MEME: Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve our condition?

Thursday, May 17, 2012

http://www.parablesite.com/

#1

The Obstacle in our Path

In ancient times, a King had a boulder placed on a roadway. Then he hid himself and watched to see if anyone would remove the huge rock. Some of the kirig’s wealthiest merchants and courtiers came by and simply walked around it. Many loudly blamed the king for not keeping the roads clear, but none did anything about getting the stone out of the way. Then a peasant came along carrying a load of vegetables. Upon approaching the boulder, the peasant laid down his burden and tried to move the stone to the side of the road. After much pushing and straining, he finally succeeded. After the peasant picked up his load of vegetables, he noticed a purse lying in the road where the boulder had been. The purse contained many gold coins and a note from the king indicating that the gold was for the person who removed the boulder from the roadway. The peasant learned what many of us never understand. Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve our condition.

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Very Zen?

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JOBFINDING: NYC SE AD to Unix and Linux

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

05/16/12 11:21 AM

Greetings Ferdinand

My name is Mike Keneally and I am reaching out to you from Mitchell Martin, Inc. Our client, a major financial firm in midtown Manhattan is looking for a Systems Engineer to lead the expansion of the Active Directory authentication platform services to Unix/Linux non-Windows based platforms.

Location: Midtown Manhattan

Term: 1+ years (expect long term engagement)

Rate: Commensurate with experience (No 3rd parties please)

Responsibilities:

Experienced with platform migration and Unix bridge solutions adoption
Proven delivery & technical problem-solving skills
Experienced with Active Directory-based authentication and authorization
Strong O/S skills (Windows 2008 R2 & Red-Hat Linux preferred)
Knowledge of naming & directory services leveraged by Unix systems (LDAP, NIS)
Experience of securitization & privilege-access management on Unix platforms
Familiarity with defining & implementing role-based access rights
Experience of automation of privilege access management

Requirements:

Large global infrastructure integration experience with disparate platforms
5-10 years AD Engineering experience
5-10 years Unix/Linux skills
Process mapping and workflow engineering (user provisioning, service delivery)
Familiarity with industry tools for AD – based authentication and authorization
Migration and platform adoption of AD based auth services

There are more specifics to the role which I would be happy to further discuss with you.

If you are qualified, available, interested, planning to make a change, or know of a friend who might have the required qualifications and interest, please email me at mkeneally@itmmi.com, even if we have spoken recently about a different position.

 I would also be happy to discuss our Referral Program with you. If you know of anyone with this background it would be much appreciated and our team pays a generous referral program. For consulting placements we pay $10 a day for each billable day and for permanent placements we pay $3,000 paid after 120 days of work. This is a great way to make thousands in extra cash, and help out a friend, colleague, or associate! We are keen on networking and establishing a long-term, mutually beneficial partnership with you!

I hope all is well and I look forward to hearing from you!

Kind Regards,

Mike Keneally

Mitchell Martin Inc.

307 West 38th Street, Suite 1305

New York, NY 10018

Tel: (646) 723-7382 [Call: (646) 723-7382]

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: I don’t understand how the “dead” vote?

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru8pfv2MG7I&feature=colike

NewsBusted 5/11/12
Topics:
–Labor Force
–Dead Voters
–Obama Girlfriend
–Physicians
–Newt Gingrich
–South Carolina Teacher
–Jewish Voters
–Florida Gynecologist

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It seems like every time I fart, some one in the Gooferment is noting it.

For example, my wife wasn’t even dead one day and the Social Security Admin had automagically reached into her bank account and pulled back their last social security check. (Not even pro-rated for the 26/28 days of the month that she lived.) The speed amazed everyone in the family.

So why can’t the voting rolls be purged just as quickly?

The corrupt power structure likes the mess just fine.

It’s for the same reason you have to show id to get on an airline, but not to vote.

Mad yet?

If not, joint he Tea Party. If not, go back to sleep because you’re “We, The Sheeple” and part of the problem.

See the problem is not the politicians and bureaucrats robbing us blind. We know them. We can see them! Like Madame DeFarge, we’ve marked them. 

It’s “We, The Sheeple”. They are the problem. Sleepwalking through life. Oblivious to their patriotic duty to the Republic.

Like that supposed quote … “a Republic, if you can keep it.”

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Minnesota taxpayer “raped”!

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/viking-raid-minn-senate-approves-plan-to-subsidize
-new-football-stadium-with-half-a-billion-tax-dollars/

Business Viking Raid: Minn. Senate Approves Plan to Subsidize New Football Stadium With Half a Billion Tax Dollars
Posted on May 10, 2012 at 8:30pm by Becket Adams Becket Adams

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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP/The Blaze) — The Minnesota Vikings moved to within a governor’s signature of getting a new $975 million stadium on Thursday after the state Senate approved a plan that relies on $498 million taxpayers dollars.

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Disgraceful!

What else can one say?

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MEME: Often stats can show where our memes and paradigms are wrong

Monday, May 14, 2012

A MESSAGE SNIPPET FROM A EMIL EXCHANGE WITH LUDDITE:

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0216 is what time I wrote it. (Meaning the message,)

No, I just haven’t slept through the night in many years. The new doc is not happy with that and the sweats and other “symptoms”. So I am keeping a log for him.

I attribute the problems sleeping to the last six years of “training”. You might remember that EVY would say I would sleep through an atomic attack. As she got sicker, I “taught”my self to be a light sleeper and wake up often.

Like putting the cellphone on vibrate and have it alarm every thirty minutes. Slept with it rubber banded to my hand. That was so I could check her for low sugar during the night.

Rofl! How dumb was that?

Now I can’t sleep without a light on. When she would be in hospital (working with Brit and for a Brit i the past has rubbed off a little. Bloody hell!)

Any way, about the light on, when she was in the hospital, I began to sleep with the light on to remind me that she wasn’t there. This after a couple off times in a panic when she was NOT there and didn’t answer when I called her. Followed by a furious race around the house to “find” her. Quite funny really. Why would someone look in a cupboard? Or, another time, in my skivvies, checking the cars. Lucky I didn’t get arrested as a pervert. Anyway, you KNOW how crazed I was in those days. So, I started that habit and continue it to this days.

Like every room has to have a night light after the time she tripped over her blanket going to the bathroom.

Looks like Christmas lights around the house. Good thing they have sensors.

I have several techniques to get back to sleep as outlined in various self help books.

One is called “clearing”. The theory is that in trying to go back to sleep, you clear by writing any thinking that’s on your mind at that time. Some of my short stories are the result of that. If you’re “trying” to sleep, you might be afraid you’ll forget and the Universe keeps you awake so you don’t

[Privacy invoked]

And you’ve read my book and my blog so you know more about my paradigms and memes than I do about yours. Lol! Probably more than you want to know about a very very strange fellow!!!

[Privacy Invoked]

Most times when I’m upset about something if I actually gather data, I find my perception (paradigm) is flawed. In size, amount, impact, or other measures.

Statistic is an interesting discipline because usual human paradigms and memes are just plain wrong!

PS, look for this as a blog post!

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On Monday, May 14, 2012, LUDDITE wrote:

What’s this 0216 crap? Did I cause you to lose sleep? I know you said you have trouble…maybe when I get up there I will have to bring some sleep tips.

Sent: Monday, May 14, 2012 2:16 AM
Subject: @0200 peridot — two am thinking about your work issues and “load”

LUDDITE,

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INTERESTING: “Ineptocracy” sparks thinking about “National Negative Feedback Loop”

Monday, May 14, 2012

FROM LUDITE:

Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy) – a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

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Hmm, is getting smarter or finding new sources of wisdom on the inet to parrot? 

This sparks me to try an alternative definition of “negative feedback loop”. Ingineers use these to “damp” down oscillations and prevent “runaways” aka “positive feedback loop”.

Here goes:

“National negative feedback loop for productivity and wealth creation: A situation where the balance of producers and consumers tips to consumption. The political class gains advantage by promising more consumption for consumes by robbing the wealth of the producers. Producers, being the more intelligent and productive members of the “hive” recognize that they are getting <synonym for the past tense of the procreation act> and “damp” their productivity to a level sufficient for their own needs. This deprives society of the capital necessary to improve the capital stock of society as a whole. Think the “king” orders the “seed corn” be made into bread for distribution at the circuses. Clearly a downward spiral in entropy. This can only be broken by a catastrophe. A national revolution that wipes out the political class and replaces it with more enlightened “rulers” (e.g., French Revolution). A natural disaster such as Rome burns. Human evolution develops a new releases of “homo sapiens” that is hardier than the current release and “pushes out” the old version of humans (i.e., Rome is sacked by the Barbarians). “We, The Sheeple” rise up in a tax revolt (i.e., the Tea Party).”

Hmmmmmmm?

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FUN: Lorre #389

Sunday, May 13, 2012

CATCHING UP ON MY FAVORITE TV SHOWS:

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“… something primal, something deeply human being expressed when these characters unconsciously hold hands …”

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“… you’ve laughed a lot …”

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Yup. 

… but no one’s had to hold ever again.

Better to have love’d and lost than to have never loved at all.

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TECHNOLOGY: Domain Name price increase sparks “clean up”

Sunday, May 13, 2012

Guess I have to begin to get organized about my domains. 

I’m a great believer in the “spaghetti theory” of domains. Have a great idea? Throw up a domain or two and see what sticks. 

For every “box of nickels” and “box of nickles”, there are a lot of “memetaxonomy”, “auntie collector”, and “ram 1968”. 

With the price increase, the cost of being sloppy in going up. 

Perhaps, there’s a better deal for registering domain names?

But first one has to have a list of one’s domain names.

Last time I got this bug was when I thought that GODADDY’s soft porn advertising campaign was worthy of some moral outrage. It was bait and switch cause the uncensored version didn’t really show anything …

(Yes, all men are pigs. And, I had to do penance for that near occasion of sin. Just seeking it, as of course a purely IT research activity, was deemed by my priest as “really?”. Can’t get anything by him.)

… and wasn’t even funny!

So, now I have the bug again. 

Let the domain hunt begin! 

Argh! 

(Thus demonstrating I have no life. When a tiny price increase gives my life real meaning. Sort of one step short of those “extreme couponers”?)

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Customer ID: 9113251

Dear Ferdinand Reinke,

1&1 Internet Inc. appreciates your business and strives to consistently provide the best quality domain and web hosting services to our customers.

We are writing today to inform you that as a result of recent price increases by
the major domain registries, we need to increase the annual
rates for .com domains. In order for 1&1 to stay
competitive and continue to offer you excellent services, we have made
the following adjustments to our pricing structure.

For domain renewals and new orders as of 07/01/2012, the following domain
rate changes will apply:

*.com domain renewals will be increased from $9.99
to $10.99 per year.

The new price for your domain(s) will be applied to your next domain
renewal after July 1, 2012.

1&1 is committed to offering very competitive prices and professional
services in the domain environment and we hope to continue to meet and
surpass your service expectations.

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PLEASE NOTE:
This price change does not affect any free domains included in your package.

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ANY QUESTIONS?

If you have any questions or concerns regarding your account, please contact
our support representatives and they will be happy to assist you.
So that we can reply as quickly as possible, please contact us via e-mail
at contracts_us@1and1.com.

Thank you for choosing 1&1 and we look forward to your continued
success.

Sincerely,

Your 1&1 Team
1&1 Internet Inc.
http://1and1.com

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P.S., SPS (i.e., Self Praise Stinks)! “excellent services”? Never, even if true, throw your own bouquets. imho!

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RANT: Might as well be SPAM!

Saturday, May 12, 2012

From the “DOES ANYONE LOOK AT WHST THEY ARE SENDING PROSPECTS” department:

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Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

From: info@campingsurvival.com
Message-Id: <20120509055425.83DE89303D9@318805-web1.eystudios.com>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 00:54:25 -0500 (CDT)
X-UI-Loop: V01:ZaJjd++GzFg=:uPTdAQBfIs1BfYyac89qe/i/zfUl9LFzePsrT3aO6mo=
Envelope-To: {Privacy Invoked}

<body><table><tr><td></td><td><div style=’font-family:arial; color:#000000; font-size:8pt;’>

 

 

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Hello Ferdinand REINKE, <br/>

Thanks for signing up for an account with us.<br/>

We hope that you find our wishlist feature very useful.<br/>

-Camping Survival

 

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ROFL!

At least it didn’t say “don’t reply cause we ain’t listening”.

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IPAD: The kids’ toy box; perfect for the elderly non-techie

Friday, May 11, 2012

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57429122-37/six-scenarios-where-the-ipad-is-trouncing-the-pc/?tag=nl.e019

Six scenarios where the iPad is trouncing the PC
TechRepublic’s Jason Hiner has little use for an iPad. But he’s pinpointed six areas where it’s become people’s preferred device and is disrupting the PC market.
by Jason Hiner May 7, 2012 9:00 AM PDT

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6. The kid machine

For the past couple generations, kids have taken to computers and technology with almost no trouble and with few exceptions. However, with the iPhone this phenomenon started to go a step further — or younger. Suddenly, 2-year-olds could figure out how to swipe to unlock the phone, touch the photo app, and flick their little fingers across the screen to flip through photos. Once we got a big screen version of this experience with the iPad, the sky was suddenly the limit for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. They had a computer that required no training from their parents. Apps like Intro to Math, by Montessorium took advantage of the iPad interface to deliver software that was inexpensive, easy to learn, fun, and effective.

On the other end of the spectrum, the iPad is easy enough to figure out that plenty of elderly people who never felt comfortable with a computer have been able to use an iPad to do a few basic things. The key to this scenario is the iPad’s multitouch interface, which requires no user manual and no instruction to get started.

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Ever since I saw the YouTube video of a baby trying to stroke a magazine to make the “screen” turn, I knew Apple had a winner.

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