Google Apps

Gogle has a service that they call Google Apps.  For the most part I like this service.  There are a couple of problems that I have run into.  These are related and simple to fix which makes them all the more annoying.  The problem has to do with Google maps.  You see to have “my maps” in the Google maps area you have to have a Google account.  The Google Apps account will not work for this.

I know, you’re thinking “Big Deal a Gmail account is free”.  Maybe you are right, but they ironically reference a type of club that would love for its members to have maps.

Also, a business with more than one location might want to provide a map to those locations.  It’s just possible that they might not want to have to recreate that map when the employee with the gmail account leaves.  The other problem is that the Local Business Center also has to be tied to a gmail account. 

I know that there is a work-around, but I hate having to use work-arounds especially when the fix should be easy.  The Google Apps accounts are for all intents and purposes gmail accounts with different branding.  It should be real simple for Google to enable all the functionality that the regular gmail accounts have.  Google, if you need help with the code to do this just send me the part that is giving you trouble, and I’ll fix it for you.

The work around for these problems is to create a gmail account for the company or club involved.  Then share the password with the key people who will be using it.  Then you will need to change the password when people leave.  This is not ideal because these people might figure out that they are about to leave and change the password ahead of time.  I haven’t seen this problem happen in the past, but it’s something to keep in mind. 

As I said above I like the service in general.  It’s not a total replacement to Microsoft Office, but the price is right.  Even if you go to the premium service the license is a lot simpler to understand than the Microsoft model which seems to be designed to confuse you.  I would recommend this and Open Office to any small business or club before they sink a lot of money into Microsoft products.

Korea

Besides not having to register with multiple different news sites posting my comments here allows me to comment on more than one story at the same time.  I noticed this news story about S. Korea hoping that the naval clash would not leave a negative impact on inter Korean ties.  Some people don’t realize this but the Korean war is not technically over.  They have a ceasefire which has lasted fifty years.  So I guess they are saying we hope that this firing at each other’s ships does not end the ceasefire.  According to this it was already too late for that.  I hope it doesn’t get any worse.

Veterans Day

I want to write something special for veterans day, but I’m having trouble finding the words.  From the first days of our Revolutionary war to a few days ago people have seen fit to step forward and risk their lives for this country.  How can any words do justice to that?  If those words exist I don’t have them.  Instead I’ll invite you to find a veteran and thank them for their service, remember those who are no longer with us, and pray for those who are serving now.

What the extremists want

Some time after 9-11 I wondered what the oxygen thieves hoped to accomplish.  To my knowledge we had done nothing to them.  So I looked around on the internet to try to find the answer.  I figured that they might have wanted to call attention to their cause, and thus might have at least had a website. 

Well at the time if they had a website Google didn’t know about it.  Admittedly I may have been putting in the wrong search terms.  There is a great deal of information about the Arab Israeli conflict.  Searching for Arab USA conflict turns up a lot of stuff about the Arab Israeli conflict which again is not what I was looking for.  If you are wondering about the Arab Israel conflict it boils down to this;

1. The Ottoman Empire lost Palestine to Britain in World War One.
   
   
2. The British decided that they liked the idea of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.
   
   
3. The Arabs didn’t like this.
   
   
4. The British went to the UN for help, and the UN thought that there was enough room for both.  So that’s what they did.
   
   
5. The Arabs didn’t like this either, so they started and lost wars which expanded Israel.
   
   

All of that brings me back to the question of “why target the USA”.  Then I saw this article about our Ft. Hood oxygen thief.  That lead me to this other article which finally explains what the extremists want in these words “We pray that we may witness the dismantlement of western, secular dominance across the world as we hold it to be pagan and idolatrous in the majority of its presumptions. We seek a resurrection of the just example set forth by centuries of Islamic rule throughout the ages and we hold it to be self evident for the objective soul and mind that Allah is One and that Muhammad ibn Abdullah is His Prophet and that the religion offers the solution to all of the world's ills and afflictions.” 

So basically they want to rule the world.  I would suggest that they follow the instructions found here.

Medicare fraud

I saw this article the other day.  I am against true Medicare fraud.  I don’t like any type of fraud.  The problem is that Medicare lumps something called “Medical Necessity” in with fraud.  This inflates the dollar amount involved by an unknown quantity. 

“Medical Necessity” is exactly what it sounds like.  Someone at Medicare decided that the patient did not need the treatment or item provided.  The real problem with this is that the people at Medicare haven’t seen the patient, and have no idea what the patient really needs.  It has been my experience that Medicare is wrong, but you have to appeal these cases to a very high level to prove it.  Based on that, I would consider these cases of Medicare committing fraud (or theft of services) against providers.

So in summary no one should be getting away with fraud.  This includes Medicare.  That’s the way I see it. 

combat soccer

A Couple of days ago I saw this article which made me remember a sport that we played when I was in the military.  We called it combat soccer mainly because we played it at the soccer field with a soccer ball.  This is where the similarities between the official version and our version end. 

Once the platoon arrived at the soccer field we were divided up into two teams.  Then the platoon sergeant would assign each team a goal and go over all of the rules of the game.  I still remember all of the rules pretty much verbatim so here they are;

1.    Don’t kill each other.

2.    If you get the ball in the goal you get a point.

3.    The team with the most points wins.

During one game I remember running to catch the ball that someone had thrown and seeing something approach me out of the corner of my eye.  I don’t remember the rest of that day, but I think it was fun. 

A coward

It states in this article that the investigators are looking into how and why Nidal Malik Hasan shot his fellow soldiers.  There are some that are saying that he was harassed because of being muslim, or that he had a problem with our military fighting with his fellow muslims.  Neither of these are reasons to violate your oath, much less attack fellow soldiers who are unarmed at the time.  Muslims have fought one another before and I didn't see anything in the oath that said anything resembeling "unless I feel like I'm being harassed". 

No, this was a rear echelon individual with no concept of honor who would rather shoot unarmed individuals than face his "muslim brothers" who are armed.  In other words a weak coward which I will not elevate to the title of a man.  Henceforth, I will instead refer to him and those like him as "oxygen thieves" because they are using oxygen that real people deserve.

Note: My wife mentioned that this post was not clear before.  I hope this clears everything up.

 

Open letter to the Federal Reserve

Dear Sirs,
     I am very interested in your zero interest rate.  I would like to borrow $3 billion to start an investment group.  I intend to repay you with bailout money after I'm too big to fail.  Due to my previous post the NSA, CIA, Secret Service and FBI all have any further information you might need about me to process this loan request.  Thank you.

P. S.  I've already had swine flu so I wont need the shots.  Of course, one of the groups listed above probably told you that already.

new job

If your boss has to appear on the Today show and explain why you failed to do your job you might need to start looking for another job.

Adsense Echelon pageview

I didn’t really pay attention to the whole AdSense thing when I clicked on “Monetize” in my settings. Apparently there is money involved if a whole bunch of people look at my page.


This made me wonder about how many security agencies monitor internet web pages, and how many of them would end up visiting my blog if I put words like the following that I copied from this article. I also wonder if Echelon follows the links to check up on those possibly evil agencies.  It's possible that whole teams of people might be alerted and have to check everything out very thouroughly. 

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I’ll get back to this someone’s at the door. It’s all fun and games till someone violates the patriot act.

Medicare For All

I saw this article on Google news this morning.  My initial reaction was that these people simply didn’t contribute enough to Pelosi’s last campaign.  While that’s true I also noticed that you don’t see much about the Medicare for all proposal in the news so I decided to comment on that.

First of all, I’m not as big a fan of HR 676 as you might think.  Medicare is a health insurance program.  To me it makes no sense for the government to run health care in that manner.  Here’s why;

§         You and I purchase health insurance because we don’t have the funds to hire the medical staff and purchase the equipment needed to treat our eventual medical problems.  This is not the case with a government.

§         If a healthcare provider’s primary motivation is money they are better off making the patient feel better without actually curing their problem.  This keeps the patient coming back.  Every business in the world loves repeat business.  Medicare for all would do nothing about this.

§         Over a lifetime there is no risk that you will get sick, injured, or both.  It’s a certainty.  You aren’t really insuring anything.  You are just pooling your money to pay for the eventual care that everyone will need.

§         Having healthcare structured in this way creates a claims billing and payment structure which really does nothing to treat the patient.  Yes, I’m saying that the entire health insurance industry is doing nothing to treat patients.  President Obama mentioned in one of his speeches that it’s 6% of the economy and indicated that he’s just not going to go to a single payor system.  I think that when you consider the people doing the billing it’s at least twice that.  So the current system and the “Medicare for all” system would have roughly 12% of the economy involved in nothing more than producing and paying claims.  I think I know why our health care is the most expensive in the world.

Don’t get me wrong on this.  I think healthcare is part of the government’s job for moral and practical reasons.  For the moral reasons I turn to the Bible.  If you look at Leviticus you will see that when people had problems they were to go to the priests.  In that time the priests were both the church and the government.  The argument can be made for either one being responsible for healthcare, but it can’t be made that healthcare should be a private venture.

Also, from a practical point the government should be doing healthcare for the same reasons that the government should be doing military, police, and fire. 

§         All of these require special training.  This training is expensive. 

§         There is a large portion of the time when you don’t need these services. 

§         When needed these services could save lives. 

§         Market forces combined with the above points will lead to infinite cost.  Don’t believe me?  Ok, how much would you pay for?

o       Someone to go into a burning building and rescue your family.

o       Someone to take murders, thieves, etc. to jail.

o       Someone to defend this country from all enemies foreign and domestic.

o       Someone to keep you alive.

Given all of that I still think that HR 676 would be better than any of the other things I have seen. 

Economic Crisis

In the midst of economic uncertainty I would like to say that on some basic levels our economy is somewhat safe. At a very basic level the economy is still based on a farmer planting seed and harvesting more than what was planted. All the other facets of the economy are extensions of that in some way.




Ok so where does the crisis come from? Years ago I got into a situation where I had too much month left at the end of the money. I went to one of the payday advance places and wrote a check. The problem was that they charged interest. This put me in a worse situation the next month so I ended up going back. This cycle kept going for several months until I cut something somewhere to break the cycle.



Great budget story, but what does this have to do with the economy? What I was doing was basically getting a loan against my accounts receivable. This is a common business practice which becomes the same problem. Eventually you end up with your whole AR tied up in financing.



A big problem with this, aside from the interest, is that accounts receivable are not always received. Sometimes you don’t get paid at all. Then you are out that plus interest. When you realize the problem you have to cut back somewhere to fix it, but with a business this can mean peoples jobs. The best way out of this is to never get into it.



I know that this is a simplified version of the economy, but it explains why things cycle. It also explains how things are tied together. Once a financing place can’t get it’s money back from one business it’s less likely to loan out to others even if it has money from the government to do so.