011/07/13/meet-americas-51st-broke-state/
Meet America’s 51st (Broke) State
by Tyler Durden
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(Editor’s Note: This would actually be a story with some legs if the Southern Californians wanted to secede and actually become a new nation, separate from the USA. But mostly it’s just an amusement piece.)
It is only fitting that a few days after South Sudan became the newest independent country to join the roster of IMF and World Bank “modernization and industrialization” targets, another Southern version of something should break apart, although some may be surprised that this latest secession is not somewhere in the middle of Africa, but in America’s own insolvent back yard. Meet Southern California. “Accusing Sacramento of pillaging local governments to feed its runaway spending and left-wing policies, a Riverside County politician is proposing a solution: He wants 13 mostly inland, conservative counties to break away to form a separate state of “South California.” Supervisor Jeff Stone, a Republican pharmacist from Temecula, called California an “ungovernable” financial catastrophe from which businesses are fleeing and where taxpayers are being crushed by the burden of caring for welfare recipients and illegal immigrants.” Ah yes, the heart of prosperity that is the Inland Empire, known for such great achievements as Hell’s Angels, the most ridiculous excesses of the housing bubble, Del Taco, and… that’s pretty much it. This sounds like yet another Swiss Watch plan.
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Interesting in that maybe not only is the Federal Gooferment too big, but maybe states are too.
Staten Island wanted to come to New Jersey.
And, NJ could be broken in half. Trade North Jersey to New York for Staten Island. And, an undisclosed amount of cash.
Think of others Texas, Florida, North Carolina.
Anything that got too many people or too much land should be broken up.
As it all crumbles like the USSR, into smaller “moreresponsive to the people” units,
Secession?
One can only hope.
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RANT: Shared ripoff
Tuesday, July 19, 2011http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2011/07/shared-sacrifice-fiscal-crisis/
Shared Sacrifice in the Fiscal Crisis
David Boaz – July 18, 2011
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Currently the top one-tenth of 1 percent of American taxpayers pay 18 percent of the income taxes. The top 1 percent pay 38 percent of the income taxes, and the top 5 percent of taxpayers pay 59 percent of all income taxes. Just what percentage do President Obama and his allies think would be appropriate?
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But here’s a way to satisfy both those who see spending as the problem and those who want the highest-taxed Americans to pay yet more: Start cutting subsidies to businesses and the rich. Let’s cut out the big-business subsidy machine, the Export-Import Bank. Let’s get rid of farm subsidies. Let’s tell affluent people who build houses in coastal flood areas to pay for their own flood insurance at market prices.
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I like to point out that “corporate taxes” are a sham. Only “real people” pay taxes. Corporations either pass along their costs or fold. When Exxon pays taxes, they pass it along in every gallon of gas. Also, every corporation, that uses that gas with taxes built in, adds that cost to their cost. So when you pick up a can on bean in the supermarket, you are paying all those taxes. We can’t even figure out what we are paying in taxes. imho
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TINFOILHAT: Eleven 9/11 Questions
Tuesday, July 19, 2011http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/07/11/eleven-911-questions-which-still-demand-answers
Eleven 9/11 Questions Which Still Demand Answers
by Allen L Roland
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Warburton than makes his point ~ Crystallizing this down to a few basic principles of criminal and investigative journalism you at the BBC have failed as a fact to ask these basic questions about 9/11;
- Where is the film footage of the Boeing striking the Pentagon?
- Why haven’t your journalists asked the US authorities to see it? Why is it secret?
- Why haven’t you interviewed people like April Gallop who stepped through that Pentagon hole after the attack and said there was no plane there?
- Why haven’t you interviewed firefighters who heard explosions in the Twin Towers?
- Why haven’t you been able to show substantial wreckage (or photos of) from the Shanksville site?
- Why do you only interview explosives experts that back the official version ?
- Why don’t you speak to any pilots from pilots for 9/11truth ?
- Why don’t you speak to victim’s family members who still demand an independent investigation?
- Why are 5 of the alleged hijackers alive and well according to your own news reporting ? Who then did hijack the planes?
- Why aren’t you seeking written scientific evidence to rebut the compelling Thermite explosion claims of the teams of Richard Gage and Niels Harrit?
- Why are your programs “conspiracy files” on 9/11 so overtly biased as to not withstand scrutiny as fair and objective ~ and why don’t they address any of the above issues ?
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“There was a dearth of visible debris on the relatively unmarked [Pentagon] lawn, where I stood only minutes after the impact. Beyond this strange absence of airliner debris, there was no sign of the kind of damage to the Pentagon structure one would expect from the impact of a large airliner. This visible evidence or lack thereof may also have been apparent to the secretary of defense [Donald Rumsfeld], who in an unfortunate slip of the tongue referred to the aircraft that slammed into the Pentagon as a “missile” … Lt. Col. Karen U. Kwiatkowski, PhD, U.S. Air Force (ret) – Former Political-Military Affairs Officer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Also served on the staff of the Director of the National Security Agency.
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I have no answer for the unthinkable.
Anyone remember Operation Northwoods?
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RANT: “Required Monthly Test”
Tuesday, July 19, 2011Let’s get this right. I pay for Verizon FIOS and I have to watch the their announcement. Argh!
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TECHNOLOGY: “because he looks like another driver”?
Tuesday, July 19, 2011http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/18/0335204/Facial-Recognition-Gone-Wrong?
“John H. Gass hadn’t had a traffic ticket in years, so the Natick resident was surprised this spring when he received a letter from the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles informing him to cease driving because his license had been revoked. It turned out Gass was flagged because he looks like another driver, not because his image was being used to create a fake identity. His driving privileges were returned but, he alleges in a lawsuit, only after 10 days of bureaucratic wrangling to prove he is who he says he is. And apparently, he has company. Last year, the facial recognition system picked out more than 1,000 cases that resulted in State Police investigations, officials say. And some of those people are guilty of nothing more than looking like someone else. Not all go through the long process that Gass says he endured, but each must visit the Registry with proof of their identity. Massachusetts began using the software after receiving a $1.5 million grant from the US Department of Homeland Security as part of an effort to prevent terrorism, reduce fraud, and improve the reliability and accuracy of personal identification documents that states issue.”
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Gooferment’s overreaching and using technology wrong.
What happened to “innocent until proven guilty”?
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