TECH: It’s Wireless Wednesday. I use my Verizon Wireless Broad Band all day?

Wednesday, June 7, 2006

Yup, it's wireless wednesday again. You know fans the day I try to use my "beloved" vwbbie all day, or until I get frustrated and drop back to my employer's utility network. 

And this morning, vwbbie is doing a little more poorly that usual. It's raining. Or at least threatening. And, we all know that stormy weather is the bane of the Internet Surfer Pro and all ISPs worldwide. 
Here's the current speed reading!

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Download Speed: 125 kbps (15.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 101 kbps (12.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
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 Of course, your mileage may vary!

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TURKEY: No retirement for you … … unless you are planing to work through it!

Wednesday, June 7, 2006

http://www.enewsbuilder.net/theayersgroup/e_article000541048.cfm?x=b7tg58F,b55f1D3v,w

Tuesday, June 6, 2006
Summer 2006
VOLUME 1 ISSUE 13 
The Age-Advantaged Workforce
by Terry Ebert
Managing Director
Tel: 212.889.7788
terry.ebert@ayers.com

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The fact is inescapable: our workforce is aging. The implications, for companies of all sizes, are unavoidable. As an IBM survey of HR directors concluded: "When the baby boomer generation retires, many companies will find out too late that a career's worth of experience has walked out the door, leaving insufficient talent to fill the void."

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One would guess that the gray workforce can't afford to "retire". You want some reasons?

Inflation will make everything more expensive. Pensions, especially generous ones, will be ditched via the bankruptcy courts. The PGC will pick up the obligations and pay them off at pennies on the dollar. The social security insurance ponzi scheme will go broke, but backed up by the full faith and credit of Washington politicians, it too will pay off pennies on the dollar (e.g., the full benefit age will "magically" go up ex post facto; the benefit amount will shrink; taxability will be tinkered with; all sorts of ifs, maybes, and gotchas will be invented). Oh, an the indexing to inflation, ha ha, just kidding. The COLA will be given based on the core rate of inflation that will only include stuff that doesn't go up and exclude anything that does. Taxes up. Deductions down. Sales taxes up. User fees galore and higher too (e.g., did you hear about the air use fee?).

Maybe it won't be so bad. Want some reasons?

This generation has sacrificed family for work. Hence they have no life or anything to retire for. This generation was raised by the greatest generation and still has some of the old American value of hard work. This generation has learned how to game the system and continued work allows the game to continue. This generation works; the next generation doesn't. So who's going to milk the cows and bake the bread? Yup, outsourced to India or China.

Seriously, what will we do?

Consult or contract. Stick it to them, all the traffic will bear, and we know the game!

Looking forward to my version of retirement some day! ;-)

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TECH: “HAMACHI” a free VPN proxy … … just playing around!

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

It's free. It installs. (Wonder if Nuance Scansoft knows this trick!?!)

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Update: I have it up on LUGable and OLDLAP and did a ping between 5.44.69.171 and 5.44.68.254. The time was 4.5 secs. Does that mean it went from my sofa on LUG, to Japan, to OLD, to Japan, and back to LUG in 4.5???? Has to be a trick there!

Now what?

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Update: Went to  work, and despite the fact, or maye because of it, that it is wireless wednesday, (the day I run LUGable off VWBBIE all day, or for as long as I can stand it, I was able to reconnect with my HAMACHI vpn. I did a directory of OLDLAP and it responded as if I was sitting on my sofa last night. Hmmm, I'm STILL not sure what I can do with this, but it is neat!

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LIBERTY: Tired yet of “one” party rule!?

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

Maybe now that South Brunswick more closely represents the People's Republic of China with single party rule, we should have a straw man party that they can run against. As with national and state elections, I always forget who's in charge. Is it the Democrats, the Democans, the Republicrats, or the Republicans? Is it "the small government but stuff happens and we make it big" or is the "the big government with lost of bigger ideas" party? You know there isn't a bit of difference.

So I propose that we here in South Brunswick, try a completely different party. How about one that wants freedom and liberty? It's the Libertarian party. We pop up from time to time to suggest that there might be a better way. Like the highest nail, we get pounded down by the "two" major parties, but we keep popping back up.  Testing to see if the voters would like to have a true choice.

While a single township can't change Federal, State, and County diktats, the local government can begin the process. We can NOT convert the schools from government run to free market by ourselves … YET! We can NOT end the drug war now … … YET! We can NOT end taxation as we know it … … YET! But we can start the discussion about school privatization and cut the waste and fat … … NOW! But we can direct our policing priorities to violent crime … … NOW! But we can cut taxes and fees with laser like clarity that we are their to minimize theft (that what taxes are) … NOW!

So, if you are tired of one party rule like the people in Russia, Poland, Hungary, and the rest of the old Soviet Union, perhaps you might find an outlet for your frustration! Libertarians are frustrated too.

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RANT: Scott Trade is off my list of brokerages I’ll do business with

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

http://www.scottrade.com

Tried to move the Frau's IRA into Scott Trade. Tried to do it online. It didn't take. It says go to an office. Went to the office but you have to prove your socsecnum. Nothing mentioned that little gem. So I dragged Frau to the local office, filled out the forms, and then they asked for her driver's license and another form of id with her ssn. Argghh! Scratch them off the list. And the staff guy and branch manager did really seem to care. Double Argh!!

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LIBERTY: Kalet sides with the gubamint grave robbers

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2006/06/skewed-priorities.html

Monday, June 05, 2006
Skewed priorities 
Hank Kalet
Managing Editor
South Brunswick Post
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The basics go like this: Cut taxes for the rich — either by cutting their income taxes, the capital gains tax or the inheritance tax — and then cut benefits for the middle class and poor through changes to Medicare and Medicaid, education and other programs.
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And the moral justification for reaching into someones grave and stealing from them is?
Seriously, a person labors all their life, makes a contribution to society (otherwise people would not have given them money), and then the political komisars come along and say "no, no, you're too rich. we need it for the children!".

Of course that means that the grave robbers take it back to Washington, where if there is anything left after expensive meals, vast staffs of richly paid yessirs, and endless studies to document the "need", that might be trickled to the serfs.

No, taxes in general, and death taxes in particular, are immoral. Death taxes take money that was already taxed many times. It's one last shot at stealing before the person finally escapes.

And, like the two wolves and sheep voting on what's for dinner, counting noses doesn't make it right.

Beside depending on politicians a la Katrina is demonstrably deadly.

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LIBERTY: Does anyone see a similarity to the Underground Railway?

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/14748174.htm

Woman charged with smuggling babies arrested in Arizona
Associated Press

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LOS ANGELES – A woman who allegedly smuggled babies and young children from Mexico was arrested Monday when she attempted to cross the Arizona-Mexico border, authorities said.

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I see a similarity. We have the poor in Mexico taking the modern version of the Underground Railway past the slave masters to the promised land of freedom.

But, then I think the Statue of Liberty is one of our strongest ads.

You must remember the Underground Railway, even if you went to gubamint skoolz. It was during the War of Northern Aggression. Back when America the Republic began to become Amerika the Empire.

Surely you learned that.  

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LIBERTY: Does pure liberty turn to tyranny?

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

This was a comment by an emailer to FTL (http:/freetalklive.com). I'm not so sure about that. Have to think about it.

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WRITING: This morning I threw coins

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

Ah what a wonderful machine we've been given for our journey thru life. This morning, I picked up four coins that had fallen form my pocket. I have the required change bucket on my dresser that finances my AC gambling from time to time. So as I sat on my bed coins in hand, I "willed" them from hand to jar. OK! I threw them one at a time. Four for four. It was truly amazing. I don't think I had ever done that before. But I carefully thought about it. I visualize the coins arcing like a basket ball free throw and landing with a clink. I swear while practicing I though I heard the thunk. So ever so gently, I took three pactice strokes, as I was taught in gold school, and practiced my motion. Deep breath and launched each in turn. I was in the zone. If I had any sense, I'd have gone back to bed for the rest of the day. Having achieved the flow, my day's work should have been complete. So I got up, tapped this on my keyboard, and I am off to face the day serene in the knowledge that at least once today I was in the flow following my bliss and in one with the universe. Now off to work were all this can go by the wayside. Hi ho, hi ho, {with apologies to the Seven Dwarfs}

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RANT: No one remembers DDay … … I do?

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

It probably was the watershed event in WWII. It represented the beginning of the end for some very dangerous and sick people. It was the turning point for the extermination of millions. And, it was very expensive for the men that landed there. One has to wonder how the world would have been different if we had some more of those men back to lead us. They always talk about the best being left on the battlefield. I think that is true of every war. Just last weekend, I had the honor of talking to an 84 year old DDay vet. Crippled by a wound received that day, who lamented how the local township was going to enforce the meter outside his house despite the handicap plate he has. Honor American veterans? Please, don't make me laugh. But, I remember them and will pray that all of us take their sacrifice to heart and make America that shining city on the hill. It's the least we can do. And we won't have to die to do it.

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