It’s blazing fast. Does email, rss, and bittorrent. Wow.
AND, it’s free!
TECH: OPERA9 is impressive
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
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TECH: PRINTERALL — I like it.
Wednesday, October 11, 2006http://www/printeranywhere.com
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PrinterAnywhere is a solution to print documents from a computer connected to the Internet to other people’s printers on the network. With PrinterAnywhere you can share your printers with other or print your documents on someone else’s printer.
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I like it. It’s useful. I use it. It’s free!
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GUNS: “Gun Control” should read “Victim Disarmerment” or “Hitting What You Aim At”
Wednesday, October 11, 2006Bush Summit To Discuss Solutions For School Violence
— Great opportunity for GOA to show politicos facts, not emotions
Gun Owners of America E-Mail Alert
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
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As GOA pointed out last week:
1. No amount of gun control would have stopped Charles Carl Roberts from acquiring guns to commit his atrocity. Roberts had a clean record and would have passed any and every background check.
2. The so-called “gun free school zones” have to go. Such disarmament zones never stop bad guys from taking guns into a restricted area. In fact, statistics show that the jurisdictions that ban guns tend to be the same areas with the highest murder or crime rates (Washington, D.C., England, etc.).
3. The only school shootings that have been stopped prematurely were ended because law-abiding citizens had guns — such as in Pearl Mississippi (1997) and at the Appalachian School of Law (2002), where faculty and responsible adults were able to bring their own defensive firearms to bear. This is an idea that Americans support, as 85% of the American public find it appropriate for a principal or teacher to use “a gun at school to defend the lives of students” in stopping a school massacre (Research 2000 Poll).
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It is interesting that people seem to feel that we can not trust Principals, Teachers, and Custodians. Should they choose to do so, I’d trust them with the tools that they need to protect the children in their care. I think they can tell the bad guys from the kids. Bad guys where black hats, right?
Further, I would presume that bringing a weapon on school grounds is protected by the Second Amendment. Using it to harm others has not.
Hence just in case any trial lawyers want to make a case for suing a person defending themselves or others, I make a rule granting them immunity from criminal prosecution or civil action should they make a reasonable mistake.
“Oh I’m sorry I shot you Mister Wack Job before you actually killed any little children with your Uzi that you brought into my school.” should not be a grievance heard by courts. It should be a story for the Leno or Letterman show.
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RANT: Throw the bums out. So what if the new bums aren’t any better. We’ll throw them out next time!
Wednesday, October 11, 2006http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle388-20061008-04.html
Don’t Get Mad, Get Even
by Jack Duggan
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DON’T VOTE FOR EVEN ONE INCUMBENT
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Sounds like a plan to me.
Throw the bums out. So what if the new bums aren’t any better. We’ll throw them out next time!
Instead of a 98% reelection rate, it should be zero.
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LIBERTY: Support the troops by bringing them home NOW!
Wednesday, October 11, 2006http://www.ncc-1776.org/tle2006/tle388-20061008-03.html
One Answer to Vance’s “Supporting the Troops”
by James Glaser
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At the end of Vance’s column he says another thing that I and all veterans can get behind.
And when they are all home—from Iraq and everywhere else in the world—I support using the troops to actually patrol our coasts and guard our borders. I support the troops so much that I don’t want them sent to fight any more foreign wars.
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Return to the original intent of the Constitution. No entangling alliances. We aren’t, shouldn’t be, and can’t be the world’s policeman. Nor can we afford it.
imho
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LIBERTY: You have to like someone who can make you think
Wednesday, October 11, 2006http://darianworden.tripod.com/prop/posters.html
I particularly liked “PATRIOTISM: America was created by people who always obeyed the government”
SAFE FOR WORK
SAFE but UNSETTLING
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JOBSEARCH: LINKEDIN tip for connecting with known people
Tuesday, October 10, 2006On LinkedIn say that you use search to find someone you know, finding them, you can then tap “I know so and so”. It presents you with the standard canned message and a blank for their email address. Plug in a valid email address for that someone and it will issue the invite. I’ve done it and had it done to me.
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FUN: Take a tank to the store; puts a new light on “fighting” for a parking space
Tuesday, October 10, 2006http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=409518&in_page_id=1770
Man shells out £14k on army tank for supermarket run
Last updated at 20:55pm on 9th October 2006
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MONEY: Proper use of credit cards
Tuesday, October 10, 2006There’s nothing wrong with credit cards as long as you carry a zero balance.
For example, I have all my “old folks” using them for all tax deductible expenses. And, for everything, in general. Since I do their bills, I pay them in full and the end of every month. It captures all the data needed for their taxes and prevents anyone from defrauding them, stealing from them, or doing other bad things (like forgetting to give me the phone bill).
Note: It’s really easy to have the phone company charge their credit card for the phone bill. I may miss the bill and a chance to check that their phone line isn’t being abused by a visitor (It happened!), but they don’t get the phone service cut off for non-pay, and I don’t have to be Simon Legree about the mail.
In my own case, I use the same strategy as a budgeting device. One credit card for techie hardware / software / service stuff. One for books from Amazon. With my CFO’s (Frau Reinke) rare blessing, I use the cards as a free accounting service to ensure that I spend ENOUGH on books and technology. (Yes, that can be a problem!)
Note: One can actually “prepay” a credit card with a monthly automatic payment from a checking account and it will sit there waiting for the offsetting charge. So, for example, I pay my tech visa account XXX$ per month. That’s my budgeted amount. And I buy tools with that card. If you leave a positive balance on the card, eventually the credit card company will send you a check. (Screwing up my system. And leading the CFO to ask about cutting the budget. She’s not like the government. You don’t use, you don’t just lose it; you’ve LOST it forever!)
Prevents a lot of paperwork and arguments.
FWIW YMMV FAIWWYPFI
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LIBERTY: In a Libertarian America … …
Tuesday, October 10, 2006In my Libertarian American, you’ll have:
- gold coins to use (no federal reserve),
- get your whole paycheck (no taxes), and
- keep all you ever earn (no inheritance taxes).
You’ll be busy though, because you’ll be making lots of choices:
- how to educate the children; no state skool.
- what drugs to buy at WalMart; no gubamint permission required to buy medicine.
- what to do with all that extra money; there will be many private charities appeal for some of your surplus.
- what type of ammo to buy for your gun; self-defense.
- what insurance company to contract with for police services; no thugs in uniforms from the central committee with diktats.
- what fraternities / sororities, clubs, and associations you will join for various benefits (Consult http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_de_Tocqueville for how it was); no gubamint free goods to lull you into slavery, poverty, or stupidity.
Ahh, it will be great.
Remember in post-Civil War to WW1 America, the economy was booming and there was a gradual decline in prices. Life expectancy surged. The rising tide lifted all boats.
The spirit of the Statue of Liberty was in the land.
We can be there again.
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