Youtube comments of kd1s (@kd1s).

  1. I believe Yamamoto also warned not to wake a sleeping giant. Had they paid attention to that the destruction of most of Japan would not have happened.
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  2. The way I see it the government can purchase a copy of the book.
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  3. I owe my career as a Senior Linux Engineer to these guys, well and the guys who came after them and invented Linux.
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  4. When we first got together my father wasn't on board. As you can see from my profile pic I am Italian-American. The man I've now been with for 26 years is black, well more accurately a very cute brown. But all of the people who could disapprove they're dead now.
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  5. The reason police hassle people taking video and photos is because the police themselves have used video to convict people for many years. They don't like when the cameras are turned on them to which I say, tough luck.
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  6. Now extend that concept to belief in God and the Bible. You see where I'm going here. 
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  7. Support your local meat market or butcher. Seriously - when you can see your steaks being cut off a big piece of meat you can be pretty certain it's not mechanically tenderized.
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  8. Ok - first let me get this out of the way. I'm gay - have been my entire life. So I have number of female friends and I've found over time that as far as libidinous actions and thoughts go, women are exactly equal to men. But our society stamped it's imprimatur on all of us to believe the fiction of monogamy. It's interesting.
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  9. That is why medical research has to be moved from a competitive model to a cooperative model. And with the advent of CRISPR/CAS9 we're on the cusp of being able to cure a lot of chronic diseases.
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  10. John O'Neil should be nominated for sainthood. Even thought I'm an atheist he had the character I'd say qualified him. And yeah I hated Frontline as kid. But as an adult I watch more and more of it.
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  11. What the people need to do is make the politicians that represent them very uncomfortable. Picket their homes until they change the laws that allow the city to do such horrid things and abolish enforcement.
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  12. I will say Venezuela has been a mess for decades. I once worked with a woman from Venezuela. She naturalized as a U.S. citizen but she would tell me stories of what went on there. It's appalling.
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  13. The landlord is lying through her teeth. I'll explain - we live in a building that is 117 years old. Granted it's not in Manhattan but the age of the building has nothing to do with it. So with that in mind, a pox against the landlord.
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  14. If I'm not mistaken isn't this the same CDC who said we could relax masking too? I mean their credibility is now shot to shit.
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  15. Smells like treason to me.
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  16. What bothers me more about this - the guy is clearly not there mentally. That law enforcement took his guns, then gave them back to his father who then gave them back to the guy that's messed up.
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  17. You haven't lived until you've done back references in regex. And I wonder - sed or Stream Editor seems derivative of ed.
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  18. I'm partially deaf in that my eardrums started retracting. So mine is actually a mechanical issue in the ear - the nerves are still fine. A set of headphones solves most of it. But I'm glad the technology is improving. In fact I can see where the hardware for cochlear implants will get smaller and smaller. And power - what if just blood pumping could spin a turbine and keep the unit charged?
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  19. What I find fascinating about all of this. Humanity goes through patterns - first we see it with the naked eye, then we invent technology to see it better and better. Then we develop technology to put men there. Earth's Moon is a perfect example, so too Mars and the planets in our solar system.
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  20. Where I live all the HPS street lights have been converted to LED. I like them - plus they use a LOT less energy. And they've even swapped out HPS for LED on I-95 through the state. In fact they're flat fixtures so the light is cast into the streets where it belongs. Plus they changed the fixture instead of using a drop-in. And the biggest uplit building in the city - the State House.
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  21. I found out I don't black out or forget when I'm drunk. It's been a long time since I've been drunk too. And yeah sugared drinks were cut out too. I'm 5'8" which is 173cm. And I weigh 150lbs or 68KG though before I cut the sugars back I weighed 240lbs or 108KG
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  22. Not for anything - it's not just New Jersey - but New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts on up the coast. And yeah - I've been through there on I-95 and I get wary of what's going to happen soon.I live in Providence and pretty near the Woonasquatucket river - and that baby floods every now and then particularly in the Valley section of Providence and what runs through there but the rails going south. And downtown Providence has flooded twice in the 20th century, 1938 and 1954. Now there are huge pumps and big barriers to eject storm water out. Plus two huge tunnels under the city to capture excess rainfall.
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  23. What bothers me more is after Cain slay Abel - when he goes out of the garden to the east in the land of Nod where he finds and knows his wife, has kids etc. So who were those other people in Nod?
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  24. Actually they have to crack 4 things - Power is the one that you left out.
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  25. Sure the Japanese had a great tactical victory however strategically it was their biggest mistake.
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  26. Agreed - but I think it discounts what the technology will be capable of say 50 years from now, or 100 years. Just think how different the world is right now just between the years of 1919 and 2019. You see my central thesis here.
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  27. This is why the thought occurred to me: Citizen review boards are one thing but each AG or DA needs prosecutors in their offices where they do not handle anything but police misconduct. That way there's no relationship to police.
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  28. And in the late 1980's and early 90's I got the good fairy of Bell System or then Nynex fuckups handed to me. I put in an order for service, everything got connected, service worked. But bills never came. Took a year and a half of phone calls to convince them that I did in fact have service. End story was my order went out for hookup but never got returned so billing never started. Plus they screwed up my long distance - they fat fingered my phone number in the PIC setup and the local VA hospital got my long distance bills.
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  29. The only problem is, that it's a Lenovo. I despise Lenovo computers - they're pieces of crap.
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  30. And then HP bought compaq and it was never the same.
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  31. Kind of funny when you think of all the features we love on cellphones, or take for granted used to be features that Bell charged you extra to provide them. And they completely missed on the Picture Phone too.
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  32. Perhaps if the SNAP benefits weren't so damned stingy they might not go hungry. We need to enhance the SNAP program.
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  33. Ah, this describes blamestorming.
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  34. Sort of like here in Providence RI - we'd been seeing red tide, fish kills etc. Then they decided to build 4 miles worth of sewage storage tunnels under the city. That stopped all of the bad effects in Narragansett Bay.
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  35. It is ludicrous that you can sell pickled and ciders but not baked goods. It's pretty obvious btw who lobbied that particular law - the bakeries. But the thing is, where I live the bakeries are going extinct. So what are you supposed to do? I make my own of course.
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  36. Hey I read her book S.P.Q.R. - excellent book too! Loved it.
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  37. Here in Providence RI we don't have tunnels for cars oh no. We have four linear miles of tunnels below the city but it's used to store overflow sewage.
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  38. In my book those doctors Boromeo et al should be nominated for sainthood.
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  39. Oh card processors these days are a rapacious bunch. But this company you mention seems to be one of the more greedy. And yes you can get your bank to do things for you that would screw Vantiv. And you're right - they don't ever want this to have judiciary contact.
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  40. Well if biogenic life was on the Earth 4 billion years ago it's a pretty certain bet we will find various stages of life on say Europa, or Titan, Io etc. And further out in the galaxy there's probably life there too. Be interesting to find out.
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  41. The problem with law enforcement is that while over time crime rates of gone down, and not related to better policing. Instead crime started declining when they banned ethyl lead in gasoline. Yeah, up until the mid 1970's we were pumping a known neuro-toxin into the air. And there are a couple other things I see in the policing - first reclassify drugs from criminal acts to public health issues. Second legalize marijuana for recreational use and tax it like you do cigarettes or alcohol. Then with the rise of autonomous vehicles less need for traffic police, less need for drug police. In my community a few years ago we had 600 police officers. Now we are down to 400 and still declining. Why? They de-emphasized marijuana enforcement. And get this - every public safety vehicle carriers the antidote to heroin overdoses. In addition to that we need to stop discriminating based on color and start discriminating based on content of character. That would truly change the country.
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  42. But will it run under Linux?
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  43. I've done it with a laser and some pencil lead. It worked very well. I think it's so cool that an inexpensive laser let me test out the wave nature of light.
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  44. I recall two songs from the 1980's 99 Red Balloons and Do the Russians Love Their Children. Now I know why those songs came about.
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  45. I've known trans people in both my personal and professional life. Some are hot n messes others you couldn't tell. If varies.
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  46. One thing that hits me about all this. I am the great grandson of immigrants to this country. That said the hypocrisy of separting children from their families - a nation that allegedly cares so much about those children. It shows the lie. I find it despicable, deplorable and all the other terms. We are all the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren of immigrants. We should never have done such a thing as separting children from their parents.
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  47. My introduction to assembly language was on a TRS-80 back in the day. Found I could speed things by poking values into memory. Then got the assembler and life was fantastic. And i still remember the video addrs 3c00 to 3fff
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  48. Well where I live and work both have full employment non-discrimination. And just recently the state where I live has banned conversion therapy.
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  49. Who the hell builds a car where the drain is also the fill plug. Guess I'll stay far away from Volkswagen's with DSG transmissions in them.
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  50. And those colorburst crystals found wide use in the amateur radio community. And NTSC also means Never The Same Color.
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  51. Well it is nice to hear it but I find it to be too little too late. I mean this is the same church that called me Intrinsically disordered.
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  52. Yeah it's interesting to watch a government thar is functional as opposed one that is in constant states of gridlock like here in he U.S.
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  53. This is why I consider all religions poisonous. Because if you read the Christian texts the very same prohibitions are there. It's true.
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  54. Funny how Greenland is full of snow and ice, while Iceland is much greener. And that much snow and ice - nope. But then I guess if it's the only thing you know. And funny how the population is mostly Asian - just like what happened to the 20 million here in the U.S. before European settlers were the first to use germ warfare.
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  55. The shame of what happened to Colombia is that it could have been avoided had the U.S. not had such a stupid anti-drug policy. 
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  56. Well I've got experience with MacBook Pro's and Dell Latitude E6xxx and E7xxx and Lenovo T420, T430, T440 and T460 machines. I can tell you they're all expandable. Right down to removable SSD's and RAM. Microsoft went in the wrong direction with these Surfacebooks. It's like they're intentionally trying to piss their customers off.
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  57. Well - here's the thing. I bet all of these people are either setup as sole proprietorships. Setup as a C Class corporation. They get away with murder.
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  58. The problem with critical reflection is that sometimes, only sometimes It leads to complete loss of faith. It was true in my case - even after Catholic elementary and high schools. I tell people I gave up faith and organized religion for lent one year and never looked back.
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  59. If we could get it down to $50 per class as he says I'd be willing to say go for a PhD.
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  60. Because I'm disabled I didn't manage to get vaccinated until September of this year. Glad I did though. And did not vote for Trump.
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  61. I suppose I should thank my mom, she was the one who started me in Catholic schools. Sadly though she died my freshman year of high school, a Catholic high school too. And one year for religion class we read the Bible, not only read but learned of things about copy error, translation error and editorializing by scribes. I knew something was wrong when I did my first communion. But didn't have the words to put to it. Fast forward 8 years and it's confirmation time - told the priest I didn't get the faith thing. They confirmed me anyhow. Best part is when they went recruiting for the priesthood and brotherhood. Priest I sat down with I looked at him and said "Is celibacy still a requirement because if so I have no interest."
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  62. First let me say I'm of Italian ancestry. And I know how society treated Italians in the early part of the 20th century. So I fully understand the frustration the Puerto Rican community had with society too. And that's also why I say immigration is the life blood of this country. Always has been, always will be.
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  63. If you think about it just go to the cargo cults that exist in the Pacific. I think a lot of us are pre-wired so to speak to believe in something. I didn't get wired for that.
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  64. One other recommendation - get political. Know who your local, state and federal representatives are. I'm on first name basis with mine. Offer to help them draft legislation to outlaw conversion therapy for those under 18 and those above 18. The damage done by the conversion industry is appalling and needs to be dumped in the dust heap of history post haste.
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  65. And jump forward 10 years and they completely missed it would all be in a handheld device.
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  66. When I worked for the state of Rhode Island I wasn't a union member but because there were union members in the office I was at we all started at the same benefit level. It was incredible.
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  67. Was this General Yamamoto the same who both trained in the United States and also said "Never wake a sleeping giant" about the U.S.?
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  68. I remember having to push the program counter or PC out to the stack, then jump to the routine, then in the routine pop the PC with the stack content +1 and go to that.
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  69. And then fiber came around and goodbye microwave.
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  70. The Democratic party had a candidate that could have trounced Trump - except for the expectation that Hillary Clinton would win. That person was Senator Bernie Sanders.
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  71. Of course you resort to ad hominem which means you've lost the argument. It should be cooperative not competitive. And remove commercial entities from control of the publishing side.
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  72. Yeah - humanity is about to undergo a major shift - when we can cure most diseases - prevent or reverse aging, etc. it's a whole different ball game.
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  73. One of my fantasies is to travel to that period in time with modern weapons and medicine.
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  74. And if you were lucky enough to have a line on 5ESS you didn't hear the click. And of course Mother Bell charged dearly for those 'features'. Now it's all packaged on your cell phone. No additional charge. Yet most people aren't aware that cell phones can do 3-way. But cell phones now have call waiting, call forwarding, call block, speed dial. Amazing how technology marches ahead.
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  75. Where I live the Blue Line is a subway that serves government center and other points.
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  76. Excellent video. Yeah and here is the other thing. I've seen M.D.'s and Nurse Practitioners who are pretty much pill pushers.
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  77. I'll give one more point on surveillance - much of it in my opinion is unconstitutional. The 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." Houses, papers, and effects (Aka Things) - it's why I oppose speed cameras. You cannot face your accuser.
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  78. Cool looking Cougar in this too. Looked a lot like the Camaro which was to come. It's too bad Ford didn't produce that one.
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  79. What it's basically shown us is that cops are essentially, to use that old term, pigs.
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  80. I note MA and CT were mentioned but RI wasn't. Let me clue you in, they want $2K a month for rent there, taxes are insane and they have get this in the Capitol city an excise tax on cars of $60 per thousand of valuation. So a $20K car you'd pay $2,600 the first year with sales and excise - then year 2 and out as the value of the car drops it would be about $70 to $100 per month or $840 or $1200 for the 2nd year. You get the idea that it's really bad.
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  81. A lot of the DUI which stands for Driving Under the Influence. However in my experience I'm around a lot of artistic people and the works they produce when they're stoned is much better than when they're straight up. So there's that. And in my case I don't use pot/marijuana at all - but I do have inner ear issues that affect my balance and a right leg that is a bit wonky. So I'd be screwed.
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  82. Yeah chremistry takes it so far, but without physics well thee wouldn't be chemistry.
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  83. A shame the old Bell System is a thing of the past. I recall my first phone line in 1982 - it cost $12 per month and that was WITH the rental of the phone.
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  84. All I know is in the U.S. they emptied out the asylums and then we saw the inevitable consequences. Instead of all those people getting real treatment for mental disease they either ended up arrested for crimes they committed and sent to prison or outright killed by police. So we really have to ask what the solution should be because so far they've all been sub-optimal.
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  85.  Jared D  All depends on the level of commitment. Like I said that cute guy I met 26 years ago is now my spouse and I'm happy about that. Hopefully those two guys will be able to keep it together.
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  86. I'm in the I.T/I.S. field and I can tell you - the day we can upload our consciousness is the day we get teleportation. Because both will require very fast, very deep memories and digital storage. We don't have that quite yet but we're getting there.
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  87. Interesting. I knew about the Uighur issue and the Hong Kong protests. But this one is a surprise. it's coming apart I guess.
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  88. Here in the U.S. the so called "War on Drugs" is an abysmal failure. This is why I see some progress - for example where I live all first responder vehicles have Naloxone to stop overdoses. And I'd love to see the focus on drugs change from a law enforcement issue to a public health issue. That would change everything. And I wouldn't want to be a police officer because I can see drugs being completely legal and safe and autonomous vehicles that never break the law. So you don't need as many police at that point. And the trauma - most people in my family that used drugs were either physically abused as kids or grew up in the extreme suburbs.
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  89. And now Bell Labs are a tiny little part of a foreign telecom company called Alcatel. How the fortunes have changed.
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  90. Drove a new Frontier this past weekend. Sadly not off-road but on highways and wow did Nissan get it right. Usually Japanese vehicles at 80MPH or higher get a bit squirrely but not this truck. The only negative point, is the vehicle drinks gas like water. But yeah, kept in 2WD for that.
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  91. Heh - and to think we're in danger of exhausting IPV4 address space right now.
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  92. And I got the chance to make justice happen during my career. Helped the Medicaid Fraud Unit identify a doctor who was upcoding his patient visits. Compared that to IRS debt he owed. It was quite the case. But as a general rule - police investigation do the bare minimum when they believe a suspect is guilty.
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  93. My hubbie got diagnosed with diabetes. We now have embraced the Keto diet and I gotta say we've lost a ton of weight. And I find it highly suspicious that she's pushing exercise - I've dropped a bunch of weight without exercising. And note - she doesn't present her bona fides.
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  94. Regards DeVos - she's clueless about education. Hell, when I think what I've done regards education over my life I'm infinitely more qualified than she is. Same goes for Ajit Pai - I understand the reason why we need net equality.
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  95. Interesting that in 1946 Bell was already neck deep in TV transmissions. Logical choice really. And now - most of our TV service comes in via a coaxial cable and fiber optics. And content to the cable providers comes in via satellite.
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  96. Having done the double slit experiment for myself I note the wave like nature of phtons kind of points to string theory. Naturally I get the description of all matter being comprised of vibrating particles. It is so cool.
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  97. I found out what the key to weight loss. It's called watch how much sugar you eat. Seriously when the spouse was diagnosed with Type II diabetes I started looking into it. Then realized food manufacturers dump loads of sugar into something as simple as condiments. It's everywhere. Limit sugar intake to 30g or less per day and well I went from being 5'8" 240lbs to 150lbs. My BP normalized, I feel better and we reversed spouses Type II diabetes.
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  98.  @georgplaz  Yeah I know.
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  99. A pity that NDA's get in the way. I'll miss Frank's projects.
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  100. This is the problem with zero tolerance and more specifically putting so called "resource" officers in schools. It's a little akin to the cops being like hammers and to a hammer everything looks like a nail. And oh the other thing don't most schools have a school psychologist? They know ahead of time who the miscreants really are. I mean that'd be of more value then a police officer. and when i was in school in the 1970's and 1980s it was officer friendly.
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  101. In the I.T. sphere there are daemons. Abbreviated of course as init.d, systemd et al.
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  102. In the case of GM and OnStar - I get monthly emails as to my cars status. That is more than sufficient for the purpose.
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  103. The thing about it is that while it was a marvel of engineering, Bell backed away from this rather quickly when she realized the 1MHz bandwidth necessary for the video signal would require a duplicate switching system for the video calls. Of course about a two decades or so later DSL came about and offered the necessary bandwidth.
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  104. I've always loved the body style on the 924/944.
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  105. In my case I apply a system where I occasionally give to an org that helps gay kids, or an example recently I was at a fast food place. Young man asked if I'd buy him some food. So I told him order what he wanted and paid for it. He was rail thin and it was clear food was an issue and that's here in the United States.
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  106. One thing I recall Tip O'Neil remember him? He was a big thorn for Reagan.
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  107. First let me say I find the use of police and military against the people of the United States highly abhorrent.
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  108. Yes of course. I can't understand it either. But what's really at issue is the U.N. has no mechanism to try it''s own peacekeepers. That right there is a big red flag. And what I find interesting too the language used in Congo seems to be French. Age of consent in France is now 15. Yeah I know it seems very arbitrary to mention that. But former French colony when combined with sex is a bad combination.
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  109. Bell Labs was one of my dream places to work. Sadly it's a shell of it's former self now.
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  110. What you are espousing is called compromise. We're lost that component as a society.
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  111. Because doctors only know basic anatomy, diagnostic procedure. We're close to getting a holistic approach but it's taken the fusion of computing and advances in gene editing. My adventure with medicine was due to an inner ear issue - they chalked it up to Menierre's Syndrome. My allergist who I've seen for decades solved it - ear infections as a kid left scar tissue and caused retraction of the ear drum. Fun times.
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  112. How very wrong they were about the 21st century. Completely missed that phones would move from being tethered to phones you could hold in the palm of your hand that have more features like video, web, etc.
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  113. And the interesting part is even TD type microwave couldn't hold a candle to what was to come just a few years later - fiber optics. 
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  114. Oh I am fucking good enough. If you disagree my fist knows just where to land to cause maximum damage.
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  115. Yes indeed. I truly believe that liquid water exists throughout the galaxy. And if that's so well there's the Drake Equation - and we're filling in values for many of the variables in that one. What the Drake Equation says is the probability for intelligent life elsewhere in the galaxy, Universe, Dimension etc.
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  116. And you may as well get the kids accustomed to open plan offices. Which here in the U.S. are counter productive.
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  117. TheDMBfan Yeah I know. Critical thought and religion are generally not a good mix.
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  118. When you consider the evolution of long distance communication and the ways they did it is fascinating. From Coaxial cable, to microwave, then sattelite, and finally fiber optics which is he predominant method today.
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  119. And I know what MOSFET stands for Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor.
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  120. It's like French police forgot what good community relations requires intelligence
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  121. Yep when there isn't wire or fiber underground or on poles you go RF. Even old Ma Bell in the U.S. used to use Microwave RF back into the 40's and 50's to transmit phone and video then went coax and then fiber.
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  122. Well I posit that there are still people welding - instead they're building submarines and ships now instead of rocket engines. And consider too the engineers back then didn't have benefit of CAD or computers, they were learning it on the fly too. So could we build the F1's again - sure we could. We just need the political will to do so.
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  123. One more thing - illiteracy was rampant back then. And Christians took full advantage of that fact.
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  124. There's a gun in this house - a pump shotgun. No ammo - and it's in it's case in closet in the house. Just cycling the shotgun is enough to scare anyone who comes in here without permission to shit their pants. That's all it's good for.
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  125. Mostly I've interacted with reform Jews. Decent people - not much different than myself. Same is true of black people, people from India, etc. And when I ran my genetic profile found out I have Ashkenazi ancestry too. Imagine.
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  126. Oh I've had conversations with conservatives. They usually don't go well for the conservatives.
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  127. What's funny is that now you can dial 0 on your cell phone and get nothing. There are no more operators.
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  128. My cousin is disabled - and me I have only partial hearing. So we have both visible and invisible disabilities. Imagine that.
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  129. I'm gay and haven't suffered discrimination because of it. But then I'm the type that if you make it an issue you're gonna have to deal with the ration of shit about to be rained upon you. And in my office where I work - a place with a couple hundred people there are two of us known gay.
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  130. Great speech and I ordered the book. Should be an interesting read.
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  131. So in essence it's an OBD-II reader with some analytics built in.
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  132. Awesome console on the ESS. And I've been fortunate to manage a Definitey G3iv6 and Prologix G3iv11 system during my career. The commands are similar on the latter to the original ESS. Short and to the point. 
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  133. Oh I've been through the gamut of interviewing over my career. There's been what I term star chamber, comfie interviews, and all manner in between. But the jobs I enjoyed are the ones where we did in fact go out for a meal.
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  134. Oh hypermiling - it's my least favorite thing to encounter on the highways around here. When you're doing 38MPH in a zone of 55MPH where every else is bombing along at 70MPH you deserve a special place in hell. And where I live it'd be near impossible to setup home charging so the Volt would probably be better for me. And I'm the one who when I have video of bone headed driving - like non-use of signals, etc. I'll just package it up and send it to the cops. And yeah - there are rest stops on highways. No services or anything. But when you get out of CT and into NY they start about every 25 to 30 miles.
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  135. Another line of thought - think about the drones we're using. People know they are made in the U.S. Even when they kill members of those peoples families. So our kinder, gentler warfare will breed the next generation of disgruntled natives.
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  136. Love the snap of C code at 17 seconds.
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  137. I recall in the late 1970's and early 1980's you could get RAM chips based on CCD and in fact I believe a lot of them still are. That said, they came in ceramic packages with bright brassy covers over the chip. If you pried the cover off the chip and proceeded to read the RAM chip, you could assemble an image from it.
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  138. United - that's the keyword. In the U.S. the culture never ever said we should unite instead it embraces individuality. You need to change the culture from a base level.And look at what we call groups of people - a mob, or mob group-think.
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  139. It's odd how the old Bell System could hit it straight on for some things like DTMF, but miss so badly about what the 21st century and even late 20th would bring. They completely downplayed the cellular revolution. That was a biggy.
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  140. Oh I collect old computers, phones and things. I have a 1940's payphone and a 1970's payphone in the phone collection.
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  141. Well you could change the lobbying issue with a constitutional amendment.
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  142. Interestingly when I lived in a place that was 120 years old outlets were never convenient. So I searched out the beefiest extension cord I could to get power to air conditioners or even space heaters. Want to know what really got toasted, the connection itself. That was solved by replacing said connectors with beefier outlets. Then it worked like a trick. And regards air conditioners they have GFCI's on the plug side Ever have to replace one of those when the GFCI fails - I have. And also kept a fire extinguisher within easy reach. Never know.
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  143. From finding out there are other galaxies and now of course we know there are planets orbiting distant stars. It's awesome.
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  144. And some of us remember the Savings and Loan scandal, the Iran-Contra thing etc.
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  145. Board level repair is beyond a lot of small shops. And I think you provide a fairly valuable service.
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  146. Oh man vidicons - great big tubes. Another topic you may find interesting is Williams Tubes. They were early attempts at temporary data storage. Mostly used by Bell Labs.
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  147. Some of us know that as DNS hijacking.
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  148. I'll be honest - if you're going for speed and handling skip the American makes entirely. They've always produced a mediocre car and Cadillac is no exception to that. They just don't get it.
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  149. Interesting that they go so much right and so much wrong. Video phones aren't exactly commonplace yet. And they didn't envision the net as it exists today but they came within a hairs width. 
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  150. That's why I've always maintained that education needs to be both structured and unstructured. 
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  151. Yeah I worked in a genomics lab few years ago. They were part of the VA's Million Veteran program. I'm in the camp that says so what if we change evolution.
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  152. Here is my take on the financial system. It's screwed. And the people perpetrating this financial abuse are essentially parasites. And what do we do to parasites?
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  153. Who can be a candidate - well I can answer - anyone who is crazy enough. :)
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  154. Yeah I know. Intersting, banging donuts out and he could replicate the issue twice. Here's a story of mine, a 1967 Pontiac GTO. The Rhode Island School for the Deaf at the time had a huge parking lot - all wide open. So we take the car down there to do some donuts. We had our fun and we're rolling back up the hill to get out of the lot. What's coming down the hill, a Providence cop. The car is full of tire smoke, you can see the donut ring lifting off the ground. Cop was like smells like an electrical problem. We went on our way.
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  155.  @WCM1945  Well when we start mining the asteroids I gotta wonder what that will do to the price of precious metals.
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  156. Examples of trademarks - the Verizon Swoosh, or even IBM or Dell's logos. You can use them to write opinion or even edit them to the point of parody.
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  157. In my view this is a clear 4th amendment violation. To be secure in our person, papers and things. That last things covers everything.
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  158. Not only what you feed the chickens but the breed of chicken matters too. Once had a colleague who raised chicken. He gifted me a dozen multi-colored eggs. They were excellent.
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  159. Oh wow - that was impressive. Good on you for wasting a scammers time though. I figure if enough of us did that the scammers would soon realize it's not a lucrative career choice.
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  160. in my case one issue I always had with the mathematics we were taught was it never touched on the reasoning behind it. I'm now reading about Topology and it's proofs which I find more interesting and more explanatory of what I've learned.
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  161. It's funny I've ha Jewish friends and then I had my DNA sequenced. Now I identify as Italian-American but imagine my surpris when Ashkenazi showed up in my DNA. I remember my family joking about it when i was younger. So culturally Italian-American but who knew, plus a little native American in there too. I've been to Bar Mitzvah, and ordinations of pastors in Christian churches.
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  162. What she's doing is trying to deflect attention from Drumpf!
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  163. It's funny a few years ago Providence, RI tried speed cameras. Instead of defeating them via modifications to the registration plates they were actually destroying the cameras. I thought that was interesting. The city quickly removed the cameras after several had been shot at, burned, etc. Another fun one - I was on I-95 in Warwick, RI doing 90MPH. I see a car coming up on me, it's a RI State Trooper - he passed me doing roughly 120MPH. Shocked the hell out of me. And regards red light cameras.I had the perfect out. I was walking around one morning and came upon a red light camera just flashing at random. I had to record that one.
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  164. Well I know one infosec rule. On a firewall you first block everything. Then open only what you need be it port 80, 443, 25, 110 etc. And for years utilities have done nothing but pay lip service to information security. Part of it is the people, part the systems, and so on like an onion. And yes I've scanned my IOT devices And realize that it can be hacked. And InfoSec and Cybersecurity - it includes both networks, systems and people. One of my proudest moments was one company I worked at. My users were educated on the dangers. So one day I get a call from the controller that she got an email from the CEO to pay $30,000 but found it odd. When the email headers were examined I noted they took the company domain name and modifiied a new domain by one letter. I realized how they got the info - the company proudly put their upper leadership up on the web. Explained this was how the crime was committed. So that saved $30,000.
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  165. My favorite biscuit I make is actually classed as shortbread biscuit. It's got flour, baking powder and baking soda, salt, sour cream and butter. Then freshly shredded cheddar. They are awesome. They do get laminated a little bit too.
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  166. Interesting - the day we're able to map all the neuron connections is the same day we get teleportation. Because it'll require computing that is very wide and very deep in capacity.
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  167. And from an EEO perspective - the only discrimination you can do in a workplace is education.
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  168. Amazon has waterbed liners, matresses and heaters. That's how I replaced my old broken down mattress and heater on my waterbed.
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  169. Part of the problem with most "Christians" is they have no idea what is in their central text. It's pretty funny when I encounter one as I do know what is in the texts. 
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  170. Actually I think the USPS should offer full raft banking services. Think about this, heavily regulated and available everywhere. Savings, checking, debit, credit. Home loans, car loans - the whole nine yards. Whatever interest gained would revert to a quasi-public post office. 
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  171. I know what my soul is made of - I don't have a soul. That said I did retail for a few years early on and realized I hated that. Got into I.T. and now I'm an Il.T. professional with over two decades of experience. And I still love it.
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  172. And think about this - if the budget had kept parity with the military budget since the 1950's we'd be exploring the Andromeda galaxy right now. And I should mention, of the $600 Billion military budget - a lot of that, probably about 30% or more is complete and utter fraud and waste.
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  173. Not only did Apollo have an international network, components of the Apollo were pretty much made in every state in the U.S. For example, one of my uncles worked for EG&G Seal-all and designed some of the seals use on the command module here in RI.
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  174. ***** Yes indeed. I know about fiber's capabilities. And we've squeezed the hell out of RF systems as of late too. 
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  175. Just a small correction - email doesn't go encrypted at all unless you encrypt the BODY of the email message. All email goes open on port 25 from server to server.
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  176. The question is, how do we change the current paradigm? I'll tell you one way, the African American community needs to step up and run for office and then pass laws that severely curtail the ability of the police to abuse the African American community. That's the only way I see it changing for the better.
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  177. I burned on GTA - moved on to Bioshock and Fallout.
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  178. Oh and if banks REALLY wanted to secure credit and debit cards it would be fairly trivial to do so. Just enforce an 8 digit PIN plus use an addition to the pin from an RSA token or even Google Authenticator. 14 digits means an attacker would have 30 seconds to crack several trillion possibilities, or 3 trillion per second. 
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  179. And I should have my first Sous Vide device in a few days. Can't wait. I've also taken to using an induction cooktop - the temp control is fantastic on those.
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  180. Oh hell I've put a few thousand miles on a rental too. They accept it no issue.
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  181. When I setup my RasPi the first time I neglected to change the keyboard and locale settings. So for instance the backslash and pipe keys weren't where I expected. Reflashed and this time went to setup and changed the locale to en-us-utf8 - much better.
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  182. Oh hell I had a CD player in the mid 1980's. And right now sitting in the house is a 101 disc cd changer. It put the discs vertically on a carousel and slides the discs into a player. It's a fascinating machine. But not used anymore as it's all been digitized and is on our computers. It was hooked up to this: https://www.radiomuseum.org/images/radio/sony_tokyo/str_av260l_623526.jpg
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  183. I'm a ham - in fact that's my call sign here on YouTube. I've had my Amateur Extra license since 1993. I live close to Boston and when the terrorists struck everyone assumed the government shut down the cell network - nope congestion was the cause. Amateur radio would have gotten through. And yes, point to point but for VHF/UHF you can setup generators are repeater sites and extend it to tens of miles range.Oh and I get tagged as a SHTF guy - just because I have radios and guns.
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  184. Well - interesting how they went with magnetic memory. I know at one point they played with Williams tubes, flying spot etc. But those must have been too expensive. And consider - we now use capacitive memories and some magnetic memory on our computers and devices.
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  185. Funny I have a pair of Avantree Bluetooth headphones. They even have a 3.5mm audio jack on them. Because even with 40 hours of battery life sometimes you just want to plug in.
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  186. Interesting nowadays the only wire left is a charging cable for mobile phones. And of course we no longer pay for Long Distance
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  187. I find the notion of requiring a permit to march to be highly abhorrent. Recall the 1st Amendment that it is the RIGHT of the people to peacably address the government for redress of grievance. Doesn't say anything about permits.
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  188. Ms. Lanier makes interesting points. Ever been through a medical odyssey? I have. Saw doctors, specialists, etc. for inner ear issues. Finally visited my Allergist - who I've seen since I was very young. He looked at my ears and said something that will always be with me - told me my eardrums were retracting. He mentioned I'd had a number of ear infections when younger and the damage caused scar tissue that was pulling the eardrums inward. This after ENT's had MRI's, all sorts of tests including blood etc. didnt' spot this. Sometimes it takes knowing who to see to get the right diagnosis.
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  189.  @wraithwolfnight813  Yes indeed I'm fully aware that many people have no idea about physics, gravity.
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  190. You know I understand how cops get away with this. But I am in the camp that says eye for eye, tooth for tooth. The cop should have faced summary execution.
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  191. Yes indeed and RSA is also used in securing logons for systems using the Public/Private key exchange. Now if only I'd learned this in my early schooling math would have made much more sense. Of course studying Point Set Topology made sense too because it has in common with computing.
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  192.  @Anomalous_Ape  I detect a large amount of bovine effluvia in the video. I mean come on, I've dropped a ton of weight and feel good. I'll stay on the Keto diet - and in fact I do veggie, fruit and protein. Just cut the sugar and carbs.
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  193. The Nazi's were what I view as monstrous. How could they let those people die? It wouldn't have taken much to keep them alive. But they let them die anyhow. That to me is unforgivable.
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  194. One fantasy I have is having a time machine and going back in time to the 17th century and bringing modern weaponry with me. Then killing the governors of communities that were religious crazies. Think John Calvin.
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  195. It suffices to say that I knew this going in. I knew the Trump idiots didn't have legal leg to stand on. I guess I was correct.
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  196. I'd be pursuing philosophical, electronics, etc.
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  197. Great logical discussion about repealing drug prohibition. It makes perfect sense. And in keeping with Einstein's definition of insanity, this is one jurist who broke the cycle. Kudos to him.
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  198. Oh I've long known money is an abstract concept. And that we are living with a fiat currency in the U.S. - because money isn't really backed by anything since the 1970's. Thing is most people don't understand that.
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  199. I recently relocated to the Atlanta Metro area and my good friend told me - if you have any out of state plates on your vehicle after six months Georgia DOR will come after you. And the state I left - they taxed on KBB values. I'm sorry - but cars are personal property and as such should not be taxed. And you could always file suit against the state. :)
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  200. The French - it figures. They're always good for planting the French language and not much else. And how could I forget a whole racist attitude. Look - skin color is not a qualifying characteristic to judge people, only the content of character should be used.
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  201. Part of why I burnt out on my first brush with college was the schooling from high school. We read a lot of the classics - The Canterbury Tales, Lord of the Rings, Brave New World, 1984, the Greek tragedies, etc. Yes, I got a neo-classical education in high school.
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  202. Well crime was caused by both despair and lead poisoning. And as to power - they could have buried 99.999% of the cables and avoided the lightning problem - but the profit motive prevented that ever happening.
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  203. Ah, see we used go up to the White Mountain in New Hampshire. Beautiful up there too.
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  204. Well we all need to lobby our elected officials to start direct subsides for electric vehicles. That would encourage adoption more than incentives.
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  205. Not to mention it's a sexual assault too. This will be an interesting case to follow. And drive through my location with the windows down or AC on fresh air intake and you smell - guess what - marijuana.
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  206. I blew a tire with a Dodge Van - at 80MPH. That was interesting. And regards the truckers - no easy countermeasure for that.
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  207. Yeah it's why I say our speed limits on highways are just that side of stupid. Cars are safer and more capable. So why are we jacked with 50MPH highway speeds? Or better - the section of I-95 in Pawtucket RI the max speed limit is now posted at 45MPH. They supposedly use 85th percentile but a lot of it is driver stupidity.
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  208. In RI since the 1980's it's been a paper ballot - that gets fed to a scanner. They've changed out the scanners of course but the ballots are still preserved.
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  209. I look at it in terms of crawling to walking with molecular manipulation. And it has been 16 years since the crawl phase. Look at the invention of the first point contact transistor to the junction transistor now the atomic transistor. Only 72 years for that to happen.
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  210. This is what happens when we misinterpret the 2nd amendment; unfettered access to guns for everyone. Oh yeah and couple that with a vast amount of stupidity with said 2nd amendment. I just shake my head.
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  211. Yeah of course. It's a real shame what happened to Cuba
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  212. I'm planning a new place to build. I have decided that it will not have a grid connection for electricity. I will in fact go solar with a storage arrays. And then use a natural gas fired generator for those days when there's not a lot of sun. Have that float the batteries.
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  213. Hmmm Egg sauce seems very close to say Hollandaise which I got pretty damned good at making. THat might work on Salmon or maybe Bernaise sauce. Hmmm.
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  214. And meanwhile in the U.S. we have Trump who is doing everything he can to create more sick and poor people.
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  215. Definitively God is not omniscient. He'd have known Cain would slay Abel, he'd have known Eve would be beguiled by the serpent who is a metaphor for Satan. And even Satan is borrowed from Zoroastrian beliefs - it came out of Persia or modern day Iran. So there's my conception of what that puny god is. And then there's the question of evil - could God not have prevented the rebellion of the angel who became the devil? Then he is not omnipotent.
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  216. And when you're really serious you have both an instant read and an infrared thermometer.
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  217. The thing that stands out to me is that they mostly seem to be children of GI's with Korean women. That part is very interesting.
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  218. All I know is this. A few years ago the spouse was diagnosed with Type II Diabetes. Now at the time I couldn't just make micro changes to our diet. So I started reading ingredients on things I'd buy at the supermarket. What came of it was two things. First I was 240lbs at the time, second they put sugar or HFCS in EVERYTHING from soft drinks to baked goods to condiments of all things. So found brands that don't add sugar or HFCS. In the space of about 18 months my weight dropped to 150lbs and best yet the ashtma I had disappeared plus my blood pressure normalized. Go figure.
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  219. Nothing isn't so much nothing anymore. And I find the religious trying to use logical reasoning to prove god highly amusing. And oh yeah I once took a philosophy class. In it I stated philosophy is good for finding out if gods actually exist. The professor was intrigued.
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  220. Well and in the U.S. recall the Yellowstone area. We hunted wolves to not be in the system. And the environment suffered. Re-introduce wolves and all of a sudden Yellowstone greens up.
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  221. The banks don't like it because they know a postal bank would be more fair in it's fee structure.
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  222. For a moment I was thinking if IRLP would work - but if everything goes down net services probably would too. So HF it would have to be. Or a 10GHz 1500W signal toward say Los Angeles.
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  223. And I'm sure you know the other meaning of NTSC - Never The Same Color. But the thing that makes color TV these days is called Chroma.
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  224. Interesting I wonder if this can be replicated on a DSLR camera. I doubt it.
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  225. And you could freeze it too. Imagine how that'd taste.
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  226. Herein the U.S.I watched with amusement when Amtrak built the northeast corridor. It runs from Boston to D.C. and uses Alstom power units. Those are capable of 200mph. To reach that requires a signaling upgrade.
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  227. I wonder if another disastrous event happens who's got the capability to get service restored quickly. Because like it or not even GSM cell phones use switching infrastructure.
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  228. Yeah - my first question was what are those people supposed to do while they wait for ten years for you to build adequate housing? I'm a person who believes that politicians who do stupid shit like this should be forced to be homeless for six months. Lets see if they change their tune after that.
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  229. Ah see when I buy cars I walk in and say C-A-S-H. Just put aside anywhere from 20% to 50% of your monthly take home. In the space of a year you'll have anywhere from $15K to $60K. Remember the old saying, good things come to those who wait. And even once you've saved up the money, continue to do so. In five years it becomes $75,000 to $300,000 in the bank. In just FIVE years.
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  230.  @amacuro  Indeed - I do not side with Maduro and wish the people of Venezuela the best.
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  231. Well you could always have the function return 2 regardless of input. Just discard the input.
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  232. I'd imagine the infrastructure to provide this service is no longer in place. I know Ma Bell realized they'd have to build an entire switching system for the video side using higher bandwidth channels and PicturePhone was quietly retired.
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  233. Oh my first brush with state management employment we all got sent for training. One of the things they did was test what type of managers we were. I turned out to be a team builder.
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  234. I sot of predicated we'd have AI surgical robots. If only because I know that DARPA was playing with a pod they could ship to the field of battle. Load a wounded soldier in and through telepresence you could operate. But I knew it would only be so long before a fully autonomous pod would be reality. And sure enough.
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  235. The fact that Ukraine borders Russia and noises were made that b Ukraine b wanted to join NATO
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  236. We have had cats live to 18 years, 9 years, 14 years and the current feline resident is 15 years old.
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  237. Regards Graham - I think this may be the tipping point for the Trump Administration - or what is left of it.
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  238. Recently drove a 2017 Subaru - the steering, brakes and accelerator are all controlled by servos and steppers. And I recall a youtube video where a Jeep's secret cell number was discovered. They could shut down the engine from remote. Now of course I'm sure it goes farther. And we need to lean on our government officials to craft regulations for Security and Info Security on motor vehicles. Probably best way to do that is hack one of our elected representatives cars. That would send the message.
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  239. I don't see why China is so concerned about a nuclear armed Korea - I mean as it stands Kim Jong Un if he was truly mad could turn on his masters in China too. That would be an interesting gaming simulation to play out. And I think Kim Jong Un knows that if he attacks South Korea, or Guam or what have you - the U.S. will lay waste to Pyongyang within 30 minutes. Because most of our nuclear arsenal with thanks to former President Jimmy Carter - most that that arsenal is on submarines.
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  240. +Introgauge .C As I said earlier you really are a perfect example of the shitstains of America.
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  241. +Matt Oh - several of my female friends - they have sexual conquest down to a science. I kid you not - makes me look like a fucking prude.
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  242. But if you used checklists and expert systems there'd be precious little need for the actual doctors, all you'd need is basically technicians. 
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  243. What's more fascinating is that Bell Labs developed the transistor. I often wonder what other things we might have seen if they'd lasted in that form until now.
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  244. And the other thing - it's a GM product. I've known accountants at GM and they've told me the horror stories including the ignition switch debacle. I'm sorry but I won't buy a GM vehicle. Plus they're mechanical nightmares - have been since the 1950's on. And explain to me how this Buick only cranks under 300HP and weight a couple tons, while a VW Golf TSi is a little lighter at 2900 or so pounds but puts out 300HP from a 2L engine. So much quicker vehicle. Plus German engineered.
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  245. Go look at your power and natural gas providers. The latter in particular, they now multiply the amount of gas used by a thing called a therm factor. Which in my view is nothing but a markup. They say it's the 'value' of the gas. Yeah right.
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  246. My theory on driving is you don't drive defensively but offensively. So this means you lockup seatbelts on a regular basis with what a friend once termed as assertive driving.
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  247. Of course it will work - a radiometer works right? So this light sail should be a success. It's why I contributed to the project.
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  248. How do you work with all that flux residue on the board. Egad!
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  249. Ah, classic small business versus cartels. It never plays out well.
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  250. Sadly never got 3 letter username. I was pjj125 on bitnet, but then on a Vax account I had tonypo. Usernames were formed by first name + first letter + last letter. Of course now I have an alias for my work email - just my first name @site.
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  251. Oh I remember Kelo and at the time of the ruling I thought it was completely asinine. Still think the same today.
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  252. I've seen photos of the Morris test - I'd love to see video of that one. 
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  253. And let us discuss what drove adoption of video cassettes. Sure there were movies etc, but porn was the biggest drive of adoption of VCR's.
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  254. Well - if you're going to do that seconds thing simply represent everything in UTC and ask them to supply their offset from UTC. Problem solved. Yeah and Epoch time is fantastic. Except it runs out in 2038 I believe.
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  255. I don't qualify for tax cuts, I make too much. So my average federal is $15K to $20K. It irks me.
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  256. I went through private schools - we got summers off but we had reading lists etc. While I applaud Mr. Abouelnaga's program and the results of that program the only issue I have is this: With the kids from his program being 4 and 5 months ahead and then going back to traditional schools there's a high probability some will switch off when they repeat the same things. I know that's what happened the first time I tried to go to college - when they were teaching me stuff I'd already learned I thought what is the point.
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  257. The U.S. is defined by wheat, corn and rice. We grow more of it than anywhere else in the world, specifically corn.
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  258. I have a zipcar account. I've driven several different cars and found out what I like. My favorite cars -a Volkswagen Golf TSi, and the Jetta TSi. Good god they're fun to drive.
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  259. Yeah I know. I love front wheel drive. And get this I once drove a Toyota Sienna min van from Zipcar. That fucker could burn rubber on takeoff and from the front wheels.
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  260. Agreed it's good to see Africa emerging once again.
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  261. Interesting talk. I've gone out and done program reviews in schools. That stretched me somewhat but I was told that my reports raised their interest because I laid it out for all to see. And what field and position am I in, I.T. manager.
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  262. Well - there's also QOS that can be applied too. 
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  263. What's more amusing to me is the difference between Sunni and Shi'a - it comes down to order of succession of the prophet.
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  264. Ads? What ads? They get completely blocked on my browser.
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  265. What's more interesting is the number of pastors that have left their religion because they realized it was all so much hooey.
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  266. I work for a digital marketing company. Love working there too. They treat us pretty well.
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  267. Actually a number of variables have been filled in to the Drake equation.
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  268. Well of course it's unconstitutional. It's just that corporate America operates under a very different rule set than you and I. That's also why if you own a small business do yourself a favor and talk to an attorney. 
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  269. Well when I was in school, the school library was well stocked. But my favorite was the Public Library. I could get lost in the stacks reading all sorts of programming, technical and other books.
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  270. Big John Structured as in reading, writing and arithmetic. Unstructured in writing, discovery, etc. 
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  271. And if you want a really black box algorithm check out FICO or Fair Isasc.
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  272. And my great grandfather invented the device to be able to change out the yarn etc. on a Jacquard loom on the fly. I've seen the patent. Plus it's pretty cool as this is the great grandfather who taught me how to solder wires together when I was about 6 or 7 years old.
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  273. Consider too that we have only been emitting RF for about 100 years. And since radio waves pretty much travel at the speed of light our severely attenuated signals could be detectable.
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  274. Law enforcement using a things call AFIS which links into III. AFIS is Automated Fingerprint Identification System while III is Interstate Identification Index. And to be in the III database you have to be charged with a crime prior. So finding people can be interesting if they'd had no previous contact with law enforcement.
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  275. I worked with a company doing genetic sequencing. So I understand how it works. A hint, the process is very similar to color photography developing. And the first part is PCR amplification. And in my case we use Ion Torrent Proton Sequencers. We were doing exomes as those were huge enough as is. In 16 months we went through 15,000 different exomes. Part of the MIllion Veteran Program. And we did 23andMe - I come out as not so much Italian-American and found out my ancestors were rolling stones from all over Europe. Someone else found out they aren't so much African - as they're fully 15% European.
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  276. Damn - my father wasn't a car guy in the traditional sense. He was more into the luxury of the car than the power of it. However the proudest moment was watching him grab a Catholic priest by the neck. The priest in question was a prick so fully deserving of what happened to him.
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  277. Couple of things I know about the U.S. Civil War - first Atlanta was in fact BURNED to the ground. And that Union Occupation lasted several years.
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  278. I have a 2019 Chevrolet Trax - it's a 1.4L LUV engine with an exhaust system integrated turbo.
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  279. One thing - total disregard of the rule of law.
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  280. Yeah - capacitive RAM didn't happen until the late 1960's.
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  281. Oh onions and garlic yeah. I like them. In fact I did chili recently with onion, carrot, garlic and kidney beans along with tomato paste. That with a bit of ground meat yum. Plus I love mushrooms too.
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  282.  @ericsvalland4417  actually what killed long lines wasn't just fiber. Automation played a big part and so reduced the cost of long distance calls. That's what killed the Bell System
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  283. I was a Catholic - including the first twelve years in Catholic schools. But I found my way clear of all that and am now an atheist. Realized there was no god, devil, heaven, hell. Read the entirety of the KJV. All of religions, be it Christian, Jewish, Muslim, even Hindu are based on only so much bullshit.
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  284. Unless of course you happen to be Italian American - we just don't care.
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  285. The other thing, he was the Deflon Don for some time. Now the chickens are coming home to roost. But I do think I can predict the future - th history books of the future when they mention conflict of interest well they'll have it all about Trump himself who is a walking conflict of interest.
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  286. I recall my fist phone line with touch tone dialing and phone rental cost $12 in 1980. You see Bell used long distance rates to subsidize local service. After the breakup that rose to $50. Oh yeah and Shannon's Information Theory spelled the end of the Bell System.
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  287. There are three Samsung products in this house, two mobile phones and a printer.
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  288. Wilkerson nails it. He's singing like a canary. Now it's been said what the Tea Baggers/Tea Partiers really are. Its the wingnut brigade. And Cheney - what a piece of work that guy is. Explains why whenever I run across a clip of him I want to punch my screen out.
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  289. I've been to presentations and other events with conservatives. I'm polite about it. It's just later on I might do a blog post disputing what they said. I've even taken the opportunity to call the ex-President an anal sphincter. I've even disagreed with some fellow liberals too. And I operate from the perspective that those I disagree with might be like a stopped clock and maybe right twice a day.
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  290. Imagine my surprise when I dialed 911 and it took 25 minutes for someone to answer. In DeKalb County Georgia. Granted it was Christmas day.
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  291. In the U.S. GM is going to cruch Tesla. Why? Look at the vehicles their Chervrolet, GMC and Cadillac divisions all offer an electric vehicle. So there's that too. And wait, VW has the eGolf. Damn I've driven a Golf TSI and was that ever fun to drive. Imagine it as an electric though. Damn.
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  292. It's more akin to rats jumping off a burning ship. And I've got qualifications that might work in this administration but I do not want to have to report to the Orange Goblin.
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  293. And my other fave in my collection is the WE 1D2 pay station!
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  294. I'm reading Fire and Fury right now - about 300 pages in and I gotta say it, the Trump administration just lurches from crisis to crisis of Donald J. Trumps own making.
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  295. Well, when you consider most people in the U.S. want single payer too, you begin to understand the snow job perpetrated by the insurance industry in the U.S.
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  296. Well the northern half of I-95 through Rhode Island has a ton of curves - near churches, railroad tracks, etc. They had to build around it.
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  297. Yup - I did two years as I.T. Director at the RI Department of Attorney General. It was fascinating.
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  298. An awful chapter in medical history. However I did read the book "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot. It is why I say medicine really doesn't really know what they are doing. But we're finally coming to the point in history where we an not just excise tissue but replace it with healthy tissue. That's something - and it only came about because of the cross pollination between medicine and computer technology.
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  299. Well my experience is in electronics and electricity - and I know of the skin effect. Lightning just follows the skin of any conductor. And we know lightning suppression or shunting to ground.
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  300. You know it's funny - doctors accusing midwives of causing infections where hospitals are currently infection factories.
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  301. In my case I come from a family full of engineers on my mom's side. My maternal great grandfather who sparked my interest in electronics had sons in engineering and was also the inventor of the mechanism to allow you to swap out patterns in a Jacquard loom on the fly without having to stop the machine.. And my interest in electronics lead me into information science and well to me influencing my nephew and so on.
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  302. So wait the ABM preceded Reagans SDI program? Really?
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  303. Well - if you go by Kinsey's studies - some 30% of the population is in fact bisexual.
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  304. And if you consider who owned Jaguar - the door lighting being like Ford is likely due to when Ford owned it. And it's British personality is weird as I believe Tata owns Jaguar now.
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  305. Oh I left Catholicism years ago. It was when the child abuse scandals began. And you have to understand the il Papa is a Jesuit. They tend to be the more highly educated clerics in the church. So it's not surprising he's pretty liberal.
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  306. Oh I knew Trump administration would be an all around shit show. Why? Because I lived in Providence, RI when he was elected. He was the first President I'd ever seen a mass demonstration and march occur because he was elected. It was incredible.
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  307. What I think is even funnier is interesting. I have a 2019 Chevy - it is an automatic but you can manually shift it too. There's just no clutch pedal anymore.
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  308. Sir, Ma'am, Madam - that's what I learned a long time ago. Most respectful salutations. Or I can default to Spanish Senor, Senora, Senorita, Usted, Ustedes, etc. And if it's less formal, dear or darling or Mister etc. Easy. Did I mention I'm in my 50's - and if anyone other than the person I love called me honey, sweetie, baby etc. they're gonna get popped for it.
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  309. The Acela could do 150MPH. The main issue isn't the track, it's the at-grade crossings. Those seriously limit the speed of the train. In fact the Acela gets up to it's maximum speed in parts of MA and all of RI.
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  310. What's more interesting is the life of Claude Shannon. He was awesome.
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  311. Here in Rhode Island traffic violations are a civil offense, not criminal.
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  312. And - it was front wheel drive. In a modular package. That right there is the amazing part.
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  313. Yeah I know.
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  314. Yeah I know. Those people really puzzle me because they have this sheepish vibe too.
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  315. One trick I've learned up here in the northeast - if you have commercial plates on a vehicle you can pretty much park ANYWHERE you want.
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  316. When you think about it WW II is when most of the major technological changes happened. Plus it got farmed out all over the U.S. to make the munitions and vehicles. Another major government program was NASA's Apollo - pretty much every state contributed to that mission.
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  317. Cooking for me is an exercise in relaxation and control. That last part is controlling sodium and sugars. And regards pizza I like Neopolitan and Sicilian pizza. And my flickr site is replete with pictures of the things I've made. My favorite is creme brule btw.
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  318. In my collection I have the Sculpture in Brown Touch Tone and the Celebrity in Blue with Touch Tone.
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  319. H.P. Lovecraft is buried a few miles from where I live. He was a Providence denizen like me.
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  320. You forgot to mention one key thing about the ElDorado - it in addition to the Oldsmobile Toronado, and Buick Rivieira of the same generation were front wheel drive.
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  321. The ride is so smooth - from Little Red Corvette by Prince. That being said, I've driven one other German brand - a Volkswagen Golf TSi and one Bavarian the BMW X3. Both machines designed to fly on the highway.
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  322. From a purely ethical view there's no method of execution that is perfect. And I find the practice highly barbaric. Plus take into account the rates of violent crimes have declined precipitously since the 1970's when tetraehtyl lead was banned in gasoline.Lead of course is a neuro-toxin.
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  323. There is that - however if you have good legal representation you can stop flippers dead in their tracks.
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  324. I've been involved in electrical and networking.
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  325. Right and what happens when you lose faith completely?
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  326. Well it's true on-the-fly translation is possible - except it's not at&t that provides it but Facebook via Google Translate. Imagine that.
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  327. I don't believe there's an afterlife at all. However I do know we have the technological mens to extend lifespans out to 150 or more years. Go lookup Aubrey DeGray
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  328. Oh why go to such an extent. Just switch cars for a week or so with a friend.
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  329. Interesting about flying spot. Ma Bell used it when she was developing electronic switching systems. It was used for call store. Of course it proved cumbersome and ineffective so then she went to magnetic memory. And I gotta admit the demo for the detector was awesome.
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  330. Yeah and they don't sell Peugots and Renaults in the U.S. anymore.
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  331. Actually my grandfathers served in the Pacific and European theaters during WW II and came back with no injuries.
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  332. Well yeah the original Puritans were the religious misfits of Britain. And the founders of the country weren''t in any way Christian - the best could be said is they were deists. I mean come on just lookup the Jefferson Bible.
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  333. Made a very conscious effort not to buy things with HFCS in them a few years ago. It's getting difficult to get some things. That stuff is in EVERYTHING.
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  334. I'm not sure what Critical Race Theory really is. I mean U.S. history in general is full of appalling things.
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  335. I would never eat gas station sushi. It looks questionable enough when it is fresh.
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  336.  @jgrysiak6566  Yeah I recall when I lived in North Providence, RI. First place i lived ahad a Providence rate center -phone number (401)-353. Then moved a half mile away and got a Pawtucket rate center number (401)-725. Which meant no I paid a toll to call Warwick, RI. Found out about FX lines and got one.
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  337. Two of my most prized possessions in my Western Electric collection are a Celebrity with TouchTone and a brown Sculpture TouchTone.
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  338. The thiing about the Sabbath or the Shabat - when is it? For example I've known Jewish people who as of Sundown Friday to Sundown Saturday is their Shabat. But why Sunday?
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  339. In my case I started with BASIC, COBOL, and then C++, then Z80 Assembler, and finally Python and BASH.
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  340. Great post mortem of the Bush administration. In other words what we thought about Bush was true. Interesting to have that confirmed.
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  341. Wow - interesting story. I also believe everyone should make it a point to march of D.C. at least once in their life. I know I've done it a couple times.
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  342. Interesting. Around here the cat litter box is cleaned whilst I'm gloved and then hands and lower arms washed thoroughly. I'm not immuno-compromised but I've seen toxo and it ain't cute.
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  343. Well I used it on something outside the X86-64 - but a Z80.
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  344. Wow - a Merkur - Ford's "European" 4 cylinder wonder. But you had a good run in AMS. Congrats on that.
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  345. I think we're about to cross the tipping point on this.
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  346. Again I cannot understand why the Israelis are doing this. Sure media blackout and such but why destroy Palestinian properties?
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  347. What the engineer in me appreciates i the power for Voyager 2. It's a radio-thermal generator that produces electricity. And it's lasted for 44 years. Which means the Curiosity rover on Mars will go on for decades unless mechanical failure happens.
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  348. I am fascinated by the ancestor worship in Japan. And yes he is a good father and son.
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  349. Ok, $50K for that one in cherry condition yeah. I searched Craigslist near me - lots of beat RX-7's for about $3K.
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  350. The way I explain it to people follows: Dogs if left on their own in a house will eat the couch. Cats on the other hand can take care of themselves. Sure they might scratch at the sofa but I can forgive scrathed sofas versus eaten sofas.
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  351. I commit the ultimate sacrilege and use beans and meat
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  352. Oh sure you can have an accurate Rolex or. A $29 mobile phone that uses net based time.
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  353. You'd think the Jewish state could see the parallels between what they're doing to the Palestinians and what the Germans did to the Jews. But apparently they're blind to that and would accuse me of being anti-zionist. As if, or in latin Ut Si.
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  354. I do wish we had embraced metric in the U.S. It makes so much more sense than our system of feet, yards, miles etc. Or inches, fractions of an inch etc. Centi, Milli etc. is so much easier just move the decimal left or right. But I do know that 50KMH is about 30MPH give or take. Or that there's 2.54cm in an inch.
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  355. Wow - that's something else. In my area way out here on the East coast - a local business owner rented a property to open what was called an Urban Farm Store. She sold things like mason jars, gardening gear, etc. Well the church that owned the property started putting up interference. We actually raised $10,000 for the small business owner, attended zoning hearings, etc. So the store opened and stayed that way for a few years. Then had to shut down as the church wants the property for something else. It's unreal.
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  356.  @ikemadi6265  Oh I know that. Same with robotics - the robots are interesting in that they're gaining freedom of motion and humanistic elements. But power is still an issue. Battery storage needs to jump forward dramatically for robots to be a real thing in our lives.
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  357. A part of the problem is each hospital is a siloed place. So that if they don't have someone who says "Let's learn from this" It isn't going to happen.
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  358. Oh yes, and Boston to NYC in 85 minutes? That would be phenomenal. You could live in Boston, work in NYC, or vice versa. That would seriously dent cars, buses and air travel in the northeast.
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  359. Around here HPS is being phased out for LED.
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  360. Well here in the northeast U.S. it's 65F - in February. I love climate change.
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  361. Wow - that's pretty good! I can recall in years past we'd get an 85F day in mid February. And by northeast I'll clarify - Providence, RI
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  362. Well if car drives itself - then liability is on the manufacturer of the car.
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  363. Yeah - it takes a long time to develop a sense of empathy and morality. But religion has pretty much no exclusive domain over that.
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  364. The issue with rotaries is the emissions they tended to burn oil.
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  365. Yup I learned long ago you attract more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. That being said - never broken bones. Oh no. I've been stitched back together quite a few times though. To the point where by the 2nd time I asked for the removal scissors and took my own stitches out. I could probably put it in too - but I will say that drug they inject - numbs everything nicely.
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  366. Thanks or posting this. Yes indeed I often wonder how the likes of Copeland and Creflo can con their congregations to cough up so much cash. Any thinking person like me knows its all bovine effluvia. I've seen it writ small and large with preachers. It's fascinating. Hell I was brought up Catholic but rejected it. Now an Atheist and my Sundays are mine.
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  367. Kind of what I say about disinfecting products - 99.9% So I'm not so worried about that but the .1% of germs that survive. Same is true of antibiotics.
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  368. Oh go the state attorney generals office and talk to their medicare fraud unit. I'm sure they'd be interested.I'll just bet that Kool Smiles is upcoding.
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  369. Fairness and Loyalty really do matter.
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  370. Yup - older vcr's you could change the AGC.
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  371. My first was an AMF Bicycle - I put a speedo on it. From that I learned two things. A) I put 1,500 miles on that bike in one summer and B) You can in fact get a bicycle up to 75MPH with good hills. From there I got a 1976 Pontiac Trans Am with a 455 and a 4 speed manual. Too much for a 16 year old. Tires were pretty pricey for that baby. But it was gorgeous. And friends had GTO's, Chargers, Camaro etc.
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  372. Thanks David. You're not giving them a platform, if anything you call them out on their crap! Good job of it too!
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  373. Yup - Dell machines are really easy to replace keyboards. Apple on the other hand - not so easy.
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  374. Interesting I worked for Brown University in the early 1990's. The campus had a very funky feel to it then. And now I'm in DeKalb county Georgia. And sous vide isn't just for meat - I've done creme brule that way and it was fantastic.
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  375. It only gains worth when it is used to protect ourselves.
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  376. Yes indeed. Mine was blown too knowing ants are actually farming fungus.
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  377. Security Theater - my favorite.
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  378. Well yeah on Poe and Boston. Now Providence, we got H.P. Lovecraft.
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  379. Quirky Wiring yeah Lucas electrical systems. It's why Sir Lucas is also known as the Prince of Darkness.
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  380. Interesting they knew about the tracking. I had my car stolen but the stupid kid didn't know it was tracked. Ah well he won't show his face around here anymore. Oh and nowadays cameras are ubiquitous. Somewhere I bet there's video of the perp that stole the Mercedes.
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  381. Wow - great tale!
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  382. Fun fact - a CRT is sort of a linear accelerator of electrons too. Just uses strong magnetic vehicles to deflect that electron beam to light up phosphor.
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  383. I believe there is much more about it. For example I was an only child yet turned out gay. Now the uncle thing - yeah got that down. To the point where our nephew is likely going down the same path I did as far as education and career.
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  384. This story is why I hope we figure out limb regeneration sooner than later. The joy of driving a stick can't be replaced.
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  385. I've had two MRIs, one of the skull, the other of my spine. Went off without a hitch. The spouse on the other hand has a piece of meta embedded in his cheek from an accident when he was a child. He thought it was a stone, nope metal. They found out when they tried to do a head MRI. Funny story my head MRI I watched them build the machine. It was down the hall from my office at the time.
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  386. Wait, a condo in that you BOUGHT it, you own it yet the building can put limits on who can use your space? Really?
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  387. You know, you guys pretty much have a think tank. Turn it toward legislation. Pass a law that says effective immediately all speed limits on Interstates are raised to 80MPH. Make it so the right lane can be a minimum of 45MPH, left lane for 80MPH. Look, cars are much more capable in the 21st century - why the hell are we still stuck in most urban areas to 45-55MPH?
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  388.  @fishpilgrim  Touch Tone aka DTMF for Dual Tone Multi Frequency dials were introduced in Pennsylvania. By the time we moved into our family home in 1972 the whole house was Touch Tone phones.
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  389.  @Mauro_Veliz  Thank you. And yeah - I'm a bit more in touch with views on Lain America, Central America and South America in general. It's why I chose to focus on learning the Spanish language.
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  390.  @JK-gu3tl  Anarchy isn't pretty either.
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  391.  @JK-gu3tl  You may want to elaborate on your question of how I would know.
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  392. Nope - that's one thing I'm stedfast about is drinking and driving. I won't do it.
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  393. Funny bona tea is available in Providence, RI
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  394. That or a heads up call to the card provider or bank is worth it's weight in gold. Me, I buy lots of stuff from India and China. I've already told my bank those are the main countries I do business with.
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  395. Way I know it is a byte is eight bits. And everything in my world is based on that - KB, MB, GB, PB. And yeah, BCD is a biggie too - how my TRS-80 with an 8 bit Z-80 could represent 65536 with decent precision. Now of course on a 64 Bit PC laptop where max addressable by 64 bits is 18446744073709551616. Big difference there. And micros character sets have been 5, 6, 7, and 8 bits in the past. No idea what they are now - but if Windows alt sequences are any indication Unicode uses lots more bits.
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  396. Tavarish makes a good point - some way of vetting people who know vs. the commonality. I see that in my field, pure I.T./I.S. and dealing with tech support makes my head hurt.
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  397.  @woodzy2976  Yes indeed. 20 million killed under Stalin. And yes to Germany as well. Bu China has also massacred millions too.
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  398. Interesting I used to work on Milk Street but it was in Boston, MA, USA. And yeah I realized early on that Catholic churches are sight, sound and scent places. It occurred to me when the spouse brought home frankincense and myrrh. I said when he was burning it "It smells like a Catholic church." I was right. And one experience I'm drving by a local Catholic church and outside they have a list of their benefactors. I see my name that I shared with my father on the board. It as $10,000 for an annulment.
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  399. I can tell you how we can eliminate IC engines in about 10 years. It's got nothing to do with tax credits in fact I believe those should be used by businesses. But for regular people subsidies to purchase electric cars and inexpensive loans for electrical improvements. Imagine the U.S. in 10 years if this were to come to pass. I've written this to congress critters too.
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  400. Esoteric commands. Things like cp, mv, touch etc. Can you you tell I'm a command line guy.
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  401. Well - in my case I'm at the very end of the baby boom. Realized early on I didn't want to do what my father did. Nor what mom did. I went a different way - I.T./I.S. pro. And I'm a pretty advanced cook too.
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  402. I know, I know. It looks interesting but it's a GM product with all the attendant features and annoyances. But having know accountants who worked for GM since the 1980's I can tell you every GM vehicle is built to a price point. And lane follow, collision avoidance, blind spot monitoring and and parking assists is just GM trying out autonomous features. And I gotta wonder how it holds value - I strongly suspect a 2015 used would go for about $15K.
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  403. Down here in the Atlanta region I do like how they do roadway marking, warnings etc. Take I-75/I-85 and I-20. They actually have big symbols painted in the lanes indicating what highway you'll be traveling depending upon the lane you're in. Very nice. But confusion still reigns. Plus I love the use of reflectors in the roadway plus the usage of warning signs that there's a stop sign or signal somewhat ahead. Very nice too.
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  404. Oh My 2019 Chevy Trax was stolen. Stupid kid who stole it didn't know that all you have to do is call the police and then call OnStar. Had the car back a couple hours later.The kid had the fob for the car I won't go into that. But I asked the dealership how much to reprogram new fobs - $400. I foudn two fobs for a fraction and ordered them. Reprogrammed it myself.
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  405. It's funny I get tagged as a prepper because I have my federal amateur radio license and I own a couple guns. But that's not the reason and I know the original intent of the 2nd amendment - it wasn't so everyone can open carry. Let me explain the men who created that document and its amendments knew the dangers of a standing army. So their thing was they wanted an armed populace instead. And the amendment I see regularly violated is the 4th and 5th. Do you remember what they are? Yeah the right not to incriminate yourself and to be secure in your person, papers and things. Oh and that pastor I'm also a gay man and I know what love is. And I also don't believe in any god whatsoever.
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  406. I just thought of something. You could use a bunch of FRS radios - native antennas on them go 3 to 5 miles. But change out the antenna for one with 3-6db of gain and fun times can be had. Keep a CB of course so you can LISTEN to the truckers. Oh and a lot of the cops use APCO P25 radios - that can be forced out of encryption by a modified IM-ME toy.
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  407. Then we get into number systems like binary, octal and hexadecimal. Those play very big in my life and career. Regards dimensions are we a 3D world or 4D if you include he dimension of time.
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  408. Vitamin D is synthesized by exposure to UV light. And mirror can be designed to also reflect the UV components.
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  409. Interesting, it has a lot of features in common with my 2019 Chevy Trax. Of course my Trax serial starts with K for Korea - that's where it was manufactured.
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  410. Yeah one of my addictions is the McCafe Caramel Frappe. And of course it uses the same damned machine that's always "broken".
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  411. I think the reason they renamed it was everyone calling it Internet Exploder got to be too much for them.
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  412. Every time I take the test I end up somewhere to the left of Ghandi! My stats: -8.38/-8.31 So you can see why I made the above comment.
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  413.  @pauleveritt3388  Ah very cool. Yeah I did all sorts of things, had a voice input module and a speech synthesizer hooked up to mine.
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  414. I am so fortunate - I have a sixth sense about cops. Sounds like your friend had that sense too. In fact so fortunate I've been doing 85MPH on I-95 in the rain and look in the rear view - I see a State Police cruiser - he just moved left and passed me.
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  415. I think it's csma/cd that applies. Carrier Sense Multiple Access with Collision Detect. But now I know about Collision Avoidance. Thanks.
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  416. I wish they'd just come right out and say it, connect the dots if you will. He almost does it when he talks about selling arms to India. It's corporate influence and power that dominates U.S. foreign policy. It has for the last hundred plus years.
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  417. A Merry Holiday Season to you and the cat. I post this whilst Angie the feline resident of the house is on my left side waiting until I finish typing so I can pet her.
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  418. A few years ago I got to drive an X3. Loved it. But then maintaining it would be pretty pricey.
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  419. Yep make all that money and of course you become a libertarian. What astounds me is young, broke people that are libertarians. And of course Mackey made even more when he sold out to Amazon.
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  420. I can clearly see this is a revolution for Hong Kong and I wish them sovereignty from China.
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  421. People weren't ready for it. And while Bell had the video phones to a high art, they realized they would have to build a whole different switching system for the video side of the call in parallel with the voice side. Too expensive!
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  422. Here's the thing it seems the definition of luxury in Soviet Russia was um, sort of plain jane.
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  423. Well all the neural networks we have now are physically tangible devices. So a rather large axe would take care of that nice and neatly. Just chop into small pieces.
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  424. +Introgauge .C Oh we resort to ad hominem - well you're a fucking nitwit.
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  425. +Introgauge .C I'm not a woman. I'm definitely male and been in a relationship with another man for 20+ years. And I'm not one to be messed with.
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  426. +schroeder666 Here's an anecdote I'm sure you love. Imagine having lunch every day with a woman who regales you with tales of her sexual activities. Egad! Of course she knew I was gay so that might have something to do with it. But it's not just that one. There've been friends of mine over time - and if you listen carefully they'll TELL you who they're fucking. Seriously.
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  427. Damnation - that's a whole lot more guns than one needs. Me, I believe in KISS - all I have is my AT500 pump shotgun. With those it's not even necessary to keep a round in it, just pumping it is enough to make a potential bad guy shit their pants. 
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  428. And transistors are now down in the range of 16nm.
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  429. One glaring omission in this list is the transistor without which we'd not have small compact electronic devices like the very computers, phones, etc. we have today.
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  430. In my case been in front of a screen since i was 13, I'm four decades older now. Cell phones don't present any particular challenge for me, nor POS terminals in stores. And yeah I'm in the I.S./I.T. field.
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  431. And once again a U.S. manufacturer blows it on integration with phones by backing the Apple IOS. Sorry - gimme a good Bluetooth system over that.
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  432. I'm not an I.T. specialist - more a generalist. However there are things I know that flies over a lot of heads.
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  433. You could be me. At home I have a Dell Latitude running WIndows 10. But for work have a MacBook Pro - one of the things that drives me nuts - using default Apple hardware is there's no right click - this is fun when you're connecting via TeamViewer to a client computer running Windows and have to right click. And walked away after Apple pushed an update to the 2nd gen Touch that broke dock connectivity. That was the end of it with me and Apple.
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  434. Well - the Control key works. But the thing is it doesn't work on a Windows box over TeamView.
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  435. Wow - very cool stuff. I'd one one of Sisyphus trying to push the rock up the hill. That would be awesome. Reach out to me and let me know how much something like that would cost.
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  436. I am in now way a fan of Lenovo gear - why? Because from the T420/T430 to the T440 they changed the blasted power connectors and docks. Fuckers.
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  437. That's the other thing that bugs the crap out of me - the trackpad on T440's suck. It's why I switched us over to Dell 7470's.
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  438. Ok I get your point. I did similar. Now I'm at about 8 times minimum wage per hour. However I do think you're missing a point - if the federal minimum was $15 you could still jump to another job and still make $15 per hour.
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  439. +CommunistBlock Are you by chance in the Boston, MA area?
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  440. Too bad. I will tell you though - get involved with Open Source software though. Jobs galore in that space. 
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  441. Oh and those IBM mainframes shown toward the end, were Packard Bell 250's - no relation to the piece of crap Packard Bell PC's of a later age.
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  442. The real reason we haven't cured cancer is because there isn't enough profit in doing so. 
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  443. Simar Sran Ever worked for a corporation? If so you'd know they are ruled by one thing only, the profit motive. Which is why having people taking chemotherapy garners more profit than say curing the disease outright. And so greater profit is made but outcomes will be questionable. That enough proof for you? 
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  444. ***** Nice ad hominem there. Are a shill for the pharmaceutical industry by chance? Because you certainly sound like you are.  And if we're going to resort to ad hominem, I hope you suffer a diurnal anomaly. 
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  445. Actually you can completely block facebook''s ads with two Chrome Add on's. ScriptSafe and AdBlock.
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  446. And then there are people like me - I'm tail end of the Baby Boom - but around screens since I was a young teenager. And now with over 20 years of experience in the Information Technology and Information Security business you cannot pry the screen away from me. However I know when to put it down.
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  447. +ZombiedustXXX Well I am mechanically inclined so yeah I can wrench them myself. And I agree on the secondary market for the German cars. It's why I own some tools and an OBD-II scanner.
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  448. There's a great movie from the 1970's called Colossus: The Forbin Project. It's about an AI that gets rather insistent.
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  449. I see those Veyron's around here. The issue is there isn't enough straight road where I live to get that baby up to full speed. 
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  450. And I think you could also encode a display schema. That would be fun.
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  451. Oh I knew about the UV feature. I had a few UV LED's so I hooked them up and shined them on money, my drivers license, etc. Lots of interesting stuff pops out when you shine UV light on things.
    1
  452. Interesting so a computer controlled standard transmission. How cool is that.
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  453. I have a zipcar account and with it I get to drive all sorts of cars from a Honda Civic to a BMW X3. However I did get a Sienna one time. It is funny how it's so easy to spin the FRONT wheels. But alas - I don't have a large family and don't need that.
    1
  454. And recall - the banning of tetraethyl lead in gasoline didn't happen until the 1970's. So it explains part of the increase in crime.
    1
  455. And for extra credit, what does http and ftp mean?
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  456. If I were ever to do something like that you'd have to use that NASA cooling suit for me.
    1
  457. And now we have parts of SDI protecting various parts of the globe. Interesting.
    1
  458. And let's not even discuss RPC's.
    1
  459. Unlike Rodden my immediate answer was yes. In fact you probably know we have the Common Core stuff going on in the U.S. I suggested in the mathematics side they teach the kids about binary, octal and hexadecimal. Then teach them to code.
    1
  460. Louis, you ARE doing something about it. You make some very good points in this video. I've run into similar situations regarding women in tech. In my case it was a young black woman - they basically sidelined her because she was black and young. I took the time to find out she was a very skilled I.T. person. We're still friends to this day.
    1
  461. Toyota trucks - the engines are top notch and can take all sorts of abuse. The bodies of them however will rot away with nary a glance.
    1
  462. I would be one of the last to defend Apple, but touch screens lock up on Samsung phones too. Of course holding down the power button or just dropping the battery solves that issue.
    1
  463. And thus was the invention of the shift register completed. And then of course overflow flags! Fun times! 
    1
  464. Actually looking at the dash cluster it's the same used in the Volkswagens. Makes sense of course since Audi is owned by Volkswagen.
    1
  465. Actually Genesis 4:16-17 tells you all you need to know about how the earth got populated. There were OTHER people in the land of Nod. 
    1
  466. Highly depends upon where you live in the United States. For example the city I live in, things are 117, 200, 300 and 400 years old. There was a strong historic preservation particularly as you approach the east side of the city. And what are they - homes.
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  467. Hate to break it to him but the Internet has been around far longer than 15 years. Try double that.
    1
  468. In other words you had to BE the bear.
    1
  469. If you're eating thin pizza like that sure. But I like Sicilian style pizza. It doesn't flop around.
    1
  470. To whoever asked about the 30 seconds it's simple - the RSA or Google code changes every 30 seconds. So that code you had 30 seconds ago? Gonzo! 
    1
  471. And when you really think about it, if you broke a car down in parts it wouldn't come anywhere near the retail price of the car. It'd be only a small fraction of it.
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  472. Well as the video says, deeply listen and then ask if you might explain your position.
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  473. My Catholic high school didn't offer shop class. We had electronics and physics classes instead. I'd always had an interest in electronics to the point where I could repair my first computer by myself.
    1
  474. Damn, you guys are lucky you get to sleep in. I'm up at 04:30 every day.
    1
  475. Sorry - not for $180. I have pair of Symphonized Magnum headphones. Really obnoxious - you cannot mistake I'm wearing them. Those with a $25 Jumbl bluetooth adapter and the total $95 for both items. Really.
    1
  476. One thought I have is how the incumbent power providers will see this. Because if it's National Grid for example - here in the U.S. they actually charge more for the distribution charges than energy charges. In fact my monthly electric - the energy is about 1/3 of the bill. That said they also are promoting a water based wind turbine project. They actually had the stones to say the cost would rise almost logarithmic over time. I asked - would wing be getting more expensive? Or preventative maintenance and replacement account for it? The answer of course it's simply a money grab.
    1
  477. And a little white space would be nice to be able to parse said C code.
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  478. Oh it is much worse than that. I recall in the mid 1990's I had a For Tempo with attendant remote. One day I go into the lot, hit the button to open the locks and a Lincoln two spots down it's doors unlock too. Hit again to lock, the Lincoln locks too. There are only so many codes and keys I might add, for cars. So once in a while it'll show itself. Had I been less moral I would have been able to enter the Lincoln no problem.
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  479. Technique that works best for me is heat up a pan on medium hear. Turn the oven on to 400F. Season the steak and then a little bit of peanut oil in the pan. Sear the steaks for 2-3 minutes per side then into the 400F oven for about 10 minutes.
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  480. Oh and regards the phone - I have six years worth of photos on my phone. It's all on the SD card of course, and lots of it got uploaded.
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  481. Oh I'm always amazed by the progress of computing technology. Consider my first computer got the job done with only 8 bits, now I'm using a machine with 8 times that. And I've been in the I.T. field for over 20 years.
    1
  482. It is fascinating to watch a body man work. In essence it's sculpture.
    1
  483. Yeah, hetero religious bigots like to claim they're being persecuted. Problem is, they're not being discriminated against or persecuted. 
    1
  484. If you guys think WW I technology was interesting, WW II technology is still propelling us forward today. That was the era of RADAR, transistors and those underlie pretty much everything we do.
    1
  485. Back in 2001 I worked for the RI Department of Attorney General. The entirety of the lobby was bulletproof glass. In the Deputy Chief of BCI's office was a piece of that glass with all sorts of pockmarks and the caliber shot at it. It pretty much stopped everything except a very high powered rifle round.
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  486. Shannon, Pierce and all those guys made some really great discoveries too.
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  487. Well - here in the U.S. corporations and the courts have adopted the notion that corporations are equivalent to people. The problem is a corporation has one main objective that is called profit. So they;ll lie through their teeth to us. Be skeptical of everything. And the other thing - the vilification of fat accounts for much of the additional salt and sugar. We did that to ourselves.
    1
  488. Well I lost a parent 3 years later at age 13. Fully expected it btw. But to this day I still insist the wrong person died.
    1
  489. How in the hell does swapping a hard drive kill a MacBook? We've done this to a bunch of MacBook Pro's and never had a failure like that.
    1
  490. And where I live - Providence to Warwick is roughly 10 miles.
    1
  491. The current CEO of the company I work for is Italian-American like myself and my office-mate. It's like old paisans around there and he respects my opinions - why - because he knows I listened to him.
    1
  492. Yeah but limited storage and craptastic keyboard and mouse do not a laptop make.
    1
  493. It's interesting when I hear you guys speak of Cambridge I'm watching this video in my office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
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  494. I guess in 1976 they had no idea that wireless would become huge. Or that the price of computers vis a vis power would come way down to the point where a phone that's basically given away can surf the web, text, phone, take pictures, movies, etc. 
    1
  495. Interesting commuter trains here are big Kawasaki carriages.
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  496. Sounds like an SxS telephone switch.
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  497. Pod Theelder Yup - Western Electric telephone switches used rotaries straight up through to the #5 Crossbar system. It was mostly for sequencing uses then because the Crossbar systems brought in that thing called the Marker.
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  498. I wish I had the money - I'd fund surface to air missiles and laser weaponry for the protesters. Take the damned police helicopter out of the situation and cut the riot shields down. But seriously - the right of the public to assemble for redress of public grievance is being suppressed here by the cops. Its time to drag them into the courtroom.
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  499. I use a Dell E6420 with an i5 cpu and Intel graphics. Runs games just fine.
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  500. I still remember from school - I was tested out the wazoo. I had very high abstract reasoning. Still do.
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  501. Yeah I have a chrome extension that eliminates youtube ads. So there's that.
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  502. It's a damn good thing I went Information Science instead of math. I could go head first into this stuff.
    1
  503. Interesting that Adam is a Bishop in the Universal Live Church. So am I.
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  504. I'm reading the book right now and definitely want to see the movie. 
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  505. I'm in the I.T. field and we all seem to be pretty liberal with politics. But I understand your point. I enjoy you channel for the historic take on food and cooking.
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  506. Well - there are ways you could control that super AI. It's going to need power so there's that. That leads to requiring big red power off switches for said super AI. That and and axe so I can go straight to it's processing core and start chopping away. Because as you know silicon is similar to glass.
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  507. I try to apply the same with comments on YouTube. However once someone starts with ad hominem attacks all bets are off.
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  508. So they pretty much a resilient little buggers. But I bet fire would solve that.
    1
  509. Having watched most of them yeah I agree with this list.
    1
  510. Wait, At&T is using Cisco phones?
    1
  511. Dear god no, not Pacal's Wager again! And I'll offer two passages from Genesis - first 3:22 - who the hell was Us? And now flip to 4:16-17 - who were the other people in Nod? If you can answer them that's my wager to tell you your religion is full of shit.
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  512. I don't use Ehtereum - I use ripple instead.
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  513. Oh Shit, The Shining was the bomb.
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  514. It finally hit me - the argument of charging more for popular sites is sort of like what National Grid here in the U.S. does with natural gas pricing. The therm factor is nothing but a markup. But they say it's the VALUE of gas. Yeah right. 
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  515. It's funny about the USB drives in the parking lot. I had once the idea of screen printing the State of Rhode Island logo on a bunch of USB sticks and scattering them in state parking lots. The damage would be significant because to my knowledge there's zero training security wise.
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  516. I can tell you that the electronics on appliances can be made to be more robust. First use high quality components particularly capacitors. Plus you can also make an electronic circuit waterproof. Just pot it. Oh and one other tip - find your brand of appliance on facebook, twitter whatever. They take that seriously - because you can damage the hell out of a brand on the social web.
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  517. I use a 16 character password that utilized upper, lower, symbol and number. So that comes out to what 52+10+10+11 or 83. 83^16 is 5.07282029895386E30 so that's 5 with 30 digits after it. I think that's pretty reasonable.
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  518. The word isn't mush, it's gruel.
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  519. And only the people who could sterilize water..... Just a bit of humor on my part.
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  520. No - the bloatware on a Lenovo is a pain in the ass. Windows already has the ability manage all devices, why does Lenovo feel it necessary to bloat the hell out of the thing. And as far as repairing said machines they're really badly designed. On a dell I can drop six screw an I've got full access to the pc board. Not so on a Lenovo.
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  521. Where I work we have a bunch of Lenovo T420, T430 and T440 machines. It stopped with the T440 and was replaced with Dell Latitude E7470's. Why? Lenovo likes to play the power connector game, the T420 and T340 used the same cylindrical power connctor, but the T440 went to rectangular. Oh and let's not forget the docks changed between the T430 and T440. But the Dell machines - same connector and dock that's been on them for the last 25 years.
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  522. That little feature has been on Mazda vehicles for a couple years, and even Volkswagen is now making it standard. And all fo this including blind spot monitoring, line follow, adaptive cruise control - has it's genesis in autonomous vehicles.
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  523. On the Linux side you have the option to store it in a directory only accessible to say, root, or better a special limited user account. And chmod 260 might do. That way root can write but not read, a special group can read and write.
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  524. Interestingly I've been the same weight for over 20 years. It doesn't go up or down.
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  525. I figured out that going full on psycho on the bully usually does the trick. Of course I found out that particular bully - he had a crush on me. Woops.
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  526. Yeah I know. I'm half way through life, have learned a lot. Expert with soldering iron, and ordered my first hot air rework kit. Should be fun.
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  527. Heh, I recall from an old physics course that the speed of light was approximately 3x10^8 m/s. Bit of rounding went on there.
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  528. If I'm any expert on it, I traded my work issued MacBook Pro for a Dell Latitude E7470 - the E7470 has tons of ports including SD, SC, and even mobile chips.
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  529. One thing left out - VW employees are highly unionized.
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  530. All I know is when I went to college the first time, I took a BASIC course on a PDP-11/70 using VT-100 terminals. All interactive. Then PL/I and that was punch cards. Ick! On and that PDP-11/70 ran RSTS-E.
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  531. I have a UWatch U8. Does the same damned thing and the price - $34.
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  532. If you've ever heard Hirohito's defeat speech - you don't even have to understand the Japanese language - the tone is evident! 
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  533. You may not be able to prosecute the miscreants, but you can persecute them.
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  534. In answer to who made those cluster bombs - it was arms manufacturers in the United States and Europe.
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  535. +metric man Assumes I wear a fedora.
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  536. Or you could be me - who sand bagged my boss just enough that he's no longer with the company.
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  537. Now if you want a new computer it's $500 an up. However you can get refurbished machines for the sub $300 mark. I was going to get a Dell XPS 13 but it's $1,200 price  tag was a little steep. Found a Dell Latitude E6420 for $279. Guess what I bought.
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  538. Um, it' s not dart-mouth more like dartmuth. You're welcome.
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  539. In New Jersey it's full serve too.
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  540. My favorite was the old PHP Help Desk app. Worked really well except if you had to modify the code as all the comments were in Polish. 
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  541. Hot wire works too for those foams.
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  542. Well skepticism and critical thinking - I got mine through private schools, in fact Roman Catholic schools. See, they said we couldn't apply the smell test to religion. Ha!
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  543. Oh I knew about the sleep aspect. It's important. And aerobic I do about 3 miles a day of walking.
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  544. I'm used to the spreadsheet application on my HP95LX - sadly the case is disintegrating on it.
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  545. One of the reasons I live on a hill is because I know my city will be mostly underwater in the future. Back in 2010 we got a little preview of that when record rains overflowed the Scituate Reservoir and the water coming out the spillways came right back down into the Woonasquatucket river. To the point where the valley nearby was flooded with at least a couple feet of water and as you went further west the flooding was up to the roof line of some homes.
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  546. What's with the headlights flashing?
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  547. Computational ethics won't work. Why, because ethics required intelligence and we don't have true AI yet.
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  548. I did REALLY good in high school and even college. Only way I slid was when I got bored which was pretty frequent during those years. Even now. The mischief starts in those cases. 
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  549. I wonder if the quantum effect could be realized with this. Just a dab of ink or paint and a wall for them to bounce against.
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  550. New forms of entertainment? Um, jazz was largely fueled my usage of marijuana. It's beautiful and very American. 
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  551. What got me using re-usable shopping bags was shopping at a certain grocery store here in Rhode Island where they charge 10 cents per bag. I could afford to pay it but then what in hell do you do with the bag afterward? Reusable bags are so much better. And it's funny - even in stores that don't charge for bags where we use those bags other people are starting to realize they can do it too. And all the light bulbs in the place are either CFL or LED so that's one other thing that can be done. Now if I could convince the landlord to rip out the water heater and put in an on-demand hot water system.
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  552. I understand these are futures but why are gasoline prices so high. Could it be that the refining capability is artificially constricted? Or the pipeline fees are too high? 
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  553. For soldering you cannot beat the MPJA ZD-929C for $46.95 - I outfitted mine with a set of tips including clamps for less than $100. A Hako similarly outfitted is over $200.
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  554. +Jared Shaffer Well - the MPJA is pretty decent too. I've had it up to 800F no problems. And it too is a 24V 48W unit. Plus it's pretty rugged.
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  555. +Jared Shaffer Well of course - but at 800F the MPJA has NO problem with heavy stuff. And much heavier and the torch comes out.
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  556. The powers of 2 plays out quite a bit in the sequence. I note 1024, 2048, 4096 and 8192 correspond to 2^10, 2^11, 2^12 and 2^13.
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  557. Thanks. Yeah I have Bioshock, Bioschock 2 and Fallout IV on my PC. Plus I have an NES emulator and a bunch of NES games installed too.
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  558. ***** Yes indeed - ch for change, st for station, tr for trunk group, cov for coverage paths etc. Easy. 
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  559. Very cool infrared vid of an engine warming up.
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  560. But but but - DC is dangerous. But yeah I agree - the generation of AC power is too complex. And DC to DC converters would be all that's necessary for home usage. Note I said converter and not inverter.
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  561. Interesting. Price range seems reasonable on all of those. Me I went a slightly different route - got a pair of Symphonized Magnums for $70. You can only get them on Amazon of course - but the tiger wood surrounds definitely resonate nicely.
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  562. Perhaps that is the case. And here's the rub - it's a wasted 500+ HP. There are vehicles out there with sub 500HP that scream down the roads with a lower price, better quality and overall a more pleasurable drive. 
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  563. Well there is the BMW X3, or even a VW Golf TSi. Yes, I have a strong preference for Bavarian and German vehicles. 
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  564. Glad you feel that way. However I recently drove a Chrysler 200S. The transmission sucks, it'll be expensive as all hell to repair, and overall things like a missing rear camera, and thing like that make it a non-starter for me. And UConnect - a joke. It reboots itself regularly. 
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  565. Well - I've driven all sorts of vehicles so there's that. And I realize the comparison lacks a bit - but it shows the general stupidity of of U.S. auto manufacturers. They'll go with all sorts of bells and whistles but the implementation falls short. 
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  566. +eedo123 So you have to resort to ad hominem? So it is you who is the horses ass. There you go, that's proper ad hominem.
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  567. Yeah I've read the KJV and honestly almost the entirety of the Old and New testaments are chock a block full of some pretty horrid stuff.
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  568. Simple, the code rotates after 30 seconds to a new one. Good luck cracking the PIN that way. 
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  569. The PIN would be a composite, something you know + something you have. For example, say I chose 12345678 as a PIN, plus a Google Authenticator code of 901234 that will rotate in 30 seconds. Plus you could have it so the 12345678 could be at the beginning or end or middle of the Google Authenticator code. And Google Authenticator runs on IOS and Android. The RSA token would benefit those without smart phones. Simple enough. I hope that clears it up for you because you obviously didn't read my comment before replying.
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  570. Oh I got quite a few of those intelligence markers.
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  571. Sing it! I'm about to move over to Ubuntu myself. I've got a Dell machine that is the same as that. And I'm ready to sort of ditch XP - but a friend gave me a Dell Studio 1535 with Vista on it - that'll be my Ubuntu box, and then what I'll do is chuck VirtualBox on the Ubuntu box, do a bit image of my XP box and it can live as a Virtual Machine on the Ubuntu box for when I need to use an app that only runs on Windows. 
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  572. Yup we are becoming a nation of dumb fucks because of our stupid politicians. And it's sad - I think the closest we came to a politician who understood that science was key was John F. Kennedy. After that we got a string of conservative idiots who didn't think the science was important.
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  573. My first was a DEC PDP-11/34 running RSTS/E. Then the one I owned was a TRS-80 Model I 16K Level II.
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  574. BillyJoe1305 That is bizarre. The corporation is usually filed with the state and then you elect the type with the IRS. And LLC is usually pretty bulletproof.
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  575. And it just hit me, a modern printing press even the older ones are gigantic robotic platforms.
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  576. Wow - check the guys math. 450x75x50 = 1,687,500 cubic feet. A rail car is 10,000 cubic feet. So 1,687,500 / 10,000 = 168.75 rail cars. So there is a rather large discrepancy there. 
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  577. Just for fun count CPU's in a room. I just did it here - and I come up with 22 which includes two computers, two game platforms, a TV and cable box, RasPi, two VHF/UHF radios, remotes, etc. It's amazing. 
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  578. Oh of course - mine was just a rough count. There are little processors of some sort in just about everything these days. 
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  579. I once was responsible for the design and implementation of a server NOC.Went all out for redundancy - redundant power out the wazoo. It's undoing, even though I'd recommended it was not hosting a DNS zone copy. Oops.
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  580. I went with Home Chef. After about 5 months I stopped the subscription. The biggest issue was the amount of packaging materials got a little out of hand.
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  581. But, but, the steering wheel is on the wrong side. :)
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  582. And yeah, use a 2048 bit SALT value. Good luck cracking that.
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  583. Ah, goto was monster. Gosub or just calling functions in OOP is much better.
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  584. boggisthecat Precisely! It's how I ended up doing what I do vis a vis computers. 
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  585. I think I've seen all of those. Well not the Block but that might be fun to watch too.
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  586. My Catholic high school didn't offer shop class. We had electronics and physics classes instead. That was fun.
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  587. Yeah that's what I've noticed about most vegans I've met. Me, being Italian-American can't do the vegan thing. I'd miss pork too much.
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  588. Actually I did a 14 month gig helping to package sequences genomic data. A full gene scan takes about 1 Terabyte of storage. Exomes take significantly less.
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  589. Regards IMSI catchers and the like I've been aware of them for a long time.
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  590. When you consider the original Apollo mission hardware wasn't NASA built, they contracted to Boeing, North American, et al. So it's no surprise that NASA is looking at Space-X and Blue Origin.
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  591. Oh and I've been in interviews where I flat out told them sorry - not interested. And as I said, I'm an I.T. Manager that knows how to say no.
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  592. Ever read about the battle for Medicare/Medicaid? The god damned AMA was very vocal about not supporting those programs. 
    1
  593. Interesting about the difference in glass. I have a boro-silicate pyrex measuring cup. In the U.S.
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  594. Agreed - and sauteed veggies are the best in an omelet.
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  595. Part of the issue with Acela is that the ONLY state where it can do it's maximum speed is through Rhode Island? Why - because we eliminated all at-grade crossings in the state.
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  596. Oh I know how it works - and how to diagnose issues relating to it. When you've been in the I.T.field for as long as I have you tend to know this by rote. 
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  597. The thing is the regional and Acela trains travel at the exact same speed. And prices vary between $13 to $52 depending on time of day, which service you use etc.
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  598. We're mostly made of C-H-N-S-O - all things that were fused in old stars eons ago. And if you really think about it, I'm pretty certain we're not the only planet with life on it in the Universe.
    1
  599. Yeah I support the Sanders campaign. Why? His message resonates. First politician to do so in quite some time.
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  600. Well I do know a former place of employment whose HP LaserJet 5si was fully exposed on the net.
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  601. Yeah, I've driven a few VW Gold's with the 2.0L TSI engine. I love it - power and a relatively small displacement.
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  602. And some of us went into other engineering disciplines - particularly with computers. Hence why today I am known as a Senior Linux Engineer.
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  603. I see the different, the color is a little bit more washed out in VHS than it is in Beta.
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  604. What Nick is describing sounds awfully like a linear motor.
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  605. i dare say the I.T./I.S. field is like that too. Particularly on the systems side.
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  606. Weird, out here in southeast New England we're getting lots more rain than snow. In January.
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  607. Interesting about ramp meters. Where I live access to I-95 north and south have traffic signals at the top of the ramp. But traffic is still a freaking mess. And roundabouts known as a rotaries in the U.S. They just installed them on the interchange of Route 1, Route 117 etc. in Warwick. No signage whatsoever. That annoys the shit out of me. And we are big on cloverleafs in RI. Just go lookup Route 37 and I-95 on google maps.
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  608. And in a way we do have partially nuclear powered cars plying the roads today. You see nuclear power plants supply power to charge electric cars.
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  609. I've watched Elon Musk say he wants to make a $20000 electric vehicle and that these cars are a direct route to getting there. Plus Tesla took over an abandoned GM plant in California. They're only using about half of it right now.
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  610. But this is just basing it on a toy. But how do you now that a robot can't have an empathy and feelings? That's the part that really scares me.
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  611. It's worse than even that stated in the video. For years legislators have been screwing with educational standards. They've set it up so we can teach kids just enough to be able to push the button or perform a set of steps but not enough to enhance critical thinking skills. Because if you were to do that latter - you'd have a populace that would rise up against the oligarchs.  Me - the first twelve were in Catholic schools in the 1970's and early 1980's. They taught us critical thinking. It;'s why the legislature in RI - if you look at just the high school they matriculated from, a large percentage are from my alma mater, LaSalle Academy, and another huge chunk from a Providence Public school allowed to be selective in enrollment and vigorous in educational standards, or Classical High School.
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  612. Well AI is going to change a very large swatch of the economy. Autonomous cars for example - the auto industry will see large changes in sales, plus cops - you won't need as many traffic enforcement police. Medicine - gene editing particularly CRISPR-Cas9.
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  613. The other thing - in this household it's only sea salt and pink himalayan salt. Guess I'll have to get the iodized variety. Maybe no though as we're not women.
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  614. I absolutely abhor politicians who think the video record doesn't exist.WHat the matter with Oz - he can't cut it as a doctor or what the story? And I'm pro choice and you know where I think we should set the limit? Just ask how far we can save premature babies. Goes out to last I knew about 26 weeks. Which is about six moths in. It's funny a friend was telling stories about her mom having multiple D&C's until I explained what they were to her. They're effectively abortions. Ha ha ha ha.
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  615. One thing these big business owners (Stockholders) don't realize is that you can only milk the golden calf so much. Dismantle Social Security, Unemployment, and welfare and food stamp programs and WATCH what happens. First you'll see an uptick in property crimes. Then when people organize, we're one of the most WELL armed people on the planet. It's going to be ugly.
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  616. So in essence, the bigots can go back to the stone age. Good - I want to see them live by Biblical rules - just for 30 days.
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  617. I have an original Wii. But don't use it - most of my old school Nintendo stuff you can get the ROMS online and just use JNES to play them. And I have a Steam account.
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  618. What really iritates me is when police are used as an instrument of corporate interest.
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  619. I don't know what I'd do if I saw this on the roadways. Wow.
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  620. I've made butter. The old fashioned way - get some heavy cream, put into a sealable container and shake vigorously for awhile. You get butter and buttermilk out the other end.
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  621. It's funny - I cam to the Fourier series not through any traditional method but through studying phase angles for amateur radio work. Plus I recall plotting curve functions a long time ago.
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  622. What's this scroll lock key, no such on my keyboard. Of course it's a Chromebook.
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  623. Breakfast most days is eggs, sausage, grits and half a bagel. Then sometimes I make belgian waffles though I don't use syrup. Just get frozen fruit like berries, peaches, add some monfruit, a bit of water and two tblsp of flour. Voila topping for waffles. And no sugar added.
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  624. Strike the U.S. and I can pretty much guarantee that Pyongyang will be a nuclear wasteland. We can loft a nuke at them in less than 30 minutes.
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  625.  @alostsoul6321  Just saying I've worked with navy nukes and am aware of the weaponry on ballistic missile submarines.
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  626. One annoyance it's hitting zero was an idiocy
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  627. Fun facts about China. They're doing it to break U.S. Hegemony. Nothing more and make a little money of course. Plus China is experience a decline n fertility. Plus their one child policy has changed the country - where for every 2 women there are 3 men.
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  628. But at 97% they believed 3 points was enough doubt to put up an argument. But at 99.94, 6 hundreths of a percent is a little harder to argue upon. Pus there's the Shell Oil report from 1984 that pretty much tipped it that climate change was man made.
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  629. Let's see there was the parade float built from chicken wire, tissue and spray paint. That worked really well.
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  630. Of course now the horror in RI is the governor. She's not the sharpest crayon in the box either. Glad I left that cursed state.
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  631. And Volkswagen Golfs and Subaru Imprezas both have that little gate on the automatic where you can sequentially shift too.
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  632. While large herds of the U.S. are dumb as a box of rocks, lots are still really generous.
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  633. The guy you're thinking about at the end is Richard Cohen.
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  634. Never had kidney stones. I guess it's because I curtailed my calcium intake. And my water intake has always been good.
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  635. A good point is brought up regarding energy use in the U.S. It isn't because Europe or Japan doesn't heat/cool their homes, but instead it's because of our extensive road network and the amount of single passenger vehicles. That's the biggest consumer of fossil fuel.
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  636. Well the U.S. is half in and half` out of metric. For exampe food stuffs have both measures. And a 20oz. bottle of liquid is approximately half a liter. But I wish we'd just go whole hog into it. Even the tires on my car, P20570R16 - the last two are the wheel in inches but the rest is the tire dimensions. And I can switch the Driver Information Center from English to Metric easily.
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  637. This is all based on using CRISPR-cas9 to edit genetics. It's fascinating.
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  638. Bring on a depression? I've always said the corporate interests will one day bite their own hand because if the wage earners don't have the cash, they won't buy the products. It's pretty simple.
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  639. Let us not forget the RCA Lyra. I had one way back when. It was a decent little player. Now of course Spotify is my main music player.
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  640. I wonder if a notch filter would have been more effective.
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  641. Consider too who owns Kia - it's Hyundai.
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  642. And I gotta say, when he said "I'm not a mathematician but a computer scientist.." was great.
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  643.  @HermitKing731  There is so far no genetic basis for being gay. Instead it's the mind which we're just starting to figure out now.
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  644.  @HermitKing731  Actually they haven't yet mastered hardware wired to biological systems yet. Just give it time. And I wonder if maybe we might be able to copy and move our consciousness. That would be a big deal.
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  645. $30K? Wow, makes me glad I'm in the field I'm in.
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  646. In essence it eases the way money flows but with full audit included. I'm lightly invested in one cryptocurrency and I gotta say so far it's increased in value by 300% in four months. Not bad.
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  647. Well I know in Providence, RI Westminster Street was in the 1960's a pedestrian mall, then in the 70's traffic was allowed but then they narrowed the road and expanded the sidewalks in the 1980's.
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  648. Let's see and, or, xor and not comprise Boolean logic.
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  649. Some of us though have finely tuned bullshit detectors. Mine has served me well all my life. I'm completely resistant to having faith in things I cannot see, that are not tangible.
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  650. Police long ago lost all credibility when they showed themselves to be instruments of corporatism. Call them what they are, pigs!
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  651. Two things when corporations take over. They Have no duty to care. Plus one thing is clear wev don't give a flying leap about the elderly. Which us a shame.
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  652. Ha ha ha. Funny stuff.
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  653. Both you and Maher are absolutely right. We need a strong liberal party with leadership that has charisma.
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  654. I think they get confused by electo-magnetism - the thing behind light, radiation, et al.
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  655. You know how Microsoft wanted to separate program setup info and dll's from the OS. They never quite succeeded.
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  656. I bought a 2019 Chevy Trax. I gotta say for the price (< $20K) it's fairly well optioned. For example automatic lights, push button start, bush button unlock, remote start, power windows, power locks, power drivers seat etc. And i did option the one built in South Korea as opposed to one built in Mexico.
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  657. Ah yeah phonemes learned about those since I had a speech synthesizer on my TRS-80 Model 1 Level II machine.
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  658. Nice job so far. Would love to see the rust worked out and it repainted in the same color.
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  659. Oh I've scanned the hell out of my IP cameras.
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  660. I agree with liability insurance. It'd cost about $900 a year.
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  661. Recall too, this country experienced unprecedented growth with the rise of the middle class right after WW II.
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  662. Well in my case the headphones are bluetooth, but I have JNES for Nintendo NES games, and Project64 for N64 games on my PC. And the landline went a long time ago - first to VOIP but then finally that got outrageously expensive so it got dropped. In fact I'm using my phone tethered to the computer to post this.
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  663. All warfare is driven by banks and industry.
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  664. Oil and gasoline prices have been manipulated hard since the 1970's. Blame speculation (oil should NOT be traded on the speculative market!), the constriction of refining capability, and just the general boorishness of the oil companies about spills (BP), and you can see that we need to stop them in their tracks. I estimate if this continues we will see gasoline prices in the $6 to $8 per gallon range by July 2011.
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  665. Oh I don't use credit for cars. What I use is C-a-s-h.
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  666. It also demonstrates that you have to be very careful questioning I.T. people. I should know I'm one of them. It's the Xerox machine.
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  667. Well the depth to which the government in Germany and the auto manufacturers go means that if the auto industry collapses, Germany collapses. You know, sort of how after the Treaty of Versailles was signed. That's my biggest fear on that one.
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  668. It's not so much the oil but the damned sugar in everything. I'm serious. And what fat and cholesterol we take in, it just goes right out without affecting our lipid profile.
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  669.  @aliendroneservices6621  Yeah I know only oil I use is Olive oil and Avocado oil. But case in point sugar - I dropped all sources of sugar. Went from 240lbs with high blood pressure to 150lbs with normal bp. And yes in addition to those oils I use a lot or butter to cook.
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  670. Well the methane is nothing but what, natural gas - so re-burn it, capture the carbon, put it down in the earth, extract the methane again and again. : ) And convert the motor vehicles to electric - that requires direct government subsidies and tax breaks.
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  671. Here's what I don't get. I don't know of a single police agency in the U.S. that isn't heavily unionized. So what's up with that?
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  672. So several years ago the Narragansett tribe decided to start selling cigarettes without the tax stamp. The State of Rhode Island quashed that mighty quickly.
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  673. RI a movie for two is $25.
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  674. Imagine me - living in the state of Rhode Island where they not only charge a sales tax, but an excise tax every year. Moved to the state of Georgia and my mind boggles, there's no excise tax on cars anymore. Just the ad valorum tax. That makes me happy.
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  675. I'm curious about the tones used on commercial aviation.
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  676. If you really want to get freaked - now you can 'breathe' without pulmonary action. Yep - 30 to 45 minutes they can oxygenate blood without using the lungs. Pretty cool huh? It's a DARPA project.
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  677. I see you still have that annoying search box on your Windows machine. You can get rid of that. I shut mine off because on a laptop it's annoying.
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  678. Ok, there's news that reasonable levels of Vitamin D stave off a lot of cancers. So this contradicts this study.
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  679. All very valid points made in this video. Taxing the Wall Street transactions is a good start. And while we're at it, I think we should penalize the banks who fail to issue loans. Make it more risky to hold on to the money than to put it out there.
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  680. Then of course there's CRC, and when we talk check digits the one for UPC is fun too. Basically you sum up the digits then find the difference between the sum and the next tens value.
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  681. In my case I know that the 50 miles between my city and Boston are about 80Km but I seriously wish we had just made the switch.
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  682. I use French press. Plus I roast my own green coffee beans.. My technique is to use a West bend sturv crazy popcorn machine. Takes 25 to 30 minutes.
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  683. You know what is really funny about this. AT&T used lots of Microwave but Bill McGowan one upped them with his own microwave systems. Its what destroyed the Bell System.
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  684. You know you hit on a certain concept about why there's such denial of global climate change. I know for example cars and trucks are a huge part of the issue. I recall as kid I used to ask where the exhaust from a car went.
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  685. Police cars around here are white with blue lettering for locals, gray with black lettering for State Police.
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  686. Just the excise tax on that alone would be obscene. For example 181 * 60 = $10,860 first year excise at full value. That's $2715 per quarter. Of course they're trying to abolish the excise tax in the state.
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  687. This is why I love the system here in RI. We mark up a paper ballot, then feed the ballot into a scanning machine. It keeps the paper ballots so recount is easy if it becomes necessary.
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  688. Look at what's happening in Atlanta, GA right now. And little publicized is the fact that the northeast U.S. is under drought conditions too.
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  689. Oh they're going to nail her! I love it!
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  690. And I can tell you where most of the stimulus funds went in my state. It didn't really create any jobs here per se. What it did was purchase nearly 100 hybrid buses for RIPTA. It funded projects like sidewalk replacement, signal replacement, etc. But it was all one shot.
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  691. One movie in which that specific RV was used was Stripes. There's a theme for the next run. Here's the RV in question: https://youtu.be/bENF08EyIck
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  692. Israel is also acknowledged as a state by Egypt, Syria and Jordan to name a few.
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  693. If a machine has consciousness and can feel pain does that make us their gods?
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  694. What is effectively on those tractors is likely similar to OBD-II. It's been on all passenger vehicles for the last 22 years. And is there any competition to John Deere? I mean are all tractor manufacturers being so greedy? And here's the thing - Deere doesn't have much of a case. But here's a thought - push for standardization on motorized farm equipment. With full publication of standards.
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  695. Recycled Plastic Drink Bottles is a euphemism for those two famous designers, Poly and Ester or Polyester.
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  696. Well China does have a few problems. For example the one child policy that existed until recently has caused an imbalance in the male-female numbers. Second there is the persecution of Uighur people. And lastly there's Hong Kong. Any one of these will be enough to derail the ambition of the Chinese. And the funny is we have the same issues in slightly different forms in the U.S.
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  697. My 2019 Chevy Trax is electric power steering. You can use your pinky finger to spin the wheel.
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  698. Yeah I'd say South Korea has a more developed economy. Why? Because I'm watching this on a Samsung built chromebook.
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  699. Here I will tell you the fundamental difference between Shia and Sunni - it's all to do with who succeeded the death of the prophet Mohammed. One his direct lineal descendant the other a brother in law.
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  700. One other effect would be they'd have to govern by coalition - sort of like Italy.
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  701. This is why if you're handling large amounts of cash you hire an armored car service.
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  702. I have seen the video of the 1986 RI Constitutional Convention. I've never seen something come so close to trading blows with each other. It was incredible. And I'll be honest - I could see doing it every 10 years - if anything just to clarify language.
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  703. Well you could tie the U.S. Dollar to the Euro, and to Asian currencies and then we'd effectively have a world currency/government.
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  704. Well government price controls of course. But I can see us rapidly moving toward a cashless society.
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  705. Here in RI we settled the creche case back in the 1980's. So our Governor is correct in calling the trees in the State House by their proper name, Holiday Trees.
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  706. Oh yeah and if we build a place hits solar power to a battery system . and a 125kW natural gas fired generator for when the sun don't shine. Can you tell I've spec'd out redundant power systems before.
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  707. Well it's the White Death From the Sky in New England today. So I bet this storm tracks in your area too.
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  708. Well if we want to split hairs even more, perhaps we should look at the makeup of the hijackers. 17 of the 19 were Sauid Arabian. It means they practice the Wahabi version of Islam. It's one of the more virulent forms of the religion.
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  709. And here's my take - the ballots have already been counted. No real fraud to speak of either. So what exactly is Trump all riled up about? And while the coup would be legal, is it actually moral? And one other thing I'd advise people to do, get involved with a political campaign. I did once - to the point I was asked to work on another campaign. I had to decline that latter.
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  710. There is a bunch of Android phones too. I abhor Apple products
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  711. Oh yeah and when I lived in Providence, RI I watched National Grid come to the b conclusion that iron pipes leaked like all get out. I watched them tear up a freshly paved roadway, rip out the iron pipe. Then replaced it with what looked an awful lot like pex.
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  712. Yup - I spotted the tricks - the suggestions etc. I have a built in bovine effluent detector otherwise known as being extremely skeptical. Serves me well.
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  713. And actually the 1st amendment reads "The right of the people to peacably assemble for redress of grievance ." That right there is the jist. And recall it was written before cars existed, so a balance needs to be struck there too.
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  714. My favorite is on craigslist - the rehoming fees for animals. And some of the conditions they state are hilarious.
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  715. The Koch Network is essentially a parasitic organization in motive of profits. And what do we do to parasites? We kill them and sunshine is the best disinfectant
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  716. What is mid-life when your projected lifespan is over 100 years? I say that because that's what I found out when I ran my genome. And what I know of technology is that we are pushing out the age of death by decades. Just 150 years ago you pretty much died at 50. But with the medical tech, even rudimentary things like vaccination - has extended lifespans. Now of course we can edit genes, and even 3D print organs with vascular structures in them. I mean we've been printing esophaguses, bladder, etc. for years. Now we're entering the age of custom printed organs. Just imagine what that will change. And we're getting ever close to being able to connect the brain with computers. That's fascinating too.
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  717.  @OfMiceAndMegabytes  Oh I don't know about that. Imagine an investment you bought at say $500 today would be worth a few million just fifty years out. Or a hundred. Think too how much tail you could chase if you had your health for the majority of the time.
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  718. How I wish I had the money to get this video. I'll have to wait until it pops up on the net I suppose.
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  719. Mmm, numbers don't confuse me plus being able to do math in four or five different number systems makes it somewhat easier.
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  720. Oh rats aren't just an NYC problem. I grew up in Providence, RI and let me tell you we killed a ton of rats. They used to burro under the dog house. A friend and I solved that - got a rock, two shovels and let the game begin. We'd lift up the doghouse and the rats would come running out. The other of us would smack it with the other shovel, then scoop it up and throw it in the field nearby. There was a huge pile of dead rats when we'd finished.
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  721. I have a Nest thermostat. I understand it's trying to be nice when it drops the temp inside to Eco mode or 60F. And pretty easy to just launch the app on my phone and tell it we're home. It's all got to do with the placement of the thermostat. It's right by the front door. Even in older places I've lived it's buried into the interior. The net result the warmest/coolest area of the place is the bathroom.
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  722. So in essence blinkist is Cliff Notes for the net. I'd prefer to read the printed word, in electronic form.
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  723. Ah this is why auto manufacturers the world round are tripping over themselves and introducing electric cars. I guess they're at least trying to break the grip Diesel fuel providers have.
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  724. I tend to go lower carb - but two or three times a week I will do non-meat dishes or fish. Try for the five services of fruit and vegetable every day too.
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  725. Yes in fact it is pro-union. But here's a though if corporations have the same rights as we humans doesn't this set up a legal challenge of some sort? In essence his statement muzzles the management at the expense of labor. Interesting. And look at the marriage equality thing - Biden came out in support before Obama did. That was interesting.
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  726. Very interesting. Special interests are codewords for corporate power. Most PAC's are part of Corporate America.
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  727. Well - there was Heisenbger - but Schrodinger his thing was to disprove the quantum. In fact his Cat - that's the experiment you're describing.
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  728. One of the biggest? Need I remind Herr Beck that there was the WTC Bombing in 1993 or so, then 9/11/2001, in the body count category Boston ranks, thankfully, very low. While I am sad about the people who died, in the total realm of things Boston was a non-event.
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  729. Actually it's corruption.
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  730. I think Kim Jong Un realized his bluff can't be played out. Therefore he wants to resolve the North Korea issue. And if you ever saw a night time map of the Koreas - North Korea is a dark wasteland. Plus add the brain drain from North Korea. And Kim Jong Un wants what South Korea has.
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  731. As a youngster I had discovered that a butter knife could extract screws from a LOT of things. As I got older I could freak my mom out with shorting a screwdriver across capacitors. :)
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  732. So it is obvious that the intelligence was fixed to justify our entry into Iraq. Anyone with half a brain could smell that one a mile away. So why don't the Dems seize on this, and why haven't Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and that entire cast not made been made to answer for this?
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  733. Interestingly I have a Zipcar account. I've driven all sorts of different vehicles. One of them is the Subaru Impreza Sport. One of the first Japanese - well it was made in Indiana but first Japanese design that was stable at 80-90MPH. And I have been heard to say "This would be a fun car for rallying."
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  734. If you think about it the big issue is just having two political parties. It's easier for those with money to get the best government their money can buy. I want something more like Italy, or Germany - where there's 40 parties and you govern by coalition. And just two parties means it's relatively inexpensive to buy our politicians. But with 40 or 50 it gets to be expensive and you aren't guaranteed to have your way.
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  735. Oh lowest temp I've seen in Georgia is 35F. Yeah I know.
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  736. So Putin's main fear is coming true. Ukraine shall be Part of the E.U. and by default a NATO member
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  737. One my dad had was an international harvester Scout.. I believe n it was a 1979.
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  738. One other thing, keep in mind rf power falls off at the square of the distance. So there't that too.
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  739. The other secret - diesel fuel and #2 heating oil are the exact same thing. Except one has a dye in it the other doesn't.
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  740. Actually pizza is better the next day. Heat an oven or toaster oven up to 400F. Then put the pizza right on the rack for about 7-8 minutes. It gets nice and crispy and doesn't flop over.
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  741. So you have to wonder, what will the CO2 levels now mean for the future. Hell of a lot wetter I bet.
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  742. I think if it costs less to run it'll succeed. And with 70% fuel savings that's a positive sign for SE Aeronautic.
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  743. Oh hell for us guys just find a quiet and private corner and let loose.
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  744. Chicken never gets washed. Patted dry yes but not washed. Now I do occasionally brine meat. A little salt, some water and et voila flavor is born. Even beef and pork and some types of fish get patted dry too.
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  745. I couldn't ever use a radar jammer. Why? Because see the letters in my youtube name. Yep I hold an Amateur Extra class license and also have a commercial radio license too.
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  746. Hells Bells - the entirety of the price of a gallon of fuel is manipulated from pumping it from the ground to pumping it at the gas station. In the U.S. in particular they restrain refining capacity to deliberately drive up the price.
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  747. Ambassadors for Christ in uniform and full battle gear. You have to wonder exactly which part of Christianity they don't understand.
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  748. One question that comes to mind though - what happens to all the cops that will get laid off if we implement as a health problem as opposed to criminal justice problem? We need a massive economic reboot in the United States. Yes, bring some manufacturing back here.
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  749. If you want a very deep dive I suggest you do Bell System history. It's a fascinating one from about the 1920's to the 1950's.
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  750. And more interesting to me is Peltier junctions. They work on temperature differential. But they generate electric current when the differential is right. And the upshot - there are a number of spacecraft that are on Mars for example that use Peltier junctions to take the heat energy from decaying radioactive material to power them. And if you think Infrared is cool I suggest UV. Shine it on objects and watch what happens. For instance your state ID, or paper money.
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  751. I'm not a Bostonian but from Providence near to Pawtuxet where the year before the Boston Tea Party we in RI burned the tax collector ship the Gaspee.
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  752. Of course. The puppet masters understand that a maleducated public is necessary for them to take complete and utter control.
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  753. Interesting. I class hydrogen peroxide in with bleach. You don't really want to ingest either one.
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  754. In Rhode Island they use a mark-sense system. You use a marker to complete lines toward your choice on the ballot. Then when done feed it into the scanner. Be sure the count updates and you're on your way. Really simple and fairly secure. Oh and I remember HAVA - I was at the RI Sec of State's office when the first round came out - it allowed us to move the elections, corporations and I.T. divisions to a new facility and setup a redundant Central Voter Registration System. From having servers in a back closet to a full up server room with redundant power was fun to plan too.
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  755. Let's see I've been patted down - it didn't even approach shouldn't they take me on a date first though. I've also been through the scanner - sort of objectionable there.
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  756. I'm somewhat concerned not so much about glass but about the plastics out there. There's an awful lot of it. And it's everywhere. Computers, cars, containers, etc. are majority plastic. And the problem with plastics is it's still less expensive to create new than to recycle. In fact I've seen packaging that no longer identifies the type of plastic saying to recycle. Yeah right.
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  757. Just do Google Checkout. 20/2 plan. So if it's $25 it's 20 cents plus 50 cents, or 70 cents. To me that's acceptable, to others it's not so acceptable.
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  758. Only issue is if you're diabetic. Then most of the product at Trader Joe's is verboten. Used to love shopping there in the northeast but haven't been to one down here in the Atlanta area yet.
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  759.  @elizabethblane201  Yes indeed - I've become painfully aware of that. Like I said I used to tip the scales at close to 230 now down to about 180. And I wasn't diabetic by my spouse was. So dietary changes applied to both of us.
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  760.  @elizabethblane201  Oh I'm aware of that. Next time I go to a supermarket I want to video how much carbs are on display. That should be a fun one.
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  761. What's easier to roll back an odometer that is mechanical a digital one. I know on my Chevy I can disconnect the battery negatuveb and the digital onion battery odometer stays on. This says there's backup power
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  762. And isn't RIvian the same company that is building Amazon's electric delivery trucks. Nice.
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  763. Reduction to the absurd. That's what they're using to try to bolster their conspiracy theories.
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  764. Consider for a moment who originally armed the warlords. It was the U.S., remember too that Russia got it's own ass handed to it in Afghanistan.
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  765. If the police and military join the people, Mubarak is done. Stick a fork in him already.
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  766. The other thing ranked choice voting does is break the party system. I am all for that.
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  767. Conduct Unbecoming! What part doesn't the Michigan AG not get about that?
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  768. It's simple, Kevin Martin stands to profit from allowing more consolidation. The FCC has never been independent. I'm for an overhaul of the FCC. Make it a lottery system and draw two commission members from each of the bureaus at random who meet age criteria. That would stop this bullshit.
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  769. Oh I've known about the danger of electricity since I was a kid. Once welded a screwdriver to the power capacitor on a device. Then of course advised my dad to cut the breaker off before replacing a light fixture. Yup he learned.
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  770. All my IOT stuff connects through it's own VLAN view wifi and through my Cisco firewall.
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  771. Which is why fusion makes more sense. Deuterium and Tritium are isotopes of hydrogen. And we're surrounded some 70% of the planet in fact is covered in it it's water H2O .
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  772. Now there are no more operators
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  773. Where I come from,Providence, RI - it was a very walkable city. For example just down the block from where I lived was DePasquale Plaza. It was basically a blocked off street with a huge fountain in it. But all sorts of retail and restaurants. Yes Providence was a colonial city. Even Atwells Avenue was loaded with shops and restaurants.
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  774. Just goes to prove, be careful wht you wish for.
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  775. Here's what it's like in Rhode Island - I-95 to be specific. I can recall when I was young the entirety of that highway was marked at 70MPH. Now the speed limit varies depending on where you are. For example from Provdience north to Pawtucket the speed limit goes from 55 to 50 to 45 in about a 2 mile stretch. On a highway with 3 lanes - each 12 feet wide. So 36 feet in inches is 432 inches - way past arterial etc. In fact the only reason our speed limits are set so low is that it's used for revenue enhancement and nothing more. Now go south on I-95 - it's 55MPH until you hit around Exit 9 then rises to 65MPH. Try doing 55 on that highway - just try it. i've gotten a vehicle up to 100MPH on it a few times but average speed are between 60 and 75MPH. And where I live - on street is necessary. Why? Because the part of the city I live in was built between 1840 and 1900. Before cars were widespread.
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  776. And then there's the old joke, what's the difference between a porcupine and a Porsche? On a porcupine the pricks are on the outside.
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  777. Corporations have ALWAYS been the problem in the United States. So long as the notion that corporations have the same rights as flesh and blood humans is to me ludicrous. A corporation outlasts a human life, doesn't act as a social entity, it's an artifice.
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  778. When it comes to coffee I want to roast my own beans, preferably Costa Rican Dota Estate beans. I want to grind it fresh and then brew it. Best damned cup of coffee I had. I used to down a quart of it a day.
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  779. I found out little mason jars are great for making sous vide creme brule. However make sure to caramelize the sugar as soon as they come out of the bath. Otherwise thermal failurev happens.
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  780. The other thing the hydramatic had what, 2 speeds? My 2019 Chevy has 6. And of course that's back in the days before GM realized letting each division build it's own engines was too expensive.Oh yeah and those steering wheels, big difference in them since the 1940's too.
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  781. Go lookup "The Toaster Story" It tells you everything you need to know.
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  782. And David, you make the point for common carrier status of cable data networks. And here in Providence I have the choice of Cox or Verizon - a duopoly. Neither is a bargain and I've experience horror stories from the former, and really bad horror stories from the latter. So what choice is there?
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  783. Funny story - again. When I lived in Rhode Island a friend of mine lived near a pig farm. The odor from that was horrendous. Now cows I've been exposed to those too at Wrights Dairy Farm. The odor of that is um, interesting too. But I'm Italian-American myself and I gotta say pork and beef figure big in the cuisine.
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  784. It's funny I know XOR and carry but from a more abstract level. Used it in assembler on a Z80 processor back in the day.
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  785. Next one you have to do DNS. I know some DNS horror stories.
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  786. What are the buttons on the back of the drivers side visor?
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  787. My Chevy Trax had multiple air bags. Drive and passenger of course but side curtain and seat side air bags.
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  788. 1.9/1.5 - intact family until I was 13 then blended family after a death of a parent. Grew up in urban environment.
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  789. Disco really didn't die it morphed into House and Dance music. And the reason disco died, it was both very black and very gay. That is what caused much of the backlash against it.
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  790. Of course Trump pleads not guilty.
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  791. You bought it with salvage title I'd assume? Just paint the thing.
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  792. Let's see an Actor, a CIA Spook, a Philanderer, an Idiot, and then a Scholar and finally a Buffoon. Not a very good list of Presidents in the U.S. in recent history.
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  793. Oh man - I spent $260 - that got me a Ring doorbell, and two IP Cameras - all they needed was power. Captured all sorts of interesting stuff with those. The IP cameras were $30 each. Right now they're at a friends house watching a living room and a bedroom. Any snaps get uploaded to an FTP server.
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  794. The missing 3.5 minutes, the suicide ruling, it all points to a fact. That fact is that the police MURDERED Chavis Carter. And now the police get away with it.
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  795. Unbelievable once again. The more I hear Wilkerson talk the more I say why didn't he come forward 5 or 6 years ago? Ok, so we could have had a re-unified Korea, diplomatic relations with Iran... what the hell else did Bush & Cheney screw us out of?
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  796. It's funny back in the early 1980's I had a RS TRS-80 Model 1 Level II with disk, voice synthesizer and voice input. That was fun. And when I call comcast it's now a machine that answers and plays key clicks while it's looking up your account. The other is walgreens - calling the local one gets me an automated attendant. When the options she offers don't match i just scream "pharmacy" Eventually it gets what I want.
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  797. Well remember Ohm's Law - V=IR and it's permutations. From there you can add resistance to the input voltage to get it down to 5V - or just use a power regulator.
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  798. The problem is that Brown ASSUMES we all believe in the same God. What about those of us who don't believe in any god? Why should we have to live by the strictures of YOUR God.
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  799. I'm 5'8" and 150lbs. If I lost more weight I'd likely look emaciated. That said my diet varies for example seared salmon over a salad, or high vegetable intake. And yes mashed cauliflower is good when seasoned properly.
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  800. Put it this way - beyond the remote for the xmas tree lights I will NOT use Alexa, Google's Assistant or the like. I'll go with a plain old non-connected door lock. And of course I'm sure you've heard about Ring and how people are running pranks on people that have them. Because in all of this security is an afterthought. And pin codes on an iphone - people usually just use their birth month and year or year alone. So start at 1900. And one defeat - if it's not visible it cannot be hacked using this method.
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  801. Aww what a cute dog. I used to have German Shepherds when I was younger. One had been a police dog washout. I found out that she remembered her training. That dog was always right by my side and heaven help you if you raised a hand to me. She'd tear your throat out. She was a very good dog. I miss her to to this day.
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  802. Yes I have. I've been in the protest for gay rights in RI and in the National Equality march. Can't get much more political than that.
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  803. Very interesting. I know aircraft are highly automated. But when the automation systems themselves are impacted well. I've seen similar in my career - and how failure to listen to me resulted in some rather odd results.
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  804. This bitch is Italian? Through marriage, oh wait she's not married. So her mother had to be Italian and her father Irish.
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  805. Bet they're using FRS OR more probably GMRS. I have radios that can go there.
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  806. And here's another one, the IDDD code in the U.S. is 011, the little indicator in the Fibonacci series.
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  807. I'd prefer instant hot water heaters
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  808. Could be me - we had two iPod touches - one updated and the other didn't. The one that updated lost dock connectivity. Then one place of employment - they grew quickly and so AD was necessary. They gave IT MacBooks. I explained you can't do AD administration from a Macbook.
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  809. Hell there's the seat sensor, proximity sensors etc. in cars that could be used as dead man switches. And since most cars already have ABS - you could mod the code in the ABS system to say if nobody's in the seat, lock the brakes up. However one thing annoys me - newer cars with traction control etc. They don't do well in snow. They limit the throttle to the point where you cannot apply power to get out of a snow issue.
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  810. Or you could be in RI where the infrastructure for EV's sucks. And if you really wanted to build it quickly you could just add charging stations at gas stations. And where I live, in the City of Providence proper the homes here were all built between 1850 and 1900. Times when no provision for cars was made so it's mostly on-street parking. I suppose I could hang a separate meter on the pole outside the house and install the charger there but then will I always be able to park near it?
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  811. GMO's have been around a lot longer than 10 years. Need I mention the Banana? That said, he's right on the vaccination thing. I'd be a little terrified of jumping forward in time 50 years because you're going to see a re-emergence of the nasties of the past like polio and measles. So you can suck it Jenny McCarthy - as Specter says, you're doing more harm than good.
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  812. Just call them peril sensitive windows. Problem solved.
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  813. Oh I know about pop rivets. They're awesome.
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  814. I've worked in places they had bathrooms for all.
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  815. Leaves out those of us who are misanthropes.
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  816. I spent two years basically drunk. It's when I worked for the state attorney general
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  817. So why is Chevrolet putting Continental tires on it's vehicles?
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  818. The funny about diesel fuel is it's nearly identical to home heating oil. Just the latter doesn't have the tax applied or the dye added.
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  819. All I know is mushrooms add a certain umami to most dishes. So the mycellium bacon - sure it'd probably taste pretty damn good.
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  820. The whole lemon law thing I'm well aware manufacturers will produce lemons now and then. Chrysler for example.
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  821. Oh sure the could not fail but when they screwed up they really screwed up.
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  822. I support a natural path to citizenship for migrants to the United States. My father and I used to clash about this - my great grandparents came here from Italy. My father maintained "That was different" I asked him how different it was. In fact I live in a district of my city that is know for Italian immigrants. I've seen the photos at the State Archives - of signs in business windows "No Irish or Italian Need Apply". Boils my blood because my ancestry includes both groups.
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  823. I would not for a moment doubt Russia had a hand in the affairs of North Korea if only to occupy U.S. attention on the saber rattling beteween Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump instead of the Russian interference in the U.S. 2016 election.
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  824. Hmmm.. Phelps-Roper almost seems sane in this interview.
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  825. I dunno I eat approximately 700 eggs per year. BMI is normal, don't have diabetes. Nope. Now sugar - sure I'll put on a ton of weight if I eat sugar daily.
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  826. I learned to drive a manual transmission on a Ford Bronco II.
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  827. Not all women like bad guys
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  828. I've repaired several MacBooks in my career all the way up to ones with the SSD's. Best Buy and Apple are idiots.
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  829. Speaking of relays. When I was younger I rigged a relay to buzz and then fed that through a transformer. In essence I'd created a spark gap transmitter but it would give one hell of a shock. Also come to thing of it I created an AC signal switch mode power unit.
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  830. There are Tesla chargers all around me. They do need to get on the CCS bandwagon. I mean after all all cars use the same gas nozzle that means electric vehicles should standardize too.
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  831. If she is an I.T. worker I'm the god damned Pope. Christ on a stick it doesn't get much crazier.
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  832. It's the idiocy of using a fixed number as key.
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  833.  @mfmageiwatch  Well that's just how I learned long ago.
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  834.  @mfmageiwatch  Dear in my view is acceptable. A formal business letter starts with the term so there's that. Honey implies sweetness and so on. Dear does not.
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  835.  @mfmage  Yes of course. I've always felt a little uncomfortable using it to start a letter though.
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  836. Wow - Venezuela is a mess. I worked with a girl who left there many years ago and the stories she told were scary. It hasn't gotten any better it seems.
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  837. I've said it all along, we need STRONG regulation of the lending industry and this would span the credit cards to car loans and home loans. And Slobomotion is correct. The probability of them being able to prove the debt is slim.
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  838. And oh yeah once visited the Smithsonian Air and space museum twice once as a child, once as an adult
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  839. Think of it this way, on some of those worlds it may be the reptilians.
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  840. Wow that is beautiful but manic, very very manic.
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  841. So if my phone is a dopamine pump my laptops yes plural must be too. But then it's part of my profession. And I deleted Facebook and it's stupid messenger app from my phone.
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  842. @ytgv3fc7 Yes, I understand exactly what you are saying. The Federal Reserve as it exists is just a cartel of the big banks. It's formations was heralded as being the end of the bust-boom cycle prevalent in the 19th century. But it has done virtually NOTHING to prevent those same busts/booms in the 20th and 21st centuries either. It's a parasitic organization.
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  843. And those numbers on that post it are IP addresses. IPv4 to be precise.
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  844. The most I know of NOAA is it's National Weather Service. Just tune up 162.400MHz on my amateur radio handheld and I can get weather info.
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  845. I'm familiar with electronics and computers and mechanical systems And Airbus uses a of all three is a recipe for complexity that cannot be truly mitigated.
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  846. I'm an I.T. god that once worked in a place. We were on the 8th floor of a building. We had an engagement team on the 22nd floor. Had to figure out how to get them on our netowrk. It was then I discovered in the networking cabinet a piece of fiber that went from the 8th floor to the 22nd Imagine. Just had to use Fiber to 100-Base-T adapters to get it working.
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  847. Hmmm a coffee nap in workplaces. That would be good.
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  848. Oh hell I found out I have Ashkenazi Jewish in my DNA recently. A small percentage of course but it's there. That said I think what Israel is doing to the Palestinians is exactly what was done to the Jewish people during WW II and beyond. It's not anti-semitic of me it's just that it's awfully hard to deny what's going on.
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  849. We here in the U.S. a standard sheet of paper is 8.5 x 11 inches.
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  850. Regards the lack of error in the Bliblical text. The very Bible we refer to has been translated, copied, and even had editorial zeal applied to it. The King James Version for example. And yeah the N.T. in Greek first. Or how the NSIV version can't even bring itself to mention the land Cain went into namely the land of Nod.
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  851. Gotta wonder if my genetic composition composed of a lot of European is responsible for my predilection for hoodies as we call them. Now of course we have those two famous designers Poly and Esther - i have a Levi's hoodie, majority polyester and it's warm enough for cold temps.
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  852. And just wait until the states realize how they depend on tax revenue for gasoline sales when those gasoline sales dry up. Mileage taxes will kick in.
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  853. I use VPN Unlimited. Lifetime even. I mostly connect into Germany.
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  854. I can think of one possibility. They convert to electric charging stations. Maybe it becomes a place where you sit in your car and have your breakfast or lunch or dinner delivered to your car. That'd make sense.
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  855. There are literally hundreds of examples of this - from fertilizer plants, foam padding plants, even technology plants - all violate regulation on a regular basis.
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  856. Whats good for the goose its good for the gander.
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  857. tI didn't do Medical School because I had already seen that medicine in my opinion is barely out of the dark ages. Instead I did Information Science - with a 3.85GPA. So yeah.
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  858. That tax collector ship in Rhode Island - that was the Burning of the Gaspee. It's a fairly big deal in the state to this day.
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  859. Sort of like I-95 in Providence, RI. In addition to that RI-146, RI-10, and RI-6 all dump into a one mile section of that highway. Plus the State Offices exit, downtown Providence exits and their attendant on-ramps come in there too. And regards roundabouts - there's one on Route 1 and Route 117 and the other roads. It's annoying and I avoid it.
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  860. I wonder what the issue is because you have to sit and watch a car when charging? And I owned a Chevy Trax didn't subscribe to OnStar but found out not only could they track the car but could remotely disable it too. Yeah a kid connived the key fob and stole it. Surprise I got it back. And oh yeah OnStar wouldn't tell me where it was. They told my local PD. The PD told me where it was.
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  861. Well consider they were merged with Chrysler at the time. Disastrous for both Chrysler and Daimler-Benz. That to me is a huge drawback.
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  862. And of course now we have Bluetooth. How I'm listening right now.
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  863. Oh Steve good thing I'm not an attorney myself. I'd be filing suit to recover my costs to defend against that bogus lawsuit. Think of it this way, when a case is dismissed it means Marv paid his attorney to write the suit. So he had the money.
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  864. Never learned Fortran but in college did have a COBOL course.
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  865. For my uses I use soldering followed by shrink tubing. Usually it's home electronics but it works.
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  866. And didn't Amazon sign with RIvian to replace it's delivery vehicles? That had to help.
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  867. Yeah I'm a little leary about a subscription service for batteries. But then doing the math $35 a month over ten year is $4,200.
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  868. I'm a coffee fanatic. Why? First I buy green dried coffee beans. Then I roast them - in a $20 Stir Crazy popcorn maker. Time matters here - 30 minutes or so is good roasted coffee. Then I use a french press and don't use boiling water. Oh no, I go for 190F to 195F 87.78C to 90C. Not burnt, just delicious coffee.
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  869. The 80 is for the Z80 processor in the machine. And the machine you have with the numeric pad indicates it's a Model 1 Level II with 16K of memory.
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  870. Regards snow tires - ever since they banned studs where I live it's useless. That said you can drive in the snow with all season tires. They key is move slowly, and don't stop for anything.
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  871. I've never been stopped and frisked. However were it to happen I would first tell the office I wish to know his/her probable cause followed by them stating their name, rank, and badge number. Stop and Frisk violates the 4th Amendment of the United States Constitution and probably violates a number of states constitutions as well.
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  872. I'm fully aware of the radios in everything. For example my car it sends me monthly reports. My thermostat it emails too. And of course we have an two amazon devices, a dot and a Kindle Fire.
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  873. Here's how I see it: Re-establish the WPA, CCC etc. Raise the minimum wage to $14.80 effectively doubling it. People don't understand the multiplicative effect of money. Those now making double will spend more money on other things, increasing employment and wages which than get spent again. Essentially the consumer is king.
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  874. But cars have had rear view cameras for some time now. Why don't they do this on aircraft?
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  875. Wow - any word on the disposition of the case against MIlton? Or did that just go away?
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  876. I had a Chevy Trax. I realized that the brakes could in fact be controlled by both me and the car itself. I know.
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  877. Here in RI we have three federal highways, I-95, I-195, and I-295. Now on I-95 through say Pawtucket and into Providence the speed limits are 55, 50, 45, 50, 55. It irks the shit out of me. I'm the guy who finds the least occupied lane and does 70 in it just to help skew the 85th percentile. And as you get south on I-95 the speed limit goes to 65 - but here's the thing - just two lanes. " Now I-195 is rated at 50MPH throughout. ANd I-295 is for the most part 65MPH.
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  878. Yup and the epitaph on his gravestone states "I am Providence"
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  879. Oh hell the city I live in Providence, RI - Westminster St. downtown has been a pedestrian mall, then not, then a mall again then not. And the first mall in the U.S. was here, it's called the Arcade. This is Westminster in 1968: http://blogphotos.flyingdreams.org/riprovidence.jpg
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  880. Oh here in the U.S. call signs begin with A, K, N or W. Then regional identifier 0 through 9. There's 2x1, 2x3 etc. I've held N1MPQ, KD1NR and the final KD1S.
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  881. Oh hell my welcome to the Atlanta region was a $400 payment to clear what was a cop I pissed off. {Sigh}.
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  882. The period of the mid 50's through the 1960's were an interesting period in telephonic development. Bell had been using push buttons for operator consoles prior. But the other biggie from the mid 50's on was the DDD network. Used 4A Crossbar initially, then later 4E completely digital switch.
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  883. I often wondered how effective the packs/pods were in dishwashers. One other thing is knowing how to properly load the machine. If you block the jets of course it's gonna be garbage out. And I'm just crazy enough to monitor the dishwasher sometimes. I know mine does two detrgent free cycles of rinse before releasing the compartment. And yeah I put the pods in the compartment. But I wonder maybe throw a pod in the tub and one in the compartment. But then you use twice the pods.
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  884. In my case it was my mom who died when I was 13 from metastatic cancer. There are many reasons, first medicine at the time was basically a shot in the dark. MRI didn't exist yet and CT was pretty much the best they had.
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  885. I've rented a 2017 Subaru Impreza Sport. Not a bad car per se - the interior fit and finish - the right AC vent is popped out and can't be pushed back in. And one thing I dislike immensely about modern cars, the dunning for oil and maintenance.
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  886. Yeah - like change oil in 100 miles, change filter, service interval and so on.
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  887. Here's what I see happening. He wants manufacturing to spin up in the U.S. But the thing is it's never going to happen. Robotics are a big deal too. Trump doesn't understand this. And this will affect everyone - from the poor to the middle class to the rich. Free and open trade has been what kept the United States afloat. And what do we make in the U.S. - well chemicals, computer chips, and some hardware.
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  888. Now let it be known I relocated from the Northeast U.S. to the south. Now I'd seen some accidents up north mostly single car or truck. Down here though I've seen some horrific car accidents. A jeep smacked into a bridge abutment, a five car pile up that was the space of one car. This is just in the last year or so.
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  889. If a fishing expedition and nothing more.
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  890. I prefer Newcastle Brown Ale
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  891. Oh and my musical tastes are more urban. You know r&b,hip hop,and ,jazz
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  892. All I can say is I want a Roma.
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  893. You know it's funny. Every bit of food you buy is wrapped in plastic. And as to water I get the big 2.5 gallon jugs. Just refill my water bottle.
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  894. Kudos! I'm happy to see unions rising up again. Lets just end the corruption in some of them and I'll be happy.
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  895. Just driving a passenger car is enough. I see so much egregious behavior. I can just imagine what people who drive for a profession see. Damn.
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  896. Klingenschmitt can stuff his bible you know where.
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  897. Actually a car battery floats between 11 and 13.8VDC. Ask how I know - my amateur radio license that's why.
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  898. Now it's 2021 - I recall a pastor the name of Harold Camping - he was wrong twice.
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  899. Oh I've long known they basically made it up
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  900. So the U.S. went from interning Japanese people to putting kids in cages and generally abusing immigrants. Has it really changed at all? And I know when push comes to shove citizenship doesn't matter a whit. And wasn't it Admiral Yamamoto who said of the U.S. do not wake a sleeping giant. He was correct. And it's funny look at me I'm Italian-American. Yeah I can see why they didn't go after the German and Italian people in the U.S.
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  901. How much do thev Broncos fetch at auction?
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  902. No I'm not.
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  903. Well, we've only been radiating out RF for about one hundred years. And being that RF moves pretty much at the speed of light, we're about 100 light years out there.
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  904. Back when I could ride a bike and lived in the notheast I had an AMF bike with speedometer on it. Use to take it over to High Service Ave. in North Providence, RI pedal about a mile down the road and then just crank. At the bottom of that hill I was doing 70MPH which is 112KMH at the bottom of the hill. With no helmet.
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  905. Well one that they're building is ITER - a big Tokamak.The main issue I see is we're going to boil water with it like it or not because that's the only way we can spin a turbine. And regarding ITER - they want to boost it from seconds to minutes and so on.
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  906. In essence Republicans now become the wingnut party. Lovely.
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  907. Interestingly I found out Pecorino is basically what I knew as Romano cheese. Learn something new every day.
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  908. Oh great story. And guess what guys I'm in Georgia permanently now. About 18 miles from Atlanta.
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  909. I find myself perplexed that I'm replying to a dead man. Yes, German cars are designed for the Autobahn - you know, the German highways that were the inspiration for our interstate highway system in the United States. Except in Germany there are sections of the Autobahn with no speed limit. Plus construction of those highways in Germany is MUCH better than here in the U.S.
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  910. One thing you left out - cars are also becoming more interconnected. And If you cannot update say the infotainment system that's a big old security hole. But then look at Chrysler's Jeep division and I'd be willing to be nearly ever FCA product has a secret telephone number. Pretty easy to get that number - and you can do things like screw with the hvac, brakes, even shut the car down while it's moving. That's why I'll never buy an FCA product.
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  911. I'm one of those people who knows an Amazon echo syncs with your mobile device not a computer. And yeah I'm older but been in I.T. and InfoSec for many years. And besides the echo hooks to your available wifi.
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  912. They founding fathers did alright. And counter to what many Christians claim they were not in any way, shape or form Christians. I direct your attention to the Jefferson Bible.Yeah he cut out all he didn't agree with. And Franklin - he enjoyed his time in Paris.
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  913. Well yeah traceroute on LInux is tracert on Windows.
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  914. Medicare is hands down the best way to cover medical procedures and surgery. Their overhead is LESS then 3%. Whereas private insurers have overhead of 20% or more.
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  915. Actually I'd place the blame on NASA - they're the ones that pressured Perkin-Elmer to get it done.
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  916. I can think of one way to control China. Take away most favored nation from it and stop its exports. I find it funny we could deal with the Soviet Union but we cannot do the same to China.
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  917. Just drop a baby like this from Boston to Virginia and I'd be happy!
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  918. I too was via the agencies of a friend. Let that subscription lapse. As to my username I do keep my amateur radio license though.
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  919. Well I could load blanks into it. That would be fun.
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  920. I think you've been reading the NRA magazines Armed Response column.
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  921. I'm not a snob - just mildly elitist.
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  922. There is ALWAYS an aggressor in any conflict. And the fact that the U.S. skirts the requirement of the UN is VERY interesting. So too that of China.
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  923. The old saying, go gas go boom is applicable here. Natural gas as a rule has a fairly low energy density. When we did the redundant power at the RI Sec of State's office that was mentioned. But get enough of it concentrated somewhere and pow!
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  924. I already made it clear I am to be cremated. No wakes, no memorials. Nothing. I won't care once I'm dead.
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  925. When I look at the amount of plastic waste that comes out of this house, even though we have enough re-usable grocery bags etc. it astounds me. And it's insidious - even food storage for say leftovers are either plastic containers or plastic bags that are single use. I remember back when grocery stores used to wrap meat in paper, not plastic too.
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  926. I'm not certain that there are aliens among us.If you understood what a light year is you'd understand why I said that. They would have to have discovered Faster than light travel which is difficult at best. Now time traveling humans - that one I can buy but there are problems with that as well. If they come from our future it means our future is already pre-ordained.
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  927. Ah yes the supply and demand curves. The problems with chips is that there's an awful lot of software written for specific chip sets.
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  928. Yeah and I can understand how sed came about earlier especially on a printing terminal. And yeah I'm pretty familiar with vi/vim. And I love poking fun at EMACS users.
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  929. Mercury is a neurotoxin. So there is some credit to high exposure potentially causing certain diseases.
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  930. So why isn't Nabila Ramdani not wearing one on a broadcast? A bit hypocritical don't you think?
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  931. I've used all four - Windows 7, Windows 10, OS-X and RedHat/Ubuntu. Windows 10 is my main gaming platform. Now phones - I see lots more people with iPhones than android based phones. I carry the latter. Cannot stand idevices.
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  932. Saudi Arabia is in essence, a charlie foxtrot. They say it at the beginning, it's a feudal society. Not good at all.
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  933. Here's my view on it. Why would beings from another world want to visit Earth? It makes no sense to haul across the vast distances of the cosmos to get here. Now time travel - I think we can do that. So maybe it's us from the future? But then the future has not yet happened so that's not it either.
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  934. Oh yeah I'm male but enjoy trying new recipes. Not afraid all..
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  935. Ohms law. It works. Basic formula is V=IR. Then of course there is Kirchoffs law too. And a few other things that come up in radio like phase angles etc. And that one with the six pins, that's a DPDT or Double Pole Double Throw. The diagram is a schematic uses symbols you can find online.And the LED's you could modify it using a microcontroller to do a Larsen scanner. The fun is when you accidentally insert a DIP chip backwards.
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  936. Just do it in base 2, 8, or 16. Me I prefer base 16 - your know 0-9 + A-F
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  937. It's interesting I know about B Corps - that's an interesting one.
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  938. When I lived in Providence, RI both the Providence police and RI State Police drove crown vics.
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  939. These devices will prevail until bodies start racking up.
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  940. Ah, capon is a male chicken aka rooster that's been fattened.
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  941. Fully aware of F=M * A but the thing is if you want horrid road design I suggest you visit Altanta, GA For a city that was burned to the ground in the mid 19th century well they still didn't get it right. .
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  942. I'm sorry but pharmacists are part of the health care system and as such should not be able to refuse service to someone because they disagree with their sexual orientation, or whether the pharmacist believes they've done something morally wrong to require those drugs. Policy should be any pharmacists who wears their faith on their sleeve like that should be out looking for a job post haste because under the policy I propose, they'd be terminated.
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  943. Part of the problem is that the bean counters at the auto manufacturers would be loathe to spend roughly $10 per car to put the sensor in the drivers seat. In their calculus it's less expensive to settle wrongful death lawsuits than to roll the feature onto every car produced.
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  944. If you get statistics and game theory you're good.
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  945. It helps that the door latches are ADA compliant. That works for cats too.
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  946. I have to say a few things about North Kores. 1) They've suffered a massive brain drain because anyone who had the wherewithal got the hell out of there. This is evidence of the DPRK DMZ soldier who they shot but when he was treated in South Korea they found him riddled with parasites. 2) If they have to make everything themselves then shouldn't they be able to build a a generator or six? I mean it's just a simple coiled wire and a magnet right? 3) The prime question if DPRK and South Korea re-unify under whose leadership will it be, I'm betting on South Korean. Look Kim Jon Un wants what South Korea has only in North Korea - to have that he has to let go.
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  947. Yeah fair Isaac and all. Some people are fortunate they can avoid playing
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  948. Even though I'm an atheist I still find the practice of capitol punishment to be abhorrent. Who says the state can decide who lives and who dies?
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  949. One other little thing about North Korea. When South Korea started exceeding the North's economy is that anyone in North Korea with the wherewithal to get the hell out did. So what you essentially have left is the dullards. It explains why they're having lots of trouble with building missiles etc. And there was story a few years ago of a North Korean soldier on the DMZ who came south - he was infested with parasites. And to see what really happened - pull up one of NASA's night time maps it shows South Korea lit up like the proverbial Christmas Tree, while the north has a little tiny dot of light that is Pyonyang. I mean come on son, if you can't get electricity right is there really any hope?
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  950. As a kid I learned how to develop and print black and white film. Used a 110 camera. Now color that was different, time and temp mattered. However years later I worked in a genomics lab and they were explaining the process to me. I said "Sounds a lot like developing color film." And yup that same thing works in genomics.
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  951. The promo cracked me up. Why? Because I don't have a lawn so much as a forest.
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  952. Kind of like Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. All Latin based languages. And English is an offshoot of Dutch which itself is from German.
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  953. Yeah nail polish has been used in the electronics world for quite some time. Model paint too.
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  954. It allows you turn the kids over to authorities. The question is which authorities. And I can say, as a kid I was very stubborn - I'd be dead sure as shit if we live by Biblical law.
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  955. I've known it is something you have and something you know.
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  956. I think CRISPR/CAS9 might be of value in treating this.
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  957. I want a chickenosaurus!
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  958. I scored 33: A first- generation upper-middle- class person with middle-class par- ents. Range: 11–80. Typical: 33 Which is interesting. Because I've been upper to lower middle class throughout my life. Part of it is because I'm an Engineering type. We march to a slightly different drum.
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  959. Oh yeah and 195f is the optimal temp for coffee.
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  960. Thars why I stopped using Facebook
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  961. If the shipping company was UPS you do know that one of their nicknames is Shit Wrapped in Chiffon. Seriously I have a deep hatred of that company.
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  962. Oh sure English was my first language but Spanish was my second and my third is Italian.
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  963. That is what this radical gets. I want to see medicine here based on empirical observation and common solutions.
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  964. That's because Pat Robertson is an old fool.
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  965. Oh wow watching paint dry. Sorry not for me. I liken the American version of football to watching paint dry.
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  966. It's funny I've decided which car I want to buy.It's a Cadilllac of course and the electric Lyriq. I'll wait until 2023. They are a GM product so parts are no problem. And only slightly more expensive than a fucking Tesla Model 3.
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  967. I have a pair of Advent Prodigy Towers. I have to do the surrounds on them. Then I have two Radio Shack Minimus-7's that sounds pretty damned good too.
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  968. I recall 30 years ago a friend asked me to house sit and take care of his pet squirrel. The squirrel was a nasty little cur, however I found out give them food and they're your best friend.
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  969. Um at 11:49 Fuel is spelled wrong.
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  970. Yeah well - I would remind the French if it weren't for the U.S. and Russia they'd all be speaking German. And Renault is still in the U.S. - they own Nissan.
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  971. What no Erasure? Pet Shop Boys? Oh wait, honorable mention - but come on It's a Sin is awesome.
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  972. Remember when International Harvester produced the Scout? Or maybe the Bronco II on which I learned how to drive a manual transmission.
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  973. Asav kid you didn't want to piss me off. Some people found that out
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  974. Oh wow I love the term Trash Pandas. That said yeah it would make perfect sense to install these in the U.S. too.
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  975. Oh my favorite in Florida. I was in Orlando and going to points out further - I think it was SR-538. I opened it up in a Lincoln Continental - unmarked trooper got me at 120MPH. He was ok though, dropped it to 70MPH and it was on my FL part time license so never hit my record up here.
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  976. Laying down bricks is my opinion
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  977. Well I have a Chevy Trax , and I know its crossed to the Buick division too. So it still goes on inside a conglomerate And we should not talk of the vehicles shared between Chevrolet and GMC with a commensurable markup of course.
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  978. Kind of like here in Rhode Island where the Capitol city (Or should that be Capital - money grab) where they installed speed cameras in certain locations. I advocate that it violates the 6th amendment in that we have a right to face our accuser - how do you face an accuser that is a machine and software?
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  979. Well - but tell me how are the radars on those calibrated? I mean I've actually seen for instance red light cameras. They just trigger randomly. And I would in fact force the government in court to present that evidence.
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  980. Oh I agree on that one. Thanks!
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  981. l live in a place where winter temps rarely go below freezing. A heat pump would be ideal. And yeah where we are they switched us all to Nest thermostats. Problem is the Nest is just vaguely stupid. It does things like drop the temp to 62F.
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  982. Hell no would I allow an electricity provider control my AC or dryer. Why you ask? Power goes out for what I term stupid reasons all the time. And regards the AC I have NEST thermostat that constantly countermands my desire for 73F and sets it to 77F. Grrrr.But I do like that the fact that even using the AC, dryer and dishwasher my last bill was $71.
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  983. I've driven a bunch of Mazda 3's of the IIIrd gen. Loved them.
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  984. Great video. I too am a color freak. Except I know about RGB LED's. Much more interesting. And you can get several meters of the strings of RGB LED's for cheap money.
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  985. Consider that's $2.1 Billion per year on employees. There are ways you could reduce the count though. And the only real difference between the Acela Regional and Acela - the locomotives. They do the same speeds, oh and the passenger cars on the Acela are nicer than on the Regional. And pricing ranges - I've paid from Boston to Providence anywhere from $17 to $57. And 99.99 percent the time that's a business class ticket.
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  986. Oh the Amazon effect is interesting. For example, drugs to treat certain conditions can be ordered on there for less than 1/10th the price here in the U.S. and no prescription.
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  987. Some phones have a feature where if you reverse the pin it'll wipe the phone
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  988. It's still a GM product which makes me extremely leery. However the tech is pretty cool. I'd love to see how it deals with highways around here - I-95 is a charlie foxtrot.
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  989. What's interesting 1980's Ford Escorts and 1990's Tempo's had tricolor rear lights. And regards headlights yeah most people don't have the sense that god gave a door knob to know the little green lamp that lights up on the dashboard when the lights are on. And I used to drive a Chevy Trax and it had tricolor too.
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  990. As someone who once used uuencode and decode as well as uucp etc. I understand not just how the agent works, but how the MTA works too.
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  991. I hate to say this but the police are NOT there to protect the citizens. They are there to protect the political masters, aka corporations.
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  992. I love mushrooms. One of my favorite dishes to make is chicken with mushroom and leek fricasee. It's main companents are the mushrooms and leeks. And a bit of tarragon fresh or dried.
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  993. Interesting here in Georgia I pay12 cents per kWh
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  994. Nikki Hailey could have just said "Lions, tigers and bears oh my" and it would have conveyed the same way.
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  995. Here's a fun fact regarding health insurance. Private companies that provide it, their overhead is 20 to 25 percent. Know what it is for Meidcare/Medicaid? 4 percent. And I cannot find the text for this new bill. Closest i get is H.R. 1384 but that was in 2019/2020.
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  996. Well radio frequency (RF) moves at the speed of light. And another RF power falls at the square of the distance between the transmitter and receiver. So let's say there's a civilization 1000 light years from us. And they're transmitting. it would take 1000 years to reach us and be a very weak sign signal. And consider too radio has only been around for 100 years
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  997. Funny story. I once worked in a place where i had to replace a 125W C02 lasing cavity on a laser engraver. All because the kid forgot to turn on the chiller.
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  998. Oh yeah , I have about 30 or so of the Eagle Moss Star Trek ships. Had to stop the subscription because space was becoming an issue.
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  999. If you think DHL is bad, I offer UPS who gets more an mroe colorful nicknames over time. My favorite is Shit Wrapped in Chiffon. That being said I've discovered a thing with UPS where you can in fact waive signatures on all packages. Yeah I know.
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  1000. If I recall under Rabbinical law isn't the Jewish identity passed down through the mother and not the father? That's how I've heard it anyhow.
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  1001. I got full out here. If it's a really greasy load I'll throw a pod into the dishwasher and one in the compartment. And here's a fun tip - if you suddenly find yourself without pods you can put a little dish washing liquid and bleach in the compartment. Put what annoys me most is dishwashers haven't caught up. They should have n+1 compartments for the damned pods. And my dishwasher does two rinses and then wash and then rinse. And I recall using liquid laundry detergent. Now they're little pods. You're telling me it's so much better?
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  1002. I got my Extra in 1993. Then got my commercial radio license.
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  1003. The diode is know as a rectifier. And I bet there are power regulators somewhere in there because there's LOTS of 5V stuff on cars too.
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  1004. And now we watch LCD's and the like with resolutions of 1280p Big difference.
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  1005. Well - in our case it's a choice of beef, chicken, pork, lamb or fish you get salmon, tuna, swordfish. So two meals each week are comprised of that. And we got lied to big time - sugar is the big baddie. Fat isn't. And I use re-usable grocery bags. That limits a little bit of the waste plastic we produce. And last night it was salmon for dinner with Brussels sprouts and rice.
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  1006. I can commmiserate. Only mine struck in my 50s. I have the ALS gene mutation
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  1007. I once worked in a DNA Laboratory and there was a huge liquid nitrogen canister there. It would vent out every now and then and there were oxygen monitors - if the percentage went below 22% and alarm would sound.
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  1008. The best thing to do is make your headlights flash, but in patterns. You see they're now controlled by a computer. And if you know how to watch the CAN bus and GM-Lan on a Chevy you can monitor and do replays through software.
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  1009. Here in the U.S. where I live if you're under 15 it's required you wear a helmet. But for everyone else it's not required - yet we're required to use seatbelts in cars regardless of age.
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  1010. Well telecom yeah - I have a google voice number. I give that to everyone. And regards Wal-Mart , well I don't use it as a showroom. And I buy say lab and electronic gear off Amazon anyhow. And regards college sports - here's the story here in RI - we have the Pawtucket Red Sox - farm team for Boston. They want to have state money to move their stadium - I say no fucking way.
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  1011. Wow -I'm not even a locksmith but with the right tools can pick most locks. And I guess you guys have never heard of a mail drop.
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  1012. The thing you are bypassing so to speak is this: The autonomous vehciles - they have better sensory apparatus than humans do. So why not just set them loose?
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  1013. Well now when I drive a car if it doesn't have bluetooth connectivity I turn the radio off. Radio in the northeast is over-commercialized. Down here it's not too commercialized but I'd still prefer my own music library.
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  1014. Nope - it isn't true that we get more conservative as we age. I'm half a century and still pretty liberal myself.
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  1015. So in essence, the South Korean view is to let North Korea implode on itself rather than push the issue. I can see the logic of that.
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  1016. This is the power of what I call regenerative medicine. Up until this point, medicine wasn't very good at restoring functionality. Now they are finally learning how to restore the body. It's an amazing time to be alive.
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  1017. I think at this juncture in time we have the tech to support a popular vote system in the U.S.
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  1018. Just out of curiosity what is the displacement of the engine? I know Ford had a big problem with the 4.6L engine just cutting out because it would get starved for fuel. And I almost think you're suffering a software problem or it could be hardware. Lots of diagnostics shall ensue. And I'm surprised it's not throwing codes like crazy.
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  1019. Unbelievable - look the U.S. has been a polyglot nation for a long time. If you cannot get over that then you shouldn't leave your home. Me, I understand a little bit of Italian, a lot more of Spanish. I don't care what language you speak. Long as you understand money is green and you're a good person we're good.
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  1020. That's just Apple being stupid. I mean come on I could source a repair screen for my Dell Latitude E6420 easily. And I walked away from Apple products long ago.
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  1021. Oh there's one yokel in North Carolina that probably still remembers me. And I bet he still remembers that waving the flashlight like that means go, not stop.
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  1022. My first job in the I.T. world was managing a DG Eclipse MV9500 which I later upgraded to MV9600U. It too used dumb terminals though at the time we had a TCP/IP stack on it and used Pacer on the Mac platform to access it. But you could do print jobs in batch mode. I still remember the command in AOS/VS II was 'qdbi'
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  1023. One that I went to was the SEARCH conference in DC. That one was interesting.
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  1024.  bcvbb hyui  Yeah because at the time I was employed at the states top law enforcement agency.
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  1025. Is the car tax in Germany yearly or is it a one shot deal? Here in the U.S. State of Georgia you pay one ad valorum tax when you buy the car and that's it
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  1026. You want one that takes the cake is RBS citizens. They misplaced a cash deposi. Of course I kept the receipt
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  1027. Part of it is that other Asian nations like China and Korea are starting to eat into Japan's export sector... cars and electronics. For example, I own to handheld transceivers, one is a Yeasu made in Japan, the other is a KST made in China. And today I drove a Korean built car.
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  1028. I just remove the breasts, legs, wings etc. Sear the skin then season and bag for sous vide. Best god damned turkey I've ever had. Moist as all hell. Plus the carcass that's left gets boiled with mirepoix and a little bit of salt into a stock perfect for gravy.
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  1029. Screw urge the banks - take them by eminent domain.
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  1030. Good that you have love in your heart. I have no love for police when they allow themselves to be used as instruments of corporate abuse.
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  1031. I think part of it is your take down of a lot of anti-gay people. That alone - but you never triggered any sort of gaydar for me.
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  1032. one of the reasons it's so expensive in the U.S. is we didn't get the crap bombed out of us in WW II. Japan, Germany and even France to some degree did. Easier to build straight line if you've had that happen.
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  1033. It's funny I one worked in a genomics lab. We're in a meeting one day and they're describing the PCR and other processes and I mentioned it sounded a lot like developing color film. I've done that in the past. Sure enough time, temperature etc. Same in genomics. And the big tank of liquid nitrogen venting off was impressive.
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  1034. Christ on a stick, Prager is an idiot. Atheism isn't a belief it's a non-belief.
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  1035. My story - my dentist was the chair of the board of dentistry. Because he didn't think my wisdom teeth was a problem he spet time putting glass ionomrer on my gum line. I'd finally had enough saw new dentist - she sent me to an oral surgeon and out came the wisdom teeth. But it had caused my two rear molars on the left side to well rot. SO two crowns upper and lower. All paid for by my insurance.
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  1036. And do my eyes deceive me or is that a left hand steering wheel. Which means Honda intends to market it in the U.S. maybe? I wouldn't mind one. It reminds me of the 1980's Civics. Nice!
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  1037. Best laser light show I ever saw was the Rhode Island 350 year celebration It was awesome!..
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  1038.  @albear972  thing was any computing wasn't in your home but at the central office. All the phones had were a few transistors and big ass induction coils.
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  1039. Google Project Binky on Bad Obsession Motorsport. It's a mini that gets really tricked out.
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  1040. At around 7:40, they hadn't had the experience. This is why preservation of institutional knowledge is key. Having worked in state government I've seen what lack of institutional knowledge can do.
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  1041. I've got a couple of Anker products I use regularly. Fascinating. And regards India someone I live with is into natural perfumery. Placed our first order with a company in India for oils and it got here into the eastern U.S. in two days. Plus came with analysis and MSDS sheets. Amazing.
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  1042. Actually on a Windows box - if you just use a bootable USB stick to boot Linux and then attached the new drive - just dd it. But one place I worked - they gave the I.T. people MacBooks - which when went to AD you cannot admin AD from a Mac OS-X machine. Went with Dell Latitude 7470's. Those let us RDP and even do AD work.
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  1043. Sing with me... "Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is good, and every sperm is needed in your neighborhood!" Of course this is hypocrisy on the part of the Catholic Church. And it proves that the church is only about protecting its own wealth.
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  1044. Now if Cadillac wanted to find its way again - take those old body styles, maybe enhance the handling, chuck the IC engine, put in electric motors front and back and a huge battery pack. I'd buy one of those.
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  1045. Well if you've driven a Toyota Sienna with just front wheel drive I will tell you that you can in fact get the wheels to chirp.
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  1046. I believe we're entering another revolution in medicine - this time because some sharp crayons decided to merge tech with medicine. It's fascinating to me.
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  1047. Hmm - nearest McLaren facility to me is in Philidelphia - a mere 4:40 hours from here.
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  1048. Oh, FPGA's please!
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  1049. Yeah Luke Talley is pretty damned cool. My mothers side of the family is where I get my engineering skills from. My great grandfather has a patent in his name for a modification of the Jacquard Loom, and his sons worked on the Apollo program - EG&G Seal-All.
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  1050. You bought the car and title has been transferred to you I assume? If so they can go and pound sand. And yeah I'd prefer to eat the box than eat the pizza contained therein if it comes from Dominoes. Plus knowing the company is owned by a religious fundie leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.
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  1051. BIOS and polling work too.
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  1052. Well where I live the water is actually pretty good. But then we heard about the lead. It's about 10 feet of our water supply coming into the house. So spring water, and a big Pur water filter on the kitchen sink solved that issue.
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  1053. Ive got a fairly new Panasonic Inverter microwave oven. It's not so much radiation but radio frequency. That said it has sensor cook and reheat modes. I do like that aspect. But on turbo defrost it asks the item weight.
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  1054. Oh in addition to english i in know Spanish, some Italian and v some terms iin Russian
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  1055.  @theimmortal4718  No, electric. It's the most efficient way to propel a vehicle. That said I understand - but with advances in power generation technology. So your thinly veiled ad hominem joke well it falls flat.
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  1056.  @theimmortal4718  Chevy Bolt is 1.5 tons. A Tesla Model 3 is 1.6 to 2 tons. And you clearly don't know what it is I'm talking about here. Ever see an electric car smoke the heck out of cars with IC engines? I have. Power/weight is meaningless there.
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  1057.  @theimmortal4718  the Chevy Volt (capitalization counts) is a hybrid I know. The Bolt with a B is a pure electric vehicle. They're less complex than an IC engine. Now hybrids yes I agree - more complex. But a pure electric is simpler.
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  1058.  @theimmortal4718  Oh that's nice to know. It's funny people who proclaim their expertise in my opinion are trying to compensate or some lack thereof. One of the reasons Electric cars aren't taking off because there aren't enough players in the U.S. plus prices are still on the high side. But direct government subsidy would help there.
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  1059.  @theimmortal4718  I do wish you'd learn to separate a paragraph. That said - think about how much the engine for a tractor-trailer weighs. Then add in fuel weight etc. How much does it come to when calculated? Now nearest I can calculate is 80,000lbs, now lets tackle fuel - a gallon of diesel is 6.943lbs - most trucks have about 200 gallon capacity so total weight is 1388.6lbs. For comparison a battery pack on a Tesla weighs 1,200 pounds. Now I assume on a semi-tractor it'd require maybe twice that. But the engine alone on a Semi-Tractor is 2,880lbs. An electric motor for automotive use is 70lbs and at 100% torque on power up. So as you can see lets do a bit further for a semi-tractor in electric. 2400 pounds of batteries and even if it has 2 electric motors it's 140lbs. So we get a total of 2,540lbs. So now we have comparison. The fuel and motor for a Diesel powered truck would be 4,286.6lbs While the all electric is 2,540lbs which is a difference of 1,728.60lbs. The above is just back of envelope calculation. But I'd imagine the margin of error in it is likely 10-20%.
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  1060.  @theimmortal4718  As I mentioned, back of envelope calculation. https://www.truckinginfo.com/156044/driving-on-kilowatts
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  1061. @Adam George Well there's that. One other thing I know in some communities is that the tax revenue for cars is declining. So too the dependence on gasoline taxes. And with cars becoming increasingly connected which gives me a very uneasy feeling since I know security wasn't job one, I give it a few years before we start getting taxed per mile driven. I see that because IC engines have become as efficient as they an be and hybrid and electric vehicles are only going to accelerate the loss of gasoline tax revenue. Perfect example, state I left the public transit agency tied it's revenue to 2 cents a gallon of gasoline tax. But with fewer people driving, and more efficiency in transport systems the transit agency is perpetually cash poor.
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  1062.  @theimmortal4718  As I've now said in many postings on this it was a quick and dirty calculation. And consider the electric motors only weigh 70lbs each. Even four of them would only be 280lbs. And even if the batteries weighed roughly 20,000lbs it'd still be lighter than the IC motor and fuel necessary to run it. Plus the environmental benefits if we were to achieve conversion to electric vehicles would be great. Or are you one of those people who doesn't believe in man made climate change?
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  1063. Really? A kid has multiple fathers and a mother caring for him/her. That's got to be better than what we have now. I know of several friends who divorced from families that had multiple kids. Wouldn't it be better if those families had a support network similar to the Amazon tribes?
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  1064. A very succinct view of how corporations have taken all the power from the people.
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  1065. I'm a U.S. Citizen who believes here we should have subsidies for the purchase of electric cars. And also I'm concerned about single use plastics too.
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  1066. The way I understand the engineering challenge is this. Under Alcubierre's original formula you'd need a mass the size of Jupiter to power it.Others have re-worked it and found you only need a couple tons of reaction mass. I give it maybe 50 years before we build it.
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  1067. I think the correct and appropriate term is persona non grata! That is what former President George W. Bush is, persona non grata!
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  1068. I know where the hyrdo pneumatic system comes from. Recall the Citroen DS. Another car I thought was interesting. Oh yeah under the hood why is there a diode symbol? And I do wish they sold Citroens in the U.S. Hell all we got was Renault and actually still have as they own Nissan.
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  1069. One other fact that emerged from the Brexit vote - the urban areas voted against leaving the E.U. while the suburbs and rural communities overwhelmingly voted for leaving the E.U. In a way it's comforting that even the UK is as fucked up as the United States is.Oh and here's my prediction as to what will happen to Britain, Whales, and Ireland - when they leave the E.U. they'll start paying tariff on goods that will cause mass inflation. Mass inflation leads to a society in which a despot can arise. And the U.K. in general has nukes.
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  1070. Yep - the suburbs are a cancer on society.
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  1071. But they only get on ballots locally. For example, over the years RI has had the Cool Moose, Green, and now Moderate parties. They never last.
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  1072. Yup - I realized I had some relatively dim bulbs teaching math, they didn't love the subject.
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  1073. I wonder how long it'll be until we see a video of seeing Google Duplex A.I. talking to another Google Duplex A.I.
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  1074. Well I do know if you shine UV light on say your drivers license or ID and on money you see some features that weren't there before you put the UV on it.
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  1075. I absolutely love taking the train into Boston. I can listen to music, read etc. It's really good productive personal time.
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  1076. Yup - the commute is the only reason I'm so well read. And for some reason I cannot do audio books.
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  1077. Oh I got got lunguistics
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  1078. I agree with Panitch. Nationalize the banks, car industry and air industry. It has been done before. Nationalize to recover then a couple years later, put up for sale. And recall, during WW II the auto industry did a bang up job converting to manufacture of tanks, jeeps, guns and aircraft. They did it before, they can do it again only this time push them to make wind turbines and solar panels.
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  1079. Got to wonder why we never learned this in school.
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  1080. You know it doesn't surprise me - the Catholic church is rife with stories of abuse. They've tried their damndest to deny it but they've killed more people than the alleged devil has ever killed.
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  1081. If you ever want to hear a "We fucked up - mea culpa" listen to Emperor Hirohito's speech to his people. You don't even have to understand Japanese to understand what it was.
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  1082. And as to nuclear it still remains to be seen if it'll be fission or fusion. Big old project in the south of France right now called ITER might be the best way to go.
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  1083. Oh yeah turbos - my little Chevy Trax has one. It's an I4 LUV engine with the turbo integrated in the exhaust manifold.
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  1084. Think about it for a moment. FIrst North Korea cannot even provide widespread electricity to its population. And then think about South Korea - they have Hyundai Heavy, Samsung, and a multitude of other big tech companies. North Korea has none of that.
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  1085. I brown em' off and then into the crock pot. 8 hours later I might make a roux and put that in to thicken. Put mirepoix and some carrot chunks, potatoes et al.
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  1086. Let's see I hope they patented all these ideas. And my phones Motorola at the beginning then Samsung Android. Oh yeah and there's how many million iPhones but a billion Android devices.
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  1087. Did they even realize that this gives whole new meaning to horseplay?
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  1088. We humans are the last thing related to auto safety. The last element.
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  1089. Interestingly I have a pretty dim view of humanity so I'm sort of the opposite.
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  1090. I would want a DC fast charger at home to be honest. Because you can take 240VAC, run it through what is called a bridge rectifier and through a few capacitors and you get 240VDC at however many amps you need.
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  1091. all of communicaton is signal to conquer the noise in all manner of comm systems from tape to radio
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  1092. Yep
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  1093. @jgraglan If in fact he actually existed, his head hanging would be easy to understand.
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  1094. @nly8nchz I'd love to see you expand that statement that higher wages would cause less employment. Unfortunately youtube won't let me do a long diatribe but I'll try. Higher wages would mean that the folks would spend more money at other merchants, which means they need more employees, which means the employees make money and spend it at other merchants. It is a multiplicative effect, logarthimic in some respects. But you wouldn't understand that you Reaganite.
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  1095. I have a serious question - how the hell do you screw up a manual gearbox? It's just a bunch of gears and synchros and shifting forks. That's all.
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  1096. Ah it all looks tasty but alas I cannot eat it lest I put on weight again.
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  1097. So I think this takes the IC engine pretty much as far as it's going to go.
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  1098. Ah pork - yeah I've used the ATC method - to 137F and rest tented with foil. Never raw I can say that. Now steak I like around 155F.
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  1099. Could do a spring loaded pusher with a string. That way each time you'd get the same push.
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  1100. Oh wow - Catholic - yeah my first 12 years of education were in Catholic schools. What really tore it was the year in high school we examined the Bible. And I do mean examined. It's then we learned of translation error, copy error and editorializing by scribes and the whole upshot I came to was it was all based in only so much bovine effluent and nothing more. And that caused me to step back and look at the church and I realized it was a sight, sound and smell factory.
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  1101. FUD - plain and simple. We need universal health care in the U.S. Obama is in the pocket of the insurance companies sure as shit. I loved Kucinich questioning that idiot psychiatrist though.
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  1102. Ya know they do make CO2 cartridges. That'd help project it further afield.
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  1103. Yeah, to hell with Time Warner. But then Comcast isn't anything special either. And I'm rather pissed at Cox - my monthly bill just shot up $10. They say it's energy costs but electricity has been stable so what the hell.
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  1104. I challenge you to drive I-20 and drive like a grandpa. I'm just kidding, I tend to leave wide space between myself and the cars in front of me. Gives me plenty of time to jack on the brakes which is a situation I've run into more and more. Obfood: I'm pretty decent with a knife. However for the really fun stuff i use a food processor. Much easier but you have to wash more stuff. And I have a scar on my left index finger - from a sharp knife being used to repair a connector on my computer. Four stitches later and I will tell you the most painful place for the medicos to insert a needles in between your fingers.
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  1105. Binary rules are interesting. You only got to 2^4 in your list. :)
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  1106. What I've found is that most Americans are what I euphemistically call maleducated. I mean come on the metric system is base 10 for god sake. And lets face facts - cars for example. Everything on cars is pretty much metric. Even tires for example. Its all in millimeters. And how about how most groceries are in English/Metric. And modern cars can easily be swapped to metric speed reading. And globalization - it's not just food. It's also peace. Take Japan for example - how many goods did we import from there? Or South Korea? That one is interesting as all hell.
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  1107. I recently left Providence,RI because I saw a few things that gave me great pause. One was a commercial entity for whom we had to raise $10,000 because the zoning board was being stupid. Second is seeing old tenements being renovated and being rented at a per bedroom price of $700 to $900 per month.
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  1108. What you describe about cabling is called a) the skin effect and the resistance i know as attenuation.
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  1109. Some music I've bought - and yes I used Napster back then. Some music I get through oh I don't know other means. Now of course what I buy is on Amazon - if for example I give a CD to someone as a gift Amazon is nice enough to stuff the songs into my Amazon Music library. And iTunes - yeah I used it but I chafed at the DRM on the songs. Luckily I broke away from that piece of crap software.
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  1110. I had an epiphany the other day. We were talking about why recycling isn't used much. I explained about the different types of plastic containers and then it hit me - you could either leave the bar code label on it or use OCR to see the plastic type that's supposed to be stamped on the container. Then sort based upon that. But until the process to recycle is less expensive than creating new plastics I'm afraid that would be moot.
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  1111. if you consider we've only been broadcasting and using radio for about 100 years. And if it goes at the speed of light we're roughly 100 light years out. If the RF power hasn't decreased so much you'd need a very sensitive receiver to hear it. In other words RF power decreases at the square of the distance. And we haven't necessarily gone quiet - you still have analog broadcast in the form of commercial radio and yeah TV is digital now. But you've got millions upon millions of cell phones in the world all shooting out RF.
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  1112. I know my purpose. It is to make the world a better place through activism and politics. And as to my narrative I am an engineering type - couldn't help it as my great grandfather and uncle were both engineers. They did mechanical, I do information science.
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  1113. One interestig theory regarding how they wink into and out of existence means it could be craft from higher dimensions. Put it this way posit that our 3D world is actually 4D if you include time. They might have 5D or 6D and what we see is the projection into our universe of 3D/4D.
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  1114. Oh no a bunch of ignorant snatches trying to say it was the war of Northern Aggression. I'll let all southerners know, if you ever rise up again I will lead the charge to put your sorry asses down again.
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  1115. I lived in one place where they put a detector right above the stove. The solution was a plastic bag.
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  1116. Well, I peg it at 29% of Americans but we're only 9 points divergent so int he same general ballpark.
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  1117. Interesting in the 1980s they shouted death to America. Now they shout death to the dictator
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  1118. Oh flashlights - I have a few. One is my phone with flashlight function. The other is a unit that has a radio that covers AM/FM/Weather and has various lights on it like a flashlight with 3 levels, and a reading light with 6 LED's. The other is my USB rechargeable flashlight. And when all else fails there's my 200mW green LASER.
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  1119. When the spouse as diagnoses with Type II Diabetes and as a result we've just seriously limited carbs and sugar. So now the spouse blood sugar is fine and we've both lost a combined 60 pounds over 25 weeks. So about 1.2 pounds a week.
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  1120. USPS predates the foundation of the United States. And it is just as important to us today as was in revolutionary America.
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  1121. What is more interesting about Curiosity is that she is more autonomous than past rovers. That in itself is pretty fascinating. And I agree with Louis - defense spending is excessive.
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  1122. And yes while I love the Hitchhikers Guide Trilogy in Five Parts it is my most treasured paper books - I also love The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul and Dirk Gentley's Holistic Detective Agency. A
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  1123. A few years ago I did the mother of all lasagna - it cost at the time $150 to make. It was a meat and cheese deal - in a huge pan. Even made the sauce myself by roasting roma tomatoes with garlic and basil added later It was awesome.
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  1124. Since you know the outcome - then you could just dump all the pennies into a container that you've already tare weighted. Yes you lose resolution but if the number comes up less than or greater than the expected you know you have fakes.
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  1125. Just imagine what happens to the database products that run on those Linux boxes when the epoch resets! A lof of tables use a timestamp as a key field.
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  1126. Oh the death of Gustavo Fring - that was awesome.
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  1127. What I find interesting is all the rear engine models. Must have copied Volkswagen at the time. And the air cooled V8 - wow.
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  1128. Large aircraft have large amounts of automation in them. So takeoff or landing - it's the sames as Cesna.
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  1129. Oh yeah, deregulation! That didn't benefit the consumer, it benefited the corporations. And the Reagan era is what accelerated the process.
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  1130. This is why I won't buy a smart TV. I abhor most advertising. First off most of the ads are irrelevant to me. Secondly they're fucking annoying. And if you want you use a hardware firewall and block the ad serving sites. It's pretty simple. And if I plunk down money to buy something I own it, not Samsung. Even my washing machine and dryer - they're dumb. Well the dryer is. The washer is a high efficiency unit. But it just lights up LED"s to tell you what cycle it's in.
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  1131. I see a 1st amendment case coming from this. By the way, you make a mistake talking about it being illegal. It is clearly UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
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  1132. Know how I became ax foidie aka gourmabd. Thank PBS.
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  1133. We had a bit of flooding in Rhode Island back in 2010. Down near me the entirety of the valley section of the city of Providence was flooded out. It was a week solid of rain that did that - to the point the Scituate Reservoir the cities main water supply sent water into it's spillways. Those spillways connected to the Woonasquatucket River which flows right through the Valley section of Providence. Plus western Cranston - where the water on houses was up to the roof line.
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  1134. Of course it is fear mongering. Or bluster if you really want to get down to it.
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  1135. Actually, being a bigot is more a birth defect than anything. Their limbic system is off.
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  1136. Now look at trains - the operator is on the right.
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  1137. Rice gets refrigerated immediately. When I reheat it must be steaming.
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  1138. Yep, all those who allege to communicate with the dead are nothing but con artists.
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  1139. Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
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  1140. And to get the remained there's a little bit of modulo magic in there.
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  1141. And I'm an InfoTech/InfoSec guy and I say security is accomplished sort of the way an onion is constructed. Security must be multi-layered.
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  1142. All modern medicine is capable of is drugging a symptom into submission or excising a bit of tissue. Meanwhile there are technologies out there right now that they fail to embrace. CRISPR for instance.
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  1143. Well I-95 through RI - you have to camp in one of the two leftmost lanes if you want to get on RI-4. And the key to driving, mash the accelerator. And when you see an exit only lane and some asshole tries to cut in, no fucking mercy. And my favorite - is the fake right go left maneuver - mostly committed my Mercedes Benz drivers.
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  1144. Yeah - I think we all make certain allowances when we have pets.
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  1145. In 1979 I had a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1, Level II computer in my bedroom. Also one other thing - I worked with a friend to develop a local bbs. That of course lead to me getting my B.Sc. in Information Science and a near three decades in I.T./iNofSec.
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  1146. Oh as kids the cops never bothered us. I found out why when my grandfather died. You see the year I was born he retired from being a police officer himself. He was the guardian angel for me and my friends. He knew everyone on the force.
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  1147. That phone on the wall that's ringing - the ring is definitely wrong. They had P-Type ringers - one big bell with the solenoid inside the bell.
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  1148. Two points to add - we know there are planets orbiting those stars. But our current technology doesn't let us see if there's life on those planets. However a few orbiting telescopes being sent up in the next few years will be able to resolve the atmospheres of those planets. And as far as technology - ever see how car bodies are built and painted? It's all robotic.
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  1149. And I've dealt with forests of server racks in the past. Interesting enough with hot/cold aisles.
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  1150. As a kid we had Camaro, GTO, Charger, Nova, etc. The Charger was gorgeous in a nice blue - that one got wrapped around a telephone pole. The GTO - that was funny. We were doing donuts in the RI School for the Deaf parking lot. One time we do the donuts, the smoke is wafting from the ground. We start going up the hill and there's a Providence cop coming down. The car was full of the tire smoke. Cop looks in the car and said "Smells like a wire burning." Meanwhile the cloud of smoke on the ground is wafting ever higher into the air.
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  1151. Speaking of Walkman - I didn't have one of those oh no. I had an Aiwa unit with AM/FM tuner too.
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  1152. A headline if you will "Prayer Kills"
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  1153. In my case I'm a fan of clocks tht use NTP. No fuss, no muss. Just accurate time all the time.
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  1154. Yeah LOX wouldn't be too good in a kitchen. Liquid Nitrogen is a better option.
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  1155. RI wanted to pass a law to ban handheld radios - until I wrote my rep and senator and told them they'd be preempting FCC law by doing so and set the state up for one hellish lawsuit.
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  1156. Well the state I live in traffic checkpoints were ruled unconstitutional back in 1986. And illegal lane changes I see them regularly. No cops.
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  1157. Where I live the train station is a 15 to 20 minute walk. It's pleasant actually. Now delays on MBTA Commuter yeah they can be annoying. But they don't happen ALL the time. It's just we're dealing with a signalling and switching architecture that originated nearly a hundred years ago. And commuting into Boston daily - it's only 50 miles. And I do walk to/from the train station. Have my headphones, music library on the phone and my Fire Tablet for reading on the train.
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  1158. Light pressure is also known as photon pressure
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  1159. Well - the way I see it is it would disintegrate you and store every single detail about your and your biome. Then there's the medical angle - cancers could be stripped out of the teleported person or even changes could be made to push evolution further.
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  1160. What was it 1980 - when the U.S. beat the Russians at hockey too. That was awesome.
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  1161. Interestingly here in Rhode Island we're so damned small it doesn't make any sense we don't have rail connecting every city like Pawtucket, Providence, Cranston, Warwick. In fact back in the day we had tracked and trackless trolleys in the area. That all got scrapped and we got shit ass buses.
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  1162. Where one gets their power. I can tell you where I want to go. Solar and wind. With a big battery pack for when there's no sun and no wind. Of course there are companies out there engineering little tiny fusion plants that can be dropped into neighborhoods. And the U.S. Navy is one org that has gotten fission to be pretty damned reliable.
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  1163. I remember that incident. And yeah know a lot of police aren't the sharpest crayons in the box.
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  1164. I won't necessarily say going to Andorid is the answer. But I'm using Amazon Music on my pc and phone. It works and doesn't annoy the shit out of me.But one theme you guys are hitting, which I've long known - is that devices that try to do everything generally don't do anything very well.
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  1165. As an atheist I'm a little Leary of the name rods from God. Can you imagine the news coverage that says a city was destroyed destroyed by Gods rod.
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  1166. This also explains why cars are now built to tolerate up to 15% to 85% ethanol. And there's plenty of that when they're not using corn to make HFCS. And I was young I use to ask the question where does the exhaust gas from cars go? What happens to it. I guess the lead thing is my answer.
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  1167. So these heat pumps would work well here where I live. Winter temps rarely get below freezing. In fact lowest I've recorded so far was just a few degrees below 32F. And of course now it's getting to the point where daily temps are starting to hit 60's and 70's.
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  1168. And here I am, at a minimum half Italian - another group shat upon int he late 19th and early 20th centuries and a great grandfather who had an Irish surname. So two groups who were abused by WASPS run in my blood.
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  1169. Yeah they tried to get on in Providence, RI a few years ago. Needless to say all sites detailing the plan have gone off the net and the states transit operator, RIPTA makes no mention of it.
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  1170. You know it is interesting. Why? My spouse is black. My father said to me once it's in the Bible black and white should not be together. I asked if he'd ever read it in a Bible. Nope his pastor pushed this notion. I cut off contact with my father after that. And what is it about the names that end in vowels like mine does.
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  1171. Well there's actually 5 lines in Boston - Red, Orange, Green, Blue and Silver. Then there's commuter rail - which comes from points north and south of Boston. Furthest southern point is Wickford section of North Kingstown, RI.
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  1172. So wait, isn't Simnel cake sort of a fruit cake?
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  1173. I'd like to offer one more he hasn't thought about. Who says we're the ONLY Universe. The Big Bang could well have been the collapse of on Universe as the foundation of ours. But if you follow the math and principles of String Theory there is a multiverse.
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  1174. Here's my theory it's largely anecdotal but here it is. I grew up in a city my cousin grew up in the suburbs. I never wanted to try drugs my cousin on the other hand. It's environmental to some degree. Cities have many more fun things for kids. Suburbs don't. Now alcohol - my most drunken period of my life was when I worked for the AG's office in my state.
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  1175. Oh lets see a 1lb bag of peanut M&M's, a leatherman tool, various wires etc. Went through no issues.
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  1176. So in essence the British broke it. And fast forward to the 21st century and now Britain is exiting the EU. Interesting.
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  1177. Well we haven't met aliens just yet. We've just seen craft slip into and out of visibility. So one theory is they're projections from a universe with more dimensions and it's just a projection into our 3D well 4D world. That could be the case
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  1178. Well in my circle it's known as 460 air conditioning. All four windows down and 60MPH.
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  1179. I did a contract in a genetic lab in Cambridge MA. It's fascinating how much the process has in common with color film development. We used Ion Proton Sequencers. And yeah, 80GB per exome that we sequenced. It was part of the Million Veteran Program with the Veterans Administration.
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  1180. I think a lot of it is ignorance. They won't understand climate change until such time as they walk out the front door of their house on the hill and realize they now have waterfront property.
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  1181. Oh yeah. And Carlins takedown of religion was epic.
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  1182. Yeah where I live there's a boy who likes to open my packages and see if there's anything he likes. I talked to the police and I do want to do a honeypot essentially this would be ideal. Already have cameras watching too.
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  1183. I've never been to a Ruth's Chris. Found out I know the trick to com cooking my own steaks.
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  1184. I say we will be masked for a few years. And vaccination. but shut down all gatherings of 5 or more people for the indefinite future. Stop this virus from spreading.
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  1185. It's funny how progress marches on from cylinder to disc to wire to magnetic tape to digital discs to now streaming over a net connection.
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  1186. Dr. Ekberg - it appears there's a direct correlation between mg/dl of blood sugar and A1C levels. I've been tracking my spouses blood sugar for three months and his average blood sugar is 93. Therefore his A1C is likely 5.1 now. Thank you.
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  1187. Yeah but they're gonna be freezing until the car warms up. Even remote start is dependent again upon chips.
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  1188. I have a question. Can the rig climb steps? About a 10" rise on the steps near me. Right now I can climb them but it's either damage to my C3 and L5 which means I'l likely be in a wheelchair in a few years.
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  1189. We've been looted by the previous generation plus the corporate interests aka the rich. They had better be careful or else it's torches and pitchfork time - but knowing the U.S. is one of the more well armed places on the planet, it'll be weaponry instead of pitchforks. Now if we could only stop the NRA.
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  1190. Hmm I'm gonna have to try this. Only thing I'd steam the eggs then flour, egg and bread crumbs.. This is similat to scotched eggs less the sausage
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  1191. I'll give you one Ajit Pai - he has no business being the lead commissioner at the FCC. And Ben Carson, Rick Perry et al are all morons.
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  1192. Here in the state of Georgia the heat is resistive electic. When the overall rate for power here is $0.12 a kWh it makes sense. I'd love to have a heat pump though. Now when i lived up North we had oil heat that was then converted to gas heat. Much better but still expensive. And we won't talk about the rates for electric power - $0.25 kWh.
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  1193. Best one I ever heard about Florida is for the newly wed and the nearly dead.
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  1194. Here we are almost a year later. Omicron is the current variant. I mask up for all interactions and I have four nasal test kits in the house.
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  1195. You want good coffee - buy the green dried beans and roast them yourself. You can do it in a pan on the stove, or buy a cheap popcorn stir machine. In those machines use time - usually 20 to 35 minutes depending on the beans. For example I love Costa Rican Dota Estate beans and they take 25 minutes. Then grind 8 to 16 oz as you need it. 2oz into a French Press is perfect.
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  1196. I see a 1st amendment case coming from this.
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  1197. There are two ways to completely wipe data from a hard drive. Either a huge magnet or electromagnet, or shred the drive.
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  1198. I must ask - who the hell spends over $100,000 on a U.S. made vehicle? Or branded. Take your pick. And I wonder how much one of these babies will go for say in year 3.
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  1199. Um I may add ballistic missile subs, attack subs and aircraft carriers guess what they're powered with? Nuclear. The U.S. Navy knows how to do Nuclear.
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  1200. No my favorite is what i've seen. Crossing signs with amber LED's flashing around them. Or stop signs outlined with red LED's. Yeah I know.
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  1201. Oh and another thing. The reason the right side of the heart is so much smaller than the left: The right side is what circulates blood to the lungs and has to be low pressure. The left side pumps to the body and so is a high pressure system.
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  1202. The one that concerns me is the Unix Time Epoch end in 2038.
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  1203. I went to Catholic schools for the first twelve!. Found Out they tested IQ and f reasoning. My IQ came out on the far right iside of the curvef. But I also scored well in abstract reasoningw
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  1204. A lot of Heinlein's books are excellent reads.
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  1205. And you know if just the oil industry paid their fair share, we'd have universal health care in the U.S. Imagine that.
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  1206. Just have to figure out what to do with nuclear waste. But the technology mentioned, I'd be perfectly fine with replacing all the coal and oil burning power plants in the U.S. with those technologies.
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  1207. Oh man, a bigot cavalcade! Nice job David. You almost lost it a couple times though, hell I couldn't keep myself from calling them assholes either. But you do a good job! And please, interview Maggie Gallagher and Brian Brown. And in the case of Gallagher, tell her love and kisses from her least favorite opponent.
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  1208. Of course - and around here there aren't ANY remote alleys. If there are they are festooned with cameras.
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  1209.  @ikemadi6265  Yes indeed. I'm aware of the limitations of I.T. systems and robotics. But even now I see we have some tech that reminds me of the Jetsons - we're staying with a friend right now and the alarm system - where in the past they beeped out their warnings, now they speak. Whenever a door is opened it clearly says "Front Door", "Back Door", "Garage Door". I find it hilarious.
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  1210. Oh cargo cults.
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  1211. Kind of like registered a normal car in RI. Be prepared to spend 1.5 hours.
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  1212. Regards the price of vehicles - what's more interesting is that I know for a fact that with a lot of manufacturers, the cars for the most part are built by robots. So why is it so expensive? It's mostly metal, plastic and silicon.
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  1213. Here in the northeast U.S. we went from oil which was getting too expensive to a gas heating system. That baby retains heat in interesting way. The flue closes off, the circulator runs etc.And when we build our place I'm not averse to putting a small nuclear reactor on the property.
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  1214. My favorite is the BMW X3. Drove one a few years ago and wow. In eco mode it moved, in sport mode it approached ludicrous fun.
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  1215. Very interesting analysis about the effects of NAFTA. As soon as NAFTA came about I realized who would benefit the most from it. It wasn't going to be the U.S. citizenry, it was going to be corporations who were now unfettered to do business in Canada and Mexico. It's why many of our products now contains labels and directions in English, Spanish and French.
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  1216. Well - ebay jumped the shark around 2006 so there's that. Out of curiosity did you change your internet provider?
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  1217. Oh blood doesn't bother me.
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  1218. This is what happens when you set a Leviathan military force upon a populace. You must have absolute control and of course the Bush administration hasn't clue one about that.
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  1219. I don't know - perhaps we can travel to time in the past. But to a future that hasn't happened yet? I doubt that very much.
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  1220. All I know is my spouse spent a little time in a hosptial and picked up a C. Diff infection. No tests but the Doctor was aware of the symptoms and prescribed anti-biotic and anti-fungal. Cleared up the C. Diff.
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  1221. @Mar Well in the case of the hospital they had signs all over the place warning to wash hands etc. But I noted most if not all staff didn't wash, they instead grabbed a pair of gloves. With their bare hands. And they didn't have the spouse on any antibiotics - they had him on BP lowering medication.
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  1222. I wonder if the IVECO underpinings are responsible for the rough ride.
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  1223. So hydrogen - is about $42 for 120lbs of it. Much cheaper than diesel fuel.
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  1224. Oh I see where you're going. The helical scan drum
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  1225. Ah no to the sprays. I use bait traps. They take the tainted food back to the nest and bye bye bugs!
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  1226. Here's what I don't get I believe it's the Laffer curve - where supply goes up, price goes down. So if there's a surplus why are prices rising? So you're telling me it's a processing nee a packaging problem. Interesting.
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  1227. I understood a long time ago how stupid vast swaths of the U.S. population happens to be at this time.
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  1228. Ahem some of us use moistb towels named Good Wipes.
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  1229. Well there are electronics that can detect temperature and humidity. So it's not hard to imagine a heated surface that only comes on when temperatures drop below freezing and humidity goes up. So only SOMETIMES the heater would come on.
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  1230. I recall a video I watched about and octopus in a lab who figured out how to unlatch his tank, crawl across the floor to crab tank and dine there.
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  1231. It's all inconsistent baloney
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  1232. I'll tell you what you get when you buy a $1.7 million dollar car - a tax bill where I live that would be $102,000 your first year, plus $119,000 in sales tax. That's insane.
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  1233. I use two methods for searing steaks. First is to take a cast iron pan, add a little peanut oil, and then butter. The sear in that. The other method is to use the Searzall. And all that juice from the steaks, I'll usually melt a bit of unsalted butter and then dump in some flour to make a roux and add the juices and a bit of water. Finish with a pat of unsalted butter. Season to taste.
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  1234. I assume Mexico has an equivalent of the U.S.Coast Guard. Why aren't they stepping up enforcement? And I'm pretty sure if the DEA in the U.S. wanted to they could stop the Fentanyl from even entering the U.S. Then of course I'm sure local law enforcement could also curtail the supply if they really wanted to do so. It's so frustrating that all these people are going to die because the agencies responsible fall down on the job.
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  1235. I go through a bit under a quart of coffee per day. And gotta have it.
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  1236. I remember before meat for example wasn't wrapped in plastic.
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  1237. And don't think police here in the United States aren't trying to skirt PC either. They are. You just never really hear much about it.
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  1238. I took three years of Spanish in high school. Plus heard and understood a lot of Italian as a child. But other linguistic cousin to English is Dutch and German - sometimes you hear cognates in those languages too.
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  1239. He's got name recognition and that counts for something. And he could be a serious threat to Quinn. It'll be interesting to see how he fares in the race.
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  1240. I recall for years to get I-195 you had to get n the leftmost lanes of I-95. When they rehabed I-195 it became a right hand exit and now you go left for I-95. That's in Rhode Island.
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  1241. She really is a piece of work. And I read about her drunken grope with a guy. That was more than I needed to know about her.
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  1242. Iran-Contra story is a good one. I recall a cake was sent to one of the Islamic clerics along with a shipment of arms.
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  1243. 6 billion watts. Damn!
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  1244. Jesus christ on a stick. Do they not have zoning laws in any community in Russia? Wow.
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  1245. Want to know the interesting one. The lighting sentinel is now the AUTO setting on the headlight of my Chevy Trax. Oh yeah and I found out the Buick Encore I believe is the same body so giving my Chevy new features should be fairly easy.
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  1246. Oh yeah and one thing sugar us in everything. From bread to condiments
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  1247. You can thank John Calvin for the bizarre categorization of sexuality. In my opinion religion screws up so many things. I often fantasize what would have happened has the myth of the Christ not existed.
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  1248. I turned 20 years old in 1984. It was interesting regarding the drinking age. In MA which was a short ride from RI I could drink in MA. But not RI.The following year I could drink anywhere. :)
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  1249.  @zUJ7EjVD  At the time the CEO was out of office. So that's why.
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  1250. Know what the best thing about a waterbed is? It's heated. That was nice when I lived up north. Now I live in the south. If I could figure a way to cool the water - hmmm.
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  1251.  @babyshanks1707  Yeah I'd turn mine off during spring/summer.
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  1252.  @babyshanks1707  Well I'm of Southern Italian ancestry so I do like it hot.
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  1253.  @babyshanks1707  Yeah - my ancestry is half Italian the rest from northern Europe plus some Native American (Which tribe I know, plus HOW I got that.) Plus trace Ashkenazi with jibes with something I was told when I was much younger. But I much prefer 85F outside.
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  1254. Interesting, where I live they built a huge pumping system and a way to close of the bay during storms. The pumps can eject a million gallons of water per minute.
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  1255. That part 1pi, 2pi, 3pi - I seem to recall studying for my Amateur Advanced license back in 1992 it was the key to solving phase angles.
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  1256. Oh the spouse had one on his back. I usd a sterilized blade to pierce it and drain it. Then bacitracin was put on and a fresh bandage.
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  1257. How interesting. Essentially I think we're heading more into a depression than a recession.
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  1258. In essence we get raked over the coals tax wise. And if you calculate the total in tax instead of the stupid buckets that obscure the reality, you come to realize that more than a third of your income goes to taxes.
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  1259. I don't mind browned eggs - that's the maillard reaction right there. Mostly I do scrambled - with butter. Butter and eggs in pan and then on medium to high heat keep stirring, scraping sides. When they're just about congealed add some creme freche. Season with salt and pepper. Perfect.
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  1260. That one about 5 years of more. What he completely neglects is how many reverted to homosexuality in less than 5 years. Ooops!
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  1261. Ah see the next day - when he said "Hello" I'd have answered with "Fuck off".
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  1262. Just out of curiosity, did you employ a regex backreference to identify the roots that matched?
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  1263. Recall too that Tillerson called Trump a "Fucking Moron". An accurate assessment on Tillerson's part.
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  1264. In all the numerical analysis I've one about the electorate I find there's a core of 29% or so that are the bat shit crazy.
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  1265. I've long know aircraft are pretty advanced in regard to computers landing the plane and in some cases taking off too. And I have faith having dealt with redundant tech myself that 'I'd trust an autonomous car. Ad in the case of aircraft the pilots are just there in case something goes wrong.
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  1266. Wow you're really gushing about this vehicle. I can explain why, it's German. Some really good engineering comes out of Germany.
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  1267. Shocked DOJ hasn't gotten the nvoplved. It's a clear duopoly
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  1268. I still posit that the demise of Disco was because it was very black and very gay. So there's that.
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  1269. Regards the 2nd amendment - I'm a former gun owner. And I understand why the amendment was voted in because the founding fathers feared a standing army. Sort of how our 4th and 5th amendment rights get violated regularly. No those who disagree with me aren't necessarily dumb but ill informed or maleducated.
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  1270. Other options would be rail or air to transport the refined product.
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  1271. Interesting - I know Scotty Kilmer doesn't like VW's at all. Says they're unreliable. I've driven a 2016 and 2017 Golf and gotta say they're fun to drive. But the price for the Type R is too much - I'd pay $5460 in taxes the first year. That's 13%. So I don't think I'd be buying one. And I'd stay far away from the Focus RS if only because the engines have a propensity to eat head gaskets for breakfast.
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  1272. One thing I note - that looks shockingly like a Japanese K car.
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  1273. I know cars are far more dangerous. I moved from the northeast U.S. to the state of Georgia. I've never seen such horrendous car accidents up north, oh no, but down here in Georgia I've seen car accidents that are pretty horrible. Now why do I think flying is safer - it's simple. There's a pretty high level of automation in aircraft these days. Cars not so much.
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  1274. Well - apply order of precedence and I believe addition leads. So group around the + and the answer changes too.
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  1275. I have the same t-shirt as Louis. Got it off Woot.
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  1276. Beside fuel type the other thing that differs between the 18th and 21st century is precision. For example I use induction cooktop and Sous Vide where a constant temperature is set.
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  1277. Interesting in the 3 acids they sort of mirror life.
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  1278. And modern displays use a low voltage differential signal to address the pixels. Usually an FPGA or like that controls it. And on the old CRT's they came up with a way to stuff data in the blanking areas. That was cool.
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  1279. Fun fact check points are unconstitutional in RI
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  1280. Higher minimum wage would mean more money in the market. More money in the market means more jobs, more jobs means more money added to the market. It makes perfect sense. Increase the minimum wage to $10 to $15 an hour.
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  1281. Oh in my high school I got farmed first to grade school. That didn't work. Then farmed to the Diocesean library. That worked.
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  1282. Consider if you will Thunderbolt is otherwise known as IEEE-1394. And regards SD - they're pretty damned ubiquitous. The biggest use of storage around. And they're not so much disks but storage devices.
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  1283.  @Toothily  Thanks - you're right. Thunderbolt is a charging and audio protocol.
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  1284. Well it depends where you live. I've lived in Rhode Island and in Georgia and both have a thing called castle doctrine.
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  1285. Hmm - the ultrasonic thing. I don't have any more space for appliances in my place.
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  1286. Where I live all the traffic signals got upgraded to ITS standards. Meaning they're mostly LED, can sense cars, detect emergency vehicles and have the LED based walk/don't walk with timer signals. But go down to Warwick, RI and the traffic lights don't have sensors, use incandescent etc. And the other thing - traffic light cameras. We pretty much accepted that. But then the city started deploying portable speed cameras. That pissed us off. In fact one camera was stolen, one was vandalized and the politicians got an earful. And the right turn - unless posted otherwise you can always make a right on red after stop. And the traffic detectors you also see them on highways - two loops - speed checks. That's how they set 85th percentile. And drivers rememeber rules - as if!
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  1287. Oh they're getting crafty.. I got a priority mail envelope. In it is a check for $2K+ I';m told to buy two Amex gift cards of $1000 each and I'll have to return them the Amex. And how much you want to bet that Amex is in Nigeria.
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  1288. Consider the stator is encased in epoxy - only issue you might face is corrosion on the rotor.
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  1289. Oh and the other thing about Randy - he loved water and loved to play fetch.
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  1290. Where I live they recently went to single stream for recyclables. In other words paper, glass, metal can all be mixed. Much better. But we could generate a lot of our energy from trash. Hell, they just VENT the gas from the landfill here and only recently started burning it for energy production.
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  1291. This is going to be interesting to see how it pans out. The city has a solid case and the church has no case at all.
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  1292. Which is why I avoided IIS like the plague. Apache instead.
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  1293. The thing is if you could push off the time of having kids to say 50 to 70 years old you wouldn't see overpopulation.
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  1294. Puritanical repression never works.
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  1295. Robotic tape libraries have been in use by TV stations for YEARS - at least back to the late 1980's. And it was all on Betamax.
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  1296. You want to screw with radar you gotta a) run power and b) be able to tune it properly.
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  1297. Oh yeah all new managers had to go to be tested I found out I'm VA team builder
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  1298. Yes indeed. And then diacriticals too. Like nyay!
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  1299. Oh man. since my spouse was diagnosed with type II Diabetes I followed the keto diet with him. And if you look at my stats even my age - my blood pressure is 120/80, pulse rate under 70 at rest. Plus I've dropped nearly 30lbs of weight so far. And my genetics - Mediterranean and Neanderthal are the majority.
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  1300. Hell no. I won't buy a Toyota. I have a Chevy Trax - it has remote start included. Now Onstar - that's one that you pay for.
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  1301. It's funny I did 23andMe and found my half brother. Family lore often spoke of my dad fathering child in Scotland while he was in the U.S. Navy. And sure enough he did. Plus other interesting things popped in there like North African, and some other goodies.
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  1302. Actually I'll offer one other benefit of NATO that I think is interesting. It prevents Germany from re-arming to the point where it takes over all Europe. Recall that twice in the 20th century they tried. I doubt they've bred that out of the German populace by now.
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  1303. Go read the Arms of Krup. That's one recommendation I can make for you.
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  1304. Motor vehicles and ships use most fossil fuels. Now I can tell you ships - the U.S. Navy is a nuclear navy. Why can't that tech be put on all ships? A nuclear reactor producing gobs of electric power. Imagine.
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  1305. What I like is they'll even monitor tire pressure too. That's pretty cool. And lots of cars now display OBD-II info in the menus. So it's all good. And I don't consider sensors to be prohibitive of self car repair.
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  1306. An anesthesiologist and tax fraud, and M.D. and Medicare fraud. What is it with doctors?
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  1307. Just google "Ladder Theory"
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  1308. Just out of sheer curiosity, why don't they teach it this way?
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  1309. Loved the dig at FIAT-Chrysler - with regard to the hood latch. That was too funny.
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  1310. It's funny I listened to HIrohito's speech at the end of WW II. Even though I only know a few Japanese words the tone of the message read to me as "So sorry, we fucked up."
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  1311.  @indicanolan  No doubt about that. And women will always be women. In fact I see it as we have more in common with each other be it male/female, America/Korean/Russian/Chinese etc. than difference.
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  1312. Indeed, deliberate ignorance is a hard one to overcome. Ridicule however is a useful tool to be used with the willfully ignorant.
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  1313. You are completely unhinged. Or have you not scene the following: a) Orbital photographs of the Earth b) See sun rise, high noon and sun set. c) Seen the phases of the moon d) Seen eclipses e) See the arc of the Milky Way right ascend through the sky.
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  1314. Well - sometimes it is amusing to feed the trolls. Because they'll eventually resort to ad hominem at which point they forfeit the argument.
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  1315. Wow getting a baseball up to mach 1.5 - Hmmm I wonder what's escape velocity? I believe it's Ve = SQRT(2GM/r) Where G is gravitational constant and M is mass. What's the mass of baseball. 145gm.
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  1316. Could be like I-95 through southern RI and CT. It's all two lanes each side.
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  1317. Having read the Federalist Papers and Locke I can tell you it was an interesting time at the end of the 18th century.
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  1318. Yeah but electric takes time to come up however gas in on instantly. Hell if I build a place I want no grid connected electricity. I'll use solar and wind and natural gas powered generator for when it's just gray out and not windy. However that's a rare thing. And induction you cannot use aluminum pans.
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  1319. The problem with vacuum tubes was that they were power hungry and generated a ton of heat. Sure some transistors generate heat too. And the first transistor was what is called a point-contact transistor, and the Field Effect Transistor which was just a sandwich of NPN or PNP.
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  1320. Thats because uranium is a fission producer. Right now they're working on huge fusion reactor in France. It's call the ITER. It's a tokamak. What I like about fusion is the waste isn't an issue as much as fission
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  1321. The Turks owe a lot of apologies. First it was the Armenians, now the Kurds.
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  1322. That deep dashboard is even on the the 2017 Honda Odyssey mini-van. https://youtu.be/t09EeStgFOU
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  1323. Interesting Io Sono Italiano-Americano myself. And I'm also in Georgia.
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  1324. I know the Bible and nowhere does it mention technology. But then the Bible thought god lived in the sky and all that.
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  1325. I'm not a speed demon. Oh no - mine is more interesting - i got charge with failure to keep right and unsafe right turn. The whole thing was stupid. But I got diverted int he process and got to pay $390 to wipe it off my record.
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  1326. And believe me CBO has all these numbers, they know too but they refuse to publish!
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  1327. Sure champagne from France, but proseco is the Italian
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  1328. Interestingly I read Mary Beard's "S.P.Q.R." It stands for Senatus Populous Que Romanus.
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  1329. Ships and cars should all get female names..it's why named my car Artemis.
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  1330. So it goes coal gas to incandescent electric bulbs. Then compact fluorescent. And now everything is LED based. And oh yeah my maternal grandparents house in the city had gas nipples in all the rooms.
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  1331. Consider too Bombardier makes subway and light rail products too.
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  1332. I used to have a pair of Advent Prodigy Tower speakers. And of course the Realistic MIninus-7's which really didn't sound too bad.
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  1333. The printing press definitely is behind widespread literacy and also the decline in religiosity. Of course I'd also say to the latter that the Internet did it's part too but is based on things like transistors, integrated circuits etc. And when I was younger I got to see how newspapers put their issues together. It was a plastic sheet with all the type on it, wrapped around a drum and paper fed in an it was amazing. Now of course we have Ink Jet, LASER and LED printers that produce high quality text.
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  1334. I wonder if movie Stripes had an impact. That was a heavily modified GMC RV.
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  1335. Regards people who are dumb and stupid. I have an idea let's put them on rockets and just shoot them into the Sun.
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  1336. Windows XP has an IPV6 stack on it.
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  1337. All I know is in hospitals in the U.S. they wake you for vitals every 20 to 30 minutes and no memory wipe
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  1338. 15 of 35 is 42% of the investigating cops that were convicted and served time? Yes indeed, there is something seriously wrong with the Mumia Abu Jamal case.
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  1339. America is replete with failed car companies - Tucker and DeLorean are two modern cases.
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  1340. Consider the speed of light is 3x10^8 m/s whereas sound travels at 1225km/s - large factorial difference there. And an RF signal travels are approximately the speed of light too.
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  1341. Hence swap
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  1342. What you have to ask is if these are extraterrestrial vehicles why would they want to visit Earth? What is the motivation. Now I've thought about this, maybe its time travelers but are they from a future that hasn't happened yet? So what are they?
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  1343. Depending upon where you live - the train versus car argument also has to take traffic into account. For example, Providence, RI to Boston, MA is only 50 miles. But by car you encounter a lot of traffic at the originating and terminating end. But depending on which train you take, you can get into downtown Boston faster by that method.
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  1344. Get ready for the price gouging! And recall American was in shaky shape a few years back. So this merger is interesting. And recall the biggest airline prior, one Pan Am. And where is Pan Am now?
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  1345. i do french press but I've found the water temperature is clutch. why? best coffee is between 190f and 205f. anything past the lattter brings out the bitter components.
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  1346. I wonder what part of "To petition our government for a redress of grievances" the Republicans don't get.
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  1347. I learned Kenpo Karate as a kid. It's mostly blocking maneuvers.
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  1348. Last BMW I drove was an X3 - that was fun. I think that's what BMW is good at, making a car fun. Sure they're expensive to fix but hey if you have the money.
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  1349. The only thing that would give me pause about purchasing one of these is that it's a Chrysler product. You know, FCA. Sorry I've driven fairly recent Jeep products and they were horrible.
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  1350. Well in my case I know two containers is 32 ounces of coffee of 325mg of caffeine. That'll keep me up for a while .
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  1351. In places I've worked I sort of wish we had isolation chambers. But yeah Amazen really?
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  1352. The police are mainly a reactionary force, not a preventative force. And I like the idea of the lock box. You could even equip it with countermeasures also known as glitter bombs.
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  1353. Its basically a relay.
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  1354. One discovery I made was when I had my wisdom teeth removed. They packed me off with a prescription for oxycodone - aka codeine derivative. That's how I found out I'm allergic to codeine and its derivatives. Disposed of those pills post haste. And watching this and knowing how many opioid addicted folks there are out there and how medicine turned away from it. It's a shame.
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  1355. Well yes - I'm getting into real estate and using cash instead of borrowing. I will use collateral but that's all easy.
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  1356. Ah the benefits of Mediterranean ancestry are manifold. Me I got the hair everywhere and hairline that doesn't recede. Even in my dotage.
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  1357. Ahem a 1964 Chevy Nova could make a 90 degree turn without using the steering. I'd say that qualifies.Oh yeah and mid 90's Crown Vics had a propensity for the rear end to come around and kiss the front end.
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  1358. I want an AGI that has a huge, red power off button. That'd teach that AGI who was boss.
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  1359.  @ThisOldChris  And also require that the AGI does not have the ability to control it's power or any human dependent systems and it understands humans can terminate its life. That should do it.
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  1360. I do things to deliberately screw the data brokers. Its great fun.
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  1361. The key difference between the two cars - you can get the Bolt pretty much immediately. So there's that - plus other U.S. and foreign manufacturers are going bonkers making electric vehicles. So I can see the point coming in the future - with government subsidies better than $7,500 that people will adopt electric pretty quickly. Plus I see the need for standardization of charging infrastructure.
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  1362. Actually the thrifting is the best bet. You can get a slightly damaged set of speakers and recondition them to prime.
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  1363. The inventions that created our modern day time are incredible. The vacuum tube of course, but the transitor which beget the integrated circuit or iC, then of course there's Claude Shannon here's a guy who came up with Information Theory and then rested on his laurels. Plus information theory became information science which I have my B.Sc. in.
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  1364. @nly8nchz Ummm.. the trickle down theory is from your boy Ronald Reagan. How's that worked out for us? Not very well. You're confusing the invisible hand of Adam Smith with trickle down too.
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  1365. Well in this house it's gone from CFL's to GE Light Sticks - LED based.Oh and you can get CFL's in soft white light.
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  1366. It plays much the same in Rhode Island. At one point the city of Providence spanned from the eastern border of the Atlantic to the Connecticut line. Now of course there' North Providence, East Providence too. And Cranston, Johnston et al.
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  1367. It's a careless mistake. And here in RI, to get your Blue card that allows you to purchase a gun, you take a gun safety class. Never assume a weapon is loaded, and always be sure to check the chamber. That's drilled into you.
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  1368. I've got the door of my freeer packed with bones from chicken thighs with a little meat on them. Plus I have onion, carrot and celery. I should make some stock.
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  1369. So I had to go read the bill - it's House Res 109 116th Congress. Just look that up by adding bill text and you'll find it. Lots of whereas clauses in there. I might do a video on it.
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  1370. I wonder what effect I'm having by blocking all ads on principle. That includes on YouTube. I look at it this way I pay for the connectivity and therefore can shape the traffic coming to me in any way I see fit.
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  1371. Prosecuting the 10 year old was a complete miscarriage of justice.
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  1372. Indeed it does. Now my spouse got diagnosed with Type II about 8 months ago. Limiting sugars and carbs had two effects on both of us. First the spouses A1C went from 9.0 to 5.3 - no longer type II diabetic. But the other side effect of what is essentially a keto diet is weight loss - 30+ pounds for each of us. Amazing.
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  1373. The Buick Encore is just a rebadged Chevy Trax with a little better tech package.
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  1374. Yes indeed, but have you noticed that none of this gets airplay on MSM channels? It's only sites like RealNews that get the word out. Thankfully I'm a nethead who long ago realized that the MSM has an agenda.
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  1375. I saw Black Panther - had a few comments on it. Number one when the two of them are fighting I mentioned open up an economy size can of tuna and the conflict would end.
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  1376. The issue i have with science and religion is this. Religion stopped looking for answers 2000 years ago. Thus my non belief in any deity.
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  1377. My Chevy Grad was once stolen.I knew it was tracked by OnStar. They didn't tell me where it was but told the police. Needless to say I never paid tor on star but I got my car back.
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  1378. This makes a very good point and I would hope the guy gets a good attorney to hold the courts feet to the letter of the law interpretation.
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  1379. Some of us lived through Reagan and find the veneration of him to be quite ridiculous. But it is true, you can lay the feet of the Imperial Presidency at the feet of the Reagan Administration.
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  1380. I usualy break down the bird and separate the breasts from the legs, thighs and wings. Why? Because those latter 3 cook at a higher temperature than the breast should be cooked at a lower temperature. This works out if you have a very sharp knife and a sous vide appliance. This year we did chicken and ham for thanksgiving because I'm not so hot on turkey to be honest. Did post sear on the sous vide chicken and it was scrumptious.
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  1381. The problem is it doesn't matter who we elect. They will ultimately be corrupted by big business throwing cash around. We need to fix the issue with lobbying and the notion that corporations have the same rights as flesh and blood humans. They don't and they shouldn't.
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  1382. Have FDR gone along with Hoover the Great Depression would have been the absolute destruction of the U.S. economy.
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  1383. Sort of like Harold Camping in 2012. I was driving home from North Carolina at the time. Was a little disappointed when it didn't happen. Who am I kidding I laughed like a maniac.And when you think about some of the ridiculous thing on masturbation - that you'd grow hairy palms, or go blind. Really?
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  1384. Here is another thing. Until this past January I hadn't flown since 2007. Why? Because I noted the stupidity of the whole system and said no thank you. Then there's January - I got pulled out for enhanced pat down because they alleged I had explosive residue on my shoes. The reality was it was incense ash but the MACHINE said it was explosive. Needless to say between the security theater and the airlines trying to extract every dollar I still say no thank you.
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  1385.  Sir We Are About to Die  Airport code PVD, Warwick, RI>
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  1386. It's obvious now that the Bush Administration is guilty of crimes against humanity. So why aren't our elected officials done anything? Because some of the policies continue into new administrations.
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  1387. It's because the flow of progress is logarithmic, not linear.
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  1388. Well up north I measured it, 125VAC and that means 250V. Haven't yet measured down here but I bet it's close the same. And oh yeah the power is on different phases in some cases.And get your Amateur radio license and suddenly you understand phases.And oh yeah I only deal with max 12V sources. Did once have to rectify and switch mode 130VDC that was to control the coin relay on a pay phone.
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  1389. Well I know on Linux you can do brace expansion. That's fun too.
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  1390. There is a reason a U.S. aircraft carrier is parked in the yellow sea. Sure, it's for military exercises with South Korea. But I think North Korea is just stupid enough to try to attack an aircraft carrier. What they don't know is there is probably enough armament on a modern aircraft carrier to lay waste to MOST of North Korea.
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  1391. I'm more struck by stupidity of these cases. I mean come on bleach? I know that its nasty and caustic. No thanks. And rubbing alcohol. Christ on a stick. Oh yeah and never mix bleach and ammonia you get chlorine gas out the other end.
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  1392. Two of my grandparents died from allergic reaction to contrast dye and from staph infection.
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  1393. Here's something cool Artemis is the Greek goddess of the hunt. Its also the name of my car.
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  1394. I agree we should. However if Tesla and it's current CEO have any brain cells left they won't touch this. Why? Because the negative publicity would be mind boggling.
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  1395. Oh and the CCD - that one has a fascinating history too. Bell Labs had it at one point, then Polaroid, Kodak, et al.
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  1396. Yeah it's a magistrate in RI too. But it is a CIVIL offense. You might want to consult an attorney though. And look up the MA general laws.
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  1397. Yeah I've got stories. Vehicular hijinks galore.
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  1398. Oh my last name translates into English as Fur/Furrier. Also a trait we men in the family share.
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  1399. I'm very intrigued by what Cohen is saying. We need to take our party back from the corporations.
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  1400. Like the new studio! And good show. Glad you're talking about the DOMA situation. It isn't going to necessarily change anything but it is going to set legal precedent.
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  1401. If you're running Windows skip the WinDD and other utilities and download Flashnul. Much easier to flash an image on it.
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  1402. I can pretty much tell you what made the Bronze Age collapse. It was Christians and maybe a few Muslims. They're famous for burning everything. But wait, before Christians existed but Jews and proto-Islamic civilizations existed.
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  1403. Regards Neandethal some of us have a few hundred variants in our DNA from them. So not all of them inbred.
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  1404. Interesting. Part of the problem is the baby boom generation. You see I was born at the very tale end of that era. But my parents were the last one who could afford a home. But they're dying off now. So there's going to be a glut of properties on the market.
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  1405. I have a similar trick - I call it the Jedi Mind Trick. Works really well. I also have a talent for sneaking up on people. :)
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  1406. Thanks. Makes sense to me as I've developed in VBA, BASH, Python and more. In essence you just design a layout, add items to it and give them actions. Only reason I'm watching is because a friend has an idea for an app but he's not a techie like me.
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  1407. Ah CLI I'm well versed in that.
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  1408. I actually prefer over ear Headphones. Bluetooth of course with 40 hour charge.
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  1409. Another thing that might be of interest to the founding fathers - the game of football for example. Or the media we have available to us. Or the fact that it's not German that is the language of science anymore. It's English instead.
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  1410. Epicurus said it best: “Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
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  1411. Here's hoping that Robertson suffers an 8.5lb blockage in his transcending colon!
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  1412. Oh Factorials are fun to program.
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  1413. What's more interesting is what station wagons became were SUVs
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  1414. It's funny Covid-19 has changed groceries and restaurants in the U.S. Where I am in Georgia well I can get grocerie delivered to my door and plenty of restaurants too. And yeah suburbs always give me a feeling that people just don't care.
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  1415. RGB LED Have been around for quite some time. And wth own you dim them
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  1416. Ah, the heady days before the GUI. Been a command line guy ever since. I suppose you could run RT-11 or RSTS/E on that baby too.
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  1417. Hmm - never heard of RSX-11M - and my only experience has been on PDP-11/34 and PDP-11/70 both which ran RSTS/E. And then I administrerd a Data General Eclipse MV9600U running AOS/VS II.
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  1418. Yeah RSTS did have some issues with I/O but it worked.
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  1419. With the advent of COVID-19 we saw how certain parts of those logistics systems couldn't keep up. Try finding bleach, bleach wipes, etc. when that started. And now that all the grocery vendors are getting into the delivery game I note one pitfall. InstaCart has pretty much captured that market but they don't know internal inventory of their stores. That is the next part.
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  1420. I have a reputation on the job as being rather erudite with cold callers like that.
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  1421. I think in the 21st century high power LASERs would be better for this age. It can act as a torch and it can cut a person in half. And the reason Inglis is a former rep is because the tea baggers have taken over congress.
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  1422. Wow - yeah I'm not a fan of Chrysler or should I say Fiat-Chrysler products. They reek of cheapness. A few years ago I rented a Jeep - it was the most stupidly optioned, poorly assembled vehicle I've ever driven. Of course I've driven a few Ford products and their transmissions are garbage. So I ended up buying a GM Product, one produced in South Korea as a matter of fact. And it's power everything except for the passenger seat. But he at least GM admits most of their vehicles will be driven by one. And it's a little turbocharge I-4LUV engine and one thing I know, there's no timing belt but it does have a chain. Oh glory be.
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  1423. I have a 2019 Chevy Trax it was assembled in South Korea. But the I4 LUV engine I believe was made in the U.S.
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  1424. I've never been evaluated. But I share many traits
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  1425. It's like nobody has ever heard of a convection oven
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  1426. Look at the Arduino Lillypad. Small little Atmel AVR that can be embedded in clothing.
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  1427. Well it's obvious why the Vets for Peace couldn't march in the D.C. Memorial Day Parade. All you have to to do is listen to the sponsors, all prime military contractors. Peace is not in the best interest of the military contractors.
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  1428. And that's why the Bell System was split up. It cost less and less to provide long distance service but they still maintained charging 20 cents a minute and such. All of this was predicted by Claude Shannon's Information Science theory. He predicted in essence the demise of the Bell System.
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  1429. I wonder - $65K new - how much will it be worth say in 3 years? Maybe $15K?
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  1430. Whoa - 96MPH on that run. Nice!
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  1431. Oh I've done work with 150W CO2 LASERs. Actually got to change the tube out one when the kid in engraving forgot to turn on the chiller. The tube ate itself.
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  1432. When it comes to marijuana edibles would be good
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  1433. It's just solenoids and possible some servos. And they've been around for years. And just think a head without a camshaft, pushrods, lifters etc. Lot simpler and cool. But electric maybe the solution overall.
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  1434. I've gotten to drive recent vintage Odyssey's and Sienna's. What amuses me most is you can chirp the tires on both.Causes great annoyance on the part of my SO. Meanwhile I'm giggling.
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  1435. Here's my take on why Trump struggled so to make the case that he won the election when i reality he didn't. He still has a lot of campaign debt which he's now on the hook for. I think in his mind he knows he may not live much longer so he'd die in a 2nd term. Who knows.
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  1436. You're act as conservative doesn't ring as sincere. After all if corporations other than insurance companies thought about it, they'd realize that a national health care system would mean employers would have MORE money to hire other employees.
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  1437. Logistics eh? Notice they won't move into the western part of Ukraine. I wonder why? As it borders Poland. And Poland is a NATO member.Now imagine if you will if Ukraine decided to join NATO then NATO would be right up against the Russian border.Oh yeah and calling it military adventure is incorrect. We in the U.S. know about military misadventure.
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  1438. I don't know what it is, but things shipped via USPS seem to be suffering a massive case of stupid. For instance a small package never got delivered to me. The status says delivered to a garage nearby.
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  1439. Moq Tadr should have been killed years ago. He's a Shia cleric who has more power than he should have.
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  1440.  @SuperMrsMar  One of the biggest issues I have is HOA's. But I know how to disect bylaws and rules and exploit them.
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  1441. Oh yeah and when Shannon wrote up his paper on Information Theory the bigwigs at Bell Labs knew it would spell the end of the Bell System. And it has.
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  1442. If the conservatives do re-write the Bible it means about 90% of the New Testament will have to be excised. In essence those people are of an Old Testament mindset. And what it really comes down to is their own pride in their ignorance.
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  1443. One thing that worries me is that mosquitoes are part of the food chain. In fact I suppor the effort to make the female mosquitoes resistant to malaria. That would be the best of all worlds.
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  1444. An x-ray machine isn't all that radioactive. The tube is only emitting when a current is passing through it. It's funny I was at my dentists office and the woman was having a hard time positioning the x-ray head. I explained the plastic casing probably deformed from all the heat generated by the tube.
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  1445. And if I'm not mistaken the only television network in the U.S. that carried the Muppet Show was PBS. And PBS still produces some fantastic productions and news shows. I only wish they were fully government funded the way they were before Republicans decided they didn't like fair and balanced coverage.
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  1446. I wonder how long it will be before those younger voters realize that the UK is a nuclear nation. Who's to say they won't use that as a bargaining chip so to speak.
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  1447. I have a Chevy Trax - there are warning labels about high rollover risk all over it. I wonder why? Note the dripping sarcasm.
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  1448. So this is post 1954 - and the Xbar looks like a #5 Xbar. and those were deployed from around 1948 to the 1980's when everything went electronic or digital. I remember living in Providence and being served by a 1A ESS then moving to North Providence and had the #5 Crossbar. I hated that change.
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  1449. And I bet GM is kicking its own ass over that now.
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  1450. Som some of us refuse to play.the credit card game
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  1451. Oh I'm usually very polite with receptionists. They are some of the best friends you can make.But I will say dealing with the public you're bound to run into a bunch of assholes.
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  1452. Well, you answered WHY the FDA has dropped the ball. It's an industry insider group now. They're not going to to anything in our interest.
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  1453. My Chevy Traxc reminds when to change the oil. I find that's easiest
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  1454. Consider if you will this probably impacts every microprocessor out there. Take for example an Intel i5 - it's pretty much a beefed up X86-64 cpu. And a bit of javascript? As a general rule I run ScriptSafe on my browser. So It automatically disables scripts. Any that I actually WANT to run I can create exceptions.
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  1455. Don't forget the security theater when one flies
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  1456. You have to consider, who would want to steal a Mirage?
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  1457. Ah for truly horrible torture no one can beat the Catholic church.
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  1458. One thing you can do on cars, trailers etc. is have brass plates engraved with your name and phone number and rivet them all over the both the car and trailer. No question as to WHO owns said car and trailer at that point.
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  1459. Wait if we know the exact distance from Mars and know the time it takes to get a signal across couldn't that derive the speed of light?
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  1460. What most people don't know are a few things. Like how guerilla warfare was employed by the continental army. And that a full year the Boston Tea Party was the burning of the Gaspee, a tax schooner in Pawtucket cove near what iis now Cranston, Rhode Island.
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  1461. I'll say it again Acela in the U.S. with just a modicum of investment can do 200MPH. That' d mean say Boston to NYC would be about an hour and fifteen. The trains are Alstom just like the TGV. And even the diesel locomotive can fly along at 150MPH or more. It's just who owns most of the track in the U.S. it's all private companies.
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  1462. Oh I love Jasmine and Basmati rice.
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  1463. My two favorite dishes from when I was younger, Chicken Cacciatore and Minestrone.
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  1464. I had a 1993 Ford Tempo that had fully automatic lap and shoulder belts.
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  1465. Oh I know I'm an I.T. Senior Engineer who's with an artists.
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  1466. Uh huh - we in the northeast can drive in a foot plus of snow. Ice on the other hand requires severely reduced speed, studs or chains, and don't stop if you don't have to do so. Now where we completely fail is with dry roads or light dustings of slippery snow. The level of stupid is astounding.Oh and my interesting snow story - I was 16 - there was a snowstorm. Highways were clear so I went to Lincoln Mall on Rte. 116 in Lincoln, RI. Getting there no problem in a 1976 Mercury Monarch - coming back however - 116 wasn't completely good - a little slippery. I sent the car right into the huge snow bank next to the Route 146 on-ramp. Got it down, whole engine compartment was packed in snow. Car still ran though.
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  1467. Here in the northeast U.S. we have the Acela service. It can only reach it's highest speed limit of 150mph or 241kmh in Rhode Island and part of Massachusetts. However I'm told the trains CAN go faster. They could easily reach 300kmh, or about 186mph. That would be phenomenal. They need to upgrade the track - most of the issue is that there are still at grade crossings on Amtraks northeast corridor.
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  1468. So the 70's movie Soylent Green now becomes oddly prophetic. Who can we thank for this? I can tell you - the baby boom generation. Which means my generation and those that follow, we can go pound sand. Shame on them.
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  1469. The U.S. Military when properly staffed and trained is what is known as a Leviathan force. We train our soldiers to break things and kill people. They're very good at that, what with the kill ratio in Iraq 20:1 in U.S. favor. The cleric can rattle sabers all he wants. If push came to shove, we'd destroy Iran. Keeping it is another thing entirely, something the Bush administration failed at. And Hillary Clinton would do the same.
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  1470. Ans people wonder why the Catholic church is in decline. They committed the ultimate evil with Inquisitions back then and totally blew their credibility away by covering up sexual abuse in the 20th century.
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  1471. The male weakness with regard to testicles. It even extends to when you see someone else take what is referred to as a nut shot you cringe yourself.
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  1472. Consider too if you will public transit doesn't use seat belts either. But the buses themselves have changed dramatically in the last few decades.
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  1473. So i just tested the square of 2 trick on my android phone and windows calculator. Both pass!
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  1474. The Koch brother should be up against the wall and shot!
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  1475. Interesting I'm 38 miles away from Peachtree City GA.
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  1476. You can do the double slit thing with photons too.
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  1477. Well I use the shipping boxes as fire starters. So in the way they are being recycled.
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  1478. Oh Greene is insane no doubt. Luckily I don't live in here district because if I did I'd be on her like white on rice for her idiocy.
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  1479. I love Real News, wish I had money so I could contribute. In any case, this is looking very good for the Democratic Party.
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  1480. I would pay maybe $300K for that. Because you're gonna have to spen $500K to clean and update it.Because dear non existent deity that is a hovel. Black mold, torn out ceilings and they can ask over $800K for that?
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  1481. Two things I know about squirrels. The first is that ground squirrel in some parts of the U.S. Second is that once I house sat that had a pet squirrel. He was a nasty little cur until I fed him then he was my best buddy.
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  1482. The thing about hydrogen gas - the infrastructure just isn't there. Electric is though.
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  1483. Um this is why HVAC systemsc have filter.
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  1484. I think the price point is a bit rich to be honest. For about half that I'd get the DJI drone.
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  1485. Oh sure, having an abusive parent around for a longer time will definitely keep a family together. If you believe that, well, I feel sorry for you.
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  1486. My very first car was a 1976 Pontiac Trans Am - it was brown with a golden chicken the hood. Had a 455 coupled to a 4 speed manual transmission. Too much fun for a 16 year old I'll tell you that.
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  1487. Only real choices for consumer net service in my area are Verizon and Cox.
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  1488. What's more worrisome about Britain and Brexit - a fact remains it wasn't urban dwellers who approved Brexit but suburban dwellers. Then of course Britain cannot expect that the E.U. will not impose tariffs on goods into and out of Britain. It will then cause massive inflation in price of goods in Britain - and the attendant problems of a nuclear armed nation well - I leave it to your imagination what will happen.
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  1489. Oh when it comes to math i'm fascinated by it. For instance when I started studying Point Set Topology - I realized how much of my computer background was related to that.
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  1490. What is more amusing about Land Rover/Jaguar is they're now part of Tata group - and Indian or Asian company. Fascinating.
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  1491. Yeah - they like to phrase it as the war of northern aggression. That's one reason why I can't stand the author Faulkner.
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  1492. Interesting as in T-mobile has already switched on 5G. I'm using it to post this. And you have to understand harmonics In essence the airlines can do one thing. Tag the phones and put them in an RF proof box.
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  1493. Ahem balls may jiggle but tits can too.. Girls have pectoral muscles too. I know I've seen amazing bouncing of alternate hits .
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  1494. Well I've driven Mazda, Nissan, Toyota, Honda and even Subaru. The last was made in Indiana in the U.S. And of course not many people know that things are rebadged everywhere.
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  1495. This was a breaking of the union and a looting of the company by venture capitalists.
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  1496. The funny about TGV it's built by Alstom - who also builds not only Amtrak's Acela but also the MBTA's commuter rail cars have been rehab'd by Alstom. And I do know the fastest part of the line runs through MA and RI. But they're looking to push the speeds of Acela to 150-200MPH.
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  1497. And when you question your default religion using critical thinking, you find out that faith is full of crap!
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  1498. Porno Petey needs to understand that a lot more ex-gays have come out as being gay all along than those who've allegedly 'changed'.
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  1499. To hell with Universal Healthcare. You do know the overhead for insurance companies is 25%, know what Medicare is? 3%. Plus you don't mention the plethora of insurers. That means billing companies. In essence parasites. And what do we do with Parasites? we kill them.
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  1500. Oh and RI has hot weiner restaurants.. Two of them one on Smith hill, the other in Olneyville
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  1501. I think a lot of this will go away once we have autonomous vehicles. Your car can just drop you off.
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  1502. I look at fools like Craig and think won't they be surprised when they discovered they believed in nothing.
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  1503. I cannot stand the incremental gains thing. It should be done - the evidence is there, the cost savings, expenses, etc. have all been shown. And they should play up the bigger business angle.
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  1504. What I say about most of the more rich among us is that they got that way by being what is effectively parasites on society. So a question dear reader, what do we normally do with parasites? We kill them. But in the case of the rich that's a somewhat difficult problem. Not insurmountable, but difficult. And taxing possessions is known as an excise tax something I left the state of Rhode Island for because on a car, it went from $75 per thousand of valuation to $60 and that's still excessive. Where I am now, you pay the sales tax on a car and then NO excise tax. Amazing. Plus the tax on homes is low enough it doesn't upset me. And I'm not rich by a very long stretch. But I object to paying what I consider extortion to own a car.
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  1505.  @jasondalton6111  Has Gates really contributed anything past Windows 3.1? I mean he's not been active in the company for some time. At the very least at least he's philanthropic.
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  1506. I've doen the blood test for COVID-19 - turned up negative.
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  1507. When I do drink one of the things I do is down about 16oz. of water before I got to sleep - and in a pinch something with a little caffeine and then of course an analgesic. That pretty much handles it.
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  1508. BTW, regarding R&D that's DARPA. DARPA has been doing some VERY interesting work. From autonomous vehicles to advanced emergency medicine. And the payoff to investment with DARPA is extremely high. BTW, we could re-apportion what we spend prosecuting wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and instead sink $100 Billion into energy solutions like advanced batteries, etc.
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  1509. Actually a lot of the U.S. is already metric. For example, go grocery shopping and things are 2L, 1.5L, 500ml etc. Then look at motor vehicles - the tires are metric, the bolts on a car are metric. The only things we don't use it for is distance and temperature although I can see temperature going metric before distance.
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  1510. While you mention Chernbobyl and Fukushima did you forget TMI, or SL-1 or the multliple nuclear accidents there have happened. But even with that know who has the safest nuclear reactors? The U.S Navy. The reactors are pretty much modules that can be swapped out.
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  1511. Depends on where you live. For example even though where I live RIPTA sucks there's the MBTA which gets you into Boston South Station on the northern terminus, and Westerly, RI on the other. And consider too, early buses were not comfy.
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  1512. In Providence, RI you can go from the Holiday Inn /Hilton to the Dunkin Donuts center to the RI Convention Center and all the way through to Providence Place Mall all while indoors.
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  1513. Right on target. They're sore losers. Of course it adds to their misery that their policies were essentially beaten by a black guy. I've always said, want to really bring the crazies out of the woodwork? Run a disabled black lesbian for President. You'll have the idiots crawling out of the woodwork on that one. But the tea baggers, birthers et al are just a tiny little minority of the country.
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  1514. Well interesting GM is going whole hog with electric. Good - the manufacturers need to do that.
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  1515. The key difference is in Java you BUILD your own functions whereas in Haskell it probably has a robust function list.
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  1516. Cold or hypohtermia is one thing that has had enormous benefit. But I also know a few years ago DARPA was working on a drug that could be used in the battlefield. It would put the body into a twilight state metabolically. Wonder if they were successful.
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  1517. The processed thing isn't so much the problem it's added sugar that is the problem. The other concern is salt as I understand how sodium works it will drive fluid intake. So even when i cook I tend to use less salt.
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  1518. Oh hell - I can do an omelette. I found out through trial and error - low heat, a good chunk of unsalted butter and the filling like mushrooms, onions, peppers etc. pre-sauteed. Low and slow is the trick - you get nice solid egg but no browning.
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  1519. Fun story - one place I worked and InfoSec company - Halloween was a BFD. My unit just went bang for buck, strobes, a cauldron and dry ice with a warm water spritz. Nice low rolling fog out of that one.
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  1520. Consider that newspapers in the U.S. are mostly written for a sixth grade level and you see the issue.
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  1521. The problem is it's good when the dollar goes down because then our exports become more affordable elsewhere. But the real issue is we've pissed away most of our big ticket manufacturing thanks to NAFTA.
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  1522. Consider if you will a single ballistic missile submarine. That caries 24 missiles, each with 8 independently targeted warheads. That's 192 targets we can hit with one submarine. So if Kim Jong Un doesn't know, he launches on South Korea, Guam, Japan, or any other friend of the U.S. I can pretty much guarantee Pyongyang will be a glowing parking lot within 30 minutes.
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  1523. If prosecutors decline to prosecute then what recourse do we have?
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  1524. Nice plan. I'd support that since the churches already feel they have a political voice. Make em' pay to pray!
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  1525. I wonder what pricing on the SUV is going to be. I think I'd prefer that. But I'd have the R1T too. I like.
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  1526. I'll say that we should use the algorithmic method.
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  1527. Plus GM/Chevy didn't exactly market the car. That amazes me.
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  1528. And just a few years later a VCR could be had for around $200. Amazing how that works.
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  1529. Have to do a few conversions. But RI is #2 most densely populated state. However when I do the math - it comes out to 15 people per acre. So we get jacked with buses that suck in this state.But up until the 1940's and 50's we had a streetcar network. It got torn out in favor of buses. Blame GM, Goodyear and Standard Oil for that one.
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  1530. I was a member if DSA
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  1531. Interesting perspective on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Someone I would hope eventually will pull the plug on both misadventures.
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  1532. I'm sort of in the Democratic Socialist side. But I still believe in our constitutional rights, but also the care for all.
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  1533. How do you vaccinate 8 billion people And yeah the profit motive gets in the way of accomplishing this. Be prepared to wear masks for at least the next 3 to 5 years.
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  1534. I think you are correct. But you have to look at the true reasons for invading Iran. At that point we would control a vast majority of oil in the world. That said, I don't think we should be going in there. Instead we should take a few hundred billion of the military budget and put it into research to find alternatives to oil and coal and to push adoption of solar, wind, wave, etc.
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  1535. Let's say a pizza is $10, adding 20 cents would be a .0002% tax. Apply this to all fast food and the tax revenue would be significant. In 2010 there were $184 Billion in fast food sales, so the tax revenue for health care there would be $36.8 million a year. Tiny but good for us overall.
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  1536. The point of this is that Thomsas disability is in the hands of George W. Bush. Even one person disabled or killed is too many in my book.
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  1537. MOSFET stands for Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor.
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  1538. Yeah but just because Ann Romney is so nice is no reason to vote for her husband. And in Ann Romney's case - they may have once been 'poor' they certainly haven't been for some time. And they got rich on the backs of the middle class workers. Remember that.
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  1539. She is clearly insane. She didn't win, and she didn't change the Deleware system. But she's right, the Republican party will never be the same because it's gone off the edge and into the abyss.
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  1540. I use an aluminum rimmed half sheet. Works a charm. And I like making Neopolitan style pizza.
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  1541. To think theyc were all automated by the mid 1950e
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  1542. I can tell you one state where they cannot do speed traps. That would be where I was born, Rhode Island. You see the RI Supreme Court in 1986 properly recognized they were fishing expeditions and nothing more. And so they banned speed and drunk driving traps.
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  1543. The issue is corporations should not have personhood. It's a false notion originating in the 19th century that needs to be abolished.
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  1544. Of course now we have ROT-13, MD5 and other cyphers. My favorites are the Ceasarean Cipher and the VIgenere cypher which is more complex. One place I worked we used to have encryption contests and Vigenere cypher unless you knew the key couldn't be broken easily. And 'invisible' inks well make sure the underlying text is encrypted. For example here's a cypher: S ogvw Ksjwnwgo fqpztbv. Mndtcv qom zxro tzt uhq ygj mdf't vtmuqpl.
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  1545. This is just one aspect of regenerative medicine. So far they've now done bladders, esophagus, and they're on the cusp of liver, kidneys, and heart regeneration.
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  1546. Thing is, it's only VW that got caught. Mercedes-Benz, BMW, et al have diesels that do the EXACT same thing. So it's a conspiracy that goes straight to the German government
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  1547. Here is my empirical observation on this. My spouse was diagnosed with Type II Diabetes. He's been put on 500mg Metformin and we regularly monitor his blood sugar. At all readings his blood sugar hovers between 70 and 110 - or completely freaking normal. Now here's the fun part - we strongly limit carbohydrate intake and added sugars. Both of us have lost more than 30lbs (13kg) (I followed the same dietary rules just to see what would happen. ) And we're eating high fat foods, proteins and vegetable and fruit. Go freaking figure.
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  1548. I wonder if you have a video on SAGE or Semi-Automatic Ground Environment?
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  1549. Oh cards against humanity is my favorite.
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  1550. On most laptops - not so sure about Apple but you can shut that blasted keyboard light off. And QWERTY was to prevent jams on mechanical typewriters. And regarding area of expertise - I'm I.T./I.S. with wide experience in other spheres. Education for example, ever done program reviews in schools? That's fascinating.
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  1551. Well think about this if you will. If it is a distant civilization then their language won't have many commonalities with our human languages. Plus their form may be wildly different from ours. However mathematics could be a starting point.
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  1552. I would never pay $1800 for a phone
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  1553. And like I say about ABS - it ensures you'll skid in a straight line.
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  1554. It is the lack of empathy.I know it took me a long time to develope mine
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  1555. What you're describing is called hypocrisy.
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  1556. And you have to ask, who was it that burnt down the Library of Alexandria? I've read a lot about the subject and I can pretty clearly lay the blame at the hands of Christians Yeah I know.;
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  1557. PC and Android here.
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  1558. Until such time as North Korea's own military decides to end it all. They'll turn on their leaders given the right motivation. And think about this, North Korea is losing population. People are actually escaping into China and South Korea.
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  1559. One thing I note about phone cameras - they're not very good. For example my Android phone tend to make bluish pix.
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  1560. Well I might do the Pixel but no more Apple devices for me. Why - because Apple has done some hella stupid things like push updates that break dock connectivity, etc. So once bitten, twice shy - and I won't touch an iPhone.
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  1561. Yeah gotta upgrade my phone soon. I've had it a couple years but the root volume is low on space and can't update.
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  1562. Here's my thing. When you brush by someone accidentally you say "Excuse me.". If someone does it, teach women how to wear heels and teach them how to use them for defensive purposes. :)
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  1563. The age of empire is over. There are only a few left in this day and age.
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  1564. This is fantastic work. I'm sure the Russians are going to try to cover this up but success will be elusive.
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  1565. Let's see I can go out to 3.1415962 anything past that is it really necessary?
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  1566. I live in one of those 14 states, and surprise, surprise it is Rhode Island. I find voter ID laws blatantly unconstitutional.
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  1567. I've engineered big backup power systems. The kind that would float an entire server room for 45 minutes. Then the natural gas powered generator kicks in and provides power through the automatic transfer switch.
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  1568. And the U.S. military commanders knew that Al Sadr would be a problem. Why they didn't just take him out explains everything.
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  1569. California Roll - here it's called the Rhode Island Slide.
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  1570. One other trend coming is autonomous cars. Most cars are used for commuting purposes. But an autonomous car could for example be put to other use during the workday. This would mean that parking lots wouldn't be as necessary.
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  1571. I was running win98 on an amd k62 CPU when it blue screened was when the CPU fan died
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  1572. For mechanical items you need a good fabricator/machinist. Electronics can also be reverse engineered.
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  1573. There are many issues with the way Africa exists today. One of them is the legacy of slavery, the other is the theft of resources and the the last is colonialism that hasn't been properly discussed.
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  1574. The culture in the U.S. is based on fear - so the guns everywhere makes sense in that respect. But the thing I found out is that you have nothing to fear at all.
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  1575. I like it medium roast. And I buy green costa rican coffee beans. Roast them in West Bend Stir Crazy popcorn machine. 25-30 minutes in that and that's just the way I like them.
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  1576. Solomon would have my vote if I lived there.
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  1577. Yeah, Iraq was interesting. Consider that 17 of the 19 hijackers in 9/11/01 were Saudi Arabian you can see what I'm talking about here.
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  1578. All I know is all the Marvel properties have been made into live action series on Netflix.
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  1579. The gas pump thing - that's a convenience thing in the U.S.
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  1580.  @antoniojmonetti  Yes indeed. Plus there's the make sticker on the inside the drivers side door that says GM Korea, plus the windows have GM KAC or Korea Assembly Corp. So it's Korean through and through.
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  1581. My experience with a 1967 GTO was one with an engine that had been bored out and the cam changed. Oh that baby could lay rubber with a 4 speed manual. I had a 1976 Pontias Trans Am with a 455 and a manual 4 speed.
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  1582. Yeah, Roosevelt was no joke. He played the USSC like a fiddle. In all the biographies and histories I've read of the time I see why conservatives still fight today. They abhor what Roosevelt and the congress and the courts did back then.
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  1583. Just for a giggle, when new this car would cost $21,000 in vehicle excise taxes per year.
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  1584. And in 3 to 5 years you'll be able to buy one for $15K. Because U.S. made cars depreciate like crazy.
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  1585. Good for all the nurses active in this. They really are the front line in medicine.
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  1586. I'll tell you it is added sugar. All has to do with the vilification of dietary fat.
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  1587. There is one stream that we changed in our own lives. When we shop we bring canvass and burlap based grocery bags with us. In fact some supermarkets cut you a couple of percent off if you do that. And it reduces the amount of plastic bags that go into the waste stream. Now for me I use re-usable plastic containers that can be washed and re-used. All the lights in the place are LED based so there's that too. But solving the amount of plastic that still goes into the waste stream is a harder nut to crack.
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  1588. Right at this moment I think the main issue is distraction. Think about it for a moment, we're distracted by jobs, kids, sports, shows, etc. But what if we paid attention to the political. Secondly, corporations are very much to blame. They pretty much run government in the U.S.
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  1589. Something similar happened in Providence and Cranston, RI in 2010. Particularly the Valley section of Providence near the Woonasquatucket. You see 10 days of consistent rain managed to flood the states main drinking water reservoir. The reservoirs spillways dumped into, you guessed it the Woonasquatucket river. Took out a bunch of bridges, water up to the roof line particularly in western Cranston. It was bad.
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  1590. And I can tell you it went into the 1980's too. I was on WDOM from 1985 to 1987. And yes, funk, r&b station. Plus in the area you had WBRU who on Sunday had the Black Experience in Sound. Plus you had MTV and BET playing music videos. And how did this white guy end up with the Jazz, Funk, R&B and even Motown -= it's all stuff I heard on the radio as a kid.
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  1591. Oh prudes I was always considered a orude. Little did they know.
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  1592. My first cat - his name was Randy. When someone knocked on the door he wouldn't run away, he's stand in front of the door and growl.
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  1593. So figgy pudding - is it the progenitor of fruitecake? Seriously I know of fruticakes that have made the rounds.
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  1594. All I know is the Atlanta, GA airport is a maze of escalators.
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  1595. Yeah I have the Oxo version I like that you can re-use the lid afterwards. And baked beans - yeah no pull tops. And I don't know if the case but all you get is Bush's beans. Oh and fun fact - there are only two canneries in the U.S.
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  1596. Read "The Case Against Sugar" and you realize first Ancel Keyes who I think we should dig up his bones and piss and stomp all over them, he was fucking wrong. But that error on his part caused manufacturers to reduce fat content and then they found out it made everything taste like shit. So they add a ton of sugar. We've severely limited sugar and carbs. Those are what I believe really causes the harm. More protein and vegetables and fruits instead.
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  1597. Spanish has tricks like that too. So it isn't just the French.
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  1598. That's because the people who wrote the Bible text didn't have access to infrared micro-spectroscopy. They barely had bronze tooling!
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  1599. Well both the Astec and the Astek are extinct now.
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  1600. My inexpensive wifi cameras have interactive voice and I can control it from my phone. So in essence I guess Deep Sentinel stands in the middle and probably uses their own hardware. It worked really well with the police when I could show them who tried to steal a package and who stole a package.
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  1601. Consider too in WW II both Germany and Japan were utterly destroyed. So that had a big part in the decisions made for public transit.
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  1602. Oh I know flank steak - slice i then then a couple tablespoons of a good soy sauce. It's fantastic that way.
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  1603. I wouldn't pay for these devils shoes. I know the devil doesn't exists, nor does God for that matter. Besides I've been a Reebok fan for many years.
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  1604. It's what you get when cars are designed by bean counters.
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  1605. This is a fantastic analysis that the expansion of the minimum wage and EITC would be a great economic benefit. I can't think of a better place to spend money than on this rather than giving money away to the rich.
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  1606. Yeah I remember when I turned 18 they had boosted the age to 19. But once I turned 19 I could drink like a proverbial fish if I wished.
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  1607. Recall too that the very first space shuttle in 1981 was named Enterprise
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  1608. Where I live we have a hurricane barrier. Huge gates close and pumps activate to shoot a million gallons of water a minute back into the bay.
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  1609. I've misplaced my dice so I wrote a python app that does dice rolls depending on number of sides on the die. Here's the code: def diceroll(): print("Enter number of die sides") s=int(input("Number of sides:")) print("You rolled:") print (randint(1,s)) return()
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  1610. Interesting Portland, ME is 69 sqmi, Providence, RI is 29sqmi. Population in Portland is 50,000 - Providence is 180,000.
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  1611. Out of sheer curiosity, does anyone know what the situation is in the Dominican Republic? It's part of the same island that Haiti sits on. I wonder if they're having food issues too.
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  1612. I hope there's a hell fro Eisenhower to rot in for putting that motto on our money and under god in the pledge. But alas, there is no such thing.
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  1613. Oh scammers abound all over the place.I can't think talking to someone so greedy woul help.
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  1614. Backed the wrong horse.
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  1615. There are some cool cops out there. Some. But they're surrounded by what I term assholes. Around here you can't get past 100MPH on the highways because there's just so much stupid on the roadways. And I almost hate to mention this but you wouldn't have been shot - you're a white guy.
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  1616. Ah I'm familiar with DSM IV and the PDR.
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  1617. I've only driven two BMW vehicles. An X1 and and X3. Gotta say my favorite is the X3, but the X1 is respectable too - but it's essentially a station wagon.
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  1618. In other words, lets phrase this correctly - this is a massive looting of the people of the planet by the banks.
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  1619. While we haven't gone metric per se we have in many other ways. All the nuts and bolts on a car for example are now metric. And on most liquid containers its in the imperial and metric measures. And whilst I had three years of Castilian Spanish in high school I also studied it for a few more years on my own.
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  1620. Oh this is rich! Bush is doing anything he can to try and salvage his legacy.
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  1621. If I had the choice I'd use German batteries. Like one of the guys said, the Asian countries used German tech and engineers.
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  1622. It's got the same instrument cluster as the Mazda 3 too.
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  1623. looked at Casper and said I can go less expensive. Got a Lucid 10'" gel foam mattress and frame for around $300. Where? Walmart.
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  1624. Well I employ a hardware firewall and also ScriptSafe on the browser. That way I get notifications when something is trying to use my camera.
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  1625. I will mention - cops live or die by using the radio - and you can't do the speed of light so no chance of outrunning it. And I'm prohibited from using RF countermeasures, not because I did something but because I've got my amateur extra class license and commercial licenses with the FCC.
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  1626. Recall America pre-WWII was Great Depression America. What Mr. Wilkerson conveniently leaves out is my belief that we are heading into a depression worse than that during the 1930's.
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  1627. Yeah f=ma works.
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  1628. Interesting list. Me I think smaller engines, with big ass turb or super chargers are awesome. When you can eek 200-300 horsepower out of four cylinders you're doing it right. And I'm also in the camp that says noise is waste energy.
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  1629. Where I'm now living no space heaters are necessary. And consider most U.S. line voltage is 120VAC at 15AMPS which gives any one circuit or about 1,800W. And where we previously lived in the northeast U.S. power was 125VAC so that times 15A = 1875W. And the remote thermostat likely does exist but here's what I note is never on heaters - a GFCI plug. An air conditioner is required to have one but a heater is not required to have a GFCI.
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  1630. See in my case I want to build countermeasures to LRAD, and ADS. Not very hard mind you. Water cannons are a little different but energy weaponry - they're fairly easy to defeat.
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  1631. I'm an American. I've had cheeses that com stunk but tasted divine.
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  1632. I remember when the Russians got their asses handed to them by the U.S. sponsored Mujahadein. Now the U.S. will get it's ass handed to it by the Taliban. BTW, Taliban - it means student.
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  1633. New Hampshire is a beautiful state but it's got such wingnuts representing them.
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  1634. Here is something yes 58000 is only .0001 percent that is an impressive kill ratio
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  1635. I will say Mercedes biggest blunder was the C Class. Not due to engineering no or technology. But the people who bought them think the road is theirs to rule. I've seen more C Classes in accidents hence my experience. I was on I-20 in Georgia in my brand new Chevy Trax - it got hit by a C Class that tried to occupy the lane I was in at the same time I was in it.
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  1636. Wait a minute is that Audrey form Little Shop of Horrors? Over on the left.
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  1637. I can't wait until they hear about heavy water. And my spouse got on the Alkaline water crazy train. So what did I do,I got some ph test strips had three containers one with so called Alkaline water, one with tap water and one with filtered tap water. They all came to the same Ph level. so much for Alkaline water.
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  1638. Had I the money I'd never hunt an animal. Never like to hurt animals
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  1639. Regards the difference between hard and light? You can sleep with a light oh.
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  1640. And if we could breed out greed in humans it will never be an issue
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  1641. Oh hell I learned how to drive a manual transmission in a vintage Ford Bronco which we nicknamed the Buckin' Bronco. Then have driven a manual Honda Civic, Toyota Pickup etc. And the reasons people eschew manual transmissions is the traffic thing, and not knowing how to drive one.
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  1642. And in places where public phones one existed on the street I've seen them turned into art projects here in Providence, RI.
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  1643. Consider if you will the U.S. Navy has pretty much perfected nuclear power. So the question is could the private industry maintain the same level of safety in nuclear reactors as the U.S. Navy? I suspect not when profit is involved.
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  1644. I'm not so sure. Here's why: There is increasing evidence of the damage done by alcohol to the developing brain. Add to that the fact that the frontal cortex doesn't complete growth until approximately age 26. Then add toxicity. The effective to fatal dose for alcohol 1:10, in other words if two beers gets you buzzed, 20 will kill you. Marijuana on the other hand is 1:1000, and that thousand is literally impossible to smoke.
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  1645. Best thing that could happen to North Korea is for its own people to rise up against the Kim regime. Or peaceful re-unification but I have strong reservations on that.
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