JJ, you are a most fascinating individual; the true embodiment of what a man, indeed, a human being, should be. Your life, your story, your positions, beliefs, are most interesting.

As I have stated before in this forum, I have a Master's degree, and can honestly say, I've met few (if any) professors who are as wise in the ways of life as yourself. As for students, their intelligence, their real intelligence, is found wanting.

Today's society has missed what so many of our ancestor's understood: the concept of a skill or a trade; the idea of self-education, common sense intelligence, integrity, and most importantly, faith.

We have lost the meaning of life; our modern world revolves around the stupidity of sports, television entertainment, and wasteful living.

JJ, you are a true legend! In many ways, you remind me of my father; some people think he's crazy, but true genius is such! May the Almighty vouchsafe you many more years!

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... Well, Brad, at first I wasn't going to allow this post because it would appear to be too self-serving. However, since you mentioned SKIP COLLEGE, I decided to post it, at least briefly. This is because the title does not reflect the full content, especially chapter 10. I'll list the link to that e-book below, so readers can at least take a quick look at the contents.

The issue it is still the same. I have been a ca$h man, No bank account, for the last 1 1/2 years. FYI: I do have an only child with middle name and last name identical as mine. How do I go about getting access to the funds once the check is issued to me? Any suggestions will be appreciated!

... You might be able to get ten checks, each for $14,500. Then cash them, one by one, at a check-cashing agency. (You'll be charged for this of course, and will fill out forms.)

I'd rather see you open an account in your own name, using a ghost address such as in Alaska. Then take the cash out little by little, perhaps with ATMs. Then close the account.

Be sure to file an income tax return which shows the source of the money.

"At last you can pay using cash on the internet! What's more, it's quick, easy and safe. You don't need a credit card or a bank account. Whether you want to play a game on-line or go shopping, by choosing paysafecard you'll be using the safest, simplest solution: that's because paysafecard is a prepaid card that lets you pay on the internet.:

"You can buy your paysafecard at thousands of outlets all over Europe. You can pay for it using cash or a debit card."

"On your paysafecard receipt you will find a 16-digit PIN code. Simply enter this code at the webshop where you wish to shop or play. If you need to pay larger amounts, it's no problem to combine up to ten paysafecards – just enter the PIN code for each card as you need it."

"And that's it – you've paid! What's more, you didn't have to divulge any personal details or access your bank account."

"For further details www.paysafecard.com You may now send JonDos convenient, secure and anonymous payments with paysafecard."

Jondos requires it for the optimum surfing; payment is needed in the form of "paysafecards."

But on the paysafe website it lists only locations in Europe on whither to buy it; no help for me.

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Among the services they gladly offer to police: pulling up their surveillance camera files to match a face to the purchase of a prepaid phone. I saw a presentation from Target about this very services.

No, Robert. Although the watches contain radio receivers, they do NOT contain radio transmitters. Moreover, the watches described in the link you gave, like most radio-controlled watches, do not even know your position, but only the time of day, to an accuracy of a few tens of milliseconds. They can display time to the nearest tenth of a second or so, but have no way of knowing your position.

It would be possible for a watch to contain a GPS receiver, but these watches do not contain GPS receivers. They only receive a single (1) frequency at a time, unlike GPS receivers, which require signals from at least four (4) transmitters to determine your position and the time of day. In the continental USA, such a watch will use the signal from WWVB (60 kHz, from Ft. Collins, Colorado), and the time will be slightly inaccurate according to how far away you are from Ft. Collins. (The radio wave travels at a little less than 300 kilometers per millisecond, so the signal is delayed - by a few milliseconds - in reaching you depending on how far you are from the transmitter.)

When in Europe, such a watch will set itself using either the signal from MSF (60 kHz, from the U.K.) or the signal from DCF77 (77.5 kHz, from Germany). When in Japan, the watch will set itself using the signal from one of two Japanese time stations (JJY 40 at 40 KHz, or JJY60 at 60 kHz). When you are in other parts of the world (South America, Australia, northern Canada, Africa, Antartica, etc.) the watch will not set itself at all, because it will fail to receive any of the time stations that it is designed to receive.

One of my hobbies is the precise measurement of time and frequency. I have a similar watch on my wrist (manufactured by Junghans, in Germany), and I enjoy knowing the time of day to an accuracy of better than a second. I assure you, such a watch does not compromise your privacy in any way.

... WOW, that was more than I wanted to know about those watches, Hamish! :-)

"Scientists are developing an identity verification system that would spot terrorists and pedophiles by scanning their skeletal features and comparing them against a database of stored images."

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After reading about google working with the government and gmail, I plan on finding another email provider, preferably offshore.

It looks like some of these that Simon Black is recommending charge a fee. Supposedly, according to some commenters at the link below, countermail is supposed to be better than hushmail: "CounterMail is a secure and easy to use online email service, it's designed to provide maximum security and privacy without any complexity."

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