In my neighborhood, if you put it on the curb, and don't leave a sign, it's gone. This applies to broken disassembled treadmills, among other things. It's pretty convenient sometimes.
When we first moved into our house where I live now, it was riff-raff weekend, when people set out stuff they are discarding. Before the stuff is picked up and landfilled or crushed and metals recycled, local folks come around and pick up things they might want. THere is a fellow a few neighborhoods over who picks up old bicycles and refurbishes them, and sells them. He actually lives off that, and I say that's tremendous.
I digress though. My mother gave my wife a big bag of bulbs to plant. She left them out front hwile she came in fot a gardening tool or something. By the time she got back, they were "recycled". Someone some where has some trophy irises. We laughed, be we are more careful now.
Another spooky thing: we were playing a role-playing game with minis (we're having fun storming the castle), and I took a shot of the setup. I got a friend in the picture, and when I loaded it on Facebook he was tagged with his name. It wasn't a good shot of him either. I've heard about it happening, but it spooked me when I saw it.
Yes - Facebook has been doing facial recognition, and has taken some heat for it. What happens is they often do FR on non-fcebook users. And if the non-users are on private property, it becomes a legal issue.
Were it me answering, I'd ask who the fuck she was to accuse my husband of being a bad person before she ever spoke to him...and despite the fact that she was offered a couch for free!
No one in my town would think it's that odd of a request. This is what happens to people who respond to free Craigslist items here:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/19/...
The fear runs strong in you! You actually said, that all people who respond to craigslist ads kill women.
Since I have a true shaking, shitting in their pants safety culturist who has managed to turn eveyone in the world to a killer.... How in the hell do you extrapolate one killer to everyone? Do you even come out of the basement? People are killed on the streets. People are killed in the basement, people are killed in their panic rooms. True enough, but people are actually seldom killed. That's why its news. Its unusual.
Sucks to be you, scared one. Fear is the mind killer, and has just about destroyed your's. Take a deep breath, come out of the basement. It's a beautiful world out there.
Just be careful hiking, There was a killer on the Appalachian trail a few years back. So all people you meet on the trail are probably killers?
The unsafe-feels lady was asking the accomplice for help. That makes all the sense in the world.
Yeah, she had an idiot moment. That's all there's to it. Hopefully she reflected on it and is a tad saner now. Sigh, one might hope...
Safety and the fer culture it demand never rests. The fearful woman probably has just used her fear to assume that any man who would dare answer her the way he did must be a serial rapist, or even worse, an IT misogynist.
Yeah, we should know better by now. This weekend was an exception, though. It was rainy here, and we're decent enough folks that we'd not let a perfectly good couch that we wanted to get rid of quickly go to waste by letting it sit in the rain if we could help it.
Yup - I hope you didn't give the couch to her. Never give a jerk an even break.
We put up a couch for free on Craiglist this past weekend. Which, if you've ever offered something for free on the internet, you know it descends into drama very quickly, and the bigger the item, the more drama you end up with.
The woman who responded asked if my husband (who put up the post) if he was male or female. Upon finding out he was male (as if she couldn't have found out by looking at the name next to the email, which is an unambiguously male name), she replied "okay, so what are you going to do to make me feel safe if I come over?"
The answer should be, "Nothing, because you don't have to come over because you aren't getting the couch."
How odd, crime is down, people are living longer, and healthier and they are more fearful than ever.
An example of modern fearful people: A group I am involved with does bicycle ride and race support for two different groups. Group one is a two day ride, not specifically competitive, but a little bit - sponsored fundraising. Group two is a competitive race through the woods and mountains.
Group one keeps installing new things like background checks, financial checks, several legal documents the volunteers have to sign.
Group 2 has none of that, has beer at the finish line for people, and is seriously old school in approach. The only legal documents are for the riders, who acknowledge that racing through the woods is dangerous.
Group one seems to think the volunteers are going to molest the people in the race, or steal their money, and is fearful that if a bicyclist kills one of us, out family might sue. Group two just expects the volunteers to do their work and keep track of the racers. Guess which group is losing help?
One of the organizers of group one helped with the other race, and came up with a whole list of things that "had to be done" Which included, - you guessed it! The very same things that are destroying the other group. Our answer? No. No discussion, just No.
Because MightyYar loves his kids, and in the US we have too many nasty men around who are overly interested in children - especially girls? Although imho one child molester is too many.
I was waiting for safety culture to raise it's ugly head.
There is a bit of molestation going on in schools. But it isn't teh evulz men. Why? because since teh evulz men have been pretty much expunged from school.
So its the pure and saintly women who are doing the molesting, unless you figure the 12 year old boy is at fault for yencing his 30 year old teacher. It's a little awkward to use the pedophiles weird argument that the child enticed them against the child who was molested, donchya think?
So you want to train girls that every man just want's to fuck them, and the younger the better. Sounds like a massive population reduction program, as more and more are trained to hate men, and decide that same sex relationships are their best option - because you know teh evulz men who only want to rape them.
there's just the fact that OVERZEALOUS police are going: child alone = child in danger = get governement involved
The root problem is that crime rates have dramatically declined, yet we have more police than ever before. So we have too many cops with not enough "real" crime to deal with, so they just hassle people instead.
I can't argue your premise, but a lot of these cases are because some alarmed person who probably watched too many episodes of Law and Order - Special Victims Unit has called 911 because there is an unattended child out in dangerville.
Just last year, we had an Amber alert about a boy in our neighborhood. School left out, he was a walker, Television, radio, police out, our cell phones, everyone in a panic.
five minutes later it was a Emily Latella "never mind". The child was talking with a friend, they were walking slowly, and took a couple minutes longer to get home.
Two months ago in the village where I grew up, there was another police activation. Some older gentleman had just picked up his first smartphone and asked some 10 year old girls a question about how to operate it. He was detained and then released because he was just some old dude who was trying to figure out how his phone worked.
Until we get a hold on safety culture, any male who has any interaction with children he doesn't know is an idiot. That old dude was from a different time, and must realize that in safety culture America, he is a pre-pedophile. He fit the profile, White - upper middle aged, and male, so that means he is one.
And it's funny in a terribly unfunny way. Abused children are often distrusting of others, fearful and nervous. They've had some bad things happen to them.
So in making certain they don't get abused, we're making them distrusting of others, fearful and nervous. We have become the abusers of children. We are doing bad things to them in the name of protecting them.
What is impressive is how many times this statement shows up. And yes it is insanity.
I used to walk 2 miles to school by myself or with friends every damn morning from the time I started kindergarten and no one thought twice about it. EVERYBODY walked to school and there was no fear-mongering over it.
And my walk to school was uphill both ways! I'm kidding, I'm kidding!
I guess all of out mothers and fathers should be rounded up and charged, all 150 million of them. The ones that have passed away can get off by having their gravestones amended with the text, "Child Endangerer".
For as outlandish as that sounds, it is not wrong. When we get into discussions like these, like how the millenials are by and large really messed up, people often think we are picking on the millenials.
This isn't even the case. I would no more pick on a millenial than I would make fun of some poor kid with cerebral palsy. This ain't the millenial's fault, it their facacta parents, who in the name of protecting them, have stunted their growth, turned them into beautiful healthy adults with the emotional maturity of 12 year olds.
And in the United States in the early 1970s I did similar things. Crime was WAY worse then than now. But nobody thought anything of it.
We have become insane.
And how!
Safety culture meets helicopter parents meets attachment parenting meets irrational fear equals this batshit insanity.
And the concept of no child unsupervised needs to die. These people are damaging their children with well meaning but irrational hovering, over supervision, and the fear that the second they aren't watching the child, Jerry Sandusky will show up.
Law and Order : Special Victims Unit is a fictional Television show, not a documentary, folks!
Even back in the 90's, when this helicoptering crap was getting started, my son and his friends played street hockey, in the streets!
Let's wait a minute for all the people to revive from their faint....
Okay, everyone back? If anyone needs a Xanax take a couple. We discretely kept an eye on them, but let them alone. Squabbles? Check. Silliness? Check. Learning how to get along with others to resolve issues? Check. Learning that there were some statements that were not to be ignored? (CAR!) Check.
What was impressive to watch was how kids figured all this stuff out. Nothing turned into "Lord of the Flies". These children were leaning valuable social skills, getting exercise, and having fun.
The reason this part of the law was enabled is because safety culture has entered the stage of failing. Protecting children by taking away normal loving parents is not protecting them, its doing grave damage to them in the name safety.
Because we now have to protect ourselves from safety culture.
Around here, the father of a pregnant teen found out because of the offers Target was sending her. They may have found out because they saw targeted advertising. Have you ever looked at a product, decided not to buy, and seen it advertised on Facebook for you? (Presumably not if you don't use Facebook, but I've seen it happen.)
One of the confirmations I was smart when I switched to an ad blocker was some years ago, I needed to go to Tire Rack to buy some new tires, and had to turn off my extensions onmy browser. So I searched for and bought the tires I needed. I forgot to turn the extensions back on, and almost every site I went to after that had a Tire Rack Ad, and it was for the same tires I had just bought. The creepy stalking buttplugs.
I've also heard of some folks finding out what their mate bought them for chrismas or other event So it doesn't take the level of snooping that Facebook, has, and your story is 100 percent plausible.
Today, if a site insists I turn off the ad blocker, I simply don't read their pages, nor buy from them.
This is also not a good thing for writers, who often need to know things like a good way to kill someone and cover it up, or what sort of behavior can be expected out of someone with a certain mental illness.
Whether you like his music or not, there is no denying that David Bowie was a true artist, a real entertainer. There was nothing fake about him. Nowadays, we don't see real artists like him very often.
I suspect that you're seeing history through rose-tinted glasses. There were plenty of pop-acts in every era that Bowie overlapped with, we simply don't remember many of them.
Which is why we remember Bowie.
I wonder if anyone 30 years from now will remember Beyonce. We are officially in a worse period of music than disco.
I had no idea David Bowie died until I read it here on Slashdot! How come the mainstream media didn't report on this at all in the last 16 hours since it was formally announced?
Hmm... I can't be positive ('cause stranger things have happened) but a GIS for "1973 Wagoneer orange" looks like someone might have decided to claim they own my Jeep on Pintrest. It looks like they have older pics - after I'd had the lift and sneakers redone but not yet added the rack and guard. I dare say the pictures look an awful lot like I recollect the ones that I took. (I went digging a bit more to see if I could find pics.) Ah well... I should find 'em and send 'em a message, asking them if they want to sell.;-)
Which brings to mind - I have one of the Toyota mini RVs. And since they are for some weird reason desirable, there are a lot of scams on ebay and Craigslist for the things. I belong to some yahoo groups of Toyhome owners, and many of them have had their photos lifted by these scammers.
If there is any for sale involved, you might put in a notice to the site. Although messing with the scammer can be fun too.
I know when my kids started having trouble with depression, one of the things that shocked me was how well set up my company's medical(/mental health) insurance was for dealing with this kind of thing.
Have your children tried getting a job that required a security clearance?
Assuming he was using the web in the normal manner, it isn't that hard. IP address to ISP to name to email.
Its usually a law enforcement thing for people to bother, but never underestimate do-gooders ability to turn something simple like surfing some pages into a life and death situation.
A good experiment for someone would be to post some messages on some suicide sites and see what happens. Wait, don't do that. In today's climate, the results might look a lot like being swatted. That's a - I say that's a joke son.
In this Utopian leisure society where everyone is equal means we will have to find ways to differentiate ourselves from others to show that we are a better person than the others.
Like being able to fix Windows 10 computers after an update?
Folks, it bothers me that even with all these features, Linux [still] doesn't matter on the desktop. Where are these features really having impact?
Do you feel inadequate if you aren't using the most popular computer OS or something? I never ascribed to the idea thatm one should use Windows because it is the most "popular". I use linux on the desktop because I like it. That's all I need.
Try a cigar, it won't kill you. Bring a few back for your friends, they're dirt cheap in Cuba.
As an automobile aficionado, I'm in love with the newer models and innovations. I don't understand those who deem themselves some type of purist or anything. I've what can only be called a "stable" full of varied vehicles - most of which would be scoffed at by a serious collector. I've spent absurd amounts of money acquiring and repairing them. One of my favorites is a 1982 Volvo 245. I sent it out to the West Coast to have it torn apart and rebuilt. It's like a tank and it has rear wheel drive - it's fantastic in a foot of snow and more fun than most people would imagine.
The 245's are trmendous vehicles. at 30 plus years, it should be just about broken in at this time! When I bought my son and his fiance a wedding present, it was between a BMW M3 or a Volvo of I forget the model. Hard to go wrong with either, but he went with the M3. German engineering, or Swedish toughness and safety are hard to beat. If I didn't love me my Jeeps, I think I'd buy one or the other.
And speaking of Volvos, here's one of my favorites https://upload.wikimedia.org/w... A friend who is sadly no longer with us had one of these. I called it the cartoon car, because it looked exatly like the cars I would draw when I was a little kid. That being said, it was a tremendous vehicle.
So, don't dawdle. Go, go with great speed and before they change! It's a great place and the people are awesome.
You sold me! Now I gotta go and sell the wife on it.
- Should we NOT discuss it, are we not then perpetuating the de-facto stigma that mental illness is so bad we can't even talk about it... let alone offer help... or just say we're there for that person.
I'd say yes. But with a huge but.
We have to realize that people with mental illness that are willing to talk about it, are going to undergo the same reaction as the people who are whistleblowers. Unless you are completely independent, you are going to fuck your life up but good. Denying that isn't possible. I would grant there are probably some exceptions, some fellow was noting something Bell Canada had. Sounds good, but I would no more visit the site than some place called "Trixie's preteen playground"
But all that aside, yes, it would be wonderful for people with say, depression to not have to hide it form their employers or others. Hope we get there some day, but we are a long long way.
The worst thing you can do is to NOT get treatment or help.
As opposed to losing your job, undergoing life changing alterations in how you are treated by others? Forced onto medicine and end up living under a bridge?
Hell, with perks like that, you'd expect people to fake mental illness.
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currency to honor Lincoln?
Sort of funny how obsessed over Lincoln Illinois is, given that he never set foot there until he was 21. He was born in Kentucky
In a house he built himself.
In my neighborhood, if you put it on the curb, and don't leave a sign, it's gone. This applies to broken disassembled treadmills, among other things. It's pretty convenient sometimes.
When we first moved into our house where I live now, it was riff-raff weekend, when people set out stuff they are discarding. Before the stuff is picked up and landfilled or crushed and metals recycled, local folks come around and pick up things they might want. THere is a fellow a few neighborhoods over who picks up old bicycles and refurbishes them, and sells them. He actually lives off that, and I say that's tremendous.
I digress though. My mother gave my wife a big bag of bulbs to plant. She left them out front hwile she came in fot a gardening tool or something. By the time she got back, they were "recycled". Someone some where has some trophy irises. We laughed, be we are more careful now.
Another spooky thing: we were playing a role-playing game with minis (we're having fun storming the castle), and I took a shot of the setup. I got a friend in the picture, and when I loaded it on Facebook he was tagged with his name. It wasn't a good shot of him either. I've heard about it happening, but it spooked me when I saw it.
Yes - Facebook has been doing facial recognition, and has taken some heat for it. What happens is they often do FR on non-fcebook users. And if the non-users are on private property, it becomes a legal issue.
Were it me answering, I'd ask who the fuck she was to accuse my husband of being a bad person before she ever spoke to him...and despite the fact that she was offered a couch for free!
No one in my town would think it's that odd of a request. This is what happens to people who respond to free Craigslist items here: http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/19/...
The fear runs strong in you! You actually said, that all people who respond to craigslist ads kill women.
Since I have a true shaking, shitting in their pants safety culturist who has managed to turn eveyone in the world to a killer.... How in the hell do you extrapolate one killer to everyone? Do you even come out of the basement? People are killed on the streets. People are killed in the basement, people are killed in their panic rooms. True enough, but people are actually seldom killed. That's why its news. Its unusual.
Sucks to be you, scared one. Fear is the mind killer, and has just about destroyed your's. Take a deep breath, come out of the basement. It's a beautiful world out there.
Just be careful hiking, There was a killer on the Appalachian trail a few years back. So all people you meet on the trail are probably killers?
The unsafe-feels lady was asking the accomplice for help. That makes all the sense in the world.
Yeah, she had an idiot moment. That's all there's to it. Hopefully she reflected on it and is a tad saner now. Sigh, one might hope...
Safety and the fer culture it demand never rests. The fearful woman probably has just used her fear to assume that any man who would dare answer her the way he did must be a serial rapist, or even worse, an IT misogynist.
Yeah, we should know better by now. This weekend was an exception, though. It was rainy here, and we're decent enough folks that we'd not let a perfectly good couch that we wanted to get rid of quickly go to waste by letting it sit in the rain if we could help it.
Yup - I hope you didn't give the couch to her. Never give a jerk an even break.
The fear strangely grips adults also.
We put up a couch for free on Craiglist this past weekend. Which, if you've ever offered something for free on the internet, you know it descends into drama very quickly, and the bigger the item, the more drama you end up with.
The woman who responded asked if my husband (who put up the post) if he was male or female. Upon finding out he was male (as if she couldn't have found out by looking at the name next to the email, which is an unambiguously male name), she replied "okay, so what are you going to do to make me feel safe if I come over?"
The answer should be, "Nothing, because you don't have to come over because you aren't getting the couch."
How odd, crime is down, people are living longer, and healthier and they are more fearful than ever.
An example of modern fearful people: A group I am involved with does bicycle ride and race support for two different groups. Group one is a two day ride, not specifically competitive, but a little bit - sponsored fundraising. Group two is a competitive race through the woods and mountains.
Group one keeps installing new things like background checks, financial checks, several legal documents the volunteers have to sign.
Group 2 has none of that, has beer at the finish line for people, and is seriously old school in approach. The only legal documents are for the riders, who acknowledge that racing through the woods is dangerous.
Group one seems to think the volunteers are going to molest the people in the race, or steal their money, and is fearful that if a bicyclist kills one of us, out family might sue. Group two just expects the volunteers to do their work and keep track of the racers. Guess which group is losing help?
One of the organizers of group one helped with the other race, and came up with a whole list of things that "had to be done" Which included, - you guessed it! The very same things that are destroying the other group. Our answer? No. No discussion, just No.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Because MightyYar loves his kids, and in the US we have too many nasty men around who are overly interested in children - especially girls? Although imho one child molester is too many.
I was waiting for safety culture to raise it's ugly head.
There is a bit of molestation going on in schools. But it isn't teh evulz men. Why? because since teh evulz men have been pretty much expunged from school.
So its the pure and saintly women who are doing the molesting, unless you figure the 12 year old boy is at fault for yencing his 30 year old teacher. It's a little awkward to use the pedophiles weird argument that the child enticed them against the child who was molested, donchya think?
So you want to train girls that every man just want's to fuck them, and the younger the better. Sounds like a massive population reduction program, as more and more are trained to hate men, and decide that same sex relationships are their best option - because you know teh evulz men who only want to rape them.
there's just the fact that OVERZEALOUS police are going: child alone = child in danger = get governement involved
The root problem is that crime rates have dramatically declined, yet we have more police than ever before. So we have too many cops with not enough "real" crime to deal with, so they just hassle people instead.
I can't argue your premise, but a lot of these cases are because some alarmed person who probably watched too many episodes of Law and Order - Special Victims Unit has called 911 because there is an unattended child out in dangerville.
Just last year, we had an Amber alert about a boy in our neighborhood. School left out, he was a walker, Television, radio, police out, our cell phones, everyone in a panic.
five minutes later it was a Emily Latella "never mind". The child was talking with a friend, they were walking slowly, and took a couple minutes longer to get home.
Two months ago in the village where I grew up, there was another police activation. Some older gentleman had just picked up his first smartphone and asked some 10 year old girls a question about how to operate it. He was detained and then released because he was just some old dude who was trying to figure out how his phone worked.
Until we get a hold on safety culture, any male who has any interaction with children he doesn't know is an idiot. That old dude was from a different time, and must realize that in safety culture America, he is a pre-pedophile. He fit the profile, White - upper middle aged, and male, so that means he is one. And it's funny in a terribly unfunny way. Abused children are often distrusting of others, fearful and nervous. They've had some bad things happen to them.
So in making certain they don't get abused, we're making them distrusting of others, fearful and nervous. We have become the abusers of children. We are doing bad things to them in the name of protecting them.
This is insanity.
What is impressive is how many times this statement shows up. And yes it is insanity.
I used to walk 2 miles to school by myself or with friends every damn morning from the time I started kindergarten and no one thought twice about it. EVERYBODY walked to school and there was no fear-mongering over it.
And my walk to school was uphill both ways! I'm kidding, I'm kidding!
I guess all of out mothers and fathers should be rounded up and charged, all 150 million of them. The ones that have passed away can get off by having their gravestones amended with the text, "Child Endangerer".
For as outlandish as that sounds, it is not wrong. When we get into discussions like these, like how the millenials are by and large really messed up, people often think we are picking on the millenials.
This isn't even the case. I would no more pick on a millenial than I would make fun of some poor kid with cerebral palsy. This ain't the millenial's fault, it their facacta parents, who in the name of protecting them, have stunted their growth, turned them into beautiful healthy adults with the emotional maturity of 12 year olds.
And in the United States in the early 1970s I did similar things. Crime was WAY worse then than now. But nobody thought anything of it. We have become insane.
And how!
Safety culture meets helicopter parents meets attachment parenting meets irrational fear equals this batshit insanity.
And the concept of no child unsupervised needs to die. These people are damaging their children with well meaning but irrational hovering, over supervision, and the fear that the second they aren't watching the child, Jerry Sandusky will show up.
Law and Order : Special Victims Unit is a fictional Television show, not a documentary, folks!
Even back in the 90's, when this helicoptering crap was getting started, my son and his friends played street hockey, in the streets!
Let's wait a minute for all the people to revive from their faint....
Okay, everyone back? If anyone needs a Xanax take a couple. We discretely kept an eye on them, but let them alone. Squabbles? Check. Silliness? Check. Learning how to get along with others to resolve issues? Check. Learning that there were some statements that were not to be ignored? (CAR!) Check.
What was impressive to watch was how kids figured all this stuff out. Nothing turned into "Lord of the Flies". These children were leaning valuable social skills, getting exercise, and having fun.
The reason this part of the law was enabled is because safety culture has entered the stage of failing. Protecting children by taking away normal loving parents is not protecting them, its doing grave damage to them in the name safety.
Because we now have to protect ourselves from safety culture.
Around here, the father of a pregnant teen found out because of the offers Target was sending her. They may have found out because they saw targeted advertising. Have you ever looked at a product, decided not to buy, and seen it advertised on Facebook for you? (Presumably not if you don't use Facebook, but I've seen it happen.)
One of the confirmations I was smart when I switched to an ad blocker was some years ago, I needed to go to Tire Rack to buy some new tires, and had to turn off my extensions onmy browser. So I searched for and bought the tires I needed. I forgot to turn the extensions back on, and almost every site I went to after that had a Tire Rack Ad, and it was for the same tires I had just bought. The creepy stalking buttplugs.
I've also heard of some folks finding out what their mate bought them for chrismas or other event So it doesn't take the level of snooping that Facebook, has, and your story is 100 percent plausible.
Today, if a site insists I turn off the ad blocker, I simply don't read their pages, nor buy from them.
This is also not a good thing for writers, who often need to know things like a good way to kill someone and cover it up, or what sort of behavior can be expected out of someone with a certain mental illness.
I wonder if anyone 30 years from now will remember Beyonce.
Who?
Excellent!
Whether you like his music or not, there is no denying that David Bowie was a true artist, a real entertainer. There was nothing fake about him. Nowadays, we don't see real artists like him very often.
I suspect that you're seeing history through rose-tinted glasses. There were plenty of pop-acts in every era that Bowie overlapped with, we simply don't remember many of them.
Which is why we remember Bowie.
I wonder if anyone 30 years from now will remember Beyonce. We are officially in a worse period of music than disco.
I had no idea David Bowie died until I read it here on Slashdot! How come the mainstream media didn't report on this at all in the last 16 hours since it was formally announced?
Because Benghazi!
Yes your honor, I stabbed the victim a hundred times. But it wasn't me - it was the knife that did the cutting.
Are you sure this isn't God judging your evil deeds? /duck /run
Probably searching for Enchantress porn as well.
Hmm... I can't be positive ('cause stranger things have happened) but a GIS for "1973 Wagoneer orange" looks like someone might have decided to claim they own my Jeep on Pintrest. It looks like they have older pics - after I'd had the lift and sneakers redone but not yet added the rack and guard. I dare say the pictures look an awful lot like I recollect the ones that I took. (I went digging a bit more to see if I could find pics.) Ah well... I should find 'em and send 'em a message, asking them if they want to sell. ;-)
Which brings to mind - I have one of the Toyota mini RVs. And since they are for some weird reason desirable, there are a lot of scams on ebay and Craigslist for the things. I belong to some yahoo groups of Toyhome owners, and many of them have had their photos lifted by these scammers.
If there is any for sale involved, you might put in a notice to the site. Although messing with the scammer can be fun too.
I know when my kids started having trouble with depression, one of the things that shocked me was how well set up my company's medical(/mental health) insurance was for dealing with this kind of thing.
Have your children tried getting a job that required a security clearance?
Its usually a law enforcement thing for people to bother, but never underestimate do-gooders ability to turn something simple like surfing some pages into a life and death situation.
A good experiment for someone would be to post some messages on some suicide sites and see what happens. Wait, don't do that. In today's climate, the results might look a lot like being swatted. That's a - I say that's a joke son.
In this Utopian leisure society where everyone is equal means we will have to find ways to differentiate ourselves from others to show that we are a better person than the others.
Like being able to fix Windows 10 computers after an update?
Folks, it bothers me that even with all these features, Linux [still] doesn't matter on the desktop. Where are these features really having impact?
Do you feel inadequate if you aren't using the most popular computer OS or something? I never ascribed to the idea thatm one should use Windows because it is the most "popular". I use linux on the desktop because I like it. That's all I need.
Try a cigar, it won't kill you. Bring a few back for your friends, they're dirt cheap in Cuba.
As an automobile aficionado, I'm in love with the newer models and innovations. I don't understand those who deem themselves some type of purist or anything. I've what can only be called a "stable" full of varied vehicles - most of which would be scoffed at by a serious collector. I've spent absurd amounts of money acquiring and repairing them. One of my favorites is a 1982 Volvo 245. I sent it out to the West Coast to have it torn apart and rebuilt. It's like a tank and it has rear wheel drive - it's fantastic in a foot of snow and more fun than most people would imagine.
The 245's are trmendous vehicles. at 30 plus years, it should be just about broken in at this time! When I bought my son and his fiance a wedding present, it was between a BMW M3 or a Volvo of I forget the model. Hard to go wrong with either, but he went with the M3. German engineering, or Swedish toughness and safety are hard to beat. If I didn't love me my Jeeps, I think I'd buy one or the other. And speaking of Volvos, here's one of my favorites https://upload.wikimedia.org/w... A friend who is sadly no longer with us had one of these. I called it the cartoon car, because it looked exatly like the cars I would draw when I was a little kid. That being said, it was a tremendous vehicle.
So, don't dawdle. Go, go with great speed and before they change! It's a great place and the people are awesome.
You sold me! Now I gotta go and sell the wife on it.
- Should we NOT discuss it, are we not then perpetuating the de-facto stigma that mental illness is so bad we can't even talk about it... let alone offer help... or just say we're there for that person.
I'd say yes. But with a huge but.
We have to realize that people with mental illness that are willing to talk about it, are going to undergo the same reaction as the people who are whistleblowers. Unless you are completely independent, you are going to fuck your life up but good. Denying that isn't possible. I would grant there are probably some exceptions, some fellow was noting something Bell Canada had. Sounds good, but I would no more visit the site than some place called "Trixie's preteen playground"
But all that aside, yes, it would be wonderful for people with say, depression to not have to hide it form their employers or others. Hope we get there some day, but we are a long long way.
The worst thing you can do is to NOT get treatment or help.
As opposed to losing your job, undergoing life changing alterations in how you are treated by others? Forced onto medicine and end up living under a bridge?
Hell, with perks like that, you'd expect people to fake mental illness.