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If it's that powerful, I don't think I would want to use it

If you watch much TV you might see those ads where people's houses are collapsing and falling apart while they stand there. But it's not as a result of pest infestation, it's a result, I think, of the sponsor's product.

It's those ads for Cialis. (Oh great, now my website is blocked by spam blockers! [Actually I had to edit the website filters to allow use of the word]) A man and a woman are together, now the moment is right, and their house begins to disintegrate before our very eyes, as the appliances fall apart, the building turns to dust and the walls fall away. I guess the guy, from using this stuff, has an erection so large that his penis is causing the building to erupt!

So now the happy couple can screw in full view of the public in the rubble as he inflicts his schlong - which was powerful enough to pulverize the building - upon her!

"Cialis, not only will it harden your cock, it'll soften your house too!"
- New Advertising Slogan

And how the hell are they supposed to have sex when they're in separate bathtubs?

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Google Mail: Absolutely Worthless, as is Chrome

People talk about how the new services that Google offers might be dangerous to some of their competitors. Well, I'll tell you right now that as far as I've seen, with the exception of search, Google's stuff is garbage and worthless.

I'm working on a web-based application for a customer that generates pages to print out. This is a multi-page application where after it generates a page it puts in an HTML BR command, along with the instruction to force a page break at that point (<br style="page-break-before:always;"/>). Firefox and Internet Explorer honor the page break; Google Chrome does not. This makes Google Chrome absolutely worthless for use with this application.

While I live in Maryland I'm over in Virginia at my sister's place fixing a problem on her computer, which meant I had to travel all the way over here. So I decided to install VNC on her computer so I can do remote diagnostics over the internet. I'm not sure if I have it on my computer at home so rather than have to find it again I decided to just e-mail the archive files to myself. Only problem is G-Mail will not allow me to mail a zip file that contains an executable file within it. "For Security Reasons". Well, gee, Yahoo! Mail doesn't have that problem; they simply use a scanner to check for viruses. Also, if you try to send a message from a G-Mail account to another e-mail account on a domain where the message is forwarded to another G-Mail account, G-Mail discards the message! And I don't mean dump it into the spam folder, it just plain does not save it.

I get the mail which is sent to paul@paul-robinson.us forwarded to Yahoo! Mail, Go Daddy, which is my registrar, just takes incoming mail and forwards it to me. Yahoo! Mail doesn't care where it came from and I get all of it (some is correctly moved to spam folder). But my sister has her own domain name too, and if a customer of G-Mail tries to send her a message to an e-mail address, on her domain name, G-Mail takes the message and then discards it.

The fact that I can't use G-Mail to send anything - even a Zip file - with an executable or that you can't use it if the recipient and the sender are both on G-Mail if the message is sent to an intervening domain name makes G-Mail absolutely worthless.

So far it looks like anything Google puts out other than search is garbage.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

2,435 Comments Expunged - At least

I don't know why I bother censoring this, probably less than 100 people read it, except, I guess, I like to maintain a bit of a "professional" image, so that means keeping profanity out unless necessary.

The hell with it!

For once I'm actually going to post a blog entry uncensored. Nobody reads this but me and maybe a few dozen people (other than spammers looking for a place to spew; and they don't count as they aren't human :)). So I'm going to make a wide-open, unexpurgated comment.

I talk in the sidebar of this blog about why I don't allow comments any more after I decided to lock down my blog after the 300th piece of spam. I was wrong. I thought I'd gotten rid of it all but I hadn't. The admin system there kept showing me old draft comments - ones not yet approved for publication - from 2008, approximately when I locked the place down. It kept showing them, and showing them, and all you could do was delete them one at a time, and the system required me to confirm each item I wanted to delete, whereupon yet another new piece of crap replaced the one I had just removed. It was like busting open pest insect hives in a badly infested building or something, the more insects you found, the more you kept finding.

So I had a better idea. I used PHPMyAdmin - a high-powered database management tool - to go through the comments. And what I saw over and over were draft, unapproved comments for things I wouldn't approve on this blog. Adult dating ("meet someone new and fuck them tonight!"), hardcore sex sites ("meet someone new and fuck them in the ass tonight!"), porn sites ("watch people fuck and suck each other or get fucked and sucked in every possible position and opening with things you wouldn't believe!"), drugs ("get the drugs you need to be able to fuck all night, dozens of times!"), all the stuff no legitimate business could actually afford to pay to advertise because there's no percentage in it, if the true cost of running a business were included they'd be out of business.

Note that the way a lot of this is phrased I suspect it's targeted mostly at men. Women generally can get sex any time they want it, while men usually have to search and find someone if they're not already in a relationship. Yes, yes, I know sexual politics are a little more complicated than that but it's generally the rule.

I actually wouldn't mind giving space for legitimate outlets. I mean, I used Phen-Fen before it was banned; I dropped about 100 pounds in that many days. I've met every woman I've had sex with via ads on the internet (uh, no, I didn't pay them, I'm not that kind, i.e. they have to be interested in it for free), and my best friend who I've known for over eight years - haven't been able to meet in person yet, but there's still time - discovered me because she saw my ad.

I once figured if I could catch a bunch of spammers and make them come up with $1 for each item I've had to delete, remove or expunge, I could probably make a pretty good living. If spammers had to pay the true cost of what they send out - the way people who use the Post Office do - spam would die, and fast.

I suspect the stuff they're spamming probably isn't even good porn, or they wouldn't have to spamvertise. Larry Flynt - the sick fuck who runs Hustler Magazine - correctly poked fun at the ridiculous Wall Street Bailouts by publicly announcing how the porn industry was hurting too, it employs a lot of people and contributes to the economy, it deserves a bailout too!

Correctly working businesses don't need bailouts, as has been pointed out, the porn industry does do quite well selling its wares.

So I used PHPMyAdmin to do a cursory look over, 300 at a time, and was able to delete that many all at once. Then after a few of these, I got more confident and did about 1000 at a time, twice.

So, with the ones I deleted manually and the ones I bulk-deleted I dropped at least 2,500, probably more than 3,000 bogus comments.

I have exactly what I think is about right. 4 comments - the only ones marked as published - that had any validity out of perhaps 5,000 or more pieces of shit that were posted here over the years.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Choose Enterprise - We'll Burn You Up!

Enterprise Rent-A-Car was ordered by a jury to pay $15 million in damages in a wrongful death suit after it rented a PT Cruiser a month after the company had been informed that the vehicle had a safety recall in which the power steering fluid could leak out and cause serious problems including engine fires.

Two women rented a vehicle subject to the recall from an Enterprise location and exactly what was predicted in the recall notice happened. All of the power steering fluid leaked out, and the engine caught fire. The resultant smoke, flames, and loss of steering caused the driver to cross the median on a freeway and plow into an oncoming tractor-trailer rig. The two were killed instantly. "They were burned up in the fire," a relative to the two women stated in the TV newscast. "They were incinerated."

Relatives initially turned down a $3 million settlement which would have required they abide by a gag order. "We felt the public needed to know this."

The big break in the case came when an executive for Enterprise admitted there was no corporate policy on pulling recalled vehicles from rentals, and it was left up to regional managers.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Lindsay Lohan is stupid

Typically, you're not supposed to be insulting, e.g. I should title this article "Lindsay Lohan is acting stupidly" or "Lindsay Lohan says stupid things" but this one got me a little too much.

Alleged actress Lindsay Lohan, who got 90 days in the county jail for violating the terms of her probation, or plea agreement, or conviction, from a drunk-driving incident, in missing alcohol management or don't-get-drunk classes or whatever it was (jeez this is making me sound stupid; maybe mere third-party exposure to her apparent lack of ability to think is contagious!) seven times.

Anyway, she apparently posted a couple of tweets on twitbook or want people to follow her (into the county slam?) on bookmyface (this is a play on words on the process for being processed for an arrest as being 'booked'). I'm having waaay too much fun at this.

Of course I sound stupid because I'm just repeating third-hand what the media says she said online. Honest journalism would dictate I go find out what she said. However, I've never used Twitter or Facebook and I have no plans to do so. I have much more important and fun ways to waste time, and besides, I have enough brain damage, I don't need to work on new ways to make myself stupider.

Anyway, first she apparently steals some quote (which is literate enough that I know she couldn't have written it) from what is probably a UN treaty barring cruel and unusual punishment, probably not having the slightest idea what "cruel and unusual" means. She'd probably consider the terms I live under under cruel and unusual punishment!

But what got me was her supposed rant over federal sentencing guidelines. Hey, Lindsay, you're never going to read or see this, but I'd like to point out you're being sentenced by a California state court judge, not a federal one, and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines don't have a damn thing to do with you!

Besides FSGs would only apply if you got put in a Federal institution, and the not very nasty local jails in the Southern California area are nothing compared to an actual prison or penitentiary, especially a federal one.

Does she have light colored hair? Somehow the phrase "dumb blonde" comes to mind.

But who said actresses have to have any intelligence?

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Here come the judge!

Tomorrow I go out to Prince George's Community College to take the required classes to be an election judge. Come September, I get to be one of the officials who make you wait in long lines while you try to vote. I did this before a couple of times in Arlington County.

On serving from about 5 AM to 10PM on the day of the Primary election, the county will send me a check for $200 plus $50 for taking the training class. Then serving in the General election is another $200. Arlington County was maybe a little less time, and they only paid $130.

Hey, I can use the money, and I'm often having that kind of schedule anyway.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Oops

I am using a really old version of the software for this blog. It won't run on the latest - version 5.3 - of the PHP interpreter without horrible squawking errors. So I ~~need~~ want to upgrade, plus get any improvements from the release of three or four years ago. But one thing I do not want is to potentially lose all of the years of material I have stashed here, so I needed to back up the database. Did that, yesterday. But I put a new item in here, so I have to go back and re-download it. Next time, let's try to do the upgrade before adding new items!

Sort of like painting the kitchen after removing the old cabinets but before installing the new cabinetry.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Donuts Make My Brown Rice Blue

I kind of like playing with Crystal Gayle's Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue by using the mistranslation of the title of this phrase. What surprised me was nobody else apparently had used it on any of the billions of pages that Google indexes. I find that amazing that apparently nobody did the same pun I did. I wonder why.

Original post blogged on b2evolution.