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It's why the first Matrix failed, everyone was too comfortable...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Got an email this morning, my child adoption form was received and being processed.
Thought it was spam at first, but it seemed to be genuine.
My memory isn't always a 100%, but I think I'd remember filling out an adoption form, or in my case I should even remember I actually like and want kids (I'm like the anti-child) 
Replied to the mail and told the lady that the next time she wants to adopt a child with someone maybe she should at least meet the guy and go on a couple of dates first...
It turned out to be for someone with the same name + an extra letter.
Wished them all the best and deleted the email as it's a slight invasion of privacy (and a data leak).
So that was interesting 
Now what do I do with this kid that was just delivered by mail, how many stamps to send it back?
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Assuming that the Royal Netherlands post (or whatever it's official name is...) allows the shipment of livestock at all, even a baby is likely to exceed the maximum mass limit for a parcel. I'm afraid that you'd have to use a private courier. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Well, that dealt with the misdirected email, but I bet it doesn't do anything for the application form. You'll have to prove you're the person on the form to do that. Which you're not.
I must say as a way of getting revenge on a total stranger (or maybe not?) filling in such a form on their behalf is a really clever approach; shame about the collateral damage to the kid(s). (The form did tick the box for twins/triplets, right?)
  CONGRATULATIONS ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
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DerekT-P wrote: I must say as a way of getting revenge on a total stranger (or maybe not?) filling in such a form on their behalf is a really clever approach; shame about the collateral damage
A half dozen(?) years ago when a Smogwagon Stealership repeatedly ignored requests (both via email and unsubscribe links) to stop emailing me receipts/etc every time one of their customers took his vehicle in for service I eventually started doing that. It was in the middle of the diesel gate scandal, so I was doubly unconcerned about collateral damage if the surveys were only processed by an automated system that looked at the 0/10's I was filling in while ignoring the "I'm not your customer but you won't stop spamming me when I try to unsubscribe via normal means" and "Smogwagon is the most terrible company on the planet and you all should be in jail" style rants I put in all the free form text slots.
After about a year or so of doing that they eventually stopped spamming me. If that was because they finally fixed their data, the customer sold his car and bought a replacement elsewhere, or all the 0's I gave resulted in a mindless corporate overlord bot shutting the location down I neither know nor particularly care.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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That was only level 1. Next time it will probably not be that easy to dodge that bullet.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Nope, next thing will happen is the kid coming knocking at the door... "Mum says that you're my father!"
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Light saber (red): 200000 $
Star Destroyer: 4000000000000 $
The look on the faces of your estranged children when they hear that you are their father: Priceless.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I have been seriously worried that some little asian kid(Phillipino, or Chinese) would do exactly that.
That's one reason I kept moving around after leaving the Navy in 1973.
If it hasn't happened by now, I guess I can stop worrying. But, stranger things have happened.
ed
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Sander Rossel wrote: how many stamps to send it back?
It depends what size boots you're wearing.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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George Orwell wrote: if you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever
I guess every father wants to prepare his children for the future
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That's kind of how I live my life right now, minus the kid.
Yes, I know, my life is awesome!
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Congrats for this special occasion... adoptions do not happen every day
Hopefully this event will not distract you too much from other stuff such as SOTW 
Cheers,
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TX6430 wrote: adoptions do not happen every day
And it did not happen again today 
TX6430 wrote: Hopefully this event will not distract you too much from other stuff such as SOTW
I've "adopted" a great song for tomorrow's SOTW (it's not metal though, far from it actually) 
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Alternately, why three in a line? (6)
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SYZYGY - in a line
.Y.Y.Y - alternately (wh)y
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Well that was quick! YAUT
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I met the word in astronomical studies yoinks ago.
Used various mutations of it in passwords from time to time.
Now to dream up something orthogonal. 
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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My socks are blown off....
I run a small webserver, 3 no-ip dynamic DNS subdomains. One is personal/family, one is a sandbox for a production site I support and the third is a support site for that. (We can't do password management on the production site...)
The production site has recently made the leap to https (and only broke a few bits of my code), so I figured I should do likewise, at least for the sandbox and support sites.
From some of the threads I've seen on the Apache httpd users mailing list, I was expecting a few wrinkles, to say the least.
So...
Go to letsencrypt. They suggest certbot. Follow the link, a few simple steps, cross fingers and in a few tens of seconds it's all over.
Installed certs, rewrote my apache config, restarted it, ...
Compared the config files with the ones I'd saved to see what they did. Very slick indeed.
I am impressed, to say the least.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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LetsEncrypt is great. Sadly the open source tool I was using to set up the IIS cert stopped working because the cert process upgraded to some newer version and nobody has updated the tool. On my todo list is following the simple steps in CertBot or similar. Ah, the todo list...
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I've been using letsencrypt on two web servers for around 2 years now...pretty much set it and forget it. Every two months or so I get notifications that new certs have been installed.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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I second that too...
Here in Germany at the beginning all screaming out loud when we got less delivered as it was written in the contracts and now... there are doctors that are having to throw vaccines away because of expiration dates.
At least there have been a step in the proper direction, if people go on vacation to a "hot spot" and get the disease and can't work once back home, they won't get paid the "sick leave", but if they need to go to the hospital, then it is covered as usual.
If I could decide.... everyone that could (not all can) be vaccinated and decide not to do it, they should pay their hospital fees on their own if they got it.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Nelek wrote: If I could decide.... everyone that could (not all can) be vaccinated and decide not to do it, they should pay their hospital fees on their own if they got it.
One one level, I think that is a very good idea. On another, you'd have a lot of "what-about-ism":
What about people who refuse to stop smoking, and get lung cancer/heart attacks/strokes?
What about obese people who refuse to lose weight, and get diabetes/heart attacks?
Etc.
One problem with universal health insurance is that there is no "moral hazard" - they are required to treat you even if your illness is manifestly due to your negligence. Don't try that with your car theft insurance!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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