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CLOUD: LINKEDIN upgrades security
Sunday, March 23, 2014Hi FJohn,
At LinkedIn, our fundamental philosophy is “members first.” We believe it’s essential for you to always feel informed and empowered with respect to your information on LinkedIn. This email is all about your privacy and security, and the tools we offer to protect them — it’s worth the read.
We wanted to let you know that we’re making some changes to our Privacy Policy and User Agreement, effective March 26, 2014. As members of the LinkedIn family, LinkedIn Pulse and SlideShare will now be adopting our Terms of Service. This integration will allow us to continue to deliver the most relevant personalized professional content to help you be great at what you do across all three platforms. You can read our blog post explaining the changes and highlighting key points. This is also a good time to review your Privacy Settings and see what your options are in terms of controlling how your information is shared.
While we work hard behind the scenes to protect you and your data, we’re also committed to providing you with tools to manage your privacy and security. Here are three tools to take a look at:
1. Choose how your information is shared
We have additional privacy settings you can turn on or off, depending on what you want to share, display, or receive. Here are some of the options you’ll find in your settings:
Turn on/off activity broadcasts
Select who can see your activity feed
Select what people see when you’ve viewed their profile
Select who can see your connections
Change your profile photo and visibility
Block members for added privacy
2. Protect your account with two-step verification
Opting into two-step verification can greatly reduce identity theft and unauthorized access. Learn how to turn it on with this SlideShare presentation. If you run into any problems, see our troubleshooting tips.
3. Turn on secure browsing (HTTPS)
A good indicator of a protected website connection is the https:// you might see in your browser address bar. While we automatically secure a connection for pages with sensitive information (such as credit card info), you can also turn this on when viewing all pages across LinkedIn — learn how. We’re working on making this a default across LinkedIn.
Looking for more tips on privacy and security? Visit our Safety Center for more info on using LinkedIn smartly and securely.
Thanks for being a member!
The LinkedIn Team
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INTERESTING: Marriage?
Saturday, March 22, 2014http://www.strike-the-root.com/on-institution-of-marriage
On the Institution of Marriage
Column by PSYCHOTICNUT, posted on March 19, 2014
in Marriage
Column by new Root Striker Steven Holman.
Exclusive to STR
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Marriage began as an institution of force and control, has historically been an institution of force and control, and remains to this day an institution of force and control. Marriage as an institution, therefore, ought to be opposed if you follow the Non-Aggression Principle. Some may still cling to it as a security blanket, and I understand that. I was once a minarchist for the same reason. I believe the consistent, principled approach, however, is to oppose the institution of marriage.
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While I still maintain that the Gooferment could use “partnership” law to cover it … …
… … that would not satisfy “the politics”. Nor the ability of the Gooferment to stick its nose in everyone’s biz.
argh!
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POLITICAL: The FDA is a roadblock
Friday, March 21, 2014http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/can-boy-s-life-be-saved_784914.html#
Can This Boy’s Life Be Saved?
The answer may depend on President Obama.
MAR 24, 2014, VOL. 19, NO. 27 • BY MICHAEL ASTRUE
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The January 31, 2014, Boston Globe front page included two life-and-death stories. One announced that the U.S. Department of Justice would seek the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is facing trial for the Boston Marathon bombing. Animated debate about the proper penalty for Tsarnaev continues around Boston.
The other story snapped my head back because it involved a death penalty for Jack Fowler, a 6-year-old boy dying of the more virulent form of Hunter syndrome (also known as MPS-II). The drug he needs to survive, which he is being denied, is one that I had first proposed in 2003 when I was CEO of a small biotech company focused on rare diseases. In 2005, after two years of developing this drug, Shire Pharmaceuticals bought my company over my objections, and I lost touch with the program. Jack’s situation is particularly compelling, but hardly unique.
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As everyone knows the Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient.
What’s surprising about this is that BHO44 hasn’t jumped on it.
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JOBFINDING: Long Term Contracts in New York
Thursday, March 20, 2014We are hiring immediately for Long Term Contracts in New York!
A Large Hedge Fund Allocator is looking for Sr./Mid Level .Net Consultants to help build out their Operating Platform.
Location: NYC
Rate: based on experience $75-$90 hourly
Duration: 6 months with the opportunity to extend for multi-year
The candidate Must Have:
– Front and Middle Office Application
– C# .Net, SQL
Strong Preference
– Financial Buy Side experience
– WPF
Please send resumes to sdastur@northps.com for immediate consideration.
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RANT: Another “untrue” storey about Obamacare
Thursday, March 20, 2014“There are plenty of horror stories being told (about Obamacare) all of them are untrue.”
– Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), February 25th, 2014
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Sorry, but I know at least one is true.
A dear friend of mine has had no health insurance for a long time. (It’s expensive. She says she can’t afford it. I believe her.)
She developed sciatica. Very painful.
Tried to tough it out but it didn’t get better.
Spent several hundred dollars at Urgent Care to get drugs that made it tolerable.
Obamacare comes and she starts researching. She finds a policy with a 350$ month payment and 2,500$ deductible. She’s hurting so she figures to “economize”. (Don’t know how that’s going to work.)
She investigates because the 2,500 has to be spent in network. Finds doctors locally who are in network.
Buys the insurance. (Not without its own saga. But it’s just long waits, misinfo, and general administrivia. Not very entertaining.)Then tries to book the appointment.
She finds that all of the locals don’t do backs, only do kids, or only elbows and knees.
She’s forced to find someone.
Argh!
Goes to an out of network Ortho who says he needs an MRI to diagnose her.
Now she has to find a GP in network who will agree to rewrite the out of network ortho’s order for the MRI so she can now try and find an in network MRI place so that when she pays it counts towards her deductible.
Argh!
Anyone care to say nice things about Obamacare. She voted for him because he promised Health Insurance.
(I bit my tongue to keep from saying “how is that working out for you”.)
Needless to say she is <past tense synonym for urine output> off and wondering why she paying for insurance that is any good.
I did point out she get free birth control. She was NOT amused!
(I was!)
I can’t wait to hear more.
Argh!
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INTERESTING: The Five Second Rule Will Make You Sick
Wednesday, March 19, 2014http://gizmodo.com/the-five-second-rule-will-make-you-sick-and-maybe-dead-880976235
“Yewww.”
{Quoting the character Ramona Nowitzki to Howard in The Big Bang Theory (TV Series) Episode The Cooper-Nowitzki Theorem (2008)}
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1256037/quotes
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RANT: No inflation?
Tuesday, March 18, 2014Dear ferdinand j. reinke,
We are writing to provide you advance notice that the price of your Prime membership will be increasing. The annual rate will be $99 when your membership renews on December 7, 2014.
Even as fuel and transportation costs have increased, the price of Prime has remained the same for nine years. Since 2005, the number of items eligible for unlimited free Two-Day Shipping has grown from one million to over 20 million. We also added unlimited access to over 40,000 movies and TV episodes with Prime Instant Video and a selection of over 500,000 books to borrow from the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library.
For more information about your Prime membership, visit our Prime membership page.
Sincerely,
The Amazon Prime Team
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POLITICAL: The problems with its ignition switches from 2001!?!
Monday, March 17, 2014http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304914904579435171004763740?mod=djemalertNEWS
BUSINESS
GM Now Says It Detected Ignition Switch Problem Back in 2001
GM Says Problem Occurred In Pre-Production of Saturn Ion
By JEFF BENNETT CONNECT
Updated March 12, 2014 8:11 p.m. ET
General Motors Co. now says it may have known about problems with its ignition switches dating back to 2001 when it was developing but had not yet launched the Saturn Ion.
In documents disclosed to federal regulators, GM said it had found some sort of issue contributing to the ignition’s inner workings which have now been linked to a recall of 1.6 million vehicles and 12 deaths.
The auto maker said an ignition switch design…
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RANT: A coast-to-coast blackout if the Gooferment remains in charge!
Sunday, March 16, 2014U.S. Risks National Blackout From Small-Scale Attack on Substations
The U.S. could suffer a coast-to-coast blackout if saboteurs knocked out just nine of the country’s 55,000 electric-transmission substations on a scorching summer day, according to a previously unreported federal analysis.
The study by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission concluded that coordinated attacks in each of the nation’s three separate electric systems could cause the entire power network to collapse, people familiar with the research said.
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The electric grid is to important to allow the Gooferment to be involved. At worst, it’s should be a corporation with the PSEGs and PEs of the country as its stockholders. No juice; sorry PSEG you don’t get paid. How happy will your stockholders be? Better than unelected bureaucrats in fancy suits with expense accounts and pensions, who will just exit stage left when the SHTF!
Argh!
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TINFOILHAT: Malaysia Flight Probe Sharpens Focus on Sabotage
Saturday, March 15, 2014Malaysia Flight Probe Sharpens Focus on Sabotage
The investigation into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 sharpened its focus on sabotage, according to aviation and industry officials, amid strong indications that one or more people on the plane deliberately changed its course and tried to mask its location.
Officials suspect two different systems were shut off after the plane took off last weekend, one shortly after the other, people familiar with the investigation said. About an hour into the flight, the plane’s transponders stopped functioning, making it much more difficult for air-traffic control personnel to track or identify it via radar.
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Is this the “fog of war” that everyone talks about?
The folks want answers!
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TECHNOLOGY: Google Glass and QR codes
Saturday, March 15, 2014ER doctors use Google Glass and QR codes to identify patients
Custom medical application for Glass keeps data off Google servers.
by Jon Brodkin – Mar 12 2014, 10:50am EDT
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Interesting.
But the lead photo shows doc with Google Glass learning quickly that this is room 45.
Laugh!
But I understand “security”.
I’d have put something better for him to “read”.
The hospital’s website, Google search, or anything but the room number. Makes it look trivial.
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RANT: An apparent suicide
Friday, March 14, 2014http://nypost.com/2014/03/13/jeffrey-corzine-former-nj-govs-son-dead-at-31/
Former NJ gov’s son found dead in Mexico of apparent suicide
By Jeane MacIntoshMarch 13, 2014 | 3:19pm
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For all my ranting about Corzine, I’d never wish this on anyone.
He has to answer for the collapse of MFGLOBAL, but this is hell of a way for the Universe to punish him
Requiescat In Pacem
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TINFOILHAT: Serious factual inconsistencies in the “official story”
Friday, March 14, 2014http://whowhatwhy.com/2014/03/11/9006/
Boston Bomber Carjacking Unravels – Part I Of II
By Russ Baker on Mar 11, 2014
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An exclusive WhoWhatWhy investigation has found serious factual inconsistencies in accounts provided by the only witness to the alleged confession of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.
Why does this matter? Because this witness is the sole source for the entire publicly accepted narrative of who was behind the bombing and its aftermath—and why these events occurred.
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How Did Danny Gain His Freedom?
Danny said: He escaped when Tamerlan, seated next to him, was momentarily distracted, according the Boston Globe, NBC and CBS.
Conflicting version 1: He simply got out of the car when both brothers were outside the car, having left him alone, according to WMUR.
Conflicting version 2: The Tsarnaev brothers never held Danny as a captive, according to the Associated Press and Cambridge Police Department. They simply detained him for a few minutes, then left him by the roadside, essentially confiscating his vehicle. In this scenario, he had almost no interaction with the brothers, raising questions as to whether they would have confessed to the two crimes before taking off with his car.
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Another case of spin, lies, and cover ups.
Any wonder why you can trust anything you read or are told!
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LIBERTY: Movies are a form of propaganda
Thursday, March 13, 2014http://whowhatwhy.com/2014/03/09/bombing-hiroshima-got-hollywood-makeover/
How The Bombing Of Hiroshima Got A Hollywood Makeover
By Greg Mitchell on Mar 9, 2014
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The author has written extensively on propaganda related to the bomb. What follows is a story stemming from his previous research.
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Facts were suppressed, and events were completely fabricated:
Suppression of fact:
In revised scripts, the decision to use the bomb was presented as justifiable, even admirable. The doubts raised earlier just disappeared. And now, after scenes depicting the bombing of Hiroshima, no victims were shown, just a charred landscape filmed from the air.
Suppression of fact:
Under General Groves’ guidance, the revised script made light of nuclear fallout.
Fabrication:
The B-29s flying over Hiroshima were pelted with heavy flak, a detail that made the attack seem more courageous. In fact, there was no antiaircraft fire over Hiroshima.
Fabrication:
One scene depicted fictional German scientists visiting a fabricated Japanese nuclear facility in—Hiroshima!
Fabrication:
In another entirely false episode, Matt Cochran, a young scientist arming the bomb, prevents a chain reaction from blowing up 40,000 people on a Pacific island—and thereby exposes himself to a fatal dose of radiation. But before he dies, Matt concludes,
“God has not shown us a new way to destroy ourselves. Atomic energy is the hand he has extended to lift us from the ruins of war and lighten the burdens of peace.”
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What can you believe any more?
Everything is “spun”!
Orwell was right!
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SOFTWARE: EVERNOTE
Wednesday, March 12, 2014http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/02/jeremy-andenberg/30-ways-to-improve-your-life-and-work/
One App to Rule Them All: 30 Ways Evernote Can Improve Your Life
By Jeremy Andenberg
The Art of Manliness
February 24, 2014
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7. Grocery list. Our household goes through endless scraps of paper for meal planning and grocery lists. They end up lost more often than not. Create your weekly list in Evernote, share it with your wife or roommates, and everyone will be on the same page. You can each add items to the list as you think of them instead of risking forgetting and needing to make a return trip to the market.
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Argh!
I’m trying be serious here.
I need a pick list in any of the three “super” markets I use.
And, it would nice if the app gave me a solution that is the lowest cost.
Watson? (Not Wilson!) where are u?
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RANTING: William “Wild Bill” Guarnere, Requiescat In Pacem
Tuesday, March 11, 2014‘Band of Brothers’ vet William Guarnere dies at 90
March 9, 2014 – 6:34 PM
Associated Press
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — William “Wild Bill” Guarnere, one of the World War II veterans whose exploits were dramatized in the TV miniseries “Band of Brothers,” has died. He was 90
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Without comment.
His nation asked and he delivered.
In spades.
Requiescat In Pacem
I may argue about “greatest”, but they gave what was asked.
Dona Nobis Pacem
We should not waste the effort of ANY of these brave women and men!
Send politicians. Or their children instead.
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INSPIRATIONAL: Personal Loopholes
Tuesday, March 11, 2014Which of These 10 Categories of Loopholes Do You Invoke?
The Happiness Project
Gretchen Rubin
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1. False choice loophole – “I can’t do this, because I’m so busy doing that” – this is one I often use, myself
2. Moral licensing loophole — “I’ve been so good, it’s okay for me to do this”
3. Tomorrow loophole — “It’s okay to skip today, because I’m going to do this tomorrow”
4. Lack of control loophole — “I can’t help myself”
5. Planning to fail loophole, formerly known as the “Apparently irrelevant decision loophole”
6. “This doesn’t count” loophole – “I’m on vacation” “I’m sick” “It’s the weekend”
7. Questionable assumption loophole
8. Concern for others loophole — “I can’t do this because it might make other people uncomfortable”
9. Fake self-actualization loophole – “You only live once! Embrace the moment!”
10. One-coin loophole –“What difference does it make if I break my habit this one time?”
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I use all 10!
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RANT: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370; terrorism?
Monday, March 10, 2014http://formerspook.blogspot.com/2014/03/lost.html
Saturday, March 08, 2014
Lost
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Answers to those questions–and others–will be revealed in the days and weeks ahead. And while few things are certain at this point, the use of stolen passports to put mysterious passengers on the plane certainly raises the specter of foul play. It is also worth remembering that terrorist organizations have never lost their interest in aviation targets, and the Pacific region has long figured in their plotting. We may soon learn if the bad guys have finally achieved their murderous goal.
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 certainly sounds like terrorism.
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RANT: Argh! ESPN3 isn’t not ESPN
Sunday, March 9, 2014Argh! It was supposed to be on ESPN. But the Jaspers are on ESPN3. Bumped by the women?
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SOFTWARE: BLUEGRIFFON chokes on an errant copy and paste
Sunday, March 9, 20142014-Mar-09
In doing my weekly Jasper Jottings, I was delayed by a data formatting error.
Apparently, when I posted an article in the daily blog, using MARSEDIT, some how the article was posted as the title.
I didn’t realize it and did a copy and paste from MARSEDIT into BLUEGRIFFON.
That cause BLUEGRIFFON to make the page width six times larger than it needed to be.
Took a break.
When I came back to it, I did CNTL Z’s until BLUEGRIFFON restored the page size.
Then the hunt for what was causing the problem.
Repeated the cut’n’paste into SIMULTRON5 text editor. Couldn’t see anything. Back into BLUEGRIFFON same result.
Deleted all the blank lines and made sure that each line had an EOL on it.
Cut’n’paste back to BLUEGRIFFON; same result.
Then I cut’n’pasted the first line to BLUEGRIFFON; same result.
Then I cut’n’pasted just the text part of the first line to BLUEGRIFFON; that worked correctly.
Resumed and everything was now right with the world.
Argh!
Still don’t really understand what happened.
The issue went out about 8 hours late.
Argh!
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RANT: 7½% growth rate
Saturday, March 8, 2014China’s Economic Growth Forecast at 7.5% This Year
China’s government aims to deliver economic growth of about 7.5% this year, Premier Li Keqiang said in a report to the country’s legislature released on Wednesday.
The target is unchanged from last year.
Gross domestic product growth has repeatedly outpaced the official target, coming in at 7.7% last year. But economists say that achieving that rate of growth is becoming more difficult as the economy matures.
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Imagine the USA with a 7½% growth rate.
We could be prosperous again!
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RANT: Social Security is bust
Friday, March 7, 2014Members of Congress:
When I hear politicians in Washington talking about “reforming Social Security,” I know that what you really mean is “cutting benefits” or “privatizing retirement accounts.”
What you should be talking about is expanding Social Security — extending solvency and ensuring the economic security of our seniors.
Senator Sherrod Brown, along with some of his colleagues, is working to expand the life of Social Security for this and future generations of seniors in America — and I am calling on you to do the same.
Signed,
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Sorry, but Social Security was FDR’s Socialist destruction of America.
It enabled Grandparents to abandon their families and move to warmer climates. And, make people dependent upon the Gooferment.
Economically, it’s a Ponzi scheme. Based on unrealistic assumptions and an ignorance of human aging.
Also, by the wide-spread introduction of abortion, we have put humanity into a death spiral.
(Akin to the Chinese One Child policy or India sex-selection policies that have put them on the Road to Perdition.)
Social Security is bust. Best thing is to emulate Chile in the 1970’s. Privative for the youngsters, reassure the old folks, and screw the folks with assets.
Fact of life.
The last investor in Ponzi gets <synonym for the past tense of the procreation act.>
At least, Ponzi had the decency not to point a gun to his victims’ heads. He just appealed to their greed.
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INSPIRATIONAL: Kurt Vonnegut’s advice
Thursday, March 6, 2014http://www.lettersofnote.com/2014/02/ladies-gentlemen-of-ad-2088.html
Friday, 21 February 2014
Ladies & Gentlemen of A.D. 2088
Kurt Vonnegut
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Reduce and stabilize your population.
Stop poisoning the air, the water, and the topsoil.
Stop preparing for war and start dealing with your real problems.
Teach your kids, and yourselves, too, while you’re at it, how to inhabit a small planet without helping to kill it.
Stop thinking science can fix anything if you give it a trillion dollars.
Stop thinking your grandchildren will be OK no matter how wasteful or destructive you may be, since they can go to a nice new planet on a spaceship. That is really mean, and stupid.
And so on. Or else.
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Maybe we can start a KICKSTARTER project to get off this rock?
(My belief is that Gooferment keeps us on this plantation!)
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FUN: Things I worry about?
Wednesday, March 5, 2014http://blog.biographyonline.net/2010/09/random-interesting-facts.html?m=1
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It is unknown if odd perfect numbers exist
A perfect number is a number whose divisors add up to itself such as 28: 1+2+4+7+14=28
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Laff!
A project for when I’m in the nursing home.
Wait where am I?
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RANT: Another reason to separate the Gooferment from the roads
Tuesday, March 4, 2014http://users.ipfw.edu/diclemej/Learnsomethingneweveryday.htm
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If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an
average of 6 months waiting at red lights.
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Argh!
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