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The Personal Computer Radio Show – 11.30.16

The Personal Computer Show Wednesday, November 30, 2016 PRN.fm 6:00 PM ET o   Black Friday Alerts o   Wires and Wireless o   Analog to Digital World o   Stocking Stuffers o   Tips Buying a Blue Tooth Speaker o   What is High Fidelity? o   Reliability of Hard Disk and Solid State Drives Download this episode (right click and save)

Michael Arria – Amazon Worker Jumps off 12-Story Building After Being Put on Big-Brother-Like ‘Performance Improvement Plan’

An Amazon worker was injured in a suicide attempt after jumping off a 12-story company building in Seattle, reports Bloomberg. Authorities did not release the identity of the man, but the story indicates he wrote an email before he tried to kill himself. The email was visible to hundreds of other Amazon workers, and to company CEO Jeff Bezos. The …

Christopher James Marshall – Small-House Kitchen Design Ideas

If you’re the one who cooks and your partner is the one who washes and builds, be sure to let it be known that you want a fully function small-house kitchen. You want track lights to focus on the work-space, a vent fan to remove vapors, have several ways to cook, a full-size refrigerator and freezer, and of course the …

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Situational Awareness: How to Protect Yourself by Developing your Situational Awareness

I’ve read hundreds of articles on Situational awareness, and I’m usually left scratching my head, wondering how many of these authors can even pretend to write about a subject they know nothing about. Most of the stuff out there seems like a bad technical manual, written by some egghead professor that did a couple of studies in a laboratory so …

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John Michael Greer – The Coming of the Postliberal Era

One of the big challenges faced by any student of current events is that of seeing past the turmoil of the present moment to catch the deep trends shaping events on a broader scale. It’s a little like standing on a beach, without benefit of tide tables, and trying to guess whether the tide’s coming in or going out. Waves …

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Nomi Prins – Madoff in the White House? How Trump’s Conflicts of Interest Could Become Ours

Imagine for a moment that it’s January 2009. Bernie Madoff, America’s poster-child fraudster, has yet to be caught. The 2007-2008 financial crisis never happened. The markets didn’t tank to reveal the emptiness beneath his schemes. We still don’t know what’s lurking in his tax returns because he’s never released them, but we know that he’s a billionaire, at least on …