Richard Bluestein’s Weblog
My technical, political and sometimes personal blog.

UPDATE: just found out about this: http://www.dataliberation.org/ Just to let you know- while google finally did reinstate my gmail account late Saturday, they did not fully reinstate my google plus account. They re-enabled my account only to the extent that I can log into it but I cannot post anything at all. This is of [...]

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unpostable last google+ post

UPDATE: google+ would not allow this to be posted, ironically enough. This will be my last post on Google+. This morning google cancelled my account for an unspecified TOS violation. This would have been upsetting but not the end of the world. What was the end of the world, however, was that they also disabled [...]

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google can and will shut your gmail down whenever they want without notice. happened to me today

Google deactivated and blocked access to my bloatedlesbianjew@gmail account which i have used since 2005. I also use it to sign on to gplus, which i suspect has something to do with it being blocked. Google has been blocking “fake” profiles which mine is not but many have claimed it is. I give a fuck [...]

So the gang of six wants to DECREASE corporate taxes AGAIN while taking away the tax deduction for mortgage interest payments. What a fucking scam: hurt the people who are already on the verge of foreclosure by making them pay higher taxes. THIS IS OBSCENE! THINK ABOUT IT! I’m not helping Obama this time around. [...]

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http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/11/apples-interest-in-witricity-wireless-charging/

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I think today’s seniors are the last generation who will be able to retire. In American we barely have healthcare, have no mandatory vacation, and soon we won’t be able to retire. This is freedom.

Rupert Murdoch used to be good looking only a few decades ago. Now he is as ugly as an out of control external cancer tumor. He wears his evil on his face. He can’t hide that much evil.

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OK so Google+ is nice I guess, but it’s just making the problem worse: If I have something I want to share, I have to do more and more things to accomplish that, depending on what kind of a thought it is: Twitter, Facebook, Google+, etc. SOcial networking is getting too messy for me. It [...]

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here are some notes I took while editing a scene for a client just to give you an idea… UPDATE: To be fair I need to tell you about one feature of FCPx that I love: the new video scopes are amazing and better than I have seen on any other NLE. fcp x no [...]

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