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Posted elsewhere...
A comment posted on the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare FB page:
"I actually made it through this morning at 8:00 A.M. I have a preexisting condition (Type 1 Diabetes) and my income base was 45K-55K annually. I chose tier 2 "Silver Plan" and my monthly premiums came out to $597.00 with $13,988 yearly deductible!!! There is NO POSSIBLE way that I can afford this so I "opt-out" and chose to continue along with no insurance. I received an email tonight at 5:00 P.M. informing me that my fine would be $4,037 and could be attached to my yearly income tax return. Then you make it to the "REPERCUSSIONS PORTION" for "non-payment" of yearly fine. First, your drivers license will be suspended until paid, and if you go 24 consecutive months with "Non-Payment" and you happen to be a home owner, you will have a federal tax lien placed on your home. You can agree to give your bank information so that they can easy "Automatically withdraw" your "penalties" weekly, bi-weekly or monthly! This by no means is "Free" or even "Affordable.
Hehehe... Forty years ago my dad told me that he believed there was a conspiracy to destroy the middle class and create a two-class society - the rich rulers, and the destitute, dependent slave class. I thought he was a paranoid old fool. Sorry, Dad... 
Will Rogers never met me.
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Hey, guys.
I'm almost out of the writing cave. The new edition of Tribes is now on the street, rewritten from the ground up to talk about running & managing tech endeavors. Have Fun, Get Paid is in the final stages of review and that one should be out around the first of November. And then I sleep. 
If any of you are in a leadership role, here's the Kindle version (there's a paperback as well).
Unite the Tribes: Leadership Skills for Technology Managers (2nd Ed)[^]
Signed a two book deal and said, "Hey, let's use the same deadline for both." What was I thinking?
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I have already bought my copy. Only problem is - I can't get my Kindle copy signed by the author. 
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Yeah, that's the downside of eBooks. For cute girls I can just sign the appropriate body part. In other words, you're on your own, mate.
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 Coffee. Monitor. Disaster.
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You're not using all those pixels, are you? Just have the author sign across the screen (with permanent marker).
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Christopher Duncan wrote: If any of you are in a leadership role, here's the Kindle version (there's a paperback as well).
Definitely, and congrats!
Marc
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Thanks, man. You know how good it feels to finally get one of these things off your desk. I love writing, but after a couple of months I just want to walk away from the computer and go play guitar.
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Christopher Duncan wrote: I just want to walk away from the computer and go play guitar.
We're going live tomorrow on this site[^] which I've been tailoring from an open source crowdfunding package written in Ruby on Rails, and I know exactly what you mean - I just want to head up to Woodstock and hang out with the aging hippies for a few weeks.
Marc
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Cool site, man. Nice, clean design elements. Also good production values on the video.
But yeah, I'm with you on the hippies.
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That's better than me. After the second day I just wanted to go and flush my own head! Every little thing I write sparks off a massive amount of research to verify this and that; it's like a huge snowball rolling down a deeply snow-covered hill.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Academic stuff is waaay above my pay grade. I just write about the human race. A much simpler topic.
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I just read the synopsis and I have a question - were you at all influenced by Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People?
I'm mainly asking because I'm in the middle of reading it and there's some good stuff in there.
BTW, I also enjoyed The Diamond Cutter[^] though it has a definite Buddhist bent to is (and yeah, Covey's book occasionally oozes Christianity, hahaha, but there's Buddhist philosophies in it too) Anyways, I digress.
Marc
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No, I haven't ready Covey but I get that a lot - comparisons to both him and Peter Drucker, whom I should probably also read.
The synopsis is a little AFU at the moment as stuff from the first edition, which was a completely different book, is in there as well. Working to get that cleaned up, as the 2nd edition is pointing directly at the tech sector.
The Diamond Cutter looks interesting. I have a pretty open mind about philosophies - I'll take truth wherever I can find it.
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^ There seems to be a lot of it about, lately.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Awesome, this seems perfect for a company I provided services for. There are constant conflicts between the customer service team and IT delivery team like if they were competitors. It's like they don't realize they work for the same company.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems - Homer Simpson
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Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction - Francis Picabia
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Yeah, you'd be surprised how common that is. And then companies wonder why they go out of business. Of course, when a company dies, it has an annoying habit of taking your paycheck with it. 
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Windows Media Player sucks. So yesterday I downloaded VLC Media Player. I've used it before and I like it.
The first sign of a problem is when I opened IE and Chrome to see that my homepages had been changed from Google to this[^].
Easy to change back. And I removed the #!#@#%^! Sweetpacks crap!!!
Then, even worse, now all the text on most web pages is either BOLD or ITALIC, and, it's the same when in Word docs I open.
Other apps such as VS and Outlook look ok.
I ran Malware and an AVG scan with no results
How do I fix this??? How do I get the font corrected????
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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will this help? remove sweetpacks toolbar[^]
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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That did it. Thanks
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Personally I'd just reinstall the whole OS. Sounds drastic, but you can never be sure if you've 100% got rid of the nasty sh*tty crapware that toolbars install.
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Rule 0 : If you didn't write it, you can't trust it.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: Rule 0 : If you didn't write it, you can't trust it.
Marc's Corollary:
Even if I wrote it, I still don't trust it.
Marc
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Yeah, I might not fully trust code that I wrote, but at least I can be sure I didn't write a virus to infect my computer.  
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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CIDev wrote: but at least I can be sure I didn't write a virus to infect my computer
I won't go into any details and it's way back in time anyhow, but I once wrote a so called TSR program[^] (DOS era) that did stuff that was not quite what I had intended. Needless to say it wreaked all kinds of havoc before I could remove it.
So I'm with Marc on that one. I can't even trust software written by myself. 
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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