If theres a bustle in your hedgerow
Don’t be alarmed now,
Its just a spring clean for the may queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
Theres still time to change the road youre on.
And it makes me wonder.
What is the deal with the states that have New in them. Because after a while they are not so new. Think of all the songs that would have to be changed about New York if it was just York. I mean Billy Joel may not have made it very far in a York State of Mind. What got me thinking about this is the fact that I recently traveled and am still traveling through the dirty streets of New Mexico. To that extent it is like Mexico, clay ridden and muddy when wet.
Anyway, I am moving the placement of New and add an underscore. Maybe that will work.
There is not much likely hood that you will get bum rushed in Mexico_New like you would in York_New but the coyotes will tare every thread from your flesh and make you roll until you hit an electric poll in the middle of the desert. But they do stop when your tooth falls out so you have that to look forward to.
But back to York_New. Did the Duke of York really come here to start anew? I guess so. Ah then there is the Latin reference. York meaning the city. Which York, New is also know as. I often find names of places and naming conventions to be historic lights of those who came before us. Continue continue. Thanks wikipedia. Oh that is an interesting one. Wiki Wiki Wiki…Hawaiian bus line, you don’t say.
That’s all from the desert. Until next time, beware of the cactus with the RFID tag!
So a few months ago I wrote on the transition to all digital television. I thought it was a closed case. But Mr. Pres Elect brought it up and wants to push the termination date back a six months and pump more money into this ridiculous scandalous money laundry scheme. Yes, that’s what it is. If these converter boxes didn’t have a government subsidy they would cost $20. Which is what you end up paying after the $40 subsidy. So they jack the price of this box up to $60 and take government money (which of course comes out of our pockets in taxes somewhere). Did the government issue rabbit ears when analog TV first came out? So why do they think they need to subsidize this upgrade? Unless it’s just to make some money. Which someone is doing…cough cough Madoff? I’m kidding but somehow wouldn’t surprise me.
The budge already $1.34 Billion and now Barack is asking for more. But why? I mean other than the fact that the system was setup to fail when the these $40 coupons were prepaid for but had expiration dates. I mean is it really because people will be without TV? Are you serious? Ask the people. I’m sure not going to glance at the fat bar maid any differently. I have been without TV for 6 months and plan on going 6 years. Yes, it’s part of the bigger plan to keep the American people absorbed with entertainment while other things get budgeted for in the background.
(screen shot from the Evidence of Revision Part 5. I was sick all weekend, employee C, and got a chance to watch all five parts.)
This catering to every pebble is what stunts innovation and progress in a technical world. JUST DO THE DAMN THING. CUT IT OFF. LET US USE THOSE AIRWAVES FOR THE BIGGEST WI-FI PROJECT KNOW TO MAN.
So please Mr. Pres Elect, spend our time on something else.
This day in age you would think it mandatory for employers to cover at least part of an employees health coverage. Well in some states yes there a law exists. Recently Massachusetts passed a law that you must be covered and I think the fine is $200 if you’re not. I believe it’s the tax form 1099-HC. But not all states have this law. From a business perspective I would think it to be in the best interest of the company to have health coverage for their employees if not 100% coverage, like my sisters company does. As it promotes wellness and positive energy in the work place.
Lets just look at the sequence of events over the past week to determine why this is important, because I like to base my findings and policy making on real world happenings.
So employee A comes in to the office on say Tuesday, coughing and complaining of an illness. He comes in Wednesday and Thursday with the same complaints. Friday employee B doesn’t even come in and is reported to have fallen ill. Employee A confides that he is going to the doctor on Tuesday to get checked out. Meanwhile, Friday afternoon rolls around and employee C complains of symptoms and is ill all weekend and Monday. Employee C wanted to stay home on Monday but is new to the company and there is a rule where he must work 3 months first to build up “sick days”. So he can’t afford to stay home and comes in to the office. Meanwhile employee D starts feeling ill on Monday. And this becomes a cycle lasting 2, 3, or even 4 weeks.
Let’s look at what happened. Obviously if employee A stayed home and dealt with the symptoms, the likely hood and risk goes down for everyone at the office. Now employee A may have hesitated to see a doctor due to health coverage. If the company pays 100% of this then the hesitation goes away. Employee C must apply for this 3 month rule before he gets any “sick days” which is ridiculous. Sick days in general are setting the system up for failure since you may get 6-8 “sick days” a year. While some people may just end up using those as extended weekends and are not really sick. But when they run out and are really sick they may end up coming into the office putting everyone at risk again or feeling like they have to come in because they haven’t earned any yet.
As en employee I don’t want to be around sickos and as an employer I don’t want my people getting sick.
High risk high reward? Not here, that’s only in gambling and skydiving. So we must abolish these “sick days”. If you are sick, don’t come to work. Better yet let’s go back to elementary school and require a note from a doctor. This forces the employee to use the health coverage provided and everyone is happy.
I am looking at this from the business owner and from the employee and putting both interests at the forefront. For the bottom line, the business owner must look at the long term payoff being that their employees will be at the office more and productivity will increase but it will be the short term payoff that will really reward them as they won’t be getting sick 
Policy Proposal:
Stay home if you are sick.
Abolish “Sick Days”, optionally require a doctor’s note or be docked pay.
Now, I’ve said nothing of the health system in this country on purpose. It just infuriates me and my blood pressure starts to spike and my pulse rate the same and then where am I? Yes, I am in need of medical attention. Which is the last place I want to be with a 4th world health care system. Because a 4th world health care system is evil and is monetarily driven. I know that is the society that has been rammed down our necks. We have the time, tools and the talent but there is a layer of privatized bureaucracy that obfuscates and rapes our doctors of the problem solving curiosity of fixing people that I know all doctors desire.
Anyway, I hope we can get with and stay well.
To change the system date/time in Linux create a symlink to /etc/localtime for the correct time zone.
Verify the new time with “date” then update the hardware clock with “hwclock”
$ ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Denver /etc/localtime $ date $ hwclock --systohc
You can also use ntpdate for NTP (Network Time Protocol)
$ ntpdate pool.ntp.org
$ hwclock --systohcYou will need to restart httpd to see this change reflected in your webserver.
Other Time Links
http://www.time.gov
Network Time Protocol
