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From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
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Subject: Re: connected lights
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:30:57 -0700
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On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:36:57 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:

>On 9/15/2024 1:53 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 13:04:05 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 9/15/2024 11:51 AM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 11:07:24 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> As Mr Reagan noted well, where if not here shall we go?
>>>>
>>>> His quote was:  "If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape
>>>> to. This is the last stand on earth."
>>>>
>>>> Over the last few years, Santa Cruz County and California in general,
>>>> have had it's shares of storms and wildfires.  One result is that no
>>>> insurance company will write new homeowners policies in California.
>>>> The recent fires will probably make the insurance situation worse.
>>>>
>>>> When we get together for various events, moving elsewhere is a common
>>>> topic of conversation.  There have been many who suggested that it
>>>> might be best to sell their homes and move elsewhere.  So far, one
>>>> family has moved to somewhere in Idaho, while another has moved to
>>>> Costa Rica.  A few, including me, have done some preliminary research
>>>> into where to move.  I've been watching YouTube videos in the style of
>>>> "Ten best places to live in [select a state]".  These are interesting
>>>> but not very useful.  Others have done similar research.  In general,
>>>> the best places to live are already saturated with immigrants or have
>>>> undesirable environmental hazards (tornados, hurricanes, floods, snow,
>>>> taxes etc).  The consensus seems to be that the potential benefits of
>>>> moving do not compensate for the risks.
>>>>
>>>> "How Many People Are Leaving California (2024)"
>>>> <https://www.rubyhome.com/blog/leaving-california/>
>>>> "Texas was the biggest winner of California outmigration...  Texas
>>>> also was the state from which the most people moved to California."
>>>> 102,000 Calif -> Texas
>>>>    42,000 Texas -> Calif
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Much agreed.  It's a daunting and complex problem.
>>>
>>> I know (and ship to) expats in Italy, Mexico, Japan for
>>> example each with new and different blessings and troubles
>>> and foibles.
>>>
>>> For example, as Italy depopulates there are villages which
>>> will sell you a house for a Euro with a contract to live in
>>> it and maintain it for some number of years.  Then again
>>> Italy is more socialist than California so not for everyone.
>>>
>>> https://www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspiration/real-estate/g61420190/places-in-italy-to-buy-one-dollar-homes/
>>>
>>> Plus the Italian bureaucracy beats the California paper
>>> mavens hands down. Makes 'Byzantine' look like an
>>> understatement.
>> 
>> At my age, leaving the US for a different country is probably not a
>> good option.  In the past, I had considered Israel, Poland, Canada and
>> Japan (in that order).  Japan looked tolerable until I read about
>> their "Hostage Justice" system:
>> <https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hostage+justice+japan>
>> Being at heart a criminal[1], that removed Japan from my short list.
>> 
>> 
>> [1]  For a long time, my secret goal in life was to commit and
>> original crime.  By original, I means something which is deemed
>> against the law, but would be performed in an original manner.  For
>> example, the enterprising thief who stood outside a bank depository in
>> a bank guard uniform holding a large canvas bag.  He hung an "out of
>> order" sign on the depository door and placed the merchants nightly
>> cash deposits in the bag.  When the line of merchants dwindled, he
>> took the bag and left.  I later realized that if I actually performed
>> an original crime, I couldn't tell anyone about it.  So, I dropped
>> that great idea.
>> 
>
>Closer to your skill set, I've always been impressed with 
>the Fortran coder who moved fractional cents from millions 
>of Citibank transactions into his personal account in 1978. 
>Clever. But then again we only know of it post-conviction.

The collective wisdom of the Internet has declared that story to not
be true and to it's apparently an urban legend:

"The Salami Embezzlement Technique"
<https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-salami-technique/>

>A professional musician and cyclist, decidedly more 
>Libertarian than I, was born a Jew and so was able to 
>qualify for Israeli citizenship where he lived for a year 
>and a half, unhappily. After some time back here, he's now 
>living in rural Philippines. The Internet makes some jobs 
>possible, even unchanged, no matter where one resides.

Being Jewish doesn't guarantee that one will be happy, wealthy,
musically proficient, brilliant, etc but it helps.  Unfortunately, I
know a few Jewish deadbeats.  

A Jewish education is mostly oriented in the direction of surviving
among a hostile majority.  The trick is to be useful to that hostile
majority, keep a low profile, and to not aspire to be in a conspicuous
leadership position.  In other words, don't make oneself into a
target.  Once that's understood, the rest falls into place.  Where
Jews seem to do best these days is by being in the business of
protecting the interests of those in power.  Something like the power
behind the throne.

Your Libertarian friend should have done well if he followed the
original Any Rand program instead of the Nathaniel Brandon mutation.
Ayn Rand advocated staying away from government, staying out of
politics, and maintaining a low profile.  Nathaniel Brandon advocated
the exact opposite.  


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