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40 Day Fast!! Day 22~3/24/09 Pastor Tom Lawson (1) - Today's Christian Videos
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Happy Birthday Dad!
Today's life Journal schedule has us reading 1 Corinthians 9. I love that chapter; not only because it talks about paying your pastor in the first half either.
The part that caught my attention is starting at verse 24.
24 Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it.
25 And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown.
26 Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air.
27 But I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, lest, when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified.
This is what I was liking. We run with certainty (26). There is an intentionality that Paul is declaring. We are being intentional. We are writing our prayer requests down, praying for them each night and fasting. We are not shadow boxing. We are in a spiritual battle.
"I discipline my body and bring it into subjection." I know that it is hard fasting. I know that you have had thoughts of giving up. But you are doing great and are telling your body no. You are putting your flesh in subjection to your spirit.
You are doing awesome. I'm proud of you.
May the Power of the Holy Spirit Rest On You,
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The Bad Santa star and former foul-mouthed husband of Angelina Jolie has just boarded a new comedy about child abuse and redneck shenanigans. Called The Baytown Disco, it follows three hapless, white trash brothers who agree to help a hot chick get her son back from a father she claims has been abusing him.
We couldn't agree more about Bad Santa being a Christmas perennial, but that still doesn't mean a sequel is necessary. Though really, who knows-- the movie is all about Thornton and his performance, and if he's on board and enthusiastic he might be able to bring the magic yet again
The SXSW film festival is only days away and yet the Austin based mega-fest isnt done adding big films to its lineup. This afternoon they let us know that theyve lined up a closing night film, directed by frequent southby attendee Billy Bob Thornton. The movies called King of Luck and its a documentary about the greatness of Willie Nelson.
This is a dark and disturbed Christmas comedy for everyone whos sick of being forced to listen to some lounge-singer version of jingle bells when they walk through the grocery store. This is not a movie for the broad-shouldered
Billy Bob Thornton is never afraid to shout out some sort of half-cocked, hypocritical opinion. So heres another one from him, maybe the dumbest thing hes said in at least a few months. He thinks movies are terrible and its all those darn video games fault
Now that Thanksgivings nearly out of the way, people are getting down with Christmas. For me Christmas mostly means sitting around watching Christmas movies. At the top of my yearly viewing list? Bad Santa
Not only is does this individual play a pivotal role in the film, but shes becoming a relatively well-known actress as well. It's Dexters Jennifer Carpenter!
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There has been a considerable amount of hoopla surrounding Jessica Simpson's big reveal of her Weight Watchers body. She looks terrific—wasn't crazy about the hair, but not my call. For that matter, none of it is. Why should she care what we think? She has to be happy with herself, furthermore is this what she wants to teach her daughter—worry about what everyone thinks of how you look. Do any of us moms want that to be a lesson we pass on to our kids? What about celebrities that lose the weight in a matter of weeks? I understand they have a job to do, and get roles, gigs whatever based on an image but what if women as a whole finally just stood up and said hell no. Which is what Jenna Fischer finely tweeted today. "Women need to band together and change the message about post-birth weight loss expectations. IT TAKES A YEAR (or more)! AND THAT'S OKAY!"
Prior to being pregnant, I practiced yoga seven days a week, on some days twice a day. My priorities have changed. I'd much rather spend my time with Zoe and I'm ok with that. It wasn't like that when I first had her. I wondered when I would get back in shape. But I was tired and overwhelmed, I wasn't ready to return to working out. And once I returned to work I didn't want to sacrifice my time with her to exercise. And now as a stay at home mom, I'd rather do active things with her. Zoe doesn't sit still, so I'm constantly on the go. She loves to play see saw, so I've made it a game, and I now do sit ups with a toddler!
Anyway, my husband loves my curves, and that's all that matters. More importantly I'm a good mother and wife and that's makes me happy and at peace no matter what my size. I want Zoe to love the person she is, and as long as she's healthy and I encourage that, our job as parents has been a success. As it is, my daughter will forgo chocolate for an apple!
So while it may be fun to discuss how celebrities look, who cares how much Jessica Simpson weighed? She has doctors, if they were concerned it's up to them to discuss with her. The same as us regular people. She certainly isn't the first to gain an excessive amount of weight, and she won't be the last. I can proudly brag that I have no idea how much I gained. I always faced out when weighed and the nurses knew not to tell me. My doctor also knew not to discuss it with me unless there was a reason and there never was. They say weight is just a number, and it is. Motherhood is a beautiful journey—let's all focus on that.
How did you approach weight loss after you gave birth?
So lately I've seen many posts referring to why being a parent sucks. I mean someone literally wrote why parenting sucks! If you think parenting sucks, you shouldn't have become a parent. It's not parenting that sucks. Yes, having to worry about finances sucks. Yes, being tired sucks. Yes, having a teething child sucks. There are many things in our daily lives that suck. But my most challenging day(s) with my daughter remain the best days of my life. I can't remember my life without her.
So for those of you that may feel for a moment or even two that being a parent sucks, please be careful with your postings. Perhaps your child(ren) will one day, when they are old enough, be searching on the web and come across a posting written in frustration. Would you want your child(ren) to read why you think parenting sucks?
When you hear that is may rain, it's looking pretty dreary out, and your husband left your one car at home for the day what do you do? You pack up and take a ride to New Brunswick.
Zoe was tired this morning. The hour drive to New Brunswick was just what she needed. She woke up as I parked. Side note, good thing about going this time of year to a college town (this one happens to be my alma mater) is that there is not a struggle to find parking—finals!!!!
We crossed the street to Stuff Yer Face and Zoe had a baby pizza boil. She ate some, which was perfect, because the leftovers were for her dinner. We brought home an extra boil for Daddy.
No trip to Stuff Yer Face and New Brunswick is complete without stopping at Stuff Yer Face for homemade ice cream, vanilla chocolate chip for Zoe. Oh, worked there, and the same guy is running the place. It's nice that he remembers me. We then went to their homemade chocolate department section which is located next door (was a hobby shop). Zoe got a chocolate covered graham cracker which she did not want tonight. I love that—if she doesn't want it, it doesn't matter what it is, she won't eat it. When she's full, she's full.
My poor baby is tuckered and is sound asleep—do you think with visions of boils and ice cream dancing in her head?
Since leaving my last position, I've been focusing on opportunities that allow me to work at my convenience from home. One of which is a contributor to a news website called The Examiner. http://www.examiner.com/parenting-170-in-newark/miriam-pilgrim
What are topics you would be interested in reading about?
For you those of you that may be interested, they are always looking for additional contributors. Check it out—it may take some time to earn an income, but I've it a look!
It was a particularly dreary morning today. It was pouring, so we were stuck indoors. Zoe went on a tear. My living room looks like the Tasmanian Devil whirled through. I had given her crayons to color at her table. I've printed some pages from Sesame Street's website for this purpose. Zoe, however, had other plans. Her artwork was literally on the wall. Yep, she drew on the wall. Thank goodness for the Magic Eraser. So after I told her no and tried to explain to a 21 month old that walls aren't for drawing, she did it again. So the crayons were put away.
So now after her lunch, she is napping. The sun is making some brief appearances now and then, I think I'll try and venture out with her once she wakes up.
How do you keep your little ones busy on rainy days?
Every Thursday we go to the library for Mother Goose Group, which is basically a story time which includes songs, bubbles, and the parachute (not Zoe's favorite). I just love watching Zoe. She's the only one that will dance to every song the librarian sings, including the Itsy Bitsy Spider—if you sing to a rhythm, she'll dance. As my mother says—you can just watch her all day long, and I'm so thankful that I do!
As a new mom, you talk to other moms, you read books, magazine articles, anything just to figure out what the hell you're supposed to be doing and when. I always thought these guys have the inside track, certainly my mother did, I mean she raised to pretty awesome daughters—hehe.
Once my husband went back to work, I didn't know what I was going to do for the hours he was at work. I mean, Zoe basically pooped, ate, and slept and going out for a walk was always a big production and I had to get out early—it was hot that summer!
I always tried to time my outings just right so that she wouldn't cry for some unknown reason. When it was time to take her in the car, any speed too slow and she was crying. I was preparing for the day when I was going to get pulled over on the Turnpike or Garden State and explaining to the officer I had to go 80 or else my infant would wake up and hysterically cry all the way to my parents' house. I figured the officer would take one look at my unkempt hair and haggard face with the bags under my eyes and take pity on me—luckily it never happened.
As Zoe grew, I did to, as a mother. What I learned is; babies cry, as my mother says, she's giving her lungs a work out. Most importantly what I learned is; I'm the best Zoe's mom there is. What works for one mom may not work for another or her child. What Dr Spock says you should do, may not be what you want. I think most of the experts would roll their eyes at some of mine and my husband's parenting tricks, and so what? We all just do what's best for our children at that time, and the damage won't be permanent.
For instance, my biggest act of defiance, if you will, is that my husband and I do not let Zoe cry it out when putting her to bed. It works for some parents, but it doesn't work us or Zoe. My mother will proudly admit that on one occasion she let me cry in my crib for an hour, and that was how she wanted to do it and it worked for her—no permanent damage. It doesn't for me. Zoe can't fully verbalize what's bothering her. I don't know if it's a fear of the dark, needing mommy for a bit, or just not wanting to go to bed and trying to stay up longer. At this point, we, her parents, are her source of comfort and security, so yes, I sit next to her and hold her hand while she falls asleep. I used to let her fall asleep on the couch and carry her to her crib—oh the horror! One acquaintance told me I was teaching Zoe bad sleep habits when we first put her in a toddler bed and I would sleep on the floor for the first week—um, yeah, not really an issue, she wakes up now and I'm not there, she calls out "Ma."
My point is, there is no expert on how to raise Zoe. I (and my husband) know her best, what works for her and us. I may get advice, or ask, but that's all it is, advice. So as one of my very wise friends told me go with your gut, it's usually right, and I hope Drs Spock, and Brazleton, Ferber, and the person who brought us the What to Expect When Your Expecting series will excuse me for not reading their books—raising a child is not one size fits all. And if you have read their books, again, that's what works for you and I hope it helps, as moms (and dads) we shouldn't judge each other. Let's be there for each other and support each other including our different styles of parenting.
For over 12 years, my own mommy and I have gone to see Springsteen—sometimes multiple times during one tour!
The last time we saw Springsteen together it was 2009 in the city. My husband had joined us for dinner and we announced to my mother we were expecting. Fast forward to April 4. 2012, as I was leaving and giving Zoe a kiss goodnight she cried and clung to me and my heart melted. My mother and l did leave, but I stood in the hallway crying for a bit. I knew she would be fine, she was with her daddy, but her cry was heartbreaking. My husband is great, he sent me a text not long after telling me she was fine. He also reminded me that aside from a mother, I'm a mother and a daughter too.
Mom and I had a blast—Bruce and the E Street Band rocked the Izod Center. Of course I was exhausted the next day, but so worth it! Thanks for the night out, Ma!
There's an ill conceived notion as to how single ladies in NYC live—life is not Sex in the City, or at least mine wasn't.
I lived in the same shoebox on the outskirts of Gramercy for seven years. The location was great! I was near the subways which got me to my job that yes, I did work 5 days a week and no, I did not go out to fancy lunches nor meet my friends for cocktails at noon. I didn't shop at Bergdorff's on my lunch, or ever for that matter and would've rather been in a yoga class or on my couch than the trendy clubs or fabulous new restaurants. I liked my routine, I'm a creature of habit and change does not sit well with me. However, I was lonely.
I had a relationship, if you could call it that, for roughly 7 years, on and off. He was (and probably still is) charming, charismatic, handsome, smart, but also selfish and spoiled. He loved to go out and drink and I liked to stay home. We'd fight, he would stop talking to me and then would call sometimes months later after a night of drinking and we'd get back together. Honestly, I have no idea why. In the midst of this "relationship" I would meet other guys and date during my breaks with Mr Charming.
One year I had decided to go out to California to see my best friend and her boyfriend (now husband). Not long before my arrival date, my bff e-mails me to tell me they have another friend, B, coming at the same time and would I mind. Of course I wouldn't, the more the merrier. So off I go to Marin County, CA, with no expectations except being out of the city for New Year's and away from Mr. Charming (we were on a break).
Landing at night, I go to my bff's and B is already there with bff's boyfriend playing video games and drunk. I noticed B right away, very good looking and the most beautiful eyes. The rest of the night is blurry except the cuddling on the floor and smooching with B. The next morning could've been awkward, but it wasn't. We ended up hanging out like a couple over the next three days. But besides the distance, B was the nicest guy I ever met and me being the jaded New Yorker though I needed someone more cold. And so we parted, trying to keep in touch but really knowing it wouldn't work. He lived in Southern California and I was back on the east coast and back to Mr. Charming.
B and I would text sometimes and I was in the fantasy football league he was running. I remember once he called at about midnight on a school night because he was in town. Mr. Charming and I finally ended it in 2008, ok he broke up with me, thankfully! Subsequently one of my yoga buddies told me I should be on Facebook, she couldn't believe I wasn't. After a while I acquiesced and signed up. I looked for B on there, but couldn't find him. Not long after, he friended me.
One night I had posted on Facebook I was packing to go on a business trip to Kansas, B replied it was halfway between NY and California. I joked if he was meeting me in Kansas—lol. We texted during my trip and of course my flight was delayed back home. He texted me to let him know when I got home. I was hooked—I wanted this nice guy! We continued texting and I didn't have an unlimited text package at the time, that bill was a nice surprise! We eventually moved to phone calls on the weekend. I don't remember how it came up, but he said he was thinking about moving to NY. Then it became, if I don't have a place yet could I move in with you temporarily. I said absolutely, which is what I had wanted anyway.
He was to move in September 2009, which then became July 2009. So when he got off the plane on July 23, 2009 it was the first time we had seen each other in over 4 years! We didn't skip a beat. It was the scene out of the movie, no words, just a kiss.
Two months later on September 25, 2009 we got married at City Hall, not for any reason other than we just wanted to be married and didn't want the big to do. About a month or so later we found out we were pregnant, and on July 11, 2010 our beautiful Z was born.
After my leave I had gone back to work, but I wasn't the same, I wanted to be home with my girl, so much I physically hurt. The demands on my job had increased and I couldn't nor did I want to sacrifice my time with my family for my job. After many conversations with B and with his support I left my job with the possibility of having a part time job, it didn't come to fruition. So I'm on the look out for work from home opportunities. Yes, our income was drastically reduced and I can't buy for Z whatever I want whenever I want. What I do get is to go outside with her and play, take her to classes at library, make dinner for her and B and treasure each moment I get with the two of them.


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Is the purpose of captchas to test your visual capabilities?
While looking at Hendrix, I saw this captcha on the submission form:
I really have no idea what the second word is (10H? 101l?). And from what my doctor says, my eyes are working perfectly well. The audio alternative doesn't work on Linux, so I cannot use it as a workaround. I really think such captchas are a bad user experience, especially for those with some disabilities (and in this case, even for those without disabilities).
As an alternative, why not suggesting something more simple? For instance: "How many triangles are not red in the figure below?"
Unless the reader never went to school, he knows what a triangle is, and which color "red" is. I doubt a robot could easily parse the question (but I may be wrong).
Am I missing something?
22 septembre 2008 à 9:38
The purpose of REcaptcha is to get many humans to help convert scanned text to actual text when the OCR is unable to
22 septembre 2008 à 9:46
I think you are missing something. The set of possible answers much be huge for the captcha to be effective.
I assume the variation in your captcha would be to change the number of shapes, change the color and the shape being asked about. So in your case, the set of possible answers is 0 to 10 (assuming you put a bit more shapes in the image)
Someone could code a bot to brake your captcha very easilly. Just guessing a random number would give the bot about 10% chance of guessing correctly on each try. This would break you captcha in seconds, especially with a few bots guessing from different IPS.
22 septembre 2008 à 9:47
The reason you can't read the second word is because the computer's OCR didn't know what the word was either. See http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html where it says:
But if a computer can't read such a CAPTCHA, how does the system know the correct answer to the puzzle? Here's how: Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. The user is then asked to read both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the new one.
So the OCR encountered the second word and rightfully so, couldn't make it out.
Also, if you think of the language understanding that goes into voice recognition and/or natural language understanding (ex. Ask.com) systems, you'll realize that a robot could realistically parse the alternative captcha with little trouble.
22 septembre 2008 à 9:47
i can't remember where exactly, but some place hast started using captchas that have six letters, not obfuscated at all, and half of them are red, and it just says "type the three red letters." I don't know how well it's working, but it seems good.
I also like the ones on people's personal blogs that say "what is my name" or "what is the name of this blog" or etc.
Main point is, it seems like, especially since robots have gotten to the point of being able to crack google captchas in under a minute, the next logical step is to make the question the hard part to parse. A la hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
22 septembre 2008 à 9:48
Seems like a good idea to me. I also like the idea I've seen elsewhere of using CSS to take scattered text fragments and assemble them into an easily human-readable captcha. A captcha-breaker would need to incorporate a good HTML engine to be effective…
22 septembre 2008 à 9:48
Great idea. There are other similiar ideas with pictures of animals.
Like the cats+dog pictures, where you might mistake a dog for a cat sometimes – and vice versa.
People who are colorblind, will have issues with the colors.
No matter what, your solution is better than the regular captcha!
22 septembre 2008 à 9:50
The CAPTCHA you are seeing there is sourced from old books. So, when OCR software can't detect properly the words in the scanned pages on those books, it sends them to the CAPTCHA you are seeing on the screen. One of the words is known by the server-side system, the other is not. So, when you are solving those CAPTCHAS, you're also helping to "restore" books.
On the other hand, the solution you are proposing is lacking, at best. Apart from the fact that a bot could solve that CAPTCHA just by guessing (Once every 6 times it will be guessing right), the bots could also have a database of common questions, such as the one you are suggesting. It won't be long before all the possibilities are exhausted and the bots could also make a request to a central server if it can't answer the question.
BTW, what's a triangle?
22 septembre 2008 à 9:53
> Am I missing something?
Unfortunately, yes. The reason captcha's like this don't work is that there is a relatively low number of combinations of pictures and questions possible. It would just take someone going through all the combinations once and program them into the bot.
22 septembre 2008 à 9:53
You are missing something. The reCaptcha program is an effort to digitize books. Two words are shown to the user, and one will be a word that was unrecognizable by the OCR. You technically only need to match the word that is auto-generated (in this case, BELAIS).
I'm still not sure if this is a worthwhile goal, but it is at least trying to provide service where people are using captchas already. Your case of "IOM" here is by far the worst I have seen.
22 septembre 2008 à 10:07
1 out of every 5 men is color blind. not sure on stats for women. point being that color is a bad thing to use.
still doesn't solve the issue for visually impaired users, either.
22 septembre 2008 à 10:10
Yes, you're missing something… Colorbind people!
22 septembre 2008 à 10:20
That sounds easy to automate, to me.
One thing you need to consider is that guessable CAPTCHAs are no good. A 1 in 10 chance of being right makes it easy for botfarms to win.
22 septembre 2008 à 10:26
If I understand how reCAPTCHA works correctly, you only need to get the first word correct in order to solve it. If you get the second one correct too, it helps OCRs somewhere to digitize books. If you cannot read either words, you can always click on the refresh icon, it will present another set of words.
More info at: http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html
Your alternative may not work very well with the color-blind.
22 septembre 2008 à 10:29
colour blindness?
22 septembre 2008 à 10:31
Colorblind people will have a problem with your suggestion.
(As for the reCaptcha thing: if even you could't decipher the second word, just type something. It should work, since it only checks one of the two words.)
22 septembre 2008 à 10:36
yes. You are missing out colorblinds.
Okay some capchas of today render them out already.
Like todays captchas AND this one render out people who are blind or visually impared to a degree where screenreaders are their only chance to use the net.
22 septembre 2008 à 10:50
I agree, captchas should not test your visual capabilities – at all. Instead of shapes and colors why not provide human readable questions like "Is the pope Jewish?". That way blind, low vision and deaf-blind users could solve those darned things too!
22 septembre 2008 à 10:50
Colorblind people would probably not like it… or blind people for that matter.
Still, it would be a good alternative given the choice.
As for robots… clues given
1. "How many"
2. "triangles"
3. "not red"
I'd guess the hardest part would be "in the figure below", depending on context.
23 septembre 2008 à 4:35
The bot can easily take a screenshot of the page, so CSS wouldn't help much. That's different from parsing pages to find emails.
Simple inference machines can easily answer questions like:
"Is the pope jowel?"
"What is the capital of Guatemala?"
Easier than a lot of humans.
23 septembre 2008 à 5:13
I think the problem with CSS here is, again, the limited possibilities. There is only so many combinations of features you can implement. If you make an open source version of it and, say, have people use it as a wordpress plugin, a spammer will eventually look at your code and put all of these possibilities into his bot software.
For a captcha to be effective, it must not be generated from a limited amount of "bricks", or it will always fail, once one of the "bad guys" actually takes a closer look at it.
23 septembre 2008 à 5:27
Yes. The purpose of a captcha is not to test your visual ability, but to pose a question that is hard/impossible for current computer systems, but easyish for a human. Since humans have advanced visual processors, we are capable of solving very hard visual problems that are still out of reach for computer systems.
Also, the space of possible answers must be huge to prevent brute-force attacks.
Your proposed captcha provides neither of the two necessary conditions.
Might I suggest hitting the little refresh button on recaptcha? It will give you a new one. Another thing – recaptcha is also cool b/c it translates scanned books to digital form.
23 septembre 2008 à 8:29
Gez Lemon wrote an interesting article on the accessibility of CAPTCHAs a while ago. Not sure his solution is practical but it's worth a read.
23 septembre 2008 à 9:52
I think this illustrates the problem with recaptcha. Nobody should have to know "it's ok to get the second word wrong" in order to post a comment. Noble goal or not, it doubles the amount of work a user has to do. And it stops people from getting through who assume they have to get the captcha right.
23 septembre 2008 à 12:09
I had a forum using some standard guess-the-word CAPTCHA system, and it suffered several spam registrations and posts a day.
I added a single checkbox (labelled "I am a human") to the registration form, and it has been 100% effective at blocking spam for about two years.
It seems to me like a simple economic matter: if the value of breaking the CAPTCHA is greater than the cost of doing so, it will be broken. So you can increase the cost, e.g. ask the user to read ever-more-unreadable words; or you can decrease the value, e.g. only use that CAPTCHA system on a single small site.
The latter approach is much easier to design and implement, and much more user-friendly. Use a checkbox, or ask "what is 5 + 9?", or ask "how many triangles are not red?" – the complexity doesn't actually matter as long as it's unique to your site. Those are all pretty trivial to crack, but nobody is going to bother cracking them if it only lets them spam one blog.
But once a million blogs are using the same CAPTCHA system, the value of cracking it will increase hugely; so when you've made a simple effective CAPTCHA system, just make sure nobody else starts using the same one.
23 septembre 2008 à 1:13
You also missed the "load another captcha, this one is too hard" button, it's the two arrows, above the audio and ? buttons.
23 septembre 2008 à 10:39
In the case of hendrix, we had the checkbox thing first, and then added a math question after the spammers started getting past the checkbox. Eventually the spammers started getting past the math question, too, so we added the captcha. For some reason, Hendrix seems to be enough of a spammer target that they do specifically target it, even though it's "only one blog".
Submitting that form posts to a newsgroup which is archived by Google Groups. Since Google never deletes anything unless it's a DMCA violation (even if it's spam), successfully getting past our form gets their spam permanently archived on Google Groups, where lots of people will potentially see it for months, if not years, to come.
24 septembre 2008 à 8:28
I definitely agree that simpler CAPTCHAs would be really nice to have. :-)
Like many others pointed out, the less popular your site is, the simpler CAPTCHA you can have. Of course, it would be ideal to figure out something that is extremely simple to humans but impossible for computers to figure out, but which has some vast number of possible questions/answers.
14 octobre 2008 à 3:48
Even if these captchas have their advantages I also had a similar experience as you described it above – I wasn't able to read these words. So I started to ask myself if I am the only one who has problems in reading such captchas sometimes and with your experience I know the answer now.
14 juin 2009 à 3:19
What if you are colorblind? Then you can't tell which is red
12 octobre 2009 à 3:44
I was doing a "captcha survival guide" on my blog and i come out with some ideas, and when browsing triangle and geometric stuff i found your blog. I "stoled" your geometric image :-)
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the guide is short and in Italian, but i m sure the images are self explicative ( feel free to ask if you want, i d be happy tohave feedback)


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"Pagels then shows that Revelation, far from being meant as a hallucinatory prophecy, is actually a coded account of events that were happening at the time John was writing. It's essentially a political cartoon about the crisis in the Jesus movement in the late first century, with Jerusalem fallen and the Temple destroyed and the Saviour, despite his promises, still not back. All the imagery of the rapt and the raptured and the rest that the "Left Behind" books have made a staple for fundamentalist Christians represents contemporary people and events, and was well understood in those terms by the original audience. Revelation is really like one of those old-fashioned editorial drawings where Labor is a pair of overalls and a hammer, and Capital a bag of money in a tuxedo and top hat, and Economic Justice a woman in flowing robes, with a worried look. "When John says that 'the beast that I saw was like a leopard, its feet were like a bear's and its mouth was like a lion's mouth,' he revises Daniel's vision to picture Rome as the worst empire of all," Pagels writes. "When he says that the beast's seven heads are 'seven kings,' John probably means the Roman emperors who ruled from the time of Augustus until his own time." As for the creepy 666, the "number of the beast," the original text adds, helpfully, "Let anyone with understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a person." This almost certainly refers-by way of Gematria, the Jewish numerological system-to the contemporary Emperor Nero. Even John's vision of a great mountain exploding is a topical reference to the recent eruption of Vesuvius, in C.E. 79. Revelation is a highly colored picture of the present, not a prophecy of the future."
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From the Articles of Confederation to the Constitution of the Confederate States of America to the Lochner-era Supreme Court, confederationists have long believed in a United States consisting of states loosely united by a small, weak central government, and they have fought for more than 230 years to prevent, undermine, and erode the Constitution. While the term "Confederate" rightly conjures up America's sin of slavery and the racially charged movements for states' rights and state nullification, the present-day confederationists include conservative libertarians and corporatists who support a central government too weak to regulate or tax commerce. […]
For decades after the Civil War, big corporations saw the value of a confederationist vision of a weak central government. They aligned with confederationists in the early 20th century to create a Supreme Court that struck down minimum-wage laws, child-labor laws, and laws protecting workers' right to unionize. In the 1930s, confederationist justices struck down law after law intended to rescue America from the Great Depression. The Confederate Constitution's call for weak national regulations and racial oppression echoed again in the 1950s and 1960s. Alabama Governor and U.S. presidential candidate George Wallace famously based his anti-desegregation platform on the principle of states' rights, and after the Supreme Court's momentous ruling inBrown v. Board of Education, states throughout the South claimed they could simply ignore the order to integrate schools. When Congress enacted a ban on whites-only lunch counters, segregationists claimed the ban exceeded the federal government's authority. They lost, unanimously, in the Supreme Court.
Yet today's Supreme Court is moving toward the confederationist framework of protecting corporate interests. From its decision authorizing corporations to spend unlimited political money in the Citizens United case to its assaults on equal pay for women and job security for older workers, the Court's five conservatives have left no doubt about their willingness to obviate the commerce and general-welfare clauses of the Constitution to protect powerful corporate interests. It is worth noting that, throughout the last century, when the corporatist strand has conflicted with the state's-rights position — from Lochner (in which the Court infamously overturned New York's public health regulations in 1905) to the current Court's reversal just this week of Montana's anti-corruption campaign-finance law — the corporatist side has won."
"American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away. Things are different for you than they were for us. Just the fact that you chose to come to a single-sex college makes you smarter than we were — we came because it's what you did in those days — and the college you are graduating from is a very different place. All sorts of things caused Wellesley to change, but it did change, and today it's a place that understands its obligations to women in today's world. The women's movement has made a huge difference, too, particularly for young women like you. There are women doctors and women lawyers. There are anchorwomen, although most of them are blonde. But at the same time, the pay differential between men and women has barely changed. In my business, the movie business, there are many more women directors, but it's just as hard to make a movie about women as it ever was, and look at the parts the Oscar-nominated actresses played this year: hooker, hooker, hooker, hooker, and nun. It's 1996, and you are graduating from Wellesley in the Year of the Wonderbra. The Wonderbra is not a step forward for women. Nothing that hurts that much is a step forward for women.
What I'm saying is, don't delude yourself that the powerful cultural values that wrecked the lives of so many of my classmates have vanished from the earth. Don't let the New York Times article about the brilliant success of Wellesley graduates in the business world fool you — there's still a glass ceiling. Don't let the number of women in the work force trick you — there are still lots of magazines devoted almost exclusively to making perfect casseroles and turning various things into tents.
Don't underestimate how much antagonism there is toward women and how many people wish we could turn the clock back. One of the things people always say to you if you get upset is, don't take it personally, but listen hard to what's going on and, please, I beg you, take it personally. Understand: every attack on Hillary Clinton for not knowing her place is an attack on you. Underneath almost all those attacks are the words: get back, get back to where you once belonged. When Elizabeth Dole pretends that she isn't serious about her career, that is an attack on you. The acquittal of O.J. Simpson is an attack on you. Any move to limit abortion rights is an attack on you — whether or not you believe in abortion. The fact that Clarence Thomas is sitting on the Supreme Court today is an attack on you.
Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim. Because you don't have the alibi my class had — this is one of the great achievements and mixed blessings you inherit: unlike us, you can't say nobody told you there were other options. Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead. Twenty-five years from now, you won't have as easy a time making excuses as my class did. You won't be able to blame the deans, or the culture, or anyone else: you will have no one to blame but yourselves. Whoa."
"The Supreme Court examined the Arizona immigration law in minute detail, but when it came to revisiting the damage caused by its own handiwork in the 2010 Citizens United case, it couldn't be bothered. In a single dismissive paragraph on Monday, the court's conservative majority refused to allow Montana or any other state to impose limits on corporate election spending and wouldn't even entertain arguments on the subject.
It is not as if those five justices could be unaware of the effects of Citizens United, and of the various court and administrative decisions that followed it. They could hardly have missed the $300 million in outside spending that deluged the 2010 Congressional elections or the reports showing that more than $1 billion will be spent by outside groups on Republican candidates this year, overwhelming the competition.
They might also have seen that many of the biggest donations are secret, given to tax-free advocacy groups in defiance even of the admonition in Citizens United that independent contributions should be disclosed.
If the justices were at all concerned about these developments, they could have used the Montana case to revisit their decision and rein in its disastrous effects. The only conclusion is that they are quite content with the way things worked out. […]
Congress can — and should — require disclosure of secret donations. The Internal Revenue Service should crack down on political organizations that pose as tax-exempt "social welfare" organizations to avoid current disclosure rules.
But, for now, the nation's highest court has chosen to turn its back as elections are bought by the biggest check writers."
"Aaron Sorkin knows the weight of last words, and his last words to me, as we walk-and-talk out of the HBO press room, are: "Write something nice." He says this in the "Smile, honey" tone of much less successful jerks. It's not advice the Oscar-winning, show-bossing Jonathan Franzen of screenwriting would take himself, thank what gods there be. In Sorkinville, these gods are men. […]
At the short end of a TV season dominated, if not by shows about girls and women, by talk about shows about girls and women, Sorkin's new drama The Newsroom arrives with a "Hey, remember how great America was when it wasn't just a man's world, but a man's man's world?"
[M]y first question starts, "I watched the pilot twice … " But I don't get to the question part because Sorkin looks as if he wants to say something. I invite him to do so, and he asks, "Because you liked it so much the first time, or because you didn't understand it the first time?"
So huge is the hubris in thinking anyone smart enough to write about this show for a national newspaper might not be yet smart enough to understand it (should you fret about your own Sorkin-fathoming abilities, let me say that if you read Don Quixote in the ninth grade or studied American History in the 11th, you will be fine) that I just swallow and tell my own truth.
REPORTER: No, I think that there might be a third way, which is that if you're going to write about something, you have to look at it more than once. […]
Sorkin does not live in the age of Gawker. But The Newsroom is opportunely timed – at least for educated-liberal audiences – in part because this is an election year, and Americans are so divided that wild ambivalence seems like the only way left to feel. In larger part, it's because a certain kind of man is now freaking out over the loss of his greatness: Esquire is e-publishing "men's fiction"; Simon Fraser University wants to build a "men's centre," requiring perhaps refuge from the plague of 51-per-cent female enrolment; "misandry" is a word you hear people say and mean.
Really, all that's happening is that feminism has achieved some of its purposes and pluralism has taken root. Systems are tenuous; forces of change are multiplying; the great-(white)-man theory will not hold.
Sorkin, though, is winningly upholding it. The colonel, the president, the genius, the baseball coach, the anchorman, and next – as he's recently confirmed – no less than Steve Jobs: His subjects are masculine iconoclasts with traditional top-down power, who strive, in Graham Greene-type ways, to use it for good.
But on "real" TV news, these heroes are dying, and to mourn them is also to mourn a paternalistic notion of truth as something you should but cannot handle, when for the powerless vast majority it's so gossamer it just slips through our fingers. With one look into the steel arrogance behind Sorkin's eyes, I am sure he considers his life's tragedy that, in 50 years, there will be no Sorkin to write about him.
"I think I would have done very well, as a writer, in the forties," he says. "I think the last time America was a great country was then, or not long after. It was before Vietnam, before Watergate."
It was a great country, yes, for great white men. It was a great country when you could still trust in greatness. As many of us (who watch HBO, at least) long ago stopped believing in God, a God who for all Christian and capitalistic intents and purposes was male, it could not be much longer before we also stopped believing in things as theistic as neutrality and objectivity and omnipotence in journalism. I do not want us to stop believing in heroes; only in heroes who think, as Sorkin's heroes think, they're truth-raining gods."
Sarah Nicole Prickett: How to get under Aaron Sorkin's skin (and also, how to high-five properly)
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The U.S. Highway 17 widening project in Mount Pleasant affects the heart of the traditional sweetgrass basket-making community in South Carolina, and is part of the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, a National Heritage Area, which extends from Wilmington, North Carolina to St. Augustine, Florida.
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