HARDWARE: Cars become hotspots

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

http://www.wservernews.com/

Vol. 16, #33 – August 22, 2011 – Issue #842
Tech Support For My Car?

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T-Mobile provides the connectivity, and we tried to hack into the system just for fun. The mobile hotspot is protected with WEP, WPA, and WPA2 with the last being the default. But the hotspot reached about 40 feet around the car, and when we looked at the logs, we could see the IP address that we tracked down to a fleet management company. Hm.

But you can see where this goes, right? Cars are loaded with high-tech features and consumers are going to need tech support for all this, and of course all this stuff can be hacked into. Think for a moment about all the code that this requires, and the industry standard of one bug per 1000 lines of code. I can already see it, Patch Tuesday for my car, where they plug in the patch and pray all systems will come back up after the reboot. Hey, it starts! LOL.

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The internet of things is now moving to cars?

In a nation of blinking clocks, one has to question the over computerization of stuff.

Do we know look forward to an ISP bill for each car, each person, each appliance, each … ?

Where does it end?

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MONEY: Pensions will be at risk

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

http://www.mercurynews.com/california-budget/ci_18716703?nclick_check=1

Teacher pension fund joins California auditor’s risk list
Associated Press
Posted: 08/19/2011 09:17:05 AM PDT
Updated: 08/19/2011 09:20:58 AM PDT

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SACRAMENTO — The state auditor’s office on Thursday added teacher pensions to the list of high-risk issues facing California government.

The report by State Auditor Elaine Howle added the nation’s largest teacher pension fund because it can’t meet the costs of retirement benefits beyond the next 30 years. The pension funding problem was added to a list of risks that includes California’s chronic budget deficit, unfunded retiree health costs and prison crowding.

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Unfunded liabilities are not just for the Federal Gooferment.

Just like the Delta pilots, everyone is going to take a haircut.

The only question is how much will be taken …

… by the corrupt politicians.

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MONEY: Home mortgage interest deduction

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

http://reason.org/news/show/eliminate-mortgage-interest-deducti

Study: Time to Eliminate the Mortgage Interest Deduction
Removing homeowner subsidies would allow everyone’s income tax rates to be lowered
July 28, 2011

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The mortgage interest deduction does not increase homeownership rates and amounts to little more than a subsidy for wealthy homeowners, according to a new Reason Foundation study that recommends eliminating the deduction and streamlining the tax code. The Reason Foundation report suggests a revenue-neutral solution: eliminate the mortgage interest deduction and lower federal income tax rates for all Americans by 8 percent.

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Seems like the time for deductions and such are past.

Tithe seems like more than enough for God; should be more than enough for Gooferment.

Flat 10%?

Now I think that all taxation is theft.

Hopefully, the absurdity of all of this will swing you to my way of thinking.

Time to get the Gooferment out of all our business.

The Dead Old White Guys thought that tariffs and excise taxes would be enough.

They were wrong. It’s never ever enough. For the pigs.

If we want a product or service, we should buy it. Gooferment is just another product.

Money is a product as well.

Gold is the answer to keeping the Gooferment under control. No hidden taxes.

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GOLDBUG: Between the borrowers and the savers

Monday, August 22, 2011

LinkedIn Groups
Group: Risk, Regulation & Reporting
Discussion: Should the World Go Back to the Gold Standard?

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during the glory days of the gold standard in the US, 1870-1914, prices declined steadily at 2% p.a. for the 1st half o the period and then increased at 2% p.a. for the 2nd half. There was “price stability” if one means that prices in 1914 were the same as they were in 1870, otherwise not. Gold will make the rates of inflation in all countries on the gold standard approximately the same.

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Can you even IMAGINE zero inflation?

Talk about radically changing the balance between the borrowers and the savers. Between the workers and the drones.

What a concept.

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INTERESTING: A driver’s license, a privilege?

Monday, August 22, 2011

http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-1108.html

Crypto-Gram Newsletter
August 15, 2011
by Bruce Schneier
Chief Security Technology Officer, BT
schneier@schneier.com
http://www.schneier.com

Developments in Facial Recognition

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“A driver’s license is not a matter of civil rights. It’s not a right. It’s a privilege,” she said. “Yes, it is an inconvenience [to have to clear your name], but lots of people have their identities stolen, and that’s an inconvenience, too.”

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“Privilege”?

In the suburbs, it’s essential to travel.

Is this another form of population control?

When did I decide that the Gooferment has the power to restrict me from going to the grocery store?

How did I agree that the Gooferment has that power of me?

I don’t remember signing that.

Maybe I do need to go on strike against this and all the other Gooferment intrusions.

Oh yeah, I am!

Power to the people.

Note that the Gooferment can’t even do this right!

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POLITICAL: Corporations redomicile?

Sunday, August 21, 2011

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/when-an-american-company-redomiciles-to-the-cayman-islands-what-lesson-should-we-learn

When an American Company Redomiciles to the Cayman Islands, What Lesson Should We Learn?
Posted by Daniel J. Mitchell

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Another American company has decided to expatriate for tax reasons. This process has been going on for decades, with companies giving up their U.S. charters (a form of business citizenship) and redomiciling in low-tax jurisdictions such as Bermuda, Ireland, Switzerland, Panama, Hong Kong, and the Cayman Islands.

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That “We, The Sheeple” are stupid?

There has to be a big red arrow drawn from “corporatocracy”, “crony capitalism”, and “too big to fail”.

Directly to absolute silly Gooferment diktats, policies, and other stupidity.

Even if you don’t accept my assertion that corporations don’t pay taxes, (they either pass them along to real people OR go out of business), then you must understand that if all the other “states” are ⅓ lower, where would you move your business?

The politicians and bureaucrats aren’t getting the message. I’m not sure that “We, The Sheeple” get it either. Do you?

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RANT: The lesson of Nagasaki

Sunday, August 21, 2011

http://lewrockwell.com/kohls/kohls12.1.html

Duty to Warn
The Bombing of Nagasaki August 9, 1945: Another Example of Christians Killing Christians in the Name of Christ
by Gary G. Kohls

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So, at 11:02 am, August 9, 1945, in the middle of morning mass, the Christians of Nagasaki were boiled, evaporated and carbonized in a scorching, radioactive fireball that was several times hotter than the sun. The vibrant center of Japanese Christianity was wiped out. It had become Ground Zero.

And what the Japanese Imperial government could not do in over 250 years of persecution, American Christians had done in 9 seconds. 8,500 of Nagasaki’s worshipping community of 12,000 perished that day. None of those who died were combatants.

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Perhaps the next military atrocities like Nagasaki, Fallujah and My Lai can be prevented if a substantial number of Christian churches courageously and publicly start to resist the militaristic policies of their nations by actively refusing their government’s call for the bodies and souls of their sons and daughters.

If the churches start to exercise their sacred duty to warn their parishioners about the soul-destroying nature of war, it may not be too late to save our dying, war-torn, morally and financially bankrupt planet.

Heeding the lessons of Nagasaki is a good way to start.

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Hard to read this or see the picture.

And, the various churches, who supposedly revere the Prince of Peace, seem to be out sync with the meme.

How does one reconcile this militarism, empire, and killing?

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RANT: Bankruptcy repairs?

Saturday, August 20, 2011

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/19/gm-impala-lawsuit-idUSN1E77I0Z820110819

GM says bankruptcy excuses it from Impala repairs
Fri Aug 19, 2011 3:47pm EDT
* New GM said not responsible to fix Impala made by old GM
* Suspension problem said to cause excessive tire wear
By Jonathan Stempel

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NEW YORK, Aug 19 (Reuters) – General Motors Co (GM.N) is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit over a suspension problem on more than 400,000 Chevrolet Impalas from the 2007 and 2008 model years, saying it should not be responsible for repairs because the flaw predated its bankruptcy.

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Argh! So it wasn’t just the bondholders that got weenied. But I but the Big Unions are whole!

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RANT: Afghanistan until 2024?!?

Saturday, August 20, 2011

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8712701/US-troops-may-stay-in-Afghanistan-until-2024.html

US troops may stay in Afghanistan until 2024

America and Afghanistan are close to signing a strategic pact which would allow thousands of United States troops to remain in the country until at least 2024, The Daily Telegraph can disclose.

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Yah gotta be kidding me.

From the “hope and change” ersatz peace candidate!

Vote Ron Paul!

What the <synonym for the act of procreation>!

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POLITICAL: How do we end the warfare / welfare state?

Saturday, August 20, 2011

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/92943.html

August 12, 2011
The War To End All Wars Continues
Posted by Christopher Manion on August 12, 2011 06:34 PM

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My father, a student in Washington at the time, led Catholics for Wilson — “We want Wilson, one time more! We want peace, we don’t want war!” But Cardinal Gibbons, aware of the unfortunately widespread anti-Catholic sentiment in the US, feared that Catholic opposition to the war would brand Catholics as “unpatriotic.” As though we loved our country more than our government? No, that we were more loyal to “Rome” than to Wilson.

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Maybe I’m a hopeless cynic.

BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), I think that “We, The Sheeple” have been being hoodwinked by the effete elite for a very long time.

Wilson ran as a supposed “peace candidate” and, once firmly ensconced in power, took the USA to war.

When do “We, The Sheeple” wake up?

In history class, we learned about the “Hundred Years War”. How can a war go on for 100 years?

Now look at Korea?

Now look at Germany?

Why?

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INTERESTING: Hanks’ Personal Refund

Friday, August 19, 2011

http://www.movies.com/movie-news/tom-hanks-larry-crowne-refund/4090?wssac=164&wssaffid=news

Tom Hanks Personally Refunded Disappointed Couple’s ‘Larry Crowne’ Tickets

By Peter Hall Aug 16, 2011

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A novel way to make Customer’s happy. Now what about all the rest of the folks?

Guess not so much!

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POLITICAL: Gooferment diktats kill!

Friday, August 19, 2011

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=331793

A government that kills
Posted: August 09, 2011
John Stossel

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Life involves tradeoffs. If we want to minimize deaths from auto accidents, we may use more fuel than we might otherwise use. Who should make that decision, the government? Or you and I?

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Why is it that when our Gooferment “protects” us that decisions suck?

“Cash for clunkers” deprive the “non-rich” of good quality at a fair price.

“Gooferment Motors” puts the Taxpayer into the car biz; screws the bond holders.

The FDA retards, and in some cases stops, drugs from deployment while raising the ante on development to stratospheric levels. And, prevents cheap supplements from being marketed as alternatives to expensive drugs.

Gooferment’s phony car mileage concern takes choices from us.

Argh!

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HARDWARE: HP betrays its Customer

Friday, August 19, 2011

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/hp-punts-on-webos-discontinues-touchpad-cuts-outlook/55386?tag=nl.e019

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HP’s move to shed the PC business as well as discontinue the TouchPad has its risks. For starters, HP will take a reputation hit for launching a TouchPad and then killing it.

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Trust your hardware vendor to “vote you off the island”.

Argh!

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FUN: Old age ROI?

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Interesting? The first question I ask every time is “what’s the roi?”. Is that too dumb? I rode by pton airport. Always wanted to fly; Frau nixed that. Now, while it might be “fun”, and a fast way to catch up with her, what would be my roi?

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RANT: “Big Church”, another failed concept

Thursday, August 18, 2011

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/diocese-of-orange-raises-bid-for-crystal-cathedral/

Diocese of Orange raises bid for Crystal Cathedral
By Marianne Medlin

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Garden Grove, Calif., Aug 11, 2011 / 05:59 am (CNA).- The Diocese of Orange upped its previous bid and signaled openness to new negotiations for the Crystal Cathedral after board members recently announced that the building is no longer for sale.

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The liturgist for the Orange diocese, Monsignor Arthur Holquin, said July 26 that several changes would need to take place in order for the Crystal Cathedral to become a Catholic worship space.

Along with a central altar, a tabernacle and a baptismal font, the building would need a “cathedra” or bishop’s chair. While renovations are needed to the building, “not much deconstruction would be required and the iconic personality of the original architecture and design would, for the most part, be retained,” he said.

Purchasing the Crystal Cathedral is an attractive option for the diocese because it provides an instant solution to its building needs and would cost roughly half the $100 million price tag for the planned Santa Ana cathedral.

Though the diocese made an official $50 million bid for the Crystal Cathedral on July 22, the church’s board later voted against selling it and decided to appeal to church members and viewers to donate the funds instead.

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Guess I just don’t understand.

Couldn’t God be worshiped in an appropriately decorated warehouse?

As far as the “bishop’s chair”, I have a old folding chair to donate. Won’t that hold a butt.

$100M$?

Reminds me of the French’s Maginot Line and Patton’s famous apocryphal remark “fixed fortifications are monuments to man’s stupidity”.

Maybe a cathedral is marketing? Of an idea who’s time has past. “Big Church” must join the dustbin of failed concepts like: Big Gooferment, Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Labor, Big Biz, “Too Big To Fail” (2B2F), Social Security “Insurance”, the misnamed Federal Reserve Bank, Wall Street, Fiat Paper aka “monopoly money”, and all such stupidity?

It’s always sad when the illusions and delusions die. And all we are left with is the wreckage.

Is it too late to rebuild from the pieces?

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POLITICAL: Cribs can be … anything

Thursday, August 18, 2011

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen-on/Feds-to-Issue-Massive-Drop-Down-Crib-Recall-71803397.html

Listened to the “news”.

One of the stories (at ~2310) was that “drop down cribs” were being sold on Craig’s List.

Interesting.

You can do anything but throw them away.

Isn’t that a Fifth Amendment “taking”?

The three that they cited were: 130, 150, and 175 each.

That’s a regulation that takes that wealth from individuals.

It’s to prevent 18 deaths over 5 years across 300,000,000 people.

That’s a tax. And, an infringement. And, it’s making a tradeoff decision for people.

But, maybe that’s a risk that a parent would take.

Maybe they’d rather have an old $130 crib rather than a new more expensive one. And, have the freedom to use the difference as they see fit. Maybe it’s for food, or rent, or a six pack.

It should be their choice.

Then Nanny State takes away our liberties.

Argh!

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QUOTE: … the tax would be paid by the cows

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

http://cafehayek.com/2011/08/quotation-of-the-day-35.html

Quotation of the Day…
by DON BOUDREAUX on AUGUST 16, 2011
in SEEN AND UNSEEN, TAXES

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… is from EconLog’s David Henderson who recalls how the Herbert Stein described the failure to understand that taxes on corporations are taxes on people:

“I remember that in addressing the issue in the 1980s, the late Herb Stein said that it’s as if people think that if the government imposed a tax on cows, the tax would be paid by the cows.”

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This reaffirms my RANT about the fact that a “corporation” is a fiction for a mob of real people. WHICH does nothing but hide the taxes in costs passed along to REAL people.

Argh!

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TINFOILHAT: Obama Social Security Number

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=332041

Obama Social Security Number to become issue in 2012 race?
‘You better probe a little harder to make sure identity you’re dealing with is a real identity’
Posted: August 11, 2011
By Joe Kovacs

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President Obama has never explained why he has a Conncecticut-based Social Security Number

President Obama’s potentially criminal use of a mysterious, Connecticut-based Social Security Number should become an important issue in his quest for re-election in 2012, says a former presidential candidate and ambassador in Ronald Reagan’s administration.

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Another question about BHO44 that needs an answer.

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PRODUCTIVITY: Track your vacinations?

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

http://www.survivalblog.com/2011/08/tetanus_a_nasty_fascinating_bu.html

Tetanus: A Nasty, Fascinating Bug, by Dr. Bob

By James Wesley, Rawles on August 15, 2011 12:25 AM

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Nearly everyone has heard of the famous “lockjaw”, but not everyone knows that the cause is tetanus infection. Even fewer people have actually seen a case of tetanus, even in the medical circles it is a rare event in the U.S. There are only 233 cases reported from 2001 to 2008–or 1/10,000,000. Deaths are even more rare here in the States, and of those 233, 31 were fatalities. Most deaths were people over 65, presumed to be less than optimally immunized.

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Don’t go the way of blues musician Joe Hill Louis, Henry David Thoreau’s brother, and Robert E. Lee’s favorite horse Traveller–all dying of tetanus. Keep up with your vaccinations and get your kids vaccinated too against tetanus. Kids start at two months of age getting a Tdap shot, don’t miss this chance to protect your child.

Stay strong and stay vaccinated against tetanus.

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Does anyone even keep track of their vaccinations?

www.nfid.org/pdf/influenza/adultizcard.pdf

Put your card with your passport?

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PRODUCTIVITY: Vague? Accuracy and precision

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

http://lifehacker.com/5829224/how-embracing-vagueness-can-help-you-achieve-your-goals

How Embracing Vagueness Can Help You Achieve Your Goals

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We live in a world or precision where data-generating technology is available for practically aspect of your life. We’re also bombarded by tools to help us plan everything down to the smallest detail. But without uncertainty you’re stuck in a place where you always think you know the answer, and this can be a major encumbrance when you’re trying to get things done.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_precision

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False precision (also called overprecision, fake precision, misplaced precision and spurious accuracy) occurs when numerical data are presented in a manner that implies better precision than is actually the case; since precision is a limit to accuracy, this often leads to overconfidence in the accuracy as well.[1]

In science and engineering, convention dictates that unless a margin of error is explicitly stated, the number of significant figures used in the presentation of data should be limited to what is warranted by the precision of those data. For example, if an instrument can be read to an accuracy of tenths of a unit of measurement, results of calculations using data obtained from that instrument can only be confidently stated to the tenths place, regardless of what the raw calculation returns or whether other data used in the calculation are more accurate. Even outside these disciplines, there is a tendency to assume that all the non-zero digits of a number are meaningful; thus, providing excessive figures may lead the viewer to expect better precision than actually exists.

However, in contrast, it is good practice to retain more significant figures than this in the intermediate stages of a calculation, in order to avoid accumulated rounding errors.

False precision commonly arises when high-precision and low-precision data are combined, and in conversion of units.

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I can remember a wise old Christian Brother in injineering skrule saying: “Gentlemen, … <he always used it perjoratively> … you will make blunders, mistakes, and errors, but a sure way to get an F in injineering measurements is to tell me that anything that is ⅓ is .333333333333333.” False precision in injineering is like goal and objectives that aren’t vague enough to stretch.

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SOFTWARE: My first FORTRAN primer was his

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/08/some-thoughts-on-the-passing-o.php

Some Thoughts on the Passing of Dan McCracken (1930 – 2011)
By Scott M. Fulton, III / August 15, 2011 2:03 PM / 0 Comments

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What Daniel D. McCracken managed to accomplish as early as 1957 was to give a knowledgeable layperson a strong, sensible foundation for understanding the terribly foreign concept of describing business processes with procedural mathematics. As a young author decades ago, I studied McCracken’s methods and I attempted to take his lessons to heart. In some of my first books on Visual Basic, I was inspired by McCracken to demonstrate a relatively simple concept using a substantively more complex tool: I demonstrated program control using sort algorithms.

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Sadly, I never knew the fellow, but he’s responsible for me knowing anything about FORTRAN.

As the typical fat old white guy injineer nerd I could make that language sing. All do to him.

For better or worse.

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INSPIRATIONAL: Ideas as sad little orphans

Monday, August 15, 2011

http://the99percent.com/videos/7066/Starlee-Kine-Fear-Heartbreak-and-Making-It-Happen-Against-All-Odds

Starlee Kine: Fear, Heartbreak, and Making It Happen Against All Odds

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Twenty minutes, but very interesting. A motivator.

A good label for ideas — Little Orphan Annie — Tomorrow.

I’ve blogged about “you are what you sing”; this lady reenforces the idea.

Overly dramatic about her breakup? I don’t think so. It’s a terrible thing to lose your soul mate.

Like the Biblical story of Adam’s rib, it that completion.

And, what does one do?

Haven’t figured that out yet. I wonder if I ever will?

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TINFOILHAT: OBL raid official story differ

Monday, August 15, 2011

http://lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts320.html

Pakistan TV Report Contradicts US Claim of Bin Laden’s Death
by Paul Craig Roberts

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In Bashair’s account, every member of the landing party and anyone brought from the house died when the helicopter exploded on lift-off. I wrote that a qualified person could easily provide a translation of the interview, but that no American print or TV news organization had investigated Bashir’s account.

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Here’s the first story in the OBL raid.

The whole story was suspect imho. Why tell anyone anything? Why kill him? Why dump the body?

Interesting?

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INTERESTING: Corporations are just people in disguise

Sunday, August 14, 2011

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_ROMNEY_2012?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-08-11-12-34-40

Aug 11, 8:50 PM EDT
Romney: ‘Corporations are people, my friend’
By PHILIP ELLIOTT Associated Press

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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, clearly irritated by a handful of hecklers amid supporters at the Iowa State Fair, insisted Thursday that “corporations are people,” a comment Democrats gleefully predicted would be a defining moment of his campaign.

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I’ve tried to convince folks that the correct rate of corporate tax is zero.

(I think I could make a case for a 1% tax on gross receipts so the Gooferment could collect some un-fudge-able statistics. And, since “corporations” are a creation of the Gooferment, then any Gooferment intervention is just a fee fro their existence.)

Just last night, I was in a heated discussion about Exon Mobil. Taxes paid by them is merely wealth redirected from real people via pension funds to the Gooferment.

Sigh!

There is some validity to the argument that executive compensation is out of control. And corporations engaging in crony capitalism are bribing politicians and bureaucrats to insulate them from competition and secure “franchises”.

Socialists always want to control everything. This is no different. Hitler, Stalin, Mai. They all need control.

We have to be clear in our paradigms and memes.

Corporations are merely a useful fiction for a bunch of people.

Argh!

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INITIALISMS: STEEP

Sunday, August 14, 2011

http://www.competitivefutures.com/methodology/steep-analysis

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At the basis of our competitive analysis is the application of a tool called STEEP Analysis. Used by futurists, this mnemonic device reminds us to consider a wide variety of trends outside of our own industry, specifically:

Social trends: aging populations, urbanization, mixed families, increased prevalence of diabetes, hypertension, and kidney failure

Technology trends: increased distribution of GPS, IPv6 networking, decreasing price and increase application of robotics in the home, genomic medicine, electric automobiles, nanotechnology

Economic trends: Real estate occupancy rates, unemployment rates, sovereign debt, household debt, corporate debt, government intervention in markets, corporate merger and acquisition activity, energy factors, raw material availability

Ecological trends: Water availability, biodiversity, soil health, wetlands integrity, climate change

Political trends: Legislation, regulation, political parties, authoritarianism versus liberal democracy

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POLITICAL: Empty flights?

Saturday, August 13, 2011

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_AVIATION_SHUTDOWN_RURAL_SUBSIDIES

Gov’t pays for empty flights to rural airports
By KEVIN BEGOS and ADRIAN SAINZ
Associated Press

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On some days, the pilots with Great Lakes Airlines fire up a twin-engine Beechcraft 1900 at the Ely, Nev., airport and depart for Las Vegas without a single passenger on board. And the federal government pays them to do it.

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Typical Gooferment!

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