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Geek Speak / Re: Can people work out where photo's are taken if taken by 'smartphones'?
« on: 12/05/2014 05:15:15 »
I operate this comp with a dongle. I don't have a normal phone. I can only afford a minimum of Internet per month, tho., due to animals. Can't watch ANY video, etc., even a song or brief funny/educ., things, anymore.
As I said, I have been in RESCUE for all my life, really, but SERIOUSLY, for approaching 30 years & I have yet to find a REALLY serious animal rescuer, that knows ALL the stuff that goes on behind closed doors, that would ALLOW their animals NEAR an RSPCA in UK OR OZ. This is NOT a sweeping statement for effect. I did not include the US SPCA, because I haven't gone into it with my most trusted US rescue contacts, BUT I would be very surprised if it wasn't worse there, as it is, with attitudes to animals across the GENERALISED US public. I CAN say that the heartbreakingly committed US rescue people I deal with, have nothing to do with promoting the SPCA, only trying to get dogs OUT of there, to SAFE NO KILL rescues.
Sorry to be sidetracked. I tried to prevent this explanation, by diplomatically shutting down the RSPCA suggestion, early on...
To start with, IF U R rehoming an animal U care about, the MINIMUM U do is find a COMMITTED NO KILL rescue. The RSPCA never has been. Even then, you can't just accept that banner headline. SOME large NO KILL rescues, have a suspicious number of female animals who qualify to die, due to, 'get out' clauses for exceptions to be able to kill, whilst claiming NO KILL. These include dogs deemed dangerous, ill, 'suffering' without hope of recovery, mentally or physically. Why is this suspicious? It costs a great deal more to desex females, than males.
ALMOST all offer same price adoptions of dogs, male/female. They clear more money per male, than female, in adoption fee, for running costs. Often, because people, (I think insanely), prefer v young dogs/cats, there may be a premium on pups/kittens but to be seen to not make it unfair to females, the adoption fee is same. There is certainly a very large rescue in Oz, not RSPCA, that is SO infamous for their female killing, I believe whilst claiming NO KILL status, that there are internet warnings & I believe a few newspaper articles were published. Your loved pet will be FAR safer & happier with a committed, well run, small PRIVATE NO KILL rescue. The best way to rehome, tho, is DIRECTLY to KNOWN perm home. Ironically, if I was in UK, I would have some brilliant homes, immediately, but not in OZ.
I mix with people online, UK & OZ, with DECADES of RESCUE experience. SERIOUS, devoted, expert, self sacrificing rescue people & NONE would hand over their animals to RSPCA, when there were other options. MANY would prefer to PTS their beloved pets themselves, if faced with no other choice than the RSPCA.
RD You can do as you like. You can believe what you like - but I have said, to save your waste of time & my annoyance, that the RSPCA is NOT an option for me.
I REHOME and AM EXPERIENCED but I know U can ALWAYS be misled & the SAFEST way to find someone is to establish a longer term relationship with someone. THESE animals are MY personal pets. MY family, but out of my care, they have ALMOST NO rights/protection. I am taking the same care U would if U were dying, your grandmother needed a new home & there was NO pension OR guarantee of minimum quality of life, OR LIFE, at all, for her. My closest friends are dead. Other general friends are travelling or overseas. I am looking to establish a relationship, OVER TIME, with animal lovers WITHOUT necessarily or immediately divulging my relationship status. I also don't want to rehome my personal pets NOW. I am planning ahead. I have NO INTENTION of telling my address OR inviting strangers to my home. Plz inform me WHERE I said that was my plan? I explained my situation here, to explain WHY & WHAT I am trying to establish & my inability to ask family, etc here, to SAVE people suggesting I ask them.
My pets are all desexed, but my dogs are elderly, most on heart meds. They would have very little hope of ANY interest from strangers. I want to tell their stories, the extraordinary things in their past, to have people - REAL, committed dog/animal lovers, to care about them & WANT to volunteer to see they are safe, if anything happens to me & most importantly, that will offer the sort of home I want for them. If U think dogs/cats are hard, try finding PET homes for sheep!
I don't want AN offer of a home from someone who doesn't let their dogs inside OR that dresses them up, or is 2nd rate TO MY STANDARDS.
It will take time to find the RIGHT PEOPLE AND have them ABLE to offer. So I need to start. ASAP.
I HAVE learned 2 twt, to help animal causes & my old formal writing is SUFFERING terribly! I notice as I have got upset, my additions are pure compressed English twtring! Don't know if I will get back to formalise, this is already too long.
The drones & tagging going on & being investigated are fascinating & give such hope, but it is a bleak future, nevertheless, on the poacher front. Many poacher groups are now being linked to African Islamic Terrorist Organisations, using ivory for weapons purchases. I do a lot of twting for wildlife, inc African rescues & poacher news. I also promote dogs on death row, private rescues, world wide. I have been a fan of the Sheldrick's elephant interests/rescue for DECADES, going back to before Iain's death, LONG before the internet! Grief! Hope it's Iain! Been SO long! For a long time, his widow, Daphne has run the rescue. Or that might have been Iain Douglas-Hamilton. He was mad on elephants, but his wife was Oria? Joys of old age.
Is FACEBOOK really THAT much easier? I took a dislike to it, long ago. (You'll notice my date of joining, but was offline for a large chunk, between then & now). I have tried 2 avoid it wherever possible. I thought I'd just be in normal internet. I'm also worried that Fb has tricked me into joining, signing up for something. Trouble is, because I know SO little about security, I have always used fake names & early on, had so many clever little/large passwords/usernames. Trouble is, they were SO tricky, I only remember a couple. IF I am somehow recorded on Fb already & I don't remember my USERNAME, let alone password, can I become a NEW person on Fb, with a username & password I have a hope of remembering?
Do I REALLY have 2 go to Fb?
Thank U all, for attempting to help with replies.
The few people near me, that I could ask, either don't have a computer at all, OR are as bad as I am. I am not popular here, in general. Only know the old people.
I vote green & was told, very kindly, by one of the old ladies here, that if this lot had to choose between a COMMIE green voter & a paedophile, she genuinely believed they'd far prefer the latter. I'm not communist but am socialist by nature. The difference is of no interest here.
Thank you to those understanding I don't need advice about animals, in this situation, or how to choose homes but understand that I NEED practical advice about finding out how to work & use this blasted machine & the internet, to reach the people I KNOW are out there, but I haven't met & have to find.
I think my town is SO small - in Brit, it would be a village, I don't think NBN was ever coming here. I think we would only really qualify as a hamlet.
As I said, I have been in RESCUE for all my life, really, but SERIOUSLY, for approaching 30 years & I have yet to find a REALLY serious animal rescuer, that knows ALL the stuff that goes on behind closed doors, that would ALLOW their animals NEAR an RSPCA in UK OR OZ. This is NOT a sweeping statement for effect. I did not include the US SPCA, because I haven't gone into it with my most trusted US rescue contacts, BUT I would be very surprised if it wasn't worse there, as it is, with attitudes to animals across the GENERALISED US public. I CAN say that the heartbreakingly committed US rescue people I deal with, have nothing to do with promoting the SPCA, only trying to get dogs OUT of there, to SAFE NO KILL rescues.
Sorry to be sidetracked. I tried to prevent this explanation, by diplomatically shutting down the RSPCA suggestion, early on...
To start with, IF U R rehoming an animal U care about, the MINIMUM U do is find a COMMITTED NO KILL rescue. The RSPCA never has been. Even then, you can't just accept that banner headline. SOME large NO KILL rescues, have a suspicious number of female animals who qualify to die, due to, 'get out' clauses for exceptions to be able to kill, whilst claiming NO KILL. These include dogs deemed dangerous, ill, 'suffering' without hope of recovery, mentally or physically. Why is this suspicious? It costs a great deal more to desex females, than males.
ALMOST all offer same price adoptions of dogs, male/female. They clear more money per male, than female, in adoption fee, for running costs. Often, because people, (I think insanely), prefer v young dogs/cats, there may be a premium on pups/kittens but to be seen to not make it unfair to females, the adoption fee is same. There is certainly a very large rescue in Oz, not RSPCA, that is SO infamous for their female killing, I believe whilst claiming NO KILL status, that there are internet warnings & I believe a few newspaper articles were published. Your loved pet will be FAR safer & happier with a committed, well run, small PRIVATE NO KILL rescue. The best way to rehome, tho, is DIRECTLY to KNOWN perm home. Ironically, if I was in UK, I would have some brilliant homes, immediately, but not in OZ.
I mix with people online, UK & OZ, with DECADES of RESCUE experience. SERIOUS, devoted, expert, self sacrificing rescue people & NONE would hand over their animals to RSPCA, when there were other options. MANY would prefer to PTS their beloved pets themselves, if faced with no other choice than the RSPCA.
RD You can do as you like. You can believe what you like - but I have said, to save your waste of time & my annoyance, that the RSPCA is NOT an option for me.
I REHOME and AM EXPERIENCED but I know U can ALWAYS be misled & the SAFEST way to find someone is to establish a longer term relationship with someone. THESE animals are MY personal pets. MY family, but out of my care, they have ALMOST NO rights/protection. I am taking the same care U would if U were dying, your grandmother needed a new home & there was NO pension OR guarantee of minimum quality of life, OR LIFE, at all, for her. My closest friends are dead. Other general friends are travelling or overseas. I am looking to establish a relationship, OVER TIME, with animal lovers WITHOUT necessarily or immediately divulging my relationship status. I also don't want to rehome my personal pets NOW. I am planning ahead. I have NO INTENTION of telling my address OR inviting strangers to my home. Plz inform me WHERE I said that was my plan? I explained my situation here, to explain WHY & WHAT I am trying to establish & my inability to ask family, etc here, to SAVE people suggesting I ask them.
My pets are all desexed, but my dogs are elderly, most on heart meds. They would have very little hope of ANY interest from strangers. I want to tell their stories, the extraordinary things in their past, to have people - REAL, committed dog/animal lovers, to care about them & WANT to volunteer to see they are safe, if anything happens to me & most importantly, that will offer the sort of home I want for them. If U think dogs/cats are hard, try finding PET homes for sheep!
I don't want AN offer of a home from someone who doesn't let their dogs inside OR that dresses them up, or is 2nd rate TO MY STANDARDS.
It will take time to find the RIGHT PEOPLE AND have them ABLE to offer. So I need to start. ASAP.
I HAVE learned 2 twt, to help animal causes & my old formal writing is SUFFERING terribly! I notice as I have got upset, my additions are pure compressed English twtring! Don't know if I will get back to formalise, this is already too long.
The drones & tagging going on & being investigated are fascinating & give such hope, but it is a bleak future, nevertheless, on the poacher front. Many poacher groups are now being linked to African Islamic Terrorist Organisations, using ivory for weapons purchases. I do a lot of twting for wildlife, inc African rescues & poacher news. I also promote dogs on death row, private rescues, world wide. I have been a fan of the Sheldrick's elephant interests/rescue for DECADES, going back to before Iain's death, LONG before the internet! Grief! Hope it's Iain! Been SO long! For a long time, his widow, Daphne has run the rescue. Or that might have been Iain Douglas-Hamilton. He was mad on elephants, but his wife was Oria? Joys of old age.
Is FACEBOOK really THAT much easier? I took a dislike to it, long ago. (You'll notice my date of joining, but was offline for a large chunk, between then & now). I have tried 2 avoid it wherever possible. I thought I'd just be in normal internet. I'm also worried that Fb has tricked me into joining, signing up for something. Trouble is, because I know SO little about security, I have always used fake names & early on, had so many clever little/large passwords/usernames. Trouble is, they were SO tricky, I only remember a couple. IF I am somehow recorded on Fb already & I don't remember my USERNAME, let alone password, can I become a NEW person on Fb, with a username & password I have a hope of remembering?
Do I REALLY have 2 go to Fb?
Thank U all, for attempting to help with replies.
The few people near me, that I could ask, either don't have a computer at all, OR are as bad as I am. I am not popular here, in general. Only know the old people.
I vote green & was told, very kindly, by one of the old ladies here, that if this lot had to choose between a COMMIE green voter & a paedophile, she genuinely believed they'd far prefer the latter. I'm not communist but am socialist by nature. The difference is of no interest here.
Thank you to those understanding I don't need advice about animals, in this situation, or how to choose homes but understand that I NEED practical advice about finding out how to work & use this blasted machine & the internet, to reach the people I KNOW are out there, but I haven't met & have to find.
I think my town is SO small - in Brit, it would be a village, I don't think NBN was ever coming here. I think we would only really qualify as a hamlet.