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Guess what the government figured out! Stuff is more expensive!
I realize it's the specific numbers that are news, but don't you find yourself chuckling a little when the labor department announces that prices have gone up?
I admit not being fully aware that the increase was 1.1 percent in June. But there are some things I figured out all by my lonesome.
I am fully aware that I no longer fill my gas tank up all the way at the BP.
I'm also clued in on the fact that five tomatoes cost me north of ten bucks at Schnuck's last week.
I don't need a government report to tell me that my wife and I are going out to dinner less frequently because we can save by cooking at home.
A federal economist also is not necessary in the equation where I discover any exotic vacation plans will be hindered by the skyrocketing cost of airfare combined with the worthlessness of the U.S. dollar.
I'm also fully versed in the fact that any advertiser who makes the claim that, "mortgage rates are near record lows," is a flat-out liar. A full half percent over rates in 2005 and 2001 is no more "near a record low" than I was "near" pitching for the Cardinals by virtue of being invited to a baseball tryout in college.
I know the numbers matter to the folks on Wall Street who are trying to read the tea leaves of the economy. Just don't act like you're breaking the Watergate story when you tell me my wallet is emptier than it once was. I've managed to figure that out on my own.
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The same government that insisted I was a premature birth two minutes AFTER my full term twin sister?
The same government that gives PellGrants to felons in prison but denies them to straight-A high school students wanting to go to college?
The same government paying "farmers" in Manhattan (NY not KS) not to farm??
Needless to say- the government spending money on a study to tell us the obvious doesn't surprise me.
The same government who stands by and does not enforce laws regarding illegal aliens.
The same government who spends record amounts of money on political mumbojumbo and trying to convince the general public that they are right.
The same government who says that I am 100% fully disabled (I have Multiple Sclerosis) BUT does not give me any help at all because my husband *makes too much money* (we have a family of five on one income of about 40,000 a year.)
The same government who numbers each person and then collects unconstitutional taxes from them.
Yeah, big news about the economy... thank goodness our government was 'watching out for us' and spent all the money needed to do such a study.
KUDOS for this blog George!
Thank you Sandy. I did not work enough hours before I became disabled to be eligible for SS, but they will not give me the SSI either. I will look into The Avonex Alliance, I appreciate you letting me know about it. I am not on any type of man made medicines for the MS ... I just live a healthy lifestyle (and give glory to God) for my health being as good as it is. Thanks again! :D
What is reCAPTCHA?
reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books.A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You've probably seen them Ñ colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from "bots," or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs.
About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that's not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into "reading" books.
To archive human knowledge and to make information more accessible to the world, multiple projects are currently digitizing physical books that were written before the computer age. The book pages are being photographically scanned, and then transformed into text using "Optical Character Recognition" (OCR). The transformation into text is useful because scanning a book produces images, which are difficult to store on small devices, expensive to download, and cannot be searched. The problem is that OCR is not perfect.
reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA. This is possible because most OCR programs alert you when a word cannot be read correctly.
But if a computer can't read such a CAPTCHA, how does the system know the correct answer to the puzzle? Here's how: Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. The user is then asked to read both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the new one. The system then gives the new image to a number of other people to determine, with higher confidence, whether the original answer was correct.
Currently, we are helping to digitize books from the Internet Archive and old editions of the New York Times.