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So, I received a renewal notice on my Costco business account.
I'm sure they could care less, but I declined to mail it in opting to place it in the shred box instead.
Then I went online and registered for another Sam's Club business account. This morning I went to the location where I typically shop and had the card printed up and now I'm good to go.
Though I wasn't entirely dissatisfied with the Costco thingie they had a fatal flaw which rendered them ineligible for my continued patronage ... individual packets of instant grits for a quick breakfast at work.
You see, they did stock the oatmeal packets and I had been buying several of those of late. When I looked for the grits all I could buy is some 10 lb bag of a brand I did not recognize ... not that the branding matters as much as everything coming emblazioned with "Kirkland" on it.
So now I'm going to Sam's which doesn't appear to be run by a bunch of rude farina eating yankees.
C'est La vie !
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| 1. | Google is going to track credit and debit card transactions in order to "prove" that their targeted ads work. If this isn't the epitome of over stepping. Any credit card or debit card transaction of mine I see in this data will result in me pulling out of the bank I'm in and going elsewhere. |
| 2. | Shariah compliant crypto gold is being batted about as a new Islamic currency ... actually it's being touted as a New World Reserve Currency, i.e., for use when they take over the world as is their intent. |
| 3. | Everyone is heavily into AI. The scuttlebutt appears to indicate a general rise to their level of incompetence ... but in the movies skynet was formed from similar attempts to go beyond those boundaries of human existence. I must admit that my trust in these companies is not all that either. |
| 4. | Uber has a fare fraud suit in the works. You know, it's always something. |
| 5. | Apple is providing free app development curricula to schools. Ah yes, indoctrinate the kiddies so they can be as unthinking as the teachers. |
| 6. | NASDAQ is investing in AI in an attempt to detect fraud and circumvent the innumerable scandals of recent history. Good luck with that. |
| 7. | Turns out that AT&T has bought HBO. One of their grand scheme ideas is abridging Game of Thrones episodes for mobile devices. See what happens when a selfish entity is allowed to acquire art? Boo! |
| 8. | It seems that hackers are hiding malware in fake movie subtitles as a mechanism for getting it to the desktop of PCs. I'm glad I have other things to do besides watch online streaming video from my computer. Let's hope that the streaming hardware can dodge this bullet so I don't have to purge my network and buy another stupid cable subscription. |
| 9. | Net Neutrality is in the news again. People are mourning the possibilities for consequences if it is abolished. This is one of those FCC thingies I would have preferred to be left alone. You don't always get what you want. Mr Trump is keen on leaving out some of the most important stuff to me ... and I voted for him. |
| 10. | China is linked to the APT3 hacker group. They have been attacking government and defense industry targests since 2010 and are linked to the Chinese Ministry of State Security along with others. It pains me to note that we buy the bulk of our routing hardware from Chinese sources and in our collective stupidity; apparently have plans to continue to do so. |
| 11. | Texas billionaire Robert Bass wants to build 12 seat supersonic business jets. Oh well, remember the Concorde. With just a dozen seats the thing will either sell out or belly up fairly quickly. I'm sure there are plenty of people in the upper 1% with that much money to spend frivolously. |
| 12. | Taylor Swift's record label is taking Spotify and YouTube to task. My but that child loves writing and singing songs about ex boyfriends ... and of course a nice infringement lawsuit every now and then, now dosen't she. |
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The unmistakable lesson of recent years is that the internet is a double-edged sword. Despite enormous benefits -- instant access to huge quantities of information, the proliferation of new forms of businesses, communications and entertainment -- it also encourages crime, global conflict and economic disruption. The drift seems ominous.As our dependence increases and continues on internetworking those out to have their way with you grow more able to exploit your existence and those risks will remain for years.
Robert Samuelson
America's Internet Delusion
realclearpolitics.com
May 22, 2017
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I was reading how Yelp reviews have adversely affected the career of one June Chu, a residential dean at Yale. It seems that those powers that be in the halls of pc thought some of her comments to be 'insensitive' being characterized as 'reprehensible' and damaging to students and the community fabric.
Far be it from me to question the overstepping of yet another educator on the toes of someone exercising their right to free speech but the holier than thou Stephen Davis some faculty member in charge has spoken and apparently his will be done.
As for me, I don't circulate on such accounts like yelp, facebook, twitter and the like to keep me from throttling morons like Mr Davis and I really don't care what the substance of the criticism is but that stupidity which is Mr Davis and Yale in general astounds me ad nauseum.
I'm sure he supplies a lot of "safe spaces" in which his students may hide from the real world all cozy and protected from the persecution of reality.
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These are troubling times. Things like the "deep state" which would overthrow the government and keep us prisoners of the democrats and progressives and their penchant for profiteering via those mechanisms of global politics at the expense of nationalism and keeping of profits by those who earn them.
Then there is the suppression of efficient technologies in our possession by the military industrial complex in order to keep the oil companies rich at the expense of the environment and the people at large.
The sequela of the evil Barack Obama who turned over the elections to Homeland Security over the loud protests of a multitude of those in the legislative branch including democrats and republicans alike. We need to strike everything this man has done from the record and undo everything he cast upon the people in his quest for ruination of The Republic.
Likewise, the transformation of our democracy into an oligarchy controlled by a group of wealthy elites at the expense of the voters of the United States of America needs to be terminated with extreme prejudice.
We need to stop that stagnant stupidity propagated by political correctness, preferred personal pronouns, and other ridiculous stifling of the freedom to speak guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
Mr Trump comes to the fore trying to restore everything that we were before all of this destruction of the American way of life and he is attacked by those who want to keep the status quo of the Obama like democrat and so-called progressives out to pillage the nation as they are doing right now under the ignorant noses of their constituents ... both democrat and even some republicans.
In the words of Patrick Henry,
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There is a grass roots movement out to thwart the usurping of the United States which began with Harry Truman and his implementation of the Majestic 12 and Dwight Eisenhower with his 1954 Greada Treaty.
We will not stand idly by and allow the democrats and progressives to attain that end of impeding a President who won an election fair and square regardless of the incessant whining of Lindsey Graham and John McCain.
There is a point beyond which the patriots will not go and those out to loot the country should be advised that their days are numbered. Evil is the democratic party and their offspring the so-called "progressives" out to rob the nation.
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