November 13, 2020
Big Data to the Rescue: The Electoral College Meets Data Pattern Science
By Jay Valentine
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“When subject to statistical analysis against known patterns, industrial fraud stands out like a dinosaur walking through a field of peanut butter. It is unmistakable.”
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Pretty damning evidence IMHO!
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Hello Ferdinand Reinke,
You are currently using the IONOS Address Book feature.
Since this feature no longer meets our current technical requirements, we will be completely discontinuing the IONOS Address Book on 02/16/2021.
On 12/15/2020, the first step will consist of deactivating the ability to create new contacts or collect them through contact forms on your websites.
On 02/16/2021, we will turn off the Address Book feature permanently.
Until then, you still have the possibility to retrieve your contact data via the export function as a vCard (VCF file) in order to save them for yourself or to transfer them to a system of your choice. Find out more
Sincerely,
IONOS Customer Service
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2020-Nov-11 1257
Ok, I admit that my attempt to move from Apple to Google was a complete and utter failure.
Google:
Apple
I’ll continue to watch the field, but it’s no sense wasting anymore time.
I’ll still recomend chromebooks with the caveats about printing and “end of life”-ing.
Argh!
(My apologies for the bad advice!)
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Over three years ago, we launched the Trusted Contacts app as a way to help people stay up to date with their loved ones’ whereabouts. Since then, we’ve built this functionality directly into Google Maps with Location Sharing – making it even easier to share your live location with trusted friends and family.
As a result, the Trusted Contacts app will be removed from the App Store and Play Store today, and will stop being supported after December 1, 2020. If the app is installed on your device, you can continue to use it until then.
If you have created trusted contacts, you can download them from the trusted contacts page until December 1, 2020. After that date, the Trusted Contact app will no longer work and your trusted contacts will be unable to see the live location you are sharing with them from the app.
To learn more about Location Sharing in Google Maps, check out our help center.
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Too bad if you were using it.
You really are NOT in control of your tools.
Makes everything that Google “gives” you for “free” suspect that it won’t be there tomorrow.
Argh!
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LaCros Will Change the Way We Use Chromebook
September 12, 2020 by Dinsan Francis | Last Modified: September 12, 2020
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It will stop getting updates when your Chromebook reaches end of life.
Using a browser that no longer gets software updates is not a safe thing to do. With this change, Google can continue to give you Chrome updates even after stopping support for Chrome OS on your Chromebook.
But that’s not what I am excited about
I use two Chrome profiles on my Mac. One has my personal account. The second profile has the Google account that I use for the blog (Analytics and Search Console, etc).
Whenever I have to switch between these two profiles to complete tasks, I tend to use my Mac. It is not easy to do this on a Chromebook. I cannot switch profiles as I do on my Mac or Windows PC.
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Maybe I don’t understand the need for “End of Life” on Chromebooks. I’ve discarded two as my secondary machine to my primary Mac Book Air. I’d have thought that Google had created the computer that was closest to an appliance like a toaster. But they threw in the EOL as planned obsolesce. Such a shame, because the EOL ones still work.
I never saw a need for “profiles”.
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https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2020/08/10/rules-and-rulers/
Rules and Rulers
By eric – August 10, 2020
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This is considered distracting – and is often illegal for that reason . . . when it comes to the use of cell phones in cars. But it comes standard in almost ever new car. Even more cognitively dissonant is that people are encouraged to be distracted thereby since many of the car’s necessary functions cannot be controlled except via the touchscreen.
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Never thought of it this way.
The Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.
And, I would put it past them to be thinking that.
Argh!
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Fortnite/Epic Games versus app store taxes
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Epic Games kicked off a brief, enthralling campaign against Apple and Google yesterday. First, it emerged that it had found a way to offer discounted in-app purchases in Fortnite, the lifeblood of the game. All without Apple or Google taking a cut, the lifeblood of those app stores.
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Epic filed legal action against both companies. One interesting wrinkle in the lawsuit against Google is a new claim by Epic that accuses Google of crushing Fortnite deals with OnePlus, LG (Android Authority).
Spotify chimed in to support Epic, too (MacRumors).
So, it’s a Battle Royale.
Choosing sides:
We’re well into the era of companies having committed enough fans to entice them to fight against fans of other companies.
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Hope they “kill” each other for the benefit of lower costs to consumers. Just light an old “free capitalistic marketplace” should operate.
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Hello,
Amazon is constantly evaluating our product and service offerings to best serve our customers. As of today, Dash Wand devices are no longer supported. You can still use Alexa to add items to your Shopping List, add groceries to your cart, reorder items, and more with any Echo device or use the Alexa feature within the Amazon App and the Alexa App. Learn more about shopping with Alexa.
If you wish to dispose of your Dash Wand device, please find more information about the Amazon Recycling Program here. Before disposing of your Dash Wand device, you can easily deregister it by visiting your account’s “Manage Your Content and Devices“ page and selecting the “Devices” tab on Amazon.com or in the Amazon App. Then, select your Dash Wand and press “Deregister.”
Thanks for being an Amazon customer. We hope to see you again soon.
Sincerely,
Amazon Alexa Shopping team
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Still think they should have bought it back!
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FROM AMAZON
Hello,
Amazon is constantly evaluating our product and service offerings to best serve our customers. Beginning July 21st 2020, Dash Wand devices will no longer be supported. You can still use Alexa to add items to your Shopping List, add groceries to your cart, reorder items, and more with any Echo device or use the Alexa feature within the Amazon App and the Alexa App. Learn more about shopping with Alexa.
If you wish to dispose of your Dash Wand device, find more information about the Amazon Recycling Program here. Before disposing of your Dash Wand device, you can easily deregister it by visiting your account’s “Manage Your Content and Devices“ page and selecting the “Devices” tab on Amazon.com or in the Amazon App. Then, select your Dash Wand and press “Deregister.”
Thanks for being an Amazon customer. We hope to see you again soon.
Sincerely,
Amazon Alexa Shopping team
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Well la de dah. You fools who liked and used it are just out of luck. We gave you your 15$ as a credit on your first order. So just go away!
After my expereince with “Subscribe and Save” and more recently their bait and switch on shipping date, Amazon has really slipped in my book.
Wonder when WalMart will get their act together and compete with them?
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Facebook heads lobby group to push “Big Tech” as essential to free speech narrative
Silicon Valley is gearing up for a fight with regulators and Facebook is taking a leading role in the formation of a new lobbying effort to spin the narrative in Big Tech’s favour. Called “American Edge”, the group which hasn’t launched yet
“argues that Silicon Valley is essential for the U.S. economy and the future of free speech…The group’s splash page, which went live on Tuesday night, defines the project as: “…a newly formed bipartisan coalition dedicated to the proposition that American innovators are an essential part of the U.S. economic health, national security and individual freedoms.”
Read: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccabellan/2020/05/13/facebook-helps-launch-pro-tech-group-to-combat-silicon-valley-regulations/
Hold that thought….
Youtube deplatforms anti-lockdown epidemiologist and Bitcoin halving ceremony
Over the course of the Coronavirus pandemic the Big Tech platforms have been particularly aggressive in deplatforming any content that does not conform to the “official” narrative. Youtube defines this in particular as anything that does not reflect WHO or CDC directives.
So it was no surprise to learn that Youtube’s latest hit was on controversial epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski, who had a video on Youtube, with over 1.3 million views, criticizing the lockdown and advocating for a herd immunity approach.
But the Bitcoin halving ceremony? Yes. YouTube deplatformed Cointelegraph’s live-streaming of the Bitcoin halving ceremony while it was in progress.
“Cointelegraph had a full day of programming lined up for a livestream that covered Bitcoin’s third block halving on May 11. The agenda mostly went off without a hitch — fintech luminaries like Tim Draper, Roger Ver, Meltem Demirors and many more shared their time and opinions with Cointelegraph editorial staff over the course of a livestream that lasted just under seven hours.
But the stream was blocked and deleted six hours and 42 minutes into a nearly finished program, locking more than 2,000 viewers out of our coverage.”
Read: https://nypost.com/2020/05/16/youtube-censors-epidemiologist-knut-wittkowski-for-opposing-lockdown/
And: https://cointelegraph.com/news/youtube-cancels-cointelegraphs-btc-halving-livestream-for-being-harmful-content
(Yeah, Big Tech is essential to free speech my ass. I can’t believe I’m actually pulling for the DoJ to break all these parasitic quasi-monopolies into a thousand little pieces.)
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Given the hard Left spin of Big Tech, it’s unlikely that anything will happen.
That being said, it’s time to use the corporate tax code to keep all Corporations “small”.
A long time ago, I said that the corporate balance sheets should be limited to 999,999,999.99.
Apply a flat tax on everything over that amount!
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