I'm continually astonished at the assumptions people make with absolutely no data whatsoever.

"Decedents"? What an egregious error - you're dead to me.

Good one - you said something funny entirely by accident. Maybe if you have children, your descendants can explain to you the difference between "descendant" and "decedent".

"Proven". I don't think that word means what you think it means.

The word you were looking for was "conjectured", which is as valuable as a handful of spooge.

You write that like we've found alien bacteria, or that you somehow know how this hypothetical organism would act.

Are you talking out of your ass, or is there something about you that would generate the largest headlines in the history of journalism?

I'm guessing... ass.

Aw, lighten up, Francis. It's a fucking joke.

Yeah, that slapdash mentality is a large part of what I have to manage, so we don't experience continual disaster. I didn't say I was a software developer any more. I ride herd over business analysts, systems analysts, and the menagerie of IT who do the programming.

Fortunately, I have a long technical history, and even though I got my degree about 8 years before the first browsers, I picked up web programming just like I did every other model, from mainframe to minicomputer to PC, to web services. It's so much easier to manage my folks when they realize they can't bullshit me. :-)

Not really. My point was that you were generalizing too much.

50+ is old? Huh.

Well, you forgot a third class - 50+ (old? really?) people who still learn about new tools and concentrate on process and quality, instead of sticking exclusively to what worked early in our careers. I am one of those.

But then, I graduated from coding to management about 10 years ago, which probably explains it. :-)

Yeah, that's pretty funny. UPS does an excellent job for me. So does FedEx. I only had one problem with a package in the last 10 years, out of the hundred or so deliveries I've had to my home, and that was when someone stole my gaming rig out of the UPS warehouse. Which had nothing to do with delivery.

Maybe they just don't like you?

I tried your suggestion, so I could post something useful (rather than just post a useless, "well, why don't you..."), but neither Bing nor Google provided a good candidate to answer the question.

I think your search term is useless, and a few minutes of searching variations didn't help either. Feel free to actually try to contribute.

My post didn't blame anyone. I think you misread it. I mentioned a couple of facts. All I related to HIPAA is the fact that email must be secure.

I sure as heck didn't write, "BLAME HIPAA AND THE GOVERNMENT!", so easy there, cowboy. :-)

omg, you likened my theoretical ownership of a non-existent company with Jenny McCarthy's activities.

Even at that remove, I still feel all dirty and need to take a shower. Well played, sir.

...and we're all very proud of you.

For my last refinancing, over 5 years ago, I received documents via email, signed, scanned and emailed them back. What does that have to do with my observation that "...fax machines are still very common in... mortgage underwriting."?

You and I are in agreement - you know that, right? My citation also showed the GP's post to be nonsense.

Dude, how long have you been smarting over that car keys incident? Did someone yell "NEEERRRRRDDDD!!!" and stuff you in a locker?

And how in the world did you manage to connect the dots from making fun of PhD's to Nazi sympathizers? Bravo.