Posted on 05/01/2021 1:26:16 PM PDT by algore
Oh man... I have stories from the kids... I opted to not do that. Dad has dementia and we decided to become semi-tired and take care of him in this time of need rather than throw him in jail. We live very rural, next to each other, and have family dinner meals.
His “necessity” to take care of himself everyday with his list of personal chores and hygiene he has to do for himself, including breakfast cereal in the morning and sandwiches for lunch has helped maintain brain function and independence to a great degree.
He has remained functional because of it. When this started he was almost dead from pneumonia, My wife and I rehabed him back to the state his is in now which is functional. Social interactions are a bear, but being very rural there are very few of those to worry about.
I owe my father a lot... We are not doing to bad in life and have upstanding kids and Grandkids. And we owe it all to the help he gave us over the years when we really needed it. Starting with the financial collapse during the Carter Administration. So many forget so fast and only care about themselves...
Very enigmatic!
True... :)
thank you!!
Someone on another thread said it was Morris code and their cat helped spring ‘em.
Yeah... I think they got smarter after they watched the movie “WarGames”.
Could be... Not familiar with it...
“No door code extant uses Morse code.”
Thanks. It was a disconnect for me, too. I don’t get it.
Yes he did... :)
You will never have a reason to feel guilty, and you are setting a loving example for others..
There is a old Chineese “proverb” about this..
A man weaved a basket to hold a man, his son asked what it was for, he told his son it was for his grandfather.. after it was completed he put his father into the basket and with his son he pulled grandpa to the edge of a cliff, where he dumped grandpa over the edge..he was preparing to throw the basket when his young son stopped him.. The father asked why he was stopped , the son. said “someday I will need that for you”
Lol... I live with it everyday with my Father, Yes it is a fact and have every legal right to discuss what I understand of it from my own personal experience. And those who love their ancestors also do it everyday. It is the Christian thing to do. But only if you care more about your ancestors than you do your own personal toys and fetishes of course.
Did you stick one or more in a home you should have tried to help morally with a little love instead?
Thank you... It is just the right thing to do. He gave of himself, it is time to return the favor and give back. It is just that simple. :)
On another note... Just so you know... The hypocritical mods around here blocked your very nice reply to me. If I didn’t happen to come back and review the thread and see it I would not have got it. It is NOT in my comment/reply folder, it was blocked from going there.
So whoever did that please explain why? I know you will not, because you have no real excuse for it. There was nothing done wrong and the only hang up could be “don’t encourage him for being righteous and doing the right thing, he is making the rest of us look bad for what we did to our ancestors”.
Sad state of mind there there guys... So again why??? I am NOT the one in the wrong here. Someone has a serious authoritarian issue and control issue and personal hang up... And that I can not help you fix, but please do not take your hang ups out on me when I am right.
Assisted Living Facilities are not prisons. Adults can come and go as they please. My mom used to call a cab and go to the movies.
Now it is here and back... Thank you again. :)
Ronald Reagan loved movies. One night in June 1983, he sat down at Camp David to watch WarGames. The film stars Matthew Broderick as a tech-wiz teenager who unwittingly hacks into the main computer at Norad, the North American Aerospace Defense Command. Thinking he has merely stumbled upon a new computer game, the hacker comes dangerously close to starting a third world war.
Five days later, the president was in a meeting with the secretaries of state, defense and treasury, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and 16 senior members of Congress. They were there to discuss a new nuclear missile and the prospect of arms talks with the Russians. When Reagan began to give a detailed account of the plot of WarGames, eyes rolled.
Then the president turned to John Vessey, the chairman of the joint chiefs, and asked: “Could something like this really happen?”
One week later, General Vessey returned with a startling answer: “Mr President, the problem is much worse than you think.”
Thus begins Dark Territory, Fred Kaplan’s important new book about the history of cyberwar. “When Reagan asked Vessey if someone could really hack into the military’s computers,“ Kaplan writes, “it was far from the first time the question had been asked.”
It turned out that there was a good reason WarGames was so accurate: for their research the screenwriters had interviewed Willis Ware, who wrote a 1967 paper called Security and Privacy on Computer Systems and for years headed the computer science department at the RAND Corporation, an Air Force-funded think tank.
Reagan’s casual inquiry set off the first of many efforts by the intelligence establishment to figure out a way to bolster America’s defensive and offensive cyber capabilities. Each is described in extreme detail in Kaplan’s new book.
I found a quick summary of the movie. It was the only place that I could find the touch tone scene. To get right to that part then jump to about 10:40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y12xhIvzKeM
This scene pointed out why it was a bad idea to actually use the touch tones.
The movie was one of the greatest tech masterpieces of all time. Not that BS stuff like Tom cruise and “War of the worlds” Where the science was so made up and fake.
I’ll be praying for you.
for me, too. I don’t get it.
-————no problem, staff had to come up with a “he must be a wizard with special skills” in order to hind their incompetence.
The old man had nothing but time on his hands, to watch/listen/hear over and over to get the numbers. Which you could have likely figured out from the dirt on unused keypad numbers.
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