INTERESTING: Oath? What Oath?

Saturday, February 22, 2014

EconomicPolicyJournal.com: ATTN: Active Duty Military, Veterans & Law Enforcement Officers. Will YOU Keep Your Oath?

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2014/02/attn-active-duty-military-veterans-law.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+economicpolicyjournal%2FYZSb+%28EconomicPolicyJournal.com%29&utm_content=FeedBurner

Very interesting question.

From my cold dead hands ….

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INTERESTING: “Should all bars have breathalyzer machines?

Friday, February 21, 2014

Dear CNET members, 

I just came across this interesting blog from Chris Matyszczyk titled, “Should all bars have breathalyzer machines?” In his blog, it explains a U.S. congressman from Utah is proposing that more of his state’s bars should have breathalyzer machines, so people can check whether they’re safe to drive home. The thinking being that it will help keep the streets safer by keeping some drunk drivers off the road.

It’s a simple concept. There’s a breathalyzer machine installed in the bar. After you’ve called it a night drinking with your friends, before you leave the bar, you go to the breathalyzer, blow into the machine and within a few seconds, the screen in front of you displays the results of your blood alcohol level and tells you whether you failed the test (recommending that you shouldn’t drive) or you’ve passed. Now what happens after that, is up to you; whether you take the recommendation that it is unsafe for you to drive, or blow it off (pun intended). 

Currently there are already breathalyzers installed in some bars, but they are for entertainment/novelty only. However, do you think the breathalyzer should be installed in all bars and taken more seriously than just a novelty machine? 

I ultimately think everyone is responsible for their own actions and installing these breathalyzers in bars may help some folks who lack better judgment, but ultimately I think it will remain a novelty. I know some people, especially when intoxicated, won’t let someone tell them what to do, let alone allow some machine tell them what is best for them. However, I do believe it’s better to have breathalyzers around, and if it can help one drunk person to not drive, it is one less drunk driver on the road.

Read up on Chris’ blog, and tell all of us how you feel about these breathalyzers. Would you like to see these in your local bars? Do you think it will help prevent drinkers from hopping into their cars if they’ve had one too many? Or do you think people will just blow it off and it will just remain another entertainment device, like dartboards on the walls?

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Yes.

With protection for the owners who have them and the drivers that use them.

They should be immune to the perdition of the ruling class.

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RANT: It makes a difference

Thursday, February 20, 2014

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IMHO it makes a BIG difference.

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CLOUD: Important Kickstarter Security Notice

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

 


On Wednesday night, law enforcement officials contacted Kickstarter and alerted us that hackers had sought and gained unauthorized access to some of our customers’ data. Upon learning this, we immediately closed the security breach and began strengthening security measures throughout the Kickstarter system.

No credit card data of any kind was accessed by hackers. There is no evidence of unauthorized activity of any kind on your account.

While no credit card data was accessed, some information about our customers was. Accessed information included usernames, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted passwords. Actual passwords were not revealed, however it is possible for a malicious person with enough computing power to guess and crack an encrypted password, particularly a weak or obvious one.

As a precaution, we strongly recommend that you change the password of your Kickstarter account, and other accounts where you use this password.

To change your password, log in to your account at Kickstarter.com and look for the banner at the top of the page to create a new, secure password. We recommend you do the same on other sites where you use this password. For additional help with password security, we recommend tools like 1Password and LastPass.

We’re incredibly sorry that this happened. We set a very high bar for how we serve our community, and this incident is frustrating and upsetting. We have since improved our security procedures and systems in numerous ways, and we will continue to do so in the weeks and months to come. We are working closely with law enforcement, and we are doing everything in our power to prevent this from happening again.

Kickstarter is a vibrant community like no other, and we can’t thank you enough for being a part of it. Please let us know if you have any questions, comments, or concerns. You can reach us at accountsecurity@kickstarter.com.

Thank you,

Yancey Strickler
Kickstarter CEO

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RANT: “Your” woman

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Anyone find some of the valentine’s day commercial infuriating?

Listen for the implicit, or in some cases explicit, implication that someone is “your” woman.

Now I may follow Grok the Paleo diet and my knuckles may drag from time to time …

… but …

most of the women I know are not “MINE” or anybody’s.

Fastest way to get “curbed” is even think of ownership of another human being,

And as a little L libertarian, that’s unthinkable.

argh!

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MONEY: A “delaying action” to keep the Ponzi scheme going

Monday, February 17, 2014

http://www.deviantinvestor.com/5492/17-questions-that-deserve-answers/

17 Questions That Deserve Answers
Posted by Deviant Investor on February 11th, 2014

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The U.S. believes in paper dollars and an unbacked debt based currency. Such currency can be created with little more than a few keystrokes on a Federal Reserve computer. Would the Fed and the U.S. government sell gold into the world market to slow the inevitable weakening of the U.S. dollar? Would the Fed and the U.S. government ship (via intermediaries) substantial quantities of gold to China to prevent dumping of T-bonds and dollars? Are gold sales a “delaying action” to extend the reserve currency status of the U.S. dollar?

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Certainly, you can not trust the bankers, crony capitalists, politicians, and bureaucrats!

So what should we put out trust in?

Bullets, bandaids, and beans. 

When you have all those — nickels, silver, and gold!

My favorite test what posted in 2009.

https://reinkefaceslife.com/2009/10/09/money-pirates-chest/

And the answer is still the same — gold is better than anything else.

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CLOUD: EDITORIALLY closes

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Goodbye

Today brings some sad news: Editorially is closing its doors. The application will remain available until May 30, at which point the site will go offline. We encourage all users to export their data.

We’re proud of the team and tool that we built together and incredibly thankful that so many of you were willing to give it a try. And we continue to believe that evolving the way we collaborate as writers and editors is important work. But Editorially has failed to attract enough users to be sustainable, and we cannot honestly say we have reason to expect that to change.

We wish that were not the case — we’ve spent much of the past two years working on the hypothesis that the reverse was true — but today we must be honest with ourselves, and with you: this isn’t going to work.

We know many of you have spent time and energy making Editorially a tool you use every day, even going so far as to evangelize it to your friends and colleagues. For that: thank you. We’re sincerely sorry to have let you down.

 

You can’t depend upon the cloud. Even if you pay for it.

Argh!

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INTERESTING: Loss of a “friend”

Saturday, February 15, 2014

http://ncc-1776.org/tle2014/tle757-20140209-02.html

On the Loss of a Friend
by L. Neil Smith
lneil@netzero.com
Attribute to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise

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My old friend Ambrose has died.

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We have two younger cats now—I think that they kept the Old Guy alive longer by annoying him and stirring up his circulation—but I will miss my Ambrose as I have missed no other, possibly excepting Eris. I am no “animal lover” per se. I am a hunter (like Ambrose), an enthusiastic meat-eater (also like Ambrose), and PETA’s worst nightmare in the flesh, an articulate, widely-published, and outspoken opponent of the idiotic concept of animal rights. But Ambrose was my friend.

And now he’s gone.

And I’m not sure I feel any better.

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I have “lost” many people and one pet. I don’t think I could express it as well.

Guess that’s why he’s a “writer” and I’m a “wanna be”?

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INSPIRATIONAL: A Valentine’s Day YOUTUBE

Friday, February 14, 2014

http://youtu.be/zUrqEoeJ1DA

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INSPIRATIONAL: A crow solve 8 complex puzzles?

Friday, February 14, 2014

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/watch-a-genius-crow-solve-8-complex-puzzles-in-perfect-1520343494/@caseychan?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29

Watch a genius crow solve 8 complex puzzles in perfect order!

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Crow is “smarter” than most humans?

My question is was this a “trained” bird. Or had it just done it several times?

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