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sobiloff
I'm a managing consultant for a large technology company and live in Reno, NV.
Interests: Motorcycling, Formula One, MotoGP, skiing, hiking, camping, grilling, guns, photography, scuba diving, general aviation, Macintosh computers, cigars, single malt scotch, the wild West, amateur radio and emergency communications. (Whew!)
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Greg, thanks for the long reply and sorry to be slow in responding. My grumpy reaction to the article is because it comes down to the idea that people don't need more nannies, especially those that come after our 2nd Amendment rights. The AMA is very anti-gun and has frequently tried to use the language of disease to describe firearms in demented attempt to restrict or ban them.
The stats you cite include all uses of guns, which (sadly) means that over half of those deaths were by suicide, while another significant portion were deaths by law enforcement officers in the course of their duties. http://onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com/2012/07/why-is-atf-promoting-brady-campaign.html Furthermore, it ignores the 1-3 million beneficial defensive uses of guns.
If you want to discount the above one can argue that doctors themselves are far more dangerous than gun owners, yet I don't see doctors lecturing their patients that the doctor himself is dangerous and should be avoided. http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=406051
It's not a doctor's job to lecture his patients about every possible danger, especially when those risks arise from the exercise of free will and liberty.
The Florida "Gag Rule" for Doctors and Guns
An acquaintence of mine forwarded me a link to this recent article in the New York Times regarding the recently passed legislation in Florida that prohibits doctors from asking patients whether they own firearms. I got such a good laugh out of it, I thought I'd share my reaction: Ha! I almost bu...
Yep, I still have it and it's still working well for me. I've bought my replacement toner from Amazon and get the extra capacity cartridges. So far I'm still on my first round of replacement cartridges, so while a full set comes close to an entire printer (what's new?), I'd have to say I'm still satisfied with my purchase. Maybe Amazon, or some other mail-order provider, can help you find the toner you need? Also, I find that the printer provides plenty of advance notice before a cartridge expires, so I just wait until I get the first low toner warning, order a replacement and have it ready for when the printer finally refuses to print until the toner is replaced.
Adding Memory to the Lexmark C544dn
Just a quick update on my Lexmark C544dn: Buy this beastie more memory! It's not like it's obnoxiously slow with the standard amount of memory, but adding more memory is really cheap and it speeds things up tremendously in a couple of situations. First, if you tend to print n-up pages (multipl...
Oh, hey, here's one other good Apple TV rebuild resource I bookmarked and should share: http://smallnum.blogspot.com/2008/02/re-creating-apple-tv-from-scratch.html.
My Apple TV's Hard Drive Is Dead
A couple weeks ago I rented Terminator Salvation on my Apple TV, and while the first half of the movie played just fine, the second half played horribly. Playback would freeze every couple of minutes, and after 20 seconds or so it would skip forward 2-3 minutes and the movie would resume playi...
Yep, I got it working--mostly. Partition the new drive by following any of the drive upgrade instructions out there (for example, ). Download the latest OS image from Apple and put it in the boot partition. The drawback for me was that my recovery partition was toast, and I couldn't find a reliable recovery image on the net, so I had to leave that partition empty. The Apple TV will work without the recovery partition, but it won't be able to upgrade itself since part of the upgrade process is to boot from the recovery partition to install the update into the boot partition. This means you'll have to manually update the boot partition by downloading the latest OS image from Apple and "dd" it onto the boot partition.
Good luck!
My Apple TV's Hard Drive Is Dead
A couple weeks ago I rented Terminator Salvation on my Apple TV, and while the first half of the movie played just fine, the second half played horribly. Playback would freeze every couple of minutes, and after 20 seconds or so it would skip forward 2-3 minutes and the movie would resume playi...
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Mar 15, 2010
I found this comment over at slashdot to be insightful:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1481872&cid=30473294
In short, the complex process to use encryption in the military kept the feed unencrypted.
Hackers grab drone footage
The Wall Street Journal reports that hackers in the combat zones are downloading video feeds of our drone surveillance and attack aircraft. In a smart-alec response, I put up on my Twitter page: Blackfive RE: WSJ on Drone Hackers :Get back at hackers by putting loop of unencrypted vid feed of...
Let's just hope someone helped Donovan with that "cup and saucer" grip after the pic was taken!
Burn Notice Iraq-Style
One of the few shows that I will DVR is Burn Notice (the others are the Amazing Race and Castle). I like Burn Notice because the main character describes how he actually goes about doing some of the super-cool spy stuff and the other characters are really great. And then of course any show wit...
I had Van Halen's "Feel Your Love Tonight" cranked while watching this the first time--somehow it seemed so appropriate!
Uncle Jimbo Starring in "Unneccessary Force"
"James 'Uncle Jimbo' Hanson of Blackfive makes Dirty Harry look like Grandma Moses in this action-packed shoot-em-up!" - Some Movie Reviewer
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