All too true!
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FUN: Trucking in … …
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
All too true!
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TECH WEBSITE: Heinlein available online
Monday, October 8, 2007http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=1534
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UCSC partners with Heinlein Prize Trust to make archive of renowned science fiction author available online:
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Did I mention that Heinlein was my favorite author? Did I mention that his StarshipTroopers led me the being a libertarian? Did I mention that his Door Into Summer taught me the scam of fiat money? Did I … …?
Well you get the idea.
Great idea. Good execution.
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TECHNOLOGYSERVICE: Microsoft Wants Your Health Records
Monday, October 8, 2007http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_42/b4054047.htm
OCTOBER 15, 2007
NEWS & INSIGHTS
Microsoft Wants Your Health Records
Its new service will store your data in one place—and search ads could make it pay
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Step into a medical office, and you’re faced with a paradox of modern medicine. Just beyond the receptionist’s desk are all sorts of cutting-edge medical technology. Computed tomography scanners. Electrocardiogram machines. Bone densitometers.
But as you approach that desk to check in, you take a trip back in time. There the receptionist hands you a clipboard of forms. For the umpteenth time you fill in your name, age, allergies, medical history, and the like. For all the medical breakthroughs created by technology, medical records remain an anachronism.
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“We can trust Microsoft to keep our health data secure? — Right!” — Luddite
You’ll be surprised to know that I signed myself and Frau up for the service. I haven’t loaded any data yet, but I’m planning to.
Why?
I can hear it all the way from here.
Because, it would have been, and would be useful, in various circumstances.
If I had been more on the ball, then her experience at Pton Hospital where they really screwed her up, might not have happened, or been well documented.
One of the reasons I went to those corny “frau med alert” email was to keep a chronology clear in my head and establish a trail.
I’ve tried several similar services and they either folded, got lost, or were cumbersome. I’m always willing to try stuff if I can see a benefit. No matter how obscure.
Anyway, it might be useful in an emergency, or in litigation.
Besides the insurance companies, the hospitals, and the gooferment already have it all keyed to SSN, how much worse could MSFT make it?
imho!
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People are beginning to weigh in on the topic.
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TECH SERVICE: Virtual Computer — G.HO.ST
Monday, October 8, 2007GUNS: A policeman shooting 6 innocents; followed by police shooting a policeman
Monday, October 8, 2007http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071008/D8S4OC8G0.html
Off-Duty Wis. Deputy Sheriff Kills 6
Oct 7, 9:19 PM (ET)
By ROBERT IMRIE
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CRANDON, Wis. (AP) – An off-duty sheriff’s deputy went on a shooting rampage early Sunday at a home where seven young people had gathered for pizza and movies, killing six and critically injuring the other before authorities fatally shot him, officials said.
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Guess we’ll now have “gun control” for the police?
Now if there was an armed citizen around, things might have been different.
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FUN: Who were those pigs?
Sunday, October 7, 2007FROM LISA FROM THE BAYONNE DINER:
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Now you know the story of the three little pigs.
The first little pig built his house out of straw because it was the easiest thing to do.
The second little pig built his house out of sticks. This was a little bit stronger than a straw house.
The third little pig built his house out of bricks.
One night the big bad wolf, who dearly loved to eat fat little piggies, came along and saw the first little pig in his house of straw. He said “Let me in, Let me in, little pig or I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house in!”
“Not by the hair of my chinny chin chin”, said the little pig.
But of course the wolf did blow the house in and ate the first little pig.
Many people got the ending wrong.
The Sticks Pig, peeking out his window, saw what happened to the Straw Pig and pulled out his cell phone for a quick call.
As the wolf walked towards the Stick House, a big black limo pulled up. A distinguished Pig in an Armani suit, Italian shoes, and several gold rings stepped out. He was quickly followed by two big well-built Pigs. One had a baseball bat and the other a rebar. Both in muscle t-shirts with multiple gold chains. The Distinguished Pig snapped his fingers and pointed at the Wolf. The two big pigs jumped the wolf, beat the crap out of him, duct taped him up, and threw him in the trunk. Then they all got back in the limo and drove away.
Now Brick Pig saw this for he to was peeking out of his window, ran over to the Stick Pig’s house. Stick Pig came out to meet him. “What just happened? Who were those Pigs?”. said Brick Pig breathlessly.
Stick Pig calmly replied:”Oh those were my friends … … the Guinea Pigs!”
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ROFL
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PRODUCTIVITY: Torre did an unbelievable job
Sunday, October 7, 2007http://sports.myway.com/news/10072007/v5693.html
Boss of Old: George Steinbrenner Says Yankees Must Win Or Joe Torre Likely Won’t Return
Oct 7, 5:58 PM (ET)
By RONALD BLUM
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NEW YORK (AP) -Win or else! That was George Steinbrenner’s message to Joe Torre before the New York Yankees played the Cleveland Indians on Sunday night.
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As a “professional transitioner”, who has been on the … … errr, non-clean, end of the stick many times, I can emphasize with Joe’s situation.
At the beginning of the season, Yankee watchers knew the Yankees had no pitching. Time after time, game after game, we watched Torre tiptoe thru tight spot after top spot. The killer story was the one, years ago, that Pettite and Clemens left the Yankees because no one asked them if they wanted to stay. That story was confirmed with the Yankee GM Cashman. He said they were pursuing other pitchers and the deals didn’t work out.
So, George, you’re threatening the wrong fellow. I think that Torre did an unbelievable job with what your team gave him.
imho
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TECHNOLOGY: Using an LLP to protect yourself
Sunday, October 7, 2007http://www.techmeme.com/071006/p16#a071006p16
TECHMEME points out an interesting article
Securing Very Important Data: Your Own (Denise Caruso/New York Times)
Source: New York Times
Author: Denise Caruso
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/technology/07frame…
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Securing Very Important Data: Your Own — AS long as we are willing to relinquish some personal data, Web applications have long allowed us to create virtual identities that can conduct most of the social and financial transactions that typify life in the real world.
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ONE way to change this, he said, is to make people more like organizations.
To this end, Mr. Neuenschwander and his colleagues have floated the intriguing concept of the L.L.P.: the Limited Liability Persona. This persona would be a legally recognized virtual person in which users could “invest” the financial or identity resources of their choosing.
Once their individual personas are created, consumers would be able to use them as their legal “alter ego,” even in financial transactions. “My L.L.P. would have its own mailing address, its own tax ID number, and that’s the information I’d give when I’m online,” Mr. Neuenschwander said. Other benefits include the ability for “personas” to limit their financial exposure in ways that individuals cannot.
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This is a most interesting concept.
The tin foil hat crowd always talks about the gooferment and all upper case names. So perhaps, a great gift for a child would be an LLP and their own name as a domain name (e.g., JOHNQPUBLIC dot something ink?).
Hmmm, certainly something to consider.
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FABLES: somehow it’s my fault
Sunday, October 7, 2007— http://www.joblatino.com/jokes/managers.html
High Flying PM
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A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts: “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised my friend. I would meet him half an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”
The man below says, “Yes, you are in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 and 42 degrees North latitude, and between 58 and 60 degrees West longitude.”
“You must be a programmer,” says the balloonist.
“I am,” replies the man. “How did you know?”
“Well,” says the balloonist, “everything you have told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I am still lost.”
The man below says, “You must be a project manager”
“I am,” replies the balloonist, “but how did you know?”
“Well,” says the man, “you don’t know where you are or where you are going. You have made a promise which you have no idea how to keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. The fact is you are in the exact same position you were in before we met, but now it is somehow my fault.”
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Kudos to my favorite Luddite for sourcing this for me. I always loved this one.
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LIBERTY: So which are u?
Sunday, October 7, 2007http://www.townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2007/09/19/stupid,_ignorant_or_biased
Stupid, Ignorant or Biased?
By Walter E. Williams
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s closest adviser and architect of the New Deal, Harry Hopkins, advised, “Tax and tax, spend and spend, elect and elect, because the people are too damn dumb to know the difference.”
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There’s a principle that says don’t attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
So, stupidity it is.
And, we can blame it on the voters in 1860 and 1930!
I often point to the linkage between giving women the vote and organized crime.
In this case, I’ll like the publik skoolz accomplishing exactly what the socialist Horace Mann wanted — cannon fodder factory workers that could be led by the elite. Bingo, that’s what we’ve got.
My answer? Easy.
1. End the dole; 2. Dismiss gooferment public education; 3. Stop the various wars — foreign and domestic; 4. Repatriate the troops home; 5. Downsize ALL gooferments.
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