How dumb is Microsoft?
It’s a cheap and easy way to get people to join.
Argh!
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CLOUD: SKYPE did away with the invite link
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GUNS: Gun Control in Nazi Germany; it CAN happen here and has
Saturday, May 17, 2014http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/05/audrey-d-kline/nazi-gun-control/
Gun Control in Nazi Germany
By Audrey D. Kline
Mises.org
May 10, 2014
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As has been well documented, Jews were methodically attacked, their homes, businesses, and synagogues ransacked and burned. Upward of 30,000 Jews were arrested. Any Jews resisting arrest were ordered shot on the spot. Attacks on the Jews were to be carried out by the SA, with no interference by police. Jews arrested were to be sent to concentration camps for up to 20 years. The pogrom was so thorough that nearly all age appropriate, Jewish adult males in Stuttgart had been arrested. With the population afraid and disarmed, Hitler could proceed with little worry about resistance. The Court reinforced that there was no judicial review needed for activities of the Gestapo.
Halbrook concludes by noting that less government regulation and a tradition of rejecting tyranny could have led to a different outcome in Germany. Instead, systematic creation and manipulation of firearms registration and regulations, coupled with the decimation of individual citizen’s rights, enabled Hitler’s dictatorship and the slaughter of millions of innocent Jews and citizens of Nazi-occupied countries, as well as tens of thousands of Germans. It remains for all of us to wonder what might have been had people refused to register their firearms. Indeed, we should all take note and never forget.
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“Gun Control” aka “Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose
Remember that it started in South to protect the KKK. Can’t have victims shooting back.
And never forget the Japanese internment.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Die in the camps like cattle or die fighting.
You’re dead either way.
The character “Ronald Spiers” in Band of Brothers (a 2001 TV Mini-Series): “The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you’re already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you’ll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it.”
“From my cold dead hands”
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MONEY: California dreaming of the Bank of North Dakota
Friday, May 16, 2014OpEdNews Op Eds 5/7/2014 at 14:28:58
Robbing Main Street to Prop Up Wall Street: Why Jerry Brown’s Rainy Day Fund Is a Bad Idea
By Ellen Brown (about the author)
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There is another alternative — one that California got very close to implementing in 2011, before Jerry Brown vetoed the bill. AB750, a bill for a feasibility study for a state-owned bank, passed both houses of the state legislature but the governor refused to sign it. He said the study could be done by the Assembly and Senate Banking Committees in-house; but 2-1/2 years later, no further action has been taken on it.
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That is not just California dreaming. There is already a highly successful precedent for the approach. North Dakota is the only state with its own state-owned depository bank, and the only state to fully escape the credit crisis. It has boasted a budget surplus every year since 2008, and its 2.6% unemployment rate is the lowest in the country. Contrast that to California’s, one of the highest.
In a 2009 interview, Bank of North Dakota President Eric Hardmeyer stated that when the dot-com bust caused North Dakota to go over-budget in 2001-02, the bank did act as a rainy day fund for the state. To make up the budget shortfall, the bank declared an extra dividend for the state (its owner), and the next year the budget was back on track. No massive debt accumulation, no Wall Street bid-rigging, no fraudulent interest-rate swaps, no bond vigilantes, no capital appreciation bonds at 300% interest.
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I think there is a HUGE barrier to establishing any “State Bank”.
The crony capitalists give campaign contributions. That’s the People’s tax money stolen by the Gooferment and transferred to Wall Street and Big Banks. And, portion is kicked back to the politicians and bureaucrats.
All very “legal”.
That’s what’s going to stop the “State Bank” movement cold!
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RANT: Three excellent questions?
Thursday, May 15, 2014*** begin quote ***
From a SurvivalBlog Reader:
We are told to not judge all Muslims by the actions of a few lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge all gun owners by the actions of a few lunatics.
We constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of money. Why do we never hear about welfare or food stamps running out of money?
We are cutting benefits to veterans, giving no pay raises in the military, and reducing the armed forces to a level lower than before WWII. Why are we not stopping payments or benefits to illegal aliens?
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Three excellent questions?
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INTERESTING: China train to America
Wednesday, May 14, 2014China may build an undersea train to America
BY ISHAAN THAROOR
May 9 at 8:01 pm
Screengrab from Sina.com
Screengrab of China’s proposed global train routes from Sina.com
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China is planning to build a train line that would, in theory, connect Beijing to the United States. According to a report in the Beijing Times, citing an expert at the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Chinese officials are considering a route that would start in the country’s northeast, thread through eastern Siberia and cross the Bering Strait via a 125-mile long underwater tunnel into Alaska.
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To that end, Beijing has assiduously resurrected the narrative of the ancient Silk Road as well as given prime billing to the tales of China’s famed Ming dynasty treasure fleets, which sailed all across the Indian Ocean. Seen in such grand historic perspective, a tunnel to Alaska doesn’t seem too far-fetched.
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Sadly, the USA because of it’s debt, deficit, huge amount of diktats, and a crapy economy, there’s no “building” here.
No one does big project with big benefits.
Argh!
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GUNS: “Victim disarmament” costs this poor woman her life
Tuesday, May 13, 2014http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Dubliner-woman-killed-in-hour-long-bear-mauling-in-Canada.html
Bear kills Irish woman in savage attack in Canada
Kate Hickey @irishcentral May 10,2014 04:00 AM
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A Dublin woman had been killed by a male black bear on an oilfield in Alberta, Canada.
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Lorna Weafer (36), who emigrated to Canada with her parents, Margaret and Frank, 30 years ago, was working as an instrument technician carrying out electrical work at the Suncor oilfield. The oilfield is located 25 miles north of her home in Fort McMurray.
The incident took place at 2:15pm on Wednesday, May 7. Weafer was exiting a portable washroom when she was attacked.
Six of her co-workers tried to scare off the bear but they could not save her. She died at scene.
Her colleagues blasted air horns, sprayed fire extinguishers and shot a water cannon at the bear who continued to maul Weafer for an hour. The bear would back away for short periods and then come back.
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Are you kidding me. No one had a handgun or a rifle.
Argh!
As a species, we are delusional.
“Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose
In this case, mauled by a bear.
Maybe she couldn’t have defended herself, but that’s up for debate.
BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), six co-workers armed with air horns?
One person with a 1911 .45 on their hip could have ended it a minute.
Transfer from magazine to bear would take conservatively a minute or two.
Argh!
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CLOUD: EDITORIALLY Goodbye
Monday, May 12, 2014http://stet.editorially.com/articles/goodbye/
FEBRUARY 12, 2014 EDITORIALLY
Goodbye
Editorially
Editorially makes collaborative writing easy.
Today brings some sad news: Editorially is closing its doors. The application will remain available until May 30, at which point the site will go offline. We encourage all users to export their data.
We’re proud of the team and tool that we built together and incredibly thankful that so many of you were willing to give it a try. And we continue to believe that evolving the way we collaborate as writers and editors is important work. But Editorially has failed to attract enough users to be sustainable, and we cannot honestly say we have reason to expect that to change.
We wish that were not the case — we’ve spent much of the past two years working on the hypothesis that the reverse was true — but today we must be honest with ourselves, and with you: this isn’t going to work.
We know many of you have spent time and energy making Editorially a tool you use every day, even going so far as to evangelize it to your friends and colleagues. For that: thank you. We’re sincerely sorry to have let you down.
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INTERESTING: “tiny villages”?
Monday, May 12, 2014I’ve Seen People Turn Garbage Into Some Cool Stuff. But THIS…. This Is Absolute Brilliance.
http://feedly.com/e/j8yQMvWh
I’m sure the “City Fathers” won’t like this.
If they have ordinances about “feeding the homeless”, imagine a city with “homeless housing”?
I am fascinated by “tiny houses” as “interesting” for those that can do it. This is the next step down (i.e., no toilet, kitchen, or power). But I’m sure it’s better than a doorway or a dumpster.
Wonder how long before there are “tiny villages”?
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INSPIRATIONAL: Real people are driving medicine
Sunday, May 11, 2014http://mosaicscience.com/story/medicine%E2%80%99s-dirty-secret
Medicine’s dirty secret
Bryn Nelson gets to the bottom of an emerging – and often shocking – therapy.
29 April 2014
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Some doctors have likened the recoveries of desperately ill patients to those seen with anti-HIV protease inhibitors in the mid-1990s. After the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona, performed its first faecal microbiota transplant in 2011, a patient who had been bed-ridden for weeks left the hospital 24 hours later. And in 2013, researchers in the Netherlands halted a landmark C. diff. clinical trial early for ethical reasons when they saw that the overall cure rate of 94 per cent with donor faeces had far outpaced the 31 per cent cured with the antibiotic vancomycin.
Yet few other interventions elicit such disgust, revulsion and ridicule. Chronicling a potential advance by a team of Canadian scientists, one newspaper account warned readers: “Hold your nose and don’t spit out your coffee”. In 2013, the founder of a patient advocacy blog called The Power of Poop wrote an open letter to 13 gastroenterology associations detailing the story of a Kentucky man who contracted an acute case of C. diff. Despite his family’s pleas, his doctor dismissed the idea of a faecal transplant as “quackery”. The man died the next day.
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Perhaps Catherine’s testimony helped sway the FDA. Perhaps it was the deluge of bad press that caught the agency off-guard as it struggled to balance the growing evidence of benefits with a highly variable and virtually unregulated practice that had flown beneath the radar. On 18 June 2013, the FDA bowed to pressure and partially reversed course, agreeing to exercise “enforcement discretion” for faecal microbiota transplants used to treat C. diff infections that weren’t responding to standard therapy. They wouldn’t be FDA-approved, in other words, but neither would they be prohibited.
Since the small victory, Catherine and her foundation have continued to push for more faecal microbiota transplant (FMT) clinical trials aimed at other digestive disorders, more research funding and more public awareness and education. She and a few board members who share her sense of humour have also begun crafting slogans that might eventually adorn T-shirts or sweatshirts. Her favourites? “Poop is the Sh*t!” and “Give a sh*t. Donate to the Fecal Transplant Foundation.” Her site also features an FMT awareness ribbon. It’s brown.
“It is what it is,” she says with a laugh. “There’s no way around what we’re talking about or what we’re dealing with.”
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So the FDA backs off.
Guess the drug companies aren’t happy with a competition to their high priced drugs.
The Sheeple need to take back their power.
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RANT: Gasoline fairy!
Saturday, May 10, 2014
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VETERANS: Betrayed military spouses
Friday, May 9, 2014AND FINALLY
Betrayed military spouses often keep quiet for fear of losing Benefits – source Los Angeles Times
Within the tight circle of Army spouses, Kris Johnson and Rebecca Sinclair became close friends as their ambitious husbands advanced rapidly in the officer corps. Both women were ultimately betrayed by their philandering spouses. Both endured public humiliation as their high-ranking husbands were hauled before courts-martial amid salacious testimony about adultery and other sex-related military crimes. And both women, along with their children, risked losing a lifetime of military benefits if their husbands were dismissed from the Army.
“You’re advised to keep your mouth shut and let him retire because you could lose everything,” said Johnson, whose now ex-husband, an Army colonel, pleaded guilty in 2012 to adultery, bigamy and other charges. Rebecca Sinclair begged a military judge not to strip her and her two young sons of military benefits after her husband, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair, pleaded guilty to a long-running, coercive affair with a junior officer. The general was allowed to retire at a reduced rank, preserving up to $830,000 in benefits he and his family had earned for his 27 years of service.
Fear of losing benefits keeps many military wives from exposing sexual misconduct or other offenses committed by their husbands, say many of those familiar with the military criminal justice system. Johnson kept quiet about her husband, Col. James H. Johnson III, while he carried on an affair with an Iraqi woman while deployed to that country.
But when Col. Johnson moved his mistress into his military quarters in Italy, his wife turned him in – painfully aware that she and her two children might be cut off from benefits as a result. A military jury in 2012 allowed the colonel to retire at reduced rank, keeping the benefits intact. In both the Johnson and Sinclair cases, court concerns that dismissing the officers would also punish their families
helps explain the relatively light sentences. Kris Johnson and others have campaigned for changes that would provide benefits to spouses of service members kicked out of the military for crimes even if the offender is sentenced harshly. Congress responded in January with a provision that requires the Pentagon to study the feasibility of providing “transitional benefits” to families in these cases. The study, to be completed in May, will consider such questions as how long benefits might last and who would be eligible for them.
The changes would strengthen the military justice system, advocates contend. They would encourage spouses to report criminal behavior and clear the way for military judges or jury panels to impose heavier sentences. At the same time, they say, the proposed protections would support spouses who are otherwise cut loose after sacrificing for years to support a philandering spouse’s career.
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This is non-sense.
And these men are security risks.
If an enlisted person did this, any one care to guess what would happen?
This is “unacceptable”!
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RANT: Anyone remember?
Thursday, May 8, 2014May 8 – VE Day, WWII
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VETERANS: Improve customer service
Wednesday, May 7, 2014*** begin quote ***
Veterans no longer required to report annual income to VA health system – source lohud.com
VA is eliminating its requirement for most veterans enrolled in its health care system to report their income information each year. The policy change, which takes effect this month, will ease the burden on veterans and improve customer service, according to the agency. Instead, VA will automatically match income information obtained from the Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration.
“Eliminating the requirement for annual income reporting makes our health care benefits easier for Veterans to obtain,” Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki said in a statement. “This change will reduce the burden on Veterans, improve customer service and make it much easier for Veterans to keep their health care eligibility up-to-date.” Vets who are applying for health care benefits for the first time still will be required to submit income information.
There are no changes in the agency’s long-standing policy of providing free care to veterans who are indigent, have catastrophic medical conditions, have a disability rating of 50 percent or higher and who have conditions that are official rated as service-connected.
Vets are urged to continue using the health benefits renewal form to report changes in their personal information, such as address, phone numbers, dependents, next of kin, income and health insurance. For more information, visit the
VA’s website or call 877-222-VETS toll free.
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They are not “customers” to be “serviced”. They are VETS!
That’s what a bull does to a cow.
Argh!
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RANT: Anti-DRM 5/6/14
Tuesday, May 6, 2014http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm_digital_restrictions_management
It’s immoral, ineffective, and inefficient.
Argh!
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GUNS: I’m no longer a Jerzeean; here’s one reason
Monday, May 5, 2014If you are not a contributor to the Democratic political machine, you are persona non gratta.
The estate tax of 15-22% is the other reason.
A plague on all the politicians and bureaucrats!
HOPE when they load you on the trains for the camps, you remember “I told you so”!
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INSPIRATIONAL: Cheap housing
Sunday, May 4, 2014http://www.impactlab.net/2014/04/25/disposable-houses/
April 25th, 2014 at 7:39 am
Disposable Houses
in: Architecture,Breakthrough Thinking,Business,Latest Trend,People Making a Difference,Photo Perspectives,Science & Technology News
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Here are a few reasons why having a disposable mindset may beneficial when it comes to real estate.
When moving across town, or to a new city, it makes much more sense to reprint a home in the neighborhood you want than to settle for what available.
Housing needs change as people move through different stages in life. Families with small kids need a different house than those with teens, and once kids move out, it changes again.
Whenever wind or hailstorms cause roof damage, it may be easier and cheaper to reprint a house than to repair it.
People who work from home can easily add an office or two when needed.
In places where flooding, fires, shifting soil, or termites cause major damage to buildings, the entire architecture can be reworked to compensate for those problems.
As people get older and no longer want to do steps, two story houses can be turned into ranch homes.
When driverless cars make owning cars obsolete, garages can be eliminated and reformed into other kinds of usable spaces.
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Given the movement to smaller micro housing, this is an amazing contribution to humanity.
It’s not that the McMansions are “bad”. They are just inefficient.
And, the debt one takes is just wrong.
Again the Gooferment’s “tax” “code” is the cause of the problem.
“tax” = theft
“code” = gibberish that is unintelligible to the average person
We need to level the playing field between savings and debt.
The Gooferment should be a “referee”; protecting the People. Not shearing the Sheeple!
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SECESSION: Passive resistance to withdraw consent
Saturday, May 3, 2014http://www.garynorth.com/public/12381.cfm
Will Facebook Bring Down the Government?
Gary North – April 26, 2014
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PASSIVE RESISTANCE
Passive resistance will bring down any institution. This was the insight of Saul Alinsky a generation ago, and it was the insight of Mohandas Gandhi in the 1920’s and 1930’s. When people withdraw their support from an institution, because they believe that the institution is no longer trustworthy, that institution’s days are numbered.
People will cooperate for a lot of reasons. They don’t want trouble. They don’t want to be singled out for prosecution by some federal agency. They don’t know the limits of the law. They just want to go about their daily affairs, and they are willing to remain in habitual patterns of behavior in order to avoid trouble. But decision-makers in the federal government should not expect this cooperation to continue when the going gets tough. When external events are disrupting the lives of large numbers of people, their habits will change. If they see an advantage in breaking the rules, they are going to start breaking the rules. They will not be restrained by a sense of conscience, precisely because they no longer believe that the federal government is operating on the basis of morality.
This sharp decline in trust has not been triggered by a particular event. In other words, the federal government cannot reverse this decline by changing its position on any particular piece of objectionable legislation or enforcement. The decline appears to be the result of nothing in particular. The government now has to hope that this decline in trust will be reversed by nothing in particular. If it cannot be reversed, then the government’s ability to use coercion to gain specific public responses is going to decline. Too many people will not cooperate.
We do not see any major change in policy in Congress. We do not see any particular branch of government encountering anything resembling organized resistance. But trust is rapidly disappearing. Public critics of the government do not appear to be the source of this decline, because there is no single issue that has triggered this decline. It is not clear what cause-and-effect is.
This is good news for the critics of the federal government, and it is bad news for Congress.
These poll results indicate that people are in a default mode of distrust, yet they are also in default mode of obedience. This discrepancy cannot continue indefinitely. Either obedience is going to be withdrawn, or else some degree of trust is going to be restored.
Erosion of obedience will follow the erosion of trust. This will make things even tougher on bureaucrats. They will not gain the implicit subsidy involved in all voluntary compliance.
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And when the taxpayers “revolt” that’s when it will hit the fan.
When those “pulling the wagon” realize there are too many “free riding in the wagon”, the scam stops.
When gold and silver becomes money again, then that’s the end of the current political class.
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: 60% Venezuela inflation
Friday, May 2, 2014Ration Cards, Block Long Food Lines as Inflation Rate in Venezuela Hits 60%
by Frances Martel 26 Apr 2014, 2:36 PM PDT
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The Bolivarian Socialist revolution has claimed the lives of 41 Venezuelans and forced thousands of others to suffer long lines in supermarkets for basic needs. While the political situation in the country remains dire, the economic situation continues to worsen: Venezuela’s inflation rate reached 60% this month.
According to Infobae, prices on common goods increased 4.1% in March, with rates increasing 59.4% between March 2013 and March 2014. The numbers are late because the Venezuelan government is late on reporting them — reporting March’s inflation statistics fifteen days later than the legal requirement imposed by the Chavista government on themselves. There is no indication that the individuals running the Venezuelan bureau of economic statistics will receive any punishment for delaying the release of such information.
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Wow, and don’t say it can’t happen here.
Inflation is a type of theft that can only happen with Gooferment fiat currency.
It hits the poor, those on fixed income, and the savers.
Argh!
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CLOUD: An “interesting” time to schedule an upgrade
Thursday, May 1, 2014Hi,
To make your Evernote experience faster and more reliable, we will be upgrading the servers that house your Evernote account between 2pm and 5pm PT on Tuesday, April 29th. We expect this process to take about 30 minutes. You may not be able to use some Evernote features during this time.
In particular, you might not be able to sync, use Evernote Web or the Web Clipper, or access some of your notes on mobile devices. The desktop versions of Evernote should continue to function without syncing. If you need to use Evernote during this period, we recommend that you sync your notes prior to 2pm. Premium users may consider downloading important notebooks to their phones or tablets.
As always, you can check the status of the Evernote servers and read about planned maintenance at http://status.evernote.com.
The Evernote Team
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Interesting time to schedule an upgrade.
Most IT folks love Sunday night at 2AM work.
TO do it during prime time is … …
… … arrogant and disruptive to the Customer?
But that’s what you get when you put your fate in the hands of another.
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Hi,
To make your Evernote experience faster and more reliable, we will be upgrading the servers that house your Evernote account between 2pm and 5pm PT on Tuesday, April 29th. We expect this process to take about 30 minutes. You may not be able to use some Evernote features during this time.
In particular, you might not be able to sync, use Evernote Web or the Web Clipper, or access some of your notes on mobile devices. The desktop versions of Evernote should continue to function without syncing. If you need to use Evernote during this period, we recommend that you sync your notes prior to 2pm. Premium users may consider downloading important notebooks to their phones or tablets.
As always, you can check the status of the Evernote servers and read about planned maintenance at http://status.evernote.com.
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MONEY: What growth? In the money supply!
Wednesday, April 30, 2014Fed Cuts Bond Buys, Sees Growth Pickup
The Federal Reserve said it would reduce its mortgage and Treasury bond buying program to $45 billion per month, while pointing to a growth pickup after a bad winter and sticking to previous guidance it has given on the outlook for short-term interest rates.
The steps were widely expected by investors before the meeting and represent a continuation of the monetary policy strategy laid out by Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen and former Chairman Ben Bernanke in the last few months.
The Fed’s move came after a report that showed the U.S. economy barely grew in the first quarter. Fed officials acknowledged the first quarter slowdown was worse than expected by saying activity “slowed sharply.” Previously they had just said activity merely slowed.
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INTERESTING: No more diet coke for me
Wednesday, April 30, 2014Since going “primal” (i.e., following the Paleo diet as best I can), all I drink is mostly water, coffee, tea, and wine. (Quantities not necessarily in that order.)
I happened to drink a can of Diet Coke the other day, and it now tastes awful.
Guess like anything, your “tastes” do change.
Bad news for Coke!
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RANT: Life, without parole
Tuesday, April 29, 2014NBA Bans L.A. Clippers Owner for Life
Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling has been banned for life by the NBA in response to racist comments the league says he made in a recorded conversation.
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver also says he will try to force a sale of the Clippers and fined Mr. Sterling $2.5 million. Mr. Silver called Mr. Sterling’s comments and views “deeply offensive and harmful.”
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For some reason, I find this abhorrent on a number of levels.
In no particular order:
- Cui Bono Why now? Why in this venue? And for who’s eventual good?
- With “evidence” that would probably not be admissible in court. (I’m no lawyer. But I’d never stipulate anything.)
- Using language that’s not appropriate, but there’s racism even within the Black community.
- Where is the outrage when other’s do the same. I remember Byrd, the Grand Wizard of the KKK, who was “rehabilitated”. There are a ton of other examples.
- Did he not employ the best? If our private thoughts and words can be used to condemn us, who is immune?
- Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. I think the speed that it went from disclosure to “execution” is amazing. When a capital case takes decades, this was “done” in minutes. Why?
- How fast they changed the team’s website? Minutes after the NBA decision. Pre-planned?
- Interesting: “zero tolerance for institutional racism”. OK? But be careful what you say. Are Jewish people going to demand quotas in the NBA. (And, BTW why is the NBA, MLB, and the NFL “non-profit”?)
- As an “owner”, how can he be tossed to the curb without due process? A “majority of the owners” is an interesting term of art. I’d say cartel or monopoly. Isn’t that a per se violation of Federal law? MLB has the “baseball exemption”; what does the NBA have?
- And, finally, “protest held by several civil rights groups including the NAACP”. Is this the same group that gave him a “lifetime achievement award” and was going to give him another? They have a lot of “gravitas”.
Bottom life: I think he got screwed?
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GOVERNACIDE: VA secret list
Tuesday, April 29, 2014http://www.legion.org/veteranshealthcare/221045/legion-va-secret-list-%E2%80%98abhorrent%E2%80%99
Legion: VA secret list ‘abhorrent’
BY Marty Callaghan – April 24, 2014
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“We’re going to find out what happened in Phoenix,” Dellinger said. “We are going to find out who was responsible for this secret list and if they are still working for VA. These preventable deaths keep mounting, and yet we see not a single VA manager being held accountable. The American Legion will work with Congress and the VA Central Office to find out exactly what has been happening, and why. It is not sufficient for VA to simply say it’s going to try to do better next time, without holding people accountable.”
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Coming to everyone soon with OBAMACARE.
Argh!
The Gooferment doesn’t do ANYTHING right. It’s immoral, ineffective, and inefficient.
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INTERESTING: What did Grok, the caveman, eat?
Monday, April 28, 2014http://www.popsci.com/article/science/youre-not-highly-evolved
You’re Not Highly Evolved
Here’s where our bodies still mess up
By Veronique Greenwood Posted 04.16.2014 at 9:00 am
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METABOLISM
Our love of calorie-rich foods was useful early in our evolutionary history, but now that food is plentiful, that same predilection may contribute to the obesity epidemic. Unfortunately, evolution won’t offer its own solution for a long time. For example, 9,000 years elapsed between when some cultures first domesticated cows and when 90 percent of those populations finally were able to digest the lactose in milk.
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One of the reasons I’m attempting to follow a paleo diet.
What did Grok, the caveman, eat?
Anything that he could find or catch. Went hungry a lot. And ran from what chased him.
Laff!
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SURVIVAL: “Not IF, but WHEN”
Sunday, April 27, 2014http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/04/creek-stewart/lighten-your-load/
“Not IF, but WHEN”.
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TINFOILHAT: MH370 and other topics
Saturday, April 26, 2014http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/04/no_author/the-2nd-mystery-of-malaysia-air/
The Second Mystery Around Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370
By John Chuckman
Pravda.ru
April 21, 2014
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A second mystery around the disappearance of Flight MH370 has largely gone unnoticed: why hasn’t the United States been in the forefront of providing information about it? The implications of this question are massive.
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There would be nothing unprecedented in such an act: on at least 3 occasions, regrettably, America’s military has shot down civilian airliners, only admitting eventually to the one they could not hide. They are also indirectly responsible for a fourth.
Iran Air Flight 655 was stupidly shot down in 1988 by the USS Vincennes in Iranian waters during the Iraq-Iran War, not only killing 290 people including 66 children, but there was a long period afterwards in which the U.S. admitted no wrong-doing, offered no apology, and no compensation to its victims (only 8 years later was a quiet settlement made).
It was a quite vicious set of circumstances and the injustice of it led unquestionably to the motive for bombing Pan Am Flight 103, killing 259 people and 11 on the ground, later the same year by people still unknown.
TWA Flight 800 over the East Coast of the United States was certainly the victim of a shipboard American anti-aircraft missile accidentally released. The evidence included radar tracks and eye witnesses. But the U.S., instead of admitting its horrible error and compensating victims, conducted a long and almost farcical investigation headed up by the same FBI that gave us the farcical investigation into the Kennedy assassination.
Last, the fourth hijacked plane on 9/11, United Flight 93, of “Let’s roll” pop legend, which crashed over Pennsylvania was almost certainly shot down by an air-to-air missile from a fighter plane. A plane was seen by witnesses, the distribution of the wreckage tends to support a shoot-down, and just the sheer impossibility of America’s hundreds of billions of dollars in air defences staying asleep at the switch for a fourth event the same day argue powerfully for an attack.
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While it’s not a credible source, it does ask some interesting questions!
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