INTERESTING: What would you do with Jeter’s ball?

Monday, July 11, 2011

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Fan-returns-3-000th-hit-to-Jeter-team-rewards-h?urn=mlb-wp12123

Sat Jul 09 03:48pm EDT
Fan returns 3,000th hit to Jeter, team rewards his generosity
By ‘Duk

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As a 23-year-old cell phone salesman, Christian Lopez had thousands of reasons to hold out for the highest bidder on the baseball from Derek Jeter’s(notes) 3,000th hit. In fact, some estimates put the ball’s worth at $250,000, money that the recent graduate from St. Lawrence University could have certainly used.

And yet when New York Yankees officials found Lopez after he corralled Jeter’s historic home run, the only thing that the big Yankees fan wanted was to return the ball to the man who had hit it.

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What would you have done?

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Wow, that’s a tough one.

I doubt I’d have been as gracious as this fellow.

I’d hope that I’d tie two baseball stories together.

Remember that fan who fell to his death leaving his son an orphan?

I’d have gotten my favorite lawyer to negotiate a deal. The fair value of the ball should wind up in the Texas Rangers’ account that was setup for the child and Jeter should get the ball. And, how it all happens are mere details. Since I had possession of the ball, I’m sure it could all be worked out.

I hope I’d have the stones to make it happen.

That’s what I think I’d have done. Or, what I’d like to THINK that’s what I’d have done. It’s what I HOPE i’d have done.

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INTERESTING: Lone parents, the large majority of whom are women

Monday, July 11, 2011

http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/documents/Single%20MothersSingled%20Out%20The%20impact%20of%202010-15%20tax%20and%20benefit%20changes%20on%20women%20and%20men.pdf

SINGLE MOTHERS:SINGLED OUT Summary: the impact of 2010-15 tax and benefit changes on women and men

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The Fawcett Society is the UK’s leading campaign for equality between women and men and traces its roots back to 1866, to Millicent Fawcett’s peaceful struggle for women’s right to vote. Fawcett’s vision is of a society where women and our rights and freedoms are equally valued and respected and where we have equal power and influence in shaping our own lives and our wider world.

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Findings:

• Single women are hit harder than single men, couples and multifamily households by the current government’s tax and benefits changes.

• Lone parents, the large majority of whom are women, are, on average, among the biggest losers as a result of the reforms.

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I found this interesting. Here’s why:

(1) The groups logo says “closing the inequality gap” and a clever graphic “wo since1866 man”. Excuse me but am I to understand that this group has been going on since 1866? That’s insanity. It’s a cult. Or someone has figured out a multigenerational way to earn a buck. Oh, it’s UK, a pound. Wow, talk about a model for failure. What would you call working on a problem for 177 years and not solving it. Wow!

(2) Economists have long pointed out that single mothers are going to be poor and have a hard life. Old women should be telling younger women this fact from birth. It’s a meme that needs to get into the culture.

(3) Single moms is a poor way to raise a child. I know. Even with a good family structure to give support, the child is deprived. Women need to choose their mates wisely. (Sorry Mom, RIP, but you know that’s true.) In nature, the females make the males prove their worth. In humans, “free love” screws woman and child.

(4) The Gooferment can try to redefine marriage in response to pressure groups. But, the family, a husband and wife joined forever has been the way to “do” children. Regardless if you believe in “evolution”, we have a grazillion years in field testing how to raise children. Nuclear family with a stay at home mom seems to be the best answer.

(5) Once again, women are to blame for these problems. “Yes, when we get out of here. We’re going to have to fix that. You know we control something that can get it done. Not the ballot box, but the other box. (A giant sucking sound as pure Miss Marie used that very rude idiom.) We can end war.” — character “Marie” being anti-war in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 1 Page 262

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QUOTE: Women

Monday, July 11, 2011

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

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FLASH: Another American death!

Sunday, July 10, 2011

http://news.yahoo.com/us-defence-chief-iraq-surprise-visit-152728095.html

Panetta in Iraq as another US soldier killed
By Mathieu Rabechault | AFP – 7 hrs ago

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US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta arrived in Baghdad on Sunday to urge Iraqi leaders to act against Iran-backed Shiite militias, as another American soldier was killed in the south of the country.

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Donna Nobis Pacem

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TECHNOLOGY: Apple does evil?

Sunday, July 10, 2011

http://m.techeye.net/security/us-spooks-arrest-artist-for-tinkering-with-apple-macs

US spooks arrest artist for tinkering with Apple Macs
It’s terrorism
08 Jul 2011 09:41 | by Nick Farrell in Rome | posted in Security

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Tinkering with Apple computers in one of its cathedrals of shallowness is now a terrorist act.

According to AP, the fruity cargo cult called in the US Secret Service after it discovered that some of the Apple Macs in its New York Store had been profaned by unauthorised software which appeared to take pictures of customers.

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Unfortunately!

  1. My little more than a year old MACBOOKAIR has as many problems as my old WINDOZE machine. And, it’s had two bare metal restores and three type 1 hardware problems.
      
  2. APPLE is arguably as bad as MICROSLOTH! … but with better support at the genius bar.
  3. Linux is the wild frontier. But maybe it’s better?
      
  4. Google’s CHROMEBOOK is an interesting take on Cloud Computing.
  5. Crony capitalism is one of the terrible feature of today’s Gooferment.

So what does one do?

Beats me.

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MONEY: Retirement? fuhgeddaboudit!

Sunday, July 10, 2011

http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1001.html

Never Say Retire
by Gary North

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I had concluded that millions of baby boomers would discover at age 65, much to their chagrin, that their plans for a comfortable retirement had been smashed by the reality of low economic growth, low returns from the stock market, their own insufficient savings programs for decades, and inflation. I figured that I might create a Website based on the theme, “never say retire.” I have not developed that site, but at least I set up a department on my Website. So, if anyone types the words “never say retire,” he is directed to my department.

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The truth about retirement. Argh! “We”, as a society, waste the first 25 years and the last 20+ years of life. “School” isn’t about reading children to take their place in the civilization creating wealth. “Retirement” isn’t about the “golden years”; they are removed from the workforce at the height of the wealth creation capability. Argh!

Retire? fuhgeddaboudit! (translation from the Brooklyn dialect: “forget about it” with a sneer.)

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TECHNOLOGY: Google’s GOOGLE+ might be a big winner

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Recently I scored an invite to GOOGLE+, Google’s competitor to FACEBOOK. While my initial experience with it has been rough, I can see that this could be a BIG winner for Google in the “enterprise space”. It may even compete with LinkedIn, the recruiter’s white pages. This is also a competitor for various products and services that do “management of enterprise identities” (e.g., SALESFORCE; sales funnel management tools, Customer Relationship Management products). That’s how big it could be.

In a nutshell, it’s like FACEBOOK for a User’s define communities.

I’d suggest that every IT person should be grabbing a GOOGLE+ invite and try it for themselves. It’s going to be in the enterprise and everyone should understand the raw power that it represents.

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TECHNOLOGY: Free public access for a month to 6.5 Million eBooks

Saturday, July 9, 2011

http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/64627

Millions of eBooks Available at the World eBook Fair
July 6, 2011 20:31

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The World eBook Fair runs from July 4 through August 4, 2011. Their goal is to provide Free public access for a month to 6.5 Million eBooks. Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive are both contributing organizations and will be presenting a number of items in other media this year, including music, movies and artwork, even dance choreography. The collections include light and heavy reading materials, more reference books, scientific items, etc., and about 50,000 music entries in addition to the 12,000 that debuted last year.

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Wow, can one OD on content?

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RANT: Scapegoating criminals; not the real culprits

Saturday, July 9, 2011

FROM FACEBOOK

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Remember when teachers, cops, firemen, government employees, NPR, PBS, and Planned Parenthood blew up the stock market, wiped out most of our 401Ks, took trillions of dollars in taxpayer funded bailouts, spilled oil in the Gulf of Mexico, gave themselves billions of dollars in bonuses, and paid no taxes?

Yeah, me neither.

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FJohn Reinke response:

Well, none of that litany is completely innocent. See “We, The Sheeple” allowed the politicians and bureaucrats to make a mess. And, Unions of Gooferment employees is by definition corrupt. (Union “negotiates” with politicians, with whom they give campaign cash, labor, and votes. Translation taxpayers get shafted.) Also, when these various frauds were being perpetrated, what did “We, The Sheeple” do? Nothing! So what’s the issue that will bring the folks to the streets. Then maybe something will change. Vote Ron Paul!

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INTERESTING: Copyright violation

Friday, July 8, 2011

I have a bunch of content. Commonly called LP33s, 45s, Cassettes, books, software, hardware. Paid list price for them.

Problem: I’d like to enjoy them on my laptop or my ipad.

Why should I have to pay for the content again?

If I download them via bit-torrent from a pirate, then how much trouble can I be in?

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