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Re: In one way, losing a father is a relief (Scripting News)

bytehead — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:34:43 -0000

Wow. I've been an adult orphan for 15 years now. I just lost my step-mother last month, my dad remarried in my late 20's. Now my wife and I are the eldest generation around in our families.

Good luck on not covering your tracks now. :)

Re: Cell Phone 911 Calls Don't Give Location - Jacksonville News Story - WJXT Jacksonville

strawbabies — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:59:01 -0000

I'm pretty sure we don't have Enhanced 911 yet. I called 911 about a car on fire on Blanding in Orange Park. The call first went to 911 dispatch in Jax, who transferred me to Clay County.

Re: Cell Phone 911 Calls Don't Give Location - Jacksonville News Story - WJXT Jacksonville

bytehead — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:35:50 -0000

I thought we had Enhanced 911 for this? I can't find any timelines on this, but I thought those had already passed.

Re: Test at 2:33:00 PM (Scripting News)

bytehead — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:44:01 -0000

You're in luck, I was still on the page. Here's the screen grab:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bytehead/3712033938/

Re: Test at 2:33:00 PM (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:40:10 -0000

Bloglines is out of its mind.

Re: Test at 2:33:00 PM (Scripting News)

bytehead — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:38:31 -0000

The timestamp of when the item was created showed 5:33pm in Bloglines. Which tells me that the server is three hours ahead of where you're at. I only noticed because you put the time in the title, and I checked to see if it was correct, and it was off (reasonably so IMHO).

Re: Test at 2:33:00 PM (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:01:16 -0000

Please explain "Your feed is reporting..."

In what way is it reporting?

Re: Test at 2:33:00 PM (Scripting News)

bytehead — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:57:53 -0000

You're feed is reporting that it's 5:33pm. Which means it's on EDT while you're on PDT.

Re: The longest day (Scripting News)

bytehead — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:22:45 -0000

I've been up longer that on a trip. Coming home from Alaska, I was doing the usual thing during the day. Then I left on a 1AM local flight to SLC. Whereupon my wife and I ate breakfast (being around 8:30AM there), which already meant that right there we were up for 24 hours, then a flight to ATL, then the final flight to JAX. By that time it was closer to 36 hours, and there wasn't much snoozing either, the flight from Anchorage was cold!

@Doc Searls: My wife was flying to and from South Africa every month last year. She did the same exact thing your wife did.

Re: Mozilla and Opera Complain About Windows 7

bytehead — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:33:31 -0000

You know what? I just installed Chrome on my laptop, it's the last browser that I wanted to install on my new install of Windows 7 RC. I bring up the options to tweak a few things, and I see it's already made the decision that it's my default browser.

So Google, you're speaking bullshit when you talk about it. You're doing the same thing.

Re: Ask Jeeves Returns, Gets a Facebook Page

bytehead — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:22:34 -0000

Does this mean that Bloglines is getting out of maintenance mode? Because I keep telling them about feeds that don't work, and I don't even get the robot response back.

Or is it time to just jump ship to Google Reader (ugh!) and be done with it?

Re: There must be some way out of here, revisited (Scripting News)

bytehead — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:59:24 -0000

"Said the joker to the thief..."

Spoiler warning.
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Because it has all happened before.

The Cylons were created, they had a war, humanity fights for survival, humanity survives just barely to restart from the beginning, the Cylons go off to their own new place, everybody forgets everything, even the Cylons, leaving everything in prophecy, mankind (re)creates the Cylons, which then join up with the previous Cylons and the whole thing repeats. You did notice that the old Cylons looked like the 80's BSG Cylons and not the '00 Cylons.

Re: Modify the comment count link

video tr tube — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:28:26 -0000

Why thanks, buddy. ;)

Re: Reply-all e-mail storm hits State

bytehead — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 10:27:38 -0000

There is no cure for stupidity.

Re: Military Still Wary of Obama -- Political Wire

jgrillo — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:34:09 -0000

Congratulations! I am glad to hear they are back from their deployments!

Re: Military Still Wary of Obama -- Political Wire

bytehead — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:50:00 -0000

Yes, I am damn proud of all three of them!

But I only have two sons that are MPs (the third son is starting college next week. If he doesn't get his act together, who knows...) The third one is my daughter-in-law. And yes, she's an MP as well. The two sons are/were drivers, and she is a gunner. They are now back from their deployments. The first son to enlist has qualified for Sergeant (E5) now, I think it's just paper work at this point. The other son should be E5 later this year. BTW, they are fraternal twins (a quick look and you'd think they are identical...). And my other set of twins is boy/girl.

Re: Military Still Wary of Obama -- Political Wire

jgrillo — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:00:04 -0000

Bryan, if you have three sons serving in the military (I am not sure if that's what you meant) you must be awfully proud of them!

Re: Military Still Wary of Obama -- Political Wire

bytehead — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 14:20:21 -0000

That's one big caveat. I've got three, count 'em, three MPs in the Army right now. I haven't seen one single Military Times poll that has reflected their attitudes (nor the attitudes of the squad mates either according to these three).

I've seen too many others that make ridiculous claims for soldiers.

Re: Rick Warren is over the top (Scripting News)

bytehead — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:18:18 -0000

Simeon, you obviously aren't as old as Dave and I.

Divorce in the past half century has become much more palatable. Being a divorce' (I'm on my son's Mac, I have no clue as to how to do the e) meant that either you had some pretty serious charges, or you had plenty of money. Mothers were always given custody of children. It just wasn't done much.

Development of the Pill gave women control over their own bodies so that they had their own choice of getting pregnant or not, which kicked off the Free Love movement.

And I've already talked about Civil rights.

And the rate of change in technology in that time? It's enough to blow one's mind.

My grandparents wouldn't be able to comprehend what is going on today with the social changes, let alone the simple(!) ability of having 500 channels of TV available 24 hours a day.

You seem to think that marriage is the only right that gays are fighting for, and I can assure you that isn't the only fight. And Rick Warren has gone on further than that about the subject.

It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when. You might not want it to happen, but I know my children will.

And I didn't say you were attacking Dave, I said you totally misread what Dave wrote. And that's a totally different thing. And he did correct you.

Re: Rick Warren is over the top (Scripting News)

simeonf — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:15:19 -0000

>>people like you who try to frame the gay-marriage debate as being about bigotry...
>Isn't it? If not, the what is the debate about? Blue versus green?

Exactly my point - the debate over gay marriage is actually about issues and institutions. Questions of policy - what should the legal structures of our society look like? You apparently want to reduce it to a clash of archetypes - the righteously tolerant opposed by the forces of bigotry - and so does Dave. Once you've defined your opponents as crypto-nazis and supremacists its easy to see that they should be excluded by all right thinking Americans.

My point is that, quite contrary to this dark fantasy, opposition to gay marriage is a majority position in California. Hell, if you go back one single decade there was no place anywhere in the world where two people of the same gender could get married (the Netherlands was the first in 2001). Whaddaya know - the whole world was run by nazis in 2000! Please!

>And I would defend Dave, but I think he's big enough to defend himself. Because you really didn't read what he wrote. Skimming can do that to you.

Uh huh. Speaking of reading what people wrote - what exactly did I say that's an attack upon Dave? Ironically you're doing the same thing with my argument with Dave that you do with the argument about gay marriage at large - interpreting a disagreement about ideas and opinions as an attack upon a person...

Re: Rick Warren is over the top (Scripting News)

bytehead — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:40:57 -0000

"people like you who try to frame the gay-marriage debate as being about bigotry..."

Isn't it? If not, the what is the debate about? Blue versus green?

And I would defend Dave, but I think he's big enough to defend himself. Because you really didn't read what he wrote. Skimming can do that to you.

Re: Rick Warren is over the top (Scripting News)

bytehead — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:21:45 -0000

Does this make all of us gay? Never mind. And yes, I was being serious there.

We all discriminate. In one way or another, we make decisions that we discriminate on.Apple/Microsoft/Linus/Solaris/BSD. Intel/AMD/Nvidia. X86/ARM/Atom. Weigh too much/Weigh too little. Skin color. Accent. Theist/Deist/Atheist. Even Episcopalian and Christian. Heck, we've even got people getting fired because they won't go through Scientology indoctrination!.

Yes, I don't like Warren's message about gays. I do like that evangelicals are also going nuts about him being chosen.

But come on Dave, I remember, and you're a bit (not much) older than me so you should remember too, what the 60's and 70's were like in dealing with civil rights. I went to a lily white high school in the country, mostly because my father decided I wasn't going to be exposed to "that element" in the city schools. How we didn't get bussed is still a miracle to me. At least I wasn't freaking when I started making some black friends in college. Now our kids went to a school with plenty of people of different color and nationalities. And we're still working on racial equality.

And yet, they also got exposed to gay friends along the way, openly gay friends. I only knew one gay guy in my class, which was after the fact. He didn't make it to our fifth class reunion because he died of AIDS. I've learned of other friends the same way.

I think that while it would be nice to see anti-gay disappear now,, we'll get there one way or another, just not as fast as some of us want it, and certainly we'll be dragging some others that way although they definitely don't want to go there.

And it's always best to know if somebody is really against you and why, instead of just hiding the discrimination.

Re: Switzerland may go bankrupt (Scripting News)

bytehead — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:09:52 -0000

I think it has to do with the fact that the outgoing tide is sinking the yachts faster than it's sinking the fishing boats. It's not just that the stock market is sinking, but the hedge funds that are supposed to work the opposite way of the stock market are also sinking. And it seems that the only strategies that are currently working are shorts, particularly naked shorts. And the SEC is trying to stop those dead in their tracks.

Re: Switzerland may go bankrupt (Scripting News)

bytehead — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:01:25 -0000

That's sad.

I enjoyed my two weeks in Basil, Switzerland last year. Fountains all over the place, even for your pets. Friendly people, a great public transport system. At least their currency is still somewhat in line now with what it was then.

I spent a month in South Africa July. The Rand is now 70% of what it was four months ago!

As far as Citibank, we're already showing signs of bailout fatigue as evidenced by the auto bail out talks. I myself wouldn't be cynical if it weren't for Hank Paulson pulling a switcheroo with the TARP program. Then again, I felt that he needed to get the boot to start with. Along with Bernanke We still have the foxes guarding the hen house, and I think history will bare that out in the end.

What does the world look like in the future? I'm afraid my crystal ball is cracked way to much to even get a glimpse.

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