Looking for a cross platform notepad
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https://pagersdirect.net/pages/are-pagers-still-a-thing
Are pagers still a thing?
ARE PAGERS MAKING A COMEBACK…ARE THEY STILL A THING?
What???? Do Pagers even exist anymore?
Who’s still using pagers in 2024 and why?
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If you find yourself using a cell phone by itself and it works for you as most people do…That’s great, but if you are like the majority of our clients, you most likely have a specific task that a pager or pager app on a cell phone does even better than just texting or voicemail on their phone. Perhaps you have cell phone signal reception issues in your area or need another way for your IMPORTANT calls to get through and get your attention…whatever the reason, the people using pagers today have found specific niche reasons why a pager or pager app compliments their cell phone and smart watch.
Primarily, a separate pager phone number offers privacy and a means for urgent notifications that stand out above and beyond text messaging and helps differentiate a normal text or phone call from a high priority, urgent phone call.
In 2024, our clients are faced with some unique challenges and situations that didn’t exist even 5 years ago…
One example is robocalls / spam phone calls. Millions of junk phone calls are made daily. Some people are just fed up with getting calls from unknown numbers about their car warranty expiring or other scams and don’t even answer the phone when they see a number they don’t recognize. Today’s latest smartphone operating systems allow smartphones to silence calls from unknown callers and send the calls directly to voicemail. With this enabled, sometimes important calls are missed.
Another example is the banning of cellphones in schools. Want a simple way to be able to get in touch with your child and let them know of an urgent message such as a schedule change or emergency at home? Perhaps just a positive emotional reinforcement such as a “Good luck, You’ve got this” on the day of a big exam. Give them an alphanumeric pager and simply send a short email to the pager’s email address.
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I found this “use case” very persuasive. I was thinking about school shootings. Schools are banning cell phones, but I don’t agree. Parents need to know their child is safe! I think of the victims — parent and child — saying “I love you”, “I’m coming for you”, even “Hide!”. Maybe I just don’t understand the problem.
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2024-09Sep-24
California Schools Must Restrict Phones Under New Law Signed by Newsom
Argh!
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While I like the idea of having a firewall to protect me from the likes of ISPs and Applications, I tried LULU and could get through the install. Maybe I’ll try again when I have time to waste.
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Motto for Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Military Chaplains and Military Chaplaincies Around the World
By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
October 15, 2024
“They murdered, they tortured, they maimed, they raped, they hated, they lied, they robbed, they plundered—but they kept the Faith.” — Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
https://www.emmanuelcharlesmccarthy.org/
Thank you for visiting this website, which is a compilation of all the work that Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy has done in the last fifty (50) years plus. The purpose of this website is to provide information on the Nonviolent Jesus of the Gospel, which calls for a radical alteration in thought patterns, verbal patterns, behavioural patterns, and emotional patterns.
Rev. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy, born October 9, 1940, is a priest of one of the Eastern Catholic Churches, Byzantine-Melkite, in communion with the Bishop of Rome, the Pope. He has been a Catholic priest for forty years, ordained on August 9, 1981, in Damascus, Syria. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree with majors in philosophy and English from the University of Notre Dame in 1962.
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I found this quote and it shocked me. Since VietNam, I’ve always been against war as a strategy or tactic. I’ve seen the two children of a VietNam vet die prematurely from the effects of Agent Orange on their father.
The “peace movement” during Nixon’s administration was mostly and astroturfed Communist / Democrat / Leftist attack on the conservative Republicans. It was inauthentic! When the D’s came to control the Gooferment, nothing changed. And, ever since the welfare / warfare state as delivered on what Ike warned about — perpetual war for the Military – Industrial – Congressional Complex. We have the deficits to show for it along with the debt and unfunded liabilities.
Maybe MLK, Gandhi, and Bob Murphy are right. Non-violence is the path to peace.
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David Stockman on The Battle of The Liars… Trump Versus Harris and The Folly of UniParty Economics
by David Stockman
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2024-10-18>>
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The Dem candidate brags about 16 million new jobs on the Harris-Biden watch and Trump claims the Greatest Economy Ever—evidenced in part by low inflation that his successor purportedly blew sky high.
Both are lying. Both ignore crucial matters of context—such as stage of the business cycle, Fed policy actions, forces arising from the $105 trillion global economy in which US growth, jobs and inflation are inextricably rooted and the fact of lag times in transmission of Washington policy into economic outcomes.
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In any event, the real culprits are the spenders and money-printers. And not surprisingly, both candidates want more of both.
Editor’s Note: The amount of money the US government spends on foreign aid, wars, the so-called intelligence community, and other aspects of foreign policy is enormous and ever-growing.
It’s an established trend in motion that is accelerating, and now approaching a breaking point. It could cause the most significant disaster since the 1930s.
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I keep banging the drum on “debt, unfunded liabilities, and Gooferment deficit spending at all levels”.
The UniParty makes picking the “lesser of two evils” a frustratingly failed strategy.
As Tom Woods says “No matter who I vote for I get John McCain”. Sadly true.
All “We, The Sheeple” can do is prepare for the eventual collapse of the dollar when the debt becomes unrepeatable. Till then remember the old military directive “get small in your hole”.
As when I was counseling FOWG “turkeys” — Success for your generation is: (1) ruthless financial discipline — no bad debt; (2) a life long interest in learning — education — a degree — they can’t take it away from you; (3) a NON-OFFSHORABLE white collar job in order to save big bux; (4) a blue collar skill for hard times — never saw a poor plumber; (5) one or more internet based businesses — your store is always open; (6) a free time hobby that generates income; and (7) a large will-maintained network of people who can “help” you.
That’s the same advice for dealing with the UniParty’s economic disaster.
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NSW woman gets trapped between two giant boulders after dropping her iPhone
By Antoinette Milienos For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 23:49 EDT, 21 October 2024 | Updated: 01:08 EDT, 22 October 2024
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A woman who got wedged between rocks for seven hours after she tried to retrieve her phone has been rescued.
Emergency services were called to bushland in the Hunter Valley wine region earlier this month following reports of a woman being stuck between two boulders.
The NSW woman had tried to retrieve her phone from between the rocks but had slipped, fallen down a three-metre crevice, and was hanging upside down.
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I’m not sure what the ill effects of hanging upside down trapped for SEVEN hours might be. Humans aren’t designed for that challenge.
I hate to be crass — or is it cravass — but who pays for the rescue? I’ll bet the Taxpayers.
Sigh!
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https://www.androidauthority.com/ftc-click-to-cancel-rule-3491150/
FTC cracks down on subscription tricks with click-to-cancel rule
By Matt Horne
October 16, 2024
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TL;DR
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The broader rule goes on to address misleading advertising practices and provides other protections against deceptive negative option marketing. Most parts of the rule will go into effect 180 days after publication, giving businesses time to comply and avoid potential penalties.
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Why did it take them so long and why did the Pepuls Republik of Kaliforkneeah have to do it first?
What all does it cover?
Didn’t see that banks and credit cards were included.
Now what about “misleading advertising” by the media as well as politicians and bureaucrats?
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https://www.casinocitytimes.com/frank-scoblete/article/quit-when-youre-ahead-68816
casinocitytimes.com
Quit When You’re Ahead
Frank Scoblete
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When it comes to casino games? Here is the truth: You will lose after a few decisions or you’ll lose today or tonight or after a few days or finally at some time or other or after your very first bet never to get to the world of the winner.
The casino knows that too. And you should know that too if you understand how the casino structures the games to give themselves the edge.
Ultimately, life ends in a loss – the loss of you. So, enjoy your time in a sane way and don’t give yourself an impossible criterion to live up to. You have enough crazy things to live up to.
All the best in and out of the casinos!
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Pretty “inspiring” advice. But, taken to heart, it makes one not take “stuff” to seriously.
As I reach “the end of my personal trail” as the cowboys say in the old TV westerns, I’m becoming much more “philosophical’.
New tires, sure who cares. More political “Barbara streisand”, why tolerate it. Maybe this is the new me? Look forward to more rants!
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The big idea: should we be thinking about luck differently?
David Spiegelhalter
Mon 7 Oct 2024 07.30 EDT
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Luck has been called “the operation of chance, taken personally”.
Luck comes in three main flavours. Philosophers have identified “circumstantial luck”, meaning being in the right place at the right time, or the wrong place at the wrong time – such as Stephen’s family taking that particular flight. Then there’s “resultant or outcome luck”, where in a particular situation some people have good and some have bad outcomes due to factors beyond their control. Stephen had the good resultant luck of surviving.
But perhaps the most important is “constitutive luck”, which covers all the fortunate or unfortunate circumstances of your very existence; the period of history in which you were born, your parents, background, genes and character traits. So where was Stephen’s constitutive luck? He told me that his father’s experiences in the RAF led him to insist that the family sat at the back of the plane – and the only survivors were seated at the back. He had the right parents.
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A very philosophical view of luck.
How does that jibe with my experience?
My sainted passed wife of 40 years was always “lucky”. Especially in things with wheels or balls. I, otoh, was always “unlucky”. She used to tell me to “Go away and take your bad luck with you”! And, I did. She’d hit more often than not.
I always felt she had “precognition”. She would get upset before bad things happened (i.e., father’s death; car accident; my trip ’n’ fall).
So, I’m not sure how to define “luck” but I know I don’t have that “magic touch”
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Japanese atomic bomb survivor group Nihon Hidankyo wins 2024 Nobel Peace Prize
By Reuters
Published Oct. 11, 2024, 5:15 a.m. ET
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Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, in a warning to countries who have nuclear weapons not to use them.
Witnesses to the only two nuclear bombs ever to be used in conflict, members of the group, also known as Hibakusha, have dedicated their lives to the struggle for a nuclear-free world.
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Using a nuclear bomb should be unthinkable. But when in a war and you’re losing, suddenly the unthinkable becomes very thinkable.
The USA Gooferment should IMMEDIATELY tell Ukraine and Israel that they will no longer supply money and weapons for their wars.
Russia, who much to my surprise, seems to be the “adult in the room” and has offered to negotiate peace.
Israel and the Arab world must come to the peace table. And. Since the Gooferment loves twisting arms so much, let that become their number 1 priority.
Finally, NATO, which has long outlived its intended purpose, should shut down and give everyone a “peace dividend”.
Dona Nobis Pacem
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