July 5th, 2010
What is going on here? A Brewster Washington farmer is flying in 300 Jamaican farm workers to pick crops. The issue started during an INS paper check forcing the farmer to let go hundreds of Mexican workers. Conservative statist commentators were dancing in the street that now the farmer forced against his property rights, has to hire real American workers at around $11.00 dollars an hour plus room and board and transportation, not a bad deal for an unemployed native worker. The farmer tired and the result was no takers. Needing to find workers, he had to look elsewhere. I do not blame the farmer, he played by the rules.
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Tags: employment, farm work, immigration
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July 4th, 2010
“I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival,” he supposedly said. “It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty.
“It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward for evermore,”
Attributed to John Addams after the adoption of the Decoration of Independence in July 1776.
Tags: Fourth of July
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June 29th, 2010
Good by cruel internet as I press Ctrl, Alt Del on Facebook. Do not worry nor call 911 or suicide hotline. I am still alive.
I decide to commit Web 2.0 suicide or in other words clear out and close my Facebook account. What brought this on was the realization how little how little control I have over privacy, account, and personal information on Facebook. An illustration on the Evolution of Privacy on Facebook shows why I am disturbed by Facebook’s privacy policy. By April 2010, accord to the graph, most of my Facebook information form gender to pictures could be accessed by the entire internet.
The privacy issue came home to roost when I surfed over to cnn.com for an article on unemployment and noted my logged in Facebook account ready for me to click likeit . It is the sharing of my account to third party sites that got me worrying. Not to mention Facebook pushing me to friend people I do not even know. Facebook and Google apps is why I turn nose up in the web 2.0 and the coming cloud computing. When one stores data on Goggle or any other web app host like photobucket and blogger , one essentially surrenders ones privacy and profile information to the hosting company. It is way I prefer this blog on my own rented server space than using an apps hosting site
Tags: Faceboook, privacy, social networking
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