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Mrs. Bobby is in real estate and says Maryland's housing market is recovering more slowly than Virginia because MD. 'protects' homeowners in foreclosure. You can skip your mortgage payments for two years before the bank can foreclose.
Ah, socialism!
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05/30/2012 20:09 Comments ||
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The 1996 Kurt Russell movie "Escape from L.A." might be remade as "Escape from California." New data show record numbers of Californians "outmigrating" to other states. The state's population is still growing, although at a slower rate, because of in-state births and immigration from other countries. However, recent Undocumented Democrats immigrants generally have lower incomes than citizens, thus lowering the tax base. Doh!
Of course, people who leave no longer use state services. But those who left arguably were more productive Californians. If they had wanted to subsist on welfare, they never would have departed a state with some of the most generous benefits in the nation.
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Traffic on I-405 cited as one of the reasons people leave. Yeah, it can be a real hassle trying to get to work in the morning. This is a result of bad planning and, yes, we can throw Fannie and Freddie into the stew as well. The building boom we experienced throughout the 90s and 2000s was artificially stimulated by the federal government. Well, we had to provide affordable housing, they said. And yet, even after the mortgage meltdown, you cannot afford it. We let the growth overwhelm our infrastructure and now we are choking on it. And God forbid that we should have any mass transportation in Los Angeles. But traffic in LA was a nightmare long before Fannie and Freddie. Way back in the 1950s (or was it the 40s?) they staked their future on freeways. Legend has it that GM, Standard Oil and Firestone "convinced" the LA politicians that cars, freeways and suburbs were the way to go.
I'll say one thing about it though, driving southbound on the 405 between the 101 and LAX at night in the carpool lane is an adventure you'll never forget. Beats the hell out of anything at Disneyland or Magic Mountain. Another story I heard is that when they recently had to close the 405 for a whole day up there so they could retrofit a bridge, the skateboarders took to it. There was a long, empty, fairly steep stretch of concrete that was crying out for skateboarders to ride it. The cops busted some of them. Even so, I wish I'd been there for that!
As for all that immigration from other countries, you might want to believe the federal government has a policy that controls who comes here and from which countries. But, alas, people walk across the border with Mexico and we have no idea how many or where they come from. Then they tell use we are bad people because the housing is not affordable and the schools suck. Well, the schools suck because there are so many immigrants that don't speak English and don't value education the way we do.
As far as I'm concerned, they can all get the hell outta here.
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As a former CA (born and raised) resident myself, I'd suggest that traffic was very low on my list of reasons to leave. Traffic is bad in almost all states, and the problem is not enough roads. Mass transit only works once you pass the population density threshold, and Americans generally don't want to live that way.
High taxes, poor services, rising crime, decaying infrastructure, declining schools--just everything you would expect from a Blue State. That's the problem.
Soon the only people left in CA will be the fabulously wealthy, government employees and illegals. Anyone else there is getting ridden hard and put away wet.
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As the grandfather said plaintively in Moonstruck, "I'm confused."
Although I'm a sucker for "non-threatening, regional accents" as bespoke by humans of the Irish female persuasion (see the NSFW video at home at your leisure), am I really leaning toward agreeing with the Irish left (incl Shin Pain?) on a vote against the (bailout?) measure?
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This kind of arrogance is what starts revolutions.
No wonder that they've slowly dumbed down the people over the decades. If more of us realised how badly we are being screwed, these bastards would already be hanging from lamposts.
From the comments below the article. Sounds about right to me.
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Communication problems on both sides. They need each other more than ever. I believe Merkel with all her abilities still cannot change her thinking to-wards Putin. She either likes you or your out. She seems to go out of her way to irritate Putin.
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See also TOPIX > GERMANY MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO DESTROY THE EUROPEAN ORDER FOR A THIRD TIME. Iff the EuroDollar falls apart so will the EU = EuroZone.
HHHHMMMMMMM, it'll be four times iff one counts the Iron Chancellor = Bismarck + Franco-Prussian Wars; five iff Frederich the Great - OTOH, Germany, then known as Prussia, may had saved Russia from Bonaparte due to their seeming "mismanagement" = sabotage? of Boney's Grande Armee's logistics for the Russia invasion???
[Ynet] As Iran reels from cyber attack by 'the most sophisticated spyware in history' some experts say Flame's recent claim to fame is nothing new. So why is Tehran having so much trouble warding off computer viruses?
Since Monday, the media worldwide is raving about the new malicious software called "Flame," or Worm.Win32.Flame. The reports laud Flame as the most sophisticated piece of cyber espionage code ever to be devised, saying the complexity of the virus and range of the strike "must" mean that this malware attack was a government-funded operation.
Iran, which was Flame's prime target, admitted that its computers took a significant hit and that "large amounts of data were corrupted and lost." It was also quick to blame Israel for the cyber-strike, saying that, "Top Israeli officials all but admitted that they have created the most complex spyware in history."
Tehran also said that even though the malware was able to crack over 43 different virus protections, its expert have already been able to analyze and block the attack.
More recent opinions however, say that Flame will take a long time to dissect. Leading publications such as British magazine The Register and the US' PC World Magazine called Flame "a media hype," citing a spokesperson for anti-spyware software company Webroot as saying that "The underlying threat has been known since 2007."
Whether connected to previous "Stuxnet" and "Duqu" attacks or not, whether as sophisticated as claimed to be or not, and whether government funded or not, Flame has penetrated highly secure computer systems and sent out large amounts of what is most likely very sensitive information.
A worm on a mission
Flame is essentially a "worm": A worm differs from a computer virus in that it is designed to track and send specific information back to its operator. A computer virus on the other hand is designed to perform specific actions on the host.
Worms are characterized as relatively small pieces of code, which exploit specific weaknesses in the host's operating system in order to penetrate and infect that host. The worm works as part of an infected process previously known to the host which makes it difficult to detect on the one hand and legitimate to the host on the other.
General malware is designed to infect and attack any host it can. As such, it has certain characteristics that makes it relatively easy to detect by good antivirus software. Target-Specific Malware is designed to hone in on specific hosts and is usually created with enough intelligence that lets it know the target's defense weaknesses. As Falme has proven, it is a target-specific worm.
A huge advantage, so to speak, of target-specific malware is that it does not need to infect multiple hosts in order to do its job, and therefore it is virtually impossible to detect by ordinary antivirus software. The only chance the "victim" has of detecting a target-specific worm is by good use of Anomaly Detection Systems (ADS).
These systems may detect anomalies in web traffic; alert the cyber security team which in turn should initiate an investigation, hopefully leading to the worm's detection and removal. This type of cyber security however, requires huge spending and is rarely implemented correctly.
Iran's brush with "Duqu" and disastrous encounter with "Stuxnet" prove that the Islamic Theocratic Republic is, indeed, lacking in that department.
The bad news is that like any other security system, cyber security systems can always be penetrated with the right amount of resources, making any computer system -- even those on a state level -- vulnerable to cyber-attacks.
Interpol estimated recently that some 10,000 cyber attacks occur in Israel every minute, but while bully boyz and criminals are quick to utilize new technologies to carry out such attacks, about 80% of online violations are committed by crime organizations -- not terrorists.
The good news is that your personal computer and business network are most likely not the target to government-funded target-specific malware. Just don't forget to update your anti-virus program.
Assaf Turner is an information and physical security expert and the CEO of Maya Security
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I dont remember which former US president said " talk softly but carry a big stick".
However I can positively say that Obama " talks loudly but carries a limp stick".
Posted by: Elder of Zion ||
05/30/2012 11:22 Comments ||
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Elder, that was Theodore Roosevelt.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
05/30/2012 12:17 Comments ||
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And Roosevelt was a "progressive" for lack of a better word to explain the actions of those who thought their intellects and penchant for protecting the helpless masses were somehow superior to the intellects forged during the leadup to the American Revolution and their penchants for personal liberty and responsibility.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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