INTERESTING: What did Zuck delete? What did HRC delete? Who knew what and when?

Saturday, April 7, 2018

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5585351/What-Mark-Zuckerberg-hiding-Facebook-secretly-deleted-founders-private-messages.html

What is Mark Zuckerberg hiding? Facebook secretly deletes some of its founder’s private messages over fears sensitive data may be leaked

  • Three sources said old Facebook messages from Zuckerberg have disappeared
  • Recipients were not notified – raising concerns about what the CEO is hiding
  • Removal of messages was not disclosed publicly and users were not informed
  • Company’s ability to tamper with Messenger could be alarming for some users

By Phoebe Weston For Mailonline

PUBLISHED: 06:02 EDT, 6 April 2018 | UPDATED: 08:35 EDT, 6 April 2018

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Facebook has deleted some of Mark Zuckerberg’s private messages over fears sensitive data could be leaked.

Three sources claim old Facebook messages from Zuckerberg have disappeared from their inbox. 

The recipients were not notified – raising concerns about what the Facebook CEO could be hiding.

Facebook claims the change was made after the 2014 Sony Pictures hack, when a mass data breach at the movie studio resulted in embarrassing email histories being leaked. 

However, the lack of disclosure has angered some users, along with the absence of a similar tool to recall messages for normal users.

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Very interesting?

Of course, his upcoming Congressional testimony could NOT have anything to do with this “discovery”.

Yeah right.

Guess old Zuck forgot the second rule of legal tactics: “Say it, forget it; Write it, regret it.”

That’s just after: “Say nothing; admit nothing; and strenuously deny everything.” a la Bill Clinton.

Argh!

Now everyone will learn that there is nothing so “free” as a “free” service.

Argh!

Remarkable comparison to HRC’s emails?

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Require all FBI “interviews” to be video recorded … …

Friday, April 6, 2018

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2018/04/james-bovard/after-the-fbis-pulse-nightclub-failure-why-should-we-trust-james-comey-anymore/

After the FBI’s Pulse Nightclub Failure, Why Should We Trust James Comey Anymore?

  • Now that Noor Salman has been acquitted of charges she played a role in the worst terror attack on U.S. soil since 9/11, the FBI should be embarrassed.

By James Bovard USA Today April 5, 2018

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Federal prosecutors flourished the FBI memo of Salman’s confession as the ultimate proof of her perfidy. But the memo contained false statements and contradictions which even the government could not sweep away. After the trial ended, the jury foreman (who wished to remain anonymous) notified the Orlando Sentinel: “I wish that the FBI had recorded their interviews with Ms. Salman as there were several significant inconsistencies with the written summaries of her statements.”

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Require all FBI “interviews” to be video recorded … …

… … because “we” can no longer trust them — if “we” every could.

Argh!

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: DJT45 should leave Syria

Thursday, April 5, 2018

https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2018/04/04/trump-should-withdraw-us-forces-from-syria-but-he-wont/

Trump Should Withdraw US Forces from Syria, But He Won’t
Daniel Larison Posted onApril 4, 2018

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If Trump did withdraw US forces from Syria, it would be the only good foreign policy decision he has made thus far. The US military presence is illegal. It has no authorization from Congress, no international mandate, and our forces are in the country over the explicit objections of the recognized government. The US military presence is not needed to protect US security interests, which are not threatened by the prospect that the Syrian government might reclaim control over its own territory. No vital American interests are at stake in Syria, and therefore no American lives should be put at risk there. Staying indefinitely in Syria an attempt to oppose Iranian influence in the territory of Iran’s own ally is not only a waste of time, manpower, and resources in a dubious cause, but it is also runs roughshod over international law and the Constitution.

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One can only hope for DJT45 pulls out and gives us some “peace”.

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POLITICAL: Casualties in the “(pseudo) War on (some) Drugs”

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/02/health/fake-weed-illinois-death-bn/index.html

Two deaths, 54 other cases of severe bleeding tied to fake weed in Illinois
By Jacqueline Howard and Marlena Baldacci, CNN
Updated 6:13 PM ET, Mon April 2, 2018

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Remind anyone of the Federal Gooferment poisoning bootleg booze to teach people a lesson.

And the addiction rates haven’t changed throughout history.

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” — attributed to Einstein, Ben Franklin, and Rita Mae Brown

Argh!

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PRODUCTIVITY: Grab PDFs of products

Tuesday, April 3, 2018

http://recomendo.com/issues/calendly-mark-hard-to-reach-places-website-status-check-103817

Get PDF first

Owner manuals and installation guides contain far more information about a product than either the sales brochure, the online descriptions, or even Amazon reviews. The manual will have exact dimensions, all the parts, and caveats about what it can’t do. So my rule of thumb these days is to always download the product’s manual before I purchase the item. Impossible in the old pre-internet days, it’s a no-brainer today. It has saved me many times. Regrettably, not 100% of product have manuals PDFs that are findable, but the better products do. — KK

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Here’s a great idea. Need to do this as a regular habit.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Are Gooferment Skrules in fact a giant unionized “jobs-and-day-care” program?

Monday, April 2, 2018

http://ncc-1776.org/tle2018/tle966-20180325-04.html

Here’s Plenty We Could Do About Mass Shootings 
by Vin Suprynowicz 
vin@vinsuprynowicz.com
Special to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise

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Despite the fact this giant unionized “jobs-and-day-care” program for the otherwise largely unemployable now costs a hundred times more per student than the schools of a century ago (which turned non-English-speaking immigrant kids into the physicists who built the atomic bomb), they certainly aren’t producing many graduates today who can count change, do long division, find Paris on a map, speak a foreign Language, or explain if their lives depended on it the difference between “there,” “their,” and “they’re.”

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Certainly seems this way.

Why does the taxpayers of the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee pay such high property taxes for a dismal result?

Why aren’t parents responsible for educating THEIR children?

Argh!

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INOVATION: Start New Year’s Eve resolutions on April Fools Day?

Sunday, April 1, 2018

https://lifehacker.com/start-your-new-years-resolutions-in-april-not-january-1821952289

Start Your New Years Resolutions in April, Not January

Tim Donnelly
Friday 9:30am Filed to: NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS

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So consider this: if you still prefer the resolution model of self-improvement, in which you adhere to specific challenges that begin on a specific date, don’t start those resolutions in January. Start them on April 1st instead.

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Seems like a great idea to me.

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VOCABULARY: finger of honour — doigt d’honneur in French

Saturday, March 31, 2018

https://www.clairewolfe.com/blog/2018/03/24/weekend-links-95/

French driver faces jail time for “disrespecting” a speed camera. Hint: He disrespected in the classic way, which I now learn the French call the “digit of honor.” Must adopt that phrase.

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https://www.thelocal.fr/20180322/french-motorist-gets-jail-time-for-giving-the-finger-to-speed-cameras

French driver faces prison for giving middle finger to speed cameras
The Local
news.france@thelocal.com
@thelocalfrance
22 March 2018
10:49 CET+01:00

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A 46-year-old motorist in the Loire department of central France has been warned he faces two to four months in jail after sticking his middle finger up to two speed cameras back in May 2015.

However while the driver accepted that he was speeding and paid his fines, he denied giving the one-finger salute, known as the doigt d’honneur in French (finger of honour), to two speed cameras at Saint-Forgeux-Lespinasse and Bessay-sur-Allier.

“At that moment, I was talking to my girlfriend, and I was upset because she was talking about her ex-boyfriend. The finger was intended for her,” he said. 

The public prosecutor’s office said that even though the driver had already paid his fines for speeding they pressed charges against him for “insulting a person tasked with a public service mission”.

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POLITICAL: Misdirection from true causes to “never let a good crisis go to waste”

Friday, March 30, 2018

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/24/broward-superintendent-keep-focus-on-gun-control-not-obama-policy-to-end-school-to-prison-pipeline/

Broward Superintendent: Keep Focus on Gun Control, Not ‘Fake News’ on Obama Policy to End ‘School to Prison Pipeline’
by DR. SUSAN BERRY24 Mar 2018

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Broward County, Florida, superintendent of schools Robert Runcie says it is “fake news” that his PROMISE school leniency program likely allowed accused school shooter Nikolas Cruz to remain under the radar of law enforcement and, therefore, able to purchase the firearm that killed 17 individuals at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in February.

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The Gooferment bureaucrats never want to take responsibility for the results of their policies.

This “school to prison” policy MIGHT have had some worthy objectives. I never heard this policy overtly stated, but it certainly has come up now.

And, it really just highlights why Gooferment Skrules should not exist. 

Argh!

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INTERESTING: Superb Fairywrens’ “secret password”

Thursday, March 29, 2018

https://www.howtogeek.com/trivia/which-of-these-birds-teaches-their-offspring-a-secret-password-while-they-are-incubating/

Answer: Superb Fairywrens

In an incredibly clever bid to protect their offspring from parasitic bird species that would dump their young on superb fairywrens and flee, the wrens consistently use special vocalisations while the young wrens are still inside their eggs. Before parasitic birds like the Horsfield’s bronze-cuckoo can drop their eggs off in the nest, the wren’s own babies already know the secret vocalisation pattern by heart.

When all the eggs hatch, the wren chicks incorporate the secret vocalisation pattern into their begging for food and the mother provides the chicks that produce the vocalisation pattern the most accurately with the most food. The parasite’s chicks, on the other hand, don’t know the vocalisation pattern and the mother wren neglects them.

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I love useless factoids. 

Now I need it on Final Jeopardy!

Laugh!

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