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Please send something to Churak so he will get off my back!
You really should be more careful about what you ask for and how you ask for it. Despite the open invitation, I'll be nice (at least kind of) and only suggest that you should be thankful it is just your back.
Talk about the law of unintended consequences. If she is giving personal porn as a trade for the guns, many might go buy them just for the trade.
Not a darn thing wrong with the government offering to buy guns -- aside form the fact that most governments are not in the gun business, last I checked, but that is another issue. The only problem comes when government requires that we sell our guns. On this issue, I join the "When Hell freezes over" crowd.
Sounds like this guy needed a do not remove sign.
Or a "Private. Keep Out."
or
"No Trespassing."
or
"Keep Off the Grass."
I think he would have avoided the "Mowers Ahead."
for those who've speculated I'm no longer here (tongue in cheek, I'm sure), I'm quite mired in bookkeeping, executive duties...and other activities.
Sounds like some interesting, uh, days. So, how did you "account" for that sleeper sofa in the inner executive sanctum? You have been "working" how late?
the next project is to change the software on iHub so that it can run on multiple webservers with no need for a load balancer.
You should know by now that running on multiple servers always requires a load balancer as well as solid hardware up to the task. All the software in the world won't matter if the hardware cannot handle the load. What kind of trojan did you say you found?
I'm going to make it as unobtrusive as possible, using cookies for the bare minimum information necessary (essentially just info that identifies the user...
Unobtrusive is good, but shooting blanks is always safer: it cuts down on the need to look for trojans. Is cookies what they call it these days?
each page call will work the database server a little harder (apparently it's got some free time) but will unload the webserver a little bit, and, more importantly, make it a no-brainer to add webservers as needed...
Apply the 95% gotmilk rule and just call it electronic polygamy. Of course, the "no-brainer" is a dead give away that one of the "servers" is blonde.
I think we all now have a clearer picture of what you have really been mired in. Thanks for the coded update.
Death might be too kind -- slow, painful, excruciating torture.
Just had a thought.....I wonder what the medical status is of transplantation. That would sure give new meaning to "an eye for an eye....."
I wish you much success, more wins than losses.
Ditto. And all of the analysis aside, a little timely luck never hurts.
When docs screw up, they ought to pay just like the rest of us. If they don't want to pay, they should, like the rest of us, be more careful.
I would gladly give this poor guy a small mint. For many of us, this jewell of a story is truly priceless.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/Living/GMA030811Medical_errors.html
Troy
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Aug. 11 -- After 67-year-old Hurshell Ralls went into surgery for bladder cancer, he came out of surgery missing more than he ever expected. His penis and testicles were gone.
"My wife had to hold my hand in the bed there. And she said 'Honey it's over. They got all the cancer.' And she waited a few minutes and then said 'But they had to remove your penis.' And I was one mad dude, you know," Ralls said on ABCNEWS' Good Morning America.
Ralls, a mechanic, says doctors never warned him or his wife that amputation of the penis and testicles might have been part of surgery before he went in for the procedure in November 1999. Ralls filed a negligence lawsuit against the Clinics of North Texas in Wichita Falls, and the doctors who operated on him. The civil case is set for trial Aug. 25.
"It was never even discussed. And I felt like he ought to have at least told us that this might be a possibility so that we could have talked it over even before he was admitted to the hospital," said Thelma Ralls, his wife. In a February deposition, Ralls' doctor said that he determined the cancer had spread to the penis while he was removing Ralls' bladder. Doctors did not send a tissue sample to the lab until after the surgery. A Dallas doctor who examined cell slides later found that Ralls did not have penile cancer.
The Ralls' case may sound outrageous, but for cancer patients across the country, medical errors are something they -- and many other hospital patients -- face with alarming frequency.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation reported in 2001 that 95 percent of doctors have witnessed a major medical mistake, and that many of them involved cancer. When Johns Hopkins reviewed tissue samples from thousands of cancer patients around the country, they found one out of every 71 cases was misdiagnosed.
Both Breasts Removed, No Cancer
Frank Barerra is another cancer patient who was the victim of an error. He was actually in surgery, about to have his prostate removed, when a call came from the pathology department -- there had been a mistake. His slides showed no cancer.
"You can imagine -- it was like waking up from a bad dream," Barerra said. "It never occurred to me that a pathology lab could just bungle a decision like that."
Last January, Good Morning America interviewed Linda McDougal, who was misdiagnosed with breast cancer. McDougal was given a double mastectomy at the United Hospital of St. Paul, Minn., in May 2002. After the surgery, McDougal was told
that she actually had no signs of cancer.
"My surgeon walked in and said that she had bad news, and she had no other way of telling us other than to put it on the table. And that I didn't have cancer," McDougal said. "And my immediate reaction was, great, you got it all. And then she said, you don't understand. You never had cancer. And it was instant shock. I couldn't even react to it."
When McDougal appeared on Good Morning America, the hospital that did the operation offered an apology. Dr. Laurel Krause, a senior pathologist at the hospital said that two patient slides at the hospital were inadvertently switched.
"We deeply regret what happened, and wish we had made that clear at the time," Krause said. "At the time, Linda was very angry, and justifiably so."
But to victims of medical errors, sometimes an apology can't make up for what they've lost.
"I really felt like they played God and took it in their hands and decided to do it," Thelma Ralls said. "This is Hurshell's life, and my life. And to me they destroyed our sexual life."
~~~~~COMPX 8/13/2003~~~~~
Previous Close: 1,687.01 +25.50
1666 timhyma
1669 WTMHouston
Today just blew right past the 1669 foreplay. Maybe it will come back down to it tomorrow.
So lets see: "15 are playable".
A-A, K-K, Q-Q, A-K, J-J, 10-10, 9-9, 8-8, A-Q, and 7-7. Top openers from Phil Hellmuth's book. Then he adds 6-6, 5-5, 4-4, 3-3, 2-2, then he adds A-x suited, and K-Q. And if I was to call early before the flop right after the button I would not play the lower pairs or the K-Q unless it was suited.
Far cry from 176.
Actually, it is more than 176.
There are 78 possible pair combinations (each of the 13 types of cards has six pair combinations). Suited A-x is another
48 possible hands, bringing the total to 126. K-Q adds another 16, bringing the total to 142. If we add suited K-x (another 48), which most people would play, the total rises to 190. And, this is not all of the hands that may be playable through the flop -- although the quality of the hands after this is clearly less.
With the big blind being $1000 and the small blind $500, you're telling me you would call to see the flop with one of 176 hole card combinations?
Next round the blinds go up to $2000 and $1000, then $4000, $2000. Same strategy? I don't think so.
Let me answer your first direct question first: No, that is not what I am telling you; I neither said that nor did I mean that. Maybe you missed some of what I posted. I said, "Of course, as the quality of the initial cards declines, so does the amount that one might wager to see the flop with those cards." I could have been more complete and added that whether one bets depends not only on the cards, but also where in the betting one is in relation to the cards, who else, if anyone, has also bet, and how much was wagered. We all know and see folks who never bluff as well as folks who will stay with almost anything.
Then consider that you're sitting with $4500 of chips in front of view. What happens when someone goes all in before the flop, what would you do? Call? Yeah right!
Well, that depends on the cards -- among other things. If your point is that there are lots of variables, then I agree completely. If your point is that there are literally only 15 playable hands, then, no offense intended, you are simply wrong -- mathematically and analytically. On the other hand, my off-hand estimate of 15 percent of the possible hands is probably a bit high: more likely, it is in the 10 percent range.
All of this aside, over a several hour span, there are typically two or three hands that end up being what I call "make it or break it" hands -- that is, hands that will decide how the night goes on balance. That boat may look great, but if it looses to a higher boat or four of a kind, what looked like a great winner may all of a sudden be a dog loser. Nothing may make a nut flush go from great to sucking hind tit quicker than a pair on the board.
If I remember correctly there are 169 possible combinations with the first two cards dealt down and out of 169 only 15 are playable depending on whose book you read.
If my math is correct, there are actually 2652 possible combinations of two cards. Think of it this way. There are 52 possible first cards and each one of those has 51 possible mates. 52x51 = 2652. Of that, there are a lot more than 15 playable hands. Any pair is playable, at least through the flop, and there are 78 possible pair combinations (each of the 13 types of cards has six pair combinations). Aside from the pairs, there are lot of other combinations that are playable, again, at least through the flop. For example, each Ace with another card of the same suit is playable. Thus, there are 48 possible suited A-x combinations that are playable. While not "must plays," most folks would say that a suited face card and another card were playable through the flop. Thus, for K,Q,J, there are another 120 unique combinations (44+40+36).
Of course, as the quality of the initial cards declines, so does the amount that one might wager to see the flop with those cards. Without getting into too much more detail, I would guess that there are probably around 15 percent of the possible hands that are almost automatic looks at the flop and another 10-15 percent that may justify a look if the betting has not gotten out of hand or if one is in the right spot to justify taking a look.
This means that with a table of 13 people, one would expect to have an automatic keeper about two hands out of every trip around the table and no more than about four -- on average. Watch the folks that stay in a lot more than this and drop after the flop and you will see their piles decline faster than most. These are the folks more likely to roll the dice, as it were, and the ones you can most likely take some change from when you have a good hand.
I still really like the old saying. "If you have been at the table for 15 minutes and do not know who the patsy is, you are it."
~~~~~COMPX 8/12/2003~~~~~
Previous Close: 1,661.51 +17.48
1648 timhyma
1669 WTMHouston
As I was wagging, it dawned on me that Clinton and Monica have given new meaning to the phrase "Close but no cigar."
~~~~~COMPX 8/11/2003~~~~~
Previous Close: 1,644.03 -8.15
1634 timhyma
1650 GGraessle
1654 Susie924
1660 Phil
1665 Ruellit
1669 WTMHouston
Still wishful thinking.
Gutter questions.....
I am trying to decide whether to spend ~$600 to repair existing gutters or $2000-$3000 to replace them with new gutters.
I estimate that there is 400 feet of gutters on the house and there are a couple dozen spots that leak fairly badly. I also have some large trees, but most of the debris is small.
I do not know enough about it to make what I think is an intelligent decision and all of the bids I have received seem to have an agenda to sell their product or service.
All suggestions welcome.
This might have been more like it.
Might that post number -- 20818 -- be related to the favor.
Two, oh, ate while one ate.
That would not have been a 1769 or greater wag, would it?
I suspect that she does not want you to score a victory with a tank into the close.
There's only one mmmistress around these parts and it ain't me!
The first time I read that, I read "parts" as pants. I guess that would have been a HUGE mistake.
You thought right: I did say that -- I just did not do that.
~~~~~COMPX 8/07/2003~~~~~
Prior Close: 1,652.68 -20.82
1669 WTMHouston
The secret of winning wagging is to pick numbers that have some connection to a timely one-liner.
1711 for example, is the single convenience store wag (One, 7-11).
1669 is an illegal wag, while 1769, at least in Texas, is a legal wag, among other things.
You get the idea.
It depends on what comes before the zeros as to whether it is still zero. Sometimes, the more zeros the better -- especially when one is on the receiving end -- so to speak.
Some numbers just have more appeal than others -- at least as wags. I just like having my 69 close to Susie's 79.
NEVER does it help on fees -- unless it is followed by at least three zeros.
~~~~~COMPX 8/06/2003~~~~~
Close: 1,673.50 -40.56
1638 Horsetrader
1646 GGraessle
1669 WTMHouston
1702 NoMoDo
~~~~~COMPX 8/05/2003~~~~~
Previous Close: 1,714.06 -1.56
1698 timhyma
1703 WTMHouston
I wonder what she does to get the whackos off -- the line that is.
Those weren't her hooters those were Churak's hooters....when I said no to Churak he was crushed and settled for second or third best.
Sounds like he sucked hind tit -- so to say.
Hooter better be damned glad he was not a Californian squirrel!
He sent me a pic of your hooters and they are nothing to write home about.
Just imagine a boy at camp writing home: Dear Mom: just writing home to tell you about my hooter observations for today.....
The real question is whether they are worth staying home for.
she is getting it from so many sides, she should just keep her trap shut.
I am amazed that no one bit at that one. I'll just leave it as; maybe she likes it that way.
~~~~~COMPX 8/01/2003~~~~~
Previous Close: 1,735.02 +14.11
1704 timhyma
1715 Phil
1720 WTMHouston
1727 Susie924
1748 Horsetrader
The death of the rally yesterday may be a sign of some dreary days ahead. Much of the good news is already priced into the market and we are due for a correction. We might as well get it out of the way now so that Santa will have something to rally from. Of course, since I think all this, the market will probably just rally through to 1800+.
Had to do a "double" take to catch that one.
~~~~~COMPX 7/31/2003~~~~~
Prior Close: 1,720.91 -10.46
1711 WTMHouston
Let's try the convenience store wag again.
An article I ran across.
http://www.esquire.com/style/esqna/011128_wqa_vegas.html
How do I get comped in Vegas?
You gotta have three things: a roll of money, a lot of time and a fairly bad jones for the green felt. Most casinos expect you to throw down five grand before they even think about "rating" you as a player. Still, there are ways to get yourself lower room rates, better rooms, and free meals. Here they are:
1) Ask about the comp rates before you go. Most casinos will give you these over the phone. In order to get rated, you'll have to play a certain amount of time at a certain level of stakes. Don't let the high numbers scare you. A fairly conventional comp rate at the better Vegas casinos is five to six hours a day at $25 a hand. This may knock you out entirely. But remember, part of getting comped is giving the appearance of being a player.
My note: my experience is that they want at least $50 a hand for 4 hours to even think about comping anything other than a meal or two. A suite will need an average bet of well over $100
2) Join the player's club right away. When you throw down your buy-in at the first table, tell the dealer you want to sign up. When you join, you are essentially agreeing to have your gambling tracked. The pit-boss will take your driver's license and then disappear for a moment to enter you into the system. He'll record your buy-in and the stakes you are playing. Casinos won't comp you for nagging out a slow game at a $5 blackjack table, not unless you happen to put in a lot of time there. So make your first buy a strong one. Buy $1,000 worth of chips, even if you plan to risk $50. When the pit-boss returns, he'll have your newly minted player's club card at the ready and he'll likely note your pile, provided you still have it.
3) Cash out your chips every time you leave a table. This means lots of trips to the cashier, but on every return trip to the action, you'll get to lay down cash and your player's card. Even if you gamble low stakes, the odds are better that a pit boss will see cash as fresh action.
My note: it also never hurts to slide a few chips into your pocket while playing. They say that they don't care whether you are winning or losing, but the comps I have received have always been better when I have lost. By sliding a few chips (the big ones) into your pocket and off of the table, it will look like you have won less or lost more when you color out.
4) Make yourself visible. When the pit boss looks in on your table, say something to him. Use his name. Blow a little sunshine up his ass. Remember that a pit boss is watching about 75 things at once. In order to get rated, particularly if you are playing fairly low stakes, you'll have to get yourself noticed.
5) Raise your stakes now and then. Double your bet from time-to-time. Or triple it. Don't be a pussy. What's twenty bucks, except two tickets to a Steven Segal movie? You want to be a player? Play! Just understand: you will lose.
My note: try and do this when the pit boss is looking.
6) Stay at a hotel where you like to gamble. The easiest comp to get is food, but room rates can always be adjusted at the end of a stay if you play hard enough. Still, if you're gambling at the Mirage and staying at The Venetian, about the best you can hope for is a free plate of crab claws at the buffet line.
7) Track your rating from time-to-time by visiting the player's club desk. Even if you're a low roller, they'll tell you where you stand. Also, save time before check-out to go to the player's club to get your comps put on your room folio. This is almost never automatic.
My note: not just occasionally, constantly. If there is a mistake you must correct it immediately. After the boss or host who rated you has gone for the day, it will never change. Of course, if they have made a mistake in your favor (rare, but it does happen) just keep your mouth shut.
8) Don't count on a free lunch. According to Tom Carillo, casino marketing director at the Luxor Hotel, too many low-stakes players come to Vegas chasing comps. "If you have $1,000 and you last twenty minutes at one of our tables, the comps attached would be pretty negligible. You'd do better to take your time, enjoy yourself and plan on spending the fifty bucks for a cocktail and a nice steak."
My note: that same $1000 maintained at a table for a couple of hours with a decent average bet ($25+), will likely get you a low end meal comp -- especially if you have struck up some kind of conversation with the pit people.
--TOM CHIARELLA
Can't blame it on sleeping this time. Have been up for a couple hours but have had other things to do. Took a quick glance at it and figured there would be some room for getting unsqueezed and into a better position to score. It sure looks like a Susie kind of waging day......
Edit:
I guess this would be "after" 9:00 a.m.....
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I'll happily take this cheap, small palindrome -- as a small indication that I have caught up on one thread. The 1000+ on other threads may take a while.
~~~~~COMPX 7/30/2003~~~~~
Previous Close: 1,731.37 -3.99
1704 timhyma
1711 WTMHouston
The single convenience store wag (one 7-11).
~~~~~COMPX 7/29/2003~~~~~
Previous Close: 1,735.34 +4.64
1704 timhyma
1711 Horsetrader
1715 Phil
1720 WTMHouston
1727 Susie924
1746 GGraessle
1750 BullNBear52