SERVICE: One “cloud” service changes its TOS!

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

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The Gallery’s Terms of Service have changed.

Can’t see everything? Visit us here.

Add Membership@smile.kodakgallery.com to your Address Book to ensure delivery to your inbox.

Thank you for being a Gallery customer-we appreciate you choosing us for your photo management needs.

So that you are aware, we have modified our Terms of Service*: To more effectively serve our Gallery members, we have adjusted our photo-storage policy to align with storage usage.

To store photos at the Gallery, members with photo storage of 2 gigabytes (GB) or less must make annual minimum purchases totaling at least $4.99.** Failure to meet this requirement may result in your photos being deleted from the Gallery.

Your recent purchases make you compliant with the new storage policy until 12/15/2009; no action is required at this time. Click Here to see your status details.

Thanks again for choosing the Gallery. We look forward to our continued relationship with you.

The KODAK Gallery

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Here’s another problem with cloud services: They think they can change their TOS anytime they want.
They don’t realize that they are betraying the trust that people put in them and all cloud services.
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SERVICE: What is an iName?

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

http://1id.com/

What is an iName?

An iName is a single, unified communications address that gives you one digital identity for all your online communications and transactions. This advanced digital addressing breakthrough shields you and your personal information from spam, online scams, data mining, and identity theft, and assures you of the highest standard of data and identity privacy and security.

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Useful?
Jury’s still out for me.
Try mine at:
http://xri.net/=reinkefj/(+contact)

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POLITICAL: Tax revolt, anyone?

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts264.html

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QUOTE: Churchill “You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory”

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

“…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.

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RANT: Obama Town Hall Questioners Were Campaign Backers

Monday, March 30, 2009

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/03/27/obama_town_hall_questioners_we.html?hpid=topnews

Obama Town Hall Questioners Were Campaign Backers
Updated 7:02 p.m.
By Garance Franke-Ruta

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President Obama has promised to change the way the government does business, but in at least one respect he is taking a page from the Bush playbook, stocking his town hall Thursday with supporters whose soft — though far from planted — questions provided openings to discuss his preferred message of the day.

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“Hope” that things would “change”?

Fooled ya!

Same as the old!

Stunning.

Blatantly cheating.

Another “stacked deck” exposed.

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RANT: A failure of leadership — O on GM!

Monday, March 30, 2009

from The Wall Street Journal

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President Barack Obama blamed leadership failures in Washington, D.C., and Detroit as a key factor in the auto industry’s decline, as he called on General Motors and Chrysler to come up with better restructuring plans.

In prepared remarks Monday, Obama said, “The pain being felt in places that rely on our auto industry is not the fault of our workers… And it is not the fault of all the families and communities that supported manufacturing plants throughout the generations… Rather, it is a failure of leadership.”

The remarks came as Obama moved to impose hard-nosed, sweeping restructuring measures on GM and Chrysler, including the ouster of GM’s Wagoner.

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So the money that was put into GM for the American Taxpayer went down a rathole.

And, Obama is going to run GM?

Levine on ABC has a great rant I’m going to try and find it.

Isn’t anyone upset that Obama is now running GM? Doesn’t it remind anyone of Hitler’s fascism? And, what bout the budget and spending. You youngsters are being robbed blind. And, who do they think is going to buy all this debt? It’s trillions and trillions of dollars. We’ll be in debt forever!

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RANT: Why do we have “public pensions”?

Monday, March 30, 2009

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03212009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/invitation_to_a_scam_160540.htm

INVITATION TO A SCAM
HOW TO SAFEGUARD NY PENSIONS
By NICOLE GELINAS
Last updated: 2:15 am
March 21, 2009

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ATTORNEY General Andrew Cuomo has alleged vast corruption in the massive taxpayer-guaranteed state pension fund, bringing criminal charges against political consultant Hank Morris and the fund’s former chief investment officer, David Loglisci.

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The more important question is WHY do we have “public pensions”?

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WRITING: CHURCH 10●19●62 is done; the store is open!

Sunday, March 29, 2009

http://stores.lulu.com/store.php?fAcctID=638039

http://www.lulu.com/content/6078286

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An alternative future history. What might have been? If Nikta hadn’t blinked. If children were allowed to “be all that they could be”. If adults didn’t waste their time and attention on memes and paradigms that are insanity. If I’d known. Shoulda, coulda, and woulda! The human race’s millstone — obsolete thinking. Here’s what I think might have been possible.

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(Read the book, and you’ll understand the last two flags!)

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WRITING: How did I get the book done

Sunday, March 29, 2009

On 03/20/09 11:22 AM, JohnB wrote:

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John, did you have any problem staying focused/motivated while writing your book? If so, do you have any tips or tricks? I’ve been hammering away at something for years now and I always find myself distracted and starting back at square one.

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The book was written mostly from 5AM to 6Am every morning for many months. I cheated a little and thought about it while I was commuting. I cheated more by thinking about it when I’d go to bed, head, or waiting. I cheated a little because it’s somewhat a psuedo autobiographical of my day dreams in Church back when I was in Eighth Grade.

I could have written it 45 years ago. The basic story was there. So, I really never got “writer’s block”.

I did have some equipment failures that were setbacks. One night when I couldn’t sleep, I got up and wrote for two hours. For some reason, darn windoze, it was lost. It was really good too. Oh well.

I have a good outline of the 100 chapters. I was posting it on the Frugal Squirel’s Patriot Story forum. So I have a lot of positive feedback.

I think it has to be a labor of love. With passion. I still cry when I read certain chapters. (Everyone dies in the end. rofl!)

Once I got into the habit, it just took on a life of its own.

I’d previously put a year’s worth of my blog posts in a book using Lulu to print it. My mom was thrilled. My friends were polite. But, that showed me what was possible.

Does this help?

Since, I bought a MacBookAir and a Time Machine to prevent lost data and bought “SCRIVNER” that does housekeeping for the novels. I have 11 outlines — fiction and non-fiction — in queue. May not write them all, but they are there for the “doing”.

Hope this is what you wanted,

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POLITICAL: Remembering some of the slurs

Saturday, March 28, 2009

http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2009/cyb20090320.asp#4

DisHonors Awards Held Thursday

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And the winner is:

# “I’m not that convinced that that’s her baby….The daughter — who we know is fertile because she’s knocked up again, or maybe for the first time…she did like take a five-month leave from high school because she had [uses fingers to indicate quote marks] ‘mononucleosis’ right around the time the baby was being born. And the mother, the so-called, you know, okay, maybe it is the mother, but, you know, she was back to work three days later. You don’t smell something?…It’s not like they’re not willing to lie about everything else.” — HBO’s Bill Maher on Real Time, September 5, 2008 promoting the left-wing conspiracy theory that Sarah Palin’s infant son is actually her daughter Bristol’s baby.

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The public has no memory. But, you have to. If you want to survive.

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