I'd be more interested in a Firefox type system..weapons on the car controlled by your thoughts.
You get pissed at that slow asshole ahead, and a.50 or mini-gun comes out of the front of your car..and blows that idiot away and clears a way for you to finally pass.
I'm not saying do this with no warning....the person ahead should at least get an audible "lock" tone going off, to give time to pull over or speed up and get outta the way first...but if they don't...*BOOM*
They do have the imaging system set up to transmit images between his office and his clinics.
However, he's generating reports for the study ordering physicians..and cutting and pasting some of the images to put in the reports to the doctors..and wanting to send THAT...not the full image study.
They had been sending stuff in clear text emails with attachments and I told them that was not a good idea..so looking for a way to send this securely...and also not have to have each recipient have to install special software....that last part is the wrench thrown into the mixture...
I'm currently trying to help a Dr. with some of this and HIPPA needs. The problem I'm trying to solve is...he is a radiologist...and needs to send securely...reports on patients AND images. I'd looked at a service like ZSentry for easy encrypted email...on both ends.but the service doesn't allow files as big as needs to be sent.
I'd looked into maybe setting up some kind of PGP set up for him...but would be tough to get every dr he might do business with....to get them to set up PGP, generate keys...and set up whatever email client they use......
I was trying to maybe come up with him a web server.that other dr 's could link to securely...etc....but need a quick term solution till I can set something up like that and integrate it with the system he currently has with telerad..etc...and have to make it easy for a non-tech Dr to use
I think the best advice would be...to stay as far the fuck away from any middle eastern country to begin with!!
That's just asking for trouble....unless you happen to be someone that wears some form of the various headgear/hats the peoples over there seem to all sport.
Why any sane person from the free part of the world would go over there....especially NOW...is beyond me.
I mean, hell...I'd do just about anything for a dollar..but I'd not risk my life (and head) by going over there for any amount of money.
"There is absolutely positively no evidence whatsoever that using a gun or other weapon for self protection may lead to the attacker taking the weapon and using it against the victim. It is a rare occurrence, and in such situations, the worst case scenario was that the outcome was the same as if the victim was unarmed in the first place."
Well, the potential victim trying to defend themselves with a gun or other weapon has to have the mindset that if they pull it, they WILL THEN use it. You don't pull a gun and tell someone to 'go away'. If you pull a gun, you shoot it to put your target down.
If you don't intend to use a weapon you pull in self defense, then yes..it may get taken from you and used on you, in which case, don't carry a weapon.
"Remember, the reason our tax code is tens of thousands of pages is not because it contains so many different taxes, but because it contains so many tax loopholes for special interest groups. Years ago I used to work for CCH, the company that publishes the tax code (like Westlaw, except just for tax law) and worked on tax preparation and compliance software (I wrote the manuals - I am not a programmer). Like most people, I thought all those huge books were full of ways for the government to collect money. Instead, I learned, they're full of ways that certain people can avoid having to pay taxes. It follows that the reason we can never get tax simplification laws passed is because rich and powerful fuckers don't want to have to pay their way."
Well, sounds like we need to overcome this block...and pass new tax laws.
Lets throw out the old code entirely.....make a basic tax (I prefer the Fair Tax type thing)..where it is simply "You make this much as an individual, and you pay $x. There are no longer ANY deductions, that way there are no tax loopholes, and IMHO, best of all, no longer is taxation trying to be used to modify behavior...it will just be used to fund the govt. which is what it should be for.
Frankly...if it wasn't for us needing oil over there...I'd be all for puling completely out, and letting them all blow themselves up. Wouldn't not bother me a bit...
The only reason I give a shit about the middle east, is that the US needs the oil over there.
In response to 10 and ADD, are you going to include other learning disabilities in the list of things we were better off not diagnosing kids with?
Of course not. I didn't say everything was better then.. of course we're better in some ways, I mean, you can't go forward with no progress, I was just listing things off the top of my head, that I think were better. As for ADD, I think the majority of it is pure BULLSHIT. They over diagnose it and over medicate kids these days. That's my opinion.
As soon as a young boy starts acting like what we'd call acting like a young boy in my days of youth...he is diagnosed as ADD and drugged.
Hell, I'd have been drugged if I was a kid today....I would have been called a bit hyper...I was getting into mischief all the time, but it wasn't due to me being sick or un-diagnosed. Often it was in school and I'd finish my work quickly..and get bored. I was kind of the class clown, and as George Carlin put it..."why not deprive someone else of their education"...I joke, but as a kid I was sort of like that.
I used to run around like a wild kid in the neighborhood. I had energy coming outta my ass...and grew up just fine. Today, I'd have had some disease....
No...I'm glad they know about dyslexia...you're pulling out extreme cases in your post. I was talking in broad generalities, and I'll stick to them. The majority of kids back then as like today do NOT have serious problems other than being kids, yet today...we don't let them BE kids as much.
In coming decades, I think you're going to realize that the middle east power change happening now is one of the more significant things you've seen in your life.
How so? I mean, aside from possible energy issues...how else will it affect my life?
I mean..I don't give a fuck about all the arabs and jews over there. I don't care how they live or govern themselves or what god(s) they pray too. If it weren't for the oil over there, honestly I can't image the US would have fuck to do with them over there at all.
"Prior to the 70's, only 2 planes had ever been hijacked. What is so offensive about metal detectors?
Prior to the airline terrorism of the 70's, it still wasn't the "good ole days"
It is an intrusion. I don't mind the simple metal detector...it really isn't that intrusive on your rights. However, todays TSA regime and rules are horribly intrusive to personal privacy and rights. They get away with shit that would be illegal for any other situation in public life activities. Honestly, I'm not that afraid of a terrorist or hijacking, the odds are VERY low it will happen to me. The odds of my privacy being invaded and getting groped are much higher...like 100% any time I fly.
"So what are you statistics regarding families currently not eating together? Why are the "2 parent households" of the alleged "good old days" so admirable when unhappy marriages were severely restricted in their legal ability to divorce? It wasn't until the late 70's/early 80's when spouses were allowed to divorce in all 50 states due to "irreconcilable differences", and this is a bad thing to you? "Yay! It's a 2 parent household, and the wife can't divorce her asshole husband even if she wanted to! Cheers!"
Well, first..if you get married and have kids...you're #1 priority and responsibility is the the kids. If you need to stay together (non abusive of course) to give the kids a better send off in life, then yes, suck it up and live unhappily for a few years. You had them, live with your choices. When they are out of the house, then sure...you're then free to divorce and get out of it. You can't think of yourself when you have kids. Again, the exception would be violence/abuse.
Why are you under the impression that kids don't bike, foot, skateboard, or roam around their neighborhoods? If your parents weren't worried about you, why did you have to call home every couple of hours?
I think that..because I almost never see kids out playing in the yards, etc...biking or skateboarding when I drive through neighborhoods. And I know from experience, that people I know with kids are constantly carting them from one planned activity to another, commenting to themselves how busy that are as parents having to do all this...rather than the old days when kids just played outside at home mostly with neighborhood friends.
And I only had to do the call home thing when I was really pretty young, like 3rd-4th grade and my Mom had started working...I'd get home before her at from school..and during the summer when I started staying home by myself when parents worked...I checked in, until I was in about 6th grade or so. They just wanted to have an idea where I was when I was young.
Oh please. No adult has any business physically disciplining someone else's child. Your patriarchal dominance finally reveals itself here: the only way you can conceive of teaching a kid to behave is by beating them.
I can't help but argue with what worked in the past....sure didn't see the discipline and disrespect problems you see nowdays.
Why does it anger you that children with peanut allergies can have severe allergic reactions to small particles of peanuts?
I'm wondering why the majority have to suffer or do without just because of a few with this allergy. And also...you never heard of such bad allergies back in the day..what happened to make more kids with this problem (still rare...a few kids keep everyone from enjoying a PBJ...why not isolate the few rather than make the majority do without?)
Well, that is true. But what is so horrible about finding new and good music on the internet and taking it with you in your car, absent commercials and radio dj blabber?
Just saying it was infinitely easier...you didn't have to spend special time searching and going through tons of cruft on the in
"It was rather common for there to be guns in and around my school. The kids would bring their rifles or shotguns into the school (sometimes uncased) for shop class when they made or modified stocks and there'd always be guns in the parking lot during hunting season."
You're absolutely right...I missed this one in my rant, I was only thinking of the current "bringing a gun to shoot xyz because he dissed me yesterday" type thing.
"It seems to, and so you hear people asking for the good old days.
It seems to me that the world is better than ever, and only getting better.
Well, I dunno.
Back a few decades when I was growing up I think things in many ways were better, for general quality of life.
1. You went to the airport without going through even a metal detector, and even when they put those in..people went to the gates with you to wait and see you off. They also met you at the gate when getting off a plane. No such thing as a patdown, or taking your fucking shoes off.
2. Families by and large sat and ate dinner together. Mostly 2 parent households.
3. Ok..only 3 channels, but when nothing was on those three channels worth watching, you went outside to play as a kid, or did family things together around the house or outside.
4. Kids could be kids. My whole fucking day wasn't planned out. During the summers I ran the neighborhood with my friends on bike, foot and skateboard. The only rule when I was young, was to call home from a friend's house every couple of hours or so to check in. No, my parent's weren't worried about me being kidnapped, etc..geez, we didn't even have cell phones...how did we ever survive?
5. We pretty much knew all our neighbors...and as a kid, if you acted up, a neighbor would easily discipline you (I got swatted by a friends mom more than once)..then, they'd call your parents, and you'd get it again when you got home. Taught kids to behave.
6. There were no such things as guns in schools...if someone ever got caught with a knife, it was news for months in the city.
7. Drinking age in many cities was 18yrs. States still had more rights than the Feds..at least MANY more than they have today.
8. No one had a problem if you brought a fucking peanut butter and jelly sandwich to school.
9. There was actually good music to be found on the common FM radio stations in town. You could find new and good music on radio while driving around.
10. No one freaked out if your kid brought some allergy meds or aspirin to school. You never heard of kids in school having the cops called on them for bringing meds from home...or if they got into a simple fist fight. Kids were allowed to be kids...and it didn't bring about suggestions of ADD and drugging them.
11. In general, everyone felt a bit safer in every day life. Killings, roberies, etc...not nearly as prevalent.
12. People were more polite
13. You didn't have to worry so much about political correctness...
14. Better rock music.
Those are just a few things off the top of my head I could come up with....sadly, younger kids don't even know that kind of life existed.
"yeah, because Mz Aguilera botching the US Nat'l Anthem or who won the Grammy's is waaaay more important that ongoing revolution."
Not saying that...just that I "got it" after the 1st 24 hours of coverage.
Egypt's revolution, while good for it's people (if they can keep going towards democracy)...really has little effect on my life...so, why am I having to be inundated by constant live coverage. I'm sure there are domestic issues that do directly affect me that I'd be more interested being kept informed about. The current US budget fight for instance?
"Egypt is a regional power, and a significant US ally. It's literally undergoing a democratic revolution. The revolution has been mostly peaceful. The revolution has significant implications to long-term US interests. And the revolution has been extremely rapid."
Right you are.
And I was made aware of that by all the coverage easily by the 2nd day of the 24/7 coverage of it.
I could easily track the progress at this point by a blurb on the crawler at the bottom of the screen.
It was news at first..but honestly, it doesn't affect my life very much..so, no need for it to be the only thing on the screen and in discussions on every US news channel all throughout the day.
Nope..Man chill...never seen anyone get that bent out of shape. Are you black?
Seriously....it is JUST a word. I don't have a problem with words....No worse than saying moherfucker, or asshole or spic or wankel rotary engine...alll just words man.
I've worked many high end jobs my friend...and no, all of what I saw is JUST in the south. Maybe you need to go through other parts of the country, from what you said, sounds like you haven't experience much of America outside of where you were born and raised up north...as you put it.
And you must have a VERY limited number of people you associate with. Sounds limited and sheltered from what commonly goes on in the larger real world out there.
"HONESTLY??? Groovy/Grails because its very easy to learn, has a ton of plugins, and integrates with Java. But if you are stuck in PHP I'd say Zend because most companies are looking for people who can develop in a framework and something that is extensible."
Thank you.
I've not played much with java, but I have done some playing around with PHP (generating some rough pages connected to Oracle...coded by hand back in the day). I might could go a bit quicker with the Zend then.
But I'll install all you suggested and see what comes about the easiest as I start to jump in and mess with it. I don't need anything terribly complex...but the more turnkey it is..the better.
"The politicians who represent Southern white trash tend to be prominent Southern white trash. If you live in a white trash area you might hear politicians who say that. It would be unthinkable to hear that in most (all) of the civilized world, especially in school. Saying that within earshot of a teacher would get you worse punishment than actual physical violence it a lot of modern schools."
I'd guess it might more of a regional thing...maybe more taboo in the northeast than in the southeast.
But it isn't something I've noticed JUST in the southern US, but in many parts of the US.
I hear it from old, young, wealthy, poor, trash, non-trash...even from non-whites. And of course, you hear black people calling each other niggers ALL the time...quite often in public.
"It would help if your presidents and politicians didn't use Christian rhetoric so much, but I imagine if you took a poll the majority of Americans would agree that the US is Christian, much more so than if you did the same in the UK or France."
Even if the majority of religious people in the US are christian..it isn't like our country DOES things based on a religion. No one has gone to war over here holding the bible up saying "God told us to do xyz..."
I'm wanting to play with this stuff...possibly FOR websites to generate a little extra $$ at home from my servers I'm putting together there.
I'd been eyeballing Drupal...
What would you and others recommend in its place? Why? Can you give solid examples/reasons why "X" would be better than Drupal....especially for a noob.
"It was common for the same reason kids in online games today scream "nigger" even though there is no indication that there are black people playing, and the kids themselves probably aren't particularly racist--it's a just violation of society's most severe taboos."
Hmm..since when did uttering the word nigger become one of "societies most severe taboos"?
I hear it in ordinary conversation on a regular basis..granted, not when black people are within earshot...but in a non-mixed race crowd, it is common for people to use the term nigger as being synonymous with black people in general.
It isn't generally used as a derogatory term mind you, just a synonym.
And no..these aren't mouth breathing rednecks either...prominent, educated people..even politicians.
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What are some tools out there than you can use to rip bluray?? Linux tools?
You get pissed at that slow asshole ahead, and a .50 or mini-gun comes out of the front of your car..and blows that idiot away and clears a way for you to finally pass.
I'm not saying do this with no warning....the person ahead should at least get an audible "lock" tone going off, to give time to pull over or speed up and get outta the way first...but if they don't...*BOOM*
They do have the imaging system set up to transmit images between his office and his clinics.
However, he's generating reports for the study ordering physicians..and cutting and pasting some of the images to put in the reports to the doctors..and wanting to send THAT...not the full image study.
They had been sending stuff in clear text emails with attachments and I told them that was not a good idea..so looking for a way to send this securely...and also not have to have each recipient have to install special software....that last part is the wrench thrown into the mixture...
I'd looked into maybe setting up some kind of PGP set up for him...but would be tough to get every dr he might do business with....to get them to set up PGP, generate keys...and set up whatever email client they use......
I was trying to maybe come up with him a web server.that other dr 's could link to securely...etc....but need a quick term solution till I can set something up like that and integrate it with the system he currently has with telerad..etc...and have to make it easy for a non-tech Dr to use
Any ideas out there?
That's just asking for trouble....unless you happen to be someone that wears some form of the various headgear/hats the peoples over there seem to all sport.
Why any sane person from the free part of the world would go over there....especially NOW...is beyond me.
I mean, hell...I'd do just about anything for a dollar..but I'd not risk my life (and head) by going over there for any amount of money.
Well, the potential victim trying to defend themselves with a gun or other weapon has to have the mindset that if they pull it, they WILL THEN use it. You don't pull a gun and tell someone to 'go away'. If you pull a gun, you shoot it to put your target down.
If you don't intend to use a weapon you pull in self defense, then yes..it may get taken from you and used on you, in which case, don't carry a weapon.
Well, sounds like we need to overcome this block...and pass new tax laws.
Lets throw out the old code entirely.....make a basic tax (I prefer the Fair Tax type thing)..where it is simply "You make this much as an individual, and you pay $x. There are no longer ANY deductions, that way there are no tax loopholes, and IMHO, best of all, no longer is taxation trying to be used to modify behavior...it will just be used to fund the govt. which is what it should be for.
I was talking about growing up largely in the mid 70's as a kid....through early 80's
The only reason I give a shit about the middle east, is that the US needs the oil over there.
Of course not. I didn't say everything was better then.. of course we're better in some ways, I mean, you can't go forward with no progress, I was just listing things off the top of my head, that I think were better. As for ADD, I think the majority of it is pure BULLSHIT. They over diagnose it and over medicate kids these days. That's my opinion.
As soon as a young boy starts acting like what we'd call acting like a young boy in my days of youth...he is diagnosed as ADD and drugged.
Hell, I'd have been drugged if I was a kid today....I would have been called a bit hyper...I was getting into mischief all the time, but it wasn't due to me being sick or un-diagnosed. Often it was in school and I'd finish my work quickly..and get bored. I was kind of the class clown, and as George Carlin put it..."why not deprive someone else of their education"...I joke, but as a kid I was sort of like that.
I used to run around like a wild kid in the neighborhood. I had energy coming outta my ass...and grew up just fine. Today, I'd have had some disease....
No...I'm glad they know about dyslexia...you're pulling out extreme cases in your post. I was talking in broad generalities, and I'll stick to them. The majority of kids back then as like today do NOT have serious problems other than being kids, yet today...we don't let them BE kids as much.
How so? I mean, aside from possible energy issues...how else will it affect my life?
I mean..I don't give a fuck about all the arabs and jews over there. I don't care how they live or govern themselves or what god(s) they pray too. If it weren't for the oil over there, honestly I can't image the US would have fuck to do with them over there at all.
It is an intrusion. I don't mind the simple metal detector...it really isn't that intrusive on your rights. However, todays TSA regime and rules are horribly intrusive to personal privacy and rights. They get away with shit that would be illegal for any other situation in public life activities. Honestly, I'm not that afraid of a terrorist or hijacking, the odds are VERY low it will happen to me. The odds of my privacy being invaded and getting groped are much higher...like 100% any time I fly.
Well, first..if you get married and have kids...you're #1 priority and responsibility is the the kids. If you need to stay together (non abusive of course) to give the kids a better send off in life, then yes, suck it up and live unhappily for a few years. You had them, live with your choices. When they are out of the house, then sure...you're then free to divorce and get out of it. You can't think of yourself when you have kids. Again, the exception would be violence/abuse.
I think that..because I almost never see kids out playing in the yards, etc...biking or skateboarding when I drive through neighborhoods. And I know from experience, that people I know with kids are constantly carting them from one planned activity to another, commenting to themselves how busy that are as parents having to do all this...rather than the old days when kids just played outside at home mostly with neighborhood friends.
And I only had to do the call home thing when I was really pretty young, like 3rd-4th grade and my Mom had started working...I'd get home before her at from school..and during the summer when I started staying home by myself when parents worked...I checked in, until I was in about 6th grade or so. They just wanted to have an idea where I was when I was young.
I can't help but argue with what worked in the past....sure didn't see the discipline and disrespect problems you see nowdays.
I'm wondering why the majority have to suffer or do without just because of a few with this allergy. And also...you never heard of such bad allergies back in the day..what happened to make more kids with this problem (still rare...a few kids keep everyone from enjoying a PBJ...why not isolate the few rather than make the majority do without?)
Just saying it was infinitely easier...you didn't have to spend special time searching and going through tons of cruft on the in
You're absolutely right...I missed this one in my rant, I was only thinking of the current "bringing a gun to shoot xyz because he dissed me yesterday" type thing.
Well, I dunno.
Back a few decades when I was growing up I think things in many ways were better, for general quality of life.
1. You went to the airport without going through even a metal detector, and even when they put those in..people went to the gates with you to wait and see you off. They also met you at the gate when getting off a plane. No such thing as a patdown, or taking your fucking shoes off.
2. Families by and large sat and ate dinner together. Mostly 2 parent households.
3. Ok..only 3 channels, but when nothing was on those three channels worth watching, you went outside to play as a kid, or did family things together around the house or outside.
4. Kids could be kids. My whole fucking day wasn't planned out. During the summers I ran the neighborhood with my friends on bike, foot and skateboard. The only rule when I was young, was to call home from a friend's house every couple of hours or so to check in. No, my parent's weren't worried about me being kidnapped, etc..geez, we didn't even have cell phones...how did we ever survive?
5. We pretty much knew all our neighbors...and as a kid, if you acted up, a neighbor would easily discipline you (I got swatted by a friends mom more than once)..then, they'd call your parents, and you'd get it again when you got home. Taught kids to behave.
6. There were no such things as guns in schools...if someone ever got caught with a knife, it was news for months in the city.
7. Drinking age in many cities was 18yrs. States still had more rights than the Feds..at least MANY more than they have today.
8. No one had a problem if you brought a fucking peanut butter and jelly sandwich to school.
9. There was actually good music to be found on the common FM radio stations in town. You could find new and good music on radio while driving around.
10. No one freaked out if your kid brought some allergy meds or aspirin to school. You never heard of kids in school having the cops called on them for bringing meds from home...or if they got into a simple fist fight. Kids were allowed to be kids...and it didn't bring about suggestions of ADD and drugging them.
11. In general, everyone felt a bit safer in every day life. Killings, roberies, etc...not nearly as prevalent.
12. People were more polite
13. You didn't have to worry so much about political correctness...
14. Better rock music.
Those are just a few things off the top of my head I could come up with....sadly, younger kids don't even know that kind of life existed.
Not saying that...just that I "got it" after the 1st 24 hours of coverage.
Egypt's revolution, while good for it's people (if they can keep going towards democracy)...really has little effect on my life...so, why am I having to be inundated by constant live coverage. I'm sure there are domestic issues that do directly affect me that I'd be more interested being kept informed about. The current US budget fight for instance?
Right you are.
And I was made aware of that by all the coverage easily by the 2nd day of the 24/7 coverage of it.
I could easily track the progress at this point by a blurb on the crawler at the bottom of the screen.
It was news at first..but honestly, it doesn't affect my life very much..so, no need for it to be the only thing on the screen and in discussions on every US news channel all throughout the day.
I mean...sure it is important...mostly to people on that side of the world, but man..enough is enough. Gotta be something new that's newsworthy...
Seriously....it is JUST a word. I don't have a problem with words....No worse than saying moherfucker, or asshole or spic or wankel rotary engine...alll just words man.
I've worked many high end jobs my friend...and no, all of what I saw is JUST in the south. Maybe you need to go through other parts of the country, from what you said, sounds like you haven't experience much of America outside of where you were born and raised up north...as you put it.
And you must have a VERY limited number of people you associate with. Sounds limited and sheltered from what commonly goes on in the larger real world out there.
Thank you.
I've not played much with java, but I have done some playing around with PHP (generating some rough pages connected to Oracle...coded by hand back in the day). I might could go a bit quicker with the Zend then.
But I'll install all you suggested and see what comes about the easiest as I start to jump in and mess with it. I don't need anything terribly complex...but the more turnkey it is..the better.
I'd guess it might more of a regional thing...maybe more taboo in the northeast than in the southeast.
But it isn't something I've noticed JUST in the southern US, but in many parts of the US.
I hear it from old, young, wealthy, poor, trash, non-trash...even from non-whites. And of course, you hear black people calling each other niggers ALL the time...quite often in public.
Even if the majority of religious people in the US are christian..it isn't like our country DOES things based on a religion. No one has gone to war over here holding the bible up saying "God told us to do xyz..."
Unlike the koran waivers....
I'd been eyeballing Drupal...
What would you and others recommend in its place? Why? Can you give solid examples/reasons why "X" would be better than Drupal....especially for a noob.
Making all those pipe bombs looked MUCH easier in the Terminator movie...
Hmm..since when did uttering the word nigger become one of "societies most severe taboos"?
I hear it in ordinary conversation on a regular basis..granted, not when black people are within earshot...but in a non-mixed race crowd, it is common for people to use the term nigger as being synonymous with black people in general.
It isn't generally used as a derogatory term mind you, just a synonym.
And no..these aren't mouth breathing rednecks either...prominent, educated people..even politicians.