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http:// answers.yahoo.com/question/
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payment from a deadbeat
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Try to get payments from a student or give up?
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Just received word that this was selected “best by voters”.
One vote among one answer.
Ten meaningless points brings me to 826.
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Posted by reinkefj
NJ1015 radio is now reporting that the state is enforcing some sort of food regulations that prevent the roadside farm markets from selling anything but fresh veggies.
Jim Gearhart notes that he has NOT heard of anyone getting sick from such purchases. Neither have I.
So here’s another infringement that will probably just slip into place.
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http://www.mercurynews.com/businessheadlines/
ci_6380600?source=sb-digg
Best states for retirees seeking low taxes, costs
By Shannon Buggs
McClatchy-Tribune Services
Article Launched: 07/15/2007 01:47:06 AM PDT
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Or join the Free State Project, the Libertarian-influenced movement to recruit 20,000 people to move to New Hampshire because of its low taxes and loose regulations.
Go to www.freestateproject.org to learn more about New Hampshire, which has no general income tax, no general sales tax and the lowest taxes as a percentage of gross income nationwide, according to the project’s analysis.
Finally, to avoid paying state income taxes on retirement fund withdrawals, move to or remain in the seven states without a state income tax: Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington and Wyoming. Two others – New Hampshire and Tennessee – tax only dividend and interest income.
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FSP making inroards in the public’s mind?
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http://www.nj1015.com/personalities/jim-gearhart/bits/a-few-things.htm
A few things you might not know about the great state of NEW JERSEY…
* New Jersey is a peninsula.
* Highlands, New Jersey has the highest elevation along the entire eastern seaboard, from Maine to Florida.
* New Jersey is the only state where all of its counties are classified as metropolitan areas.
* New Jersey has more race horses than Kentucky.
* New Jersey has the oldest lighthouse in the USA. The Sandy Hook Lighthouse was built in 1764.
* New Jersey has more Cubans in Union City (1 sq. mi.) than Havana, Cuba.
* New Jersey has the most dense system of highways and railroads in the US.
* New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is sometimes referred to as the Diner Capital of the World.
* North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in the world, with seven major shopping malls in a 25 square mile radius.
* New Jersey is home to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
* The Passaic River was the site of the first submarine ride by inventor John P. Holland.
* New Jersey has 50+ resort cities & towns, some of the nations’ most famous: Asbury Park, Wildwood, Atlantic City, Seaside Heights, Long Branch & Cape May.
* New Jersey has the most stringent testing along our coastline for Water Quality Control than any other seaboard state in the entire country.
* New Jersey is a leading industrial state and is the largest chemical producing state in the nation when you include pharmaceuticals.
* Two-thirds of the world’s eggplants are grown in New Jersey.
* Jersey tomatoes are known the world over as being the best you can buy.
* New Jersey is the world leader in blueberry and cranberry production.
* Here’s to New Jersey-the toast of the country! In 1642, the first brewery in America opened in Hoboken.
* New Jersey rocks! The famous Les Paul invented the first solid body electric guitar in Mahwah in! 1940, and he still lives there!
* New Jersey is a major seaport state with the largest seaport in the US, located in Elizabeth. Nearly 80% of what our nation imports comes through Elizabeth Seaport first.
* New Jersey is home to one of the nation’s busiest airports at Newark International.
* George Washington slept here. Several important Revolutionary War battles were fought on New Jersey soil, led by General George Washington.
* The light bulb, phonograph (record player), and motion picture projector were invented by Thomas Edison in his Menlo Park, NJ laboratory. We also boast the first town ever lit by incandescent bulbs.
* The transistor was invented in Murray Hill, NJ at Bell Laboratories.
* Bell Lab engineers in Holmdel, NJ were the first to detect the background radiation of the Big Bang.
* The first seaplane was built in Keyport, NJ.
* The first airmail (to Chicago) was started from Keyport, NJ.
* The first phonograph records were made in Camden, NJ.
* New Jersey is home to the Miss America pageant held in Atlantic City.
* The game Monopoly, played all over the world, named the streets on their playing board after the actual streets in Atlantic City.
* Atlantic City has the longest boardwalk in the world.
* New Jersey has the largest petroleum containment area outside of the Middle East countries.
* The first Indian reservation was in New Jersey, in the Watchung Mountains.
* New Jersey has the tallest water-tower in the world.
* New Jersey had the first Medical Center, in Jersey City.
* The Pulaski Sky Way, from Jersey City to Newark, was the first skyway-highway.
* NJ built the first auto tunnel under a river, the Hudson. (Holland Tunnel)
* New Jersey is the only state in the nation which offers child abuse prevention workshops to every public school.
* The first baseball game was played in Hoboken, NJ, which is also the birthplace of Frank Sinatra.
* The first intercollegiate football game was played in New Brunswick in 1889. (Rutgers College played Princeton.)
* The first Drive-in Movie theater was opened in Camden, NJ.
* New Jersey is home to both of “New York’s ” Pro Football Teams!
* The first radio station and broadcast was in Paterson, NJ.
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http://www.networkworld.com/columnists/2007/071007-backspin.html
Technology for the People by the Money
Backspin By Mark Gibbs, Network World, 07/10/07
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A new federal rule is now in effect that means SDR/CR systems that use “open source elements” will find it hard to get FCC approval or perhaps be excluded altogether.
The FCC’s reasoning – inexplicably prompted by Cisco, of all companies – is that manufacturers should not use open source software “if doing so would increase the risk that … security measures could be defeated or otherwise circumvented to allow operation … of the radio in a manner that violates the Commission’s rules.”
This means that what the FCC and Cisco apparently want are unhackable software products! As Homer Simpson would say, “Du-oh!” Gentlemen, you must know that there is no such thing and anyone with the slightest clue will tell you that security through obscurity has never and will never work.
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Gooferment “protecting” you from those evil companies!?!
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He knocks the ball out oft he park. He took every liberal topic and precisely defined what he’d do. No ifs, ands, or maybes. And, he appeared to be well received. The new citizen who flew down from Seattle with a check was the most eloquent witness.
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http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/014120.html
Ron Paul’s Google Interview
Posted by David Griffus at July 14, 2007 08:41 PM
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One of Ron’s best yet!
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I agree that he came off as an exciting knowledgeable great guy!
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From an email to a fellow alum
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>i changed my email address
Sigh, I’ve ranted about having your own email address in your own domain.
What happens if people don’t get the message of the shift.
I’ve even suggested for those, that want their email at their ISP account, that they should still use their own domain and just forward the email where ever they want it.
For one particularly clueless soul, I set up his domain (and this is all sanitized so as not to embarrass anyone) as “clueless.com” with an email address of “soul @ clueless.com”. That was forwarded to “clueless soul @ gmail.com” for backup ‘n’ recovery purposes as well as their excellent spam filters. The gmail account was forwarded to the ISP where he wanted it. The return address on the gmail and the ISP account were set to his domain. So his “email address” never changes no matter how many times he changes ISPs. If he accidently deletes a message he has the gmail account to recover it from. If his ISP goes off line or their email stops working, he can fall back to gmail. And, if his ISP is bought by someone else and he is forced to change his ISP email address, it’s no big deal. Another benefit I just thought of his that he can use gmail’s filters to squelch someone.
And, he never has to worry about someone having an old email address.
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In my mind, it’s impossible to communicate the change to everyone who has your old email address. It may have been given to them by someone else.
Here’s my little scenario, like the economist’s island. Jane has Mary’s email address written in Jane’s address book. Jane give it to Marge who puts it in her address book. Mary changes her address and updates Jane. Marge runs into Jane’s bestest friend in college Sue who has lost touch with Mary but would love to get in touch. Marge gives Mary’s old address to Sue who sends an email that bounces. Silly? Yes!
You don’t know all the people who have your old email addresses. And, yes, there may be ways around it.
Manhattan College gave all alumni a “lifetime” email address. But, after a few years, a few changes in vendors, guess what? Yup, you should have asked who’s life time!
You can have your own domain and email for $12/year. If you’re not strapped for money, you can have your website that includes the domain and email, for $50/year.
Your ISP’s email is a trap to lock you in to their service. It can leave you high and dry at the most inopportune times. And, you can be forced to change if they get bought out or go out. Why risk it?
Your employer’s should never be used for personal purposes. Aside from morality, there are practical reasons. The average employee changes jobs every five years. In some industries, in some types of jobs, the average is 30 months. You should have your own email address for even quasi-business purposes like LinkedIn or external connections.
For example, I use a different formation of my name @ my domain for my outside business uses and forward that to my employer’s email address. It permits quick screening so that it doesn’t get lost in the morass of inside mail. I use yet another formulation for the quasi business uses. And, I assign different names to different purposes.
It just gives you a ton of flexibility at a very modest cost.
Seem obvious to me!
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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/
2007/07/11/illegal_immigration
Illegal Immigration
By Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
In this I’m going to try interspersing my comments in the article.
WW> I’d like to raise some ordinary non-rocket-science questions to the pro-amnesty crowd, many of whom are my libertarian friends.
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WW> Do people, anywhere in the world, have a right to enter the United States irrespective of our laws pertaining to immigration?
No, “right” implies that I have a duty. But, it has nothing to do with “laws”.
WW> If your answer is “no,” one does not have a right to enter the U.S. irrespective of our laws, what does that make a person who does so?
Just a person. Maybe they are just lost.
WW>I was summoned for jury duty some years ago, and during voir dire, the attorney asked me whether I could obey the judge’s instructions.
Jury tampering by the system to ensure it gets the verdicts it wants.
WW>Needless to say, I was dismissed from jury duty.
Lucky you weren’t held in contempt! Probably poisoned the whole pool. Good job!
WW>While our immigration laws are overly cumbersome and in urgent need of streamlining, they do not violate human rights and should be obeyed.
Your immigration laws are cruel, immoral, ineffective and inefficient. They clearly are at odds with the founding documents. And, seek to empower and enhance the welfare state.
WW>we can’t prevent every rape and murder
Maybe if we got rid of all the “victimless crime laws” and shrink the gooferment down to Constitutional size, then maybe we could.
WW>People who are here illegally should be denied access to any social service such as Medicaid, public education and food assistance programs.
I’d suggest we end the dole for EVERYONE! It’s only provided by the theft from productive people.
WW>The United States is a nation of immigrants from all over the world.
So, let’s go back to the immigration rules that cherished the Statue of Liberty.
WW>Because there was no welfare state, we were guaranteed that they’d work as opposed to living off the rest of us.
Bingo!
WW>They’ve announced that they seek to take back parts of the U.S. that were formerly Mexico.
Local determination. Peace. Mutual respect. As recognized by the Constitution, and the other great document of civilization.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/07/13/15-productive-uses-for-a-wiki/
15 Productive Uses for a Wiki
WEBWORKERDAILY
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A few of the things that are emerging about web workers is that 1) we do just about everything online; 2) we want to be able to access it from any computer, anywhere; and 3) it’s hard to organize all the stuff we use and do, in our work and personal lives.
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1) To-do list. Once you’ve learned the simple wiki markup language, creating a list is easy. And the most productive list, of course, is the to-do list. In fact, if you’re into GTD, you can set up multiple context lists for a simple GTD system — try GTD Tiddlywiki, dcubed, or MonkeyGTD for more integrated wiki solutions.
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Sigh, maybe I’ll try again. It’s the doing that is hard.
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