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[zoobyshoe]

Wonder if it would make more sense for trash pickups to be alternated weekly so that all homes or businesses in a given block put the trash in the same spot, while rotating the spot weekly . I mean, say we have 6 places in total, p1,p2,...,p6 in one block putting out trash. Then the first week everyone leaves their trash in front of p1, following week they do so on p2,.., etc (and back to p1 after 6th week). Then the garbage truck needs to do just one stop. A small, workable problem may be for those picking up the trash to know where, what block, the trash has been left in a given week.

Be better if they just get replicator technology going. Then you could just put your trash into be broken down and reconstructed into just about anything.

 

[nuuskur]

Just a moment ago saw a philosophical topic attacking people who "delude themselves" with exact sciences. Reminded me of this masterpiece


Got to love hypocrites.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Went to the pharmacist today, and, having forgotten to bring a book with me to read, I pulled a Time magazine out of the reading bin. It was from August 5, 2013.

 

[WWGD]

Went to the pharmacist today, and, having forgotten to bring a book with me to read, I pulled a Time magazine out of the reading bin. It was from August 5, 2013.

Did you notice the date right away or just figured out it was dated by reading and then looked it up?

 

[WWGD]

Just a moment ago saw a philosophical topic attacking people who "delude themselves" with exact sciences. Reminded me of this masterpiece


Got to love hypocrites.

I remember it was a big thing a few years ago, mostly by social scientists, to trash the natural sciences. I mean, one can make some
legitimate arguments regarding flaws in them, but this bashing was largely, IMO, unjustified.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Did you notice the date right away or just figured out it was dated by reading and then looked it up?

I checked the date first thing. It was OK because I didn't read Time magazine once that year.

 

[Borg]

I checked the date first thing. It was OK because I didn't read Time magazine once that year.

Because you didn't have Time?

 

[OmCheeto]

Ug.

Time to do "taxes".

 

[nuuskur]

Ug.

Time to do "taxes".

How do you explain to a child what taxes are?

Simply buy him/her an ice cream and eat 30% of it before handing it over.

 

[WWGD]

How do you explain to a child what taxes are?

Simply buy him/her an ice cream and eat 30% of it before handing it over.

Whatever you do, make sure your pronunciation does not match that of Texas. I find it pretty confusing, surely they will do too.

 

[dkotschessaa]

Ug.

Time to do "taxes".

Did ours. Got our refund. Paid back bills. It's gone.

 

[WWGD]

Outlook's Spam filtering is horrible. I keep telling it the exact same names/sources are junk mail week after week and these never go directly to junk mail.

 

[dkotschessaa]

How do you explain to a child what taxes are?

Simply buy him/her an ice cream and eat 30% of it before handing it over.

Give an allowance of $10 a week for doing chores, but only give them $7.00 and use the remaining 3 for home improvements?

 

[WWGD]

Give an allowance of $10 a week for doing chores, but only give them $7.00 and use the remaining 3 for home improvements?

If you're a Libertarian, tell them someone stole the $3 from you. Many of them equate taxation and theft.

 

[jim hardy]

Outlook's Spam filtering is horrible. I keep telling it the exact same names/sources are junk mail week after week and these never go directly to junk mail.

Spammers are getting awfully smart.
I saved in a local folder a month's worth of spam from fake names all @yahoo.com

finally noticed in the headers very first "Received from" line was usually the same
Googling that name gave me a Yahoo admin address
to which i forwarded as attachments forty plus spams amounting to 23 megs with subject " Your (Participle Deleted) Spammer ! "

and included a header (in Thunderbird you click "View Source", copy and paste it into the cover letter identifying it as "header")

seems to have worked

good luck !

 

[zoobyshoe]

All morning there has been this loud, intermittent, mechanical 'whining/moaning' sound in the neighborhood. I went out a couple hours ago and it turned out to be a WWII fighter plane that is performing acrobatic antics over the bay. Those engines are freakin' loud.

 

[jim hardy]

Most of the noise is from the propeller(s)
can you identify it ?

is it a single or twin engine ? V12 or radial engine(s) ? They sound distinctly different

 

[zoobyshoe]

Most of the noise is from the propeller(s)
can you identify it ?

is it a single or twin engine ? V12 or radial engine(s) ? They sound distinctly different

I think it was a single engine based on the fact I saw no engine-shaped thingies breaking up the lines of the wings. It was quite far away, but had the classic WWII style that is different from anything before or after. I couldn't even say if it was Yankee, Kraut, or Jap. But you know how all three shared a sense of aerodynamic design that was considered cutting edge at the time and distinctly says: WWII.

 

[jim hardy]

I think it was a single engine based on the fact I saw no engine-shaped thingies breaking up the lines of the wings. It was quite far away, but had the classic WWII style that is different from anything before or after. I couldn't even say if it was Yankee, Kraut, or Jap. But you know how all three shared a sense of aerodynamic design that was considered cutting edge at the time and distinctly says: WWII.

They are aesthetically very appealing. Search on term "Warbirds" images. Maybe "Nose Art" too ...

If your local air force base has an airshow by all means go. I got to talk to a WW2 Spitfire pilot at Johnson AFB North Carolina. He was there with his plane. 'Memphis Belle' was there too, i treasure the grease stains on my shirt from her bombay door leadscrews.. Both Memphis Belle movies are worth watching, the Jose Ferre original WW2 documentary and the 1990 drama.
This clip really needs to be watched on a giant movie theater screen where the wingtips aren't clipped off and the sound system rattles your bones.

 

[dlgoff]

This clip really needs to be watched on a giant movie theater screen where the wingtips aren't clipped off and the sound system rattles your bones.

 

[Ibix]

I got to talk to a WW2 Spitfire pilot at Johnson AFB North Carolina.

They are beautiful, aren't they? I gather that the first test pilot to take a Spitfire up just said "Don't change anything".

 

[collinsmark]

All morning there has been this loud, intermittent, mechanical 'whining/moaning' sound in the neighborhood. I went out a couple hours ago and it turned out to be a WWII fighter plane that is performing acrobatic antics over the bay. Those engines are freakin' loud.

Yeah, it's the Red Bull Air Race Wold Championship this weekend.

https://www.sandiego.org/explore/events/sports/red-bull-air-race.aspx

 

[OmCheeto]

Yeah, it's the Red Bull...

Red Bull is no longer welcome in our town...



This is the only video I could find that was "linguistically" Safe for Work/PF.

(The rest of the videos were posted by the boaters, cursing like drunken sailors. Which from my observation, they all were. Drunk that is, as even a drunken sailor wouldn't park in the middle of a watery freeway.)

 

[WWGD]

Red Bull is no longer welcome in our town...



This is the only video I could find that was "linguistically" Safe for Work/PF.

(The rest of the videos were posted by the boaters, cursing like drunken sailors. Which from my observation, they all were. Drunk that is, as even a drunken sailor wouldn't park in the middle of a watery freeway.)

Why aren't they welcome?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Yeah, it's the Red Bull Air Race Wold Championship this weekend.

It doesn't look like those are actually WWII planes at all. There's just a superficial resemblance from a distance.

And they're out there again today making a racket.

 

[OmCheeto]

Why aren't they welcome?

Ok. They're welcome. But they need to understand the financial responsibilities of putting on a show in our town.

As George once said; “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

From the 10 other videos I watched, about 99% of this town's stupid people were out on the water that day: 99% of them thought they were lawyers. 99% of them knew they were in the right of way. 99% of them were drunk.

 

[OmCheeto]

... about 99% of this town's stupid people were out on the water that day: 99% of them thought they were lawyers. 99% of them knew they were in the right of way. 99% of them were drunk.

Now my comment is really bugging me, as this looks like "radical Bayesian" type statistics. I really need to take a nap. And maybe have some food.

 

[jim hardy]

It doesn't look like those are actually WWII planes at all. There's just a superficial resemblance from a distance.

And they're out there again today making a racket.

The WW2 planes are becoming so rare and expensive it no longer makes economic sense to chop them up for racers. Right after the war a couple thousand bucks would buy a surplus fighter but today it's more like a million.

A friend of mine built this little aerobat speedster .

Hmm has something on system changed , uploaded pictures no longer post ? Or did i catch a virus ?

Image courtesy of http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/VanTilborg/12586.htm

 

[jim hardy]

experiment with upload photo

last try gave this,

then logged me out

 

[jim hardy]

trying "shag carpet" again

 

[jim hardy]

here's just a paste from clipboard

all kinds of goofy things going on today

am going offline for complete virus scan

TTFN

 

[zoobyshoe]

The WW2 planes are becoming so rare and expensive it no longer makes economic sense to chop them up for racers. Right after the war a couple thousand bucks would buy a surplus fighter but today it's more like a million.

This explains it.

Or did i catch a virus ?

Greg is in the middle of doing something to PF's photo attachment procedure. If you see this, maybe you can start a thread in announcements to see when he'll be finished.

 

[jim hardy]

Greg is in the middle of doing something to PF's photo attachment procedure. If you see this, maybe you can start a thread in announcements to see when he'll be finished.

Gotcha. Thought it was me.
Okay, image seems to work again. Here's my friend's sport plane.

 

[OCR]

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[OCR]

You know... my kid used to like going along, but he was just so terrified of heights ...[COLOR=#black].[/COLOR]