Posts by GrimJack

I would not trust the evergy drinks some of them are pure sugar and that will just cause a deeper crash.

Well, all good advice - my little bit of advice is to 1) do not eat carbs for lunch, eat protein; 2) document the sleepiness so that you know when to expect the drowsiness then set an alarm (something like the calendar in Outlook) to alert (pun intended) you ahead of time so you can stand up and do some stretches or juggle or touch your toes then extend your arms over your head and stand on your tippy-toes (the first few times you do this you almost fall over - it is very hard to maintain your balance); 3) set a dead-man's switch that if you don't perform some action on your computer, your harddrive will re-format (this is a little harsh but better than the above mentioned electroshock therapy).

I don't drink wine much any more; same with port. I like IPA, the bitterer the better - I prefer the IBU to be above 80 but had difficulty with an IBU above 135 - took me an hour to drink that one.

On an old fashioned phone you can '*69' and ask what the number is (ymmv depending on what your carrier thinks is reasonable service). I believe '*68' blocks the number from being read.

I think I took the written test about 7 times and failed 6. On a completely unrelated note, my father was the town banker and had turned down a loan request from the state trooper giving the test. Passed the driving test on the 3rd try - I kept going 26 mph in a 25 mph zone and making harder stops than they wanted. I aced the parallel parking and driving in reverse.

I am glad someone earlier mentioned France in the 60s - the French right was blowing up anyone who even showed the slightest approval of a Free Algeria. There was so much terrorist bombing going on that the created the word 'plastique' to mean 'to blow up with plastic explosives'. Not long after that in the UK there were so many people blowing people up that one group actually devised a code for the authorities so that they could tell if it was the IRA or a wannabe who set the bomb. In the US someone was using bombs to create a smiley face on the map of the US.

Bombs and blowing up innocent people has been the province of crazies to make political hay since the invention of gunpowder.

The group claiming responsibility have killed around 250 people this year, usually targeting Nigerian officials. I think the scale of the matter alone suggests that 'terrorism' is a valid monicker for the way in which this group is acting. Terrorist Country or Terrorist State means something totally different to my mind. I take that to mean that the government of that nation sponsors or endorses terrorist activities abroad. I may be wrong

If the terrorists are blowing up government officials how then do you say the government sponsors/endorses terrorist activities?

I would bet that your local library would have it in electronic form.

Go to your local used book store and pick up a copy of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States - don't try to read it in one sitting, just keep it around and when something comes up, take a look at a 'different' point of view.

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up

like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore-

And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes

Most of these so called shooters release some extremist bit of propaganda to go along with their act of violence.

I guess it gives them a twisted way to justify what they've done. But if you look closely... most of the reasons are just plain old baloney.

'The reason I am going to shoot up a whole load of people is because 'insert___extremist___rhetoric___here.'

The reason why most these individuals do these things is because they just suck at life... Compounded with clear psychiatric problems, because NO sane individual would shoot up a load of people, this is just like a time bomb waiting to go off.

Unfortunately, with no real psychiatric support and continued rejection in an area of life they clearly suck at, these individuals begin a downward spiral into oblivion.

The sad thing is, all it may have taken, was someone to grab this guy by the scruff of his neck when he was sucking at whatever he was bad at life, shown him how to do it properly... and a few successes later he'd be a normal, happy everyday citizen.

Unfortunately, this is not the case. He researched what it would take to get enough fertilizer to make a bomb - he bought/rented (this is unclear) a farm so he could have an excuse to buy fertilizer and diesel fuel. This was over a period of 4 years. This was a well planned masacre.

I got mine at age 16 - 47 years ago. Had it taken away 3 times before I turned 18 and have had no moving violations on my record since - I got caught speeding, running red lights etc but always got off with some fast talk.

You are, of course, referring to the few countries that have torn themselves loose from the old USSR. The whole of South America, Africa, and Asia with their assorted countries were the 3rd world. The UN has 193 member states - of them, about 173 were considered 3rd world. The actual count depends on when during the cold war you want to count the countries and how you count them (are n/s Korea and N/S VIET NAM 2 OR 4 countries).

US and NATO countries were the first world, communism/Soviet Union was the second world, and the non-aligned countries were the third world. The first and second worlds would fight over the third worlds.

Jeez - Ron Paul is right up there with Palin, bachman and santorum for crazy:

• he also thinks the "War on Christmas" is real, and that the separation of church and state is a myth. He believes the founding fathers wanted to discriminate on behalf of certain religions, and that morality cannot be accomplished absent Christianity.
• he believes the "collective Left" hates religion and that our national heritage is under attack by "secularists".
• During Paul’s rally, he proposed getting rid of the Internal Revenue Service, Selective Service, income tax and the Federal Reserve, and withdrawing from the United Nations
• Ron Paul is the strongest opponent of "Hate Crime" Laws.

"When batshit crazy people have passed up an entire basket of admirably batshit crazy politicians in order to lend their batshit crazy support to him, I think what you can take from that is that Ron Paul is the chosen King of the Batshit Crazy.

I make and drink my own sparkling water - lately, I have been carbonating grapefruit juice.

Happy Independence Day USAsian!

I will be drinking Full Sail IPA tonight

I drink bourbon and coke, normally - when I drink beer I go for something like Arrogant Bastard or just about and IPA with an IBU above 70.

Pick up a copy of SpinRite (I keep recommending this software but I do not get anything for my recommendation) <...>. In some cases SpinRite can map out bad sectors and even recover data from those bad sectors.

This is what I was going to recommend when I saw the thread - once you have SpinRite, you will find uses for it.

Scrum seems like a pretty narrow field - better you should hit up wikipedia and see what they say about scrum and work from that

go to your local computer recycling center and beg there.

I was not strengthening/weakening a case - just throwing a data point out. Back a ways, I mentioned how much I enjoy shooting (I grew up in Montana and used a .3030 to hunt gophers - not something I am proud of, just something I used to do).

Some of the Darwin Awards for gun use can stand with some of the Home Defense stories for gun use.

Yeah, I actually followed the whole thing when it first hit the news - it was first being swept under the carpet saying it was her fault for shooting at the police. Even then I was extremely torqued about her getting killed protecting her home even when it was believed the police were using SOP - then when it all unraveled, I nearly went ballistic.

How is a person to know if the home invasion is the police or not when they don't announce and have no-knock warrants.

This is why we need guns for protection. I just love stories like this with happy endings :)

Heh,heh - not all home defense gun use is of much use - is this why we need more guns for protection?

Here is an interesting thread about the topic of individual rights to own and keep weapons in the USA. The original intent was to give evey American citizen the right to have weapons so that he can defent himself, his family, his home, and his country against foreign invaders (like England) or other people who intend to do harm. And that today is still the main reason. Americans are paranoid about any one or any nation enslaving them.

Sorry AD but that quote appears nowhere in Washington's papers or speeches - here is the closest quote

A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well digested plan is requisite: And their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories, as tend to render them independent on others, for essential, particularly for military supplies.
---George Washington's First Annual Message to Congress (January 8, 1790)

I voted against the blanket ban because I ENJOY shooting but I am old fashioned enough to prefer a single action Black Hawk .357 mag and a lever-action .3030 carbine.

In the arguments for gun ownership, no one looks to Mogadishu or Mexico as examples the good that can come from unlimited gun ownership and Canada and the UK are good examples of the other end of the scale.

This is what I found

The graphic displays the ink cartridge status when EPSON StatusMonitor was first opened. To update the ink cartridge status, click Update.
Epson cannot guarantee the quality or reliability of non-genuine ink. If non-genuine ink cartridges are installed, the ink cartridge status may not be displayed.
If any of the ink cartridges installed in the printer is broken, incompatible with the printer model, or improperly installed, EPSON StatusMonitor will not display an accurate status of the ink cartridge. Be sure to replace or reinstall any ink cartridge indicated by the EPSON StatusMonitor.

I was hoping that they might say something about resetting it but...

Here is an interesting article how on people keep their banking passwords safe

Accidents could happen, one of the ideas I have been working on is a nano-factory making diamond material (diamonds have more tensile strength than steel) breaks loose and begins using all the carbon it finds to make diamonds and, well, we are a carbon based lifeform.

I started thinking about it while discussing space elevators with some friends; diamond rope would be the strongest but it has a weakness for shear so we considered sheathing in graphite nanotubes. Diamonds on demand would have so many uses that it seemed obvious it would be among the first products from nano-factories. In my research I came across an article on the possibility of lakes of diamond on Neptune.

But I digress

Almost invisible nano robots attacking human tissue, ouch! Lots of money to be made there!

But the money is in the defender nanobots. See you have a permanent set of nanos in your system that work to keep your body the way they found it vs a set of nanos working to change it. The nonobot race will follow virus/anti-virus cyber conflicts already taking place.

Heh,heh - there are already self-repairing surfaces. The robots that come for you might not look like what you expect:
spot,
love-doll,
living in your body,
in the air,

we are all doomed

I sometimes use a noun, a color, and a number that I can see from where I sit then add a *.

When I was part of a operations team that had to change passwords monthly and keep the team around the world up to date, we used a set of 5 volumes of sniglets and added a number. We could freely pass around the password because the reference would be something like 6,22,1 which meant the volume 6, page 22, word 1. Unless you knew what the source was you could not get to it easily and yet, they were easily remembered.

Actually, I did not see that - it just popped up on my NEW list so I posted - that is what ADD does for you

I probably got about a 7 - but I have ADD, many of the questions could be affected by ADD:
3.
maybe 10
11
13
14

I actually lost a lot of girlfriends because, if they weren't right there, I would forget them (er, sort of, kind of - well okay, I was bimbo).

Most people are self-delusional and dishonest even to themselves, which is why such tests should never be done based solely on yes/no statements made by the person being tested.
This is especially true of psychopaths.

I don't want to gross anyone out but there is a question that separates the liars from the truthtellers and is supposed to work every time. I actually don't even like thinking about the question! so maybe I should just shut up now.

11.

There's a customer who comes into the shop i work at who's always swearing at people, even went up to the cashier and said "i don't want to be served by you you're a fucking idiot, fuck off" and to another "the police are after you, they've bugged your phone. I live next to Inspector *some name* and they've bugged you and David Beckam is going to get killed". Made a customer cry today after they offered to let them go infront and they replied along the lines off fuck off.

People reckon she's shizophrenic

Glad to see your back (snicker)

Has anybody seen that 2012 movie?

I imagine that the trailer was the best part of the movie. The physics sucked - no downdraft; when the whole world is falling apart, where are you going to land a plane?

sigh

I know 2 will work but I do not know about 1 - it might be dependent on the MoBo

We are having some of our hill-country friends down for T-day. And beginning to noodle for an Xmas dinner party invite.

and if you are interested in what that would look like, check out TrackMeNot - it is an add-on that does random searches on the various search engines. I have mine query 1 per minute; it has a range of 10 per minute to 1 per hour. It even keeps a time-stamped log of queries.

Its stated purpose is to confound activity trackers.

No one explains it but I see lots of references to the 's' and when I google w/o the 's' I get a different set of results.

I can't see what the difference is, sorry.

Way to go - hope that is it! Let us know

Have you checked for resource conflicts? It seems that if you are banging the hardware a lot and get re-boots, that might be a place to start.

Can you let us know what your hardware set up is?
How about your OS?

When im bored I go on Daniweb ,of course!

I am with you on this one!! Sometimes, I do a drive-by on some rightwing nutjob site and poke them a bit.

I have a cat to entertain; now that I have my garlic in for the season, that pretty much wraps up gardening for me.

Any answer mods?

CSCGAL is daniweb - if she says okay, mods say okay.

Sorry, it is dead - you might be able to revive it but I would not hold my breath. The 'safely remove hardware' is just what it says it is - when you do not use it - you are not safely removing your hardware. It does not matter if it did not matter the first time or the the 1,000th time - learn from this experience.

>Why are you IN a movie, but you're ON TV?
You can be on tv in a movie on tv - you can be in a movie on tv in a movie - etc.

It is possible to have a complex complex complex.
(didn't I say that on the other side?)

Isn't it amazing that productivity continues to go up as jobs go away = just like homeopathy, the most productivity will be found when there is no one left working

Well, it depends on what needs repair.

There is no repair for bullet holes, most fires, breaking it into pieces is pretty bad too. Most repairs that actually work include plugging it in; removing and reinserting the various pieces and sometimes buying a new power supply.

What is the perceived problem? What are the symptoms? Who makes the MoBo?

It does not sound like the Mobo to me; have you held down the Del key at boot time? Have you tried booting from your installation disk?

Have you run HiJackThis - that log might help a lot.

From the definition:

The robots.txt file can be used to stop a search engine spider from crawling all or part of your site. Create a robots.txt file in the main folder of your site which will direct the search engine spiders what they may and may not search. Spiders generally look for this file before doing anything.

this seems to imply that it will. I know that it works for databases and such so I can see no reason that Coldfusion websites would be any different.

Did you blow out the dust and crud from the case and the ps?
Is the volume of air sucked in greater than the volume blown out?
What happens if you open one of the pci slots in the back? If that changes the 'texture' of the sound, maybe you could add a pci fan near your vid card (another source of heat).