Perspectives

There is a new movie in the pipeline that tells the story of what it is like to be a paramedic. Here is a teaser, where an older medic talks to the younger, idealistic new medic.

The only thing they forgot was that you do it for less money than a pizza delivery driver makes.

Like the drink

Two men are wanted on drug charges, escape, and for dragging a deputy down the road with their car. The son of one of the men is also arrested for aiding in the escape and hiding the men. Channel 6 WKMG reports on the story, but leaves out a description or photos of the three men. Why do you think that is?

Because two of the three men are black. 33 year old Andrew Coffee Sr, and 19 year old Andrew Coffee IV are both involved in the crime. I don’t know how a 33 year old man can be the great grandfather of the 19 year old, so that must be incorrect, but a 19 child to a 33 year old man means that IV was born when Sr was only 14. Again, a corrupt culture.

As I have reported before, the press largely avoids reporting the race of criminals when those criminals happen to be black.

Just give them what they want

and maybe they won’t hurt you

Why haven’t we seen this in the national media? This is why I carry a gun. I ain’t going out like that…

The couple never saw Boyd cruise into the parking lot at Washington
Ridge with passengers Davidson and Cobbins. An armed Boyd and Davidson
jumped from the car, leaving Cobbins behind. At that point, the pair
intended only to rob Christian and Newsom of the SUV. But as they
approached the couple, guns drawn, headlights from another vehicle
spooked them. They pushed the couple into the SUV.

Testimony has shown that Christian and Newsom were bound in the SUV with
whatever cords the assailants could find. Newsom was forced facedown in
the vehicle. A bound Christian was dumped onto his back.

One of the attackers said: “Two white people, white kids, this (expletive) fixing to get crazy, man, you know what I mean?”

But according to the paper, there is no racial motivation for the crime.

The white male victim’s body was found, anally raped, shot in the back and neck, then shot again in the head, execution style. The body was then wrapped in a blanket, soaked in gasoline, and set on fire.

The white female victim get it even worse, if you can believe that. For hours, she was raped anally, orally, and vaginally. The criminals then crushed her genital area with a boot or other hard object, beat her over the head, and then poured bleach into her in an attempt to destroy DNA evidence. The bound her, wrapped her head in one garbage bag, placed her in a second, and then sealed her in a garbage can to suffocate.

I am opposed to the death penalty because I don’t trust the government to be honest. However, this story shows that some humans are simply evil. That is the reason why I carry a gun.

The real question here is why the press goes to such great lengths to cover up and minimize black on white crime, while at the same time sensationalizing and even inventing race crimes when it is white on black.

Almost there

Police agencies in Central Florida are beginning to wear cameras and record their surroundings. You would think that this is a good thing, and I have even posted before that this should be required. However, the cops have the ability to shut off the camera. I don’t have a problem with that, as no one wants a video of a cop taking a dump.

However, there needs to be a law that penalizes police any time the recording is shut off in the course of his job:
A citizen accuses the cop of brutality and the recording is unavailable, then the cop’s testimony, and the testimony of fellow cops is inadmissible.
Same thing if a cop arrests someone based on something the cop observed: you say you saw them man dealing drugs, and the video is broken, then your testimony as a cop means exactly squat.

Suggestions?

I have been toying with getting rid of Windows. It is a very unstable
system, and after awhile, the computer becomes unstable and begins
randomly crashing. I get tired of having to trash the entire operating
system and reload it every 6-12 months. I last did it to this machine
about 16 months ago, and it is nearing time to do it again because it
crashes and requires a hard reboot about twice a day now.

Not only that, but Windows is a highly insecure operating system,
and I am not sure that I am willing to accept this any longer. I used
to be a gamer, but this is not really the case any longer, as the only
game I really play any more is Kerbal Space program. The hassle of
learning to use a new operating system is now becoming outweighed by the
risks of staying.

Apple’s OS has its own issues,
chiefly among them being cost, and so I am left to consider Linux. There
are two problems with Linux:

1 I know nothing about it.
2 Compatibility

I need to find ways to run or replace the following software:
1. The MS office suite to include: MSWord, Excel, Power Point, Outlook
2. I am one of the few people that still uses Quicken, and I need to find a replacement.
3. Finding a way to run TrueCrypt on it
4. Handling multimedia files like pictures, video, etc
5 Running iTunes

Technical question

The iPhone stores its SMS messages in an SQL database file named sms.db. When a text message is deleted, the information contained in the text is still there, and all that happens is that the header information is deleted.

 If you look at the file itself, you can read the contents of the text, just not the other information in the database, like sender, time received, etc. The contents of each text message in plain text are contained in the file, but are intermingled with other characters. SQL readers don’t display the “deleted” messages, but the contents are still there.

What I am looking for is software that will extract the readable text from the file. Does anyone out there know of such a program?