
Alister Macintyre
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Occupation: 400 Nerd, ERP programmer, semi-retired, researcher
Location: Evansville Indiana USA
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2013-05-18 16:40:31 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
This may be a Russian setup to get even for the USA making Russia look bad in the Boston Bombing case.

2013-05-18 15:56:37 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)
I have begun to follow the IRS story, and have a few tips for others on a parallel path. #1 acronym to digest (of many) might be TIGTA = US Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration http://www.treasury.gov/tigta
For people who share my interests, here are two places from which you can download the recent Inspector General Report into problems with how the IRS has been handling applications for non-profit status: Scribd
http://www.scribd.com/doc/141606149/Inspector-General-s-Report-on-IRS-Reviews-of-Tax-exempt-Applications
and Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/TIGTA-201310053fr-revised-redacted-1.pdf
If you plan to watch Congress Hearings about this on C-Span, before doing so, I suggest you check out what CREW has to say, because then you will see that politicians are ignorant of where this disaster started, l... more »

2013-05-18 15:53:41 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)
I have begun to follow the IRS story, and have a few tips for others on a parallel path. #1 acronym to digest (of many) might be TIGTA = US Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration http://www.treasury.gov/tigta
For people who share my interests, here are two places from which you can download the recent Inspector General Report into problems with how the IRS has been handling applications for non-profit status: Scribd
http://www.scribd.com/doc/141606149/Inspector-General-s-Report-on-IRS-Reviews-of-Tax-exempt-Applications
and Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/TIGTA-201310053fr-revised-redacted-1.pdf
If you plan to watch Congress Hearings about this on C-Span, before doing so, I suggest you check out what CREW has to say, because then you will see that politicians are ignorant of where this disaster started, l... more »

2013-05-17 21:07:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)
They never end. Patches & updates needed to fix software which is never completely fixed, more patches & fixes needed in perpetuity.

2013-05-17 21:06:58 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)
They never end. Patches & updates needed to fix software which is never completely fixed, more patches & fixes needed in perpetuity.

2013-05-17 21:03:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)
Soon it may no longer be legal for College Students to arrange a date, while they are on campus. All communications will need to be outside the jurisdiction of the thought police.

2013-05-17 21:02:02 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)
Soon it may no longer be legal for College Students to arrange a date, while they are on campus. All communications will need to be outside the jurisdiction of the thought police.

2013-05-17 20:58:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
Definition of legal notice can be in eyes of beholder.

2013-05-17 16:45:53 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
Here is some advice to help keep ordinary people as safe as is practical.
If you receive an email from someone you know who says they are in trouble, contact that person directly with the number or email address that you have for them or someone in their family or business who may know more about their current situation. Use contact method OTHER than contact info which is in that e-mail. There are scams where a person’s e-mail is compromised, and now controlled by someone painting a horrible story, necessitating rapid delivery of money to get them out of some jam, which is a fabrication of the crook.
NEVER give out personal information over the telephone or online to someone you don’t know, even if they are allegedly with some organization that you do know.
Microsoft does not call ordinary people to help them with some alleged problem on their computer, when those people never... more »

2013-05-17 16:45:12 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)
Here is some advice to help keep ordinary people as safe as is practical.
If you receive an email from someone you know who says they are in trouble, contact that person directly with the number or email address that you have for them or someone in their family or business who may know more about their current situation. Use contact method OTHER than contact info which is in that e-mail. There are scams where a person’s e-mail is compromised, and now controlled by someone painting a horrible story, necessitating rapid delivery of money to get them out of some jam, which is a fabrication of the crook.
NEVER give out personal information over the telephone or online to someone you don’t know, even if they are allegedly with some organization that you do know.
Microsoft does not call ordinary people to help them with some alleged problem on their computer, when those people never... more »

2013-05-15 18:11:57 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)
Another slippery slope. Most anything we touch with our mouth, leaves some of our DNA. We throw food containers in the garbage, we lick envelopes & other things. What can the police do with our DNA, even if there is no basis to suspect us of any crime?

2013-05-15 18:10:25 (0 comments, 3 reshares, 3 +1s)
Another slippery slope. Most anything we touch with our mouth, leaves some of our DNA. We throw food containers in the garbage, we lick envelopes & other things. What can the police do with our DNA, even if there is no basis to suspect us of any crime?

2013-05-14 04:53:01 (6 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)
There’s stuff in the news which I consider to be outrageous, if true, need to seek out additional info sources to verify the stories. Here’s one.
Saginaw Michigan has an impoverished district which was badly mismanaged, so the state government cut off their funds.
The Michigan school year ends June 13, but this place was just told it has ended for them May 3rd. All teachers and staff were fired, the students kicked out of the schools.
The teachers union said they would work for no pay. The state refused the offer. The locals need $ ½ million to keep going to June 13, and the state has $ ½ billion in a rainy day fund. For those of you weak in math, that’s just over 500 million available to the state, of which 1 in 1,000 is all that is needed to keep the Saginaw schools afloat, to the same end of school year as the rest of Michigan.
How come the rest of Michigan gets ... more »

2013-05-14 04:51:50 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)
There’s stuff in the news which I consider to be outrageous, if true, need to seek out additional info sources to verify the stories. Here’s one.
Saginaw Michigan has an impoverished district which was badly mismanaged, so the state government cut off their funds.
The Michigan school year ends June 13, but this place was just told it has ended for them May 3rd. All teachers and staff were fired, the students kicked out of the schools.
The teachers union said they would work for no pay. The state refused the offer. The locals need $ ½ million to keep going to June 13, and the state has $ ½ billion in a rainy day fund. For those of you weak in math, that’s just over 500 million available to the state, of which 1 in 1,000 is all that is needed to keep the Saginaw schools afloat, to the same end of school year as the rest of Michigan.
How come the rest of Michigan gets ... more »

2013-05-14 04:41:08 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)
There’s stuff in the news which defies imagination, which I trying to figure out how the heck we got to this reality. Here’s one.
Before Citizen’s United, there were rules for non-profits. If you exist for educational, social welfare, type activities, and stay out of politics, you get certain privileges, like confidentiality of your fund raising, and non-taxable. Congress had mandated the IRS perform a smell test of non-profits so they obey the rules.
Citizen’s United burned part of the rule booklet, so now organizations could have non-profit protection, while engaged in secret political promotions. However, they still supposed to do the original social welfare type stuff. Congress did not change IRS rules on the smell test requirement.
So we got a rise in organizations, using non-profit rules as a cover for massive political advertising, and not doing any o... more »

2013-05-14 04:16:22 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)
There’s stuff in the news which defies imagination, which I trying to figure out how the heck we got to this reality. Here’s one.
Before Citizen’s United, there were rules for non-profits. If you exist for educational, social welfare, type activities, and stay out of politics, you get certain privileges, like confidentiality of your fund raising, and non-taxable. Congress had mandated the IRS perform a smell test of non-profits so they obey the rules.
Citizen’s United burned part of the rule booklet, so now organizations could have non-profit protection, while engaged in secret political promotions. However, they still supposed to do the original social welfare type stuff. Congress did not change IRS rules on the smell test requirement.
So we got a rise in organizations, using non-profit rules as a cover for massive political advertising, and not doing any o... more »

2013-05-12 18:53:58 (5 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)
I have been following multiple stories in the news, just uploaded a revised edition of these notes. Since the prior sharing, I have added to my notes in several key areas: I added much more to the Ohio-Cleveland-Kidnap story, rearranging some of the content, and starting new sections still to flesh out. I added significant additional info to what’s known about the victims, suspect, and time-line, including conflicting stories between neighbors who say they called the police about very suspicious activities at that house, and police saying this never happened. Suspect # 1’s brothers were co-conspirators based on neighborhood witnesses, but have not yet been charged because the police do not believe those witnesses.
I moved my Amber ideas to be grouped up front with Amber in general. While fleshing out the Ohio Cleveland story, I found references to other services ... more »

2013-05-12 18:50:04 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 0 +1s)
I have been following multiple stories in the news, just uploaded a revised edition of these notes. Since the prior sharing, I have added to my notes in several key areas: I added much more to the Ohio-Cleveland-Kidnap story, rearranging some of the content, and starting new sections still to flesh out. I added significant additional info to what’s known about the victims, suspect, and time-line, including conflicting stories between neighbors who say they called the police about very suspicious activities at that house, and police saying this never happened. Suspect # 1’s brothers were co-conspirators based on neighborhood witnesses, but have not yet been charged because the police do not believe those witnesses.
I moved my Amber ideas to be grouped up front with Amber in general. While fleshing out the Ohio Cleveland story, I found references to other services ... more »

2013-05-12 04:56:19 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)
I have been following multiple stories in the news, just uploaded a revised edition of these notes. Since the prior sharing, I have added to my notes in several key areas:
Adjustments to introductory info;
Authorities links expanded;
Key Names significant growth across the alphabet;
Preventable Incident? Indications yes & more to come to that perspective;
Questions Unanswered revised;
Source info – lots from FEMA added;
Suspects info now known – much more added;
Threads major – additions to about 1/3 of them;
Time Line … additions to ¾ of the stages.

2013-05-12 04:53:10 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)
I have been following multiple stories in the news, just uploaded a revised edition of these notes. Since the prior sharing, I have added to my notes in several key areas:
Adjustments to introductory info;
Authorities links expanded;
Key Names significant growth across the alphabet;
Preventable Incident? Indications yes & more to come to that perspective;
Questions Unanswered revised;
Source info – lots from FEMA added;
Suspects info now known – much more added;
Threads major – additions to about 1/3 of them;
Time Line … additions to ¾ of the stages.

2013-05-11 00:40:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
The 3rd Amendment to the US constitution is a ban on the military using a person's private home without their permission. It has been suggested that a person's computer is part of their home, and that for the federal government to invade that, is a violation of the 3rd amendment.

2013-05-11 00:37:15 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)
Hundreds of Syrian domains seized by order of US government.

2013-05-10 17:51:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
The government is supposed to hold meetings so the public can attend, and not restrict their freedom of speech.

2013-05-10 17:48:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
Truth: a small child owned a gun, and shot younger sibling.
Truth: it is very controversial in America that children have fire arms.
Local community hates the fact that THEIR town is in the news because of this combination, so they are attacking visiting news media reporters. They might not realize that by doing so, they make the news about their community even hotter, take even longer to go away.
There is great disagreement regarding guns for children, where large portions of the nation see nothing wrong with it.
But the proportion of population which sees nothing wrong with attacking journalists, that is a very tiny minority.

2013-05-10 17:42:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
There are laws which are poorly enforced or communicated, and technology evolving making it easier to do things, so people are doing things without always realizing it is illegal.
If someone uses party line, cell phone, mobile device, wifi, etc. to communicate stuff that is their personal business, other people are not supposed to listen in on that traffic, record it, use it, without the permission of the people whose traffic it is.
The reality is that a lot of different traffic is on same frequencies. I am no longer using a mobile phone in my home, which was purchased at a local Radio Shack, never modified by me. When I used it, I could hear taxi service calls over it.
Some systems are broken. A co-worker told me they picked up their extension to make a call. Instead, they heard me having a conversation with a business associate.
There are scanner... more »

2013-05-10 17:17:33 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)
We should all strive to verify our facts. In Haiti there were a string of rapes of children by UN troops, and NGO volunteers, now proven to be true, but initially the authorities refused to believe the complaints, while the accused organizations threatened to sue everyone vilifying their employees.
Libel court cases can get expensive. It is much easier to be able to clearly prove the bad stuff before it gets to court.

2013-05-10 14:03:34 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)
On April 12, 2011, 86-year-old WWII Vet Patrick Carnes drove across the country from Ohio to his home in Reno. But shortly after entering Nevada the next night, authorities say he vanished under extremely bizarre circumstances. Now, cops need your help identifying a truck, seen on a police dashcam video, possibly tied to Carnes' disappearance.

2013-05-10 14:02:12 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)
On April 12, 2011, 86-year-old WWII Vet Patrick Carnes drove across the country from Ohio to his home in Reno. But shortly after entering Nevada the next night, authorities say he vanished under extremely bizarre circumstances. Now, cops need your help identifying a truck, seen on a police dashcam video, possibly tied to Carnes' disappearance.

2013-05-10 13:51:58 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)
Zaylee Fryar
AMBER Alert: Tennessee
Last updated: May 10, 2011
An AMBER Alert has been issued in Tennessee for 4-month-old Zaylee Grace Fryar. Cops say Zaylee was last known to be with her mother, Shauna Marie Fryar. Investigators confirmed the identity of a woman recovered deceased in Davidson County as Shauna, and now need your help in finding Zaylee.

2013-05-10 01:49:47 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
I just uploaded a revised edition of my notes on an epidemic of break downs in safety and security for kids commuting between home and school. The latest news out of Cleveland Ohio starts on page 33. I plan later uploads whith more info.

2013-05-09 22:22:09 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)
C-Span Tonite 8 pm Eastern is a 2 hour briefing for Congress on the Boston Bombing. I watched it this morning. I highly recommend people take the time to watch.

2013-05-09 07:57:32 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)
The rules (and auto design and understanding human anatomy) may have evolved since I learned to drive (in the 1950’s and 1960’s, which was a combination of traditional schooling and real life experiences), when we were told about how far a vehicle travels at XX speed, before what the eyes see translate to the brain telling the body to react to tell the car, and then the brakes react, so we should have about 1 car length safety margin in front of us for every 20 mph of our speed.
Nowadays it seems like no-one heeds this safety margin, including school bus drivers. I might be driving 60 mph, with 3 car lengths of separation between me and the vehicle in front of me, and some other vehicle passes me, then plops into that gap, which I had deliberately maintained for safety. It makes no difference if private auto, truck, or school bus, other drivers do not adhere to this practice I was taught ... more »

2013-05-09 07:54:54 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 4 +1s)
The rules (and auto design and understanding human anatomy) may have evolved since I learned to drive (in the 1950’s and 1960’s, which was a combination of traditional schooling and real life experiences), when we were told about how far a vehicle travels at XX speed, before what the eyes see translate to the brain telling the body to react to tell the car, and then the brakes react, so we should have about 1 car length safety margin in front of us for every 20 mph of our speed.
Nowadays it seems like no-one heeds this safety margin, including school bus drivers. I might be driving 60 mph, with 3 car lengths of separation between me and the vehicle in front of me, and some other vehicle passes me, then plops into that gap, which I had deliberately maintained for safety. It makes no difference if private auto, truck, or school bus, other drivers do not adhere to this practice I was taught ... more »

2013-05-09 07:17:18 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)
I just uploaded a revised edition of these research notes.
Info on the 3 young ladies just found in Cleveland Ohio, starts around page 33. As usual, I have much more to add, but I got to a break point, and shared my notes so far on this current news event.

2013-05-09 07:14:22 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 2 +1s)
I just uploaded a revised edition of these research notes.
Info on the 3 young ladies just found in Cleveland Ohio, starts around page 33. As usual, I have much more to add, but I got to a break point, and shared my notes so far on this current news event.

2013-05-09 03:43:05 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)
No AMBER Alert was issued the day Gina DeJesus disappeared April 2004, because no one had witnessed her being abducted. The lack of an AMBER Alert angered her father, Felix DeJesus, who said in 2006 that he believed the public would listen even if the alerts become routine.
I believe that we need a revision of the AMBER ALERT system.
When someone disappears, and no one yet knows if it was an abduction or whatever the reason, I believe there should be a web site with photo of missing person, and geography within which they went missing when.
Then there should be an ap, for cell phones and PCs, so people can match their video, with that of the photo. In other words to a facial recognition search of personal video to see if they have a match, of that person, then if yes, have an option to send copy of their video, with time stamp, and GPS identification, to the family and inv... more »

2013-05-09 03:41:57 (3 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)
No AMBER Alert was issued the day Gina DeJesus disappeared April 2004, because no one had witnessed her being abducted. The lack of an AMBER Alert angered her father, Felix DeJesus, who said in 2006 that he believed the public would listen even if the alerts become routine.
I believe that we need a revision of the AMBER ALERT system.
When someone disappears, and no one yet knows if it was an abduction or whatever the reason, I believe there should be a web site with photo of missing person, and geography within which they went missing when.
Then there should be an ap, for cell phones and PCs, so people can match their video, with that of the photo. In other words to a facial recognition search of personal video to see if they have a match, of that person, then if yes, have an option to send copy of their video, with time stamp, and GPS identification, to the family and inv... more »

2013-05-08 16:28:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
Ohio Cleveland Kidnap update ... May 7 press conference

2013-05-08 15:34:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)
Some news stories grab my attention, and I follow them closely.
The Ohio-Cleveland-Kidnap story is one of those. I am putting my notes on what I figure out, in my School Scandal Abduction doc, because I see similarities. Children get abducted, then the authorities say it is a runaway, or other missing case that does not require police attention. With the rise of cell phone cameras, and businesses with surveillance cameras, perhaps we can improve the state-of-art in helping locate the missing, and collect evidence on the kidnappers. We saw in the Boston Bombing, that when a lot of the public agree that the case should be solved rapidly, that this kind of thing can work. It takes the right kind of resources, and right kind of cooperation. I will be spelling out what, in my upcoming notes.
According to the news media: hundreds of thousands of people are classified missing... more »

2013-05-08 15:31:36 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)
Some news stories grab my attention, and I follow them closely.
The Ohio-Cleveland-Kidnap story is one of those. I am putting my notes on what I figure out, in my School Scandal Abduction doc, because I see similarities. Children get abducted, then the authorities say it is a runaway, or other missing case that does not require police attention. With the rise of cell phone cameras, and businesses with surveillance cameras, perhaps we can improve the state-of-art in helping locate the missing, and collect evidence on the kidnappers. We saw in the Boston Bombing, that when a lot of the public agree that the case should be solved rapidly, that this kind of thing can work. It takes the right kind of resources, and right kind of cooperation. I will be spelling out what, in my upcoming notes.
According to the news media: hundreds of thousands of people are classified missing... more »

2013-05-08 15:05:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
This may be of interest to my Parenting and Education circles.

2013-05-07 13:33:03 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)
Are science experiments in schools to be banned, unless they have first been registered with the science teacher?

2013-05-07 12:35:29 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)
The head of dealing with sexual assault in the military, was himself arrested for that, with a woman in civilian life. You can bet that had it happened to a military woman, the case would have been swept under the carpet of secrecy.

2013-05-07 01:11:34 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 7 +1s)
This post may be of interest to some people here.
In the USA, there is much discussion of Syria by people who seem to ignore the implications of Russia, China, Iran, and Iraq being on Assad's side.

2013-05-07 01:10:11 (0 comments, 5 reshares, 2 +1s)
This post may be of interest to some people here.
In the USA, there is much discussion of Syria by people who seem to ignore the implications of Russia, China, Iran, and Iraq being on Assad's side.

2013-05-07 01:07:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)
Another news bulletin which may be of interest to some people here.

2013-05-04 01:19:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

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