ErroneousFunk

I have a diamond just like that! Small by today's standards, my jeweler said it was an old European cut, and it's in a yellow gold setting (who even buys yellow gold anymore?) that doesn't exactly help bring out the brilliance.

But hey, I'm software engineer, not a diamond expert, and I like the fact that it was my husband's grandmother's engagement ring from 1941 and don't really think much about how shiny it is or isn't. If his mother hadn't kept the ring we definitely would have bought a fancy new one. But she kept it and we didn't buy a fancy new one.

Granted, a lot of people shopping for new engagement rings get caught up in the cut, clarity, color, and carats while they're shopping. I was NUTS about the research before my husband's mom told us that she wanted to give us his grandmother's ring. But if you put a ring in front of someone and say "Here, have this!" the answer will probably be "Oh, it's beautiful, I'll treasure it forever!" and not "Well, the cut sucks..."

"Belgravia" sounds like a country invented by Hallmark movie writers, where the prince desperately needs to find wife -- preferably an American one who is a baker or magazine editor not looking for love.

My boyfriend's sister kept claiming that they had Cherokee ancestors. Every time I met her, she'd bring it up. She was a white girl raised in Maryland who went to work on a pot farm in Wyoming... Yeah.

Anyway, I did genetic testing to find out ancestral information for my boyfriend, his mom (and, by extension, her) -- 99.9% European, mostly Northern European, exactly like I suspected ;) She was pretty upset.

Edit: Pot farm in Montana. Not Wyoming.

I enjoy crunching up a brick of ramen with the packet still sealed, opening just the top of the packet, sprinkling the flavor dust in, and eating it out of the bag like delicious ramen popcorn.

Yes, I did discover this trick in college :-p

You'd think they'd want to be more paranoid about their security and business practices then. I mean, from the information in this thread alone, you can find out the following:

• Employees in the US office are violating FTC regulations
• Employees in the US office are (almost certainly*) violating HIPAA regulations
• The company is (almost certainly*) violating similar Swedish personal data protection laws, where their website is physically hosted
• They're (almost certainly*) violating the incredibly strict EU laws surrounding PHI and transmitting PHI to foreign countries
• They're knowingly illegally importing drugs into the US, and almost certainly breaking drug trafficking laws in many other countries.
• The data on the site is physically hosted in Sweden, but is registered to a residential location in Houston.
• Their only customer service and web development is based in Texas, and at least one high-level employee (if I had to guess, based on the information provided, a co-founder?) is a Texas resident.
• They're probably violating all sorts of tax and business-ey laws, but I have no idea about that kind of stuff. I just do computers and security :-p SOMEONE might be interested though...

My point is: It was ridiculously easy to find names and identities of a ton of people who work for the company, I know who the OP is, and they're admitting to crimes in this thread! If they're going to "be so shady" why don't they do it in a way that doesn't leave them wide open to prosecution? They're basically holding up a sign that says "We're knowingly committing huge federal and international crimes, punishable by incarceration and millions in fines -- and BTW, this is who we are and where we work and where we live!"

*I say "almost certainly" here because they're using a small shared hosting provider with no control over the server or its security. I mean, I've accidentally hacked hosting providers like this, and have had full access to the DBs/data for completely different users, on my large shared server. In addition, the foreign company has full control over any data they have on the server and full control over all communications to/from the server, so storing only encrypted PHI that is not capable of being decrypted by the hosting provider (for instance, using keys stored on the server) would be prohibitively difficult, and would create other potential legal issues for complicated reasons. Although I haven't been able to see the website because of the Reddit hug of death, one user mentioned their lack of HTTPS, which, if true, would automatically break all sorts of laws.