Reinke Faces Life

Based on psychological research that I can’t cite off the top of my head, the human mind has some hard coded programming limitations. If you have a list with less than three items, then the mind tends to dismiss it as “undifferentiated”. If you have list with more than seven items, then the mind tends to dismiss it as “too complex”.

The study came out a study of the Roman Legions which originally was based on ten. Hence the name centurion for a hundred men. Ten cohorts of ten. However, rather quickly, early in Roman history, it got redefined to 8 (a leader and seven soldiers). From that, these smart guys tumble to the hard coded programming in the brain.

After reading that, I began to focus on the rule of thumb “five plus or minus two”. In resume lists, I look for an optimum of five. No fewer than three. No more than seven. Out side of those bounds, the recruiter’s brain glazes over.

So after, I was infected with this meme, I told one turkey to try it. In the alternative form we were trying, the resume only had three sections — objective, selected work accomplishments, and education. It only put down his last three jobs with five bullets each. The resume imho looked “sparse”. We ran two different tests. 80 targets. Testing against his chronological and functional resume that he was using with what we thought was good response rates. The sparse one scored a solid 50% response rate. Far exceeding all my preconceived notions.

After that I was a believer in FPMT!

Note: In morphing this from a turkey’s email, I think that there’s a follow up that says the max size of a business unit should be 150. I’ll have to be on the look out for all that back up material.

After all, no one should believe me, whadda I know, I’m just an ingineer!

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A “Ron Paul Supporter” did a drive by.

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JJ | <phoney email address> | IP: 69.137.71.77

Jun 11, 11:14 PM — [ Edit | Delete ] — View post “LIBERTY: Ron Paul has a chance to win this election”

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/

http://www.ronpaullibrary.org/

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=RonPaul2008dotcom

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It’s a fake email address. So what is the purpose? Annoy the blogging community. It certainly would engender warm and fuzzy feelings. Maybe this isn’t support but sabotage?

Couple of thoughts.

(1) Most bloggers have wordpressdotcom set to “one than one url” is spam. So this comment might have gotten swept into the spam bucket on most blogs. It was on mine. But I rescued it.

[I read the spam. I am fascinated about all these nice people. My friends in Nigeria want to give me missions. Sexy Cat wants to spend the night with me alone in my room; Frau Reinke vetoed that. And, so many people want to enlarge my breasts it’s stunning.]

(2) Most bloggers don’t like strange email addresses. I use v2y2r0n27rhj6y at my isp for networking to prevent spam. So it get me in trouble with some as well.

So if the writer was trying to “help” Ron Paul, his effort may be invisible, ineffective, and inefficient.

But what do I know, I’m just an injineer.

BTW I’m a Ron Paul supporter and contributor. And, have been for a while.

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Dick Morris in his ezine reports:

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Newsmax.com disclosed that in February, shortly after his mother became the first woman speaker, Paul Pelosi Jr., was hired by InfoUSA for $180,000 a year as its vice president for Strategic Planning.

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INFOUSA has been selling address lists to con artists who prey on the elderly. Dick knifes the Clintons as well with this accusation. And, who knows them better?

It brings up the larger question of who prosecutes the Speaker of the House? And, the neither party shares any sense of embarrassment at be caught with their hand in the cookie jar!

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http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/
2007/06/06/compassion_versus_reality

http://tinyurl.com/2z56ro

Compassion Versus Reality
By Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, June 6, 2007

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He pointed out that liberals succeed in duping the public because they are so clever with words that they give the appearance of compassion. Liberals talk about the need for “affordable” housing and health care. They tarnish their enemies with terms such as “price-gouging” and “corporate greed.” Uninformed and unthinking Americans fall easy prey to this demagoguery.

Politicians exploit public demands that government ought to do something about this or that problem by taking measures giving them greater control over our lives. For the most part, whatever politicians do, whether it’s rent controls to produce “affordable” housing, or price controls to eliminate “price-gouging,” the result is a calamity worse than the original problem. For example, two of the most costly housing markets are the rent-controlled cities of San Francisco and New York. If you’re over 40, you’ll remember the chaos produced by the gasoline price controls of the 1970s. Socialist agendas have considerable appeal, but they produce disaster, and the more socialist they are, the greater the disaster.

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Williams is sure on his game this week.

I’m over 40, and wow do I remember the gas lines. I was working and driving from Bayonne to Piscataway every day. My car had even plates and my brother in law had odd. Everyday we switch cars and Frau Reinke would go wait in a gas line. Argh! Remember. I remember the compete and utter chaos.

Give me the free market anytime!

No greedy corporation could inflict such pain. Only the gooferment could!

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HILLARY CLINTON DEFENDS USE OF CORPORATE JET FOR FAMILY VACATIONS
By Dick Morris Reports <dickmorrisreports@dickmorris.com>

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On Wednesday, Hillary Clinton was challenged by the press about the Clinton family’s acceptance of more than $900,000 in free private travel from Infousa, a company linked to scamming the elderly.

Her reply? She said that she had complied with all Senate ethics rules and reimbursed the company for the amount of a first class air ticket — usually about 1 percent of the cost of the luxurious private jet travel. According to Hillary, “Those were the rules. You’ll have to ask someone else if it’s good policy.”

In other words, get lost.

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I agree with Dick. Hilary just doesn’t get it. For a supposedly smart woman, she’s tone deaf in what the public perception is. As a kid the good nuns used to say, “behave, as if you were going to have to tell your mother what you did”. Good advice that has served me well. They say conscience is what you do when you think no one is watching. In this case, Hilary’s doing anything she thinks she can. She may well believe the story she’s telling. It’s sad. The “elite” think themselves above the rules that they force others to follow.

Argh!

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Operators of Legacy dot com claim “what problem”. You have to love the ability of support people to deny a problem in the face of an email thread which includes email from their own people saying we see a problem and are fixing it. Great Brother Jasper’s Ghost!!! That is aggravating. Argh!

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The South Brunswick Police have a motor cycle … … and are using it for “fund raising” activities on Sand Hill Road near Emerald Road. The fellow sits in the shade of the big bushes and pounces on the dastardly law breakers who violate the 25 speed limit.

I view this as glorified toll taking. A highway robbery. Naked gooferment force.

If we really were serious about 25, then we’d have speed bumps. And, 25? On a major connector between Somerset and Route 1. Our socialist big gooferment statist planners, following in the great traditions of the Communist famines, have road planned us into a complete disaster.

Look at the various State, County, and Township roads! What a planning disaster! You’re luck if you can get from there to here, in a reasonable amount of time, safely, or without being tagged for violating any of the gooferment’s many diktats.

Just look at new 522 from Route One to Route One Thirty. Would it have been too much trouble to line it up with the entrance to the Turnpike at 8A? (What did that route not go through some brother-in-laws valueless land or missed going by the campaign contributor’s business.?)

And, look at 287 to Route 1. Too much trouble to plan that.

Route 27 with the 2 lane 1 lane 2 lane shuffle. An accident waiting to happen.

And, my personal piece de resistance, South Middlebush / Sand Hill. Good planning guys. Trucks still use it.

No, it’s about the stupidity of gooferment “planning” for us. And, then “punishing” the bad serf who have the temerity to try and use the “stuff”.

And, have you seen the financial impact of one of these mickey mouse tickets? Points, fines, insurance. It’s no laughing matter.

No if he was sitting on Tyne Court and trapping on Emerald, where there are a ton of kids, being kids, on any given afternoon. And, warning drivers, not ticketing first timers. Then, I wouldn’t kvetch. But you won’t see him there because the motivation is “fund raising” and scaring people into compliance with an absurd traffic law.

As you might guess, I think this is just wrong.

Walgreens has a neat idea, that we didn’t have at our last gooferment approved drug pusher (what do you call a drug store?), called “auto mated refills”.

(The only car involved is when one of us drives to get them. And, since they are for my mate Frau Reinke I guess they are sort of aptly named.)

So Walgreens automated refills identifies the RXes (The gooferment permitted forms with the approvals of the gooferment agent called doctor Argh!) that she uses regularly. And each month, refills it.

Great.

BUT!

Since we didn’t give them the RXes on the same day, they (all 13) renew on different days. Further, over time, new medicines were added, dosages changed, and some medicines stopped. It’s messy. But I have captured all that info for her in a one page document with all the current RXes, dosages, and who/when changed it. (For our own sanity.)

There is NO way to align Walgreens with reality and NO way to have them all renew on the same day.

Argh!

It’s annoying enough to have gooferment rules about paperwork and approvals. Add in the annoyance of the gooferment’s financing agents (What do you call medical insurance companies?). Add in the annoyance of complying with the gooferment’s tax diktats about FSAs.

But the crowning annoyance is that Walgreens has no feedback loop. No way for the patient to put information and suggestions back into them to get them to improve their service.

So a good idea (i.e., automated refills) has some stupidity built in (i.e., different renewal dates) (i.e., no way to correct the data they have on file) but the ranting comes in when there is no feedback loop.

Argh! Argh!

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>I think the only reason we have not had a successful
>attack on us after 9-11 is
>because we are keeping them too busy over there.

That could be one possibility.

Would you consider another?

How about in the murky world of terrorism, they are getting exactly what they want. War and unrest. If you wanted to tumble the ruling elite say in Saudi Arabia, what better way then to get the Great Satan tromping around in a Fourth Generation Land War that it can’t “win”.

And, why would you stir up the American people any more. They might form a national resolve and really kick ass! Think Pearl Harbor. You don’t want to awaking the sleeping giant. As Japanese admiral Yammamoto advised. They could turn your “sacred land” into glass if you piss ’em off enough. Note, how carefully they tiptoe around Israel.

We’re an easily distracted people. The radicals have exactly what they want.

In exactly the degree that they want it.

Easy to kill Americans that get the locals riled up. We’re blundering around blowing up a local wedding for example. They’ve split our country down the middle with the stupid war. No, I’d say that they have Uncle Sam by the beard, are kicking our butt, and accomplishing their short and long term objectives.

Once the entire Muslim world is under one caliphate, then they will turn their attention to finishing the Crusades with Europe, and eventually the Great Satan.

We make the same mistakes when dealing with China and Korea. We don’t have a long-term perspective.

We need to MYOB. That, my friend, is not being a dove. We have our own set of problems to deal with. You deal with this disaster by “leaving the party”. We need foreign policy that follows President Washington’s directive. (He also decreed no torturing POWs!)

Did you ever consider why the old USSR had so little “foreign policy” problems, except for where they blundered in Afghanistan? They had a policy that if you crossed them, the KGB killed you, your family, and anyone who helped you. Government, non-government, guerilla. It didn’t matter. I think in my recollection one USSR ambassador was killed for political reasons and the KGB took out about 8o people they believed had a hand in it. Needless to say, no one messed with them. That’s not being a dove.

It’s called Letters of Marque and Reprisal.

If we thought that Osama was the problem, then we should have offered say 50B$ taxfree payable at your favorite Swiss bank for proof that he was dead. How long do you think he would have survived? Add a billion a week, until you get what you want. It’d still be cheaper that the 30T$, 600k+ Iraqui dead, and ~6k Americans.

American foreign policy is too blunt, too war-oriented, too inefficient and too ineffective.

That’s what Ron Paul was saying.

http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_5937218

State senator rear-ends Vallejo woman while talking on cell phone
Medianews Group report
Article Launched: 05/19/2007 08:46:15 AM PDT

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A Vallejo woman reportedly suffered minor injuries Friday when her car was rear-ended by an SUV driven by a state senator talking on a cell phone while driving through Solano County.

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Why the audacity of that serf not getting out of the heroic senator’s way? The impudent woman driving the car that was hit should be stoned, lashed, or … … giving an award for demonstrating the hypocrisy of the ruling elite.

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