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Real-life Rants; Vent here.
Topic Started: Jan 9 2008, 03:44 PM (22,201 Views)
~wildwood~
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Grrr. I have been writing a story with Aiko and really want to continue, it killing me!!!! I just have way too much school work this year. therefore I'm really agrivated because it is just now getting to the fun part to write. Plus this is my first story and i can't even manage a small reply to Aiko!!



(So I haven't forgotten about it Aiko, just really busy..sorry) :(
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~Shin-Ra~
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I've finally found out what has been so fucked up with our computer for the last few months.

My sister apparently decided that AVG was a bad thing for our computer because it slowed it down while it was scanning. Not only did she do this but she shut off the entire thing. Firewall, spyware protection, everything.

I've been running scans for the last nine hours in a desperate attempt to get rid of what's infesting our PC, especially something rather annoying which keeps redirecting google searches to various sites from financial advisers to porn sites crawling with all sorts of bugs.

I should also point out said sister who did this is seventeen.
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Steam has, at last, catastrophically exploded in my face. 115 gigabytes of games need to be redownloaded after the tedious process of reinstalling the client for the most obtuse software distribution service ever imagined.

I've sort of stopped caring, to be honest -_-
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So, not exactly a rant, more of an instance of me holding the idiot ball for too long.

As you can tell, I've been suffering a string of PC problems as of late, most recently of which was a complete refusal to automatically update or access Microsoft's download servers.

I've been told I've got corrupted files. Been told I have a rootkit installed on my PC.

All wrong.

...I had the hardware firewall enabled on my wireless router.

Derp.
"A battle for supremacy against many foes is a battle of the best kind. There are few considerations, only those concerning where to place your next shot. It is war in its purest form." - Commander Karziel, Ultramarines 5th Company

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~Shin-Ra~
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*Ahem*

The fanbase of Avatar consists of defeatists, racists, hypocrites and utter fucking morons which make Twihards look like they have souls!

... Sorry, needed to get that out the way.

Also, my laptop screen is almost destroyed so I might not be on here often.
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Sorry I've been gone for so long, if anyone really noticed; I know its been slow here lately.

I've been with my grandmother, helping her get her will in order. She's on her death-bed, so to speak, as her health will only decline from here, and quickly at that. As such, I've been spending weeks at home with her.

As sad as this to say, I would not go out of my way like this for any other person. She is my last grandmother, my last grandparent, and the last of her entire generation in my family... and that was a REALLY big generation. As such, a lot of things have been left to her that she doesn't use, and that less... tactful... members of my family would jump at the chance to grab up with their grubby little fingers.

I have devoted myself to this, as said tactless family members have showed their faces before. I did not care for it, and I refuse to allow the last of the oldest generation in my family to be treated as a... as a vending machine to be robbed.

I will do my best to catch up, I really will. But, until the end of these things comes, know that I will be personally obligated to avoid distraction.
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~Shin-Ra~
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Metamyth, I think I speak for everyone here when I say you'd be excused to go missing for a while. Especially for reasons such as those.
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yesterday was almost enough to make me paranoid, everything I own that has a battery failed yesterday, my phone, my calculator, my laptop, my car....seriously, its almost enough to make one want to give up technology
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Guys, I have a question about morales right now. My siberian huskey is ten years old right now and he's having a hard time getting up. The hind legs are incredibly weak right now and he has a very poor eye sight right now. We spent money on him earlier this year to help get rid of a tumor, something they thought he wouldn't have survived from. And I was happy when I heard he was okay, but when I look at him now, he's suffering. My mom wants to invest money to keep him alive, but my dad said that he probably doesn't have that much time left and he hates seeing my dog not being able to get up. Right now, the question about euthanizing him has come up, and I'm wondering if this would be the right thing to do. Putting him out of his suffering, or try and keep him alive as long as possible? I love this dog. He was my first one. But, I'm not sure if I can let him go. So guys, help me out here: What would be the morally right thing to do?
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The morally right thing to do is a very vague question really. As you may know, both my parents are nurses, and they deal with death every single day, perhaps more than any other profession. I say this because people working at mortuaries deal with the already dead, and other medical professions typically don't deal with the more important side of dying: the living friends and family that are left behind.

Choosing to euthanize your doggie friend can be a very, very tough one. Family members have to make that same choice when it comes to a dying parent, grandparent, or even child. Typically human beings are forced to have their very last bit of painful survival squeezed out of them by all means possible because the living friends and family can't possibly part with them, like they expect the dying relative to be immortal. Last year my parents dealt with a family who said "At least keep her alive until Christmas" in late November.

There are a lot of family who force their dying loved ones to hang on, suffering, for the sake of their own happiness. Would that not make things worse after the inevitable end, however? Knowing they suffered longer?

Granted, I've never had anyone close to me die before. I've had great grandparents die, one grandpa, an aunt I met once when I was six. I've been to more funerals than family reunions, and certainly more than weddings, but I barely knew them, if at all. I did, however, lose my own childhood dog when I was about 15 or 16.

She was a chihuahua-terrier mix. We got her in a pet store because my brother cried all the way home (something he never did, mind you) and we named her Penny because of the color of her fur. When she was a puppy she peed whenever she got the slightest bit excited (including one amusing time when two Mormon missionaries knocked on our door). She chewed up a Lego instruction manual and my favorite Abigail figurine before we decided to keep her outside.

Penny lived outdoors among our constant herd of cats and, though she had been fixed at an early age, always made a great mom to weaned kittens. In one particular case she always had a wet neck because the kitten was always suckling on her fur.

She lived 5 years of her life on a leash in a small backyard before we moved to the countryside, she was always happy, but even moreso with a huge place to play.

Penny never chased cars, never killed chickens, loved to hunt mice, ate grasshoppers we caught for her, had a bark that sounded big for her size, ran in really tight circles when she was super excited, nipped angrily at gingers, and once I accidentally hit her with a stick shot from a homemade bow made from another stick and some green yarn.

Eventually, like all dogs, she began to get really old. Penny had trouble going pee, feeling like she had to go all the time when only a few drops came out, she got really slow, and stopped eating. Winter was going to come soon and we didn't want her to have to go through it in the miserable state she was in. My dad, brother, and I dug a grave for her and my dad gave her a lethal amount of insulin. About eight hours later Penny went to sleep very peacefully in her dog house.

I don't think I've ever cried for her, because she lived a full, happy life with all of her favorite friends and family. We've since moved again, but I don't need her grave to think about her.

No one can really tell you what to do for your own dog, nor can either choice be considered fully "moral" I read that Siberian Huskies live 12-14 years, but don't let that influence your choice because not everyone lives to the highest expectation of age, and even so, it's more about how full the life was than how long.
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