For some reason this issue posted as deleted! but the interweb went nuts while I was publishing. I also never received reply notifications so I decided to Re Post along with the early comments.
After a Fire Fox update and what ever, everything went nuts. This poor post gets no respect. settings messed up and every repost gets the "Posted by delete' guess I am part of the Delete class now?
Sorry I didn't have time to comment on these. I was out of town attending a funeral for an old friend. I did some drive-by looks, but that's about it. Thanks for these, OUC!
How come what I wrote got removed? We're adults and I don't think what I wrote was at all bad. Anyone want to see what bad dino wrote, scroll down in New.
This one was a "Re Post" Dino, I was trying to figure out what was goin on with all the "Posted by delete" stuff. What you wrote is still on the original further down the page.
PS, ITMTyme posted out just fine, it's in HOT now and no sign of anymore deleting.
Just under the heading where it usually identifies the person posting and the time posted. Instead of "Posted by OUC 4 hours ago" to Humor; It said: "Posted by delete 4 hours ago' to Humor The very first post had problems so I posted a new one after I deleted the first but someone commented before I did that, It just made everything worse.
There is a tendency of people to blame computer malfunctions on their own actions. When I was sysadmin for time-sharing systems in use at well-known educational institutions any system crash would be followed immediately by phone calls or personal visits from angry or befuddled users. "I think I broke it. I was just trying to sort a bunch of items and that's when it died." Sorry, you're not to blame. Now if you'll shut up and go away I'll fix it.
The personal visits were usually like this: "I need to get the report printed out now. I have a plane to catch. Why isn't the system up, you idiot?" (If I answer the question you just asked you'll miss that plane.)
Had I been running computers for counting votes the scenarios would have been totally different.
Modern systems get "hacked" for reasons we all understand. You don't need to know the details, but Don't Click On That Link That Promises You Money Or Luscious Women.
Old-fashioned dino bought his first PC 2003 the same year I retired from being a state corrections officer for 21 years. I could not even have got on the Internet if I had not called my tech savvy son still living with my ex and long story short said, "HELP!" Watching what he had to do with fingers flying all over the keyboard blew my dino mind. It only took me a couple of months later to realize there is more sociopathic con artist scum and villainy skulking around on the Internet than all the convicted felons in Alabama's largest maximum security prison that I used to work at. That prison is named after an Officer Donaldson. It was called the West Jefferson Correctional Facility up until a very tragic day. Donaldson relieved me to work a post he got killed on roughly 4 hours later.
Three times someone with a Hispanic accent has called me to say I won a Publishers Clearing House jackpot. I tell them off within 10 seconds before they can ask for my checking account number. I started to diversify to more inclusively list other attempts to defraud me on the phone but just now decided not to use my time better.
I have almost taken to answering my phone "¡Hola!" when it's a number I don't know. Almost. I could say नमस्ते! (namaste!) but that might get me into very deep yogurt.
My phone used to ring off the hook. A son who was visiting me heard how my phone would ring and remarked that "You must be downright popular." Then I learned from someone whose wife was in that business that callers seeking donations or to sell something for a large part make "multiple calls" for having the gear that calls several people at the same time. First to answer is come first, first harassed, so to speak. So now should my caller ID indicate I'm getting such a call, I press on the answering button, count to five and turn the phone off. That much at least will mess up a "multiple call" because now I get far less calls than I did a year ago. Guess they have the means to know I'm the one pulling that nifty stunt.
So glad you re-posted, ouc. I missed this one first time around and boy am I sharing these beauties! California girls, cat and roof, bob waaaaa, feng shui, pup chew, awwww they're all great!
Great job OUC
Me in 1963. Look at the one on the extreme left,
behind him there is another further to the left,
that is me.
They said I would not turn out well, they were right.
(Extreme left depending on which way you are facing may be extreme right)
settings messed up and every repost gets the "Posted by delete'
guess I am part of the Delete class now?
Oh well, . . .
Maybe a Re BOOT! will help
Anyone want to see what bad dino wrote, scroll down in New.
What you wrote is still on the original further down the page.
PS, ITMTyme posted out just fine, it's in HOT now and no sign of anymore deleting.
The very first post had problems so I posted a new one after I deleted the first but someone commented before I did that, It just made everything worse.
The personal visits were usually like this: "I need to get the report printed out now. I have a plane to catch. Why isn't the system up, you idiot?" (If I answer the question you just asked you'll miss that plane.)
Had I been running computers for counting votes the scenarios would have been totally different.
Modern systems get "hacked" for reasons we all understand. You don't need to know the details, but Don't Click On That Link That Promises You Money Or Luscious Women.
I could not even have got on the Internet if I had not called my tech savvy son still living with my ex and long story short said, "HELP!"
Watching what he had to do with fingers flying all over the keyboard blew my dino mind.
It only took me a couple of months later to realize there is more sociopathic con artist scum and villainy skulking around on the Internet than all the convicted felons in Alabama's largest maximum security prison that I used to work at.
That prison is named after an Officer Donaldson. It was called the West Jefferson Correctional Facility up until a very tragic day.
Donaldson relieved me to work a post he got killed on roughly 4 hours later.
Friend of ours lost about $2500 to an internet person who promised matrimony. Claimed to be US Army.
Cheap international long-distance telephone offers scamming, too. If I get faked calls obviously from India I curse them in Hindi.
I started to diversify to more inclusively list other attempts to defraud me on the phone but just now decided not to use my time better.
Then I learned from someone whose wife was in that business that callers seeking donations or to sell something for a large part make "multiple calls" for having the gear that calls several people at the same time. First to answer is come first, first harassed, so to speak.
So now should my caller ID indicate I'm getting such a call, I press on the answering button, count to five and turn the phone off.
That much at least will mess up a "multiple call" because now I get far less calls than I did a year ago.
Guess they have the means to know I'm the one pulling that nifty stunt.