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- January 11, 2020
- Speaking in Superlatives
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I've never ceased wondering where some of the youtube people get off with their representations of posts whereby they miss the mark altogether. These people who use the words "wonderful" and "best" and "must" in reference to their lame posts in some effort to coerce indulgence from the unsuspecting public.
Nowadays if the descriptors include "must see" or "must hear" ... or some other equally banal lying ass drivel I don't even bother with it anymore. I've deleted mass quantities of files in my collections for these very reasons. In the immortal words of Montgomery Scott in Star Trek, the original series Friday's Child episode "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me."
Such misrepresentations in that which is offered are the stuff of hawkers through the eons or some Tiajuana "gold merchant" at the border.
It's rather like my evil inbred white trash aunt saying how "God don't love ugly" when she's the biggest theiving crook and shyster to ever place a cloven hoof on the planet and all I do is sit and wait for her to die so I can go desecrate her grave in as many examples of hatred as my fertile mind can envision.
Actually, I just want her to stop poisoning the air for the rest of us by continuing to breathe it.
So when you choose to speak in lofty terms regarding your creations I do hope you'll take a moment and consider reality prior to posting. "Wonderful" is a term which is subjective and just because you think something is doesn't mean we all will.
Thank you for your kind indulgence and I'll shut my trap now.
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- January 10, 2020
- A Personal Medical Miracle
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Disclaimer
However, be all of this as it may, I have also had satisfying relationships with medical professionals and I attempt to take their counsel to heart, and indeed I have been helped in various medical matters.
I'm not one to tout medical miracles and indeed I have a lot of contempt for the medical profession given my experiences at the local richland county hospital and their incompetent oafs, particularly female DO's who need to stay away from people's loved ones instead of being allowed to kill them along with the criminal richland county EMS who hijacks patients and sends them to a gd hospital staffed primarily with students and then lie to the patient's family regarding the circumstances, lie to the coroner, falsely accuse the family of abusing the patient, and generally are untruthful blebs on society at large which should be terminated with extreme prejudice.
This brings me to the vast correction of a mistake I made back when my doctor was preoccupied with getting fired from every practice he joined and I had an itch that I self-medicated with OTC hydrocortisone 1% cream.
I was unaware that overuse of this type product would cause thinning of the skin and ended up with fingers which have vastly diminished ridges and splitting of the skin upon them became excruciating and problematic.
I suffered this with a frequent regularity for years prior to going off on a tangent and self medicating myself with an OTC collagen supplements in the hopes that it "might" help.
Well, not only did it help — it cured my problem with splitting skin on my fingers. Where as I once was plagued by splitting on any of the fingers I happened to be using, particularly my thumbs the problem disappeared after about 2 weeks of supplementation with oral collagen.
I embarked on this after reading how collagen production is diminished with age and I was already aware of it's significance in skin health ... and I can't believe I suffered with splitting skin on my fingers and especially my thumbs to the degree I endured when the fix was this quick and easy.
I bought the skin, hair, and nail formula and the mens joint collagen in an effort to hit all the nutritional bases.
Anyway, if you have similar issues because your doctor was unavailable for protracted periods of time and end up with splitting skin secondary to thinning as the result of steriod application you may wish to invest in a little collegen and take it daily ... perhaps with your morning coffee as I do.
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- January 9, 2020
- Persian Cyberattacks
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I'm reading in the threads regarding cyberattacks from Iran and the risk levels in particular.
I've taken the preemptive action of firewalling all networks within the countries of Iran and Iraq seeing how they seem to be acting mighty influenced by the militant islamic factions these days.
Now I'm going to have to look around for those served by money grubbing ISPs NOT within their territorial boundaries.
The sum total of these efforts is mostly just to keep them away from my assets as a matter of self-protection.
Being the consumate 'get in your face' type of guy, I am not one to dawdle when it comes to security nor am I an easy mark otherwise. I already have the filters looking for suspicious traffic of any kind and I'd just as soon firewall an entire country as I would an individual person.
Inasmuch as the mainstream media has their noses firmly stuck in the Ayatollah's anus and are misrepresenting every aspect of the conflict with Iran because they are looking for any way to attack our President, I will relegate them to the far background and treat them with the contempt their lying fake news deserves.
Donald Trump is my president. Not some unqualified queer Kenyan who STARTED all this Iranian mess alongside his tranny first ladyboy partner.
To Iran and their brown nosed main stream media liar fans like Martha Radditz, in the famous words of a nice lady I once knew long ago "The world doesn't need you". Here I am. There you are. Don't tread on me for I don't take prisoners either.
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- January 8, 2020
- Typing Day 2020
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Today we recognize my only skill. Typing. Learning to type from Mrs Marie Jordan at Wagener-Salley High School in 1971 was about the best investment in my future I ever made. It has afforded me the basis for my 'plan b' career (computers, and in particular coding) and has given me the appearance of being much more skilled than I really am.
Were it not for typing I could never had sat at that first dumb terminal and wowed the masses present with my accumen. Proclaimed 'a natural' from the start nobody cared if I didn't attend college because all of the college graduates were unable to write the code, install and troubleshoot systems, repair hardware or any of the other myriad duties I undertook early on with my strong electronics background ... and typing.
Typing Day originates in Malaysia and is an offshoot of a speed typing contest held there. Indeed I once pulled in a strong 120 words a minute on a 'bad day'. Nowadays I settle for whatever speed I attain.
Rest assured though, typing is the main facility which has caused me to endure what is a cutthroat field these days.
So on this 8th of January 2020 I wish you a happy typing day and aren't you glad Mr Hunt and Mr Peck aren't relevant to your keyboarding skills.
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- January 7, 2020
- SMTP and POP Idiocy
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My mail server suffers a lot of fools anymore. It seems that all too many wish to send mail though they are unqualified to do so ...
First of all, if you don't have a current TLS/SSL certificate you are not going to adequately negotiate my encryption ... though I do support anonymous no cert deliveries for the time being.
Secondly, if you don't have an MX (mail exchange) record in DNS you need to go elsewhere because that is a fatal flaw in your configuration as far as I am concerned.
THEN there are the insipid inbred gadflies like internet-census.org and the faker exploitation sites like netsystemsresearch.com who attempt to gain access to and use your resources to appear that you are doing their bidding. I personally don't care if they all die.
The vast bulk of email I receive is handled with my regular expression filters and gets discarded. You may think you're sending something but the server is simply tossing it and not telling you anything.
To think that I actually thought I was going to be able to omit firewall rules from the mail server. You can't be totally open with the internet because of idiots who want to exploit your resources for their own ends.
So I spend a lot of time with custom scripting and control file maintenance which would be unnecessary if these incessant third world spammer morons would simply go away.
Fat chance, huh? Guess I'll just keep right on scripting and configuring stopgap measures.
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- January 6, 2020
- Mr Trump is neither sniveling nor kowtowing to the enemy
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Our C-In-C of the military, President Donald Trump has raised us from the muck associated with two dismal runs under the sniveling kowtowing Obama who was out to embarrass the nation at each and every opportunity.
He opted to take out one Qasem Soleimani, head of Iranian so-called "elite" Quds military force and said to be one of the most powerful figures in the Islamic Republic with an airstrike in Baghdad featuring the Laser-guided Hellfire missile traveling 230 mph.
Not one to allow The Republic to suffer the murder of our serviceman nor to allow the abandonment of US citizens in the style of Benghazi Hillary; he took decisive action to protect the interests of the United States unlike the coward administration which preceeded him.
Democrats have whined and claimed that he was supposed to clear such action prior to taking action. These soiled doves need to shut their stupid mouths because it's a new era and the wussy democrats who want to be agents of Brussels ruling us as powerless minions of the United Nations suffering the effects of Agenda 21/2030.
So the Iranians have announced they no longer abide by the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal, lifting restrictions on centrifuges, uranium enrichment and more. As if they were "really" abiding by it anyway. Our President Mr Trump terminated the deal in 2018.
Then the Iraqi Parliament approved a resolution "calling on the government to expel some 5000 US troops from the country. Personally, I'm fine with this and Iraq can go straight to hell with Iran.
POTUS sent a formal notification to Congress about the airstrike as required by the War Powers Act. Any assertion by the democrats that he owed them some level of clearance is simply more of the same unconstitutional muck they want us all to continue wading through ...
Republicans are applauding our President's actions and Democrats are warning about the possible repercussions. These repercussions will simply result in an Iranian need to rediscover fire, the wheel, and living indoors.
I say BRAVO and good riddance to the cowardice of the previous administration. It's about time that we are protected by our administration instead of hung out to dry in the manner of Hillary Clinton or that sniveling poor excuse of a chief executive Mr Obama.
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- January 5, 2020
- Lottery Mess
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Since 2002 I've been playing the lottery. Prior to that time I never played it at all ...
Nor did I miss it either. Now I do about 60 bucks a week on the three games I indulge, Powerball, Megamillions, and Lucky for life.
I am also left a bit chapped with the Powerball organization which restructured their game such that the powerplay multiplier no longer applies to the five white ball winner, opting instead for a straight but totally crooked $2 million if you hit it.
I am considering cessation of Powerball play because I view their organization as totally unscrupulous and immoral.
But anyway, the entirety of my venture into the lottery games offered in my area has been a total waste of time and money. I play 1 ticket per game, that's 5 plays each.
Any winnings are reinvested into the game, i.e., I don't take the winnings but simply buy more tickets in whichever game is highest.
This typically excludes Lucky for Life which is the lowest dollar amount ... but also that game in which I do the best overall.
So, as I embark on this, my eighteenth year of playing this loser for me personally all I would ask is your best wishes for luck and indeed I don't view the future as anymore hopeful as the past has been.
I keep wondering why I bother to play at all.
Good luck to you if you play these taxes on the poor people of the world, we who play the bulk of the entries enriching the coffers of crooks like the Powerball organization.
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- January 4, 2020
- Robot Priests ??? I don't THINK so
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There is this notion of machines playing the role of clergy and ministering to humans. Entrusting my spiritual life to even the most sophisticated AI will never happen. Religion is a human construct. Relegating it to an algorithm is hardly an appropriate venue for the study of The Almighty.
Machines well may be without sin. I hardly think that those who create them are. My trust is earned. In religious circles you stand the utmost scrutiny by any serious adherent to the One True God, whose name is "I Am" and He will not be using any machines toward that end in some attempt to reach the many who are deceived.
In fact, IMHO the entire notion of AI as a religion or mechanized clergy is a deception itself. When the day comes that machines have anything to offer me spiritually I will have to become somthing I presently am not.
There won't be a mechanized false prophet in my life. I'm not looking for some executable Jesus. I follow the teachings as related via the original translations and the traditions of men have no room in my theology.
Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Holy Bible King James Version
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- January 2, 2020
- New Years Continuing Technical Festivities
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Last week I performed the Windows 10 reset in accordance with Microsoft instructions because some of my networking was proving quite unreliable.
After said reset procedure things quickly devolved into a never ending stream of disfunctional networking with reboot failures and never ending disk write attempts and so forth and so on.
Briefly, I had thought my router might be crapping out and considered going out and getting another ...
However, upon downloading the current driver set for my workstation from the manufacturer's support site and installing them, voila !
All problems immediately abated.
Now then, while I was originally under the impression that the drivers in device manager were optimal this simply is not the case by a long shot.
I keep wondering just why Microsoft would not tend to this technical business any better than the sorry show they exhibit.
Methinks it's because they have risen to their level of incompetence and they simply can't do any better.
Be all of this as it may the buck stops with me because I was aware of the presence of factory supplied drivers and I'm normally not one to rely on ANYTHING as frequently unsuitable as Microsoft or those who tout their product lines.
The moral of the story is you need to provision yourself with adequate skills and not rely on some unskilled vendor to protect your interests when they can't.
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- January 1, 2020
- New Years Day 2020
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- December 31, 2019
- New Years Eve 2019
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- December 30, 2019
- The New Decade Begins Day After Tomorrow
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Tomorrow is new years Eve. I've been considering the ramifications and while much will change a lot will remain the same.
I will continue to arise, dress, and traverse the 4 miles to work then return by the same route.
I will attempt to be more civil in all matters and diminish my penchant for mindless swearing and F bombs as best I can.
Then there is the continuing need for exercise which I haven't been able to pursue as I should. This matter will remain high on my list of priorities.
While many would call these 'new years resolutions' I prefer to simply regard them as hopes and dreams for the future.
I've lost in love and everything else except for technology. My skills are all that keep me going.
Happy New Year to you and yours and I hope your success in those pursuits outside the realm of work are infinitely more than my own.
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- December 28, 2019
- Amy Klobuchar is NOT an appropriate candidate for POTUS
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Singularly, one of either the most stupid or blind human beings on the planet, one Amy Klobuchar who is actually a presidential candidate says 'Hillary Clinton Would Have Made a Fantastic President'.
WHell ... she is either ignorant or blind to the monetization of US government by the Clintons in general or wanted the same group of people bumped off as them.
At any rate, this unsavory partisan hack seeking the highest office herself should be thwarted by any means necessary because she associates with the same pedo carpet munching ilk that Mr Epstein was killed to quell that scrutiny of perhaps several flights on the 'lolita express' too many ...
The audacity of touting a Clinton presidency is tantamount to continuing their legacy of self enrichment and agrandizement at the expense of the taxpayer. Conscience and The Republic need to stay RETURNED to US Government and I'm afraid that this Klobuchar person simply doesn't fill the bill.
The shadow government of the deep state has people killed at their whim. Will they ever simply embark on killing the "right" people for a change ?
Our corrupted politicians continue to raise their ugly heads in our midst. They should be made to be afraid to do so.
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- December 27, 2019
- Tweaks R Us
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So I think I'm finally though tweaking the web server after the big SSL/TLS upgrade.
I did it in several waves because I knew that the frustration level could become high at the drop of a hat.
I interspersed these efforts with a goodly portion of 'Mom time" whereby we fit a few items from her agenda in the mix.
I'm happy to say that the sites now route everything except the webcam streams through SSL in a solid orderly fashion. Perhaps someday the webcam server won't be the piece of microsoft stupidity it is now. Aside from this, God's in His Heaven, and all's right with the world ... presently.
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