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Re: Dilbert creator defends Trump remarks on Charlottesville

anchorite — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 15:31:03 -0000

I heard "blame on both sides" after the Neo-Nazi murdered the Antifa woman. But what makes it a moot point is that Adams' evidence that Trump was referring to Confederate statues is that he is certain that Trump would never say there were "fine people" in Antifa (even more than he's sure Trump would never call Neo-Nazis fine people). I mean, that's actually true, and that's a pretty terrifying fact. If Antifa are anti-fascist, and you're anti-Antifa, you're pro-fascist. So regardless of what Trump said, we know what he thinks.

Re: Getting started with MongoDB, Node.js and Restify

anchorite — Thu, 21 Jun 2018 11:05:04 -0000

This is great, thank you so much. I especially like that it starts out with the lightweight MongoDB driver. Most tutorials jump right to Mongoose, and that always threw me for a loop, being a MongoDB beginniner. I have a few dropin changes to update it to the newest versions of everything.

restify has broken out some of its functions into restify-plugins, so install restify-plugins in addition to restify, then in index.js, the top would look like:

//========================================
'use strict'

/**
* Module Dependencies
*/
const config = require('./config'),
restify = require('restify'),
restifyPlugins = require('restify-plugins'),
mongodb = require('mongodb').MongoClient

/**
* Initialize Server
*/
const server = restify.createServer({
name : config.name,
version : config.version
})

/**
* Bundled Plugins(http://restify.com/#bundled...
*/
server.use(restifyPlugins.jsonBodyParser({ mapParams: true }))
server.use(restifyPlugins.acceptParser(server.acceptable));
server.use(restifyPlugins.queryParser({ mapParams: true }))
server.use(restifyPlugins.fullResponse())
//========================================

Next, the MongoDB 3.0+ version of the driver moves a few things around, so by default when you connect it is sending the mongoClient and not a db object. So the second half of index.js would be

//========================================
/**
* Lift Server, Connect to a DB & Require Route File
*/
server.listen(config.port, () => {
// establish connection to mongodb
mongodb.connect(config.db.uri, (err, mongoClient) => {
if (err) {
console.log('An error occurred while attempting to connect to MongoDB')
process.exit(1)
}

console.log(
'%s v%s ready to accept connections on port %s in %s environment.',
server.name,
config.version,
config.port,
config.env
)

require('./routes')({ mongoClient, server })
})
})
//================================

So in the routes.js you just need to make a small corresponding change at the top to get a handle to your db object:

//================================
'use strict'

module.exports = function(ctx) {
// extract content from passed in object
const db = ctx.mongoClient.db('yourdbname'),
server = ctx.server

// assign collection to variable for further use
const collection = db.collection('todos')
//================================

Re: Listen as Children Separated From Their Parents Wail, and a Border Agent Jokes, “We Have an Orchestra Here.”

anchorite — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 08:27:10 -0000

Not a Democrat, and fetuses aren't babies.

Re: Listen as Children Separated From Their Parents Wail, and a Border Agent Jokes, “We Have an Orchestra Here.”

anchorite — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 08:26:05 -0000

No, nobody should go to jail if they haven't committed any crimes. They should be deported if they're here illegally. I don't want to get rid of illegal immigrants of it means separating children from their parents. That's barbaric.

Re: Listen as Children Separated From Their Parents Wail, and a Border Agent Jokes, “We Have an Orchestra Here.”

anchorite — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 23:18:14 -0000

Ann Coulter refers to these children as "actors," as cynical pawns of liberals, progressives (as if she knows the meaning of the word, if Al Gore is the chief liberal), Democrats like Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, and George Soros, as adults in the guise of children, knowingly going undercover into ICE custody, facing hears of imprisonment and separation from the only world they've ever known, in order to fake trauma so they can vote...for Democrats...somehow, even though they are not citizens, registered voters, or even on the outside of a jail cell. JUST TO MAKE TRUMP LOOK BAD. That's their logic. Act towards these "patriots" accordingly. What would Jesus do? No, really, WHAT ... WOULD ... JESUS … DO?

Re: Listen as Children Separated From Their Parents Wail, and a Border Agent Jokes, “We Have an Orchestra Here.”

anchorite — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 23:13:18 -0000

They are. They are demons in human form. We truly have stooped as low as have the Germans of 1933 Germany who elected Adolf Hitler as their chancellor. We may do far more damage than was done in June, 2018, in the months and years to come, but morally, we can sink no lower. The rest is just more of the pure evil that Trump's supporters have wrought, including his Russian bot authors and cynical Chinese shareholders.

Re: Listen as Children Separated From Their Parents Wail, and a Border Agent Jokes, “We Have an Orchestra Here.”

anchorite — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 23:11:02 -0000

WHITE countries?! Do you know any history beyond 1776? This country is not a WHITE country, it's not a SPANISH country, it belonged, as given by Heavenly Father, to American Indians. YOU are an illegal immigrant, unless I missed the Iriquois Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, handing out certificates of citizenship to the smallpox bearing religious nutballs who stepped off the Mayflower.

Re: Listen as Children Separated From Their Parents Wail, and a Border Agent Jokes, “We Have an Orchestra Here.”

anchorite — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 23:09:00 -0000

I will support a Republican, I will support a Christian, I will support a Conservative, I will support a Tea Partisan who honestly opposes this inhuman practice with ever fiber of his or her body and soul. I have been a parent to children who were traumatized at birth, for life, by being separated from their rightful parents. There is no greater evil than doing this deliberately, and cynically, for political purposes.

Re: Listen as Children Separated From Their Parents Wail, and a Border Agent Jokes, “We Have an Orchestra Here.”

anchorite — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 23:06:22 -0000

Your sick assumption that anyone here supported Obama is the worst part of all.

Re: Listen as Children Separated From Their Parents Wail, and a Border Agent Jokes, “We Have an Orchestra Here.”

anchorite — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 23:06:03 -0000

You are sick. You are Satanic. You have allowed the Evil One into your mind and body for the sake of politics and money and social hierarchy. I wonder if even Jesus would forgive you.

Re: Listen as Children Separated From Their Parents Wail, and a Border Agent Jokes, “We Have an Orchestra Here.”

anchorite — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 23:05:04 -0000

I can't do it. I can't even start to do it. I'm a father, and I've always been opposed to using children as a political football, even if it was just bringing them to a protest, whether it be against abortion or for the Women's March. The fact that the GOP has done this, and are defending it, is the most shameful fact of my entire life so far. I am ashamed to be an American. I want immigrants to seek other places to settle, not because they're bad for America, but because they're GOOD for America, and we no longer deserve them.

Re: Actress Mindy Kaling Gives Horrifying Dating Advice To Men

anchorite — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 23:05:35 -0000

My problem with it is that she's basically assuming that, without being treated like "the adults are watching" she's saying men would act inappropriately to begin with. Basically assuming all men are the worst scumbags you hear about in the media at the height of the #MeToo movement.

Re: Actress Mindy Kaling Gives Horrifying Dating Advice To Men

anchorite — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 22:32:04 -0000

Right? Millionaire, only minor character out of The Office to get her own 5 season show, producer role. Yes, women make 70% what men make for the same jobs, ON AVERAGE. But Mindy Kaling makes a hundred times what your average finally-quit-my-day-job male actor in Hollywood/TV makes.

Re: Actress Mindy Kaling Gives Horrifying Dating Advice To Men

anchorite — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 20:03:34 -0000

Yeah I'm going to cut Kaling some slack because she's a comedian, but that comment was really pretty much saying, "Men, you're all scumbags until you prove yourselves otherwise." I also don't like her implication that women (or men for that matter) should feel free to do things "out of order" like have kids before they go to college. Too many people never make it through college that way.

Re: 6 Men reveal their super secret sexual fantasy (they aren't what you think)

anchorite — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 19:41:50 -0000

As a man, I can vouch that these are all true. When men are even around other men, there's an expectation that they'll say, "giant boobs" or "threesome!" or "stripper" or "younger women" something else fairly typical, but privately most men will confide to their closest friends that none of that is really anything more than a rare thought. Most of the time they just want great normal sex with their significant other where they can do a good job and get off themselves and end up with no feelings of inadequacy or worry. So, just don't let Hollywood or TV tell you what men want, or what women want.

Re: A Quick and Easy Guide to tmux

anchorite — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 12:46:56 -0000

Very cool, thanks for the intro. tmux's biggest draw for me is that it also works on MSYS2 (but GNU Screen does not), which I choose over Windows 10's new Linux subsystem and Cygwin for CLI development on Windows because I find it the most stable, and it compiles Windows native binaries. If I'm going to use tmux on that, I may as well use it also on Linux and MacOS X so I only have to learn one thing. The only thing GNU Screen does that tmux does not, that I can see is a pretty special case: it connects to a serial port on a headless device, a RasPi or some other DIY electronics.

Re: Installing clang++ to compile and link on Windows : Part 3

anchorite — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 14:27:02 -0000

Dear Mr. Peter. Thank you so much. I do have one question. You mention that if you want the 64-bit targeting compiler, you have to install mingw-w64-x86_64-clang, and if you want the 32-bit targeing compiler, you install mingw-w64-i686-clang. Using this advice I was able to get it working.

Before I saw your post, I had just installed what I thought would work, pacman -S llvm clang, and while I was able to compile to a *.exe file, the file wouldn't run. If it's not for 32-bit, and it's not for 64-bit, what target ARE the general llvm and clang packages compiling to?

Re: Former APD officer shot during traffic stop suing car dealership

anchorite — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 14:57:17 -0000

The suspect shot and ran into the officer, and now the officer himself has turned his actions on an innocent party. Two crimes were committed here.

Re: The conversation on reconstruction after a mastectomy

anchorite — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 20:09:10 -0000

Why is this controversial? "Reconstructive" surgery is, by definition, just returning someone to a previous state. Rebuilding or replacing breasts or faces or anything else is one of the few areas where plastic/cosmetic surgery is NOT controversial in the slightest, in my opinion. It's breast enlargement and botox and nip/tucks and all that crap that should be controversial. I knew a kid who had his ear bitten off by an errant rottweiler when he was 16, and he had it reattached and reconstructive surgery. Same thing, really.

Re: ‘What Are We Going to Do About Tyler?’

anchorite — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 10:17:31 -0000

I'm sorry, did I offend the Grand Old Pedophile party? I guess you DO have time for political correctness after all.

Re: ‘What Are We Going to Do About Tyler?’

anchorite — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 10:16:29 -0000

It's a well known fact that it was Ronald Reagan, a conservative, who closed all the state run mental hospitals that might have kept someone like Tyler harmless to the rest of us. So unless you're calling Reagan a liberal...

Re: ‘What Are We Going to Do About Tyler?’

anchorite — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 01:11:09 -0000

“We’re redneck. We don’t like beating and knocking on women.” Yeah unless it's a Republican Christian judge like Roy Moore doing the raping of young girls. Why then, molest away, and if anyone tries to stop it, they're a liberal America Christ hater!

Re: Audio Synthesis in JavaScript

anchorite — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 01:17:39 -0000

This is so awesome. Thank you for this. All I want to do is play the first 8 bars or so of some classic songs as a theme motif, and this is perfect. As a side note, you say this article is over two years old (now four), but I think it's still very relevant, and I have only two updates to make it fully 2017 compliant. Like Joaquin said below:

new window.webkitAudioContext();
becomes
new window.AudioContext();

And
song = "gfefgg-fff-gbb-gfefggggffgfe---";
becomes
song = "gfefggg-fff-gbb-gfefggggffgfe---";

Other than that I have tried it all in Chrome with perfect success. There was just a missing 'g' (the first "lamb" in the song). Again, thanks, this is awesome, love your voice in the writing and how easy this is to follow.

Re: Why is appropriate behavior a hard lesson for many men to learn? | Opinion

anchorite — Mon, 13 Nov 2017 17:11:31 -0000

Men don't learn because powerful men's bad behavior, in many ways (sex, drugs, infidelity, domestic assault, fiscal stupidity, bad parenting, drunk driving, you name it), has ALWAYS been excused by their fans. I know WOMEN today who are upset about Cosby and Weinstein and Moore and Spacey and Halperin and Louis CK and Polanski, but turn the subject to one of their favorite musicians like David Bowie or Robert Plant, who were long ago outed for the exact same things, and suddenly the defenses start to be voiced, "Well their so-called victims were willing" or "That was the 1960's, everyone was doing it" or "That would have been great if it happened to me." Yes, women have said this to me. Even if that was true, it's no defense, but unless we apply morality universally, I don't see it changing, just becoming more scheming and harder to prove, just like sexual discrimination or racism in the office.

Re: Why We Should All Support Dr. Peter Gallogly

anchorite — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 09:16:35 -0000

Alright you're probably right about HIPAA,but the threatening him and his staff and trespassing still stand. And explain how the doctor's crime, grabbing a cell phone out of someone's hand, which you consider to be theft, have ANYTHING to do with his medical abilities or competency. My experiences are as a patient, and I would sure like a doctor to make the best decision, not the decision that the person with the most money wanted. Patients are NOT customers. I don't want a doctor focusing on the squeaky wheel, e.g. this whiny woman who decided to berate him over and over AFTER he'd started to treat her. I want him to do what is right.