JOBSEARCH: without regard to loyalty

Thursday, July 5, 2007

FROM ERN

Strategic Recruiting

 

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The problem with the term “Human Capital” is that it perpetuates the notion that human beings are interchangeable anonymous widgets. People who are treated as if they were capital, start to behave like capital. They move to the source of the highest return as quickly as possible without regard to loyalty.

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Loyalty? You have to be kidding me. This goes back to the paradigm of “managing things; leading people”. There’s no loyalty today in any industry. It’s not about being crass materialists. It IS about “reciprocity”. Treat me like that “human capital” and I’ll treat you similarly.

Forewarned is forearmed!

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TECH SERVICE: officially close Yahoo! Photos on Thursday, September 20, 2007, at 9 p.m. PDT

Thursday, July 5, 2007

Email from yahoo photos.

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From: Yahoo! Photos [mailto:directmail@yahoo-inc.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 8:16 AM
To: reinkefj
Subject: Yahoo! Photos is closing — Action Required

Dear Yahoo! Photos user,

For some time now, we’ve supported two great photo sharing services: Yahoo! Photos and Flickr. But even good things come to an end, and we’ve decided to close Yahoo! Photos to focus all our efforts on Flickr — the award-winning photo sharing community that TIME Magazine has called “completely addictive.”

We will officially close Yahoo! Photos on Thursday, September 20, 2007, at 9 p.m. PDT. Until then, we are offering you the opportunity to move to another photo sharing service (Flickr, KODAK Gallery, Shutterfly, Snapfish, or Photobucket), download your original-resolution photos back to your computer, or buy an archive CD from our featured partner (for users of the New Yahoo! Photos only). All you need to do is tell us what to do with your photos before we close, after which any photos remaining on Yahoo! Photos will be deleted and no longer accessible.

Of course, we hope you’ll join us at Flickr (you can even use your Yahoo! ID), but we also realize that Flickr may not be for everyone. In the end, we want you to find the service that’s right for you, and we hope you take some time to learn more about your options before making this important decision.

Please give us your decision by Thursday, September 20, 2007, at 9 p.m. PDT. After that time, any photos remaining in Yahoo! Photos will be deleted. Click here to make your decision, or review a list of our frequently asked questions.

Thanks for being a part of the Web’s largest photo sharing service — we hope to see you over at Flickr!

The Yahoo! Photos team

Please do not reply to this message. This is a service email related to your use of Yahoo! Photos. To learn more about Yahoo!’s use of personal information, including the use of web beacons in HTML-based email, please read our Privacy Policy. Yahoo! Photos is located at 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.

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So I go there but am totally blocked from seeing what photos they are talking about?

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Yahoo! Photos is Closing

We’re sorry. Yahoo! Photos is closing on September 20, 2007 so we are no longer accepting new accounts or allowing users to upload photos if you don’t already have photos in your account. We’ve decided to focus all our efforts on Flickr – the award winning photo sharing community that Time Magazine has even called “completely addictive”. Why not head over to Flickr for a look?

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You can’t find out what photos they are refering to. Oh well. Another reason why the web isn’t perfect.

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INTERESTING: Survival Blog because preparation is not just for Y2K

Thursday, July 5, 2007

SurvivalBlog

http://www.survivalblog.com

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TECH SERVICE: GRANDCENTRAL goes to GOOGLE

Thursday, July 5, 2007

GRANDCENTRAL goes to GOOGLE

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From: GrandCentral [mailto:support@grandcentral.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 3:08 AM
To: reinkefj
Subject: GrandCentral is now part of Google

July 2007

We’re now part of Google!
We wanted to let you know that GrandCentral has been acquired by Google! We’re particularly excited about this because it ensures that not only will we have the resources to continue to bring you even more innovative communications features down the road, but that we will be able to continue to offer you the service, with many features for free, for a long time to come.

We started GrandCentral because we wanted to create a service that puts users in control of their voice communications and not the other way around. As you have discovered, with GrandCentral you get all of your phone calls through just one number that never changes and you can link and ring up to six phones when somebody calls you. But that’s just the start. You can set different rules for each caller (some ring all your phones, others can go straight to voicemail), create personal voicemail greetings for each of your callers, and even check your voicemail on the web with all of your messages in just one inbox. We’ll even save your messages for as long as you want.

Have you ever tried to save a message on your cell phone but it gets deleted after a few weeks? Or have you wished you could hear your voicemail messages while they are being left like you used to be able to do on your old home answering machine? Have you ever been on a call on your cell but wished you could switch it to your desk or home phone? How about having a filter to weed out unwanted telemarketer calls automatically? With GrandCentral you are in control and can do all of this, and this is just the beginning. As part of Google we’ll be able to create even more unique features to let you control your calls the way you want.

Many of you probably have questions about what happens to the service now that we’re a part of Google. We’ve created an FAQ–which will answer most of your questions, but a couple of highlights:

Our priority now is to ensure that you, our current beta users, continue to have a great user experience. While we scale the service, we are moving to an invitation-only model for new users. If you’re a registered user today, you can invite five of your friends to join. In addition, GrandCentral will continue to remain entirely free as we work with Google to add capacity, work out any kinks, fix bugs, and add a ton more great features. We hope you continue using the service and send us feedback about anything we can do to improve it.

Thanks for your support so far. We’ll always work to earn it.

Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet, GrandCentral Founders

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Moving Your GrandCentral Account to Google
Don’t worry, the GrandCentral service won’t be interrupted as a result of the acquisition by Google – you don’t need to do anything, and your account and service will be transferred over to Google. As part of this acquisition, we are transitioning to Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. If you’d rather not maintain your account as a result of the acquisition, no problem: you can choose to discontinue your account any time before August 1, 2007 and your account won’t be transferred over to Google – we’ll delete your account and all related information. To discontinue your account, email support@grandcentral.com. We will contact you at your registered email address to confirm your deletion request before completing it.
©2007 GrandCentral Communications, Inc. 48389 Fremont Blvd., Suite #110, Fremont, CA 94538 unsubscribe

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LIBERTY: Virginia declares its independence on May 15, 1776

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/gutzman4.html

Myths of the 4th of July
by Kevin R. C. Gutzman

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2. The 4th of July was the day that the 13 states established their independence.

No, it was not. In fact, Virginia established its independence on May 15, 1776, when its revolutionary Convention adopted resolutions for a declaration of rights, a permanent republican constitution, and federal and treaty relationships with other states and foreign countries. It was because the Old Dominion had already established its independence – had, in fact, already sworn in the first governor under its permanent republican constitution of 1776, Patrick Henry, on June 29 – that Virginia’s congressmen, uniquely, had been given categorical instructions from their state legislature to declare independence. Virginia was not the only state whose independence was not established by the Declaration on the 4th, as New York’s congressional delegation did not then join in the Declaration. In short, the states became independent in their own good time – some on July 4, some before, some after.

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Yup, the DOWGs made a lot of mistakes that over time have proved to be fatal to the American experiment. The only question is “can it be made right without bloodshed?”. Watch The Browns in New Hampshire. Watch the Vermont Succession movement. Watch the incipient tax revolts like the “redress of grievances” folks. If they get killed, then you’ll have your answer.

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LIBERTY: Highway patrolmen cops are highwaymen in the original meaning of the word

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

http://blog.lewrockwell.com/lewrw/archives/013898.html

July 02, 2007
VA’s $3550 traffic ticket
Posted by Wendy McElroy at July 2, 2007 12:40 PM

 

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The situation is not limited to Virginia. It is everywhere. For example, Illinois recently passed a new work-zone law for speeding in construction zones on expressways. The enforcement includes cameras. Without ever seeing a cop, you can get a $375 ticket in the mail for driving so much as one mile over the limit even in the middle of the night when no workers are present. A second offense is a $1000.

So be careful whenever you back out of your driveway. Traffic police are nothing so much as roving tax collectors who are looking for any excuse to confiscate the money with which you feed your family and pay the mortgage. Highway patrolmen cops are highwaymen in the original meaning of the word: thefts that roam the highways in search of victims.

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Sigh! I you thought this was the Land of Liberty!

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LIBERTY: the gooferment’s drug war

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

Where does the gooferment get off sticking its nose into medicine?

Every month, I am reminded of this intrusion. Here’s why. My wife has been a type 1 diabetic for more than THREE DECADES. (Nasty disease, but that’s another topic.) She’s been injecting insulin for those three decades. She uses a syringe. Every month the gooferment sticks its nose in her business. Syringes are regulate. Intelligent Designer forbid that drug addicts might buy clean syringes. So every month, the gooferment regulated pharmacy must check with the gooferment regulated insurance company for approval that she can have them. Every few months, the gooferment regulated pharmacy must check with the gooferment regulated doctor to see if she can have them. Here’s a novel idea. Leave her alone.

Laws, regulations, and diktats can not prevent humans from putting stuff in their bodies. Further, it’s THEIR body. If people want to do dumb things, who are you to tell them they can’t?

The government is not the nanny. End the gooferment’s “drug war” now. Shut down all the regulators. Stop licensing. There’s no gooferment inspection of electric appliances. There is Underwriters Libratory. Think WalMart will sell a non-UL appliance? Don’t get me started on the FDA! And, how it is killing us “for our own good”!

And, while Bush is doing pardons, he should pardon all non-violent drug offenders.

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LIBERTY: Feeling “independent”?

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

If you do, how do you justify being forced to give an incalculable amount of you income to the Gooferment of the USA. Don’t forget the hidden tax of inflation, all the taxes you don’t see that are passed along in your purchases, the Social Security Ponzi scheme, and the unavoidable “fees” that are really taxes. Still feel independent?

“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.” —Samuel Adams

Was he talking to us?

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LIBERTY: No one thought to thank the taxpayers

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

FROM A LETTER TO THE SOUTH BRUNSWICK POST

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Too bad in all the graduation speeches, no one thought to thank the taxpayers, who were robbed of their wealth to “educate” these people.

Amusing that everyone congratulated everyone for a great job. It was like having a party on some one else’s tab. When you think of the thousands of dollars that went into this effort, one has to ask if it was money well spent.

  • If “education” is such a vital service that “everyone” wants, why can’t it be funded voluntarily?
  • If it’s such an important thing, why leave it to the gooferment, that doesn’t do anything right?
  • If we divide 131 M$ school budget over ~700 students, then each education cost about 185k. Was that well spent? IMHO no. If I sent everyone to the Peddie School in Princeton it would be about 30k$ per year. So I’d have 60k to pay for the school bus. Anyone think the educations are similar?

Any one think that the taxpayer got anything but hosed tot he tune of 131M$?

Sigh!

Independence Day reminds us that the Dead Old White Guys fought and died over a 1% tax. They must be rolling over at what we are putting up with! It’s sad.

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LIBERTY: Independence Day “celebration”

Wednesday, July 4, 2007

EDITORIAL: July 4th – Put Away The Flags, by Howard Zinn
God bless the “Untied States” – Let 50 (or 1,000) flags fly…
Put Away The Flags
by Howard Zinn

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On this July 4, we would do well to renounce nationalism and all its symbols: its flags, its pledges of allegiance, its anthems, its insistence in song that God must single out America to be blessed.

Is not nationalism — that devotion to a flag, an anthem, a boundary so fierce it engenders mass murder — one of the great evils of our time, alongwith racism, along with religious hatred?

These ways of thinking — cultivated, nurtured, indoctrinated from childhood on — have been useful to those in power, and deadly for those out of power.

National spirit can be benign in a country that is small and lacking both in military power and a hunger for expansion (Switzerland, Norway, Costa Rica and many more). But in a nation like ours — huge, possessing thousands of weapons of mass destruction — what might have been harmless pride becomesan arrogant nationalism dangerous to others and to ourselves.

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Howard Zinn, a World War II bombardier, is the author of the best-
selling “A People’s History of the United States” (Perennial Classics, 2003,
latest edition).

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