A reminder of times past. The telegram was always associated with bad news. Wish it was still possible. But, it’s like the rotary phone dial. And, leaving your door unlocked.
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FUN: a “telegram”
Thursday, January 12, 2012
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RANT: More copyright diktats
Thursday, January 12, 2012http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/65869
U.S. Copyright Office Issues Recommendations on Sound Recordings
December 31, 2011 02:49
From District Dispatch:
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The United States Copyright Office has recommended that pre-1972 sound recordings should be protected by federal copyright law in its Report on Federal Copyright Protection for Pre-1972 Sound Recordings.
The Copyright Office ultimately decided that benefits of federalization of pre-1972 sound recordings outweighed the problems and said that federalization conformed with the intent of Congress to unify all works under one federal law.
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Clearly, when a Gooferment bureaucrat studies something, the answer is ALWAYS more regulation that will require more bureaucrats!
The consumers and the taxpayers are being <synonym for the act of procreation, past tense> by the expansion of “copyright” diktats. Could it be a payoff to Hollywood and the Administration’s allies in Big Media? The “copyright” and “patent” systems are to encourage creation and (rather quickly) have it go to the public domain for everyone’s benefit. Congress has shifted the balance way over to the creators and away from the Public. It wasn’t intended to be a lifetime paycheck for the copyright and patent holders. Note, that’s not necessarily the creators.
Look at the film “It’s a wonderful life” that escaped copyright by an error and has become a classic enriching everyone’s holidays. The Beatle’s tunes, the classic movies, and great modern literature should all be available to us.
A decade should be the absolute max.
My example is the copyright on some 60’s Beatles tunes just sold for 200M$. How is the “public good” being advanced?
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POLITICAL: Energy Department mulit-decade abject failure
Wednesday, January 11, 2012https://secure.downsizedc.org/etp/energydept/
Shut Down the Energy Department
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Finally, the very existence of a Department of Energy sends the wrong message: That the Federal Government should have the authority to control energy production and distribution.
Markets provide a more efficient, less-costly method of producing and distributing the energy needs of producers and consumers. You wouldn’t want The State to ration your food, clothing, or shelter, would you? If not, then why should The State control energy supplies?
Some functions of the Energy Department should be transferred to the Defense Department. The rest should be eliminated altogether. Ending the Department of Energy will send the RIGHT message: Our energy needs are too important to be left up to the whims of political favor and unelected bureaucrats.
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Dear Representative:
Please shut down the Department of Energy. End subsidies and cumbersome regulations. Allow a free market in energy.
Every President since Carter, that I remember, maybe as far back as Ike, promised energy independence. The Energy Department has NEVER accomplished its mission. So let’s stop.
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” — attributed to Einstein
So, in addition to closing the Department of Energy, permit drilling anywhere and such pipelines as needed,
NOW!
/signed/
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GUNS: Teen mom disposes of a stalker
Wednesday, January 11, 2012Crime Mom Calls 9-1-1 for Permission to Shoot Intruders Before Killing One Using 12-Gauge Shotgun
Posted on January 4, 2012 at 3:09pm by Christopher Santarelli
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“I wouldn’t have done it, but it was my son,” McKinley told KOCO. “It’s not an easy decision to make, but it was either going to be him or my son. And it wasn’t going to be my son. There’s nothing more dangerous than a woman with a child.”
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Absurd to ask the Gooferment’s permission to defend one’s life.
Equally absurd, is the notion that he was stalking her. I’ve blogged before that with their “order of protection” they should get a loaner, a box of ammo, and some free time with the police trainer in the courthouse. Then, that order should say “open season” if you’re threatened.
Argh!
I trust women, especially mothers, to know when deadly force is appropriate.
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RANT: Got nuked at Jury Duty
Tuesday, January 10, 2012OK! I went to Jury Duty. Armed with my principles and ready to do battle with Leviathan!
Forget the Fourteenth Amendment (no slavery) and the Fifth Amendment (no self-incrimination).
Forget that the Gooferment is an illusion with flags, men in uniform with guns, and men in funny dresses pretending to have authority over other human beings.
I answered their questions truthfully.
Even told the “judge”, when he asked “do you think the justice system is fair?”, “no; but it might be the best we can get.”
He skipped asking me the standard follow up question he asked others. Maybe it was that he feared the result.
(It’s not fair as evidenced by the Project Innocence finding innocents convicted in capital cases and the disparate impact on minorities in prison populations.)
I was feeling that I had made the cut when four other prospective jurors were preemptively challenged off.
Then, after the break, the Defense challenged me off. I was surprised. I thought I’d be challenged by the Prosecution.
Oh well, we’ll see how it comes out. If it gets in the news.
Argh!
Maybe next time I’ll bring my FIJA literature.
See if I still have First Amendment rights?
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GUNS: The essence of “carrying”
Tuesday, January 10, 2012http://itdontmakesense.blogspot.com/2011/12/why-i-carry.html
December 30, 2011
Why I Carry
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The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gang banger, and a single guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.
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Or, why I would carry if it was permitted in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee!
“Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose
The essence of the RKBA is about self-defense. From criminals acting alone or in concert as the Gooferment.
Only we’re to dumb to realize what it’s all about.
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POLITICAL: Are id requirements “racist”? No!
Monday, January 9, 2012Asking For I.D. Before Voting Is ‘Racist’, But You Need A Govt. I.D. To Buy Drain Cleaner?
Posted on January 7, 2012 at 9:57pm by Mike Opelka Mike Opelka
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Got a clogged drain? Before you can buy that liquid drain cleaner, I need to see some ID.
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If it is considered “racist” or “discrimination” to ask a voter for a photo ID before they are allowed to cast a ballot, why is it not racist to ask for a government issued ID card when you want to buy drain cleaner or pay for your gasoline with cash?
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What stupidity?
The ONLY reason not to have voter id requirements is that the duopoly wants the ability to stuff the ballot box.
The Dead Old White Guys were right. Gooferment, politicians and bureaucrats are not to be trusted.
We’ve already seen “dead people” vote, more votes than people, and “math errors” in elections.
And, candidates don’t have to prove they’re eligible.
SO why vote?
Democracy is mob rule. Might as well turn the process over to the mob as we did with the Seventeenth Amendment.
Argh!
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INTERESTING: Amazon contest
Monday, January 9, 2012https://www.createspace.com/abna
Amazon Breakthrough Novel AwardThe 2012 Contest is Here!
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Do you have an unpublished or self-published novel you know Amazon.comreaders will love? Enter your novel in the 2012 Amazon BreakthroughNovel Award for a chance to win one of two $15,000 publishing contractswith Penguin USA and distribution of your novel on Amazon.com.
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Maybe next year. I’ll have one or more of the novels ready.
So much to do; so little time. Argh!
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GOLD: Unfunded liabilities
Monday, January 9, 2012http://lewrockwell.com/spl3/gold-chart-walk-2012.html
Gold Chart Walk 2012
by Morris Hubbartt
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Unlimited government requires unlimited funding. The unfunded liabilities of the USA are staggering. Over the next 20-25 years there is probably a gigantic $75 trillion unfunded liability problem for the US government. Think of the move in gold against the dollar with a debt of $15 trillion. Can you imagine the action in gold with a debt five times the current size?
The United States could be headed towards decades of dollar devaluation. With all of the problems in Europe, why isn’t the euro hitting new lows? Why can’t the dollar mount a real rally, instead of this tiny bit of strength?
The answer is that the dollar isn’t really very strong at all. If America goes into a crisis like you’ve just seen in Europe, the fall in the dollar could dwarf the euro’s fall, because America is the largest debtor nation in the history of the world.
The nature of all fiat currencies is to be competitive, with each currency group looking for an advantage in trade, and more importantly, an advantage in debt relief for the governments that issue these currencies. Fiat currencies are designed to be depreciated over time. Buy Gold in this time of gold price weakness, because your opportunity won’t last forever.
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Regardless of how you feel about gold — the magic mineral, an obsolete anachronism, or something in between — this quote should strike fear into the heart on anyone who understands “real life”.
As if “unlimited government” was NOT scary enough, “unlimited funding” should be down right terrifying.
The national debt stands at 15T$ and growing every second.
Then you hit the guesstimate of 75T$ of unfunded liability, which should knock your socks off. It does mine.
How did “we” get in this mess? Even a crooked accountant, with two sets of books, has one that tells him the truth. Even Bernie Made-off knew he was “underwater”. We don’t even have ONE set that tells us the truth.
“Jobs created or saved”, “unemployment” stats that don’t account for the “99 week”-ers, and an inflation rate that doesn’t include food or fuel.
These are the statisticians that you’re looking to tell you “the truth”.
Can you even handle “the truth”?
“The truth” is that we’re going to be like Japan, the Soviet Union, and Zimbabwe all rolled into one.
As one of those war movies said: “Tell everyone to get small in their holes because trouble is coming.”
Argh!
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TECHNOLOGY: KODAK may go Chapter 11; are your pictures backed up
Sunday, January 8, 2012On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:57 AM, X wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/27/tech/mobile/dropbox-camera-auto-import/index.html?c=mobile
Sent from my iPhone
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Nah, it’ll just blow out storing pictures. Now if KODAK offered it, I’d be interested.
BTW the impending KODAK chapter 11 has led me to back up all my pictures into SUGARSYNC and I ordered and have an EOY cd.
Can’t depend upon any ONE service provider.
Argh!
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Word to the wise: Cloud services are useful, BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), always worry that they could disappear tomorrow.
Argh!
Remember the Rawles adage: “Two is one; one is none”. Service providers or survival tools, same rules apply!
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