Thursday, July 23, 2015

Thoughts on the Ashley Madison hacking issue

Ashley Madison has 37 million users? Why get married? play the field if that's your thing. I can't believe nobody but nobody saw this coming! OK so the hackers are threatening to release ALL the account information on all the millions of users of this online adultery website. That'd be real interesting when the List finally does come out. I wanna know if anyone I know is on the list. Don't tell me you're not curious. Reminds me of typing your VIN# on the government safer cars website to see if you have an open recall. How many open recalls on marriages are there gonna be in this new and massive adultery database? They can't be fixed either by ordering an airbag inflator or ignition part. Notice your spouse suddenly having more bouts of diarrhea? skid marks in the drawers? anxiety/stress, poor sleep? kinda quiet lately? goes for that extra tumbler of Scotch and made stronger than usual without the ice cubes and the ginger ale? Wanna see the doctor honey? Yup it should be interesting.

27 comments:

  1. Was not familiar with the site, nor its problem. So thankfully, I ain't on their list.
    Just back from a 1750 mile road trip to Topeka, which at our age requires three and
    a half days on the highway each way. We had one day which was under 95 degrees
    and experienced humidity from 5% to 78%: hardly any snow, even over 10,000 ft
    so it was sort of a Global Warming confirmation trip, if a couple weeks means anything. One day in the Kansas plains, the car AC quit: just sort of got slower and slower and hotter and hotter (t'was 98 out there in the sun). I'm hardly one of the
    Tappet Brothers, but finally figured out that our luggage was blocking the air intakes
    in the lower rear of the Traverse. Was sort of out of touch with news and media, so
    did Trump become president yet?

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    1. I'm sorry for the recent loss of your grandchild. Trump is leading in all the polls and as regards his recent attacks on McCain some feel ole MacDaddy threw the first punch. Of course the big news remains Liongate.

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    2. I'm surprised he hasn't bagged a 'squatch yet:)

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  2. Of interest to a chef, perhaps: after days of eating on the road, mostly burgers/fries
    of varying quality, and bored with that cuisine, we tried an upscale place (relative,
    the little mountain town of Sheridan, WY. Their smallest burger was a 1/2 lb, which
    my wife attempted, and I thought I would try-
    Ahi Tuna Poke Bowl- fresh Ahi tuna with sesame oil, scallions, fresh chili, soy sauce,
    roasted peanuts, fried wonton chips and wasabi aioli.
    I guess it was some sort of sushi thing, as the tuna was raw and my assessment, based on the following two days of "traveler stomach" is that the effect was that of the half gallon of stuff one drinks prior to a colonoscopy. A reminder that the clinic
    sent me a letter that I was due for my 6 year interior TV show.

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    1. I don't know your exact age but I recall reading once that after a certain age that's not recommended anymore. Like do 100-yr. olds still have to go in for them or will you let old Uncle Charlie alone on his porchswing to enjoy his cigar and paper?

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    2. You are correct. The natural aging process is directly proportional to the
      phenomenon of comorbidity . In addition to the questionable usefulness of the colonoscopy, the elderly are at increased risk in both bleeding and from the anesthesia So, I shall take it up with my physician prior. I'm old enough to get excused from jury duty, why not a colonoscopy? Furthermore, an obituary for death by TV camera cannot sound but
      embarrassing.

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    3. IMO one should be good enough for life.

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  3. Let's see if I got this straight: Mpls dentist pays $50,000 to shoot a lion with a bow and arrow. Lion is a pride leader with radio collar under study by Oxford and famous
    among Zimbabwe tourists. Net reaction is largely negative, dentist business adversely affected. Dentist starts over as a colonoscopist? Which isn't much of a cut in pay:
    "60% of GI revenue comes from the screening colonoscopy. Medicare currently reimburses a professional fee of around $230 for a diagnostic screening colonoscopy (depending on where you live). Consider that the vast majority of colonoscopies can be completed in 30 minutes or less, you can do quite well if all you do are screening colonoscopies.
    Unfortunately, a few of our fellow gastroenterologists have turned to this as their sole source of income. They make ridiculous sums of money, well in excess of 7 figures."

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    1. As you know I have always been suspicious of colonoscopists. Do they actually enjoy their work? and why are they so resistant to newer and less invasive methods like Colovantage? people who choose asswork as a career.

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  4. Is the NRA going to pay for the legal defense of big game hunting physicians?

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    1. So far no colonoscopists involved yet.

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    2. Since they are experts at scopes, you would think they would have big caliber weapons for big game.

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    3. I read an article about this yesterday. There is more of a challenge in using the bow & arrow hence the odds are greater the lion may kill you if you make errant shots. Such is the weird psychology at play here. I prefer coin collecting.

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    4. I'm thinking that for $50,000, the typical African big game bow hunter has
      the chief guide and five assistants standing by armed with 9.33x62 Mauser shoulder cannons...and a few bottles
      of chilled sauvignon blanc.

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    5. I was never into hunting so maybe I'm biased but I was reading some stuff yesterday on endangered animals across the world and I feel I can make a fairly strong case that nobody should be big game hunting right now. Let the populations reestablish themselves. Even if you feel you're not doing anything wrong and everything is aboveboard legally the poachers out there are practically decimating some very important species esp. predators. I mean I realize stamp collecting is not adrenaline-pumping enough but find something else for the time being.

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    6. Big game hunting is a different mindset . I have acquaintances with rooms full
      of leopards, impala and bighorns of which they are very proud. The thought of those stuffed creatures blasted from their environment just makes me sad, ya know?

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    7. & it's not like the animal has a gun to make it even. They're usually down at some watering hole.

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  5. Cecil strikes me as a bit sissy for the King of The Jungle, leader of the pride and father to numerous little Princes of the Jungle.

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  6. I read a long long time ago somewhere in the scientific literature that on occasion seagulls can be gay.

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    1. In a way, homosexual behavior is the antithesis of sexual behavior. Like humans, it occurs in varying degrees in the animal world. We peruse
      the list and observe that 'birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it'.

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    2. Along those lines imagine for a moment if the dentist had killed a gay lion!

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    3. Would that be a hate crime?

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    4. Probably the International Criminal Court.

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  7. I'm guessing you're not in the latest massive data dump on the Dark Web.

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    1. Sounds like lots of government workers were site members. As well as that
      kid from '19 and counting', the holy family whose worship seemed to involve procreated. He must have gotten the message twisted. Sort of like the
      Jesuits at a major catholic university who jammed the system accidently with
      porn. Humans have a knack for wandering and getting into trouble, no?

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  8. I don't think Bill Clinton would have had much use for such a site. He just did things the old-fashioned way, clandestine orals behind the statue in the alcove in the hallway. Cyberprivacy intact although not much else.

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