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Question Everything Look for another fake virus warning in your email today.
When the US military trains its finest in the arts of 'escape and evasion' there's a concept which is ground into everyone's head on how to react if captured. "Admits nothing, deny everything, and make counter accusations." Seems to also work well in the corporate world, from what I've seen, as a self-promotion strategy.
Key is the idea of causing one's enemy to question what they had thought to be real...hence, the importance of denying everything and instilling doubt. --- As we go through daily life, it's easy to suspend skepticism because being a continuous skeptic is a hell of a lot of work. I see evidence of people being sloppy with their mental acuity all the time and it hit me again this morning as I went through the email only to received an urgent/dire warning about a supposed new virus making the sounds. The email claimed that:
What made this virus scam so interesting was that it also included a claim to legitimacy designed to overcome skepticism:
Well, of course, it hasn't been and with 15 seconds of searching you can find the Snopes.com page which says nope, this Life Virus thing is a hoax, not true, and better: it's been around since 2002.
Besides prompting me to hit the "Reply All" button and sending back the question "Is the word gullible in the dictionary?" along with the above link, this provides and abject lesson in how easily soft-thinking can creep into people's lives. The little "This has been confirmed by..." line in the email is likely what pushed the sender of the email into sending my way. --- As a long-time news reporter, it's been pretty well bred into my DNA that everything should be questioned, lest we succumb to a sort of waking stupor where clarity of thought drifts into a soft focus, and from there, the herd mentality takes over. Group-think reigns.
When that happens, we all too quickly forget that yes, Bill Clinton lied in office ("depends what you mean by" what?) and the current crop of 'leaders' has done as bad or worse arguably, with regard to their real Middle East Wars agenda. In our waking-stupor state, we've become susceptible to suggestions which usually only serve the purposes of others.
I just got several flyers in the mail this week urging me to run out and buy a new High Def TV so I could watch "The Big Game." Like I should care about some sporting event next weekend. My interest in the Super Bowl is limited to the time-expansion study of how the final two-minutes of a football game can be stretched into 20-minutes of NIST time. And you thought time was a fixed unit? Clearly, Einstein never applied his formulas to network sports programming. He'd have given up - time is not what it seems.
Markets Speaking of running out of time: Although the Dow closed down 171 - points on Friday, the good news is that the Dow actually gained a tiny bit this week: About 108 points worth. Not enough to stem the layoff planning on the Street, but any port in a storm...
If you were really optimistic, you'd bet on a modest (if not semi-meteoric) rise of the markets into mid-summer. After all, the economic stimulus plan is bound to make it through CONgress and over to the Decider's place in short order. About in time to put a set of paddles on the chest of the dying service economy.
We'll just sit in our grains and softs commodity call options and see if the time machine works as well here as it has in our longer term silver and gold plays. At the risk of sounding annoying, silver is up way more than a double since we mentioned the linguistics of in in April of 2005, a return of 2.36 times but it has dragged out to three years come April.
Thanks to Ben & the Printers, I'm expecting to see silver over $50 and gold well over $2,000 long before April and maybe as early as my birthday in late February.
How Cool Is That? Very damn cold in China. Some much for global what?
Intrusive Government Department A New Mexico lawmaker wants his state to tax TV's & video games as a way to fight childhood obesity.
But wait! If they did a tax on video games, wouldn't that mean taxing our day trading platforms? That's a video game, after all...
Web Bots: Purple Haze Speaking of time, Chief Time Monk Cliff of www.halfpasthuman.com called late last night to advise me that "Our "still air event" has apparently shown up. Just to vastly simplify things, a while back in the predictive linguistics we had mention of a temporal marker before the "wind" event/natural disasters of the spring, to which government reacts badly and ticks people off, of this curious "still air" event.
Seems to have shown up in Kanawha County West Virginia. There's a chemical haze of some kind with all kinds of versions of the story in regional outlets, so with not much else going on nationally this weekend, we should see it pop fully into the MainStreamMedia - LameStreamMedia by this afternoon or tomorrow. The story line should go something like "county officials are trying to determine the source of a chemical haze in West Virginia that..."
Some suggestion that this is linked to power plant emissions, but the key thing from the predictive linguistics team is that we have a 'still air' event, which serves to inform us as to where we are here on timeline 616...
That means we're about a month and a half from the headlines about people's credit card debts going mainstream (late March into April, fading into tax disobedience/late filings)...so yes, emotional building is right on schedule. Maybe that tax language means the stimulus bill will drag out past April 15th causing filing delays?
Purple Haze, Redux A marijuana dispensing vending machine comes to L.A. reports CBS. Hmmm...wonder if they'll put it next to a pop machine so folks can build bongs on the run...
Hot Streak in Vegas Speaking of smoke: A fire in a hotel on the strip - some smoke inhalation problems, but no deaths reported.
Behind Door #2... Here's a story about an internal door problem in a biohazards lab that would make a dandy 'include' when compiling a high tech novel...
Ah, feedback from our Houston Bureau about yesterday's story:
"Work?" Who authorized the use of that word around here?
And Just for Fun New Bush Administration Coins video.
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Send snip & save ideas (noi more recipes! (Enough!) to george@ure.net ----- end snip & save --- Around the Ranch: Smoke Day Around 8:30 last night I finally finished up the rebuilding of the SB-221 linear amp. This morning, after this update is posted, I will engage in one of the most delightful moments of ham radio - right up there working working some exotic location halfway around the world. I'll be doing the "let the smoke out" test.
The idea is that if you've done a good job of putting a piece of equipment together, it will work as it should. On the other hand, and especially when playing around with a reasonably powerful piece of equipment (*with the same 'talk power' as a 5 KW AM broadcast station), any little goof here, or there, and you not only can get smoke, but even a chance of fire if you're not careful. Which is why I gravitate toward flameproof resistors in high voltage power supplies, and such. --- Regardless of how that goes, there's only two hours in the schedule for play until nightfall. There's more paneling to go in at the goat barn, plus I promised myself I'd put in at least one of the solar-powered lights today.
As soon as that's done, I'll be firing up the tractor and stretching out some portion of the 1,000 feet of goat fence needed to finish off a second large pasture. And, if I get that done, I'll hang the gate for that field. Not to whine, but just to finish the perimeter off is 6,200 feet of fencing - and you can about double that by the time the cross fencing gets done. Ever put in a mile of fencing, let alone 3?
Peoplenomics this weekend takes on low-cost reform of higher education - which should be interesting; focusing on "If information gets cheaper, why is education getting more expensive?" There are alternatives, and we'll get into those... --- E and I have been kicking around the idea of a large greenhouse, this being a snaky/buggy part of Texas and all: One idea is to take the current 30' X 50' garden (*surrounded by the chicken moat) and enclose that with PVC and 6-mil sheeting, burying the sides under 6" of dirt to keep out whatevers. The other option is to put in a new pole building (darn cheap to build) and make something a little less grandiose, say 16 by 24. Ponderings on that continue. --- As always, there's never enough time, but like the old farmerly saying goes, plenty of time for that when we get planted six feet under. Today's adventure boils down to which will I smell more of: electronic component smoke, or Kubota diesel smoke?
Peoplenomics: The 401-K Problem I'll let you in on a little secret: Elaine & I don't have a 401-K, we don't have an IRA, and we don't have any kind of retirement plan except for a few modest investments in land, precious metals, stores, and cash. So naturally, when people ask my advice about a 401-K, they look at me funny when I say "You have one of those?" Don't get me wrong, the theory of a 401-K sounds enticing enough. It's just that when you look at how the money supply is being debased, and the growing risk of being in any kind of financial abstraction, repositioning at least some of your 401-K money into something else might make sense. We start with some numbers from the Fed which almost no one talks about... Subscription information: $40/year Report Access for Subscribers
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Cost Cutting Ideas There are lots of ways to save money on food, shelter, transportation, and such. It just takes a little reading and one source of good ideas is our handy ebook "How to Live on $10,000 a year or less. Just $10. ---- Last week's report is here. If for back issues of this site, click here. (Goes back to 1997!) ---- I promised Elaine that I would unload some of my equipment, so if you're looking for ham gear, especially the older tube-type (EMP re |