Posts by jake 28824 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Jun 2007
I miss my old Nokia 5185 ... Over 15+ years, it was stepped on by horses, gnawed on by sheep and puppies, run over by tractors, "cured" in the smokehouse overnight, dropped into toilets (three times), into a pot of boiling soup (twice) and into a bucket of used motor oil (once). When $TELCO forced me to retire it, it was still on its original battery, and didn't seem to function much different than the day it was new. I replaced the outer case and the "antenna" several times.
45ish years ago, I accidentally kicked in the 750 Watt linear amplifier connected to my CB radio ... and promptly outed myself. I was playing the "fox" in a fox-hunt ... and was parked under the awning of the Texaco station in the north-west corner of the San Antonio & Middlefield intersection on the Palo Alto/Mountain View border. The RF lit up the overhead fluorescent lights ... To the best of my knowledge I never made anyone ill with the setup, not even the odd hippie I gave a lift to.
"caused my hand to heat up and actually ache"
Cheap phone design. It was the battery heating up. Your hand wasn't cramping up because of the phone's electronics, it was cramping up because you were holding it in a position your hand wasn't built to be held in for any length of time. You only became aware of it due to the heating. Try holding an old-fashioned checkbook to your ear for half an hour or so while having a conversation. I'll bet you a plugged nickle your hand will start cramping up.
"I moved from Berkeley California and when I visited 4 years later I had constant ringing in my ears"
We all have that. It's the constant whining of the greenaholics, SJWs, homeless & druggie advocates, hand-wringers, namby-pambys, curtain twitchers, the anti-gun set, violent anti-military folks(‽‽), and the like ... It's worse just across the bay in San Francisco and almost as bad in Oakland.
This is what happens when you offer the loudest loonie with an agenda lots of money, at the expense of the vast majority of the rest of us. The loonies come flocking for the free handout.
Gold mesh filters actually work quite well, impart zero flavo(u)r to the coffee/tea, and last virtually forever. Good ones are not cheap, but they have no on-going costs, either. Are they worth the money for your needs? Only you can do the math(s) and answer that question.
Paper sucks flavo(u)rs out of the air and is the worst thing you can use to filter any beverage.
Or the smart meter installer partially blocked an exhaust vent, and the dude/tte who replaced the meter unblocked the vent. The first part happened to a local here in Sonoma. If their carbon dioxide detector hadn't gone off, two adults and four kids would probably be dead.
(Hint: Get modern exhaust on all your ventilated gas appliances ... Part of the reason the bit on the outside is as large as it is is so it can't be blocked very easily.)
My money is on the ghost ... but only because I got good odds. Very good odds.
"where can I find how to add bold/italic/etc... and hyperlinks in comments ?"
It has become rather hard to find, but here you go:
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/01/register_comments_guidelines/
The info you want is a trifle over halfway down the page, look for "Formatting" and "Hyperlinks". I'd recommend reading the rest of the page, too.
Welcome to the fray! The first round's on me.
Regardless, Mark, let's try a thought experiment ... If I were to call you a dumbass, do you honestly think that any proverbial thinking man of the last 50 years would think I in any way, shape, or form meant anything to do with the animal?
Or does the single word "dumbass" now have specific meaning outside it's origin?
You know just as well as I do that the "free money at the expense of the suckers" set can't be rehabilitated. So you'd prefer he die destitute, in prison, after suffering perhaps 50+ years of the hell of prison life, at taxpayer expense, verses meeting his end comparatively instantly at almost no cost to the taxpayer?
Just asking.
"Could they all date back to Richard II?"
I seriously doubt it. Consider, for example, the self-styled "Original White Hart" in Ringwood. It only dates back to the reign of Henry VII ... Seems to me that the Yorkists & Lancastrians had enough time to have a major hissy-fit between Richard II and Henry VII ...
(I have a small interest in the various White Harts dotted about E,S&W ... a couple friends and I decided to try to visit all of them during the summer break between upper & lower 6th. We failed in the quest, but had a hell of a good time in our failure!)
google is a "make money for Alphabet shareholders" engine. When you use it, you will find whatever makes those shareholders the most money.
You can improve your chances of finding what you are looking for by finding alternatives to google. Start with DuckDuckGo and search on "alternative search engines". The results might surprise you.
It will probably surprise very few of the readers here at ElReg that Eric S. Raymond doesn't pay google/alphabet any money, so his Jargon File stuff rarely comes to the top of googles list. Here's a link that might help you:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/D/DSW.html
... the "rules" said 6AM to 6PM, and there was no change order or addendum to allow the midnight excursion (verbal agreement with a party who has been mum up until now?), then the pen testers are guilty of breaking and entering.
However, the facts show that they had no intention of causing harm, quite the opposite in fact, which mitigates the situation.
There was quite literally no harm done, and all parties learned something from their transgression.
Slap 'em on the behind and send 'em to bed without supper and be done with it.
Looking at the big picture, I rather suspect that no matter how I choose to string up my veggies I still have a lower overall impact on the environment than the bozos sitting on five acres of lawn who purchase all their veggies at the supermarket. Hell, you don't need 5 acres, you can grow a good portion of your fruit & veg & nuts if your house sits on a .25 lot in town. I have apartment dwelling friends who grow all their herbs, and a tomato plant or three along with three or four chili plants on their balcony ... and enough micro greens for salad in their kitchen.
Besides, polypropylene is recyclable. It's not like I send it to the landfill. In fact, I encourage my neighbors to drop all their unwanted baler twine off here. A guy comes around to pick it up once or twice a year, whenever the 55 gallon drum gets full.
No, really katrinab, we have real black pudding here. It's even called black pudding. We also have Boudin, Zungenwurst, Biroldo, Morcilla, Gyurma, various Chineese and Korean variations on the theme and far too many others to name. One of the benefits of being a major melting pot is that we have all the good sausages from everywhere. Except Haggis, of course. But that's easy enough to make when you're harvesting sheep ...
I used to save bailing "wire" (these days it's baler twine). I used it to string up my tomatoes, squash, cucumbers, melons, peas, beans and the like. And then I calculated the hours I spent with the bits verses the cost of a new box of twine. I stopped saving the used bits.
(For those who don't click links, 20,000 feet of 110 lb test polypro line costs $25 ... )
Want an Island? Last I heard, Red Rock was still for sale. Look for it a couple hundred yards south of the Richmond-San Rafael bridge, about 10 kilometers north-east of the rather exclusive Tiberon. I have absolutely no idea why none of the rich buggers from SillyConValley have purchased it as an exclusive retreat, gawd/ess knows they have the loot to work around it's issues ...
http://wikimapia.org/#lang=en&lat=37.929237&lon=-122.431040&z=11&m=w
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.93097,-122.4274993,15z
Just 40ish miles SouthEast across the water to what's left of Palo Alto Harbo(u)r, can do that in under half an hour in a fast boat.
No, I'm not joking, and no, I don't have a stake in it.
Is it an insult if he is, in fact, a grandpa? I certainly don't take it as such. In fact, it rather deflates the whippersnappers when I push my bifocals down my nose, stare at them and growl "Yes, I AM a Grandfather. Want to make something of it?" I've had a couple of the little brats physically run away from me after that line. One called security. The cameras were consulted. A laugh was had by all (except the brat, who was fired).
"It also opened the one on the cold, which was at much higher pressure."
How does that work, considering that you only have a single water line into the house? Shirley all the internal potable water plumbing is at the same pressure?
With that asked, all I can contribute to this conversation is what I use here: GSHPs. Provides both scalding and ice cold tap water[0], and runs the HVAC and ice maker, all for almost zero energy input at all.
[0] Or whatever temperature I want to set them to ... the system has enough control that I can reverse the hot and cold taps from the control panel.
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