Jeff E. spotted this article from Florida: Brazen home-invasion robberies stir Jupiter Farms residents to action
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RBS suggested this New York Post article: $7-a-gallon gas?
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Reader David W. wrote to mention that last week all of Intuit’s online services went down for several days. This sent much of the company’s critical accounting system, payroll and credit card business into cloudy limbo. Intuit’s President sent out this apology. David comments: “This was reportedly caused by a power failure that cascaded. But no one is talking about where or how a massively redundant distributed, multi-locational system went down from a single outage.”
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Cheryl sent a link to a piece over at Steve Quayle’s site: Shopping For Your Survival Retreat. This is is a repost from a letter that originally appeared here at SurvivalBlog, by reader John J.