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CLOUD: LinkedIn change?
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LEXICON: Precariat?
Friday, February 19, 2016http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/ClaireWolfe/2016/02/15/i-have-learned-a-new-word-precariat/
Claire Wolfe
I have learned a new word: precariat
Monday, February 15th, 2016
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So yeah, “precariat” is an apt term for people like me and the growing number who live in the so-called “gig economy.”
Technically, to be in the precariat, you must also be in the proletariat: both insecure and low income. Without capital for building a real business. Selling your labor, piecemeal. Hey, I qualify again!
But what the heck. Life itself is precarious. And though the vast precariat lives on uncertainties, name me anybody who ultimately doesn’t. How many fabulously rich stock-market investors have taken spectacular falls? How many “secure” middle-class people have suddenly been rendered precarious by illness, addiction, divorce, accident, or government interference in their lives?
We are all members of the precariat as long as we’re still breathing.
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I would think that the “precariat” would be well situated for “tough times”.
Regardless of how much money you have, you have to think “worried”.
Growing up, I was always taught to “live below my means”. Unfortunately, it took me a while to learn that less0m.
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RANT: What the hell is “eyewash”?
Thursday, February 18, 2016http://www.thedailysheeple.com/the-cia-has-been-lying-to-its-own-employees-for-decades_022016
THE CIA HAS BEEN LYING TO ITS OWN EMPLOYEES FOR DECADES
FEBRUARY 13, 2016 | THE ANTI-MEDIA
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The Post says that references to eyewash date back to the 19th century in books on spying, as well as more recent Hollywood movies such as Argo. One official who has seen the Senate report said, “The people in the outer levels who didn’t have insider access were being lied to. They were being intentionally deceived.”
Five former “high-ranking CIA officials” said they have never heard of eyewash nor had they seen it used in internal communications. Fred Hitz, a former CIA inspector general, told the Post that someone might make a decision based on false information and said the tactic was equivalent to “playing with fire.” Other officials interview by the Post said the program has a significant potential for abuse.
Another government official who claims to have seen the practice said that in his career of more than two decades he had “only seen maybe five or six” eyewash cables. So far, the CIA has refused to comment on the Washington Post story.
Federal laws exist which make it illegal for a government employee to lie or falsify statements in an official record. Somehow, the CIA has managed to become so far above the law that they are able to lie to their own employees and compartmentalize it in such a fashion that the left hand never knows what the right hand is doing.
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You can trust the Gooferment about as you can trust that a politician is “honest”.
The fact that the CIA lies to its employees is only obscured by the fact that they, and the rest of the Gooferment, lies to the people, the taxpayers, and the world!
Argh!
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POLITICAL: Never ending wars are an accepted fact of life today
Wednesday, February 17, 2016https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/02/patrick-j-buchanan/republics-perish/
How Republics Perish
By Patrick J. Buchanan
February 12, 2016
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“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded,” wrote James Madison, “No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”
Perhaps Madison was wrong.
Otherwise, with no end to war on America’s horizon, the prospect of this free republic enduring is, well, doubtful.
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The last Presidential candidate who was a “peace candidate” was Ron Paul. He was thrown out of the race by being accused of isolationism, pacifism, and essential being “crazy”. BHO44 became the “new” “peace candidate”; even going so far to get a Nobel Peace Prize for doing NOTHING. Then, immediately staring the pot and creating more wars. Argh!
So, who turns this around and how does it get done?
Sad to say, the only one with any semblance of a “peace bone” in their body — now that Rand Paul is gone — is Donald Trump. At least at one point, he said “leave the Ukraine to Putin” and let the “Muslims fight it out without us”. While not the “Let’s bring all the girls and boys home now!” of Ron Paul, I’ll take any shred of peace that I can get. And, the Donald has said things that make me think he’s not as “crazy” about war as the main stream media would like us to believe.
I can’t vote for a socialist or a uncovicted felon. So we have to see what choices we have.
I remember the line by in “Master and Commander” when Captain Jack Aubrey (Russel Crowe) says: “There, I have you! You’re completely dished! Do you not know that in the service … … [pauses] … … one must always choose the lesser of two weevils.”
Argh!
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INTERNET: The inet exposed the mainstream media as “propaganda organs” of the elite
Tuesday, February 16, 2016https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/02/fred-reed/breaking-official-storyline/
Willie Nelson Comes to Jocotepec: The Internet and Social Fragmentation
By Fred Reed
February 12, 2016
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The aggregate effect was a manufactured unanimity or the appearance of one. In the post-war prosperity, Americans bought washing machines and tract houses and were content. Television was wholesome, sterile, and not very informative. Superman jumped out of window to promote truth, justice, and the American way, then thought to be related.
Came the internet. Fairly suddenly, every point of view became available to everybody: The KKK, the Black Panthers, communists, fascists, feminists, loon left and loon right, the-earth-is-flatters. The social media and comment sections allowed lateral communication with a vengeance.
A consequence was that the major media became known for what they were, propaganda organs of those who ran the country. Stories that the fossil media would have liked to ignore flew instantly to hundreds of thousands of inboxes, appeared on countless blogs and websites—often with cell-cam video.
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I think this is an astute observation. That and the aspect of “lateral communication”.
“Lateral thinking” has been around for awhile and helps one “see” missed choices and find missed solutions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking
The Free State Project https://freestateproject.org/about/101-reasons-move-new-hampshire would have been virtually impossible without the inet.
In my own profession of computer engineering, the inet has exposed that most large corporations have NO disaster recovery. Sure they can put files in the cloud, but can they restart their business after a data center is wiped out. Timing is everything. But the leadership wants to play “ostrich” and waste money believing their IT executives. Interesting that this big bluff has yet to be “called” yet.
What else has the inet silently revolutionized without being realized?
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MONEY: “Honesty” in banking — really?
Monday, February 15, 2016http://www.engadget.com/2016/02/15/monopoly-money-is-no-more-in-the-new-ultimate-banking-edition/
Monopoly money is no more in the new Ultimate Banking edition
How will older siblings ever cheat you out of your real estate fortune now?
Andrew Tarantola
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Hasbro has released a new edition of Monopoly called Ultimate Banking, that should help keep familial infighting to a minimum. Instead of paper money, which can easily be laundered or stolen when you aren’t looking, this new edition uses debit cards. It also does away with the easily-corrupted Banker position, replacing the human with an electronic card reader (aka an ATM).
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Hey, finally some “honesty” in banking.
Can we replace Wall Street.
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TECHNOLOGY: Einstein Theory Proven Correct
Monday, February 15, 2016Major Einstein Theory Proven Correct — and Theorist Says the Discovery Is as Important as Galileo’s Telescope
Feb. 11, 2016 10:50am
Associated Press
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists say they have finally detected gravitational waves – the ripples in the fabric of space-time that Einstein predicted a century ago.
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Now we need to hear what this really means.
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RANT: Good systems and Customer service?
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TECHNOLOGY: Driverless anything will dramatically disrupt the economy
Saturday, February 13, 2016http://observer.com/2016/02/why-driverless-cars-will-screech-to-a-halt/
OPINION
Why Driverless Cars Will Screech to a Halt
The liability and regulatory issues involved in letting a 3000 pound death machine steer itself with no human at the controls remain huge
By Steven Hill • 02/09/16 8:42am
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Elon Musk’s Tesla recently became the latest big shot company to enter the self-driving car sweepstakes. Mr. Musk recently announced the hiring of software architecture veteran Jim Keller, who previously had played key roles at Apple and AMD, to lead its Autopilot Engineering team. Tesla’s move follows the recently announced partnership between General Motors and Lyft, in which the automaker is investing $500 million in the ridesharing company as part of a joint venture to develop self-driving cars.
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I wouldn’t mind having a “driverless car”.
I don’t think it will happen in my lifetime.
It will hugely disrupt the economy. Hard to imagine all the impacts.
Great for the senior citizens who should no longer be driving.
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Elon Musk’s Tesla recently became the latest big shot company to enter the self-driving car sweepstakes. Mr. Musk recently announced the hiring of software architecture veteran Jim Keller, who previously had played key roles at Apple and AMD, to lead its Autopilot Engineering team. Tesla’s move follows the recently announced partnership between General Motors and Lyft, in which the automaker is investing $500 million in the ridesharing company as part of a joint venture to develop self-driving cars.
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TECHNOLOGY: Airlander 10 originally developed as part of a US Army project
Friday, February 12, 2016World’s largest aircraft gets ready for take-off: 300ft-long Airlander 10 is put through its final preparations ahead of next month’s flight
- Airlander 10 was originally developed as part of a US Army project which was then abandoned in 2012
- A British company is now converting the aircraft – a cross between an airship and an aeroplane – into civilian use
- It recently took off inside its hangar in Bedfordshire for the first time so engineers could add the finishing touches
- Engines and fins are being fitted this week and the 300-ft (93 metre) craft will make its debut test flight next month
By VICTORIA WOOLLASTON FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 05:10 EST, 9 February 2016 | UPDATED: 05:54 EST, 9 February 2016
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Three years since work began on the Airlander 10, engineers are putting the final touches on the giant aircraft described as ‘part plane, part helicopter.’
The 300ft-long (93 metres) Airlander was originally developed as part of a US Army project but was scrapped by military bosses. It is now being converted to provide business and leisure flights in a hangar in Cardington, Bedfordshire.
The vessel was filled with 1.3million cubic feet of helium – enough to fill 15 Olympic-sized swimming pools -in a test run last October and now the engines and fins are being fitted ahead of next month’s flight.
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Wow, some beautiful piece of work!
Speechless.
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