At 12:34.56 A.M and P.M. today July, 8, 2009 the shorthand time/date was sequential.
It was 123456789 twice today. So when will that happen again?
When will the date equal the Fibonacci sequence?
California, the State of, is playing number games today too. It is harking back to the Great Depression and paying with promissory warrants dated October 2009. They will pay the warrant bearer 3% annualized interest on that date. Also the warrants can be sold by the original recipient for 85% of face value now. So you guys with cash buy those dang things now!
If a State warrant for a $100 is bought for $85 and pays 3% interest of $0.75 then the buyer makes $15.75 profit in three months. So if you can keep this up over time you can make, uh, well, you do the math, a whole bunch in a year. You know that California will have to do this again and will pay up eventually with a good return.
But the biggest numero-uno-game is the Hospitals promising to provide x billion dollars in un-charges to finance health care reform. What are they promising? Well they will stop overcharging the government for hospital charges and will lower them down to the lowest negotiated charges they have been having the insurance companies pay. Wow! But they didn't promise to stop charging those without health insurance the full menu rate which is also much higher than the negotiated rates for insurance companies. That's like the Mafia agreeing to only rob you of half your money instead of all of it like they did that last time they rob you.
Kuddoes to the Hospital's for their number games.
Don't you just love these?
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Give Me A Break! Conversation about Race? Hell No!
Carl Jeffers at the Huffington Post had this to say about the "racial divide" brought up at the Jackson Memorial:
"The line spoken by Al Sharpton actually went so far beyond the audience assembled at the service and touched a cord I have been stressing for some time -- that America still has not had the conversation on "Race" that it needs, and that statement is true today regardless of who is in the White House. Sharpton said directly to Jackson's children that "Your Daddy wasn't strange -- what was strange was what he had to deal with around him." And that statement brought the house down and the people up almost as a defiant gesture of angry response to all the Michael critics I named above and to members of the general mainstream society that many African-Americans felt just don't understand.
And later that day, CNN's contributor Jeffrey Toobin replied to Sharpton's statement by saying, "Give me a break." And it struck me that the Sharpton statement with the audience response (the most boisterous and prolonged of any response at the service), juxtaposed with the Toobin response serving almost as a "reach out" to mainstream White America to let them know that someone was prepared to go after this saintly image of Michael Jackson being constructed, clearly demonstrated the racial divide that still exists in this country and that President Obama had better find some time to try to address while he still has such high personal approval ratings and political capital in the bank, or we are all in for some big political and social shocks next time around. "
When you read the whole thing note how he first talks about Michael being morned by all the world, which is true, but then he misses the point of that by falling back into the old line racial politics.
Whole thing at:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-jeffers/michael-jackson-a-final-r_b_227886.html
I disagree with Mr. Jeffers.
Obama should stay the hell away from the "Race" conversation for the simple reason there isn't one and can't be one. It is not a conversation because those that feel the "NEED" for it don't actually want to converse, they just want their position loudly proclaimed then shoved down the others throat.
Brother Al for an example is a man for whom it is always about himself, kinda like Sarah Palin.
His tirade at the Jackson memorial was a case in point. The audience was not just reacting for "RACE" reason, but for all the injustices that they perceived Jackson endured. Race, that was Al's gig.
Sharpton is a man who seeks any storm for a port. He don't need no conversation. He's already got the truth. Kinda like his friend Sean Hannity and others.
America can't talk its way to a solution about race. It can only grow its way to one. And folks it is well on its way, but the trip is long and Mr.Jeffers, and Brother Al, and I , and most probably you won't see the day when "race" means nothing and carries no weight in any manner.
Michael Jackson did more to erase and blur racial distinctions than any man that's lived in this time. No joke intended there folks, look at Paris Jackson and behold the future. It is shameful for any color race baiters to use him in this way.
Conversation, hell no, that was for the 60's and 70's. Now is the time to just live it.
"The line spoken by Al Sharpton actually went so far beyond the audience assembled at the service and touched a cord I have been stressing for some time -- that America still has not had the conversation on "Race" that it needs, and that statement is true today regardless of who is in the White House. Sharpton said directly to Jackson's children that "Your Daddy wasn't strange -- what was strange was what he had to deal with around him." And that statement brought the house down and the people up almost as a defiant gesture of angry response to all the Michael critics I named above and to members of the general mainstream society that many African-Americans felt just don't understand.
And later that day, CNN's contributor Jeffrey Toobin replied to Sharpton's statement by saying, "Give me a break." And it struck me that the Sharpton statement with the audience response (the most boisterous and prolonged of any response at the service), juxtaposed with the Toobin response serving almost as a "reach out" to mainstream White America to let them know that someone was prepared to go after this saintly image of Michael Jackson being constructed, clearly demonstrated the racial divide that still exists in this country and that President Obama had better find some time to try to address while he still has such high personal approval ratings and political capital in the bank, or we are all in for some big political and social shocks next time around. "
When you read the whole thing note how he first talks about Michael being morned by all the world, which is true, but then he misses the point of that by falling back into the old line racial politics.
Whole thing at:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-jeffers/michael-jackson-a-final-r_b_227886.html
I disagree with Mr. Jeffers.
Obama should stay the hell away from the "Race" conversation for the simple reason there isn't one and can't be one. It is not a conversation because those that feel the "NEED" for it don't actually want to converse, they just want their position loudly proclaimed then shoved down the others throat.
Brother Al for an example is a man for whom it is always about himself, kinda like Sarah Palin.
His tirade at the Jackson memorial was a case in point. The audience was not just reacting for "RACE" reason, but for all the injustices that they perceived Jackson endured. Race, that was Al's gig.
Sharpton is a man who seeks any storm for a port. He don't need no conversation. He's already got the truth. Kinda like his friend Sean Hannity and others.
America can't talk its way to a solution about race. It can only grow its way to one. And folks it is well on its way, but the trip is long and Mr.Jeffers, and Brother Al, and I , and most probably you won't see the day when "race" means nothing and carries no weight in any manner.
Michael Jackson did more to erase and blur racial distinctions than any man that's lived in this time. No joke intended there folks, look at Paris Jackson and behold the future. It is shameful for any color race baiters to use him in this way.
Conversation, hell no, that was for the 60's and 70's. Now is the time to just live it.
Monday, July 6, 2009
And You Thought You Had Privacy
Predicting Social Security numbers from public data
Alessandro Acquisti,1 and
Ralph Gross
+Author Affiliations
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Communicated by Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, May 5, 2009 (received for review January 18, 2009)
Abstract
Information about an individual's place and date of birth can be exploited to predict his or her Social Security number (SSN). Using only publicly available information, we observed a correlation between individuals' SSNs and their birth data and found that for younger cohorts the correlation allows statistical inference of private SSNs. The inferences are made possible by the public availability of the Social Security Administration's Death Master File and the widespread accessibility of personal information from multiple sources, such as data brokers or profiles on social networking sites. Our results highlight the unexpected privacy consequences of the complex interactions among multiple data sources in modern information economies and quantify privacy risks associated with information revelation in public forums.
Read the whole academic study: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/07/02/0904891106.abstract
Shit, this is not a new knowledge. It has been doable for years. But now it is OUT THERE!
Now we will all have to get those damn RF implants and the secret UPC code under the upper lip, and have them all correlated to our eye's retinal scan.
Alessandro Acquisti,1 and
Ralph Gross
+Author Affiliations
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Communicated by Stephen E. Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, May 5, 2009 (received for review January 18, 2009)
Abstract
Information about an individual's place and date of birth can be exploited to predict his or her Social Security number (SSN). Using only publicly available information, we observed a correlation between individuals' SSNs and their birth data and found that for younger cohorts the correlation allows statistical inference of private SSNs. The inferences are made possible by the public availability of the Social Security Administration's Death Master File and the widespread accessibility of personal information from multiple sources, such as data brokers or profiles on social networking sites. Our results highlight the unexpected privacy consequences of the complex interactions among multiple data sources in modern information economies and quantify privacy risks associated with information revelation in public forums.
Read the whole academic study: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/07/02/0904891106.abstract
Shit, this is not a new knowledge. It has been doable for years. But now it is OUT THERE!
Now we will all have to get those damn RF implants and the secret UPC code under the upper lip, and have them all correlated to our eye's retinal scan.
Friday, July 3, 2009
Palin Strategy to Upstage Michael Jackson?
Michael Jackson dies and knocks the Iranian "Revolution" off page one and TV lead-ins.
Sarah Palin is trying to upstage Michael Jackson by resigning?
The entire text of her speech of "resignation" maybe found at the site below. For the student of history and personality cults it is well worth a careful read.
In it she says that all four of her children for for her stepping down. I guess that means the baby did too.
She says she is doing it for Alaska, Most Alaskans will probably agree with her though not exactly.
Then there is the weird bit about: "... I think much of it had to do with the kids seeing their baby brother Trig mocked by some pretty mean-spirited adults recently.) Um, by the way, sure wish folks could ever, ever understand that we ALL could learn so much from someone like Trig - I know he needs me, but I need him even more... what a child can offer to set priorities RIGHT - that time is precious... the world needs more "Trigs", not fewer.
I wondered about that and what it ment so I googled Trig-Palin-mocked and got these two photos.
It seems this iconic picture was photo-shopped into the picture below,
It took me some time to find out how this mocked Trig in that clearly someone else's face has been placed over his.
The explanations is found at Huffington Post.
The level of insanity of all of this makes me wonder at the state of our National mind.
But it all came together when I read this part of her speech.
"Let me go back to a comfortable analogy for me - sports... basketball. I use it because you're naïve if you don't see the national full-court press picking away right now: A good point guard drives through a full court press, protecting the ball, keeping her eye on the basket... and she knows exactly when to pass the ball so that the team can WIN. And I'm doing that - keeping our eye on the ball that represents sound priorities - smaller government, energy independence, national security, freedom! And I know when it's time to pass the ball - for victory."
It became crystal clear then, she is upstaging
Michael Jackson!
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
I Know The Identity of the Lost TV Show Plot
Ever since the first season I recognized the plot background of "Lost" the TV series.
It ain't that hard kiddoes.
The Island is an insane asylum that houses one or more patients with multiple interacting personalities trying to resolve themselves into the controlling dominant personality of the patient(s).
The Island is an insane asylum that houses one or more patients with multiple interacting personalities trying to resolve themselves into the controlling dominant personality of the patient(s).
See the movie "Identity" for a similar plot.
What To Read Now, And Why,.....Say What?
Got my new Newsweek today and turned directly to the article : WHAT TO READ NOW: AND WHY!.
Read it here:http://www.newsweek.com/id/204300
I was chagrined to find that of the 50 books "I should of read" I had read exact 1/3 of one. They were counting Twain's three Mississippi books as one. I had read Huck..Finn.
But I had seen three as movies: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Frankenstein , and The Bear.
I've always thought of myself as a reader, but geez many of these essential books for these times I had never heard of much less read.
There are three books on my table next to the chair I read in. They are The Spear of Destiny, The Gnostic Paul, and Henry Stanley's book about seeking Livingston (although that one is in German which i do not understand, but that's another story). But still this Issue of Newsweek is making me feel well out of it.
So dear blog "readers" which of the books on the magic list have you read?
Where Is Wyatt Earp When You Need Him?
Ariz. Senate approves bill allowing guns in bars
Wyatt's Carefree Days Maybe Over
PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Senate has given final approval to a bill that would allow people with concealed weapons permits to carry a gun into a business that serves alcohol.
The 19-8 vote completes legislative action on the bill and sends it to Republican Gov. Jan Brewer. She has not said whether she will sign it, but she has long been a supporter of gun rights.
The measure has pitted powerful groups representing gun and bar owners against each other, sparking a debate about whether guns and alcohol can coexist without bloodshed.
Critics of the measure say guns and alcohol are a dangerous combination.
"We don't let people drink and drive, why should we let them drink and carry guns?" said Sen. Paula Aboud, D-Tucson, who voted against the bill.
Source: USATODAY.com
Wyatt Cleans Up Tombstone For A Second Time
It won't be long until we will have to add Cell Phones to the First Amendment or we will have more gun rights than phone rights.
My mama always told me never put off till tomorrow people you can kill today.
---Doc Holiday
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