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Post by Prince Hal on Mar 17, 2016 13:44:33 GMT -5
Good interview with Tim Cook about Apple being told to develop a new OS for its iPhones. It really sounds like a case of "we f**d things up, so since you made this gizmo now it's your responsibility to pull our fat out of the fire. Or else". And although I see the practical aspect of asking a device's manufacturer to help get into its innards, I don't see how a phone maker can be held responsible for what people do with their phone. At best I'd ask the company to please, please, please, help us open this thing, but to invoke the All Writs act to just impose cooperation like that is, as far as I am concerned, tantamount to saying that the government has the right to force people to do whatever it likes, justifying it by saying "it's to help law enforcement". I'd be curious to hear what our more law-savvy members think of the matter. I'm not law-savvy, but I am authority-leery. Nothing I've read so far makes me convinced that this is a good idea. Just occurs to me as a teacher of literature that the fact that it is an Apple device that they're so tempted to open is so much more satisfying than if it were a device made by Sony or Nokia or whomever.
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Post by Gene on Mar 17, 2016 20:42:52 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2016 22:09:30 GMT -5
The past two days I've been sicker than I ever remember being in my life. Spent all day yesterday in the emergency room because the batteries on my glucose monitor died, I was too sick to get more, and I wasn't sure if the diebetes was killing me or not.
Turns out I just have a flu bug and my blood sugar was a little high but generally fine the whole time.
Feel fine today.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 17, 2016 22:37:44 GMT -5
I'm sitting indoors today, reading, when I feel two separate taps on my shoulder. I turn to look. Nobody there. Nobody remotely close. Nothing hit me, nothing on the floor or on my body. Muscle spasm or....something.....else.... ??
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Post by hondobrode on Mar 17, 2016 22:53:25 GMT -5
Glad to hear you're ok and that it's nothing horrible with your diabetes, dupont
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2016 1:11:34 GMT -5
dupont2005 ... Sorry to hear this and glad you are okay and please take care of yourself and most importantly I will be thinking of you as always.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2016 6:32:41 GMT -5
The past two days I've been sicker than I ever remember being in my life. Spent all day yesterday in the emergency room because the batteries on my glucose monitor died, I was too sick to get more, and I wasn't sure if the diebetes was killing me or not. Turns out I just have a flu bug and my blood sugar was a little high but generally fine the whole time. Feel fine today. Wow. Dupont, be careful! I'm glad that you got everything straightened out, and I won't give you a health lecture. But my mom is proof that diabetics really need to be able to monitor their sugar level when they get the flu/an illness of sorts. Sugar levels fluctuate sooooo badly in diabetics when they get ill. When you don't feel well, please communicate with someone close to you, so that they can keep an eye on you. It's very important. <3 I know I said I would not give you a health lecture, but sorry-not-sorry.
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Post by lobsterjohnson on Mar 18, 2016 8:53:16 GMT -5
I'm glad everything worked out OK, dupont2005.
I'm sitting indoors today, reading, when I feel two separate taps on my shoulder. I turn to look. Nobody there. Nobody remotely close. Nothing hit me, nothing on the floor or on my body. Muscle spasm or....something.....else.... ?? Creepy. Ninja or ghost?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2016 9:32:18 GMT -5
I'm glad everything worked out OK, dupont2005.
I'm sitting indoors today, reading, when I feel two separate taps on my shoulder. I turn to look. Nobody there. Nobody remotely close. Nothing hit me, nothing on the floor or on my body. Muscle spasm or....something.....else.... ?? Creepy. Ninja or ghost? Why can't it be both?
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Mar 18, 2016 15:18:34 GMT -5
I'm glad everything worked out OK, dupont2005.
Creepy. Ninja or ghost? Why can't it be both? Im gonna go the Dana Scully route and say ninja, cause ghosts aren't real. (Damn Bad Blood is the greatest X-Files episode.)
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Post by Gene on Mar 19, 2016 8:58:47 GMT -5
I'm supposed to meet a friend that I haven't seen in years for lunch today. Naturally, I ended up catching the worst cold of my life over the course of the past day. I'm so pumped full of over the counter meds right now that Timothy Olyphant's probably leading a manhunt for me right now.
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Post by hondobrode on Mar 19, 2016 14:36:30 GMT -5
Speaking of ghosts, has anyone here ever encountered one ?
Let me be the first to say that I am not unlike Dr 13, highly skeptical of most paranormal things, but, one time not only me, but my dad was with me on a long 222 rural Sunday morning route where we delived newspapers in the wee hours from 2-8 am.
I was driving my first car, a light green '74 Pontiac Catalina 4 door (with a 455 under the hood), and cruising down one of the rare blacktopped roads in Crawford County, Iowa. It was the sweetest point of the route. Flat opens fields for miles, no one else around. We'd just made a bundle drop in Dunlap and we'd always split a bottle of Coke, parsing out tiny sips in between listening to Larry King back on AM radio in the 80's.
Anyway, off to my left my peripheral vision barely sees a white something. It's coming toward the road and moving pretty quickly, jumping the fence and landing square in front of the H-1 (Hondo-1 tank), about 20 feet in front of us.
It was a buffalo, it was white and my headlights shone right through it. It landed for a split second right there in my headlights, then bounded right, and we didn't see him again.
It all happened so fast I didn't even have time to hit my brakes.
Neither of us said a word. We drove for miles without saying anything.
Finally, I asked, "Did you see something ?" Pop says, "What did you see ?"
We compared notes, and reluctantly, he admitted seeing the same thing.
I don't know if he ever said anything to anyone, but I told my family about it when we were all having a drink and what not.
A friend of mine in college, Ken, a native American, was a returning student and we got along really well. Somehow this came up one day at lunch and his eyes got big and he said, "You saw the spirit of the Sioux people !" I did ? Yes, he claimed. The thousands of Sioux that were slaughtered; their spirits are in the sacred White Buffalo.
To say I was stunned would be a vast understatement. If Pop hadn't seen this with me and confirmed it, I would've thought it was my mind playing tricks on me. What's amazing as well is how incredibly quick and limber it was and it definitely had the exact distinct outline of a buffalo.
I do believe there are things we don't fully understand and this would be one of them I've seen first hand.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 19, 2016 14:50:16 GMT -5
Speaking of ghosts, has anyone here ever encountered one ? Let me be the first to say that I am not unlike Dr 13, highly skeptical of most paranormal things, but, one time not only me, but my dad was with me on a long 222 rural Sunday morning route where we delived newspapers in the wee hours from 2-8 am. I was driving my first car, a light green '74 Pontiac Catalina 4 door (with a 455 under the hood), and cruising down one of the rare blacktopped roads in Crawford County, Iowa. It was the sweetest point of the route. Flat opens fields for miles, no one else around. We'd just made a bundle drop in Dunlap and we'd always split a bottle of Coke, parsing out tiny sips in between listening to Larry King back on AM radio in the 80's. Anyway, off to my left my peripheral vision barely sees a white something. It's coming toward the road and moving pretty quickly, jumping the fence and landing square in front of the H-1 (Hondo-1 tank), about 20 feet in front of us. It was a buffalo, it was white and my headlights shone right through it. It landed for a split second right there in my headlights, then bounded right, and we didn't see him again. It all happened so fast I didn't even have time to hit my brakes. Neither of us said a word. We drove for miles without saying anything. Finally, I asked, "Did you see something ?" Pop says, "What did you see ?" We compared notes, and reluctantly, he admitted seeing the same thing. I don't know if he ever said anything to anyone, but I told my family about it when we were all having a drink and what not. A friend of mine in college, Ken, a native American, was a returning student and we got along really well. Somehow this came up one day at lunch and his eyes got big and he said, "You saw the spirit of the Sioux people !" I did ? Yes, he claimed. The thousands of Sioux that were slaughtered; their spirits are in the sacred White Buffalo. To say I was stunned would be a vast understatement. If Pop hadn't seen this with me and confirmed it, I would've thought it was my mind playing tricks on me. What's amazing as well is how incredibly quick and limber it was and it definitely had the exact distinct outline of a buffalo. I do believe there are things we don't fully understand and this would be one of them I've seen first hand. Unbelievable. I had similar experience about 20 years ago with my friend as a witness. I posted this once before but maybe that was on CBR and its been wiped out We was driving at about 10PM in the dead of winter in a desolate area of Long Island NY going to someone's house for the first time. It was pitch black in a wooded area, below freezing and icy. We were driving slowly because of the conditions and not knowing the area. After a curve, we both suddenly saw a woman standing a bit in front of us on the side of the road in a long white coat. She did not wave her arm or make any other motions, she just stood there staring straight ahead. I felt a chill as we passed her. I looked back and she did not turn to look in our directions. My friend asked if we should go back to see if she's OK and what the hell she was doing in the freezing cold and utter dark. But I was hesitant A minute later around another bend in the road, we saw police flashing lights. We passed by slowly and saw it was a car crash. A car smashed into a tree, the occupant was on the road obviously dead. It was the same woman in the long white coat we had just saw. We both swear we saw the exact same woman. And we spend up to get the hell out of there We got to the house, we agreed we saw the same thing, we did not tell others about the occurrence that night, we took a different route back to the city later that evening
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Post by lobsterjohnson on Mar 19, 2016 15:26:20 GMT -5
Speaking of ghosts, has anyone here ever encountered one ? Let me be the first to say that I am not unlike Dr 13, highly skeptical of most paranormal things, but, one time not only me, but my dad was with me on a long 222 rural Sunday morning route where we delived newspapers in the wee hours from 2-8 am. I was driving my first car, a light green '74 Pontiac Catalina 4 door (with a 455 under the hood), and cruising down one of the rare blacktopped roads in Crawford County, Iowa. It was the sweetest point of the route. Flat opens fields for miles, no one else around. We'd just made a bundle drop in Dunlap and we'd always split a bottle of Coke, parsing out tiny sips in between listening to Larry King back on AM radio in the 80's. Anyway, off to my left my peripheral vision barely sees a white something. It's coming toward the road and moving pretty quickly, jumping the fence and landing square in front of the H-1 (Hondo-1 tank), about 20 feet in front of us. It was a buffalo, it was white and my headlights shone right through it. It landed for a split second right there in my headlights, then bounded right, and we didn't see him again. It all happened so fast I didn't even have time to hit my brakes. Neither of us said a word. We drove for miles without saying anything. Finally, I asked, "Did you see something ?" Pop says, "What did you see ?" We compared notes, and reluctantly, he admitted seeing the same thing. I don't know if he ever said anything to anyone, but I told my family about it when we were all having a drink and what not. A friend of mine in college, Ken, a native American, was a returning student and we got along really well. Somehow this came up one day at lunch and his eyes got big and he said, "You saw the spirit of the Sioux people !" I did ? Yes, he claimed. The thousands of Sioux that were slaughtered; their spirits are in the sacred White Buffalo. To say I was stunned would be a vast understatement. If Pop hadn't seen this with me and confirmed it, I would've thought it was my mind playing tricks on me. What's amazing as well is how incredibly quick and limber it was and it definitely had the exact distinct outline of a buffalo. I do believe there are things we don't fully understand and this would be one of them I've seen first hand. Wow. That's really interesting.
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Post by hondobrode on Mar 19, 2016 16:09:50 GMT -5
Speaking of ghosts, has anyone here ever encountered one ? Let me be the first to say that I am not unlike Dr 13, highly skeptical of most paranormal things, but, one time not only me, but my dad was with me on a long 222 rural Sunday morning route where we delived newspapers in the wee hours from 2-8 am. I was driving my first car, a light green '74 Pontiac Catalina 4 door (with a 455 under the hood), and cruising down one of the rare blacktopped roads in Crawford County, Iowa. It was the sweetest point of the route. Flat opens fields for miles, no one else around. We'd just made a bundle drop in Dunlap and we'd always split a bottle of Coke, parsing out tiny sips in between listening to Larry King back on AM radio in the 80's. Anyway, off to my left my peripheral vision barely sees a white something. It's coming toward the road and moving pretty quickly, jumping the fence and landing square in front of the H-1 (Hondo-1 tank), about 20 feet in front of us. It was a buffalo, it was white and my headlights shone right through it. It landed for a split second right there in my headlights, then bounded right, and we didn't see him again. It all happened so fast I didn't even have time to hit my brakes. Neither of us said a word. We drove for miles without saying anything. Finally, I asked, "Did you see something ?" Pop says, "What did you see ?" We compared notes, and reluctantly, he admitted seeing the same thing. I don't know if he ever said anything to anyone, but I told my family about it when we were all having a drink and what not. A friend of mine in college, Ken, a native American, was a returning student and we got along really well. Somehow this came up one day at lunch and his eyes got big and he said, "You saw the spirit of the Sioux people !" I did ? Yes, he claimed. The thousands of Sioux that were slaughtered; their spirits are in the sacred White Buffalo. To say I was stunned would be a vast understatement. If Pop hadn't seen this with me and confirmed it, I would've thought it was my mind playing tricks on me. What's amazing as well is how incredibly quick and limber it was and it definitely had the exact distinct outline of a buffalo. I do believe there are things we don't fully understand and this would be one of them I've seen first hand. Unbelievable. I had similar experience about 20 years ago with my friend as a witness. I posted this once before but maybe that was on CBR and its been wiped out We was driving at about 10PM in the dead of winter in a desolate area of Long Island NY going to someone's house for the first time. It was pitch black in a wooded area, below freezing and icy. We were driving slowly because of the conditions and not knowing the area. After a curve, we both suddenly saw a woman standing a bit in front of us on the side of the road in a long white coat. She did not wave her arm or make any other motions, she just stood there staring straight ahead. I felt a chill as we passed her. I looked back and she did not turn to look in our directions. My friend asked if we should go back to see if she's OK and what the hell she was doing in the freezing cold and utter dark. But I was hesitant A minute later around another bend in the road, we saw police flashing lights. We passed by slowly and saw it was a car crash. A car smashed into a tree, the occupant was on the road obviously dead. It was the same woman in the long white coat we had just saw. We both swear we saw the exact same woman. And we spend up to get the hell out of there We got to the house, we agreed we saw the same thing, we did not tell others about the occurrence that night, we took a different route back to the city later that evening Wow Ish ! That is so wild ! What's so strange to me, is that if there are these spirits / ghosts / whatever, that they are clothed, like your woman in the white coat. You would think that a person would be in a "natural" state of being and clothes, or the appearance thereof, wouldn't be a factor. Now of course the buffalo had no clothes, so that's a horse of a different color entirely I met a woman who owns a bed & breakfast out in western Oklahoma and was asking her about this big beautiful old home. She informed me that it was a hospital during the Civil War and that she'd seen a soldier there before. As I wrote my posting, it occurred to me how much it sounded like something from the old House of Mystery or House of Secrets from back in the day. Yours too. The editors claimed that, at least some of them, were based on true stories.
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