Random Thought of the Day

August 3rd, 2018 at 6:18:52 PM permalink
petroglyph
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Quote: rxwine
Earlier today

100 goats on the loose

News on the ground
None of them look fresh
The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW
August 4th, 2018 at 4:29:51 AM permalink
odiousgambit
Member since: Oct 28, 2012
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advice and even what some sites demand on computer passwords often seem odd to me, not to say some of it isn't good

mainly I'd say the oddest thing is not mentioning that the main thing that saves most of us is the fact that a hacker can not keep trying different passwords in most of what we have to deal with. Usually there can be about 4 attempts before getting locked out. As long as you don't do stupid passwords like the names of your pets, or "qwerty", etc., with the tiniest effort the password you create is going to be just fine with such systems. Yet they often insist you use something with both lower and upper case, numbers, and symbols.

I've gotten a little uncomfortable with what I've been doing for a while, which is storing passwords in the cloud ... many warnings that can be hacked. So I have changed many recently for banks and other important places to something I can memorize. If that is nearly impossible due to demanded complexity, I've taken the advice that to write it down somewhere is better than storing it somewhere on your computer, or in cyberspace.
I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me]
August 6th, 2018 at 5:02:03 AM permalink
SOOPOO
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I was golfing at my public golf course in suburban Buffalo yesterday, when a large animal was loping across the fairway. First glance I just assumed it was a deer, as we have many, but second glance it was obviously a coyote! It was much bigger and faster than I would have thought. The golf course has lots of bunnies. Maybe a few less today....

A few weeks back a bear was killed on the street I used to live on. There hadn't been a bear sighting in my area for decades. The bear was injured before the police had to put it down.
August 6th, 2018 at 4:10:09 PM permalink
Face
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Quote: SOOPOO
I was golfing at my public golf course in suburban Buffalo yesterday, when a large animal was loping across the fairway. First glance I just assumed it was a deer, as we have many, but second glance it was obviously a coyote! It was much bigger and faster than I would have thought. The golf course has lots of bunnies. Maybe a few less today....


Shoot it!

Or don't. They kill deer, too, and I don't know how you guys stand them up there. At least in the Southtowns, they're every freaking where. I hit SIX last winter. Deer, that is. Can't say I've ever seen a 'yote, though I always hear them screaming the night away.

Quote: SOOP
A few weeks back a bear was killed on the street I used to live on. There hadn't been a bear sighting in my area for decades. The bear was injured before the police had to put it down.


That the Amherst one?

I just had one on my route last week, Lakeview Rd where it crosses the 90. I don't think they found it. Think yours got hit and then was shot.

Y'all should probably stop building now. As a bit of a BANANA, the 'burbs trigger me daily.
Be bold and risk defeat, or be cautious and encourage it.
August 7th, 2018 at 2:56:44 AM permalink
odiousgambit
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Carnivals and fairs were more fun back in the old days.

interesting details on chimp strength

https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2/can-a-90-lb-chimp-clobber-a-full-grown-man/
I'm Still Standing, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [it's an old guy chant for me]
August 11th, 2018 at 5:08:56 PM permalink
rxwine
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From comments in a rc thread

Quote:
Wow, lots of critics in these comments. Most likely people who have never A: flown an RC plane 2: fired an Airsoft gun or D: had sex, with a person.


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You believe in an invisible god, and dismiss people who say they are trans? Really?
August 11th, 2018 at 5:27:25 PM permalink
Fleastiff
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Not only do these silly sites require complex passwords of numbers symbols and mixed cases but they often have a live indication of complexity status.
I kept getting rejected with my generic password followed by some gibberish symbols so I put the gibberish symbols first and then typed the exact same generic password, suddenly I sailed thru the registration process with flying colors. Strange.

I would prefer to not write my passwords down anywhere but for someone who can't remember what comes after Walla it is sort of necessary for me to write them down even if I can never find where the list is.
August 14th, 2018 at 1:00:12 PM permalink
Evenbob
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Our anniversary is next week and
my wife informed me 2 weeks ago
that we were going 150 miles north
to see her cousins yarn shop and
search for a relatives headstone in
an old cemetery. Spend the night
at Soaring Eagle casino.

Not a single part of this was anything
I remotely wanted to do, I don't even
like that casino any more. I've been
plotting ways to weasel out of it, and
lo and behold! My wife went up there
today with her sister. I never had to
say a word. Maybe there is a god, and
I didn't even have to pray about it.
Thank you Jesus!
If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.
August 14th, 2018 at 1:27:18 PM permalink
petroglyph
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Quote: Evenbob
Our anniversary is next week and
my wife informed me 2 weeks ago
that we were going 150 miles north
to see her cousins yarn shop and
search for a relatives headstone in
an old cemetery. Spend the night
at Soaring Eagle casino.
Did she look online? I got a free gravesite finder site with ancestry. com. Apparently somebody goes around photographing all the tombstones in cemetary's and lists them online. I have found over a dozen of my family. https://www.findagrave.com/
The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW
August 14th, 2018 at 1:35:14 PM permalink
Evenbob
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Quote: petroglyph
Did she look online?


They want to see it in person, that's
what women do,
If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose.