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- October 28, 2017
- You can't substitute incompetence for skills
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We have a problem in the United States. A preponderence of skill-less wonders masquerading as skilled professionals.
Those who sit at a computer without a clue and the enterprise wondering just where the problem lay in productivity.
When a position specifies a certain set of skills it is reasonable to expect to verify that presence of the requisite knowledge prior to hire.
What happens though is they put something on the resume that looks good yet fail to back up that resume in the work place.
This results in a bunch of testy unskilled liars running around the place trying to hide the fact that you can't fake certain abilities with a computer because of the inherent problem with inefficiency. However, some of us are required to "prove" ourselves. For example, I was required to pass a hundred question test in Coldfusion to qualify for the position. They administered this test 3 interviews into the eight I attended prior to being offered a job.
The moral of the story is that people performing technical duties who don't belong on the team should be removed from it. When everything you produce is an embarrassment for the team is it really essential for this substandard work to be utilized in mission critical processes?
Can I get a Duh ?
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- October 27, 2017
- Euthanasia for the mentally ill
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Some of the Belgian physicians are arguing regarding the use of euthanasia for the mentally ill. In the presence of compromised mentality can a person fully meet those criteria specified for such drastic action from an ethical perspective ?
The banter surrounds family members of those dispatched at their request by lethal drugs provided by their physicians.
The arguments surround protecting individual freedom as well as vulnerable patients when it comes to the implementation of euthanasia as a ... treatment ?
Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Luxembourg and the Netherlands have legalized euthanasia. Mental illness is a valid reson in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Typically, it is reserved for people with some terminal illness like cancer with a prognosis for longevity in the range of a few weeks.
It exists in the United States as "assisted suicide" but the outcome is relatively equal to the EU version.
The entirety of the rationale is the amelioration of suffering and as such I suppose it most certainly would qualify as "mercy".
If I were suffering some protracted severe never ending pain I would seek relief even if it meant death.
Sometimes life degrades to so low a quality that it is rendered the lesser of the two options. I just hope that the people problems associated with the application of this ultimate therapy are resolved satisfactorily — though I must say that the individuals I have witnessed in various documentaries are grateful for the option by and large.
Not being happy with a prognosis does not mean that the alternative relief is still unwanted.
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- October 26, 2017
- Intersex Awareness Day
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In the biology of gender, sex chromosomes or "gametes" comprise those set of genetics which determine the sex of the individual.
The two sex chromosomes are known as "X Chromosomes" and "Y Chromosomes" with the combinations being XX (an X from the mother and an X from the father) rendering a female individual while an XY (an X from the mother and a Y from the father) rendering a male.
There are situations where the combinations merge into a configuration known as "mosaic" where different combinations of gamete combine such that there is a combination of gender rendered in the individual. Indeed, “intersex” refers to a variety of conditions where individuals are born with a reproductive or sexual anatomy which is nonconformant to being totally "female" or "male".
These individuals were formerly rushed into surgery by ignorant and unethical medical professionals whose cookie cutter version of humanity did not conform to that wide spectrum we call "normal". These actions often occurred at the protest of the parents and the damage done to these people has been well documented over the years.
Today is Intersex Awareness Day, a day for those who are of mosaic genetic makeup to have their human rights recognized publically and those issues faced by intersex individuals brought to the fore.
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- October 24, 2017
- United Nations Day
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Today represents the demise of self determination and self governance. United Nations Day is about trying to take over the rule of law in all nations of the world. They want to indoctrinate our children into zombies out to do their bidding.
They seek a globalist agenda which is wrong for the freedoms we now enjoy as citizens of the United States. Their pernicious intrusions into the affairs of sovereign nations are designed to create a centralized world government to which all will answer run by them. They want to destroy the rights to property and freedoms of speech, assembly, to bear arms and anything and everything which could diminish their ultimate control. They want to eliminate those freedoms which arise from our constitution and Bill of Rights. They want to achieve the New World Order by gaining control of America and the American Way.
Although we are a component known as "member state" we need to toss these people out of the country. We need to stop supporting that espionage and freeloading by the other "member states" of the world out to promote their George Soros funded anarchy and paid criminals to lead us down the primrose path which is their vision for the elimination of democracy and even The Republic itself.
On this United Nations Day let us separate ourselves from this attempt at globalized control of anything and everything and the elimination of freedom for the tax paying citizen.
Down with the United Nations and the New World Order. Throw the entirety of this rogue organization out of New York and the rest of the United States of America.
Anti-American. Anti-Freedom.
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- October 23, 2017
- Mole Day
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My chemistry days are now long past. Yes, I was interested in various aspects of it all back in my drug culture heyday ...
But it all became a moot point right about the time drug testing became a fact of life in employment. I decided that it simply was not to be one of those hard headed stances taken up by so many of my unemployable friends who couldn't face the fact that yes — you can be told what to do on your off time, stupid if you wish to eat and live indoors with any degree of quality and frequency.
Today is one of those unofficial observances celebrated among chemical geeks in the know everywhere. "Mole Day" celebrates the "gram molecular weight".
The date of this observance is derived from Avogadro's constant, a number, which is approximately 6.02 × 1023 and defines the number of particles (atoms or molecules) in one mole of a substance. It is named for the scientist Amedeo Avogadro.
Anyway, as far as scientific curiosa goes this is about as eclectic as it gets. I like to mark the day myself in memory of that time when I was of the chemical persuasion ... seeing how I'll never see those days again.
Happy Mole Day to you !
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- October 22, 2017
- Pathetic Fake News Outlets and The Truth
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I've been sticking pretty close to the conservative news outlets because of the fake swing taken by individuals reporting for those liberal companies like MSNBC, CNN, and other would be opinion as fact liars and other yellow journalistic fantasy providers of their ilk.,-lowest-of-the-low.jpg "Moron Florida Congresswoman Frederica Wilson (D), lowest of the low")
This despicable element in the country today which are the bulk of democrats, progressives, and Soros funded interlopers have caused me to seek the truth by hitting as many different sources as possible and comparing notes between what is reported, what I have witnessed, and common denominators between them all.
These democrats have no couth nor manners as they utilize any and all tragedies such as the deaths in Niger as some political football with which they attempt to spin the truth into some variant on their favorite misleading fantasies and this moron Florida Congresswoman who would eaves drop on a private telephone call between The President and a grieving Gold Star Widow is the lowest of the low.
It's as though the left thinks we're all as stupid and gullible as they are.
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- October 21, 2017
- Sodom, South Carolina
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Today I had to run up to the office. I parked in the garage and walked down the ramps among the hand holding same sex couples littering the area with their homosexual proclivities.
I attended to my business quickly and proceeded back to my truck passing a number of hand holding females with babies. It seems that they had participated in normal relationships for some amount of time and gotten pregnant only to pair off with each other and abandon their men.
While I may have to tolerate same sex couples and indeed I have to ONLY because the political climate won't let me take a few of them to a wall and stone them ... I don't have to like it.
This pride celebration of abomination they hold grows more popular each year.
Abnormality, be not proud.
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- October 20, 2017
- World Osteoporosis Day
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When I was first entering the work place back in the early 1970s; aside from the tacky clothing we wore there was a pervasive fear by some of the ladies in my midst regarding growing old and having a "hump" on their back. That 'dowagers hump' is caused by the forward curvature of the spine and subsequent stoop. This is typically observed in women with osteoporosis and is the sequela of collapsed front thoracic vertebral edges.
World Osteoporosis Day happens each year on October 20th. It begins the yearly campaign of global awareness of osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease from a standpoint of prevention and treatment.
It is held under the auspices of the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) and involves various programs which support public awareness of the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis — that medical condition resulting brittle and fragile bones secondary to loss of tissue due to hormonal changes, or deficiencies of calcium or vitamin D.
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- October 19, 2017
- Some days it's just impossible to write
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I've been sitting at my keyboard hammering away looking for ideas to write about. I came up empty too. It's not so much "writer's block" as a topical disinterest which engulfs me and bids me to just drop it.
However, this still falls in the classic definition of "writer's block" which is in essence being unable to think of what to write or how to proceed with writing.
So ... yet another blog entry goes undone in actuality even though the words exist.
It's not the same thing.
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- October 18, 2017
- World Menopause Day
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Menopause refers to that cessation of menstruation which occurs in females somewhere in the mid 40s through the early 50s on average with some women reaching it sooner or later within that wide expanse of time called "normal".
Today is World Menopause Day. Held under the auspices of the International Menopause Society — October 18 has been set aside to mark this most important aspect of physiological existence..
In observation of the day, the International Menopause Society distributes materials and organize activities to inform women about menopause, how to manage it, and the impact of estrogen loss on aspects of their lives such as bone density as well as various sensorium and mood swings.
It is said that men too go through this change with age causing a condition of diminished virility due to the decline of male sex hormones, or "Low T".
Regardless of your gender, it is important to pursue hormone replacement therapy as deemed appropriate by your health care provider.
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- October 17, 2017
- Key Reinstallation Attack KRACK Exploit
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Oh yeah, just when you're standing around bragging about all the bodacious WiFi you have going on there comes an exploit likely to make you regret buying all that wireless technology.
It seems that the WiFi security protocol WPA2 has a few vulnerabilities in it rendering most every newer wireless router inclusions subject to hacks by outsiders.
These problems were discovered by Mathy Vanhoef, a researcher with the University of Leuven and allow the interception and decryption of traffic from connecting devices and includes the possibility for injecting malicious information into that traffic.
Seeing how WPA2 is the only protocol my wireless router uses I have killed the connections for most of the wireless, turned off new client connections, and killed the SSID transmittal until further notice.
I suppose this will add a couple of extra log checks each morning as well.
Aside from a few basic precautions ... all we can really do is hope they get patches in place for the routers and clients before anything nasty comes our way.
Good Luck !
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- October 16, 2017
- World Anesthesia Day
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I once worked an acute med/surg ward and had to prep patients for surgery. I wasn't too swooft early on and got called down by the anesthesia charge bitch on several occasions regarding my nonconforming sheet folds — and if only I could encounter her now.
October 16, 1846 marked the first successful demonstration of either anesthesia; heralding an age of painless surgery for the world and generally considered one of the most significant developments in medicine.
Internationally, World Anaesthesia Day is celebrated annually under the auspices of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesioloigsts.
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- October 15, 2017
- White Cane Safety Day
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I feel as though my vision diminishes as my age progresses. My once cat like night vision in conjunction with those details now lost to me are evidence for that dreaded condition called presbyopia ... or "old eyes".
There are others with much more serious sight deficits who must contend with mobility factors and functionality well beyond my comparatively meager complaints. These are the blind, the legally blind, and the almost blind. When I consider that with which these individuals must contend my complaints grow pale indeed.
Today is White Cane Safety Day, a national observance in the United States, happening each October 15 since 1964.
It recognizes achievements of people who are blind or visually impaired and that symbol of mobility many of them carry, the white cane.
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the first White Cane Safety Day proclamation within hours of the passage of a joint resolution authorizing it on October 6, 1964. I was nine years old.
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- October 14, 2017
- World Standards Day
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I remember when the United States was going to "go metric". The entire project became a debacle when the people pretty much rejected the idea by "passive resistance" and simply declined to utilize metric measurements for quantatative computations and lo and behold we remain on the English system of measurement to this day by and large with the exception of medical, scientific, and ISO pursuits.
Today is World Standards Day aka International Standards Day celebrated each October 14th in an effort to honor the work of all those who attempt to standardize measurements in the eyes of industry, consumers, and regulation agencies as a function of improvement of communication of these parameters among denizens of the planet.
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