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The newsletter for those prepared to look and see what is there.

No place for ostriches, snowflakes or those who blindly

bow to the unholy alter of tyrannical authority.

Wednesday 17th January 2018


G’day,

Hope this finds you fit and well.

Here is a bunch of what flittered through my mind or crossed my digital desk over the last week. I hope you get something from it!

Cheers!

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fix What You Broke When You Fooled With It
 
Fix What You Broke When You Fooled With It
 
 
 

If politicians created the fiscal mess they should be responsible for helping correct it!

 
 
 
 
My Year In Review
 
My Year In Review
 
 
 

Someone had a rough year!

 
 
 
 
Some Great Advice On Living Life
 
 
 
 

From a girl who lost her battle to cancer - age 27.

 
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Make some necessary trouble!
 
Martin Luther King Leading March
 
 
 

Disagree with injustice, out ethics and immorality. Make some necessary trouble!

Robyn O’Brien says:

“Necessary trouble” I love that term, though, as anyone who does disruptive work knows, it is not always easy.

But if you want to make a difference, lean into it with your whole heart, with kindness and with hope.

 
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Five Rules of Propaganda
 
 
 
 

I have borrowed this from a comment by Tim A Hasney. It would be useful for people to know these five rules of propaganda and observe how they are used in so much media and social netwrok output by one faction or another

1) The rule of orchestration: endlessly repeating the same messages in different variations and combinations.

2) The rule of simplification: reducing all data to a simple confrontation between ’Good and Bad’, ’Friend and Foe’.

3) The rule of disfiguration: discrediting the opposition by crude smears and parodies.

4) The rule of transfusion: manipulating the consensus values of the target audience for one’s own ends.

5) The rule of unanimity: presenting one’s viewpoint as if it were the unanimous opinion of all right-thinking people.

 
 
 
 
STUD ROOSTER
 
 
 
 

A farmer went out one day and bought a brand new stud rooster for his chicken coop. The new rooster struts over to the old rooster and says,

“OK old fart, time for you to retire.”

The old rooster replies, “Come on, surely you cannot handle ALL of these chickens. Look what it has done to me! Can’t you just let me have the two old hens over in the corner?”

The young rooster says, “Beat it! You are washed up and I am taking over.”

The old rooster says, “I tell you what, young stud. I will race you around the farmhouse. Whoever wins gets the exclusive domain over the entire chicken coop.”

The young rooster laughs. “You know you don’t stand a chance, old coot. So, just to be fair, I will give you a head start..”

The old rooster takes off running. About 15 seconds later the young rooster takes off running after him.

They round the front porch of the farmhouse and the young rooster has closed the gap.

He is only about 5 feet behind the old rooster and gaining fast! The farmer, meanwhile, is sitting in his usual spot on the front porch when he sees the roosters running by.

The old rooster is squawking and running as hard as he can.

The farmer grabs his shotgun and - BOOM! - he blows the young rooster to bits. The farmer sadly shakes his head and says, “Dammit... ...third gay rooster I bought this month.”

Moral of this story?

Age, skill, wisdom, and a little treachery always overcome youth and arrogance!

OLD GUYS RULE! (don't mess with us)

 
 
 
 
You Are What You Ingest - Ingest Wisely!
 
You Are What You Ingest
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
Spectre and Meltdown Attacks Against Microprocessors
 
 
 
 

The security of pretty much every computer on the planet has just gotten a lot worse, and the only real solution -- which of course is not a solution -- is to throw them all away and buy new ones.

On January 3, researchers announced a series of major security vulnerabilities in the microprocessors at the heart of the world’s computers for the past 15-20 years. They’ve been named Spectre and Meltdown, and they have to do with manipulating different ways processors optimize performance by rearranging the order of instructions or performing different instructions in parallel. An attacker who controls one process on a system can use the vulnerabilities to steal secrets elsewhere on the computer.

This means that a malicious app on your phone could steal data from your other apps. Or a malicious program on your computer -- maybe one running in a browser window from that sketchy site you’re visiting, or as a result of a phishing attack -- can steal data elsewhere on your machine. Cloud services, which often share machines amongst several customers, are especially vulnerable. This affects corporate applications running on cloud infrastructure, and end-user cloud applications like Google Drive. Someone can run a process in the cloud and steal data from every other user on the same hardware.

I am sure people thought me weird and old fashioned because I would not subscribe to the Cloud philosophy. This is exactly one reason why. - Tom)

Information about these flaws has been secretly circulating amongst the major IT companies for months as they researched the ramifications and coordinated updates. The details were supposed to be released next week, but the story broke early and everyone is scrambling. By now all the major cloud vendors have patched their systems against the vulnerabilities that can be patched against.

 
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Until next time,
dream big dreams,
plan out how to achieve them,
be continually executing your plans,
enlist people to your causes,
travel and/or read widely, preferably both,
all the while observing what you observe
rather than thinking what you are told to think,
think well of your fellow man,
take time to help your fellow man,
he sorely needs it and it will help you too,
eat food that is good for your body,
exercise your body,
take time to destress,
and do the important things
that make a difference -
they are rarely the urgent ones!

Tom

 
 

Most of the content herein has been copied from someone else. Especially the images. My goodness some people are talented at creating aesthetics! The small bits that are of my creation are Copyright 2014-2017 © by Tom Grimshaw - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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