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I use Firefox over any other browser precisely because I can "hack" it. I've changed so much under about:config that I have to document it for the next install. Firefox allows so many useful hacks that are truly in favor of the user. Chrome not so much. I don't use anything other than macOS or *nix, so I cannot speak to IE or other platforms.

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If you have family history, get the test over 45. If you have urination hesitancy, which led me to get tested, get the test. Prostate symptoms can lead to all manner of things besides the dreaded cancer diagnosis. BPH, urination trouble, impotence, chronic pain. None of these are life threatening, but try living with them. They cut into a man's quality of life.

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I went, for example, because I felt a second or two hesitancy when needing to urinate. See my below comments, which, sadly, have been modded down for whatever reason...

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I have no idea why my comment is being modded down. Guys who disdain hearing good advice and the truth are beyond me...

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It can be flaky if used alone as a measure, but that's where the urine as well as Free PSA test comes in, which is used as a supplement. I just went through a PSA/Urine/Free PSA/12-needle core biopsy run. Not fun, but the doctors thought it necessary to rule out cancer.

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Get the PSA test if your over 45. Just get it. I just went through it as well as a biopsy because the PSA looked fishy. I did the PSA as well as the Free PSA test. I then had a 12-needle core biopsy, which, while unpleasant, let me know I was OK. I need to, as do all men my age (almost 50), get tested yearly. It's not a joke. It's tough to get men into the doctor for anything unless they feel they're dying. Guys, get tested, especially if you have a wife and children. You owe it to them, if not yourself.

A PSA test takes 5 minutes. It's a simple blood draw and you learn the results in two days. Like ovarian cancer for women, prostate cancer is the "whispering death". It's often too late if it's metastasized after it's detected, then your chances are even less. Get the test, doubly so if you are a family man.

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Flawed by whose standards? The left?

If society is to have order, those who would violate that order in a way that uses violence, looting, mauling of others, blocking of roads used by emergency vehicles and commerce, and general disruption should be quelled quickly.

People who would loot, etc. understand nothing but violence. We cannot and should not hand hold these "people". Get out of line, get smacked. Pure and simple.

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This is BS. He's being sued because he's a vocal supporter of Donald Trump. Let's just be honest.

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Violence needs to--has to--be met with equal or greater force to show the thugs who is boss--in this case the legally-appointed police and justice system.

The answer is not a basic, universal income as some have suggested. No one deserves anything unless they earn it. I'm not talking about people who cannot work--the handicapped, retarded, etc. I'm talking about able-bodied people who refuse to even try. They sit around, collect a check, and think the world owes them something. The world owes no one anything. Get a job, even a menial one, pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, do whatever it takes. Do it legally, honorably, constantly, and you will improve your lot in life.

This administration has damaged America. It has convinced young people that the rich and wealthy owe the "rest of us" something. Not true. The rich and wealthy have what they have. It's theirs. Jealousy doesn't solve problems. It exacerbates them. No one is owed a college education payed for by the rich. I did it on MY OWN WITHOUT HELP EVEN FROM MY PARENTS. I'm not special, a genius, or even that gifted. I took responsibility for ME and MINE. I get what I earn. I deserve nothing else.

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I love how the leftists are taking the points down without commenting. The comments I made are factual and can be backed up. But let's not allow some facts to get in the way of our emotions over some violent people, who, more often than not, deserved to be shot by law enforcement.

Fact: if you act violently, don't comply with a lawful order, take your protest violent in any way, shape, or form, you deserve what you get.

I grow weary of how the attitudes of Americans have changed. A few years ago, no one would have batted an eye at cops doing their thing. Now? Cops are the enemy, even when its learned the person shot was a known criminal.

If criminals get shot, good. It's evolution removing the stupid, non-complying, and evil from society. Chicago is a pure example. You NEVER, EVER hear the media talk about black on black crime, which is what Chicago is. It's not guns, people. If those gang banger thugs only had knives or bats, the same amount of deaths would occur. Look at south east Asia for examples. Guns are difficult to come by, so the thugs there use knives, cleavers, bats, hammers, cars.

Personally, Chicago is a culling of the stupid. Let them kill themselves. The women are better off when stupid men are removed from the gene pool. Those poor kids whose dad would be part of a gang deserve better, anyway, not that dads in black communities are even really present. Most black women are unmarried and have two or more kids, usually not from the same man. "Dad" is busy being a thug, stealing, raping, selling dope, sitting around without a job with his thug friends eating, drinking, and smoking. This is NOT a stereotype. I've seen this for years with my own eyes in my own big city.

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Typical left-leaning article. In the totality of law enforcement shootings, the vast majority of people have been white, 26% have been black, the rest a mix.

Black Lives Matter is a false narrative.

Blacks make up 13% of the US population, but have a disproportionate percentage of young men involved in crimes. Young black men have no family life. As of 2016, 79% of all black children are born to unwed mothers. Those children grow up with no father present in the household.

No father equals MASSIVE instability. The ideal is a man and woman raising children together. Blacks lack this.

In almost every one of these shootings, after the dust settles, it's learned that the person shot had a record, had a warrant, was wanted for other crimes, was carrying an illegal or stolen knife or gun. The recent Charlotte incident showed the man was carrying a gun that was both stolen and illegal for him to possess as he was already a felon.

I've no problem with peaceful protests, but when your civil rights are no longer being civil, you lose your civil rights. If you start looting or damaging property, you get shot and deservedly so.

It's come to light in Charlotte that quite a few of the black people being arrested have out-of-state driver's licenses. This shows a growing trend. That the violence and looting are not organic. The local are being agitated by outside influences.

This is all being done by people with money, like a certain rich Hungarian in bed with certain high-level Democrats in this country. None of this is accidental. Professional agitators were found to be active in Ferguson, Charlotte, Baltimore, NYC, you name it.

Were I in charge and you were looting, I'd turn a tractor-trailer load of German Shepherds on you. Time to take off the gloves. Notice that in Russia, this never happens. Like him or hate him, but Vladimir Putin keeps a tight reign on civil discourse and political activities by the populace. People can peacefully protest, but when they start to act violently, they need to be quelled very quickly.

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Because no one takes ownership anymore. Young men, especially, have become weak and feminine. Boys don't play outside anymore. They don't hunt or fish. They don't work, mow the lawn or get dirty. They don't have positive, masculine role models like John Wayne anymore.

TV mocks men in commercials and on sitcoms. Men are made to look like buffoons. A young man who seeks to be married can likely NOT afford to let his bride stay at home and raise the children, which is the ideal.

Yes, yes, I'm older and my views are likely not popular, but it's what I am and what I know. Things were better for families back then. This administration didn't help when they extended health insurance coverage to children up to 26. 26? That should be a grown man with one or more degrees already working and on his own. That's a grown man with 8 years in the military and only 12 to go to retirement. 26? C'mon. That's ridiculous.

I pick on young men here because we've become a nation of milquetoasts. Our men are hipsters, neo-hippies, concerned with ephemeral BS and nothing of substance. Young men need to be MEN. Be masculine. Leave home, pick yourself up by your own bootstraps. Be the pioneer. Set the example for other men. Be the John Wayne, be the real man with real masculine morals. Don't be weak, coddled, or shamed by feminists. Hold the building door open for women. The car door. Treat your women with respect. Feminize them by sweeping them off their feet. Pay for their meals. Dress like a man. Lose the skinny jeans and feminine look. Be a man. Do the right thing.

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Don't worry about what others say or feel. You have an audience of two: yourself first and the man who writes your check.

If you are adding value, you're doing it right. You are either a cost center or a profit center. Be the profit center and you will never want for a job.

I'm almost 50 and still in the game. If I'm honest, I still worry from time to time about being irrelevant, but if I'm still adding value, and I am, then what the other IT people around me think doesn't matter. Add value, learn as you go, gain in wisdom and understanding and you will always be cash-flow positive.

Don't make the mistake that so many do that you have to be working on something cutting edge or popular. Those jobs are nice, but I've learned--at least for myself--that I prefer the maintenance jobs. I enjoy taking something and making it better, even if it's just a quick fix, like two lines of code. Own everything you do. Be proud of your work.

You're still young with plenty of time to get where you will be going. Don't be in a rush to "prove yourself" to anyone but yourself and the man writing your check. Don't listen to naysayers, don't get trapped in the mindset that only the new, darling languages are worth investing in. Good programming skills are not language specific. Learn what you can. Use the correct tool for the job. Don't be a method man. Be the profit center.

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I bought one of the Yeti tumblers for my daughter, who HAD to have one. $40. She dropped it and it literally shattered. Fast forward a couple of months, and I read online where the Ozark Trail brand at Walmart goes for $9.99 and is actually better at keeping the contents colder for longer. Dropping it did nothing but slightly scuff it, proving Yeti has nothing but mind share. I've told everyone I know to save their money and buy the Ozark Trail tumbler instead, as it's a better value.

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It's a race to the bottom. NAFTA and now TPP will continue to screw over the little guy. I'm with you. IT jobs are being driven overseas or foreign replacements being brought in. The politicians and corporate leaders are crooks who care nothing about anyone or anything save bottom line and their own paycheck. It's ridiculous that in 1960, the average CEO made a little over 3 times what the average employee makes. Now? CEOs make 2-300 times the average employee. That's skewed beyond defense.

I'm toying with the idea of getting out of IT because the writing is on the wall. I'm also almost 50, so the fact that I'm still in the trenches is against me. I don't want to be in management. I like pure IT, but what with the "cloud", hiring of foreign IT workers to save a little money, you name it, the system is against me.

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Fastmail has been my go-to for almost as long as they have existed--almost 15 years. There is NOTHING better in my estimation and I've used them all before--free and paid.

Rob and the Fastmail team are most likely the best in the world at what they do, and as an IT guy with decades of experience, I don't say that lightly. They have more than earned my shekels every year. Give them a go... you will be very pleasantly surprised.

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Why is everyone so concerned with diversity? Does it really matter if a company is 68% male and 56% white? Who really cares. Apple make tons of money, what they are supposed to do. These SJWs who care more about having so many blacks, so many women... it's all a farce. To suggest that a company MUST comply is bogus. Let all of this work out organically.

I've been in IT across 3 decades. That's a lot of years. I'm still in IT when almost all of my friends and acquaintances have moved on. In all of my IT years, I have worked with very few blacks, very few women. It's mostly a guy's world in IT. There are tons of whites, asians (oriental and sub-continent). This has happened somewhat organically worldwide (let's not even mention H1B visas). The notion that a company or even a field like IT should be artificially packed with a certain percentage of this and that is ridiculous. Blacks and women are, overall, not terribly interested in IT careers. If this were not so, the numbers would be different. Let's not pretend it's something it isn't. Let's also not pretend that everyone is cut out for an IT career. I've seen so many people believe they can step into IT, get wealthy and make an easy go of it. This happens to almost no one. Very few get wealthy. Most leave IT after a few years. It's all I've known since the early 80s and I cannot see myself doing anything else.

The political correctness that demands companies hire this and that needs to stop. Apple has a right to hire who they will -- SJWs be damned.