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Submission + - Obama claims India doesn't poach jobs (startribune.com) 1

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on Saturday November 06, 2010 @03:25PM

onyxruby writes: "Obama shows just how out of touch he is with regular America and it's needs. He has made the audacious claim that India adds jobs instead of poaching jobs from America. Mr Obama, I believe several million out of work Americans whose jobs are now in India would disagree with you. You would think with the recent political thrashing the Democrats took in the last election would have been a wake up call. What happened to the Democrat party being the one to defend the average working Joe? In a time of severe recession, with millions of jobs lost, we needs jobs, and more to the point, we need them in our country."

Submission + - The dead file

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onyxruby

on Thursday October 22, 2009 @11:42AM

onyxruby writes: "In the recent pass my father has passed away, leaving me to be the one to do computer work. All of this has led me to wonder, what suggestions do people have for working with the digital life of someone who has passed away?

Will companies like Yahoo give access to someone's email if they receive a copy of a death certificate? How would you want to have the news broken to you that someone you talked with online passed away or is it better not to access said services from a privacy standpoint leaving some people literally in the dark about what happened to someone? Considering society as a whole is moving more and more of itself online, I think this will only become more relevant.

What do people do with their own stuff, do people have things like a safety deposit box with passwords in it? There are digital services that will send an email on your dead self's behalf, but is there any kind of service that people would literally trust with the digital keys to your financial self?

How would an estate handle things like software and music he purchased (if dvd's are the property of the estate to be disbursed, why not digital music?). Considering that some people can literally have many thousands of dollars in digital content, I don't think it should dissapear just because someone passed away, that would certainly never be acceptable with a cd or dvd collection."

Submission + - State of Minnesota attemps internet censorship (startribune.com)

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on Wednesday April 29, 2009 @11:43AM

onyxruby writes: "The state of Minnesota is attempting to become the first state to actively censor citizens Internet access.
A division of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety that enforces gambling and alcohol laws said today that it has instructed 11 national and regional telephone and Internet service providers (ISPs) to block access

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The article fails to mention by what legal authority they are attempting to censor these websites. Gambling online in Minnesota is illegal, and it appears that the state is simply trying to "order" ISP's to censor the Internet. While I don't personally gamble (the odds are stacked too much in favor of the house), the implications of state ordered censorship are disturbing. This creates a dangerous slippery slope precedent about the limitations of state power."

Submission + - Dave Arneson, co creator of D&D has passed awa (startribune.com)

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on Friday April 10, 2009 @01:23AM

onyxruby writes: "Dave Arneson, co creator of Dungeons and Dragons passed away today in St Paul Minnesota. Dave Arneson along with Gary Gygax created the foundations for todays Role Playing Games, their influence being felt world wide from Roleplaying to World of Warcraft."

Submission + - Fighting satellite based vehicle survelliance. (startribune.com)

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onyxruby

on Wednesday February 04, 2009 @10:27AM

onyxruby writes: "Like many local communities, mine has reduced how much gas it has used with a combination of driving less and more fuel efficient vehicles. The result of this is that the gas tax isn't supplying the same income it used to. In response my community, the State of Minnesota, wants to look at some kind of satellite based vehicle tax. As someone who is seriously considering buying a significantly more fuel efficient vehicle (Chevy Volt) than I'm driving now, this strikes me as ludicrous.

I've heard plenty of horror stories already, and am well aware that other systems (Toll passes etc) that can be used for tracking are routinely subpoenaed or monitored and occasionally abused. I consider this level of tracking to exemplify a big brother invasion of my privacy, I also don't care for the idea that such a system could easily be hooked up to an automated enforcement system or be fed to my auto insurance company. I want to fight this at the local level, has anyone got ideas on how to do so and be taken seriously?"

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