TECHNOLOGY: Solve those traffic jams … please!

Sunday, June 24, 2012

http://www.impactlab.net/2012/06/04/32-technological-innovations-that-will-change-your-tomorrow/

June 4th, 2012 at 3:20 pm
32 technological innovations that will change your tomorrow

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6. The Congestion Killer

Traffic jams can form out of the simplest things. One driver gets too close to another and has to brake, as does the driver behind, as does the driver behind him — pretty soon, the first driver has sent a stop-and-go shock wave down the highway. One driving-simulator study found that nearly half the time one vehicle passed another, the lead vehicle had a faster average speed. All this leads to highway turbulence, which is why many traffic modelers see adaptive cruise control (A.C.C.) — which automatically maintains a set distance behind a car and the vehicle in front of it — as the key to congestion relief. Simulations have found that if some 20 percent of vehicles on a highway were equipped with advanced A.C.C., certain jams could be avoided simply through harmonizing speeds and smoothing driver reactions. One study shows that even a highway that is running at peak capacity has only 4.5 percent of its surface area occupied. More sophisticated adaptive cruse control systems could presumably fit more cars on the road.

When a quarter of the vehicles on a simulated highway had A.C.C., cumulative travel time dropped by 37.5 percent.
In another simulation, giving at least a quarter of the cars A.C.C. cut traffic delays by up to 20 percent.
By 2017, an estimated 6.9 million cars each year will come with A.C.C.

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ADMINISTRIVIA: JASPER JOTTINGS Week 26 – 2012 June 24

Saturday, June 23, 2012

JASPER JOTTINGS Week 26 – 2012 June 24

Jasper Jottings – The achievement journal of my fellow Jaspers, the alumni of the Manhattan College

http://www.jasperjottings.com/2012/jj2012W26.html

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HARDWARE: POGOPLUG highly recommended

Saturday, June 23, 2012

and …

Perhaps, I haven’t explained myself well.

About the pogoplug and the disk drive.

You plug both into any power strip.

The disk drive plugs via usb into the pogoplug.

The pogoplug plugs via an RJ45 (local area network connection) (looks like a fat phone wire with bigger that a phone socket plugs on each end) into the ROUTER.

Note: it doesn’t plug into ANY computer.

(You can, but you don’t HAVE to. The value of this little 45$ linux box is that it is it’s own computer / appliance.)

Once you do that, I can give you a directory on the drive that you can:

(a) “mount” the drive on any computer on your home lan (wirelessly or wired) and use as you would the hard disk that’s internal to that computer. Including IPADs, ITOUCHs, IPHONES, and most smart phones.

(b) by correctly defining any path to the pogoplug via it’s web interface, it will give you a URL that you can “publish”, share, or use yourself.

So, for example, Luddite can upload his corny spam megabyte movie files to is and any one who has the link can look at it. ANd, would CLOG everyone’s mail systems with HUGE files.

So, for example, MIX2 can put the that big video on the “platform” and only allow certain people to see it. (Even if someone has the link, they can’t see it. I think it comes back “404 url not found” or something like that.)

SO, you can think of pogoplug as a “personal / group / public” cloud solution.

I’d like to deploy them at all my favorite people’s routers so that I can have off-site storage. (The power is use is about 8$ per year I’m told.)

I think it’s a neat device.

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INTERESTING: Ipv6 address space

Friday, June 22, 2012

Are you ready for IPv6?

 WinNews Newsletter

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IPv6, on the other hand, supports a huge number of unique addresses – 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 to be exact. This is well over 340 undecillion addresses (a number that most of us can’t even imagine). Here’s some perspective on just how big that number is. One immediate benefit of having that many addresses available is that NAT would no longer be needed because every device on the planet – computers, tablets, smartphones, refrigerators, washing machines, security cameras, TV sets, etc. – can have its own IP address to connect directly to the Internet.

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IPv6, on the other hand, supports a huge number of unique addresses – 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 to be exact. This is well over 340 undecillion addresses (a number that most of us can’t even imagine). Here’s some perspective on just how big that number is. One immediate benefit of having that many addresses available is that NAT would no longer be needed because every device on the planet – computers, tablets, smartphones, refrigerators, washing machines, security cameras, TV sets, etc. – can have its own IP address to connect directly to the Internet.


INSPIRATIONAL: Folk wisdom

Thursday, June 21, 2012
Use it
Wear it out
Make it do
Do without

— Francois Family wisdom 
© John D. Francois 1973-2012 All Rights Reserved 
(Used with the permission of the copyright owner)
 
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RANT: It’s just a little loss of service!

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Argh! I don’t feel “valued”!?

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Verizon  
Dear Valued Verizon Customer,

We are contacting you to provide information on some upcoming changes to the Premier and Extreme HD FiOS TV channel line-ups that will affect you. The changes will be effective on or after July 23, 2012 and are being made to better streamline and consolidate FiOS TV programming. Please refer to the chart below for the specific changes.
 

Current FiOS TV Channel Current Programming Change Effective on or after July 23, 2012
106 CNBC World Channel will be removed from FiOS TV Premier and Extreme HD
226 MNET Channel will be removed from FiOS TV Extreme HD

The most current FiOS TV listings are available at verizon.com/fiostvchannels. We look forward to continuing to provide you with the very best entertainment.

Sincerely,

Your Verizon Team

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RANT: On the “death penalty”

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

http://m.spokesman.com/blogs/boise/2012/jun/12/reinke-not-normal-day/

Reinke: ‘This is not a normal day’ – Eye On Boise – Spokesman …

Reinke: ‘This is not a normal day’
Posted by Betsy
June 12, 2012 8:10 a.m. – Updated: 8:11 a.m.

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“We’re here today to carry out the court order,” Idaho state Corrections Director Brent Reinke announced to the press this morning at an early-morning briefing, …

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Nuremberg is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube.

The Nuremberg defense: “I was just following orders.”

Didn’t work for the Nazis!

I follow the news about all my “kinsmen”. While not the most uncommon name in the world, I don’t know ANY other related “reinke’s”. And, only a few unrelated Jaspers who share the name. (I try not to embarrass them for the purposes of a Google search.)

This saddens me.

Where does the State ever get right to kill its “citizens” in cold blood? One libertarian philosopher I read once made the case that in RARE  instances, it might be justifiable, if the human represented a “clear and present” danger to society (i.e., a Doctor Hannibal Lecture that was too dangerous to confine). But that would be an extreme rarity. 

I’m hard pressed to find this comparable to that.

IF faced with such a “duty”, I’d have to resign.

Makes me think of Saint Thomas Moore.

“And when we die, and you are sent to heaven for doing your conscience, and I am sent to hell for not doing mine, will you come with me, for fellowship?” Paul Scofield as Thomas More in “A Man for All Seasons” (1966)

So would you, could you kill a fellow human being, no matter how flawed. If the Eastern philosophers are correct, we are all but “fingers” on the same “hand”.

Would you cut off one of your fingers without a very very very good reason?

And the death penalty is as final as we can get. No eraser can make it right.

Nope, sorry, this is “wrong” by any standard I can find.

And, if an individual doesn’t have the right to do it, then creating a mob or a Gooferment doesn’t change the calculus.

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FUN: Root to kill “Dad John Carter!”

Monday, June 18, 2012

Was tired this morning. Stayed up to watch the two hour premiere of Falling Skies.

Not sure if I liked it.

Can’t we “kill off” “john carter” and all the Hollywood stereotypes? Some of the characters are distracting.

Like the little kid shooting a souped up AR15.

Yeah, right!

More likely than killing the alien, he’d have done us all a great service and killed his “dad john carter”.

I’ve shot a plain old ar15. It has kick like a mad child. It tends to rise. So the kid would be on his A Double Q with flash impaired vision and gunfire deafness. The only way he get the alien is when the slug shot up would come down like a mortar round!

Personally, I could cheer: (a) the kid’s wild fire kills “john carter”; (b) the alien kills “john carter”; or © the returning to earth slug kill everyone.

Anyone else rooting for the aliens over the formulaic Hollywood writers?

Probably should stop now befre I become “Politcally Incorrect”!

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ADMINISTRIVIA: Blood Drive July 1, 2012 in 08810

Monday, June 18, 2012

ADMINISTRIVIA: Blood Drive July 1, 2012 in 08810

FROM Reinke, F. John:

HI everyone it is time for the Second Annual Blood Drive

In Memory of Evlynn Reinke- Please join us on July 1, 2012 – 9 AM to 1:30 PM at St Cecilia’s RC Church -10Kingston Lane, Monmouth Jct. NJ

Please spread the word as we try to give back what was given to Evlynn in her time of need!

If you can not make it to this one – there will be another one one 7/20/12 –
Midco Waste a Div of- Republic Services 5 Industrial Drive, New Brunswick NJ
from 11:00 to 4:00 – hope to see you there!

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Evlynn received 125 pints of blood and 75 bags of platelets in the last year of her live as the doctor tried to buy her enough time for them to find an answer. As you know or can guess, time ran out. Personally, I’ve replaced about ½ of the platelets used. So far, others have donated 20 pints. Some beautiful people made the donations that allowed my beloved to survive year. Her family and friends are try to give that stuff “back” for someone else’s life. I was super impressed that the docs and hospital would just pour it in without hesitation. It always amazed me.

If you can’t join us, then give where you can. It’s more of a “spiritual effort” anyway. I’m the only one keeping count. Hate to leave the game “owing”, I’d guess it’s a corporal work of mercy.

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FUN: “It’s not that late. You can still go out and look for number thirty two.”

Sunday, June 17, 2012

ROFL!

Robot hand. Shamy date.

Adult topics. But very funny.

Good for what ails you.

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FUN: Bomb Diggity

Sunday, June 17, 2012

http://www.soslang.com/term/bomb-diggity

1. Bomb Diggity 381 60

totally the awesomest, no lie

aw man rachel is beyond the bomb diggity

By Richard Maldonado

2. Bomb Diggity 233 64

Awesomeness in its purest form.

“Holy shit, KELLY IS DA BOMB DIGGITY!”

By Gabriel Putman

3. Bomb Diggity 146 58

“somthing that is cool or just the shit”
“awesome”

“Damn man, that trick was bomb diggity!”

By Gene Hulse

4. Bomb Diggity 77 61

the coolest, hippest, wannabewith person

Shannon blew him away. He thought she was the bomb diggity.

By William Long

5. Bomb Diggity 29 18

Cool; Hott; Sexy; Off the Chain!!

That milf is the Bomb Diggity

By Matthew Johnson

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SPS

(self praise stinks)

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INTERESTING: SO much to do; so little time

Saturday, June 16, 2012

http://www.impactlab.net/2012/06/08/56-future-accomplishments-waiting-for-someone-to-go-first/

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Eight Space Firsts

While Star Trek famously proclaimed space to be the “final frontier,” there are, in fact, many unexplored frontiers. Here are a few space-related “firsts” that come to mind:

First person on Mars
First person to set foot on an asteroid
First person to travel at the speed of light
First space hotel
First person to set foot on the Sun (No, I’m not volunteering!)
First President of the Moon
First space-based power station
First to develop an inexpensive way to escape earth’s orbit

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I found this exciting!

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INSPIRATIONAL: Robin Roberts of TV’s “Good Morning America” battling blood disorder

Friday, June 15, 2012

Date: Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:05 PM
Subject: Reuter site – Robin Roberts of TV’s “Good Morning America” battling blood disorder

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSBRE85A0Z520120611

Robin Roberts of TV’s “Good Morning America” battling blood disorder
Mon, Jun 11 15:41 PM EDT

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NEW YORK (Reuters) – Robin Roberts, an anchor on ABC’s “Good Morning America” program who beat breast cancer five years ago, said on Monday she has myelodysplastic syndrome, a blood disorder triggered by her cancer treatment.

Roberts, 51, who expects to undergo a bone marrow transplant this fall with her sister as a donor, learned of the diagnosis on the same day that GMA beat NBC’s “Today” show in viewer ratings for the first time in 16 years, she said in a statement on the network’s website.

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MDS is what killed Frau Reinke. Technically kidney failure. 

It appears that Ms. Roberts is eligible for a bone marrow transplant. Our Girl wasn’t.

I’m adding Ms. Roberts to my prayer list and hope she survives.

She seems like a nice lady. No one should have that happen to them.

Any way, I thought I’d pass this along for your consideration. 

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INTERESTING: “flip a toaster”; dumb!

Thursday, June 14, 2012

“You can flip a toaster on its side and grill cheese in it.”

Luddite sent with this in a number of items in a recent spam. (Hey, he’s doesn’t know any better.)

This one seemed STUPID to me.

Anytime I make grilled cheese, it’s messy.

Seems like a good way to ruin a toaster or have a fire.

Rejected!

And, when I attempted to go to the cited source, my security software went nuts!

So, I backed off quickly.

Didn’t even bother to SNOPES it.

And, Frau Reinke wouldn’t have called it “grilled cheese”! She made her’s in a frying pan with butter and a lot more work! It tasted better too.

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INTERESTING: Is the inet “catalog buying” of yesteryear?

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

It occurs me that in the old days, folk sat at home far from the store and ordered from the Sear’s catalog and waited for it to arrive. Is that the same as today’s “order via the inet”?

Not sure if “inet ordering” is such a new meme.

(See what happens when you can’t sleep? You ponder the trivial.)

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INSPIRATIONAL: More advice to deaf ears?

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

>but Im trying to live life

“NO! … Try not! … Do or do not… there is no try.” (To do it justice, you must say the word try with all the revulsion and disgust you can put on it. Like you were talking about a rapist, a child murderer, or a politician!) — Yoda (Fictional character from George Lucas’s “Star Wars” movie)

One doesn’t “try to live life”. You’ll do that without “trying”. Unfortunately, it’ll just slip by if you don’t savor every moment. You waked up old and look back and say “Wow was I dumb!” LOL!!! The Buddhists have the concept of the “Three Joys of Suffering”. We cause our own unhappiness by not being in the moment.

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MONEY: Plan to work until your 90?

Monday, June 11, 2012

Bloomberg news: AIG Chief Sees Retirement Age as High as 80 After Crisis

Jun 4 (3 days ago)

American International Group Inc.
Chief Executive Officer Robert Benmosche said Europe’s debt
crisis shows governments worldwide must accept that people will
have to work more years as life expectancies increase.

http://bloom.bg/LdwGLe

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Anyone surprised?

Reality has to set in sometime!

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RANT: COX TV — strike one; it’s out

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Thank you for choosing Cox Communications. A representative will be with you shortly.
You are now chatting with ‘Louis’.

Louis: Welcome to Cox Live Chat Support. I will be assisting you throughout this Chat session.

ferdinand reinke: “temporarily off air”?

Louis: I understand you are experiencing inconveniences with your cable service. Am I correct?

ferdinand reinke: all tv is “off the air”?

Louis: I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

Louis: To better assist you, I will need the following information:

Louis: 1. The 10-Digit Phone Number as it is listed on the account.

Louis: 2. Your full name as it is listed on the account.

Louis: 3. Your complete home address where the service is located.

Louis: 4. The last four digits of the Social Security Number, or the four-digit Cox PIN if you are a former or current Cox Digital Telephone subscriber.

ferdinand reinke: is it or is’t it?

ferdinand reinke: {Privacy Invoked}

Louis: Thank you for your information.

ferdinand reinke: Is all tbv KO-ed or is just me?

Louis: Just a moment, please.

Louis: I have verified with my resources:

Louis: Unfortunately, Cox is experiencing some inconveniences with our services in your area.

Louis: Cox technicians are aware of this issue, and are working towards a resolution. Although there is no official estimated time of repair at this time, we are hopeful this issue will soon be resolved, and normal operations restored.

Louis: I do apologize.

ferdinand reinke: FYI! It’s not an inconvenience. It’s an outage.

Louis: Thank you for your information.

Louis: Is there anything else I can help you with?

ferdinand reinke: nope!

Louis: Thank you for choosing Cox Communications as your friend in the Digital Age.

Thank you for chatting with us. Please click the “End Chat” button on the top right of the chat window to tell us about your experience today.

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Your feedback is important to us! Please take a few moments to answer a few questions about how we did today.

Were we able to answer your question during today’s chat session? *
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Please provide us with any positive feedback and/or suggestions for how we can serve you better:

“Keep the service operational. I’m expected to pay for what I don’t get?”

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TINFOILHAT: Is BHO44 a “paper man”?

Sunday, June 10, 2012

http://ncc-1776.org/tle2012/tle673-20120603-02.html

THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE
Number 673, June 3, 2012
“This is the strangest era ever,
in American politics. So far.”

Paper Man
by L. Neil Smith
lneil@netzero.com

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Attribute to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise

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Although details are a bit hazy after forty years, in Paper Man, a small handful of college kids gets tired of eating dormitory food and yearns for the finer things in life. They decide they need a credit card, and invent what we would call a virtual person to apply for one. They use the campus mainframe’s primitive networking ability to give their creation—they call him “Henry Norman”—credentials: birth certificate, educational background, employment history, banking record, and so on. They receive their credit card and start to enjoy it.

Until they begin to die, one by one, apparently killed by Henry Norman.

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So I suppose it’s altogether appropriate that Henry Norman has shown up again—as America’s first Paper President. Barack “Barry” Hussein Obama—or is it Soetoro?—is an individual whose personal history, from the very moment of his birth, is no more than a collage of contradictory lies and hidden truths that may never end up sorted out.

Where was he born? He and the entire progressive establishment claim it was Hawaii, but name two different hospitals, neither of which has records of it, as the location of the Blessed Event. One of his grandmothers says (or said—I think she’s conveniently dead now) that Barry was born in Kenya, and that she was right there when it happened.

Nobody can prove that his mother and his alleged father, a British subject, were ever married (some investigators believe Obama’s real father was Frank Marshall Davis, another old commie, who took naked pictures of Barack’s mommy), or had anything more, fundamentally, than a one-night stand, although it’s claimed that face-saving divorce papers were eventually filed, which Obama Senior ignored—he already had a wife back in the Old Country. We do know that little Barack’s step-father signed him into school as an Indonesian citizen and a Muslim.

What do we know about this man who thinks he owns us and that he can kill one of us at any time he likes, for any reason he cares to offer?

We certainly have no idea who he is. His famous birth certificate—legally a matter of public record—has been “sealed” away and may not be inspected or investigated. Even little baby Barack’s baptismal record has apparently become a matter of national security. Obama’s original signed, embossed paper “Certificate of Live Birth” is also hidden away, and the cybercopy offered in its place so incompetently forged it wouldn’t fool a three-year-old. We do know that he isn’t a front man for the FBI, the CIA, NSA, or Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, or Boy Scout Intelligence—their fakes would have passed muster.

We also have no idea what Obama is. Here’s an essentially penniless son of a penniless single mother whose mother and father (who raised the boy more than his mom did) didn’t have much money, either.

And yet the left wing money machine that I described in my speech “You Can’t Fight A Culture War If You Ain’t Got Any Culture” somehow came through and sent him to an expensive private school in Hawaii, then to Occidental College—those records are sealed—then to Columbia College—records also sealed along with Barack’s Master’s thesis—and then to Harvard College where his records are also sealed.

Obama apparently went to college (and paid tuition) as a foreign student, and used a foreign passport to visit Pakistan in 1981. His Selective Service records are sealed. His Social Security number— issued by a state he never lived in and actually belonging to a guy who’s dead—reeks of fraud. His medical records are sealed. For ten years he was carried as Kenyan-born by his literary agency. His Illinois State Senate schedule and Illinois State Senate records are sealed, as is his Law practice client list. For some unexplained reason he and his wife Michelle turned in their law licenses in Illinois.

He can’t make a coherent speech without a teleprompter.

I can’t help thinking of that movie Paper Man and coming to the bizarre but unavoidable conclusion that Obama is just a little nobody that his mentors—his creators—employed as a wire-frame to hang item after item of false credentials on, credentials so incompetently manufactured that they must now be kept hidden away to avoid expert scrutiny.

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I think this raises the great issues that the brithers, proofers, and whateverers try to articulate. Before they get hooted down as tin foil hats.

I have no idea what BHO44 is or is not.

This is either the biggest hoax ever pulled OR one sloppy mess of random coincidences since the JFK assasination!

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INTERESTING: Taylor Swift “does” WalMart and imho makes a rare blunder

Saturday, June 9, 2012

http://www.theimproper.com/40997/justin-timberlake-taylor-swift-work-walmart-watch

Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift Go to Work for Wal-Mart (watch)
TheImproper.com
By TheImproper, June 2nd, 2012

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Justin Timberlake and Taylor Swift were Wal-Mart employees for a day, but you can bet they made more than minimum wage without health benefits. The duo and other stars were paid to perform at the retail giant’s annual …

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I’m surprised for a social media maven, Miss Swift, who made her mark by pioneering on MySpace / Facebook / Twitter AND who usually has great rapport for her fans, lets her “label” block this video.

It is a stunning failure.

Let’s not kid anyone, she’s the prize “cow” in their “barn”. You tell me if she pitches a hissey fit — which I have never heard of her doing — that they won’t do what she wants?

Unbelievable!

Just doing that ONCE for the FIRST time would even make a bigger impact on the “label”. Bet that would be online in two shakes of an inet admin in one hand and graphic artist in another. THe label head would be grabbing huevos to please the prize “cow”!

Please!?! <<making a real prune face in disbelief!>>

I also read that the “label” was concerned that performing for WalMart might damage her “image”. I think trying to “kinda partially hide” is a bigger dent.

She has slipped a couple of notches in this old Swiftie’s estimation. She’s generally pretty astute and comes across as caring. I’ve no way of knowing, but that’s the image that they seek to project.

Restricting the video is contrary to that image.

imho …

… but then I’m just a fat old white guy injineer, who thinks that WalMart for all it’s faults and flaws ain’t Amerika’s biggest problem. (Politicians are!)

Come on, Miss Taylor, free the video.

p.s., We now know why she couldn’t go to that sick kid’s prom. Boy! Have some WalMArt marketing execs missed a HUGE opportunity? I can think of a half dozen ways to spin this into a BIG win for everyone!

Dumb seems to be going around lately.

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FUN: BBT “This is going to look great next to my retraining order from Leonard Nimoy” — The Excelsior Acquisition 03/01/10

Friday, June 8, 2012

LOL!

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INTERESTING: Pineapple; an interesting chemical?

Thursday, June 7, 2012

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=34

The World’s Healthiest Foods

The George Mateljan Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation with no commercial interests or advertising, is a new force for change to help make a healthier you and a healthier world.

Pineapple

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Potential Anti-Inflammatory and Digestive Benefits

Bromelain is a complex mixture of substances that can be extracted from the stem and core fruit of the pineapple. Among dozens of components known to exist in this crude extract, the best studied components are a group of protein-digesting enzymes (called cysteine proteinases). Originally, researchers believed that these enzymes provided the key health benefits found in bromelain, a popular dietary supplement containing these pineapple extracts. In addition, researchers believed that these benefits were primarily limited to help with digestion in the intestinal tract. However, further studies have shown that bromelain has a wide variety of health benefits, and that many of these benefits may not be related to the different enzymes found in this extract. Excessive inflammation, excessive coagulation of the blood, and certain types of tumor growth may all be reduced by therapeutic doses of bromelain when taken as a dietary supplement. Studies are not available, however, to show these same potential benefits in relationship to normal intake of pineapple within a normal meal plan.

Bromelain extracts can be obtained from both the fruit core and stems of pineapple. Potentially important chemical differences appear to exist between extracts obtained from the stem versus the core fruit. However, the practical relevance of these differences is not presently understood. Most of the laboratory research on bromelain has been conducted using stem-based extracts, however.

Although healthcare practitioners have reported improved digestion in their patients with an increase in pineapple as their “fruit of choice” within a meal plan, we haven’t seen published studies that document specific changes in digestion following consumption of the fruit (versus supplementation with the purified extract. However, we suspect that the core fruit will eventually turn out to show some unique health-supportive properties, including possible digestion-related and anti-inflammatory benefits.

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Fascinating stuff.

“Important chemical differences” appear between the extract from the stem and core.

What a wonderful world we live in. 

Imagine what could be possible if “we” could get ourselves organized.

Argh!

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INSPIRATIONAL: Anyone remember the Sixth of June?

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

http://www.ddaymuseum.co.uk/d-day/d-day-and-the-battle-of-normandy-your-questions-answered

D-Day and the Battle of Normandy: Your Questions Answered

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How many Allied and German casualties were there on D-Day, and in the Battle of Normandy?

“Casualties” refers to all losses suffered by the armed forces: killed, wounded, missing in action (meaning that their bodies were not found) and prisoners of war. There is no “official” casualty figure for D-Day. Under the circumstances, accurate record keeping was very difficult. For example, some troops who were listed as missing may actually have landed in the wrong place, and have rejoined their parent unit only later.

In April and May 1944, the Allied air forces lost nearly 12,000 men and over 2,000 aircraft in operations which paved the way for D-Day.

The Allied casualties figures for D-Day have generally been estimated at 10,000, including 2500 dead. Broken down by nationality, the usual D-Day casualty figures are approximately 2700 British, 946 Canadians, and 6603 Americans. However recent painstaking research by the US National D-Day Memorial Foundation has achieved a more accurate – and much higher – figure for the Allied personnel who were killed on D-Day. They have recorded the names of individual Allied personnel killed on 6 June 1944 in Operation Overlord, and so far they have verified 2499 American D-Day fatalities and 1915 from the other Allied nations, a total of 4414 dead (much higher than the traditional figure of 2500 dead). Further research may mean that these numbers will increase slightly in future. The details of this research will in due course be available on the Foundation’s website at http://www.dday.org. This new research means that the casualty figures given for individual units in the next few paragraphs are no doubt inaccurate, and hopefully more accurate figures will one day be calculated.

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In my life, I’ve met few D-Day vets. When you could induce them to talk about it, the memories were vivid.

The Sixth of June, how many will remember it at all?

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MONEY: Recovery or Collapse?

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=30960

Recovery or Economic Collapse? Bet on Collapse
The Financial Crisis could Destroy Western Civilization
by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts
Global Research, May 21, 2012

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With an eye on the approaching dollar crisis, which will wreck the international financial system, the presidents of China, Russia, Brazil, South Africa, and the prime minister of India met last month to discuss forming a new bank that would shield their economies and commerce from mistakes made by Washington and the European Union. The five countries, known as the BRICS, intend to settle their trade with one another in their own currencies and cease relying on the dollar. The fact that Russia, the two Asian giants, and the largest economies in Africa and South America are leaving the dollar’s orbit sends a powerful message of lack of confidence in Washington’s handling of financial matters.

It is ironic that the outcome of financial deregulation in the US is the opposite of what its free market advocates promised. In place of highly competitive financial firms that live or die by their wits alone without government intervention, we have unprecedented financial concentration. Massive banks, “too big to fail,” now send their multi-trillion dollar losses to Washington to be paid by heavily indebted US taxpayers whose real incomes have not risen in 20 years. The banksters take home fortunes in annual bonuses for their success in socializing the “free market” banks’ losses and privatizing profits to the point of not even paying income taxes.

In the US free market economists unleashed avarice and permitted it to run amuck. Will the disastrous consequences discredit capitalism to the extent that the Soviet collapse discredited socialism?

Will Western civilization itself survive the financial tsunami that deregulated Wall Street has produced?

Ironic, isn’t it, that the United States, the home of the “indispensable people,” stands before us as the likely candidate whose government will be responsible for the collapse of the West.

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RANT: A personal EMP; I love it

Monday, June 4, 2012

http://www.alt-market.com/articles/799-low-tech-solutions-to-high-tech-tyranny

Low-Tech Solutions To High-Tech Tyranny
Thursday, 24 May 2012 06:35 Brandon Smith

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Electronic Surveillance In General

Whether it be a CCTV camera, or a body scanner, sometimes the best option is not to evade or disguise, but to pull the plug entirely. At least, that was James’ point of view after the control grid went into overdrive and he couldn’t walk his dog without a blue-shirted Swedish agent fondling him on the sidewalk or forcing him to stroll through a body scanner. Finally, he had had enough, and so, decided that if they wanted to track every move of every person, it was going to cost them.

Using commonly available parts, James built a personal EMP device. Its range was dependent on the size of the power supply he tied to it, but when used properly, it would zap anything with a circuit within several feet of him:

http://www.amazing1.com/emp.htm

The Body Scanners were useless. RFID tags went blank. CCTV cameras shorted. They would eventually be replaced, but the cost would be high, and as long as he didn’t get caught, James could experience, at least for a short time, the America of the past…

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“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

Just have to make it expensive and dangerous to be a tyrant!

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FUN: “sheldon tried to steal the ring and i punched him — that’s my girl.” — The Precious Fragmentation 2010-03-28

Sunday, June 3, 2012

ROFL! She’s the consummate actress. Taylor be careful! She could bump you out. And she’s got muguppies. LOL!

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