Author: Stuzz

Zero Hedge – by Tyler Durden

Go to college, study hard, get a good paying job – that’s the mantra heard by most students across America as they wind down their high school careers.

Intuitively taking out loans just to go to college because everyone says so isn’t a good idea, and a new study by the NBER finds that in fact, students who left for-profit schools during the 2006-2008 timeframe were worse off after attending. A key factor, as the WSJ reports, is that most of these students never earned a degree, they dropped out.Making matters worse, and certainly contributing to the fact that over 40% of student borrowers don’t make payments, is the fact that these students borrowed to attend the colleges.   Continue reading “Get To College, Get A Job, Get Poorer: Students Are Worse Off After Attending For-Profit Colleges”

Here is a good start for anyone wanting to move away from windows 10.

https://linuxjourney.com

SoftPedia –  by Bogdan Popa

Microsoft is very close to being thrown in another controversial dispute in China, as computer users in the country are accusing the company of using its dominant market position to force them to upgrade to Windows 10.

A report by Reuters and citing Chinese news agency Xinhua reveals that no less than 1.2 million complaints have been posted on local website Weibo regarding Microsoft’s aggressive push for Windows 10.   Continue reading “China Turns Against Microsoft for Forcing Users to Install Windows 10”

ZeroGov – by Bill Buppert

19 April is the 241st^h anniversary of the “shot heard ‘round the world” at Lexington and Concord. The British regulars who started the fracas were following an age-old government tradition of seizing powder, munitions and property for a pretentious King who had assumed such wide distribution of the tools of resistance should be available only to the government-approved groups such as soldiers despite the danger on the frontier.   Continue reading “Freedom Betrayed: The Constitution is Lexington’s Tombstone”

International Man – by Nick Giambruno

Do you really own something that you are forced to perpetually make payments on and which can be seized from you if you don’t pay?

I would say that you don’t.

You would possess such an item, but you wouldn’t own it—an important distinction.   Continue reading “Property Rights and Property Taxes—and Countries That Don’t Have Them”

Softpedia –  by  Bogdan Popa

Microsoft has recently presented the company’s latest smart product, a mirror that can read your emotions and display content from the web, including the weather forecast and news.

The so-called Magic Mirror was presented by Microsoft at the InnovFest UnBound 2016 digital technology conference, and as CNBC writes, it can actually greet users, determine their emotions, and show pre-configured data, such as the weather forecast and news from selected feeds.   Continue reading “Microsoft Creates Smart Mirror That Reads Your Emotions, Shows the Weather”

New York Times – by Sabrina Tavernise

WASHINGTON — Suicide in the United States has surged to the highest levels in nearly 30 years, a federal data analysis has found, with increases in every age group except older adults. The rise was particularly steep for women. It was also substantial among middle-aged Americans, sending a signal of deep anguish from a group whose suicide rates had been stable or falling since the 1950s.   Continue reading “U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High”

Of Two Minds – by Charles Hugh Smith

The fallacy in this assumption is that homeowners’ incomes do not automatically rise along with housing valuations.

In my recent entry Dear Homeowner: If You’re Paying $260,000 in Property Taxes Over 20 Years, What Exactly Do You “Own”?, I questioned the consequences of high property taxes. Some readers wondered if I was saying all property taxes should be abolished. The short answer is no–what I was questioning is local government reliance on property taxes to the point that owning a home no longer makes financial sense because the property taxes consume any appreciation other than the transitory “wealth” generated by a housing bubble.   Continue reading “Are Property Taxes a “Wealth Tax” on the (Mostly) Non-Wealthy?”

Anti-Media – by Jake Anderson

As if the world wasn’t anxious enough about automation and artificial intelligence fleecing jobs from the working class, now even lawyers might feel a little nervous. Last week, the law firm Baker & Hostetler announced the hiring of IBM’s proprietary artificial intelligence product, Ross. Built by IBM’s own groundbreaking computing system, Watson, Ross is the world’s “first artificially intelligent attorney.”

Designed as a self-learning algorithmic tool, Ross is capable of most basic cognitive skills and possesses fine-tuned research abilities. This includes providing citations. Ross will join Baker & Hostetler’s team of 50 lawyers specializing in bankruptcy cases.*   Continue reading “The Future Is Now: Law Firm Hires First Artificially Intelligent Attorney”

Softpedia – by Catalin Cimpanu

An Android trojan detected by Russian security firm Dr.Web as Android.SmsSpy.88 evolved in the past two years from simple spyware to banking trojan, and now to a mobile ransomware threat.

First detected in April 2014, the trojan was initially distributed via SMS spam, and once it infected victims, it was capable of intercepting phone calls and SMS messages, usually used for two-factor authentication systems.   Continue reading “This Android Malware Steals Your Credit Card Details and Then Locks Your Phone”

The Liberty Beacon

“ALLODIAL LAND TITLE” – DO YOU “OWN” YOUR OWN PROPERTY?

Many Americans have not come to the realization that their homes, businesses, and properties are collateral on the federal debt, even if you have the DEED and it’s paid for, in full!  If the federal government defaults on its interest obligation, the private World Bankers automatically become the new Land Lords of every home, business, and property in the United States.  It seems as if most of the Land Patents in the thirteen original States, most visibly for New England and New York, go all the way back to pre-War times to the King of England.  Almost no one actually owns their land, and almost no one knows!  There is a whole history or reasons why people got so dumbed down, and sorry to say, that means almost everyone.  It matters not what group or circle one originates.  In every subsection of what we claim is a society, 99.99% is completely oblivious to the real history and history of law in the world and most importantly to us, here on the land we call America.     Continue reading “If You Pay Property Taxes – You Aren’t The Owner”

Linux Magazine – by Joe Casad

New intrusion technique affects most non-Bluetooth wireless mice.

Researchers at Bastille Networks have discovered a flaw in some keyboard and mouse dongles that could allow an attacker located within 100 meters of the computer to execute commands on the system through the dongle. The computer receives the commands as if they were typed by the user sitting at the system.   Continue reading “Strange New Attack Lets an Intruder Gain Access Through a Mouse Dongle”

Rense.com – by Greg Swank, 12-4-02

You are about to read a list of 45 goals that found their way down the halls of our great Capitol back in 1963. As you read this, 39 years later, you should be shocked by the events that have played themselves out. I first ran across this list 3 years ago but was unable to attain a copy and it has bothered me ever since.

Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record–Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963

Current Communist Goals EXTENSION OF REMARKS OF HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, January 10, 1963 .   Continue reading “The Communist Takeover Of America – 45 Declared Goals”