Back in 2012, I started a column with this line: “The US Postal Service deserves to go broke.”What bothered me was the fact that enterprising crooks were making counterfeit postage stamps and
Source: I tried to warn USPS about this counterfeit operation
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I wonder if FedEx or UPS has these problems.
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Around San Diego County, a hot, salty, buttered controversy has popped up. Should hardware stores offer free bags of freshly-popped popcorn? While that may look like a warm, welcoming treat, free popcorn is a threat to public health — or so argue county officials.
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The tyranny of the “individual complaint”? How can residents of the Pepuls Republik of Kaliforkneeah ever survive without the benevolent over watching everything police state? Guess that ecoli outbreak of romaine lettuce didn’t happen? Argh! What’s next regulation of kid’s lemonade stands? Oh yeah, the “health police” already do that. Argh!
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http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/05/13/7-ways-to-finally-end-robocalls.html
7 ways to finally end robocalls
By Kim Komando | The Kim Komando Show
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1. Block individual numbers
This feature is available on iPhone and Android, the ability to block specific numbers. Blocking numbers won’t stop every robocall and spammer number out there, but you can at least block the recurring ones.
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I do this, but it’s just not enough.
When something is free (i.e., no charge to dial a number), it WILL be abused.
Like SPAM emails from Nigerian Princes.
Need a fractional charge for every call and email. Maybe 100 for a penny?
½ for the transport and ½ for the recipient?
Works for me.
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The California Rifle and Pistol Association can, of course, appeal both cases. But everyone paying even the slightest bit of attention already knows what the outcome will be before the largely anti-gun 9th Circuit. And the Supreme Court will likely ignore the warnings from Justice Thomas and Justice Gorsuch and refuse to take the cases.This is how the courts, quietly, one case at a time, without a vote, are making sure the Second Amendment simply will not apply within the state of California.
Source: 2 New Court Decisions Are Quietly Eliminating Californians’ Second Amendment Rights – Reason.com
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So do these types of infringements apply to the First Amendment?
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Fired FBI director James Comey has told two congressional committees that agents didn’t believe Mr. Flynn purposely misled them when he denied talking about two topics with former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak––Obama-ordered sanctions and a pending United Nations vote. He had in fact discussed those two issues.
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How about a Federal law that requires all law enforcement “interviews” are video and audio recorded? It seems that the FBI in untrustworthy.
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Sci Hub has really stuck a proverbial thumb in the eye of paywall providers. If “We, The Sheeple” pay for the research by Gooferment grants, then why shouldn’t it be in the public domain?
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https://pjmedia.com/trending/yahoo-and-aol-can-now-read-your-emails-access-your-bank-records/
If you now have a Yahoo or AOL account, I recommend that you close your account.
Seriously, not that I think Google is “Prince Charming”, but Verizon has now gone “over the edge”, imho. Of course, it’s a giant PIA to change email addresses.
That’s why I suggest that you have your own domain? The common wisdom, or is that common whizdumb, is to own your own name as a domain name. I own “reinke.cc”. (I like saying “sea sea me at reinke.cc”! me@reinke.cc will actually work!) I gives one quite a bit of control.
And, it’s very cheap. I know three solutions at 15$/year using wordpressdotcom with gmail, 25$/year email only with 1and1, and 60$/year for domain+email+webspace also at 1and1. My point is not that you should use 1and1. http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251 I could care less which one you use. It’s that getting on to your own domain with email is cheap and easy. And, it’s not hotmail, yahoo, or gmail. It IS your own “personal brand”.
If you find out later that you’ve been abused by Verizon aka AOL aka Yahoo or your ISP, then you can’t say you did get warned.
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After confirming he has a problem with that, he says, “I don’t like it, that’s why. I don’t like your religion, it says to kill me.”
Source: Coffee shop refuses to serve man after racist rant
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No place in America for a religious bigot like this fool. Other countries have have religious wars. We don’t need that here. If a woman wants to cover, then that’s her choice. It doesn’t matter what I think of the practice. I want religious freedom for her just like I want it for myself and every individual. If I was a patron, I hope I would have spoke up for all of us. Argh!
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Jarvis responded by denouncing any commercialization of Mother’s Day, thinking any attempt to make money off of Mother’s Day – even if it was for a good cause – was wrong and not in the spirit of the thing. After all, something like a hand written note expressing your personal feelings is far superior, in her opinion, than some store bought card.
Source: Anna Jarvis’ Big Mistake
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Heard this a few decades ago from a smart lady at Merrill Lynch was positive that “Mothers’ Day” was a giant conspiracy to milk the general public. After reading this, maybe she was correct!
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Unveiling its fall 2018-2019 schedule, NBC is giving freshman medical drama “New Amsterdam” a big vote of confidence.
Source: NBC 2018-2019 Schedule: ‘New Amsterdam’ Lands Post ‘This Is Us’ Slot – Variety
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New shows? What gets dumped to make room?
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