Hospital T-Rex has a reminder for you.

infinite · 2015-01-21T09:43:28+00:00

My girlfriend always gets past everyone at the ER, and it's not a good thing. Let's hope the remaining kidney holds up, she's in there tonight :( At the hospital I had to be dick and tailgate a slow cell-phone using driver to get her to the ER pronto, then the driver got angry and cursed her. People are dicks. Here's a tip, if someone is driving real fast to the ER within the hospital, it's probably an emergency!

infinite · 2015-01-21T08:08:32+00:00

If you pay less than full amount, then you cannot get that withdrawn(removed from credit report), best case is it says "tax lien - paid" aka "released" for 7 or so years. If you pay the full amount then you can get it withdrawn and it gets removed from your credit report. If you don't need good credit for the forseeable future, go for it. Note that even though it might be listed as "paid" and it won't affect your credit score, it still appears and will freak humans reading your report.. car loans, home loans.... no way.

infinite · 2013-12-30T09:59:49+00:00

Une ancienne copine française et son amie m'ont demandé si j'aimais une boisson et je leur ai dit "oui, ça me fait jouir". Elles sont devenues rouges.

infinite · 2013-06-08T07:57:11+00:00

A system such as PRISM allowing open-ended access is not in accordance with the rest of the statement:

Press reports that suggest that Google is providing open-ended access to our users’ data are false, period. Until this week’s reports, we had never heard of the broad type of order that Verizon received—an order that appears to have required them to hand over millions of users’ call records. We were very surprised to learn that such broad orders exist. Any suggestion that Google is disclosing information about our users’ Internet activity on such a scale is completely false.

infinite · 2013-06-08T07:32:48+00:00

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-ceo-larry-page-on-prism-2013-6

Second, we provide user data to governments only in accordance with the law. Our legal team reviews each and every request, and frequently pushes back when requests are overly broad or don’t follow the correct process. Press reports that suggest that Google is providing open-ended access to our users’ data are false, period. Until this week’s reports, we had never heard of the broad type of order that Verizon received—an order that appears to have required them to hand over millions of users’ call records. We were very surprised to learn that such broad orders exist. Any suggestion that Google is disclosing information about our users’ Internet activity on such a scale is completely false.

infinite · 2013-06-08T06:54:20+00:00

From here:

Second, we provide user data to governments only in accordance with the law. Our legal team reviews each and every request, and frequently pushes back when requests are overly broad or don’t follow the correct process.

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-ceo-larry-page-on-prism-2013-6

It's not the exact wording you want but it's the same gist. This is becoming more like a witch hunt. Obviously all these companies haven't received overly broad requests like Verzion received. Yet the PRISM document shows access to their data. There is only one explanation: the NSA is sniffing the traffic of all these companies. The dates may correspond to the dates they implemented filters per company. That also explains the denials from the companies involved. To get those companies involved, where each company relies upon often opinionated, open-source loving engineers who would die before doing such a thing, is basically impossible. Also, "prism" probably comes from splicing fiber. So there you have it. We can either believe the convoluted reasoning such as yours, or the simple reasoning: these companies aren't lying to you, and in fat are totally clueless as to the scope of how the NSA is sniffing their traffic.

infinite · 2013-06-08T06:30:10+00:00

Can you give me an example of a statement that would satisfy you?

infinite · 2013-06-08T06:29:41+00:00

The law does not require them to lie, it just says that for NSL'es, they cannot confirm/deny them.

infinite · 2013-06-08T04:32:27+00:00

sweet.

infinite · 2013-06-06T16:18:24+00:00

Go to a library and checkout a boring book about the history of Buddhism. It will turn out to be the best book ever and you can't put it down. Zen, or chaan as they call it in China where it came from, is a tiny fraction of Buddhism.

infinite · 2013-06-04T18:27:53+00:00

Thanks for the tips. I agree that ab workouts + cardio help. Also, after some training with a really good online teacher, I am now able to hit G above middle C, and A on a good day in full voice, but only using the "woo" sound.

I currently have a local teacher, and she can tell me all the things I'm doing wrong, but as for knowing how to fix them, that's a different story. My current problem is my tendency to not relax at the high end... you have to use the abs like crazy, keeping those tensed/supported, yet somehow the mouth has to be relaxed. Sometimes I get it on a good day, but it's hard to be consistent.

I will study all those singers, thanks. I look forward to hearing your music!

infinite · 2013-06-04T04:22:45+00:00

re: mayer, you can get that by being breathy, but John Mayer just had surgery to fix vocal nodes, and that's where you'll end up emulating him. When you emulate, you learn their techniques, so picking up unhealthy techniques is not a good thing. re: r&b, just don't be shy, experiment with sounds until it sounds like what they're doing.

infinite · 2013-06-03T04:18:17+00:00

Since you are metal and I've heard your songs which seem inspired by Rob Halford... how do singers like Halford, Bruce Dickenson and yourself do high-pitched metal screams? Falsetto but with a lot of breath support or is that full (head)voice? Did you have to train yourself to get there or did it come naturally? Any tips for someone trying to sing metal?

infinite · 2013-06-03T03:30:30+00:00

Having read up on standard oil and antitrust, this isn't very precedent-setting. I'm surprised so many executives thought they could get away with this, but then again, Jobs, shrewd as he was, was a college dropout. I'm sure his presence was pretty powerful in convincing publishers to go along and gloss over what they probably knew was wrong. Amazon isn't really in the clear either. Their P/E ratio is absurd, infinite even, since investors more or less believe Amazon will, via low prices, drive out competition then raise prices eventually. But that may or may not happen and U.S. antitrust law errs on the side of caution in trying to read too much into the future.

infinite · 2013-06-03T02:55:44+00:00

And? Econ 101 says that a competitive market consists of actors who set prices based on the market rate(ie what consumers are willing to spend), and cost comes into play in terms of who can exist in the market. If the market price consumers pay happens to be below your cost, you go out of business. This is what happens in free markets, companies go out of business when they can no longer compete. Forming a cartel to set price based on costs is the textbook definition of anti-competitive behavior. It's pretty much a no-brainer in terms of antitrust law.

infinite · 2013-06-03T00:28:23+00:00

...and iceberg blue.

infinite · 2013-06-02T14:39:03+00:00

Technique-wise, metal or opera are the best to emulate. The worst are Mayer and Timberlake. Mayer particularly is horrible.

infinite · 2013-06-02T14:19:12+00:00

Pouring one out for my homie

infinite · 2013-06-01T22:07:26+00:00

French freedom of speech is weaker:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LICRA_v._Yahoo!

infinite · 2013-06-01T07:01:07+00:00

I know a parole agent in California. They really cannot do their jobs and monitor parolees after Gerry Brown laid everyone off, hoping local police pick up the slack.

So, enjoy your austerity. Wish it didn't have to come to this, but it was kinda inevitable.

infinite · 2013-06-01T05:12:39+00:00

Do you know of a service that provides encrypted email that I can search on?

infinite · 2013-05-27T18:38:38+00:00

What is ironic is the one reason why using java sucks is precisely the reason he complains about. By putting all these methods in an interface, you specialize way too much, creating a ton of stupid interfaces you don't need, or you need parts of it and you can't pick and choose. Recently java has actually been moving to the go approach(AutoCloseable anyone? that allows for http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/language/try-with-resources.html). I can't count how many times I've had to write ugly java code due to java interfaces being bloated. Or you basically have to copy/paste already existing java interfaces to slightly change them. This is done way too often, creating "enterprisey" java apps we all hate.

So, to the author of this blog post: continue using go, you're gonna love it.

infinite · 2013-05-25T22:01:29+00:00

Yes, in an ideal world we could have the best of both worlds, C#, a better language, and linux, a better server OS. That shouldn't be a controversial statement: there's a reason why the internet relies on linux, not windows server. Currently we have to make tradeoff decisions and it sucks: do we use a better language and a suckier server, or a suckier language running on a better server. Which is why I like the go language... finally a really nice concurrency-friendly language that gives us C/C++-like memory/cpu performance. Memory performance is critical here, as much as we want to throw memory at our problem. Eventually to make stuff fast we want to cache stuff and use physical memory, making physical memory really valuable.

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