http://espn.go.com/watchespn/apps
Your Favorite ESPN Networks are Now Available live anytime and anywhere with WatchESPN.
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Doesn’t seem to work on the Mac?
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SERVICE: ESPN on the inet via the ISPs
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
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NOTRECOMMENDED: LIVESCRIBE
Monday, August 4, 2014The products — livescribe3 and sky wifi — are both “interesting”!
My use of them was “disappointing”.
And, the “customer service” is 1 for 3 in successful uses.
Also, the “technical support” was slow to respond and very formulaic.
I will be consigning these to the “dust bin”.
Yell, if you want to borrow or buy them.
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NOTRECOMMENDED: Norwegian Cruise Line in on my you know what list
Sunday, August 3, 2014REGIONS
Cruise line refuses to re-book family vacation after boy diagnosed with cancer
Published July 27, 2014
FoxNews.com
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A cruise ship is refusing to let a New York couple re-book a dream summer vacation after their 5-year-old boy was unable to go on the trip because he was diagnosed with cancer.
The parents of Nicolas Colucci say Norwegian Cruise Line is refusing to accommodate them, citing its cancellation policy.
The family-friendly cruise, in partnership with the Nickelodeon channel, was scheduled to start on June 1, but Nicolas got sick on May 19. He was diagnosed with a cancerous tumor in his liver, and had surgery a few days later. He is still undergoing chemotherapy.
The cruise line says any cancellation within 14 days or less of the sail date is subject to a 100 percent cancellation fee. Now, the boy’s family is out $4,000.
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I have cruised on NCL.
I would have used them again.
Not now. Not ever.
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RANT: Lois Lerner’s emails
Saturday, August 2, 2014http://www.therightcurmudgeon.com/2014/07/six-questions-for-the-irs-about-lois-lerners-emails
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A professional IT trade group with significant expertise in IT best practices has six questions that need to be answered about Lois Lerner’s -and at least 20 other IRS employees – email.
- What happened to the IRS’s IT Asset Managers who appear to have disappeared at a key juncture?
- Where is the documentation proving that Lois Lerner’s hard drive was wiped or destroyed?
- Were the drives destroyed by an outside vendor or firm?
- What are the IRS’s specific policies and procedures on document retention when hard drives are damaged or destroyed?
- What is the disaster recovery policy at the IRS?
- Where are Lois Lerner’s emails from her Blackberry device? Are those secure? What is on the enterprise server?
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I would add some other questions!
- Where all the email SERVERS backed up? (The emails should be recoverable from all the POST OFFICES that transmitted the email.)
- What about all the people who received her, or email from the other “unlucky” folks whose hard drives died? (I have emails in MY in box from folks.)
- What about other non-government email accounts like GMAIL to avoid to disclosure.
- What about the NSA email snooping program? (Surely they have everything!)
Argh!
It’s all corrupt.
And the politicians and bureaucrats have no shame.
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POLITICAL: Records retention policies compromised
Friday, August 1, 2014Home Breaking News Feed Breaking News – Daily Caller
‘Is This How The Benghazi Talking Points Were Developed?’
Govt Watchdogs Blast Kerry Aide’s Use Of Gmail Account
Jul 25, 20140 39
By Brendan Bordelon
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Two top government watchdogs in Washington D.C. slammed a key aide to Secretary of State John Kerry for using a private Gmail account to conduct official government business, calling it “the worst possible practice in trying to maintain transparency” and speculating whether this was “how the Benghazi talking points were developed.”
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“Records retention policies could be compromised by the use of private email,” he said, referencing Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) rules giving citizens the right to check up on their government by requesting official documents. “There are a variety of ways that federal records laws could be compromised through the use of private emails to conduct public business.”
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Just another way the current administration breaks the law.
Ho hum, what’s new about that?
“Move along, people. Nothing to see here. Go home, you looky-loos.” Officer Barbrady’s Catch Phrase South Park
Argh!
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JOBSEARCH: Axioms of an “employee”
Thursday, July 31, 2014http://www.care2.com/greenliving/10-reasons-working-from-home-is-better-for-you-your-boss.html
FROM AN EMAIL
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Subject: 10 Reasons Working From Home is Better for You (& Your Boss) | Care2 Healthy Living
Should I send this to {REDACTED}?
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I forwarded this link to {REDACTED}
and received these responses:
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Yes please!
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AND
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I don’t think it would do any good. It might even be counterproductive as it expresses benefits from a perspective she does not apparently share.
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MY RESPONSE
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Laugh! I agree.
{REDACTED} otoh didn’t see the “joke”.
{REDACTED} thought I was really going to forward it to {REDACTED}.
Whatanoob!
Interesting points though.
An “enlightened organization” would attempt to create shared value between the BORG (Business Organization) and “their” “Human Resources”.
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Attention: K-Mart shoppers be advise the “gold watch” era of employment is over. (Graduate college, get a good job with big corporation, stay with them for 40+ years, retire with savings and nice pension to a great “retirement”.) Folks who still believe in that will be working their golden years at WalMart as a “greeter”. Argh!
This goes to my personal articles of faith; some of which are:
- Today’s “corporation” is a heartless, soulless, dishonest beast.
- An employee is like a consultant; their ONLY job is find their next job.
- IN dealing the workplace, one must always remember the JoHari window Johari window http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johari_window
- Always remember “Human Resources” sends the signal that you’re a “paper clip”.
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INITIALISMS: PGPIRU
Wednesday, July 30, 2014PGPIRU (i.e.,”Promote the Guilty; Punish the Innocent; and Reward the Uninvolved.”)
Originally heard in a Tom Peters audio book long ago and far away.
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ECONOMICS: Tom Woods give a clear definition and distinction
Tuesday, July 29, 2014http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/07/no_author/why-were-winning/
The Role of Austrian Economics in the Liberty Movement
July 22, 2014
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Tom Woods kicks-off this year’s Mises University with a brilliant discussion of the ‘Role of Austrian Economics in the Liberty Movement’.
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An interesting hour.
I was fascinated by his clear definition and distinction between “Austrian Economics” (i.e., von Mises et al.) and the “Liberty Movement” spawned by Ron Paul.
Are “we” a minority? Absolutely.
So were the Dead Old White Guys!
The interesting part is about “we are winning” because “our” ideas align more closely with reality that do the Keynesian Economics and the big Gooferment welfare / warfare state with it’s Crony Capitalism, corrupt politicians, and lifetime lazy bureaucrats.
On to New Hampshire, as part of the Free State Project (http://freestateproject.org) to make it the FIRST truly “Free State”.
Argh!
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SECURITY: Hackers impersonating E-ZPass
Monday, July 28, 2014Cyber Security Alert: Potential Phishing Attack
Hackers impersonating “E-ZPass Service Center Personnel” are trying to steal customer information by sending an email that contains a malicious link. Attacks have been targeted at personal email addresses stating that they have an overdue toll debt.
The attack tries to trick the user into clicking on a link to view an account invoice. The URL linked in the email directs the target to a malicious website that compromises the user’s personal account information. E-ZPass has identified the following subject lines in connection with the attack emails [PDF]: “in arrears for driving on toll road”, “Payment for driving on toll road”, “indebtedness for driving on toll road”, and “Pay for driving on toll road”.
If you receive such email in your personal mailbox, do not click on the attachment or forward it to anyone. If you have clicked on a link via your personal email account, we recommend that you change the password for any information that you entered into the malicious site.
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RANT: Ukraine Deploying BUK Missiles In East
Monday, July 28, 2014http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/07/no_author/awkward-questions-for-us-ukraine/
Russia Says Has Photos Of Ukraine Deploying BUK Missiles In East, Radar Proof Of Warplanes In MH17 Vicinity
By Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
July 22, 2014
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7. Why was not completely closed to civilian aircraft airspace over the combat zone, especially because in this area there was no solid field of radar navigation?
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Argh!
Another tin foil hat item.
I don’t think Putin or “the separatists” did it.
Cui Bono!
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