Applied an Mac update. It triggered an IPAD update. It triggered a reprocessing of all photos.
About 3 hours later, it’s bout 75% done.
I’ll be more careful about updates on the MACBOOKAIR.
I thought that MICROSOFT had the monopoly on bad updates.
Argh!
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Posted by reinkefj
http://channel-surfing.blogspot.com/2011/03/public-sector-unions-are-not-problem.html
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ANONYMOUS:
Well, of course a libertarian would be on the side of our corporate overlords and against unions because libertarianism is the creation of billionaires who don’t want to pay taxes and who hate their workers and regard them as a nuisance to be crushed.
Teachers’ unions negotiate with school boards not the legislators, police and firefighters negotiate contracts with their supervisors, not the state legislators. According to right wingers and libertarian millionaires, public employees have no rights, should be barred from forming unions or being able to negotiate for their wages and benefits. In other words, public employees should be compliant and obedient serfs who know their places and should just shut up and go away. In other words, you lose your first amendment rights in the workplace. Sounds very un-American to me. Unions level the playing field and allow for some say of workers in their place of employment. The unionization rate for the US is about 11.9% and falling because of rampant union busting and laws which throw up road blocks to unionizing. The unionization rates in Canada and western Europe are more than double our rates and in some countries like Finland (80%+), the unionization rates are off the charts compared to us.
Union PAC money is dwarfed by corporate PAC money; the corporations can spend many times more than unions on political campaigns, especially after the Supreme Court ruling which has allowed corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on campaigns. Exxon-Mobile alone could outspend all the unions. Corporate America has thousands of lobbyists to assault Congress, it has billions to fund politicians’ campaigns, it has direct access to the politicians, it gets invited in to write the legislation for bills (such as Medicare Part D) and it can blackmail congressmen by threatening to move their businesses out of state or out of country.
Christie and Walker want to bust unions, end of story, it has nothing to do with state budgets or deficits.
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“Teachers’ unions negotiate with school boards not the legislators, police and firefighters negotiate contracts with their supervisors, not the state legislators.”
While technically correct about teacher’s unions versus school boards, you overlook that the fact is that it’s all about politics. And, the “rules” of the negotiation are set in the various legislative bodies. The legislators are beholding to the unions for contributions, free labor on campaigns, and ultimately votes.
Police and firefighters also negotiate with basically the politicians that they elected.
You can put whatever costumes and lipstick you want on it; it’s still a corrupt process that sticks the taxpayer with the bill.
“According to right wingers and libertarian millionaires, public employees have no rights”
I can only speak for one little L libertarian and no one should have more rights than any one else. No more and no less.
Permit me to ignore all the prattle about how wonderful unions are.
“Union PAC money is dwarfed by corporate PAC money; the corporations can spend many times more than unions on political campaigns”
I’m no fan of corporations. They too are a creation of the Gooferment and the system that allows them to contribute to politicians is corrupt also. “Regulatory capture” and “Political de facto bribery” are well documented.
The root cause of almost ALL problems is the Gooferment.
So why do we allow this to happen?
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http://www.gojaspers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=12500&ATCLID=205112857
Manhattan Announces Change in Men’s Basketball Program
Barry Rohrssen Released as Jaspers’ Head Coach after Five Seasons at the Helm
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“Barry is a true gentleman who has represented Manhattan College very well,” explained Byrnes. “As we make a difficult decision to move the program forward, we remain committed to the academic and personal, as well as the athletic development of our student athletes. We wish Barry well and thank him for his service.”
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FROM A FACEBOOK GIVE AND TAKE
“58-95 while at MC”
Or, is the real objective to live out out version of morality. To serve public witness that we are following a different vision of what its right and proper and invite other to travel that path with us?
(I ranted about Bobby G and his antics despite his winning and results.)
I have blogged about I think it was Arkansas winning the NCAA but their graduation rate was under 10% and they were sued by one of their “graduates” sued for being an illiterate. The NCAA basketball offering is about money. Pure and simple. “Schools”, or organizations purporting to be schools, suck in young poor black men, with the illusion that they can make it to the NBA, supposedly compensate them for their effort with an “education”, create all sorts of “rules” to supposedly keep the game amateur, collect millions operating a meat grinder, all to support the illusion of amateur “Student Athletes”. The only part that’s “amateur” is that the players don’t get paid. And, they said Lincoln freed the slaves. That was an illusion too.
The fact that most of the top sports programs are State funded schools further illustrates the arena that MC is completing against. The deck is stack in sports, and in the economics of free public education. MC will succeed only be being unique and offering that something that I think makes my fellow Jasper “good people”.
Firing a Coach, for not winning, is imho morally wrong. When the NCAA sanctions Schools for “student athletes” being illiterate, then maybe it’s be OK. Till then, have no doubt, it’s about money. Nothing else. To play their game is a mistake.
I apologize to my fellow Jaspers here and on FACEBOOK if this comes off “holier than thou”. Here’s my minority opinion. Like that movie line, “We’re better than that”. … …
… … I think MC is better than that.
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Posted by reinkefj
Wed Mar 9, 1:35 pm ET
Barack Obama jokes about ‘birther’ debate
By Rachel Rose Hartman
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He’s laughing at us now. But why has he spent millions to prevent any disclosure of his records? His college transcript for example.
Where there is smoke, there’s fire.
I’m a “proofer”; not a “birther”. I don’t know anything. Haven’t seen any evidence.
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Posted by reinkefj
March 10th
You get it “m a r one zero”.
My grand nephew in law thinks this is a stitch and important.
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Home » News » US
Archbishop Aymond bans corporal punishment from New Orleans Catholic school
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New Orleans, La., Mar 9, 2011 / 03:29 am (CNA).- Archbishop Gregory Aymond of New Orleans said that a local Catholic school must permanently ban corporal punishment for student misbehavior, even though many parents and alumni support the practice.
“I do not believe the teachings of the Catholic Church, as we interpret them today in 2011, can possibly condone corporal punishment,” he explained to a Feb. 24 a town hall meeting at the Josephite-run St. Augustine High School in New Orleans. While parents have the authority to administer such punishment, he could not “possibly condone” the school doing so, the archdiocesan newspaper the Clarion Herald reports.
Since 1951 teachers and administrators at the historically black all-boys school have used an 18-inch-long wooden paddle, known as “the board of education,” to administer punishment to students for tardiness, sloppy dress or other minor infractions.
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The archbishop explained that he believes that “hitting a young man does not build character.”
“My image of Jesus is that he said, ‘Let the children come to me.’ I cannot imagine Jesus paddling anyone.”
Corporal punishment can cause unintended physical injury and studies indicate it can cause physical, emotional and psychological damage, including loss of self-esteem and increased hostility toward authority, the archbishop said.
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According to the archbishop, she indicated that the school’s corporal punishment was both excessive and unreasonable and the school did not have effective safeguards to prevent future abuse.
She also said that at least three students were taken to the hospital after being paddled. There were also instances of students being paddled day after day and more than five or six times a day.
Applewhite said that St. Augustine is the last Catholic school in the country to use the wooden paddle.
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I remember the ever loving <synonym for excrement> being beaten out of me. In grammar school and high school.
Good thing that weapons were not permitted in my house, I might have taken one to school for self-protection. Now, I definitely would.
Might doesn’t make right.
Maybe that’s why I’m a little L libertarian and dedicated to the ZAP (Zero Aggression Principle). No one EVER has the right to initiate violence on another human being. No matter how obnoxious they are.
And, in school, I know I was obnoxious. And, I knew it then. And, I know I still can be. One of my many failings.
Donna Nobis Pacem.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/03/06/google-nukes-rogue-android-apps-on-users-devices
Andy Greenberg
THE FIREWALL
Google Nukes Rogue Android Apps On Users’ Devices
Mar. 6 2011 – 9:26 pm
Your Android phone has a built-in kill switch for nasty apps. And Google, apparently, is not afraid to use it.
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Over the weekend, the search giant announced that it had remotely wiped “a number” of malicious Android apps from users’ phones, programs that earlier in the week had been identified as malware and pulled from Android’s app store. “We are remotely removing the malicious applications from affected devices. This remote application removal feature is one of many security controls the Android team can use to help protect users from malicious applications,” Google wrote on its mobile blog, linking to an explanation it posted in June of a built-in functionality for deleting apps from users’ phones.
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The last time Google deleted applications that were already downloaded to users’ devices was in June, and its targets were two proof of concept apps built by security researcher Jon Oberheide. As I wrote at the time, that use of its kill switch seemed to be a loud warning to malware writers about the company’s ability to remotely destroy their tools. After all, Oberheide’s apps were designed to show the possibility of creating an Android-hosted botnet, not to actually create one.
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Isn’t anyone concerned that “HeadQuarters” can assume control of YOUR hardware and override something you’ve done?
“Sorry, we know better.”
We’ve seen Amazon nuke content that a reader had paid for. We’ve seen Microsoft “Live Update” computers into bricks with “fixes” that break rather than fix. And, content purveyors have always harassed legitimate uses and legal Users with “digital rights management” schemes that “fit” like a suit from Omar the Tent Maker (i.e., good for the provider, disasterous for the User).
I think this is a demonstration to Android Users that you’ve taken a “snake to your bosom”. And, what happens when the bad guys crack the HQ code and they can put stuff on or take it off your hardware.
Haven’t we been down this road before?
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Posted by reinkefj
A FACEBOOK FRIEND’S COMMENT
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I hate insurance companies…why are the decisions of our future based on their bottom line?
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Well, insurance companies are really “us” in disguise. Don’t you really want the pool to well-managed properly-risk-adjusted and fiscally sound? This way when you make a claim against the pool, there’s “water” in it? :-) The average profit margin in running insurance is more than a grocery store, but a lot less than WalMart. Think back to the old days of our grandparents when there was no “health insurance” and one good illness would completely ruin families financially, emotionally, and physically. With proper insurance, getting sick is not a complete disaster. The insurance companies need a better brand manager.
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Posted by reinkefj
http://stevecheney.posterous.com/how-facebook-is-killing-your-authenticity
How Facebook is Killing Your Authenticity
Mar 6, 2011 at 6:14pm
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Face it, authenticity goes way down when people know their 700 friends, grandma, and 5 ex-girlfriends are tuning in each time they post something on the web.
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An interesting and astute observation.
On a personal note, I have some relatives, close friends, some not-so-close friends, acquaintances, e-friends I’ve never met, fellow alums fro different schools, past colleagues from various past employers, consulting contacts, fellow “outplacement” turkeys, headhunters, fellow authors, a few companion tin foil hats, and a few complete strangers.
On Facebook, like Twitter, like LinkedIn, they become one glob of undifferentiated mass of folks.
It makes the news streams into a torrent of items that can’t be reviewed, used, or actioned in any rationale way.
Since Facebook doesn’t allow alternate identities, either by its initial design — back when they required a college email address to get on, its current TOS (according to how I read it, but I’m not a lawyer, or do I play one on TV), or its new assumed role as the inet’s “identification server”.
In considering “identity”, information security gurus always identified the concept of an “identity” with the concepts of “roles” and “user control sharing”.
Interesting?
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Hi – thanks for sending me a message. I am using Boxbe to manage my email inbox. Once you’re on my Guest List, your email to me will be delivered with priority.
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BOXBE doesn’t present the challenge for me to “solve”.
So there is no way for my message to get thru.
Anyone ever test these things?
And, when you use spam filters, what are you missing?
Argh!
BOXBE, and all spam filters as a general rule, NOTRECOMMENDED!
I “wash” email though gmail for a spam filter.
Argh!
Sorry, but the ISPs could stop this in a heartbeat if they wanted to spend the effort of implementing email authentication.
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