Email 2 addresses could be identified by adding say a greater than sign after the @, indicating to the software stack that only secure transmission is permitted, say email2user@>domain.com
Or, say, another character that I don't have to escape on the command line. (But I get your point.)
A bunch of little snively Snowdens we'll grab before they can flee justice.
Well, "evade capture" anyway. If recent Wall Street, high-level government/military employee and Congressional behaviors have demonstrated anything, it's that "justice" is just a loose concept, perhaps even a myth at some levels, applied very inequitably and usually harsher for those lower on the food chain.
You have to, without question, use the cable company's box. No other box will work.
Most 3rd party DVRs and VCRs these days have IR output capability, so they can change the channel on the cable box and then record the output. You still have to use the cable box as a tuner, but you can record using anything after that.
In addition, a digital capture card on a MythTV (or Windows Media) system can record un-encrypted HD. I have a MythTV system with 2 analog cards - which to be honest if perfectly fine for watching 99% of broadcast TV - and my TV has a digital tuner if I want to watch the 4-5 network channels that are carried QAM over the cable (Cox in Virginia).
I only subscribe to analog channels + the few un-encrypted digital channels provided and have no cable co set-top box or DVR and I do pretty well. Perhaps other cable providers don't provide an analog option, I don't know.
I'm curious.. why not record the shows that come on at a time that is inconvenient for you?
I'm mad at the cable company for making me pay for service and then nickel and diming me in to oblivion....
Not to state the obvious, but ever thought of a MythTV system? Sure you have to buy/build your own system, but I did it with an outdated 1GHz system w/2GB RAM bought for $50 from work plus 250GB disk and 2 analog capture cards on Ubuntu. Schedules Direct service is ~$20/year. Been up and running since Jan 2007. Much better than any DVR from a cable co.
I generally agree with your points, but would also like to mention that there is much inequity in how much people are paid for the work they do. Why is it acceptable that a CEO can earn 300x (average, citations below) the salary of one of his/her base employees - employees that often do the *actual* work that generates income for the company.
How much money do people really need? An answer of "as much as possible" is not a answer. I make a good salary and have lived below my means most/all my life and have substantial savings. I'm debt-free and make more than I need and I routinely give money to charity and to my friends. Since my wife died in 2006, I've given over $60k to a few friends who work hard (and didn't ask for help), but need more than they have, some living paycheck to paycheck. Sure, it helps my karma, but I know my wife found comfort and security in being financially independent and I want to help my friends find some of that too.
Not everything in life has to be a contest with winners and losers. Ultimately, we're all in this together.
A little curious why you put your cars in individual names, because our attorney had us own them jointly to avoid probate. Is there a liability concern with jointly owning cars?
My understanding - and IANAL - is that a plaintiff in an auto accident case may pursue a defendant's assets. If the car is in both your names then you're both defendants and if the home is in both names it becomes an available asset. If the car is only in one name, then only that person is a defendant and a joint / un-splittable asset like a home is unavailable - i.e., you cannot sell 1/2 a home and/or force your spouse to sell his/her half to settle your individual liability. Perhaps I'm incorrect and/or it doesn't really matter for these cases from a practical standpoint.
For inheritance/probate purposes, you're correct. Joint ownership will make things easier.
Also, in the event that one of you dies, get the home appraised to determine the current, stepped-up value of the home (specifically the deceased spouse's half) for tax purposes if/when the home is ever sold and the surviving spouse is still unmarried. (Remember, at present, the home capital gain exclusion is $500k married, $250k single.) It will be easier/cheaper than getting a historical appraisal later.
You didn't call their bluff - they called yours - they sweetened the pot on the plea deal because they wanted you to admit to the crime so they get yet another successful prosecution...
Which is *all* prosecutors really care about - winning not truth. Only winning convictions helps their careers. Sad but, from my experience, true.
My wife is in her third year battling a rare, obnoxious cancer...
I'm sorry she, you and your family have to go through that. My hope is for the best for you all.
That said, to be pragmatic, if you haven't already, please be sure to take the time to get both you and her affairs in order. It will make things a LOT easier should *either* of you die or become seriously impaired - especially if something happens to you while your wife was still battling cancer...
Make wills, especially if you two have property/assets only in each others names or want to give specific items to specific people. If there's no property/assets to transfer then a Will and Probate are optional - at least they are in Virginia. That said, for liability reasons, your house should be in both names and your cars only in one (or possibly each others, if more than one).
Check beneficiaries on 401k/retirement (pre-tax) and insurance accounts.
Make your bank (and other post-tax) accounts joint or fill out "transfer on death" forms (otherwise accounts must go through probate).
Important: Be sure both your names are listed on safe-deposit boxes - do NOT store your Wills there.
Very important: Fill out a Living Will / Healthcare Proxy for each of you. You can register one at the US Living Will Registry (assuming you're a US resident). It costs a few dollars, but if you get/submit the forms through a local hospital, they'll usually pay the fees. You'll get a card so any healthcare provider can download your forms from anywhere.
Consider Power of Attorney forms if either of you have individual assets that would need managing if/while you were impaired.
Get certified (embossed) copies of birth certificates for you both and a copy of your marriage certificate - important for life insurance claims - be sure to ask that they be returned if you send them anywhere.
If possible, pay off/down bills and loans.
If/when one of you dies, don't bother with the Social Security $255 death benefit. You'll probably spend more than that in time/effort gathering the required paperwork - I skipped it. Also, be sure to get at least 10 copies of the death certificate - most places will only accept certified (embossed) copies, but will also usually return them if you request. As a relative, you can get them yourself at your local health department for a small fee with ID.
Decide if either of you want to donate your body to science - Sue did (see the Remember Sue Tumblr) and I've completed my donor forms for Virginia. If accepted, it'll save you the cost of a funeral and burial and you'll be helping future Med students.
Steve Ballmer himself has recently declared that he was unhappy with the number of tablets Microsoft has managed to sell.
Can someone please pass the message on to Steve Ballmer that being unhappy isn't a strategy for business growth?
To be fair, Ballmer has been unhappy, about most things, for a long time. I doubt a plush La-z-boy recliner that gave hand-jobs would put a smile on his face - besides, it would be too heavy to throw...
Yet another prime example of why alien civilizations won't contact us openly:
Well, that and the fact that you couldn't get here from pretty much anywhere in any reasonable amount of time. Personally, I tend to think that's a bigger reason than any particular human behavior, but hey, whatever works for you.
Human behavior is why aliens put our planet way out in the middle of no where...
In other words, Microsoft spent more money on advertising the Surface than they took in selling it.
I'm sure all those commercials showing people dancing (or finger painting) with their tablets were way more expensive to produce than ones showing people doing actual work -- if that's even possible -- on the tablets would have been. To be fair, I think the Surface/Windows8 commercials are entertaining and well done, but they don't inspire me to actually want/buy the products.
what. so eating your own sandwich in a McDonald's is a felony?
Obviously not, but McDonald's is private property and they could certainly ask you to leave or get arrested for trespassing.
To quote Steven Wright:
I got kicked out of a theater the other day for bringing my own food in. I argued that the concession stand prices were outrageous. Besides, I hadn't had a barbecue in a long time.
3. My ethics tell me... eat the rich first. The insects are a backup plan.
Blah. Too much fat and not enough lean in your first choice, unless you mean organic, grass-fed, free-range rich, but there's not many of them around and the price per pound is outrageous.
Former airport McDonalds worker here. Your post, and most of the posts replying to this guy amuse me a lot.
I was an hourly employee and I had to go through security before starting my shift. This was unpaid and there were often queues. It was the same for all the staff working airside who were paid by the hour.
Yes, but those delays were imposed by the TSA and/or airport, not McDonalds or the other vendors. I'm sure you sometimes got stuck in traffic on the way to the airport too - again not a delay caused by your employer. These people are having to wait at the direction of Apple, their employer, so your example is not comparable.
I won't say I'm sorry, as I don't know you, but thanks for sharing; There's so much shit on the Internet not worth reading these days, it's nice sometimes to find something so real and emotive.
Thank you. You're the first person to have mentioned reading it. I don't know if it's any good from an objective/writing point of view, but it says what I needed it to say. Sue was a special person and the world is simply less without her.
I still don't know why she left that poem for me, all those years ago...
Actually, as someone who turned 50 in May, I find many things/people getting funnier/stupider as I get older. Probably as I gain perspective and realize how ridiculous and unimportant most things really are, especially in contrast to how serious and important people think those things are. Losing my wife of 20 years to brain cancer in 2006 (just 7 weeks after diagnosis) probably helps with that perspective -- Remember Sue...
All life's little problems are just a distraction from the one big problem - that there's no fucking point to anything. (Just my 2 cents.)
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Email 2 addresses could be identified by adding say a greater than sign after the @, indicating to the software stack that only secure transmission is permitted, say email2user@>domain.com
Or, say, another character that I don't have to escape on the command line. (But I get your point.)
A bunch of little snively Snowdens we'll grab before they can flee justice.
Well, "evade capture" anyway. If recent Wall Street, high-level government/military employee and Congressional behaviors have demonstrated anything, it's that "justice" is just a loose concept, perhaps even a myth at some levels, applied very inequitably and usually harsher for those lower on the food chain.
You have to, without question, use the cable company's box. No other box will work.
Most 3rd party DVRs and VCRs these days have IR output capability, so they can change the channel on the cable box and then record the output. You still have to use the cable box as a tuner, but you can record using anything after that.
In addition, a digital capture card on a MythTV (or Windows Media) system can record un-encrypted HD. I have a MythTV system with 2 analog cards - which to be honest if perfectly fine for watching 99% of broadcast TV - and my TV has a digital tuner if I want to watch the 4-5 network channels that are carried QAM over the cable (Cox in Virginia).
I only subscribe to analog channels + the few un-encrypted digital channels provided and have no cable co set-top box or DVR and I do pretty well. Perhaps other cable providers don't provide an analog option, I don't know.
I'm curious.. why not record the shows that come on at a time that is inconvenient for you?
I'm mad at the cable company for making me pay for service and then nickel and diming me in to oblivion. ...
Not to state the obvious, but ever thought of a MythTV system? Sure you have to buy/build your own system, but I did it with an outdated 1GHz system w/2GB RAM bought for $50 from work plus 250GB disk and 2 analog capture cards on Ubuntu. Schedules Direct service is ~$20/year. Been up and running since Jan 2007. Much better than any DVR from a cable co.
I generally agree with your points, but would also like to mention that there is much inequity in how much people are paid for the work they do. Why is it acceptable that a CEO can earn 300x (average, citations below) the salary of one of his/her base employees - employees that often do the *actual* work that generates income for the company.
How much money do people really need? An answer of "as much as possible" is not a answer. I make a good salary and have lived below my means most/all my life and have substantial savings. I'm debt-free and make more than I need and I routinely give money to charity and to my friends. Since my wife died in 2006, I've given over $60k to a few friends who work hard (and didn't ask for help), but need more than they have, some living paycheck to paycheck. Sure, it helps my karma, but I know my wife found comfort and security in being financially independent and I want to help my friends find some of that too.
Not everything in life has to be a contest with winners and losers. Ultimately, we're all in this together.
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A little curious why you put your cars in individual names, because our attorney had us own them jointly to avoid probate. Is there a liability concern with jointly owning cars?
My understanding - and IANAL - is that a plaintiff in an auto accident case may pursue a defendant's assets. If the car is in both your names then you're both defendants and if the home is in both names it becomes an available asset. If the car is only in one name, then only that person is a defendant and a joint / un-splittable asset like a home is unavailable - i.e., you cannot sell 1/2 a home and/or force your spouse to sell his/her half to settle your individual liability. Perhaps I'm incorrect and/or it doesn't really matter for these cases from a practical standpoint.
For inheritance/probate purposes, you're correct. Joint ownership will make things easier.
Also, in the event that one of you dies, get the home appraised to determine the current, stepped-up value of the home (specifically the deceased spouse's half) for tax purposes if/when the home is ever sold and the surviving spouse is still unmarried. (Remember, at present, the home capital gain exclusion is $500k married, $250k single.) It will be easier/cheaper than getting a historical appraisal later.
My best wishes for you and your family...
You didn't call their bluff - they called yours - they sweetened the pot on the plea deal because they wanted you to admit to the crime so they get yet another successful prosecution ...
Which is *all* prosecutors really care about - winning not truth. Only winning convictions helps their careers. Sad but, from my experience, true.
The cops said, "There isn't anything we can do." I said, sure there is. [ ... explains to Cops how to do their fucking job ...]
This is even sadder than the time a junior programmer, just out of college, asked me, "how do I debug a program".
Country without a constitution says what?
In Soviet Russia, government will be modeled on US - sigh.
My wife is in her third year battling a rare, obnoxious cancer...
I'm sorry she, you and your family have to go through that. My hope is for the best for you all.
That said, to be pragmatic, if you haven't already, please be sure to take the time to get both you and her affairs in order. It will make things a LOT easier should *either* of you die or become seriously impaired - especially if something happens to you while your wife was still battling cancer...
Number of attacks on humans by Orcas in captivity: > 27 documented (3 fatal).
Number of humans dressed like seals (AKA Orca chow) in close proximity to Orcas in captivity - ??
Steve Ballmer himself has recently declared that he was unhappy with the number of tablets Microsoft has managed to sell.
Can someone please pass the message on to Steve Ballmer that being unhappy isn't a strategy for business growth?
To be fair, Ballmer has been unhappy, about most things, for a long time. I doubt a plush La-z-boy recliner that gave hand-jobs would put a smile on his face - besides, it would be too heavy to throw...
you'd think any politician who wants business to flourish
To the politician, it depends on which businesses are lining his/her pockets. /cynical
I was going to re-build my 787 simulator, but the fire department won't let me.
Changing the puppet doesn't not necessarily change the puppeteer.
Or the puppets in the puppet theater (aka Congress).
So we deal with these assholes but threaten war with the Iranians? Anyone want to explain that?
Saudi Arabia has Oil, Iran has (enriched or soon to be enriched) Uranium.
Yet another prime example of why alien civilizations won't contact us openly:
Well, that and the fact that you couldn't get here from pretty much anywhere in any reasonable amount of time. Personally, I tend to think that's a bigger reason than any particular human behavior, but hey, whatever works for you.
Human behavior is why aliens put our planet way out in the middle of no where...
In other words, Microsoft spent more money on advertising the Surface than they took in selling it.
I'm sure all those commercials showing people dancing (or finger painting) with their tablets were way more expensive to produce than ones showing people doing actual work -- if that's even possible -- on the tablets would have been. To be fair, I think the Surface/Windows8 commercials are entertaining and well done, but they don't inspire me to actually want/buy the products.
what. so eating your own sandwich in a McDonald's is a felony?
Obviously not, but McDonald's is private property and they could certainly ask you to leave or get arrested for trespassing.
To quote Steven Wright:
I got kicked out of a theater the other day for bringing my own food in. I argued that the concession stand prices were outrageous. Besides, I hadn't had a barbecue in a long time.
3. My ethics tell me... eat the rich first. The insects are a backup plan.
Blah. Too much fat and not enough lean in your first choice, unless you mean organic, grass-fed, free-range rich, but there's not many of them around and the price per pound is outrageous.
in many places in the world, they walk their dog. in some places in Asia, they wok their dog.
For those on a Palaeolithic diet, that would be "wok the dinosaur".
[ Note: "walk the dinosaur" is something completely different ]
Former airport McDonalds worker here. Your post, and most of the posts replying to this guy amuse me a lot. I was an hourly employee and I had to go through security before starting my shift. This was unpaid and there were often queues. It was the same for all the staff working airside who were paid by the hour.
Yes, but those delays were imposed by the TSA and/or airport, not McDonalds or the other vendors. I'm sure you sometimes got stuck in traffic on the way to the airport too - again not a delay caused by your employer. These people are having to wait at the direction of Apple, their employer, so your example is not comparable.
Dude...
I just read this: http://remembersue.tumblr.com/remember
Wow. :( Made me cry a little.
I won't say I'm sorry, as I don't know you, but thanks for sharing; There's so much shit on the Internet not worth reading these days, it's nice sometimes to find something so real and emotive.
Thank you. You're the first person to have mentioned reading it. I don't know if it's any good from an objective/writing point of view, but it says what I needed it to say. Sue was a special person and the world is simply less without her.
I still don't know why she left that poem for me, all those years ago...
Everything stopped being funny YEARS ago
Welcome to being old.
Actually, as someone who turned 50 in May, I find many things/people getting funnier/stupider as I get older. Probably as I gain perspective and realize how ridiculous and unimportant most things really are, especially in contrast to how serious and important people think those things are. Losing my wife of 20 years to brain cancer in 2006 (just 7 weeks after diagnosis) probably helps with that perspective -- Remember Sue...
All life's little problems are just a distraction from the one big problem - that there's no fucking point to anything. (Just my 2 cents.)