Oh god.... so you're telling me the only way to keep my shit safe from prying eyes is to become a fuckin hipster? Nope. Let the government or whomever else read all my boring ass text messages. I'm not lowering myself to this level of douche-baggery.
Christ, I hope I don't flood an office when that happens. Well, I hope I don't flood *my* office when that happens. I might strategically attempt to flood someone else's, though. As a prank.
The genie has been out of the bottle for years. Google has always said it reads your mail, that's why you get it for free... it reads your email, and your friends' emails, and figures out what ads to send your way. They've now trained that same analysis machine to detect and report on illegal content, like pedo shit. More power to them, I say. People HAVE to learn that email, by default, is not secure. But it can be. If you REALLY want to send encrypted and "not-visible-to-the-man" email, you can. Sure, it takes a bit of work, but it's quite possible to do. Most people, like myself, are fine with Google's auto-reading of my email, because I get a great service, and I, for the most part, trust them. The government? Don't trust them at all, because their data agencies have pretty well become the tools of those who have an agenda to push or want to get reelected. I like to think that Google is chasing money, and if they piss off their users, they'll lose a whack of it, and they know that. Funny how trust works in a digital age.
This is where the genie left the bottle but as you say it was a while ago, I use that term more in terms of Google entering the law enforcement arena and that it won't begin and end with pedophilia. Cell companies have been doing this for years as well, not just for pedophiles either. Google reading my email for ad purposes is one thing, it is something entirely different when they read it for law enforcement purposes and hand it off to government officials.
Except that they say that they will in their EULA. If they didn't say that, and then did it without my knowledge, yeah, fuck them. But they actually TELL you that they're going to do it, so I find it kind of hard to complain about.
Have a cigar Congratulations! I either missed the earlier announcement or blocked it out. Did you already say if y'all picked out a name yet? Also, I have heard that risks for complications are higher in women over 40, so I hope all goes well.
Re: Have a cigar The chances of having twins for women over 35 dramatically increase, so Angel you may have that to look forward to.
Re: Have a cigar Don't forget Down's Syndrome. The risk of having a Down's baby roughly doubles every year after age 40.
I. AM NOT. FORTY. But I am knocked up. Names in the running include RushNett HappyfunballChellie and NolandVillageIdiot FreecorpsBewildered.
So... if something happens to me, you all bring my kid up in the way of the Lord? Um... How about awesome virtual aunts and uncles instead? It doesn't get the name Juice until it shits the bed.
As the parent of a 15 month old I can tell you that might happen before you leave the hospital. It will definitely happen while still a very small baby.
Juice, I have told you numerous times that it makes me uncomfortable when you offer to come over and shit in my house. NO MEANS NO.