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Bobo’s Travels
The following is an email I received from a fellow engineer. It pretty much summarizes the times. The states / countries he mentioned are: California, Arizona, Florida, Nevada, USA, Canada.
My Florida nuclear power plant work ended sooner than promised, so I
networked my contacts and in 6 working days landed 2 solid offers. Yep,
it's moving time again.
I'm flying to Vancouver CA to work for 3 weeks, then flying back to
Florida to move my stuff to AZ. I'm driving my truck the southern route –
New Orleans, San Antonio River Walk and Alamo, Austin City Limits, etc.
Should be in Phoenix the last few days of 2011, which gives me just enough
time for a round of golf and a hike up Squaw Peak. Then I'm going to
Nevada for my next job building a new gold mine.
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Business
Addiction to Jelly Belly
At first I thought Jelly Belly were merely good and this explained the popularity. But one can not know at first just from the flavor why they sold so many. Only after eating enough to develop "The Jelly Belly Addiction" can you know the full scope of why sales went parabolic. It is as though they add space dust to them and you get addicted. Once the addiction kicks in look out! You will madly shove these chewy flavor bursts into your mouth as fast as you can. I am surprised they do not sell them at crack houses.
You know how it works. Put the money in the mail slot and down the drainspout rolls Jelly Belly's. Sonofa! they rolled me stank flavors!
And there in lies why I can never eat Jelly Belly's again. Once an addict always an addict. I just have to admit I have a problem.
Crowd-Sourcing
Crowd Sourcing the Rally Fighter Car – The future of production
The implications of the crowd sourcing are very interesting. Case in point is the Rally Fighter car that was designed by the crowd sourcing method. Their version of crowd sourcing has some obvious flaws however look to this to see the seeds of a coming revolution.
Fraud
Rube Preacher has hysterical practical joke over on the President and liberalism with Koran Burning for Victory Mosque Move Deal
The Florida preacher burned the Koran with out burning the Koran. He had threatened to burn a bunch of Korans which looks looks like a coarse stunt. Naturally the national media took the bait and ran with it thinking it had a vehicle to prove their preconceit that christians and conservatives by proxy are a bunch of bigots. It is extremely delicious because even our illustrious community organizer in chief bit on the practical joke ! At the last moment the rube preacher has come out claiming that he has made a deal with the mosque developer to move the mosque away from the 9-11 location. With a stroke of genius he has inextricably linked the freedom of expression to build a mosque with the equally important freedom of expression to burn a Koran.
Please note: It is a classic grifter technique to pretend to be less sophisticated than your mark.
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Economics
Video: Broken Rainbow – If you trust government you should watch this video
Do you trust government?
Do you think Rand Paul was wrong when he said the civil rights act of 1964 theoretically goes too far when it bans discrimination in a private business? If you do then you are substantively against private property rights. Keep that in mind as you watch Broken Rainbow. Had the Navaho and Hopi been treated according to the morality and legal philosophy of a libertarian they would have been compensated for their land. Instead we played by the rules of the Neofeudalist class. Since Navaho and Hopi did not have many votes to offer they were run over. By not believing in private property and libertarianism you open the door to all manner of "sharp operators". Many of whom end up in the United States Government.
Note when watching this video that the left romanticize primitive cultures and would have you believe several obviously false things. They would have you believe had the native americans not been hoodwinked by actors in the U.S. Government and Peabody coal that they would have refused to allow mining on their land. This is a tall assumption. A more plausible reality is that the price paid by Peabody and company would have risen to market value and the Navaho and Hopi would have sold out sooner or later.
The left sees opportunity in people treated shabbily. However their eyes are always on making names for themselves or opening new territories in legal standing and representation. This is not unlike opening wide open frontier land with little competition. What would you expect? So many of them are lawyers. If they do not see a chance for recovering on your claim you will get very little love from them.
Business
Notes on importing using container shipping
google search import container to usa
Apex Logistics – call and get someone to talk you through – approximate cost of shipping and taxes
Business
Video: The Story of the Graphing Calculator
It is a nerds nurd story. Some parts are hilarious and most situations are recognizable as straight out of the land of Dilbert. What you will find is Mr Ron Avitzur is not from the land of group think. I like and practice his philosophy of "I live simply"
It's midnight. I've been working sixteen hours a day, seven days a week. I'm not being paid. In fact, my project was canceled six months ago, so I'm evading security, sneaking into Apple Computer's main offices in the heart of Silicon Valley, doing clandestine volunteer work for an eight-billion-dollar corporation.
What is the graphing calculator software?
Fraud
Amp-Games.com is it a front for accepting fraudulent credit card purchases of 4.95 Dollar?
A friend recently found that his credit card was already used on a existing PayPal account. Thus he could not add this credit card to his existing account. Upon review of his credit card bill several purchases for approximately 5 dollars appear randomly over the past year from various websites. One of the sites is Amp-Games.com. If you look up Amp-Games.com on Alexa you will see that it has no traffic numbers. In order to have no traffic numbers it has to have almost nonexistant traffic. Thus here is what I theorize is happening.
- Joe Blow sets many many websites where he can sell some stupid game software like on Amp-Games.com. The idea is to deliver an electronic product that you can claim is not bogus.
- Joe then hacks or gets a big list of credit card numbers.
- Joe uses this credit card info to set up a PayPal accounts.
- Joe goes to a coffee shop off site and makes purchases from his websites using paypal accounts. Now he can just say he receives money for a legitimate purpose. It is not HIS fault someone used a fraudulant credit card transaction.
- Since it is only 5 bucks most people will not even notice the charge on their account
- If you read the user agreement Amp-Games.com you will see: Refund Policy – We guarantee a full refund of purchase made on our website if the customer is not satisfied with the quality of the product or has additional requirements. The refund is processed within 2 business days. …………..Thus if anybody sees the charge on their credit card bill and complains they just give the money back.
If I was a scoundrel this is how I would do it. Its low on the radar. The scam may go on for years or forever for that matter.
Addendum: This scam looks alot like something mentioned in this story: FTC Says Scammers Stole Millions, Using Virtual Companies