Protectionism is a misnomer. The only people protected by tariffs, quotas and trade restrictions are those engaged in uneconomic and wasteful activity. Free trade is the only philosophy compatible with international peace and prosperity. – Walter Block
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Posted by reinkefj
Dear Ferdinand:
We want to handle your money the way you want it handled. That’s why you’ll notice some changes the next time you send money.
Tracking Number (MTCN) required
for Receivers to pick up their money:
Already in most countries around the world, and starting November 5, 2013
in the U.S., receivers will be required to provide the Tracking Number
(MTCN) to pick up their money.
If your receiver is picking up the money at an Agent location that uses
a telephone transaction center, they will need to pick up the phone and provide their Tracking Number (MTCN) in order to receive a special PIN
from a Western Union customer service representative. The receiver will
then need to provide this PIN to the Agent location employee to pick up
their money.
What to do:
Senders: When you send money, ALWAYS contact your receiver to
provide them with the Tracking Number (MTCN).
Receivers: When money is sent to you, ALWAYS ensure that you
have the Tracking Number (MTCN) from your sender before going to
pick up your money.
We appreciate you choosing Western Union for your money transfer needs and look forward to continuing to help you move money for better.
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Interesting. Perhaps this to cut off those Nigerian Princes?
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Posted by reinkefj
Worth watching the opening. Pretty funny.
If only we could laugh off all the “politically correct” ideas as easily.
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Posted by reinkefj
2013-Nov-03
We’ve made changes to your myuhc.com member website that help us further protect your privacy and security. They also make myuhc.com even more easy to use.
What to expect:
Login with higher security
We’ll ask you for new contact information. This improves site security if you forget your user ID or password or log in from a new computer that we don’t know. We have used the most current technology to make sure you are who you say you are.
Register quickly and easily with better privacy protection
We’ve made registration simpler and better, including new security questions to improve site privacy.
If you’ve already registered, you can visit the Account Settings section to change your security questions.
For more information, reference the flyer “New registration steps for myuhc.com.”
Visit myuhc.com today to update your contact information!
Tell us what you think of the enhanced security process by taking a brief survey.
Thank you for helping us keep your health care information safe.
You are receiving this email from UnitedHealthcare because you purchased a product/service from UnitedHealthcare and consented to receive important communications via email. To ensure that you continue to receive emails from us, add the email “from” address to your email address book or safe list.
Please do not reply to this email address, this mailbox is used for outbound email only. Do not include any personal health information as part of any email communication. We cannot guarantee the security of any communication transmitted via the Internet. If you have questions about your account, claims or benefits or would like additional information, please visit myuhc.com or call the toll-free number on the back of your health plan ID card.
To update your preferences for online Explanation of Benefits, Claim Letters or Health Statements to mail, please visit myuhc.com and click on Account settings.
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Please note that by opting out of Legal/Regulatory emails, you will receive these notices via mail.
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Come on, guys, this is dumb. For one thing, two factor authentication is nice, but a giant pain. Why don’t I get a choice what risks I choose to take. Rather, you should spend your resources making a a better website, so that when I changed employers I didn’t have to create another User id because your systems couldn’t handle it. Or, perhaps, you might allow me to pick the longer passwords that are easily facilitated by LASTPASS. Some folks are further along the curve than you are. Oh, btw, the CHOMEBOOK and CHROME browser I use don’t remember cookies between restarts. So your new method ALWAYS makes it a “new computer”. But I don’t have worry about malware. I’d be amused if anyone responds to this.
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Don’t you just love when they send from “unattended email” or “outbound only”?
Just call, hang on line, and we’ll maybe get around to you with a slew of dumb questions.
And, oh by the way, we’re so big, you can just go somewhere else. (Like I have any choice about who my employer does business with!)
This is why “health”, “health care”, “health care insurance”, or something else should have NEVER been connected to employment.
Imagine if I changed jobs and lost my car insurance. My home insurance. My life insurance.
Crony capitalism at it best!
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Posted by reinkefj
“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.”- Winston Churchill
I read this and thought of the bozo who tumbled that pile of rocks.
Maybe I’m just a fat old white guy injineer and, while I don’t see the significance of that particular pile of rocks that got everyone upset, I do think one should think carefully about what one destroys.
Reminds me of “Reinke’s Rule of Negative Progress”!
(Namely you can screw up enough in one day that it can take weeks to fix. Keep backups and change control.)
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Posted by reinkefj
In Fed and Out, Many Now Think Inflation Helps
By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM
Published: October 26, 2013
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WASHINGTON — Inflation is widely reviled as a kind of tax on modern life, but as Federal Reserve policy makers prepare to meet this week, there is growing concern inside and outside the Fed that inflation is not rising fast enough.
Some economists say more inflation is just what the American economy needs to escape from a half-decade of sluggish growth and high unemployment.
The Fed has worked for decades to suppress inflation, but economists, including Janet Yellen, President Obama’s nominee to lead the Fed starting next year, have long argued that a little inflation is particularly valuable when the economy is weak. Rising prices help companies increase profits; rising wages help borrowers repay debts. Inflation also encourages people and businesses to borrow money and spend it more quickly.
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Excuse me, are reporter that deceitful — it’s a tax on capital; not modern life.
Excuse me, are ecknominists that obtuse? They know that inflation is theft.
Excuse me, are The Sheeple that stupid? Guess they are!
So anyone, who is on a fixed income, poor, or certificates of depreciation, loses purchasing power?
Put more air in an already inflated balloon.
Why?
To fool people into spending more!
Argh!
Consumer prices will go up and the poor will be left behind.
Stable commodity based money is a benefit to society. Those on fixed incomes and the poor benefit from stability.
Save your nickels!
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Posted by reinkefj
NANOWRIMO tomorrow!
Argh!
Am I being overly optimistic at my modest abilities?
50k word novel in 30 days.
“Joan D’Arc”
(I am allowed to outline, but not write prior to the 01 November start!)
# Visit the farm
## Meet the girls Sue and Shaw
## Meet the boys “ugly” Douggie and “dreamy” Pete
## Food’s good
## Private time with Unk the Hunk
## Family dinner discussion
## Love the dogs
## Peaceful stream
## Thunderstorms
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# Summer Vacation
## Please? May I?
## The Bus Ride
## “Her dog”
## Swiming
## Running
## Exploring
## Too much fun
## The Family comes to collect her
## Can’t stay
## Unk gives her a BOB!
10
# Collapse
## economic collapse
## bad few days
## crime
## break in
## retaliation
## bug out
## the drive
7
# Farming
## Cows
## Crops
## Smuggling
## Going to Church, nice lady and child
## Puppy love
## Brotherly love
## What is Unk’s business?
7
# Secession
## The Sheeple awake
## Tanks and mountains don’t mix
## Taxes and evasion
## Social security
## No welfare
## No Gooferment Skrules
6
# The Gentle War
## The Mixer
## Prostitution
## A garden party
## Sleep with my sister
## Exlax with your chocolate soda
## May I spit in your food?
## Chemical warfare
7
# UN Invasion
## Propaganda
## Order Number One
## Power control
## Water control
## Movement control
## Massacre
6
# Getting Nasty
## Dangerous to be out alone
## Taking middle fingers
## Moonshine
## RPGs
## Tunnels
5
# The denoument
## Hearts ‘n’ minds
## Withdraw to the cities
## Starvation siege
3
# The Final Battle
## Ignore the feint
## Draw them in
## Your trump is trumped
## “They have stingers”
## Bang the gong slowly
## Blow the escape routes
## Rush the limo
## Killing kids ‘n’ cutting heads
## confession and sorrow
9
# Winning
## General Strike
## Peaceful & Violence
## Gandhi-like
## Political dispute
## The People sleep no more
## The new system
6
# Peace
## Romeo marries Juliet
## Royalists depart
## Trials in absencia
## The People’s Court
## Children
## Last visit to Unk’s watering hole
## Death
## Honor
## “Where have all the flowers gone”
9
# Epilogue
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Now “no margin; no mission”.
There’s a fund raising component for this weird activity.
(If I’m the leading fundraiser, they will give me a writing course. I’m sure many of you would like that!)
Anyone who does kick in, I’ll send you my output.
Why you would want it is beyond me?
Maybe if you kick in, I promise NOT to send it to you. (Ask my relatives who got one of my books as Christmas presents! Revenge. I can do it again this year.)
Laff.
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Posted by reinkefj
Good evening John
We are opening a new senior level search for an Enterprise Application Solutions Architect.
This is a new opportunity that will partner with the Business Process Leaders and IT Solution Delivery team to create and manage an Enterprise blueprint.
Our client is a $4B publically traded company, in the Northeast, with 5000 employees both domestically and internationally that is dynamic and growing in this economy!
The successful person will have Enterprise level solutioning CRM, eCommerce, and immersive Digital/Brand experiences using Web, Mobile, and Mobile app technologies.
In addition they will need to have 3+ years experience in business/enterprise analysis including broad skills in the area of strategy mapping, capability & solution design, conceptual data and process modeling/design, and the use of EA frameworks such as TOGAF
Experience with Sharepoint Architecture a big plus.
Also, 8+ years of extensive experience planning and deploying either business or IT initiatives as well as experience with technology such as but not limited to, Oracle Fusion / Siebel, Hybris, Websphere, SAP, Adobe Marketing Suite, Mobile/App development tools, Coremetrics, and Sitecore.
This is a great opportunity with a great team in an outstanding company.
Please review the job spec and let me know who you might recommend that we contact for this opportunity.
Thank you
Dan
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Posted by reinkefj
This last upgrade to Mac OS X Mavericks appears to break stuff and change things.
Not for the better.
So, Apple has disappointed me.
I now think they are in the same class as IOS7, Windoze, Linux, and Chromebook.
Each have their own advantages, disadvantages, and utility.
I really don’t know what I’m going to do.
Unfortunately, I just want to use the stuff to produce stuff. I don’t want to alpha test unless I volunteer.
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:40 PM, XXXX wrote:
http://www.wnd.com/2013/10/obama-gutting-military-by-purging-generals/
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Why torture me? I don’t like either party, or any pres. If martial law comes, “from my cold dead hands” is more that bumpersticker.
Remember:
“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
and
“…if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” -Churchill, The Second World War, vol. 1, The Gathering Storm (London: Cassell, 1948, 272, on the British guarantee to Poland in Spring 1939.
I will give a good acount of myself — I’ll take at least one with me.
If every patriot takes one, then the will run out of bad guys before they run out good guys resisting.
Buy a gun!
REMEMBER
“Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Whose gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know. That Santiago’s death, while tragic, probably saved lives. And my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to.” Colonel Jessep in A Few Good Men played by Jack Nicholson
I’ll be on that “wall”. It may be like the Alamo. But better an honorable death, than life as a slave.
fjohn
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“The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are now outnumbered by those who vote for a living.” Anonymous
Ferdinand John Reinke
… a proud Virginian since March, 2012
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Advisor, Computer Governance Committee at Manhattan College
Editor / Publisher at Jasper Jottings
Greater New York City Area
JJ Positraction JJ Endnotes Downsize DC
Philosophy of Liberty
I have NOT received any gagged governmental information requests
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