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Women's health problems doctors still miss - CNN.com - http://www.cnn.com/2009...
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"Ashley Price felt terrible. She was tired, dizzy spells came and went, dark splotches popped up on her chest for no reason, and she'd gained 50 pounds in two years. Some days she was starving; other days she could barely eat. Her doc suggested that her problems would go away if Price just ate less and exercised more, even though she was dieting and working out regularly. Price demanded thyroid tests, only to have them come back normal. Women may feel like their symptoms aren't taken seriously and that they're told to stop worrying. Her doctor told her: "I have no idea what it is. Wait for it to go away." It didn't go away. "I could no longer think straight, no matter how hard I tried or what I did," Price says. Worse, she suffered three straight miscarriages. Finally, four years after this nightmare began -- after the third miscarriage -- an ultrasound revealed that her ovaries were riddled with cysts. She had polycystic ovary syndrome, a hormonal disorder; symptoms include irregular...
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- Katy S
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Why doesn't this surprise me?
- Katy S
This experience is very familiar.
- Spidra Webster
don't like. It is practically impossible to get diagnosed if you're a woman and have pain. I am sure a lot of other people here have had similar problems. :(
- Andrizzle Gizzle
Yep.
- joey
That's why I posted it. I got lucky and stumbled upon a decent doctor, but many aren't that fortunate.
- Katy S
This is a not-like. It's also not really surprising.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
i also saw this. i think if the doctors aren't taking their patients' concerns seriously, that's an issue that should be addressed in medical school or CMEs. patients being informed about potential diseases is good, but they shouldn't have to make their own diagnoses because the doctors don't believe them.
- Jessie
I suggested a friend ask abut this disorder because I had read about the symptoms in a women's magazine. It might have taken the doctor a very long time to come up with this diagnosis, if ever. Yet if we tell the doctor "I read about this" we're dismissed as hypochondriacs.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
I'm probably really lucky that my mom is a doctor...
- Kamilah Gill
I detest being patronized. That is all.
- Ayşe E.
I know several people with PCOS - do doctors somehow not know?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
If I had a bottle of champagne for every time a doctor has told me to lose weight and exercise more we'd be having a big party. And do they ever act even the slightest bit contrite when something "real" turns up? I think not.
- Amy℠
I think PCOS is usually diagnosed by gyn because women come in complaining about the lack of period, and they don't even consider the other symptoms related. I know a few people who just consider not getting a period or getting a few a year to be "normal" - or if the woman has been on birth control a long time and is coming off, maybe? (I don't know if b/c helps control PCOS) - I think a lot of doctors don't want to mess with the pelvic region at all especially if it sounds like your symptoms are unrelated.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
Along the same lines, I feel guilty whenever I complain about a health issue or go to a doctor for a complaint. I feel like people (especially the doctor) think that I'm faking, even though I know darn well that I'm not. I guess I've had a crummy history with doctors plus I hate feeling like a pest.
- Rochelle
same, rochelle, when I made an appt with the doctor yesterday I was like, oh so sorry to bother might I please have a moment of the good doctors time kind sirs!!! I feel like a pest, then I feel like an idiot for not being more proactive.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
We all need to stop feeling like we are "whining." Let's make a pact. I just got an object lesson in this on Friday (see comment to Joey on my thread) - docs had been saying pain is FMS; new doc actually X-rayed & found bone spur. This is a feminist issue - whether or not docs are male/female - it is us cowing down to patriarchy. ARISE!
- Amy℠
I went through this
- Lindsey is Fierce!
:(
- edythe
PCOS is very common. Shop around with doctors until they get it right. Sad.
- Louis Gray
I love my (GP) doctor. I call him "Dr Doogie" because he's the same age as my kid. He takes me seriously. I can email him. He does my GYN but he'd be cool with it if I asked to see a female instead. He's one of the New Breed who believe in collaborating with patients in making health care decisions. And it's great that he's at a Johns Hopkins campus; I can get my lab work done right there. When I found a lump in my breast I was examined that day and had surgery 8 weeks later.
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
I also have PCOS. I probably had it since high school, but it was only diagnosed about 5 years ago. I'm actually glad for the experience, because it made it that much easier for me to be diagnosed with interstitial cystitis. (In that I knew something was wrong and pursued it.) Oh, and like many others - I only started investigating it when a friend from grad school suggested it sounded like PCOS (she had a friend with it).
- Laura H.
Set Up Remote Desktop Web Connection with Windows XP - http://www.microsoft.com/windows...
"The first step in enabling Remote Desktop Web Connection is to install the necessary software on the host computer. Remote Desktop Web Connection is an optional World Wide Web Service component of Internet Information Services (IIS), which is included by default in Windows XP Professional. IIS responds to requests from a Web browser. Have your Windows XP Professional CD handy, and follow these steps:"
- Daniel J. Pritchett
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Why are so many mommybloggers Mormon?
Jennifer Dittrich, Jesse Stay, Jeff P. Henderson and 9 other people liked this
I didn't know they were!
- Derrick
Oh...I could put my teeth in this one and go on for HOURS. Short answer? They're taught to do it as a "Stay at home job" in Relief Society.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Tutivillus, shut it.
- Rochelle
Derrick, it seems like it! It seems impossible to find a Jewish homemaker mommyblogger but there are dozens or Mormon homemaker mommybloggers.
- Rochelle
I know Erin (@queenofspain) works for BlogHer and some of her peeps are known as mommy bloggers (although I think she hates the term, personally), but I don't think any of the ladies I've met or crossed paths with are Mormon. I had no idea. There are some LDS people here on FF...maybe they can offer their thoughts.
- Derrick
I wonder if it's part of the evangelical aspect of Christianity. Jews tend to keep to themselves for the most part whereas Christians have all sorts of outreach programs. Perhaps they see blogging and tweeting as a way of demonstrating the positive aspects of being a homemaker. This could be seen as essential in today's society where homemaking is frowned upon by many sections of the female populace. I'm just pulling a Miller here and hypothesizing. Who knows.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Derrick, I use the term in a tongue-in-cheek kind of way. It's an annoying phrase but works.
- Rochelle
Akiva, I agree. They seem to rarely ever post anything evangelical (if at all) but definitely do inspire me (and others!) to be better homemakers based on their amazing photos, stories, recipes, etc.
- Rochelle
You get all that *and* they baptize your Jewish ancestors. FOR FREE! Aint that a peach?!
- Christopher Harley
It's a numbers game. Mormons (sometimes) believe it's a religious duty to breed.
- Jeremy
What a bunch of negative, unhelpful comments. :/
- Rochelle
I don't know why they seem to have such high numbers, but all the LDS people I've ever met in person are all very nice.
- RAPatton
RAP, me too.
- Rochelle
I wasn't being mean. No snark. It's a cultural thing. If they REALLY believe that children are a God given duty and blessing, it comes out in their values. Nerds talk about gadgets and Joss Wheedon; Mormons talk about having babies and not drinking coffee.
- Jeremy
Jeremy, I'm not sure what being a blogger has to do with wanting to have babies.
- Rochelle
You mentioned mommyblogger - which to me indicated they blog about mommy stuff. It comes out of the joy of having a family.
- Jeremy
I've often thought about this myself. You know I love them but I do wonder why it is so disproportionate (but maybe Akiva's point is correct and maybe in the homemaker community LDS women make up a greater percentage of total women). I think a lot of the blogs also seem to be started to stay in touch with large families, especially if the blogger has moved far away from them.
- joey
Joey, send me your RSS list!
- Rochelle
I don't have an RSS list; I'm not that cool/geeky.
- joey
How about just a list of the sites, then? I can Google names.
- Rochelle
(Ignoring some of the silliness above)... my guess is a few things. 1) Yes, Mormons have more kids than most, as part of being family-centric. 2) We are taught to keep a record or journal from an early age. 3) The church is really tech-savvy.
- Louis Gray
Better question. DO ANYBODY NO WHY HALF OF FFUNDERCATS IZ MORMON?
- Louis Gray
Does my wife count as a mommyblogger?
- Louis Gray
Louis, of course she does. :D
- Rochelle
Louis, what is the purpose of "keeping a record or journal from an early age"? Just curious...
- Her Lindsay-ness
Go here for a clearing house of blogs by LDS women covering different topics: http://mormonmommyblogs.blogspot.com/
- Kristine Gray
I like gadgets and Joss Whedon.
- Josh Haley
Seems to me that if you are talking sheer numbers, that Protestant or Catholic mommyblogs should dominate as those two religious categories account for 51% and 24% of the US religious population respectively. Mormons only account for 1.7% of the religious population in the US. Does anyone know if the LDS are promoting mommyblogging?
- Jeff P. Henderson
Here is one article about keeping a personal journal: http://lds.org/ldsorg...
- Kristine Gray
And here is another: http://lds.org/ldsorg...
- Kristine Gray
I couldn't convince my wife to write a blog for the life of me, and I'm Mormon
- Jesse Stay
It appears that after a little Googleing, that the LDS does in fact heavily promote the use of new technologies to spread "the gospel" of the Mormon church. They have even coined the term, 'Blogernacle'.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Personally, I blame Dooce though
- Jesse Stay
Jesse, I blame Maytag :P
- Micah Wittman
Rochelle, off the top of my head some of my favourites are: http://nieniedialogues.blogspot.com/ and her sister http://blog.cjanerun.com/. I read Blog Segullah a lot; it gets more into theology and general life issues and the comments and discussions are something I gain a lot of wisdom from. http://segullah.org/blog/ and http://beehiveandbirdsnest.blogspot.com/ which I found because...
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- joey
I do occasionally find myself thinking "Wow, a lot of my awesome FFer buds are Mormon and I didn't realize that at first" but in the end it's not something that has much of an impact on me.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
After I sent you those links for homeschooling blogs I wondered if you followed any Jewish mommy blogs. The thought crossed my mind that it would probably be very hard to find them. I don't know why. I did not start a blog because of the Church and was never told to in Relief Society. The closest I've ever been instructed to is in the link Jesse posted above and I already had a blog at...
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- Trish Haley
Here's one I am constantly blown away by her talents and I didn't know she was LDS until after months of reading her blog. http://homemadebyjill.blogspot.com/
- Trish Haley
Thank you all for your insight. :)
- Rochelle
Kelly, Rochelle, Katie: Whelmed Overly and 5 other people liked this
Sounds pretty gay to me.
- Sparky, liker of beards
So. Sick. Of. Him.
- Derrick
Who are you even talking about?
- Sparky, liker of beards
- Daniel J. Pritchett
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Yeah, I sent him a DM about that. He acts like a kid sometimes.
- DO ANYBODY NO MONIQUE
I'm on chat reference tonight, so that means another "Questions I received during my chat shift" thread.
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It's pretty quiet so far.
- cecily
That's because I cannot bring myself to press the send button *chuckle*
- Michael W. May
Yay!
- Rochelle
I love when y'all librarians do this.
- Derrick
I'm resisting the urge to send in a DO ANYBODY NO question. :)
- Rochelle
DO ANYBODY NO IF THERE ARE PENGUINS IN BRAZIL?
- Sarah June
How do I make videos on my computer?
- cecily
How do I get a library card?
- cecily
What's "chat reference?" And if it means I GET TO BUG CECILY IN A CHAT ROOM... SOMEBODY POINT ME IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION!!
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Derrick: ONE OF US! ONE OF US! ONE OF US!
- cecily
ROFLCOPTER.
- Derrick
"No, I need you to help me make the video. I don't know what I'm doing."
- cecily
Poor kid.
- cecily
I need to compare the denominators of two numbers using the least common multiple.
- cecily
I need to know the difference between an independent and a dependent variable.
- cecily
So, when you get questions like the above, do you tell them the answer or tell them what book they can probably use?
- Anika
I would like information about boo radly (sic) from to kill a mockingbird.
- cecily
We're not teachers or tutors, so we don't give answers. All we can do is give them pointers. Really, really POINTED pointers. :D
- cecily
And because it's online, I usually point them to websites instead of books.
- cecily
Ah...I always wondered about that. The reference desk at the old law library here, they would practically give you clues as to what aisle you *may* consider walking down. But the the public library, they are a lot more helpful, though I can't help but laugh at the questions a friend gets asked when she works reference.
- Anika
Derrick, I do too! At least when they do it here on FF.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
What are the links between producers, consumers, detrivores, and decomposers?
- cecily
It really depends on the type of question. If it's someone wanting to know who the star of the movie "The Philadelphia Story" was, I'll tell them that answer. But I can smell a homework question a mile away, and I never give straight answers for those.
- cecily
"I'm writing a lab report on microscopes, but I can't find anything about lens inversion."
- cecily
"Can you help me find some books to read?" from a 5th grader. Dude. I wish I could. I am not a children's librarian. :-/
- cecily
5th grade? I did the Little House series in fifth grade which kickstarted the reading frenzy in full.
- Michael W. May
this is why I do not consider myself very librarianish. I would be sweating on that reference desk! Go Cecily!
- Laura Norvig
Harry Potter? Hardy Boys? What do 5th graders even read nowadays?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
They are reading Artemis Fowl, Gregor the Overlander, Percy Jackson and the Olympians and Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- Abigail
love hearing ref Qs!
- Stephanie_GoBigBlue!
Artemis Fowl is great. Well, the first three(?) books. After that it got a bit too serial for my liking.
- DJF
PDC day two: Silverlight 4 and a free laptop - http://www.itwriting.com/blog...
"Tim, you indicate that H.264 is supported — but is that for streaming from a server, or to a server (e.g., from a webcam)? In other words, I still haven’t found anything anywhere which indicates how it might be possible to write a video chat application with Silverlight 4. Does anyone have any guidance there?"
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Has anyone built a VMWare image of Chrome OS yet so I can try it out?
Kazutaka Ogaki, YungSang, Dave Roth and 32 other people liked this
and what about the "custom firmware" in that case? mmmh... I'm a little concerned
- Claudio Cicali ♋
please share if exists
- Jacopod
there is an image_to_vmware.sh in src/scripts - that should do the trick [I will check it after dinner :) ]
- Marco Fabbri
I'm also interested in this VMWare image.... This could be a great find and resource.
- George B
Bret, I haven't tried it, but there you go: http://www.wuala.com/chromeo...
- Orlando Pozo
Geez, yet another Linux clone.
- Адский Блондин
(Clone wars vet. Need $$$ to build Deth Star ©)
- Адский Блондин
Just tried that VMware chrome OS image, it is a SUSE Linux distribution with GNOME, GDM is customized with Google Chrome logo, and also Google Chrome browser, that's it for now :S.
- Orlando Pozo
Arg! I can confirm, it's a fake (the live cd) :(
- Brandon
I thought I was going to get something like http://friendfeed.com/orlando...
- Orlando Pozo
Let's see Brandon, I am anxious to test this thing :)
- Orlando Pozo
The build is also pretty broken. It is missing a bunch of the Google packages like google-gflags. I am almost done with a build - we'll see :)
- Bret Taylor
Nice Bret, post it when you can.
- Orlando Pozo
So the consensus is that the VMX image is indeed a fake correct?
- George B
Yes, this is fake http://getchrome.eu/downloa...
- Orlando Pozo
Looking forward to it too
- Charlie Anzman
Techcrunch has a confirmed iso and has posted a tutorial: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
- Brandon
Brandon, that worked out the box. VMWare doesn't recognize the NIC, use VirtualBox instead.
- Orlando Pozo
Virtualbox doesn't support OpenGL (Xgl), so you won't see effects like this http://www.youtube.com/watch... :(
- Orlando Pozo
I built it earlier, check it out at: http://gdgt.com/google... And we just released a VirtualBox and Bootable USB image (not mentioned in that TC article).
- Jon Ursenbach
Christopher's gdgt link looks good to me.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I cannot even express how angry I am right now. WHAT THE FUCK.
Kol Tregaskes, RAPatton, VAL D. and 7 other people liked this
Oh no! What's going on?
- Georgia Diehl
Nothing I can really say here, but I just needed to at least get a .1% vent out.
- joey
*offers himself as a punching bag to Joey*
- Johnny Worthington
:( Have any Nerf bats handy? Perhaps a pillowfight?
- Spidra Webster
I like screaming in my car every once in a while! It surprisingly makes you feel a bit better!
- Georgia Diehl
Spidra Pillow Fight??? o_0 *grabs chair and popcorn*
- CW™
Well, I meant pillow fighting with her fiance or something. That kind of exertion can often help you de-stress and get the adrenaline out.
- Spidra Webster
i agree! what THE fuck? can anyone explain coherently what the Fuck??? come on people!
- Morgan Haley
Car screaming rools!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Why do so many pro baseball players have August birthdays? - By Greg Spira - Slate Magazine - http://www.slate.com/id...
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"In almost every American youth league, the oldest players are the ones born in August, and the youngest are those with July birthdays. For example, someone born on July 31, 1990, would almost certainly have been the youngest player on his youth team in 2001, his first year playing in the 11-and-12-year-olds league, and of average age in 2002, his second year in the same league. Someone born on Aug. 1, 1989, by contrast, would have been of average age in 2001, his first year playing in the 11-and-12-year-olds division, and would almost certainly be the oldest player in the league in 2002."
- Daniel J. Pritchett
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Better-looking sportsmen more likely to win - science-in-society - 19 November 2009 - New Scientist - http://www.newscientist.com/article...
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"Elite athletes distinguish themselves through hard work, grit and, most importantly, raw talent. However new research, along with a study conducted by New Scientist, points to another trait of the most accomplished jocks: a handsome face. The better an American football player, the more attractive he is, concludes a team led by Justin Park at the University of Bristol, UK. Park's team had women rate the attractiveness of National Football League (NFL) quarterbacks: all were elite players, but the best were rated as more desirable. Meanwhile, a survey of more than a thousand New Scientist Twitter followers reveals a similar trend for professional men's tennis players. Neither Park nor New Scientist argue that good looks promote good play. Rather, the same genetic variations could influence both traits. "Athletic prowess may be a sexually selected trait that signals genetic quality," Park says. So the same genetic factors that contribute to a handsome mug may also offer a slight competitive advantage to professional athletes."
- RAPatton
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Bah
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Ron Artest, Dennis Rodman, Carl Malone, Babe Ruth, Most of the NHL, Doug Williams, Scotty Pippin... shall I continue?
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
Hell Bjorg (who that guy up there gets compared to a lot) for that matter. Looks are so subjective. I hate "studies" like this.
- MASTER OF THE OBVIOUS
"most of the NHL!"rotflcopter. Uh, Larry Bird? Dirk Nowitsky? But more seriously, how would you account for the biases of coaches and teammates? Good-looking/charismatic kids are likely to be picked first by friends in playground games. Adult coaches would rather spend their time with god-looking kids than ugly pugs. And so on. The pretty get better while the less-pretty play video games.
- Steve is older than ever
+1 Steve. Not hard to imagine a lifetime of good looks would aid someone's long-term practice regimen.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
This reminds me very strongly of the "why do people born in July so rarely make it into MLB" story: http://friendfeed.com/sports-...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I tend to agree in one way they get all the adverts and I know I cannot watch two players on the tour because I don't like their heads.....crazy but true and I hate feeling this way but it gives me the creeps........and they are great players
- VAL D.
Paedophile who raped & killed boy, 11, shot in the head in front of hundreds of spectators - http://www.liveleak.com/view...
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"This is criminal justice, Yemen style"
- chaz2b
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Good.. I wish we would do this in America
- Kyle Johnson
Kyle, while I agree that expanding the death penalty a little from its current state would be an overall positive for society in America I think parading them around and making spectacle of them is cruel and disrespectful of both the offender and the viewers. Convicted repeat violent criminals must be executed humanely and in a reasonably private environment.
- Sparky, liker of beards
How would you like to see the death penalty in the U.S. expanded, Sparky? Should the punishment include crimes other than murder?
- Christopher Harley
and treason...
- chaz2b
Murder and highly violent crimes such as rape. Anyone capable of those acts does not belong in our society.
- Sparky, liker of beards
Rape? Like prison rape as well? And other violent crimes like what? Like hurting someone in the commission of a robbery?
- Christopher Harley
Any rape. Any brutal crime. All subject to a trial, and thus an examination of circumstance by a jury of your peers of course.
- Sparky, liker of beards
I don't agree, Sparky. I'm sorry, it's nothing personal but I think you're being evasive and a little flippant about such a serious matter. It sounds like attempted murder and premeditated assault fall under your rubric for capitol punishment. I wouldn't want to live in a country that expanded any further a practice that I already find abhorrent.
- Christopher Harley
Depending on the circumstances yes both attempted murder and premeditated assault could fall under my view of what would be acceptable for capitol punishment, although the latter would likely not be reasonable for a first offense. The truly violent have no place in society and pose a broad risk to the general public.
- Sparky, liker of beards
Sparklez, I disagree that it is disrespectful to the offender/viewers and that once you cross the line of killing someone violently (as in, not in self defense or under questionable circumstances) you give up any rights to a private environment. I still believe they should be executed quickly and with little harm as possible (not to do so would make us just as bad). If executions were televised only viewers who wanted to see it would - the message would be clear though, this shit isn't tolerated.
- Kyle Johnson
I agree that the message people are executed would help prevent further executions, however the message is all that is needed. You shouldn't televise it, or even have witnesses beyond the executioner, medical examiner, and any law enforcement officers required for due process. When it is complete send out a press release and let the public know it's happened. Showing it off just makes it a media spectacle.
- Sparky, liker of beards
Hmmm...I kinda am ok with this
- Shevonne
Gotdamn.
- Derrick
how often you would like your children to see this kind of executions? bi-weekly or weekly?
- A.T.
This saddens me, on so many levels.
- pea
it´s easy to sympathize with this (somehow), but two wrongs don´t make a right
- ★ Esther Rudolph
I'm okay with media spectacles as well. I don't think press releases are in-your-face enough to drive the message home. I would also be okay if we had a more of a system where punishment fits the crime. You rape someone, you get your dangly bits cut off. You steal something, you get a finger or hand cut off. You kill someone, you get killed. I live in too pansy of a country :(
- Kyle Johnson
I have no desire to witness an execution, but I can see that a public execution as a form of transparency, and would approve of non-commercial broadcast.
- RAPatton
Death should not be a form of entertainment.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
Nor should it be a form of state sanctioned punishment.
- Christopher Harley
Christopher - what alternative do you suggest?
- Sparky, liker of beards
If it is to be done it should be public, no one should be allowed to think of execution in the abstract.
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
Sparky, the only obvious alternative; incarceration.
- Christopher Harley
Incarceration has some value as a means rehabilitation, but just dumping criminals in limbo doesn't work. It costs significant amounts of money to house a prisoner, and when looking at a lifetime of incarceration we are talking about society spending up to a million dollars per prisoner to 'keep us safe'. Given the high number of criminals out there that is simply not sustainable. For...
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- Sparky, liker of beards
You've still not defined the level of criminality. What is the least violent crime that commands execution, Sparky.
- Christopher Harley
Christopher - I don't really know the answer to that question. I'm just one person with one opinion. If we were to revamp the criminal justice system a lot of debate and discussion would have to occur to set that line. My personal opinion though is that anyone currently incarcerated for life with no chance of parole due to violent crimes would be a candidate. Given the choice between...
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- Sparky, liker of beards
A mass culling of the prison population? Honestly Sparky, this side of you is really frightening.
- Christopher Harley
I'm out. I gotta go find something fun to look at.
- Christopher Harley
Terrible style!
- Mary
After proper due process, yes. Right now prisons are a huge impact on society with honest, hard working people paying to incarcerate people that society has said can no longer participate in society. Either we need to re-evaluate the guidelines by which we measure the ability to participate in society, or we need to _actually_ remove these elements from society. Throwing money at the problem is not a viable solution.
- Sparky, liker of beards
I don't think the death penalty is the deterrent that some people suppose and I don't think public executions would help either.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
Andrizzle - I think it is a deterrent to some, but certainly not to all. End of the day though if someone is a proven violent offender who will likely murder again if given the chance the best option for society is to ensure the person never gets the opportunity to murder again. Not in public, not in prison, not anywhere.
- Sparky, liker of beards
Public executions do only one thing: humiliate and degrade everyone involved. People have enough trouble controlling their basest drives as it is so I don't think parading governmental privilege in front of a crowd with an ever-dwindling average IQ is the best of ideas.
- Akiva Moskovitz
*nods sagely at Akiva*
- Sparky, liker of beards
Justice = Served. I'm a little squeamish about it being so public, but let's be honest... People will think twice in the future about raping or murdering someone knowing this could be their punishment. And I have no sympathy whatsoever for pedophiles. They deserve whatever punishment they get.
- Jason Huebel
Executions public or not, speak volumes about both the kind of government that's in place, and the way that government views its underclass. But the saving grace (if it could be called that) to public executions is that it gives substance to something that might otherwise only be a statistic.
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
Who knows if this guy was even guilty. I don't see how people who consider themselves religious or moral could agree with this. In the US we have people executed who are later proven to be innocent. Yemin is further behind than the US, so what makes you feel like their justice system is more accuate? It was a horrific crime and they were trying hard to find someone to convice.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
That's a hefty moral conundrum for the morning. The growing support for the notion that pedophiles can be incurable really challenges my views about the criminal justice system. It seems like a lose/lose problem with no ideal solution.
- Lo
Andrizzle - this particular case is a little different from the general discussion that has taken place. I agree that there was not sufficient due process. If he was guilty he did deserve death, however I'm saddened by the fact that I don't have confidence if he was actually guilty or not.
- Sparky, liker of beards
Lo is right - there is no ideal solution for criminal minds. We are stuck in an unfortunate position of trying to pick the solution with the least negative impact on society.
- Sparky, liker of beards
Sparky, true but there's still the question of whether the greater good comes before the individual's good. Which has a greater negative impact on society, hurting everyone a little to protect someone's rights or putting society as a whole first at the expense of human rights? A rigorous "for the greater good" approach seems to lead to a country like China. I also hesitate to label...
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- Lo
Like I said - there is no ideal solution. If we keep the pedophile incarcerated we spend $50k a year to do so with no promise of a real resolution. If we execute them we have $50k a year to put to the greater good of society BUT risk that a real solution will be found for the root cause and it's too late to apply that solution as the person has been executed.
- Sparky, liker of beards
Where are you getting your dollar amounts? I have always heard it is more expensive to execute.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
http://www.cga.ct.gov/2008... <-- shows $44k a year in 1997 dollars. Execution is expensive in the short term, however life in prison adds up quickly. If someone spends 20 years in jail at $50k a year that's a million bucks right there, without even taking inflation into account.
- Sparky, liker of beards
It's not a million *now* dollars, it's a million future dollars. Set 'em up with a $574k trust fund and you'll pay the rest with interest! http://www.wolframalpha.com/input...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Re: Running your own vanity OpenID provider is a horrible idea - http://www.sharingatwork.com/2009...
"This blog uses OpenID delegation now - is that what you're referring to?"
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Sigh @photomatt says an untrue story about him is being pushed around. Not by me. The bad side of real time world.
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This one? http://www.inquisitr.com/48474... EDIT: Looks like it was this one - Matt commented on it even http://www.inquisitr.com/48394...
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Yeah, I saw that story about wp.com moving to Azure and thought it was some kind of joke. It makes no sense, Automattic has a ton of investment in their own server farm for wp.com, moving all that to the cloud would be ridiculous. Truth probably is that Microsoft worked with them on Azure to ensure that their -AMP solution would work properly with WordPress (being probably the most popular PHP-MySQL system out there).
- Otto
The way I read it WP.org will be able to run on Azure servers. No word of wp.com going anywhere.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Real story: http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2009...
- Otto
Re: What’s With All The Chatter? - http://scottschnaars.com/2009...
"The wildest part of yesterday's keynote was when @salesforce tweeted "Why is there not a Twitter for the enterprise?" Good thing I wasn't drinking coffee when I read that! Clearly what they meant to say was "We don't want to be left out of the enterprise microblogging market". Benioff is already on record having an interest in buying Yammer back in 2008."
- Daniel J. Pritchett
A horribly inaccurate story about me was published, it was retweeted and reblogged dozens of time before anyone checked the facts.
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what's happened ??? :-O
- Adriano Gasparri
Must be this saucy headline at the Inquisitr
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I'm temped to flag Duncan's reply to matt on that post. :)
- Roberto Bonini
Why I don't use Google Reader anymore - http://scobleizer.posterous.com/why-i-d...
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Awesome "no one loves you" defense from Scoble :P ""But my Google Reader account is super fast," I can hear you saying. Yeah, but you don't have any friends and you don't have many things you are subscribed to."
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Nice Louis! "Why I don't use Google Reader anymore - http://scobleizer.posterous.com/why-i-d... 3 hours ago from Google Reader - Comment - Like - Share - Hide"
- metalerik
so, how do you (everyone) feel about google reader?
- chaz2b
I love Google Reader. Everybody knows that. :)
- Louis Gray
Feedly running on top of Google Reader is hard to beat, for me...
- Andrew Terry
I use reader about once a day now. The "magic" view is pretty sweet.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I use it a little but it is butt ugly.
- ChiliMac
Everyone uses the tool they like, GReader is clearly my information source and hub. I will skim anything I haven't filtered with my Greasemonkey script. FriendFeed is my second hub with deep interactive conversations, Facebook is mostly a little more personal interaction, Twitter is mostly quick interactions (maybe two replies) with one person. So Twitter is my lowest ranking tool out...
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- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Can't really live without GReader. Since the GReader upgrades, I have put Feedly on the shelf. It's really the best way for me to follow activity on LinkedIn and all the Ning groups I belong to, as well as the usual stuff you use RSS for.
- Bryan R. Adams
I don't like Greader ui but i'm still using it with Feedly. Feedly is just awesome for reading, discovering and share rss feeds. Twitter+feedly is a good combination.
- David Foucher
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I look at reader before I look at my email.... Is that bad? :) (disclaimer, I work on it)
- Jenna Bilotta
I still do e-mail first, Reader second, only because Reader is much more fun, and I would probably stay there.
- Louis Gray
I would miss so much stuff if I didn't use Google Reader. I get so much less noise there.
- Jesse Stay
I've seen this meme in a few places and I guess I don't fit the base use case as I tend to sleep from time to time and can't always be on Twitter.
- Dave Hodson
All these things are such moving targets. So what is the favored anti-virus software now?
- Dawn
Dawn, SocialToo ;-)
- Jesse Stay
I could live without Twitter...but GR with Feedly I use every day without fail.
- Bonnie Foster
Am I unique then? I read all my RSS feeds in my email program on my desktop and read them after I have read my email.
- Sandra Large
Scoble has an assumption that everything of interest is inside the twitterverse. My experience is that the RSSVerse is much more pervasive. To Balance the Signal to Noise Ratio use Yahoo Pipes/GReader/Feedly to munge the data to begin with. In my case I can find many topics that have not posted to twitter
- Robert Higgins
Robert: neither of us can prove that point. I am following almost 11,000 things now in Twitter. You want to try that in Google Reader? Go ahead.
- Robert Scoble
Didn't Congressman Grayson call Scoble an "S Valley Whore"? I think he should apologize.
- Dawn
i hate politicians etc so yeah he need to apoligize
- ffcode
Robert: (I am obviously biased here). it is great that you are following 11,000 things in Twitter and that makes you special and I think that some of the issues you are raising are valid. Where I think your argument breaks down is where you think that soon a lot of people will follow thousand of things in their aggregator and therefore twitter is a better solution than Google Reader....
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- Edwin Khodabakchian
So Edwin - Is there an issue with feedly pulling the shared items from specific people you are following? I can hardly get any to come across.
- Amani
Salesforce announces the latest "internal Facebook" http://twshot.com/1CB6
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Thanks for the link!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Salesforce announces latest “internal Facebook”. Is the enterprise spinoff from Facebook still coming? http://www.sharingatwork.com/2009... @enterprisetwo
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Thanks for the link!
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Grow Your Wiki - http://www.ikiw.org/2009...
"Funny you should mention Yammer – Benioff expressed an interest in buying them last year. I guess they aren’t going through with *that* deal! http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm..."
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Salesforce announces the latest “internal Facebook”. Is the enterprise spinoff from Facebook’s cofounders still coming? - http://www.sharingatwork.com/2009...
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I tried to hunt FB cofounder Dustin Moskovitz down on Twitter so that I could ping him for an update on this story but so far it hasn't panned out. Louis - if you have access to the guy he might have a good story! Looks like Asana is still hiring at any rate. http://asana.com/jobs
- Daniel J. Pritchett
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Love this tweet from @salesforce: "Why is there not a Twitter for the enterprise? #df09"
- Daniel J. Pritchett
The big announcement today is Salesforce's Chatter. A "Facebook for the Enterprise". http://www.prnewswire.com/news-re... My analysis soon. #df09
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Thanks for the tip Dion - you were the first person to clue me in on this announcement. I've just blogged my reaction: "Salesforce announces latest “internal Facebook”. Is an enterprise spinoff from FB cofounders still coming? http://bit.ly/4uza5i"
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Salesforce announces the latest “internal Facebook”. Is the enterprise spinoff from Facebook’s cofounders still coming? - http://www.sharingatwork.com/2009...
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"Today’s announcment of Salesforce “Chatter” as a SaaSy enterprise Facebook product adds another option to the red-hot market for enterprise social platforms modeled on Facebook. You may remember that I called out ”Internal Facebooks” as the #1 collaboration trend for 2009 in a post last month. We’re still waiting to hear from Asana, the business collaboration company started by Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz after he resigned from Facebook thirteen months ago."
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Re: The Link Economy Trives at BarCamp Memphis - http://www.jtrigsby.com/2009...
"Nice to meet you at #bcmem! I didn't have too much to add on monetizing hyperlocal blogs but I enjoyed the conversation all the same."
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Re: Salesforce announces the latest “internal Facebook”. Is the enterprise spinoff from Facebook’s cofounders still coming? - http://www.sharingatwork.com/2009...
"Via Hutch Carpenter on twitter: "RT @lehawes Immediate Chatter differentiator is ability to embed its social functionality into existing enterprise apps. A game-changer #e20'"
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Stephen Yeargin wins first Nashville's Almost Impossible Crossword Puzzle | Nate News - http://natene.ws/post...
"He told me he put calls on Do-Not-Disturb to fully focus on the prize, which won him a retro Opryland Belt Bucklet. Get it. He was able to win Nashville’s Almost Impossible Crossword Puzzle by solving the last clue: CLUE: In the second fold below the clouds ANSWER: John C. Tune"
- Daniel J. Pritchett
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Re: The Daniel J. Pritchett Tumblelog, I don’t know all the ways that the business world... - http://danielpritchett.tumblr.com/post...
"All problems are people problems. Do you bring together all of the necessary people to solve your current problem or do you write it off as infeasible?"
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Re: Stephen Yeargin wins first Nashville's Almost Impossible Crossword Puzzle - http://natene.ws/post...
"Great story and picture, thanks for sharing! I'll keep an eye on the Wave-up from my home in Memphis."
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Johnson scores 2 TDs, Titans beat Bills 41-17 - NFL - Yahoo! Sports - http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl...
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So, o glad to see Vince Young getting another chance and playing well.
- Patrick Jordan
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been saying it since he was at texas, the guy's middle initial is W.
- Richard Lawler
I agree. I'm in Austin and loved watching him at UT. Really hope he's going to become a star in this league.
- Patrick Jordan
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Glad to see VY's return. That 2005 BCS title game is really the only reason I'm a fan but that should buy him at least a decade of fan love :D
- Daniel J. Pritchett
@ Daniel - hell yeah it should. Greatest college football game ever maybe, and certainly greatest single performance in a title game. Amazing he was that day, and on many, many days in college ball.
- Patrick Jordan
Re: We’re in Memphis today - http://bhamterminal.com/blog...
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"Nice to meet you on Saturday! I enjoyed the panel and the discussion afterwards. I'll keep an eye out for the Terminal next time I'm in the Birmingham area."
- Daniel J. Pritchett
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