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These towns are out of control,controlling people’s lives is unconstitutional…
A federal judge in Mississippi will allow a major challenge to the state's Certificate of Need (CON) health care regulations...
While the massive data breach at Uber Technologies Inc. didn’t happen under the watch of the new chief executive, more than two months elapsed before he notified affected customers and drivers of the incident, people familiar with the matter said.
Why is that when a company becomes very successful by offering a much valued product by consumers, that the Status Quo cannot wait to tear it down? Of course it's because in this case the new market entrant's business model causes extreme disruption to the crony side of government, like the municipal transportation regulators who are used to bribes and kickbacks from cab and limo companies. The thought of the consumer transacting directly with suppliers without some level of government middleman is abhorrent to bureaucrats.
This article shines some much needed light on what the media and government cronies are calling a scandal. The hackers turn out to be typical gray area hackers that do what they do as a challenge and for recognition, not profit from fraud. This type of hacker is responsible for the majority of hacks and are critical to identifying and patching security vulnerabilities. They are like carrion fowl of information systems; ugly, but they provide a needed service.
They notified Uber and told them what they did and what they got. Malicious hackers do not do that; they try to cover their tracks as long as possible so they can profit from identity theft and credit card fraud as much as possible before the target company and consumers find out. They do not hold data for ransom because they can profit more from fraudulent transactions. Uber, like all major e-commerce companies, maintains a rewards program where they pay these gray area hackers for finding and reporting vulnerabilities. These programs also of course require destruction of any data obtained. The only questionable issue here is that these hackers where not in that program and Uber simply offered to allow them to join it, and paid them the reward as long as they obeyed the rest of the program rules. While that is ethically sketchy, as an Uber customer, I do believe it was in my best interests. They now have patched the vulnerabilities identified by the hackers and my data is not out there in the wild.
As far as legal obligations, they did what they were supposed to as a private company: they notified potential investors of the breach and the pending internal investigation. Nothing about this triggered homeland security requirements.
As a consumer, don't let the Status Quo be successful at inserting themselves between you and new service providers like Uber, just because regulators and politicians are not getting more wealthy and more powerful as a result of outdated 20th Century regulatory models. We're adults; we don't need nursemaiding.
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23 Ways Big Government Is Hurting the Poor
Advocates for big government often equate expanding government with concern for the poor. But reality speaks to the contrary: Expanding government often has very harmful effects on the poor. This reality is precisely what is addressed in a forthcoming special report from The Heritage...
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Contemplation on “The Price of Civilization”
By Sigrid Weidenweber
Jeffrey Sachs- World Economic Forum East Asia 2011- Wikipedia.org
I cannot imagine what my mornings would be like without the Wall Street Journal. The pearls I find therein are well beyond the realm of ordinary papers. I find myself going blithely on thought-provoking journeys stimulated by reports. Best of all, the fare presented is fairly balanced between the liberal and conservative outlook on the world. In the Saturday /Sunday, October 12, 2011 edition, I found an intriguing book review of Jeffrey Sachs’ work, The Price of Civilization, by Paul Ryan.
Recently the clippings of this article fell into my hands again and lo— the material it is still worthy of contemplation.
Mr. Sachs’ work concerns itself with the evils of free enterprise and the acquisition of material and monetary wealth to the detriment of moral character, the environment and the lower classes. He juxtaposes these evils versus the federal government which, although “incompetent and often corrupt,” his words, is still the better alternative and one should have more of it—according to Mr. Sachs
As I joyously romped through the cerebral review, I found myself once again contemplating the vexing dilemma of mankind. Everything a human hand touches and a human brain designs is inherently flawed or hindered by restrictions set upon it. Whatever system we choose, however hale and moral it may be in its antecedents, sooner or later quarreling over spoils, laurels or power, will ruin the grand design. We are always left with Hobson’s choice—which system is the lesser evil of the two. We have all felt being in a quandary when choosing a president. Bifurcated are our thoughts on many political issues. As human beings we often cannot foresee the end result of our best laid plans.
Who would have thought that gunpowder invented by the Chinese and used for entertainment would soon power weapons of war? The same formula holds for the splitting of the atom. I doubt Madam Currie had in mind the creation of atomic weapons capable to destroy all of human kind. Yet, clever, ruthless people soon found a way to split atoms for arms. And today, the invention most troubling my mind—I have a vivid imagination—are drones. Some of the scenarios envision strike terror in my heart. They are easily available. You can buy them on amazon from $50.00 upward in prize. I imagine that a clever enemy can send out flocks of drones laden with explosives over helpless villages. Just look how cleverly our enemies are hacking into our data systems, stealing trade and industrial information, siphoning money from banks, private citizens and even the IRS and it is certain that they can use these skills in drone wars.
In his review Mr. Ryan states that Mr. Sachs carries into our day, Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s reasoning that people in a commercial society are: “scheming, violent, greedy, ambitious, servile, and knavish.” Yes, they are and always have been no matter the social system in which they function. Unfortunately mankind is not created equal, except for the inalienable rights granted by their creator, and we all know that tyrants do not care about that which is granted by God.
Since we are not equal in any other way, but are uniquely different, as different as splicing genes can make us, we will always suffer from different desires, wants and beliefs. Just give me a group of twenty people and they will often hold twenty different ideas on subjects important to their well being. Just look at general elections. California has some of the highest taxes in the nation, is deeply in debt, with fraying infra-structure, oppressed by unions, with a student population of which almost half is certifiably unable to speak the English language and in need of special tutoring for years to come. It, therefore, boggles the mind to observe how the populace elects the same corrupt governing body again and again.
It has been said that it is insanity to repeat an action over and over again with disastrous consequences and expect different results. Well, maybe we have grown comfortable with elected officials who treat the population badly because we have at least learned their names. In his book, Mr. Sachs utters precisely this kind of reasoning. Although he acknowledges that the local governments, large and small, in the USA are corrupt and incompetent, he would have us believe that more of it is better.
Thank you very much, dear author, but I for one want less and less of the overwhelming load of bureaucrats that is crushing us under their salaries and retirement accounts. I want fewer rules, fewer Tsars, fewer laws, lawyers and regulations. I have lived through a government of Socialists once before under Communism and once was more than enough of an experience. I happily throw my lot in with the free enterprise system that I recognize as the only system to have enriched the most citizens of any country in the world. While traveling all over the world, I have seen with my own eyes that our poor are still richer than 89%, or thereabout, of the people in the world.
Mr. Sachs alludes to the constitutional right to happiness. He wishes, according to Mr. Ryan, to establish quantification of US citizen’s happiness and what is lacking therein. Then, having quantified their unhappiness, he endeavors to have the government do everything to make them happy. What a pathetic dreamer!! I have never in my long life met anyone who was made happy by the efforts of another man. Sorry! One must go out and work for one’s own upkeep, smell one’s own roses, hike one’s own mountain and decide that it is better to love and hurt sometimes than to sit back and wait for someone to bring perfect love. And with this morsel of hard acquired wisdom I will leave you for today.
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Sigrid Weidenweber
Sigrid Weidenweber grew up in communist East Berlin, escaping it using a French passport. Ms. Weindenweber holds a degree in medical technology as well as psychology and has course work in Anthropology. She is co-founder of Aid for Afghans. Weindenweber has traveled the world and lived with Pakistani Muslims, learning about the culture and religion. She is a published author and lecturer.
You can find her books on Amazon.com
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California's Dust Bowl as another business takes a hike: See You Later, Sooners
By Jon Coupal
In the 1930s, tens of thousands of farmers, mostly from Oklahoma, fled the Dust Bowl for California with hopes of a better life. Today it is ironic that California’s Farmers (Farmer Brothers coffee company, that is) has announced that it is fleeing our state for a less expensive destination that includes Oklahoma on the short list. Any humor, however, will no doubt be lost on the 350 employees who are about to lose their jobs paying $40,000 to $80,000.
Farmer Brothers, a fixture in California for over 100 years, is just another of a long list of firms that, fed up with California’s high taxes and anti-business environment, have left for less costly states. Other recent refugees include Chevron, Nestle, Sony, Charles Schwab, Occidental Petroleum, Toyota, Campbell Soup, Nissan and Comcast, all of which have moved all or a significant portion of their work force out of state.
These departures are treated with a great collective yawn from Sacramento. When asked, flacks for the governor and other senior elected officials try to convince the public that these losses are not due to state policies and that the jobs and tax revenue lost are not significant anyway.Some in the media have even been known to listen to these rationalizations from elected officials with a straight face and proceed to parrot back this nonsense in what they report. Those who claim that California is not hemorrhaging companies, and the jobs they provide, should be challenged to provide their list of major companies that are relocating to California or that are making a significant expansion of their California workforce.
Sure, California is benefiting from the national recovery like all other states and some jobs, mostly low-paying, are being created. But California’s job creation for good middle class employment is anemic compared to pro-growth states like Texas.
Californians should not be surprised to see these companies go. The Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation lists California at 48, two from the bottom, in its 2015 Tax Climate Index. (This will, no doubt, annoy those on the far left who claim, that because of Proposition 13, California businesses do not pay their “fair share” in taxes.) Then there is Chief Executive Magazine, whose survey of CEOs has ranked California dead last as a place to do business for ten years in a row.
The Dust Bowl of the 1930s made the land unproductive. Eighty years later, California’s Tax Bowl, where we lead, or nearly lead the nation in almost every tax category is making our state unproductive. Any small economic progress our state has been able to make has been in spite of, not because of, Sacramento’s policies.
Those who jumped the gun to stake out land in the Oklahoma Territory before President Grover Cleveland officially proclaimed it open to settlement in 1889, were nicknamed “Sooners.” (Today, the University of Oklahoma proudly uses this name for its athletic teams.) Perhaps it would be appropriate to call companies now leaving California as “Laters,” as in “See ya later.” Sacramento could raise revenue by selling this motto on a bumper sticker to those departing our state.
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Jon Coupal is president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association — California’s largest grass-roots taxpayer organization dedicated to the protection of Proposition 13 and the advancement of taxpayers’ rights.
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Banning E-Cigarettes = Banning Toy Guns??
Banning E-Cigarettes = Banning Toy Guns?? What are your thoughts?
NPR’s Article, Electronic Cigarettes and the Appearance of Smoking
As someone who has recently decided that this is something that I am doing to benefit myself and my family, this article is extremely relevant to my situation. I am not sure anymore than anyone else about the health effects related, but I love the quote in the article that says “An e-cigarette is no more a cigarette than a…
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