GUNS: School shootings are a result of a stupid law

Sunday, October 8, 2006

http://www.jpfo.org/school.htm

PROVEN SOLUTIONS
TO ENDING SCHOOL SHOOTINGS

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(A) schools/kindergartens make for very attractive targets for the deranged gunman as well as for the profit-oriented hostage gangsters or terrorist group, because:

(1) everybody sane will cave in to the demands of the evildoers (even somebody as hard-nosed as Golda Meir, may she rest in peace, said during the Maalot incident, that one does not make politics on the backs of one’s children). Nobody wants to play the principles-game when kids are involved. Kidnapping has thus often resulted in the paying of ransom demands.

(2) if you crave media attention, as for instance the PLO did in the 70’s, nothing will catch the headlines better than an attack on a school-full of kids.

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Seems like a “gun free zone” is a recipe for a lot of children dying. We don’t live in fantasyland where real world facts can be ignored.

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TECH: Tips to avoid data loss with MICROSOFT PUBLISHER2006

Saturday, October 7, 2006

I have developed a mental process to minimize the opportunity for losing data when using MICROSOFT PUBLISHER2006.

Assuming that one wants to have local copy and an inet copy of the website developed, I have four steps to avoid it.

(1) Create a directory where ever your local data store is. Make sure that this gets backed up and moved off site.

(2) Create a website somewhere on the inet.

MICROSOFT PUBLISHER2006 allows one to pubish and “pack2go”.

(A) Publishing creates the website.

(B) PACK2GO creates the input to PUBLISHER that can be edited.

SO I am doing !A, 1B, 2A, and 2B.

Belt and suspenders for me. Not having a method cost me rework time of the past uses.

Your comments and opinions would be welcome.

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JOBSEARCH: Rebuilt my Turkey Farm after SP koed it. http://tinyurl.com/lxu93

Saturday, October 7, 2006

http://tinyurl.com/lxu93

FWIW

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TECH: MICROSOFT PUBLISHER2003 problem required rebuilding

Saturday, October 7, 2006

I had to rebuild the navigation bar from scratch. Arghhh! But, at least now it’s working. Argh! Arghhhh!

(Always doing over. Not creating new stuff!)

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TECH: MICROSOFT PUBLISHER2003 bug?

Saturday, October 7, 2006

It is apparent after many struggles that the navigation bar index on a website is not recreated after one updates the website.

I found the following on MICROSOFT:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP062535831033.aspx

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* You may have a slow Internet connection, or you may be experiencing problems with your Internet connection. Check your connection speed or try to log on to your Internet Service Provider again.
* If your Web site loads slowly when you publish updates, check to see whether you selected the Enable incremental publish to the Web option. This option allows you to publish updates to a previously published Web site quickly by uploading only the files that contain the changes you have made.

ShowHow?
1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Web tab.
2. Under Saving, select Enable incremental publish to the Web.

HideAfter I published my Web site, some features did not work.

You may have published to a Web server (Web server: A computer that hosts Web pages and responds to requests from browsers. Also known as an HTTP server, a Web server stores files whose URLs begin with http://.) that does not have the most recent version of the FrontPage Server Extensions from Microsoft. Without these server extensions, certain features will not work, such as Web forms.

Contact your Internet Service Provider or network administrator to find out if the Web server or network server that you are publishing to has the necessary server extensions.

HideI published my updated Web site to the Web, but I don’t see the changes I made.

If you try to publish an updated version of your Web site to the Web, and your changes do not appear, it may be because you made previous changes to your Web site files directly on the Web server (Web server: A computer that hosts Web pages and responds to requests from browsers. Also known as an HTTP server, a Web server stores files whose URLs begin with http://.) or the network server. If you made changes to your Web site directly on the server, you will not be able to publish later updates to the site from the original .pub file by using the Publish to the Web command. This is because the files that you changed on the server will no longer match up with the files that Publisher exports.

To update your Web site by using the Publish to the Web command, you will need to ensure that Publisher publishes your entire Web site, and not just the updates to the .pub file.

HideHow?

1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Web tab.
2. Under Saving, clear the Enable incremental publish to the Web check box.

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This advice has no impact.

I’ll have to figure out how to force that update. Or each time one changes the site (no matter how small), it appears that it generates all new names for the subpages. That makes the pig point to the old page names in the navigation bar. This will make the product useless for it intended purpose. Or, one can go thru and manually rename the new files back to the navigation bar’s old names.

Arghhh!

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TECH: Microsoft PUBLISHER2003 good idea but “holes”

Saturday, October 7, 2006

Using Microsoft Publisher2003 to build websites is “good”. I’ve been using it ever since I misplaced my copy of Front Office. Tonight, I had the interesting experience of rebuilding a site.

(Don’t ask. A previously built sight apparently “went bad” when the service provider mucked up some required files.)

SO, I rebuilt it. But not until I had to recreate 9 pages virtually from scratch. It was entertaining. (More entertaining than watching the Yankees choke.)

I have the site mostly all rebuilt, I shipped it up to the website. Filezilla objected that two of the site’s files were “in use”. So I exited out of publisher to free them up. All well and good.

I looked at the refurbished site and saw a couple of minor glitches. No big deal. Trivial to fix.

I fire up publisher and I can’t get the site back in publisher format. I can see each of the ten or so pages individually, but I can get the site-wide view needed to fix them.

Arghhh.

Now I have to either redo them again or figure it out.

At least I have a working site. Wonder if anyone will notice the mistakes.

I blame what happened on publisher.

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TECH: TECHNORATTI still thinks my content is ‘old”

Friday, October 6, 2006

Arghhh!

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LIBERTY: Attention KMart shoppers, the Drug Was has failed!

Friday, October 6, 2006

http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory121.html

The Drug War’s Immorality and Abject Failure
by Anthony Gregory

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If the idea is to create a drug-free America, then we can safely say that after hundreds of billions of dollars spent, millions of arrests, and decades of escalating police and military efforts, the war on drugs is a complete failure.

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When you consider all the costs of the drug war, imho one can’t possibly come to any conclusion that the actual direct and indirect costs far exceed the the benefits of that war.

If we could predict that drug abuse kills X people and the drug war kills Y people, then we could make a case that if Y is greater than X, should end the drug war?

The interesting part is that if you get a drug warrior on the record, they won’t admit that. “If saves just one person, it’s worth it.”

My gripe is that the whole drug paradigm, (i.e., that I have to go to a modern day medicine man / witch doctor, bribe them to give me a piece of state approved paper, then take that receipt has to be taken to a state approved building, where a bureaucrat checks with an state regulated insurance company to see how much I’ll pay, and then if I am lucky I’ll get what I need.

How about everyone buzzes off?

I’ll figure out what I need. And, I’ll go to Walmart and buy what I need. The State can just butt out. If I harm myself, then it’s my problem.

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LIBERTY: Economics in five points clumped into one sentence

Friday, October 6, 2006

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/peterson7.html

Economics In One Lesson: With Apologies To Henry Hazlitt
by William H. Peterson

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I close listing those five scarcity-coping tickers in my one lesson in economics as: 1. the law of self-interest, 2. the law of scarcity, 3. the law of opportunity cost, 4. the law of trade mutuality, and that miscoping 5. Gresham’s law on inflation.

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You have to love it. But what about the “broken window”? maybe that was number 6. And, it just didn’t fit.

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MONEY: My car purchase plan

Friday, October 6, 2006

A relative recently bought a car. I reprise my method for getting the down payment for the next one.

(1) Recognize that a car has a certain life in time and mileage. I like to figure 80k miles and six years. After that point, and sometimes even before, big repair bills can creep in. Note the numbers used in this example are all predicated on these two assumptions.

(2) Ensure that you are not using the car faster than the 80k miles suggests. If that’s true (i.e., that you are using more miles that will not make the car last), then you need to refigure.

(3) Take 3 year financing. Note if you can’t afford the three year payments, then you can’t afford the deal. Revisit the whole decision.

(4) Now envision that you are going to make those payments for six years. The first three years you’ll be paying the financer; the second three years you’ll be paying yourself into a designated savings account. At the end of the six years, you will then have three year’s payments in the bank for your next car.

(5) Specifically, if you are paying 350$ per month, then you’ll pay off your loan in three years. And, if you stay with the program, then at the end of six years you will have 3 times 12 times 350$ or 12600$ for your next car. The theory is that with your six year old car and ~12k$, you’ll be in good shape to get a new car. If you run this program religiously after the second or third time, then you won’t need financing.

(6) After six years, you go into what I call the “bonus period”. Keep paying into the bank. Every month you can make that old car last is another month towards your next car free and clear.

(7) Clearly care and maintenance is critical for getting the most out of what is probably your second most expensive purchase. (House being number 1)

(8) Cars are a necessity. Some argue that buying used cars is a cheaper alternative. I think that buy and run until the wheels fall off is the better strategy. Leasing is advanced as an alternative for those who keep cars three years or less and have low mileage. I think that cars can be the way to the poor house or an intelligent strategy to get to wealth. Cars are NOT an investment, but they don’t have to be a drain.

IMHO

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