Subj : Re: Various Things To : Daryl Stout From : Brian Rogers Date : Tue Jun 08 2021 21:29:00 Hello Daryl; -=> Daryl Stout wrote to Brian Rogers <=- BR> Where does Stephanie fit into play? DS> I don't know. I didn't watch the show all that much, and just DS> stumbled on it one evening. Look her up then and you'll see what you missed ;) DS> And, I could use a good one. Over the weekend, the browser, DS> soundcard, ThumbDV, BlueDV program, and the headset mic, all bit the DS> dust. I was able to get the browser working again, but with severe DS> weather and flash flooding (numerous tornado warnings to my southwest DS> yesterday), and flash flood emergencies across central and south DS> Arkansas today), I've had little time to worry about the BBS. And, I DS> just discovered an unexpected bill...so, I likely will take my car to DS> the dealership next week, and sell it. That almost doesn't make sense that certain things failed that aren't related to each other but others stayed running. That's why I don't use soundcard packet - it's not trust worthy. We didn't learn our lesson in the mid 90s with software (WIN) modems. Why hams went backwards is beyond me. Cost! Clearly a case of 'You get what you DON'T pay for' DS> Some just have "the gift of gab". :P Quite true. Sometimes I wonder if they're failed DJs and we now know why lol DS> Hams are frugal cheapskates...and I use the term loosely. You're way too kind. Tell us what you really think DS> I've never had a problem with UBER. Once in taking a taxi, the driver DS> was driving like he was on the Indy 500 race course. You haven't experienced being a passenger until you've had a cab ride in NYC! The AT&T building usually has chunks missing in the corners from cabbies deciding to blow red lights by going up the sidewalks... no joke! DS> I used to joke that if my wife was following too close behind me, and DS> I stopped suddenly, I was the victim of a rear end collusion. . DS> Another ham, whose ex-wife did colonoscopies, quipped that "If she's DS> behind me at home, I don't dare bend over". Never give your proctologist the finger, they hate being told how to do their jobs DS> And, the banks, Wall Street, and Big Pharma, and making out with Big DS> Bucks, while the Whammies get the rest of us. Along that line, my DS> favorite was the Whammy breakdancing. Uncle Joe keeps spending (You know who that is, the uncle your little girl won't talk about) it'll be ten fold worse. BR> Praying for a lightning strike? Just insure you're not home if it BR> happens. DS> There was a meme on hamdata.com with an antenna on the side of the DS> outhouse...and another one where it appears "he fell into the hole". :P If he was smart he'd rent the downstairs to some illegals DS> I don't need a mic at the square dance (another hobby), to make DS> needed announcements as an officer of the Arkansas State Square Dance DS> Federation. The problem is getting folks to be quiet so I can tell them DS> what's going on. Many of them come to me later, and say they didn't DS> hear what I said... to which, I replied "I saw you talking back there DS> while I was talking"... busted. I avoid all dancing at all costs! I only can do break dancing - whenever I do dance, something in me breaks. DS> I could barely turn in it this morning. The pressure changes from the DS> weather and making things hurt even worse. That was me 24 hours ago. I'm just waiting for them to enact the right to life law and I'll be the first in line to take the end-all shot. Feel lucky you get disability. Here I was told by an obese black woman that white males in this state by the color of their skin do not get benefits. If I cry about it, I'm a racist. That's what the younger generation has helped promote. DS> Everyone wants the glory and benefits, but not the gall and the work. DS> And, they think all these things are like manna from Heaven...that DS> they'll magically happen (i.e. workers at a hamfest). I'm done volunteering. Yesterday I drank a can of liquid death (yes it's a real drink!)... it failed DS> The mentality today is *I*, *ME*, and *THE HELL WITH THE REST OF DS> YOU*. In short, selfish. Teachers stopped teaching "there's no I in team" years ago, as did parents. DS> A piece of excrement to be blunt. They're giving themselves raises, DS> have the top health coverage, travel luxury on our nickel, and get paid DS> when they're not in session. Before the election, they give us "the DS> thumbs up"; after they're in, they give us "the bird". I found it hysterical that Kamala (the old wrestler would do a better job!) went to Guatemala and their president gave it to her up the pooper... little did he know she likes that (it's how she got where she is) and how she was greeted at the airport by locals carrying "trump won go home" signs yet the lame stream media never touched it. She tried to say the boarder issue is to be faulted by global warming to which he said bullocks it's Biden's fault! He called it as he saw it - and how it is. DS> The Arkansas Packet Network is just a shell from what it once was. DS> For a time, there wasn't even a packet node in the state to connect to DS> (you connected on 2 meters, and the backbone was on 6 meters). While I DS> still have an MFJ 1270C TNC, I don't have a rig or cables for it. DS> There are times I feel the same way...no one will miss me. More like I won't miss them. DS> But, they don't want to admit their guilt. I served on jury duty in DS> the Little Rock area 25 years ago. Now, if I had said the following at DS> the initial briefing, or during the voir dire phase of the trial, they DS> would've excused me. DS> 1) I took a Criminal Justice Course in college 40 years ago. In one DS> of the trials, they were addressing the concept of "accomplice DS> liability" (as in a bank robbery)...with the guy with the gun, the DS> driver of the getaway car, and the guy who planned it. When I said the DS> planner had his hand in the pie like the rest of them (I remembered DS> this from the course), the defense attorney yelled out "Objection!! We DS> would like to have Mister Stout excused". I thanked them, and when I DS> got outside the courtroom, I laughed my butt off (guess I shouldn't DS> have been so cheeky in my behavior) . DS> 2) "Only The Good Lord and the defendant know their guilt or innocence. DS> If they are in fact, guilty...yet are acquitted by a jury of their DS> peers...unless they repent, they will fare far worse on Judgment Day, DS> where there'll be no question of guilt before The Lord. In short, they DS> might as well save us all the trouble, and confess now." DS> Some have said "I can spot a guilty [insert race here] halfway across DS> a room". To me...we pee the same yellow, poop the same brown, bleed the DS> same red...what is the problem?? They can be plaid, for all I care. DS> Yet, I go back to point #2 I made above. I have 0 faith in our injustice system and it's getting worse on a daily basis. I was chosen to work jury duty too even after I told the tribunal who were interviewing me that the courts were a massive failure. I got stuck lol. In reality I shouldn't have went with the rest who hung the poor guy because not once were we able to see just how the alleged crime was committed (it was a drug case) from the video submitted. It was all 100% assumption which should never have been allowed. I proved my own theory correct. A lawyer friend of mine told me I should become a lawyer. I told him flat out the legal system is such junk run by corrupt folks licensed by the bar who don't deserve to be and that it's too deep for me to fix - thank you but no. There's no checks and balances anymore. I don't believe half of those who have been convicted actually are guilty, and vice versa. You can eat a cleaner meal off the grounds of a junkyard vs that of any government office. DS> My late father served in the US Submarine Service during World War DS> II, and was a Master Chief Quartermaster E-9 when he retired 20 years DS> before his death. My late father was in the navy. I wish I knew that one back in the day :) DS> I've often wonder how much of that monetary forfeiture money is ever DS> collected. Oh, a good chunk of it - yet it's never reported as government income! Ever notice that?? .... 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