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Page 33 – Not the 24 Million

I have been seeing a good many crazy eyed frothing at the mouth type people spouting true and false things about the 24 million who would lose coverage under Trump Care. Most of them only get their news from propaganda sites and channels. The problem with skimming propaganda sites for snippets which feed the crazed eyed frothing of the mouth is that those sites don’t do any real analysis either, such as critically reading the … Page 33 – Not the 24 MillionRead more

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How are unvaccinated children a danger to vaccinated children if vaccines work?

The title of this post is an exact cut and paste of a question posted in an on-line forum. Below is my response. I felt it worthwhile to post it in a place far more people visit. I’m just an IT geek and author. My opinion is based on the research I did for current and future books. The things we vaccinate against are biological entities which evolve in each new host environment. We eradicate … How are unvaccinated children a danger to vaccinated children if vaccines work?Read more

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Mounting a Second Internal Drive in Linux

The other day I put a 250GB SSD in the current desktop unit and made it the primary. I wiped the (now) secondary 1TB hard drive and left it be until I had time to mess with it. Yesterday I finally finished the much needed update of The Minimum You Need to Know Web site so I played with getting the second drive to auto mount just a bit. In theory we shouldn’t need to … Mounting a Second Internal Drive in LinuxRead more

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Sometimes SPAM is Entertaining

I’m sure this link will disappear shortly, but I received an email with it. They claim this is a “Business Analyst” role. Here’s a quote from the link though: This roles is starting off as a 6 month contract.  This role is for 10 hours per week at a starting rate of $25.00/hr. That is sooooo far below market rate it would be laughable if they weren’t serious about it. Can you say “illegal aliens … Sometimes SPAM is EntertainingRead more

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Roman Numeral Calculator

If you work long enough in IT you will start to really get tired of all the cutesy ways companies try to “select” developers/consultants. Some of the worst ones send people to take on-line tests from commercial sites at the candidates own expense. I don’t see that much on reqs anymore. Why? Because only the most desperate of bottom feeders would do it. In truth the candidates were a good match because only a bottom … Roman Numeral CalculatorRead more