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Archives for July 2011

it’s another party, this time with a first time guest! July 29, 2011!

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That’s rightt!
Jessica
James
along with a 1st time guest to one of these very infrequent parties
blind bandit
Rocked it for nearly 6 hours. music, conversation, a little alcohol, sans anyone chugging it, for a change, even a broken glass, when I decided the AC needed to be turned on and I decided to be lazy and not go the long way, but anyhow a great show was put on.
A few notes.

  • Things said on this show, are the responsibility of the person or persons saying it, and not the opinion of the group as a whole.
  • This show does contain adult subject matter, and things get a little rowdy, be for warned.
  • Instant requests made by listeners and comments and dedications made by listeners are the responsibility of the listeners, no matter who their directed at, and if you have a particular problem with a request/dedication made? Take it up with the requesting party, and not those of us running the show.

With that said?
download the ensanity, if you dare!
Enjoy!

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a class action lawsuit against the W. Ross macdonald school? yes, it’s true.

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I posted previously on this blog about the fire at the W. Ross Macdonald school.
Things have been pritty quiet since that. then while browsing facebook this past week, I noticed a reference to some kind of lawsuit involving the W. Ross Macdonald school.
I was confused, as their wasn’t a lot to go on, nobody was saying much, and the source it came from wasn’t reliable to begin with.
I bounced it past James in passing, and he gave me the name of a former student who started it all.
So I used the power of google, and came up with an article.
For your own sanity, here’s the printer friendly version.

Class Action Lawsuit for Abuse at Ontario School for Visually Impaired
By Koskie Minsky LLP
Class Action For Abuse At Provincial School For The Visually Impaired.
On February 22, 2011, a proposed class action was commenced relating to abuse of former students of the W. Ross MacDonald School for the Visually Impaired and Deaf blind. W. Ross MacDonald is an elementary and secondary provincial school located in Brantford, Ontario. It is administered by the Provincial Schools Branch of the Ontario Ministry of Education.
The case involves allegations that the Ontario Crown failed to operate or supervise W. Ross MacDonald so as to ensure the safety and well-being of its vulnerable students, most of whom lived in residence during the school year. It is alleged that those caring for the students at W. Ross MacDonald often approached them with contempt, prejudice and indifference; they engaged in abusive conduct, often taking advantage of the visual disabilities of students.
The former students were children with disabilities when they attended W. Ross MacDonald. Most lived in residence at the school and many were far from their families. It is alleged the Crown was solely responsible for their care and supervision, acting in a quasi-parental role, but it failed in its obligations to students.
The action was commenced by Robert Seed, a former student who attended the school from 1954 to 1965, and his counsel Koskie Minsky LLP, a leading Canadian class action law firm.

At this time, their’s nothing further on this, but believe me, I’ll be eyeballing this as things progress.
Honestly, I’m not surprised to see this finally coming out.
Something like this was bound to surface iventually, and it makes me glad I got out when I did.
Stay tuned for more as this breaking story develops.

A note to the stupid

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First, we start with the internal stupid.
1. Pitting everyone against each other and causing a major bitchfest, is NOT how you get your way.
2. Sitting on the computer all day, unshowered and in your pajamas, at the age of 12 is wrong. What the fuck are you thinking? Wait…Why do I need to ask that when I know you’re not?
3. Additionally, again. At 12, you should be DOING SOMETHING. Not sitting there telling me you’re too lazy to take a shower.
4. Yes, I did bitch you out, and yes, your father agrees with me, or he would’ve bitched at me when I went to go do morning meds.
(He didn’t. He was completely fine with me and recognizes this as an attempt to pit everyone against each other and have them fighting for this child’s amusement.)

Onward to the external stupid.
1. As the blog’s disclaimer says, “You have the ability to not read this blog, please exercise that right. That simple.”
2. Let me translate that for you in even plainer English than Shane did. “If you don’t like what someone has to say here, kindly do us the favor of getting lost.”
3. Additionally, if you don’t like something here, please have the testicular fortitude to tell us, and tell us who you are. One thing we hate here are anonymous comments, which get automatically heaved into the spam folder, but even worse, we hate it when people circumvent blog policy.

4. Noone who comments has the right to tell us how to run the blog, or how we can comment. I’ll say it again. “You have the ability not to read this blog, please exercise that right.”
5. Not doing the above automatically revokes your bitching license. Please be advised of this in future.

Assistant admin and co-writer needs a 2-liter of Mountain Dew, some lunch, and a week off from the stupid.

application review: papaya broadcaster

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Among the many purchases I’ve made for my iphone is
papaya broadcaster
This app cost me $4.99CAD, in the US for some reason it’s $6.99USD. I didn’t make the pricing structure, so I have no freakin’ clue why the $2 difference.
On an accessibility scale, all controls are accessible, and read well.
It takes some fiddling to get things configured properly, but if your compitent enough, you’ll do fine.
One note I do need to make, if configuring for an icecast/icecast2 server, you *must* specify a username.
This username is source.
Don’t ask me why, it’s just what you have to do.
I never said it made sense.
As for it’s price tag?
In my opinion, if your going to charge $4.99CAD/$6.99USD for a product, make it worth the money.
In other words, it’s great that you support multiple mountpoints, multiple server types, but where’s archiving?
If your broadcasting mobally, you should, in my opinion have the ability to archive your own broadcasts directly on the iphone, and hey, intigration with dropbox? Not that hard, it’s done in a lot of free apps, so why nott make the ability to upload your archives if that ability was their, to dropbox?
Once the upload to dropbox is complete, you give the option to delete it from the phone, leaving the copy in dropbox.
This, in my opinion, would make the app more worth the price.
I don’t regret buying this app, I’m just making observations on what could make the app even better.
Speaking of things, if you get a phone call/lose internet connection? You have to manually reconnect, serious pain in the behind.
While on the topic of annoyances, if you have a headset plugged in when you tap broadcast? It switches everything to the iphones speaker/microphone and you have to unplug and replug in the headset.
Rather annoying and something they need to fix.
I hope this review helps some.
It’s not meant as a walk through or demonstration, these are meant to give my thoughts and views about applications I’ve bought/gotten for free for my iphone.
The comment boards await you.
What are your thoughts and views.
Have you bought this app?
What are your experiences with it, what would you like to see improved.
What do you think should be removed.

I can’t find words.

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Their aren’t words to express how I feel about
a parent not teaching their child(S) better.

A 12-year-old boy has been arrested for allegedly raping two 8-year-old boys from his Shelby Farms-area neighborhood. He was charged with two counts of rape of a child.

Reportedly, a third 8-year-old boy came forward with a similar claim on Friday, a day after the 12-year-old’s arrest, though additional charges have not been filed.

The grandmother of one victim said the the incident occurred in late May, shortly after school recessed for summer break. The boys were swimming with the 12-year-old in his backyard pool when he allegedly raped them and threatened to kill them and their families if they told anyone.

Three weeks later, the boys told a friend’s older brother. He then told the victims’ families.

Since then, a bustling neighborhood where children spent their days playing together outside has become much quieter, the grandmother said.

“There were kids out everywhere, all the time,” she said. “But for the past month, I kid you not, there hasn’t been a kid outside playing.”

The boy is the second juvenile to be charged with rape of a child in the Memphis area in less than two months. In May, a 12-year-old Germantown boy was accused of raping a 9-year-old boy from his neighborhood in a nearby woods.

He pleaded “no contest” to the charges in June and was ordered to attend counseling by Shelby County Juvenile Court.

About 100 juveniles were charged with a sex crime in Shelby County in 2010, perhaps the most notable involving Memphis’ youngest known rapists, a 7-year-old and 9-year-old boy.

In August, the two were accused of using an object to rape a 2-year-old neighbor.

In April, after receiving specialized treatment in state custody, the younger boy was released to his parents while the 9-year-old was ordered to undergo further treatment.

The age of the offenders keeps them from being listed on Tennessee’s recently established juvenile sex offender registry.

Offenders age 14-18 who have been convicted of rape, rape of a child, aggravated rape of a child, aggravated sexual battery or attempt of any of the aforementioned offenses are placed on the private registry, which is only available to law enforcement and court officials.

a few questions

  • What the hell are parent’s teaching their kids these days? are they teaching them that rape’s a good thing?
  • Why were the parents not supervising their children swimming?
  • To be honest with you, I’d have charged this kid as an adult and made an example out of him.

I’m thoroughly disgusted.

rogers. you’ve been slapped again. this time by the CRTC. will you ever learn?

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This was amusing to see scroll across my desk upon waking up this morning.

The CRTC has issued a warning to Rogers in the ongoing dispute over its alleged throttling of World of Warcraft. The Commission says it is not persuaded the issue has been completely resolved and gives the company until July 25th to address ongoing concerns. It says failure to do so may result in a public process.

In other words
Rogers
fix your shit on your own, or the CRTC will fix it for you.
The warning was in PDF, so here it is, in an accessible format.

Rogers_process_letter_13_July.pdf
13 July 2011 Our Reference: 522253 and 517209
BY EMAIL
Mr. Ken Thompson
Director and Counsel, Copyright and Broadband Law
Rogers Communications Incorporated
333 Bloor St. East
Toronto, Ontario M4W 1G9
ken.thompson@rci.rogers.com
Dear Mr. Thompson:
Re: Complaint regarding Rogers Communications Incorporated’s Internet traffic
management practices
In a letter dated 10 May 2011, Commission staff requested that Rogers Communications
Incorporated (Rogers) update the Commission regarding its progress in resolving an
outstanding issue with the game World of Warcraft. Commission staff requested that
Rogers copy Ms. Teresa Murphy and Mr. Sicco Naets on its letter to the Commission.
In a reply letter dated 31 May 2011, Rogers indicated that it had rolled out a solution it
believed was effective and that it would continue to monitor the situation closely.
In a letter to the Commission dated 9 June 2011, Ms. Murphy submitted that the solution
Rogers referred to in its 31 May letter had not fixed the problems she encountered while
gaming with peer-to-peer active, and in fact had made the issue worse.
In a reply letter dated 23 June 2011, Rogers disagreed with Ms. Murphy’s view that the
company’s software modification to fix the problem had made it worse. Rogers noted that it
had no record of calls in May or to date in June concerning problems with World of Warcraft
caused by its ITMP. The company also noted that it continued to monitor the situation, but
stated that it believed that the modification it had implemented was an effective solution to
the problems with World of Warcraft. Rogers suggested that there were other causes,
unrelated to its ITMP, that could be the cause of the problems Ms. Murphy might still be
experiencing. The company stated that it had not implemented, nor did it intend to
implement, an ITMP for gaming traffic.
Commission staff is not persuaded that this issue has been completely resolved. based on
Ms. Murphy’s correspondence of 9 June 2011 and Rogers’ correspondence of 23 June
2011, there appear to be matters still in dispute.
Commission staff notes that under paragraph 28.(1)(a) of the Canadian Radio-television and
Telecommunications Rules of Practice and Procedure, the Commission may require a party
to provide information, particulars or documents that it considers necessary to enable the
Commission to reach a full and satisfactory understanding of the subject matter of the
proceeding.
As a result, Commission staff requests that Rogers provide, in confidence to the
Commission, the results of the software tests it completed to determine that the problem
previously experienced with World of Warcraft was fixed. Further, Rogers is to include the
test methodology that enabled it to determine, prior to its software modification in May, that
there was a problem with its traffic management equipment that could interfere with World of
Warcraft.
Rogers is to reply by 25 July 2011. If the company fails to provide the above-noted
information by that date, the Commission may initiate a public process to examine the
matter in more detail.
Please direct your correspondence to Joanne Baldassi of my staff
(joanne.baldassi@crtc.gc.ca).
Should you have any questions about this request, you may
call Joanne Baldassi at (819) 997-4576.
Yours sincerely,
Lynne Fancy
Director General
Competition, Costing & Tariffs
Telecommunications
cc: Teresa Murphy,
resa1983@hotmail.com
Sicco Naets,
sicco.naets@rogers.com
Joanne Baldassi
,
CRTC, (819) 997
–
4576
,
joanne.baldassi@crtc.gc.ca
joanne.baldassi@crtc.gc.ca

It’ll be interesting to see the results as july 25, 2011 comes closer.

follow up to: wasn’t the sex good enough? the victum’s recovering.

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As posted
earlier this morning.
We had a husband who’s wife sliced off his penis, then threw it in a garbage disposal.
Now, we find out the victum is
recovering
from surgery.

A man whose penis whose was cut off, allegedly by his wife, was recovering after surgery, officials said.

The 51-year-old victim, whose name was not released, was rushed late Monday to UC Irvine Medical Center, where he underwent emergency surgery on Tuesday, officials said.

The hospital listed him in good condition following the surgery but declined to release any further details.

Reached by phone by the Orange County Register, he said only: “This is a private matter.”

Garden Grove police allege that the victim’s wife laced his dinner with drugs and then cut off his penis with a 10-inch kitchen knife.

After officers arrived at the couple’s Garden Grove home, Catherine Kieu Becker, 48, allegedly made a spontaneous statement to police that her husband “deserved it.”

Police said they did not have a motive in the Monday evening attack, though court records showed that the couple — who have been married for 1 1/2 years — had begun divorce proceedings in May. The records showed that the couple have no children and suggested that the husband initiated the divorce.

“On the surface, we have nothing more than the divorce proceeding,” said Lt. Jeff Nightengale of the Garden Grove Police Department. “We don’t have any strong motive leading to this level of violence.”

Officers arrived at the couple’s home in the 14000 block of Flower Street after Becker called 911 about 9 p.m. Monday, and they found a bleeding man tied to a bed, according to police.

Officials said Becker, 48, told police she had drugged her husband’s dinner to make him sleepy, tied him to the bed and then cut off his penis, which she tossed into the garbage disposal.

Becker was arrested on suspicion of aggravated mayhem, false imprisonment, assault with a deadly weapon, administering a drug with intent to commit a felony, poisoning and spousal abuse.

The severe nature of the crime led detectives to classify it as aggravated mayhem, an offense punishable by a sentence of up to life in prison, Nightengale said.

“You’re not just depriving a person of a member or portion of their body or disfiguring them,” he said. “You’re doing something that’s so egregious we’re not sure what’s going to happen, if they’re going to be able to reattach this or repair this person after such a violent attack.”

Becker is being held on $1-million bail.

I don’t have words, and I hope this individual gets life, for committing such a grevus act against her husband.



Mirrored from shane and krista's rantings and musings..

I just got my ass handed to me, and Fitchburg State University’s tech lead is pissed, at MCB.

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I just got the final word. FSU’s tech lead, Sherry, told me this. We’ll let an XP system on the network. But we don’t officially support it anymore. they won’t work on, or provide support for, a system that is not 1. up to date. 2. under warranty. 3. does not have a LEGAL COPY of an up-to-date operating system on it.
I was officially told this afternoon, do not bring a used machine on the network. here it is. “So, for the security of yourself, the school’s network, and to prevent legal trouble, no used system, and nothing older than vista, or 7. If necessary, you can purchase an upgrade disc from the bookstore for $7.”
So I was correct about not accepting a used system, as who knows if I’d be getting a legal copy of XP? there’s also the questionable integrity of anything on Craigslist. Get a Windows machine off Craigslist, you’re just inheriting someone else’s problem. Also, if I have issues with the machine, I can’t take it down to i.t., because they simply will not help, if it’s an XP machine. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s dead, let’s throw it a party…I mean, funeral. I absolutely must get a new machine. I cannot bring a used one onto the campus, it will be allowed on the network, but not supported. So if it, too, goes the way of this frankenputer, I’m, for all intents and purposes, fucked, and not pleasurably either.

Also, Sherry would like to give a nice, sticky, and unpleasant piece of her mind to the idiot at MCB who put XP on a vista system. She figures the original configuration of this system was probably illegal to start with. She’s not too thrilled. I suspect she’s already called there and rammed her foot up somebody’s ass.



Mirrored from shane and krista's rantings and musings..

your saying what, now?

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according to
this

Smoking in pregnancy is linked to birth defects such as missing or deformed limbs, facial defects and gastrointestinal problems, a risk that should be included in public health warnings, a new review suggests.

Their aren’t words. Their just aren’t.
What’s gonna come out next, seriously?
Wait, don’t answer that.



Mirrored from shane and krista's rantings and musings..

wasn’t the sex good enough?

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SO since I’ve now become euber lazy, and do that thing that is RSS by
e-mail>
you can expect much more content.
This content this early morning, begins with
a woman
stuffing a penis down a garbage disposal.

A Southern California woman is in custody after her estranged husband was allegedly drugged and tied to a bed, and his penis was cut off before it was put through a garbage disposal.

I don’t even have to read the entire article to wonder what possessed this.
What, was the sex that awful, seriously?
Have fun in jail.
Is all I have to say.



Mirrored from shane and krista's rantings and musings..