TECHNOLOGY: Comedy of errors failing over to my backup mac

Saturday, December 7, 2024

Well, Hello from Mac Book Air aka BLUE aka MCBA5.

It’s my fifth iteration of Mac Book Airs.  Officially known as FVHFD4SHQ6L4.  When I spilled coffee on it, I bought MCBA6 aka ROSE while iBLUE was in for repair.  When it came back, it was demoted to “spare”.  From time to time, I’d fire it up and use it a little.

So the cockatoo got to ROSE and feasted on the keyboard.  So I backed it up to portable hard drive in prep for the Apple Store.

B38082CD EB5B 49D6 A63A 7756FFADA197 1 105 c

Luckily it’s still has an active Apple Care. The repair is supposedly covered under accidental damage and will get a new keyboard.  Yay.  It’ll be back in a week or so.

No problem,! I’ll just fail over to BLUE.

Wow was that an over estimation of the process.

Now, I am a belt ’n’ suspenders guy.  One is none; two is one; and three is bliss.

Sure.  Unfortunately all the passwords were screwed up since my last use.  

No problem it’s easy now to reset them using the Apple Account to reset them.

(Even my extra DUMMYADMIN account which has the same password across all my MCBXs was trashed?)

Of course, BLUE needs to update the OS and a whole load of apps.

No problem.  After the FireFox update, all my settings were trashed.

No problem. I use Mozilla’s sync so it recovered all my settings.  Almost.

All my extensions were not on the toolbar. Argh!  After about a calendar day, I found the fix.

I’m now back to “business”.  Until the next troll, gremlin, or bug pops up.

(Imagine if I didn’t use BLUE for one day on the First of Every Month. Argh!)

YMMV!

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SURVIVAL: Perhaps a review of the T-day frying turkey fails on YouTube might be required watching?

Saturday, December 7, 2024

https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/weston-road-house-fire-no-injuries-19949303.php?ICID=ref_fark

Fire that destroyed CT home on Thanksgiving apparently caused by someone frying turkey, officials say
By Peter Yankowski, Brianna Gurciullo, Hana Ikramuddin, Staff Writers
Updated Nov 29, 2024 4:51 p.m.

  • Firefighters battled a large house fire in south Weston on Thanksgiving evening, officials said. 

  • A fire that erupted at a large home on Weston Road on Thanksgiving Day started in the garage after someone tried to fry a turkey, officials said Friday.

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WESTON — A fire that erupted at a large home on Weston Road on Thanksgiving Day started in the garage after someone tried to fry a turkey, officials said Friday.

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I wonder if their insurance might deny their claim since they don’t insure against “stupidity”.  The pictures are spectacular.

I’ve seen many videos of these type fails on YouTube.  Some were even deliberate demonstrations by Fire Departments to educate “We, The Sheeple” about the dangers.  

Certainly doing it in a garage is only one tiny step smarter than doing it in the kitchen.

The explosive power of this type of “cooking” is really stunning.  What’s next firing it out of a cannon?  It just seems like a stupid way to singe your eyebrows off.

Well, I guess it is a way to earn a painful Darwin Award.

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VETERANS: National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

Saturday, December 7, 2024

National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day

December 7, 2024

Flag at Half-Staff

# – # – # – # – # 

As if anyone remembers … … 

Pearl Harbor Memorial Aerial.

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Ribbons to Honor the Fallen

If you are unable to fly your flag at half-staff, the accepted solution is to tie a long black ribbon to the top of the flagpole allowing it to drape over the American flag.

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VETERANS: Need a better way to “find” dementia sufferers

Friday, December 6, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/12/04/us-news/missing-korean-war-vet-with-dementia-found-more-than-200-miles-from-home/?lctg=6080ba40747925275a09dcd3

Missing Korean War vet with dementia found more than 200 miles from home after wife spots 91-year-old on TV
By David Propper 
Published Dec. 4, 2024, 11:53 p.m. ET

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A missing 91-year-old Korean War vet with dementia was found more than 200 miles away from his Wyoming home — when his worried wife spotted him on an evening newscast two days after he wandered off.

Avril Black’s concern was mounting after her spouse Michael Black vanished after he left their Afton home on Nov. 25, leading her to report him missing the next morning, according to a local report.

While authorities reportedly gathered he had hitchhiked his way to Ovid, Idaho, and then traveled down to Garden City, Utah, he was in the wind from there.

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I’m glad this hero was not found dead somewhere.  As a society, we need better systems to find individuals who “wander away”.  

Air Tags?  Angel Sense devices?  Medical Alert bracelets? Even Tattoos?  

I would believe that local police should be the first point of contact.  Amber alerts for the local area could be issued.  Shelters, churches, and vet organizations could be involved.

(When I get a NIXIE alert, I pay attention to it.  Never “found” anyone, but I look when out and about.)

Hopefully, we’ll get better at caring for members of the human race, who through no fault of their own, need help.

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MEME: No comment needed?

Friday, December 6, 2024

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VOCABULARY: “demonstrated preference” by Murray Rothbard

Friday, December 6, 2024

https://mailchi.mp/tomwoods/20243-9250479?e=39307912ab

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For instance, I know a guy who worked at a record store (remember those?) who used to feel oddly guilty about his job, because he couldn’t shake the idea that the store was somehow taking advantage of consumers.

Then he read Murray Rothbard’s discussion of “demonstrated preference” — which means that both parties to a voluntary transaction are made better off (ex ante), or the transaction would not have occurred.

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This insight is one reason for a completely voluntary society.  If everyone is free, then no one can be “exploited”. 

Dona Nobis Pacem

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ConspiracyTheories: Several Conspiracy Theories on UHC CEO shooting death

Thursday, December 5, 2024

FROM 1440 https://join1440.com/

<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2024-12-05>>

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UnitedHealthcare CEO Killed

Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, the insurance division of UnitedHealth Group, was shot and killed yesterday in what police called a targeted attack in Manhattan.

The company was holding its annual investor day at the Hilton Hotel. A search for the suspect is underway. The 50-year-old Thompson was arriving around 6:45 am ET when the suspect, wearing a ski mask and a dark hooded sweatshirt, fired three shots at his back and leg using a handgun before escaping on an e-bike. Police say the suspect was lying in wait for several minutes before the killing. Authorities have not publicly identified a motive as of this writing, but they say Thompson had recently faced several threats.

UnitedHealthcare is the largest private health insurance provider in the US, serving roughly 50 million customers. Thompson had worked at the company for more than 20 years, becoming CEO of UnitedHealthcare in April 2021. 

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To early to classify yet.

  1. Disgruntled insurance CustomerHe was going to testify in exchange for immunity on insider trading
  2. He was going to inform about the political pressure to pay for Covid shots
  3. He was going to spill the beans on the Covid financial scams
  4. He had some evidence on HRC
  5. Jealous lover or spurned wifeSome connection to organized crime

While it’s still early, stay tuned to your favorite Conspiracy Theorist reporter for news as it breaks.

p.s., don’t just dismiss Conspiracy Theories because they have a habit of becoming true

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SURVIVAL: Here’s a survival story that should have some details filled in

Thursday, December 5, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/11/28/world-news/missing-hiker-sam-benastick-found-alive-after-50-days-in-canadian-wilderness/

Missing hiker found alive after 50 days in Canadian wilderness where temperatures dropped below 0: ‘Unbelievable’
By Alex Oliveira 
Published Nov. 28, 2024, 7:57 p.m. ET

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A young hiker lost in the volatile Canadian wilderness for more than a month was found alive Tuesday after weeks of desperate searching, according to reports.

Sam Benastick, 20, was found hobbling down a service road in British Columbia’s Redfern-Keily Provincial Park, where he had been reported missing after failing to return home from a 10-day hiking trip on October 17, according to CBC News.

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Is that a record of some type?

No details of what he did right and wrong.  Clearly, he was either very lucky or had some great skills. 

I’d like to know what he was carrying and doing while “lost”.   And, of course, who pays for the search and rescue?

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RANT: So if Hunter Biden can’t invoke the Fifth, then it means all his “co-conspitors” are in jeopardy

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/3246790/pardon-fifth-amendment-trouble-hunter-biden/

Pardon means Fifth Amendment trouble for Hunter Biden
By Kaelan Deese
December 2, 2024 12:37 pm

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In the hours since the pardon, Republicans, along with legal experts, have elevated the significance of what the younger Biden’s pardon means for their long-standing investigations, contending that it opens up the playing field for lawmakers to question him on nearly everything he has now been pardoned from over the past 11 years.

Under the Fifth Amendment, people can refuse to answer questions if their responses might incriminate them in criminal cases. However, with all criminal liability now erased by the pardon, Hunter Biden could face contempt charges if he refuses to testify before congressional panels.

“Well, this now makes it much easier for a GOP Senate/House to call Hunter as a witness about his and his dad’s connections to Ukraine, etc. because the pardon prevents Hunter from asserting the Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself,” Mark Smith, a constitutional attorney and host of the Four Boxes Diner legal analysis show, wrote on X.

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If I was at all connected to Hunter Biden, then I’d be worried.

See he has a BIG Get Out Of Jail Free card.  Unless you have one, you’re screwed.  He’ll have to testify against you.  

(Don’t know what happens if he refuses?)

So, like when the authorities go after any organized crime, they flip the bottom run to testify against the next rung up.  Until they reach the top.

I’ve often thought that in the cases of election fraud, get the underlings, arrest them, and threaten them with prison and watch how fast they will turn states evidence against their boss.  Or bosses. 

It should be very entertaining to see whose hands are “dirty”.

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VETERANS: Sailors were used as lab animals

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/25/san-francisco-navy-lab-human-radiation?mc_cid=7283492361&mc_eid=0da2484634

Frisco Navy Lab’smHuman Radiation Experiments 

San Francisco Public Press & The Guardian

  • Revealed: how a San Francisco navy lab became a hub for human radiation experiments
  • Operations at a cold war lab exposed at least 1,073 people to radiation. Risks to the nearby communities persist

Chris Roberts, San Francisco Public Press
Mon 25 Nov 2024 14.00 EST

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Between 1946 and 1963, this article reports, lab scientists knowingly exposed at least 1,073 servicemen, dockworkers, lab employees and others to potentially harmful radiation through war games, decontamination tests and medical studies at the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory at San Francisco’s Hunters Point naval shipyard. A review by the San Francisco Public Press of thousands of pages of government and academic records as well as interviews with affected servicemen reveal:

    … [T]he lab conducted at least 24 experiments that exposed humans to radiation, far more than past official reviews acknowledged. Safety reports also note dozens of accidents in which staff received doses in excess of federal health limits in effect at the time. Researchers at the lab tracked the exposure of workers trying to clean ships irradiated by an atomic bomb test. Soldiers were ordered to crawl through fields of radioactive sand and soil. In clinical studies, radioactive substances were applied to forearms and hands, injected or administered by mouth. Top US civilian and military officials pre-approved all of this in writing, documents show. The records indicate that researchers gained limited knowledge from this program, and that not everyone involved had their exposure monitored. There is also no sign the lab studied the long-term health effects on people used in the experiments or in surrounding communities, either during the lab’s heyday or after it closed in 1969.

This article reports that the Navy’s San Francisco lab was “a major cold war research facility with a unique focus on ‘radiological defense,’ techniques developed to help the public survive and armed forces fight back in case of an atomic attack. It was one node in a nationwide network that encompassed universities, hospitals and national labs that had permission to handle dangerous radioactive material.” 

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No study of the “long-term health effects on people used in the experiments or in surrounding communities, either during the lab’s heyday or after it closed in 1969.”

Well, let’s go back and studied it NOW!

This is “Yet Another Example” of how the Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats treat Veterans and the general population.  Like lab rats.  Not even given any human dignity.  Let alone “informed consent”.

It’s not too late to rectify this grave error.  

Maybe if the guilty get punishment, the it could deter future bad behavior?

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