• Re: v for frequency?

    From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to rbowman on Wed Sep 13 07:39:49 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Tue, 05 Sep 2023 22:40:33 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Tue, 05 Sep 2023 20:47:06 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    And the fact remains you have vast areas of land but don't fill them.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/WildernessBackpacking/comments/qdji6s/ the_remote_section_of_my_70_mile_hike_through_the/

    Some of them are a bit difficult to fill.

    That's a defeatist attitude. You guys claim to be the richest most powerful nation and you still have trouble populating difficult areas. This isn't the middle ages anymore.

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to rbowman on Wed Sep 13 07:43:14 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Tue, 05 Sep 2023 23:08:47 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Tue, 05 Sep 2023 17:21:35 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    On Tue, 05 Sep 2023 00:50:38 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Mon, 04 Sep 2023 20:08:58 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    Why a geocache? They just chose to put it there for a laugh?

    https://www.geocaching.com/play/search

    I placed it to call attention to the ridiculous cost of the bridge. The
    road is a shortcut for me but a lot of people would never go there.

    Most of the caches I've placed are on trails that are a bit more
    scenic.
    This one is what is referred to as a 'park and grab' meaning you might
    have to walk 100' rather than 6 miles.

    So anyone can add one and add it to the list? Then others try to find
    it and add stuff? I assume you can also take stuff or it would
    overflow.

    The assumption with the ones that have stuff is you leave something and
    take something. Many of them only have space for the log to sign.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_nano https://bisondesigns.com/products/capsule


    It relies on noone being an arsehole.

    Yes. It works fairly well. Muggles, after Harry potter, can be a problem
    if they find the cache and move or destroy it. I've had problems with
    large, furry muggles. If you find pieces of the container it might have
    tooth or claw marks. Food, or anything with a scent, is discouraged. Bears have excellent noses.

    I was thinking more of theiving people.

    A friend started an alternate site, https://www.terracaching.com/, when he felt people were logging caches they had never found. Most of those caches have a confirmation code that has to be entered to log the find. He sold
    the site to a German group and most of the local people dropped out. I
    think it is more popular in Europe now.

    The box has electronics in it?

    What are they? Buried tins?

    Some are ammo cans although the trend is toward transparent or other non- threatening containers. A few ammo cans that were in suspicious spots have been blown up by bomb squads.

    Typical of your over the top overly sensitive military/police.

    Burying them as in digging a hole and back filling it is not allowed.

    Why not? You have the precise coordinates and a satnav.

    Hiding them in a rock pile, particularly in an artificial rock is okay.
    Other camouflage techniques are phony outlets,

    Outlet? I thought that was American for mains socket. So they go inside buildings too?

    magnetic number that you
    often see on distribution boxes, hollowed out pine cones, and so forth.

    Big fucking pine cone. Or number.

    I prefer ones that are relatively easy to find but involve a hike or bring you to an interesting area. Others prefer sites that are easy to get to
    but might require a lot of searching to find the cache. There are two
    rating system for the difficulty of getting to the site and the difficulty
    of locating it. Some may require apparatus including ladders, scuba gear,
    or boats and that is stated in the description.

    Sounds interesting. Although the reward isn't great.

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  • From Anthony William Sloman@21:1/5 to Commander Kinsey on Wed Sep 13 07:14:23 2023
    On Wednesday, September 13, 2023 at 4:40:00 PM UTC+10, Commander Kinsey wrote:
    On Tue, 05 Sep 2023 22:40:33 +0100, rbowman <bow...@montana.com> wrote:
    On Tue, 05 Sep 2023 20:47:06 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    And the fact remains you have vast areas of land but don't fill them.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/WildernessBackpacking/comments/qdji6s/ the_remote_section_of_my_70_mile_hike_through_the/

    Some of them are a bit difficult to fill.

    That's a defeatist attitude. You guys claim to be the richest most powerful nation and you still have trouble populating difficult areas. This isn't the middle ages anymore.

    In the middle ages, people would farm any place that grew enough food to keep them barely alive. When places like the US and Australia opened up the Scots and Irish emigrated there. leaving their difficult areas behind them. On the east coast of the US
    there are areas that were farmed by the early settlers, but reverted to forest when better land became availabe further inland.

    The Scottish wanker is descended from generations of people too dumb to exploit better opportunities. There are clever scots descended from people who could get off the land by getting skilled and educated, but the dim wanker clearly isn't one of them.

    --
    Bill Sloman, Sydney

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to Commander Kinsey on Wed Sep 13 16:02:58 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 07:43:14 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    Yes. It works fairly well. Muggles, after Harry potter, can be a
    problem if they find the cache and move or destroy it. I've had
    problems with large, furry muggles. If you find pieces of the container
    it might have tooth or claw marks. Food, or anything with a scent, is
    discouraged. Bears have excellent noses.

    I was thinking more of theiving people.

    Low value targets. I did find a cache where the first finder got a $5 gift certificate for the Great Harvest Bread Company. For the ones that do have trade goods it's usually trinkets from the Dollar Store.


    A friend started an alternate site, https://www.terracaching.com/, when
    he felt people were logging caches they had never found. Most of those
    caches have a confirmation code that has to be entered to log the find.
    He sold the site to a German group and most of the local people dropped
    out. I think it is more popular in Europe now.

    The box has electronics in it?

    No, only a paper log. The confirmation code is used when logging the cache
    on the website.

    Burying them as in digging a hole and back filling it is not allowed.

    Why not? You have the precise coordinates and a satnav.

    Precise is relative. On good days you might have 3 meter precision. That's
    a lot of digging. Part of it is to prevent destruction of the site.

    Outlet? I thought that was American for mains socket. So they go
    inside buildings too?

    https://www.lowes.com/c/Electrical-outlets-plugs-Electrical

    it's a general term. A favorite is a blank plate that is magnetic. They
    can be slapped on the side of a traffic signal box or other metal object.


    magnetic number that you often see on distribution boxes, hollowed out
    pine cones, and so forth.

    Big fucking pine cone.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR8ACX_e7mk

    The predominate species here is the Ponderosa pine but they're large
    enough to conceal a small container.


    Sounds interesting. Although the reward isn't great.

    Particularly when I'm traveling the caches often are in a interesting site
    you wouldn't stumble over by yourself. Some times it's an excuse for a
    walk in the woods.

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to John Larkin on Thu Sep 14 01:44:38 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 17:39:39 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 15:55:58 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
    <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

    On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 20:33:50 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 07:40:44 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    Why are they called springform when there's no springs involved? If
    there were, you'd end up with pie on the ceiling.

    https://www.allrecipes.com/article/springform-pan/

    The side band is a spring.

    How stupid would you have to be to think "the springform pan mechanism might look a bit complicated at first glance"?

    Some people innately understand mechanisms. The ones that don't often
    have other talents, and sensibly marry engineers.

    I don't understand engines, but a simple clasp, come on.

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to Sjouke Burry on Thu Sep 14 01:43:44 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Tue, 05 Sep 2023 23:52:54 +0100, Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll> wrote:

    On 05.09.23 20:32, Commander Kinsey wrote:
    On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 17:25:20 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

    On Tue, 25 Jul 2023 07:02:37 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
    <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

    On Sun, 28 May 2023 18:00:13 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

    On Sun, 28 May 2023 11:55:19 +0100, Max Demian
    <max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:

    On 27/05/2023 21:42, John Larkin wrote:
    I was at Safeway last week and wanted to get some vanilla ice cream. >>>>>>> There wasn't any. There were about 20 weird flavors, mango and banana >>>>>>> and worse. I got dulce de leche, as close as they had.

    Try to buy plain potato chips. They are hard to find.

    Do you mean ready salted, or do you have the ones with the salt in a >>>>>> little bag?

    Plain means salted to me. Not bbq, not cheese flavor, not Flaming Hot, >>>>> just potatoes and salt.

    We call that "ready salted" in the UK. I'm not aware of unsalted crisps. CRISPS. Chips are what yanks call fries. Is there no end to their ignorance?

    I sentence you to eating British food for the rest of your life.
    That's cruel but just.

    Point out why British food is bad. Especially compared to American.

    British meat in a restaurant is very useful as shoe leather.

    It comes from the same animals, it cannot be different. Perhaps you cook it differently, you do realise you can ask the cook to do it your way? Rare, medium, well done, etc.

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to John Larkin on Thu Sep 14 01:46:16 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 23:45:28 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:40:57 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
    <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

    On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:07:13 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

    On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 12:40:12 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
    <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

    On Mon, 29 May 2023 20:31:53 +0100, Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de> wrote:

    Am 29.05.23 um 20:45 schrieb rbowman:
    On Mon, 29 May 2023 07:22:25 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

    I suspect that a minority of europeans could often afford cheese 500 >>>>>>> years ago. Malnutrition was usual.

    500 years ago was prior to the Industrial Revolution when people were >>>>>> herded off the land and into the dark satanic mills.

    .. and did those feet in ancient times...

    Most would have had
    at least one cow, sheep, or goat. You can only use so much milk so cheese

    Same here in the German Saar county where I live. Industry was
    iron & coal and the workers families used to have at least a
    goat. They were "Bergmann-Bauern", miner-farmers to survive.

    was made to store the surplus, or if you really had a surplus, to feed the
    hogs.

    It took industrialization to create widespread malnutrition, or sometimes
    outside forces. Ireland was a net exporter of food during the Famine. >>>>>
    Yes, enforced by British military. That makes friends for a
    hundred years. Not.

    Who cares? They're only Irish, not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

    One of my customers is Irish. They make the best scientific CCD and
    ICCD cameras in the world.

    The Irish are practical and make good engineers and, occasionally,
    scientists.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Irish_scientists

    ROFL! Every Irishman I've met is an idiot. Most are gypsies who can't do anything more than manual labour, badly.

    There's actually a lot of electronics in Ireland.

    I'd prefer to use the Chinese stuff.

    Show us some electronics that you've designed.

    Show us a nuclear power station you've designed. Show us a operating system you've written. Not everyone does everything.

    P.S. "Show us some electronics you've designed" flows so much better. Why did you add the extra word "that"?

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  • From John Larkin@21:1/5 to CK1@nospam.com on Wed Sep 13 18:03:28 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 01:46:16 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
    <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 23:45:28 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:40:57 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
    <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

    On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:07:13 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

    On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 12:40:12 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
    <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

    On Mon, 29 May 2023 20:31:53 +0100, Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de> wrote:

    Am 29.05.23 um 20:45 schrieb rbowman:
    On Mon, 29 May 2023 07:22:25 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

    I suspect that a minority of europeans could often afford cheese 500 >>>>>>>> years ago. Malnutrition was usual.

    500 years ago was prior to the Industrial Revolution when people were >>>>>>> herded off the land and into the dark satanic mills.

    .. and did those feet in ancient times...

    Most would have had
    at least one cow, sheep, or goat. You can only use so much milk so cheese

    Same here in the German Saar county where I live. Industry was
    iron & coal and the workers families used to have at least a
    goat. They were "Bergmann-Bauern", miner-farmers to survive.

    was made to store the surplus, or if you really had a surplus, to feed the
    hogs.

    It took industrialization to create widespread malnutrition, or sometimes
    outside forces. Ireland was a net exporter of food during the Famine. >>>>>>
    Yes, enforced by British military. That makes friends for a
    hundred years. Not.

    Who cares? They're only Irish, not the sharpest knives in the drawer. >>>>
    One of my customers is Irish. They make the best scientific CCD and
    ICCD cameras in the world.

    The Irish are practical and make good engineers and, occasionally,
    scientists.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Irish_scientists

    ROFL! Every Irishman I've met is an idiot. Most are gypsies who can't do anything more than manual labour, badly.

    There's actually a lot of electronics in Ireland.

    I'd prefer to use the Chinese stuff.

    Show us some electronics that you've designed.

    Show us a nuclear power station you've designed. Show us a operating system you've written. Not everyone does everything.

    P.S. "Show us some electronics you've designed" flows so much better. Why did you add the extra word "that"?

    I have written three RTOS's and a few compilers and several language interpreters and one math package, but I don't have the code handy.

    But I'm an electronic design engineer, and this is S.E.D.

    P.S. Don't be prissy.

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to John Larkin on Thu Sep 14 05:40:25 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On 14/09/2023 02:03, John Larkin wrote:
    On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 01:46:16 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
    <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 23:45:28 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:40:57 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
    <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

    On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:07:13 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

    On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 12:40:12 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
    <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

    On Mon, 29 May 2023 20:31:53 +0100, Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de> wrote:

    Am 29.05.23 um 20:45 schrieb rbowman:
    On Mon, 29 May 2023 07:22:25 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

    I suspect that a minority of europeans could often afford cheese 500 >>>>>>>>> years ago. Malnutrition was usual.

    500 years ago was prior to the Industrial Revolution when people were >>>>>>>> herded off the land and into the dark satanic mills.

    .. and did those feet in ancient times...

    Most would have had
    at least one cow, sheep, or goat. You can only use so much milk so cheese

    Same here in the German Saar county where I live. Industry was
    iron & coal and the workers families used to have at least a
    goat. They were "Bergmann-Bauern", miner-farmers to survive.

    was made to store the surplus, or if you really had a surplus, to feed the
    hogs.

    It took industrialization to create widespread malnutrition, or sometimes
    outside forces. Ireland was a net exporter of food during the Famine. >>>>>>>
    Yes, enforced by British military. That makes friends for a
    hundred years. Not.

    Who cares? They're only Irish, not the sharpest knives in the drawer. >>>>>
    One of my customers is Irish. They make the best scientific CCD and
    ICCD cameras in the world.

    The Irish are practical and make good engineers and, occasionally,
    scientists.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Irish_scientists

    ROFL! Every Irishman I've met is an idiot. Most are gypsies who can't do anything more than manual labour, badly.

    There's actually a lot of electronics in Ireland.

    I'd prefer to use the Chinese stuff.

    Show us some electronics that you've designed.

    Show us a nuclear power station you've designed. Show us a operating system you've written. Not everyone does everything.

    P.S. "Show us some electronics you've designed" flows so much better. Why did you add the extra word "that"?

    I have written three RTOS's and a few compilers and several language interpreters and one math package, but I don't have the code handy.

    But I'm an electronic design engineer, and this is S.E.D.


    No, its uk.d-i-y. Learn to look at headers :-)

    P.S. Don't be prissy.


    --
    The biggest threat to humanity comes from socialism, which has utterly
    diverted our attention away from what really matters to our existential survival, to indulging in navel gazing and faux moral investigations
    into what the world ought to be, whilst we fail utterly to deal with
    what it actually is.

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  • From Anthony William Sloman@21:1/5 to John Larkin on Thu Sep 14 04:38:02 2023
    On Thursday, September 14, 2023 at 11:03:46 AM UTC+10, John Larkin wrote:
    On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 01:46:16 +0100, "Commander Kinsey <C...@nospam.com> wrote:
    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 23:45:28 +0100, John Larkin <jla...@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:40:57 +0100, "Commander Kinsey" <C...@nospam.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:07:13 +0100, John Larkin <jla...@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 12:40:12 +0100, "Commander Kinsey" <C...@nospam.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 29 May 2023 20:31:53 +0100, Gerhard Hoffmann <dk...@arcor.de> wrote:
    Am 29.05.23 um 20:45 schrieb rbowman:
    On Mon, 29 May 2023 07:22:25 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

    <snip>

    I'd prefer to use the Chinese stuff.

    Show us some electronics that you've designed.

    Show us a nuclear power station you've designed. Show us a operating system you've written. Not everyone does everything.

    P.S. "Show us some electronics you've designed" flows so much better. Why did you add the extra word "that"?

    I have written three RTOS's and a few compilers and several language interpreters and one math package, but I don't have the code handy.

    And the code from back then tended to be crude and buggy.

    But I'm an electronic design engineer, and this is S.E.D.

    John Larkin is definitely an electronic engineer and he does post stuff here that he claims that he has designed. He doesn't seem to know anything about the design process, and his circuits seem to be evolved rather than designed. He certainly doesn't
    say much about the design process.

    P.S. Don't be prissy.

    There nothing prissy about pointing out that you could have expressed yourself more clearly. What you did write did expose your unfortunate personality all too clearly, but that's a different issue.

    --
    Bill Sloman, Sydney

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  • From Bill Sloman@21:1/5 to The Natural Philosopher on Thu Sep 14 21:58:45 2023
    XPost: uk.d-i-y, alt.home.repair

    On 14/09/2023 2:40 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    On 14/09/2023 02:03, John Larkin wrote:
    On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 01:46:16 +0100, "Commander Kinsey <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 23:45:28 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:40:57 +0100, "Commander Kinsey" <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:07:13 +0100, John Larkin
    <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 12:40:12 +0100, "Commander Kinsey" <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 29 May 2023 20:31:53 +0100, Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de> wrote:

    Am 29.05.23 um 20:45 schrieb rbowman:
    On Mon, 29 May 2023 07:22:25 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

    But I'm an electronic design engineer, and this is S.E.D.


    No, its uk.d-i-y. Learn to look at headers :-)

    The rubbish is actually cross-posted to three groups -
    sci.electronics.design, alt.home.repair and uk.d-i-y

    John Larkin is presumably posting to sci.electronics.design where he has
    been the most voluminous poster for some twenty years.

    I had to go to eternal september to check this. Google groups won't show
    the complete original post.

    Bill Sloman, Sydney

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to The Natural Philosopher on Sun Sep 17 19:34:28 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 11:22:02 +0100, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    On 07/09/2023 09:14, vjp2.at@at.BioStrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
    THere was his urban league trainee who typed up an engineering paper
    thinking omega was w, but the professor said, if all the omegas were w he
    didn't minf. Of course, you realise the small N in Greek looks like a v.
    In Greek it is pronounced Knee but in English Knew.


    It's pronounce noo
    as in EEE equals aitch noo

    Aren't you talking about myoo? The symbol you'd use for micro.

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to John Larkin on Sun Sep 17 19:36:00 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 18:02:28 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

    On 7 Sep 2023 03:22:14 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:40:57 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    OFL! Every Irishman I've met is an idiot. Most are gypsies who can't
    do anything more than manual labour, badly.

    You can't judge them all by Joe Biden.

    Ireland is clean, beautiful, safe, and friendly. An American can often communicate with the locals. The women are great and the food is
    mostly mediocre.

    Try Belfast. Or as they pronounce it, BELFAST!!!!!

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to Scott Lurndal on Sun Sep 17 19:36:28 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 18:29:36 +0100, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:

    John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> writes:
    On 7 Sep 2023 03:22:14 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:40:57 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    OFL! Every Irishman I've met is an idiot. Most are gypsies who can't >>>> do anything more than manual labour, badly.

    You can't judge them all by Joe Biden.

    Ireland is clean, beautiful, safe, and friendly. An American can often
    communicate with the locals. The women are great and the food is
    mostly mediocre.

    And President Biden is not an idiot. Bowman, on the other hand...

    Biden is senile, just like most of your presidents. Why don't you hire younger ones who still have brain cells?

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to Joe on Sun Sep 17 19:37:28 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 18:31:02 +0100, Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:

    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:02:28 -0700
    John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:

    On 7 Sep 2023 03:22:14 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:40:57 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    OFL! Every Irishman I've met is an idiot. Most are gypsies who
    can't do anything more than manual labour, badly.

    You can't judge them all by Joe Biden.

    Who is about as Irish as Xi or Putin.

    At least Putin knows how to fight. None of this sanction bullshit, blow them up!

    I knew an Irish engineer who designed digital video equipment about
    forty years ago, and there was a famous Irish mathematician: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rowan_Hamilton

    The exception that proves the rule. Most Irish are thick as fuck.

    Ireland is clean, beautiful, safe, and friendly. An American can often
    communicate with the locals. The women are great and the food is
    mostly mediocre.

    I believe things are changing there also.

    The women or the food?

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  • From John Larkin@21:1/5 to Joe on Sun Sep 17 13:09:43 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Thu, 7 Sep 2023 18:31:02 +0100, Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:

    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:02:28 -0700
    John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:

    On 7 Sep 2023 03:22:14 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:40:57 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    OFL! Every Irishman I've met is an idiot. Most are gypsies who
    can't do anything more than manual labour, badly.

    You can't judge them all by Joe Biden.

    Who is about as Irish as Xi or Putin.

    I knew an Irish engineer who designed digital video equipment about
    forty years ago, and there was a famous Irish mathematician: >https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rowan_Hamilton

    Ireland is clean, beautiful, safe, and friendly. An American can often
    communicate with the locals. The women are great and the food is
    mostly mediocre.

    I believe things are changing there also.

    I was just reading about Ireland's economic crisis. Their tax policies
    have encouraged so many companies to move there that they have a huge government budget surplus and can't agree on how to spend it.

    Other european countries are proposing plans to prevent that sort of
    thing in the future.

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  • From Slevin@21:1/5 to Commander Kinsey on Sun Sep 17 22:13:53 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    Commander Kinsey wrote:
    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 18:29:36 +0100, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:

    John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> writes:
    On 7 Sep 2023 03:22:14 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:40:57 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    OFL!  Every Irishman I've met is an idiot.  Most are gypsies who can't >>>>> do anything more than manual labour, badly.

    You can't judge them all by Joe Biden.

    Ireland is clean, beautiful, safe, and friendly. An American can often
    communicate with the locals. The women are great and the food is
    mostly mediocre.

    And President Biden is not an idiot.    Bowman, on the other hand...

    Biden is senile, just like most of your presidents.  Why don't you hire younger ones who still have brain cells?


    I think the WEF's globalist billionaires select our leaders.

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to John Larkin on Sun Sep 17 23:09:01 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Sun, 17 Sep 2023 13:09:43 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

    I was just reading about Ireland's economic crisis. Their tax policies
    have encouraged so many companies to move there that they have a huge government budget surplus and can't agree on how to spend it.

    They can spend it making immigrants comfy.

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to Commander Kinsey on Sun Sep 17 23:06:41 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Sun, 17 Sep 2023 19:36:28 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:


    Biden is senile, just like most of your presidents. Why don't you hire younger ones who still have brain cells?

    Lauren Boebert? The youngest president in my lifetime was JFK who got his
    brain cells splattered all over a limousine. Clinton and Obama weren't recommendations for 40-somethings.

    Teddy Roosevelt was younger but Czolgosz had provided a sudden job opening
    for the office.

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  • From Anthony William Sloman@21:1/5 to Commander Kinsey on Sun Sep 17 22:19:57 2023
    On Monday, September 18, 2023 at 4:36:36 AM UTC+10, Commander Kinsey wrote:
    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 18:29:36 +0100, Scott Lurndal <sc...@slp53.sl.home> wrote:

    John Larkin <jla...@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> writes:
    On 7 Sep 2023 03:22:14 GMT, rbowman <bow...@montana.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:40:57 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    OFL! Every Irishman I've met is an idiot. Most are gypsies who can't >>>> do anything more than manual labour, badly.

    You can't judge them all by Joe Biden.

    Ireland is clean, beautiful, safe, and friendly. An American can often
    communicate with the locals. The women are great and the food is
    mostly mediocre.

    And President Biden is not an idiot. Bowman, on the other hand...

    Biden is senile, just like most of your presidents. Why don't you hire younger ones who still have brain cells?

    Biden isn't remotely senile. Commander Kinsey probaby isn't either - the Scottish wanker was probably born terminally stupid.

    Donald Trump wants to be president again at 77 even though his last stint in the job showed that he didn't have nearly enough brain cells to do a proper job. and there are bunch of Repulbican politicians who want to give him another chance to screw up
    the US even more disastrously.

    --
    Bill Sloman, Sydney

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to rbowman on Wed Sep 20 23:36:47 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 04:33:02 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 09:41:38 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

    His primary care physician won't involve himself in medical marijuana
    cards, worrying about jeapordizing his relationship with Medicare. My
    husband showed up at the "pot doctor" office with a thick sheaf of
    documentation on his chronic pain and had no trouble getting his card.

    I don't use the stuff (currently. I did inhale) but I wouldn't get a
    medical card assuming I could spin the aches and pains of old age. Filling out a 4473 might be iffy and I'm not Hunter Biden. The Gods know I paid enough booze taxes without batting an eye.

    Why the fuck would you pay tax on booze? I brew my own for less than a tenth of the price.

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to The Natural Philosopher on Wed Sep 20 23:37:52 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 11:20:54 +0100, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    On 07/09/2023 04:33, rbowman wrote:
    I gather Moroccan blond hash is strictly
    kid stuff compared to today's offerings.

    The stuff being grown in Europe under UV lamps is excessively high in
    the paranoia inducing chemical and rather low in the dopamine inducing one.

    The days of Afghani black, Lebanese gold, and Nepalese temple balls are
    long gone.

    AFAIK there's nothing to make you paranoid, there's just sleepy and happy, in various proportions. I used to use it to get to sleep, but the effect stopped rather suddenly after 3 hours, so I had to get up and smoke it again, it got tedious.

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to Cindy Hamilton on Wed Sep 20 23:39:06 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 17:36:24 +0100, Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:

    On 2023-09-07, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 08:46:50 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

    He micro-doses a THC tincture in a capsule, at bedtime. As either
    Cheech or Chong said, "barely enough to get a fly high".

    It helps? I'd tried CBD oil. I don't know what I expected but I noted
    absolutely no effect. Might have been a coincidence but after a slightly
    increased dose cleaned out my gastrointestinal tract I shelved it.

    It helps him sleep. I'm not sure what it does for pain.

    The only way I can sleep is to have a 26 hour day. It makes life interesting, I get to see the sunrise at 4am etc. Makes it harder when I need to meet someone who sleeps "normal" hours.

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to Cindy Hamilton on Wed Sep 20 23:41:40 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 19:39:13 +0100, Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:

    On 2023-09-08, Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com> wrote:
    On 9/8/2023 1:33 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
    On 2023-09-08, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 16:36:24 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

    He's tried CBD. One of the oils had the effect you reported.

    Ah, maybe it wasn't just me. I tried the gummies first without any
    noticeable effect either. Besides being expensive they tasted like a roach >>>> rolled in sugar.

    Yeah, that's why he uses capsules. And makes his own, so he knows
    what kind of oil is inside.

    Maybe some people get a benefit from CDB but not me. I'm pragmatic. I take >>>> turmeric which is supposed to be good for joints. I wouldn't swear one way >>>> or the other but the stuff is cheap. Something that is expensive and
    doesn't seem to have a benefit gets cut from the list fast.

    $100 worth of THC tincture lasts him months. Much cheaper than
    some of the prescription stuff he takes. We end up in the Medicare
    Part D donut hole every year. (Which is why Biden's effort to regulate
    the price of 10 medicines he doesn't take makes us yawn.)

    I thought they shrunk to donut hole too.

    They might have shrunk it, but it's not gone. The last time I dropped
    $900 at the pharmacy (on a single prescription), my credit card company texted me over suspicious behavior.

    I got that when buying a parrot with a credit card. I was phoned and asked to give my password to prove who I was. I asked them to prove who they were and they couldn't. I said how about I phone you back on the number on the back of my card, and they
    thought that was an amazing idea!

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to rbowman on Thu Sep 21 00:21:11 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 21:42:02 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 12:04:22 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

    Breaks down when the lights run horizontally. IIRC the one I saw had
    red on the left.

    So says the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals. Of course
    the US isn't a signatory. The US does have a national standard but some states have their own version. Red on the left of a horizontal light
    probably is safe unless the local DPW drone is dyslexic.

    A friend pointed out an oddity from his years in Japan. Japanese certainly can see green but for historical reasons the word for it means blue. Japan follows the convention but uses the bluest shade of green they can get
    away with to satisfy the 'green' convention while not going against the language usage so in Japan they go on blue.

    If the word for green is blue, what is the word for blue?

    I think that fits in with the fallacy that ancient Greeks were colorblind because Homer and the boys named colors differently. Then there was the 'white' statues thing. Better surface analysis showed they were originally painted in rather garish colors.

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to Ed P on Thu Sep 21 00:22:54 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 13:56:00 +0100, Ed P <esp@snet.xxx> wrote:

    On 9/8/2023 4:42 AM, alan_m wrote:
    On 05/09/2023 20:44, Commander Kinsey wrote:
    On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 19:19:52 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:05:32 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

    Maybe there is no "wrong" about colors. Maybe we use the same names for >>>>> very different perceptions. Maybe that's why we have such varied tastes >>>>> in colors.

    I've recently been tasked with coming up with some of the visualizations >>>> loved by managers, bar charts, pie charts, doughnut charts, the works. >>>> Shiny! Unless you're color blind of course.

    I want to watch a colour blind fool get the traffic lights mixed up
    and die.

    Wouldn't someone who is colour blind rely on the position of the lights?
    Top light is red, bottom light is green.


    It is the single blinking light that can fool some. Friend of mine
    would always ask if someone was with him, stop if alone as he could not
    tell the difference.

    I've no idea what they mean. If the amber is on/flashing, it means halfway between red and green in one direction or the other. Does it really matter? If you want to be cautious, then stop, you're either stopping early, or waiting until it's really
    green. If you drive like me, amber means accelerate.

    Apparently going through amber is illegal in the UK unless you can prove you couldn't have stopped in time.

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to junk@admac.myzen.co.uk on Thu Sep 21 00:23:50 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 09:42:44 +0100, alan_m <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

    On 05/09/2023 20:44, Commander Kinsey wrote:
    On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 19:19:52 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:05:32 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

    Maybe there is no "wrong" about colors. Maybe we use the same names for >>>> very different perceptions. Maybe that's why we have such varied tastes >>>> in colors.

    I've recently been tasked with coming up with some of the visualizations >>> loved by managers, bar charts, pie charts, doughnut charts, the works.
    Shiny! Unless you're color blind of course.

    I want to watch a colour blind fool get the traffic lights mixed up and
    die.

    Wouldn't someone who is colour blind rely on the position of the lights?
    Top light is red, bottom light is green.

    That's extra to do. Out of the corner of my eye, I can see the colour, but I'd have to look at it to see the position, looking away from what I'm already looking at ahead of me. Therefore colour blind drivers are a danger on the road and should lose
    their licenses.

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to Joe on Thu Sep 21 00:27:27 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Sat, 09 Sep 2023 08:47:50 +0100, Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:

    On 8 Sep 2023 20:48:14 GMT
    rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Fri, 8 Sep 2023 08:56:00 -0400, Ed P wrote:

    It is the single blinking light that can fool some. Friend of mine
    would always ask if someone was with him, stop if alone as he could
    not tell the difference.

    I saw something different last weekend. The intersection has the
    blinking light but the side road had a blinking stop sign. By that I
    mean the standard octagonal stop sign had what looked like flashing
    red Christmas tree lights around the perimeter. It has to be
    homegrown.

    Apropos: I went to CostCo yesterday and they had artificial Christmas
    trees and blinking reindeer. Shoot me now.

    Yes, the cheap tat shops here have Christmas now. Desperation. Normally
    the seasons follow chronologically: Back To School, which started about
    two weeks before the schools closed this year, then Halloween, then Christmas.

    The UK isn't childish enough to do Halloween. They used to do some guy Fawkes, but not many shops sold fireworks and I think government legislation about what age you can buy them at fucked that up. I've bought a lot of booze and fireworks for kids in
    my life.

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to rbowman on Thu Sep 21 00:25:16 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 21:48:14 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Fri, 8 Sep 2023 08:56:00 -0400, Ed P wrote:

    It is the single blinking light that can fool some. Friend of mine
    would always ask if someone was with him, stop if alone as he could not
    tell the difference.

    I saw something different last weekend. The intersection has the blinking light but the side road had a blinking stop sign. By that I mean the
    standard octagonal stop sign had what looked like flashing red Christmas
    tree lights around the perimeter. It has to be homegrown.

    Where my parents live they all put 20 signs on the wheelybins. That just irritates me and makes me go 50 instead of 40.

    Apropos: I went to CostCo yesterday and they had artificial Christmas
    trees and blinking reindeer. Shoot me now.

    When they're all up, drive round and shoot them all off people's rooves.

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to The Natural Philosopher on Thu Sep 21 00:27:50 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Sat, 09 Sep 2023 11:10:31 +0100, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    On 09/09/2023 08:47, Joe wrote:
    On 8 Sep 2023 20:48:14 GMT
    rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Fri, 8 Sep 2023 08:56:00 -0400, Ed P wrote:

    It is the single blinking light that can fool some. Friend of mine
    would always ask if someone was with him, stop if alone as he could
    not tell the difference.

    I saw something different last weekend. The intersection has the
    blinking light but the side road had a blinking stop sign. By that I
    mean the standard octagonal stop sign had what looked like flashing
    red Christmas tree lights around the perimeter. It has to be
    homegrown.

    Apropos: I went to CostCo yesterday and they had artificial Christmas
    trees and blinking reindeer. Shoot me now.

    Yes, the cheap tat shops here have Christmas now. Desperation. Normally
    the seasons follow chronologically: Back To School, which started about
    two weeks before the schools closed this year, then Halloween, then
    Christmas.

    There's a new channell on t'tellybox called 'Great!Christmas. Wall to
    wall Christmas movies. Yuk. Almost as wet as Great!Romance.

    We've had that channel for years on Sky TV in the UK.

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to Commander Kinsey on Thu Sep 21 03:32:37 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 23:37:52 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 11:20:54 +0100, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    On 07/09/2023 04:33, rbowman wrote:
    I gather Moroccan blond hash is strictly kid stuff compared to today's
    offerings.

    The stuff being grown in Europe under UV lamps is excessively high in
    the paranoia inducing chemical and rather low in the dopamine inducing
    one.

    The days of Afghani black, Lebanese gold, and Nepalese temple balls
    are long gone.

    AFAIK there's nothing to make you paranoid, there's just sleepy and
    happy, in various proportions. I used to use it to get to sleep, but
    the effect stopped rather suddenly after 3 hours, so I had to get up and smoke it again, it got tedious.

    I tended to paranoia. A friend had a beagle with some sort of black flea control pendant on his collar. It looked sort of like a microphone so I concluded the dog was working for the Man. I really preferred Black Beauties:

    https://www.drugs.com/medical-answers/remember-taking-black-capsule-1970s-called-black-2367873/

    Back then they were handed out by the doctors as 'diet pills'. Today they changed there name to Adderall and are handed out to kids. It is not surprise to me why the kids are so fucked up.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMzoqpyUbhg

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to Commander Kinsey on Thu Sep 21 03:41:33 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:25:16 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    Where my parents live they all put 20 signs on the wheelybins. That just irritates me and makes me go 50 instead of 40.

    https://www.step2.com/kidalert-v-w-s

    Somehow those things make me think "Keep your fucking slow kids out of the road."

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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to Commander Kinsey on Thu Sep 21 03:21:59 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 23:36:47 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 04:33:02 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 09:41:38 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

    His primary care physician won't involve himself in medical marijuana
    cards, worrying about jeapordizing his relationship with Medicare. My
    husband showed up at the "pot doctor" office with a thick sheaf of
    documentation on his chronic pain and had no trouble getting his card.

    I don't use the stuff (currently. I did inhale) but I wouldn't get a
    medical card assuming I could spin the aches and pains of old age.
    Filling out a 4473 might be iffy and I'm not Hunter Biden. The Gods
    know I paid enough booze taxes without batting an eye.

    Why the fuck would you pay tax on booze? I brew my own for less than a
    tenth of the price.

    At one time I made dandelion wine and hard cider. The problem was keeping
    up with the demand. I would have had to make a lot of booze and that would
    have cut into my drinking time.

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to rbowman on Thu Sep 21 10:03:24 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On 21/09/2023 04:32, rbowman wrote:

    I tended to paranoia. A friend had a beagle with some sort of black
    flea control pendant on his collar. It looked sort of like a
    microphone so I concluded the dog was working for the Man. I really
    preferred Black Beauties:


    No wonder you ended up paranoid

    https://www.drugs.com/medical-answers/remember-taking-black-capsule-1970s-called-black-2367873/

    Back then they were handed out by the doctors as 'diet pills'. Today
    they changed there name to Adderall and are handed out to kids. It is
    not surprise to me why the kids are so fucked up.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMzoqpyUbhg


    Today kids not getting everything they want, now!, is regarded as a
    medical problem, not an excuse for a clip round the ear.

    Back in the day they were handing out stimulants and depressants to
    problem kids as well.

    And their mums..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAszapI0unE


    --
    The lifetime of any political organisation is about three years before
    its been subverted by the people it tried to warn you about.

    Anon.

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to Joe on Sun Sep 24 23:29:46 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 18:22:19 +0100, Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:

    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:58:19 -0700
    John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:

    On 7 Sep 2023 03:36:59 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:38:08 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 22:05:36 +0100, Cindy Hamilton
    <hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:

    On 2023-07-28, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 06:57:46 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

    There is no "typically American." The USA is amazingly big and
    diverse.

    And to paraphrase the Dixie Chicks singer, I'm ashamed to share
    the same planet with some of them.

    That's ok. Some of them are ashamed to share the same planet
    with you.

    Would you two have a duel or something?

    I've been reading the 'April' series by Mackey Chandler. Set in an
    orbital habitat, the people have almost no laws or regulations but
    the duel is alive and well. It makes for a polite society.

    In real life, it makes for a thug-ocracy like Haiti.


    Some parts of the US seem to be heading that way. Absolutely no
    shortage of laws and regulations, but an extremely discretionary
    attitude to enforcement.

    Then you get too much enforcement: https://youtu.be/CCvb8Tt0QME

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to Scott Lurndal on Sun Sep 24 23:39:02 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 18:28:54 +0100, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:

    John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> writes:
    On 7 Sep 2023 03:36:59 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:38:08 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 22:05:36 +0100, Cindy Hamilton
    <hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:

    On 2023-07-28, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 06:57:46 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

    There is no "typically American." The USA is amazingly big and
    diverse.

    And to paraphrase the Dixie Chicks singer, I'm ashamed to share the >>>>>> same planet with some of them.

    That's ok. Some of them are ashamed to share the same planet with you. >>>>
    Would you two have a duel or something?

    I've been reading the 'April' series by Mackey Chandler. Set in an orbital >>> habitat, the people have almost no laws or regulations but the duel is
    alive and well. It makes for a polite society.

    In real life, it makes for a thug-ocracy like Haiti.

    Indeed. The mythical wild-wild-west from mid 20 century films.

    Weeds out the sissies though.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to Cindy Hamilton on Sun Sep 24 23:41:00 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y, alt.usage.english

    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 19:14:54 +0100, Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:

    On 2023-09-07, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:
    On 7 Sep 2023 03:36:59 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:38:08 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 22:05:36 +0100, Cindy Hamilton
    <hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:

    On 2023-07-28, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 06:57:46 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

    There is no "typically American." The USA is amazingly big and
    diverse.

    And to paraphrase the Dixie Chicks singer, I'm ashamed to share the >>>>>> same planet with some of them.

    That's ok. Some of them are ashamed to share the same planet with you. >>>>
    Would you two have a duel or something?

    I've been reading the 'April' series by Mackey Chandler. Set in an orbital >>> habitat, the people have almost no laws or regulations but the duel is
    alive and well. It makes for a polite society.

    In real life, it makes for a thug-ocracy like Haiti.

    In societies where it would appear that people are polite because
    they're armed, it's usually the case that they're polite because
    that's what society expects of them.

    "In societies where it would appear people are polite because
    they're armed, it's usually the case they're polite because
    that's what society expects of them."

    Genuine question, why did you add the extra words I've now removed? Flows better without.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to The Natural Philosopher on Sun Sep 24 23:42:47 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 08:16:25 +0100, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    On 08/09/2023 04:15, rbowman wrote:
    Why be
    reasonably polite if nobody is going to physically kick you in the balls?

    At last a considered, interesting, philosophical statement.

    Maybe because that way people help you more.

    You probably don't want the help of someone you wish to call a cunt.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to rbowman on Sun Sep 24 23:43:10 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 04:15:00 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:58:19 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

    On 7 Sep 2023 03:36:59 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:38:08 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 22:05:36 +0100, Cindy Hamilton
    <hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:

    On 2023-07-28, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 06:57:46 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

    There is no "typically American." The USA is amazingly big and
    diverse.

    And to paraphrase the Dixie Chicks singer, I'm ashamed to share the >>>>>> same planet with some of them.

    That's ok. Some of them are ashamed to share the same planet with
    you.

    Would you two have a duel or something?

    I've been reading the 'April' series by Mackey Chandler. Set in an
    orbital habitat, the people have almost no laws or regulations but the
    duel is alive and well. It makes for a polite society.

    In real life, it makes for a thug-ocracy like Haiti.

    The other part of the equation is the habitat has a very small population. Like a small town being a prick is not a long term plan. It's a long
    series and it will be interesting to see how it develops.

    Another author I enjoy, Fran Porretto, is less optimistic in his Spooner trilogy. Flee the Earth to avoid tyranny and eventually try to reinvent
    it.

    Dueling might be a little extreme but I grew up in a tough, decaying mill town. Being an asshole could have consequences. The internet is the worse case; you can bark like a junkyard dog with no consequence. Why be
    reasonably polite if nobody is going to physically kick you in the balls?

    I once called a policeman a wanker, he didn't bat an eyelid.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to Commander Kinsey on Mon Sep 25 02:40:34 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Sun, 24 Sep 2023 23:43:10 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    I once called a policeman a wanker, he didn't bat an eyelid.

    Just don't call one a lesbian.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12392871/Autistic-girl-16-arrested-dragged-screaming-home-Leeds-12-officers-saying-female-cop-looked-like-lesbian-nana.html

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Anthony William Sloman@21:1/5 to Commander Kinsey on Sun Sep 24 22:32:45 2023
    On Monday, September 25, 2023 at 8:39:14 AM UTC+10, Commander Kinsey wrote:
    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 18:28:54 +0100, Scott Lurndal <sc...@slp53.sl.home> wrote:

    John Larkin <jla...@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> writes:
    On 7 Sep 2023 03:36:59 GMT, rbowman <bow...@montana.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:38:08 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 22:05:36 +0100, Cindy Hamilton
    <hami...@invalid.com> wrote:

    On 2023-07-28, rbowman <bow...@montana.com> wrote:
    On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 06:57:46 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

    <snip>

    In real life, it makes for a thug-ocracy like Haiti.

    Indeed. The mythical wild-wild-west from mid 20 century films.

    Weeds out the sissies though.

    Why would you want to do that? Weeding out non-sissies makes for a much politer and more peaceful society.

    Weeding out characters like the scottish wanker is necessary and desirable, even if he doesn't like the idea.

    --
    Bill Sloman, Sydney

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to rbowman on Sat Sep 30 11:32:42 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 22:06:29 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 04:15:05 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

    They used to hang petty thieves. Now they lock up the Tide.

    https://nypost.com/2023/09/07/anti-cop-minnesota-democratic-party- official-left-bloodied-in-violent-carjacking/

    Ah, a Liberal fuckwit.

    https://tinyurl.com/bd558fky

    Well if you're going to be that ugly, someone's gonna hit you. Her face looks like it's melted and stretched downwards.

    In a forest of hideous conglomerated words German sometimes crafts a gem, Schadenfreude in this case.

    :-)

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to Cindy Hamilton on Sat Sep 30 11:35:21 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Sat, 09 Sep 2023 10:28:13 +0100, Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:

    On 2023-09-09, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 21:00:45 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

    I maintain my slrn killfile manually, the way Larry Wall intended.

    I didn't know he had anything to do with slrn. S-Lang was John Davis. Wall >> unleashed Perl on an unsuspecting world. Perl 6 was such an cluster they
    had to change its name to protect the innocent.

    Well, Larry Wall wrote rn, and slrn appears to be a descendent. slrn
    has a way to add stuff to your killfile from its interface, but it
    seems limited. Just easier to open the Score file in vi and have at it.

    Easier to use Windows.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to Cindy Hamilton on Sat Sep 30 11:29:54 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 09:34:56 +0100, Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:

    On 2023-09-08, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:58:19 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

    On 7 Sep 2023 03:36:59 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:38:08 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    Would you two have a duel or something?

    I've been reading the 'April' series by Mackey Chandler. Set in an
    orbital habitat, the people have almost no laws or regulations but the >>>> duel is alive and well. It makes for a polite society.

    In real life, it makes for a thug-ocracy like Haiti.

    The other part of the equation is the habitat has a very small population. >> Like a small town being a prick is not a long term plan. It's a long
    series and it will be interesting to see how it develops.

    Another author I enjoy, Fran Porretto, is less optimistic in his Spooner
    trilogy. Flee the Earth to avoid tyranny and eventually try to reinvent
    it.

    Dueling might be a little extreme but I grew up in a tough, decaying mill
    town. Being an asshole could have consequences. The internet is the worse
    case; you can bark like a junkyard dog with no consequence. Why be
    reasonably polite if nobody is going to physically kick you in the balls?

    Because politeness fosters politeness.

    I struggle with that every day on Usenet. The killfile helps; if I
    don't see assholes, I'm less inclined to lash out.

    It's arseholes, and they need corrected.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to John Larkin on Sat Sep 30 11:34:40 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 12:15:05 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

    On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 08:34:56 GMT, Cindy Hamilton
    <hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:

    On 2023-09-08, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:58:19 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

    On 7 Sep 2023 03:36:59 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:38:08 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 22:05:36 +0100, Cindy Hamilton
    <hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:

    On 2023-07-28, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
    On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 06:57:46 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

    There is no "typically American." The USA is amazingly big and >>>>>>>>> diverse.

    And to paraphrase the Dixie Chicks singer, I'm ashamed to share the >>>>>>>> same planet with some of them.

    That's ok. Some of them are ashamed to share the same planet with >>>>>>> you.

    Would you two have a duel or something?

    I've been reading the 'April' series by Mackey Chandler. Set in an
    orbital habitat, the people have almost no laws or regulations but the >>>>> duel is alive and well. It makes for a polite society.

    In real life, it makes for a thug-ocracy like Haiti.

    The other part of the equation is the habitat has a very small population. >>> Like a small town being a prick is not a long term plan. It's a long
    series and it will be interesting to see how it develops.

    Another author I enjoy, Fran Porretto, is less optimistic in his Spooner >>> trilogy. Flee the Earth to avoid tyranny and eventually try to reinvent
    it.

    Dueling might be a little extreme but I grew up in a tough, decaying mill >>> town. Being an asshole could have consequences. The internet is the worse >>> case; you can bark like a junkyard dog with no consequence. Why be
    reasonably polite if nobody is going to physically kick you in the balls? >>
    Because politeness fosters politeness.

    And thuggery fosters thuggery.

    Humans are ultra-social, in that most of them get their beliefs and behavioral standards from the people around them,

    Only Facebook users. Normal people make their own decisions.

    If you were correct we'd all act the same.

    and not from
    principles. So a group has unstable, positive-feedback dynamics,
    Switzerland and Haiti being system states.

    And some people would rather steal and rape to get what they want.
    That couples into the social positive feedback. A safe, productive,
    civil society needs forces to continuously push it in the right
    directions, to counter the natural feedbacks being seeded by the bad minority.

    Bullshit. What makes you think we copy the bad guys but don't copy the good guys. If what you were saying is true, we have the influence of 90% good and 10% bad, so we'd all become good.

    They used to hang petty thieves. Now they lock up the Tide.

    I'd go for community service or the electric chair, do away with tax costing jails. Put them to work or get rid of them.

    I struggle with that every day on Usenet. The killfile helps; if I
    don't see assholes, I'm less inclined to lash out.

    Usenet, being mostly unmoderated, has terrible social dynamics. The
    jerks chase the good folks away. Insults become the norm. Envision
    positive feedback.

    Only sissies run away.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to rbowman on Sat Sep 30 11:36:56 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Sat, 09 Sep 2023 02:09:09 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 21:00:45 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

    I maintain my slrn killfile manually, the way Larry Wall intended.

    I didn't know he had anything to do with slrn. S-Lang was John Davis. Wall unleashed Perl on an unsuspecting world. Perl 6 was such an cluster

    By "an cluster" do you mean "a clusterfuck"?

    they had to change its name to protect the innocent.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From rbowman@21:1/5 to Commander Kinsey on Sat Sep 30 19:51:18 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Sat, 30 Sep 2023 11:36:56 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    On Sat, 09 Sep 2023 02:09:09 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 21:00:45 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

    I maintain my slrn killfile manually, the way Larry Wall intended.

    I didn't know he had anything to do with slrn. S-Lang was John Davis.
    Wall unleashed Perl on an unsuspecting world. Perl 6 was such an
    cluster

    By "an cluster" do you mean "a clusterfuck"?

    Got it in one. It's a close relative of the famous Martian gang bang.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to rbowman on Sat Oct 14 07:16:20 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 17:02:58 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 07:43:14 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    Burying them as in digging a hole and back filling it is not allowed.

    Why not? You have the precise coordinates and a satnav.

    Precise is relative. On good days you might have 3 meter precision. That's
    a lot of digging.

    Take a metal detector.

    Part of it is to prevent destruction of the site.

    They're on historic grounds?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to John Larkin on Sat Oct 14 07:17:37 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 02:03:28 +0100, John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

    On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 01:46:16 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
    <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 23:45:28 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:40:57 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
    <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

    On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:07:13 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

    On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 12:40:12 +0100, "Commander Kinsey"
    <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

    On Mon, 29 May 2023 20:31:53 +0100, Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de> wrote:

    Am 29.05.23 um 20:45 schrieb rbowman:
    On Mon, 29 May 2023 07:22:25 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

    I suspect that a minority of europeans could often afford cheese 500 >>>>>>>>> years ago. Malnutrition was usual.

    500 years ago was prior to the Industrial Revolution when people were >>>>>>>> herded off the land and into the dark satanic mills.

    .. and did those feet in ancient times...

    Most would have had
    at least one cow, sheep, or goat. You can only use so much milk so cheese

    Same here in the German Saar county where I live. Industry was
    iron & coal and the workers families used to have at least a
    goat. They were "Bergmann-Bauern", miner-farmers to survive.

    was made to store the surplus, or if you really had a surplus, to feed the
    hogs.

    It took industrialization to create widespread malnutrition, or sometimes
    outside forces. Ireland was a net exporter of food during the Famine. >>>>>>>
    Yes, enforced by British military. That makes friends for a
    hundred years. Not.

    Who cares? They're only Irish, not the sharpest knives in the drawer. >>>>>
    One of my customers is Irish. They make the best scientific CCD and
    ICCD cameras in the world.

    The Irish are practical and make good engineers and, occasionally,
    scientists.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Irish_scientists

    ROFL! Every Irishman I've met is an idiot. Most are gypsies who can't do anything more than manual labour, badly.

    There's actually a lot of electronics in Ireland.

    I'd prefer to use the Chinese stuff.

    Show us some electronics that you've designed.

    Show us a nuclear power station you've designed. Show us a operating system you've written. Not everyone does everything.

    P.S. "Show us some electronics you've designed" flows so much better. Why did you add the extra word "that"?

    I have written three RTOS's and a few compilers and several language interpreters and one math package, but I don't have the code handy.

    How does this help your argument?

    But I'm an electronic design engineer, and this is S.E.D.

    P.S. Don't be prissy.

    I'm anything but.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to Bill Sloman on Sat Oct 14 07:18:07 2023
    XPost: uk.d-i-y, alt.home.repair

    On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 12:58:45 +0100, Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:

    On 14/09/2023 2:40 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    On 14/09/2023 02:03, John Larkin wrote:
    On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 01:46:16 +0100, "Commander Kinsey <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 23:45:28 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:40:57 +0100, "Commander Kinsey" <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:07:13 +0100, John Larkin
    <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 12:40:12 +0100, "Commander Kinsey" <CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 29 May 2023 20:31:53 +0100, Gerhard Hoffmann <dk4xp@arcor.de> wrote:

    Am 29.05.23 um 20:45 schrieb rbowman:
    On Mon, 29 May 2023 07:22:25 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

    But I'm an electronic design engineer, and this is S.E.D.


    No, its uk.d-i-y. Learn to look at headers :-)

    The rubbish is actually cross-posted to three groups - sci.electronics.design, alt.home.repair and uk.d-i-y

    John Larkin is presumably posting to sci.electronics.design where he has
    been the most voluminous poster for some twenty years.

    I had to go to eternal september to check this. Google groups won't show
    the complete original post.

    What moron would use google groups? That's not real usenet.

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Anthony William Sloman@21:1/5 to Commander Kinsey on Sun Oct 15 21:50:08 2023
    On Saturday, October 14, 2023 at 5:18:15 PM UTC+11, Commander Kinsey wrote:
    On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 12:58:45 +0100, Bill Sloman <bill....@ieee.org> wrote:

    On 14/09/2023 2:40 pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    On 14/09/2023 02:03, John Larkin wrote:
    On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 01:46:16 +0100, "Commander Kinsey <C...@nospam.com> wrote:
    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 23:45:28 +0100, John Larkin <jla...@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:40:57 +0100, "Commander Kinsey" <C...@nospam.com> wrote:
    On Sun, 30 Jul 2023 16:07:13 +0100, John Larkin
    <jla...@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
    On Sat, 29 Jul 2023 12:40:12 +0100, "Commander Kinsey" <C...@nospam.com> wrote:
    On Mon, 29 May 2023 20:31:53 +0100, Gerhard Hoffmann <dk...@arcor.de> wrote:

    Am 29.05.23 um 20:45 schrieb rbowman:
    On Mon, 29 May 2023 07:22:25 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

    But I'm an electronic design engineer, and this is S.E.D.


    No, its uk.d-i-y. Learn to look at headers :-)

    The rubbish is actually cross-posted to three groups - sci.electronics.design, alt.home.repair and uk.d-i-y

    John Larkin is presumably posting to sci.electronics.design where he has been the most voluminous poster for some twenty years.

    I had to go to eternal september to check this. Google groups won't show the complete original post.

    What moron would use google groups? That's not real usenet.

    There are tradition-bound people who think that. The scottish wanker seems to be one of them.

    The "real usenet" is the string of threads to which we all contribute. Commander Kinsey and a a have to be less useful contributors than most. How we post our contributions doesn't come into it.

    --
    Bill Sloman, Sydney

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to John Larkin on Sun Oct 22 22:13:09 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Sun, 17 Sep 2023 21:09:43 +0100, John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

    On Thu, 7 Sep 2023 18:31:02 +0100, Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:

    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:02:28 -0700
    John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:

    On 7 Sep 2023 03:22:14 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:40:57 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    OFL! Every Irishman I've met is an idiot. Most are gypsies who
    can't do anything more than manual labour, badly.

    You can't judge them all by Joe Biden.

    Who is about as Irish as Xi or Putin.

    I knew an Irish engineer who designed digital video equipment about
    forty years ago, and there was a famous Irish mathematician:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rowan_Hamilton

    Ireland is clean, beautiful, safe, and friendly. An American can often
    communicate with the locals. The women are great and the food is
    mostly mediocre.

    I believe things are changing there also.

    I was just reading about Ireland's economic crisis. Their tax policies
    have encouraged so many companies to move there that they have a huge government budget surplus and can't agree on how to spend it.

    Other european countries are proposing plans to prevent that sort of
    thing in the future.

    Preventing other countries from under taxing? And how would they do that short of launching missiles?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to John Larkin on Sun Oct 22 22:30:08 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Sun, 17 Sep 2023 21:09:43 +0100, John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

    On Thu, 7 Sep 2023 18:31:02 +0100, Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:

    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 10:02:28 -0700
    John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:

    On 7 Sep 2023 03:22:14 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:40:57 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    OFL! Every Irishman I've met is an idiot. Most are gypsies who
    can't do anything more than manual labour, badly.

    You can't judge them all by Joe Biden.

    Who is about as Irish as Xi or Putin.

    I knew an Irish engineer who designed digital video equipment about
    forty years ago, and there was a famous Irish mathematician:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rowan_Hamilton

    Ireland is clean, beautiful, safe, and friendly. An American can often
    communicate with the locals. The women are great and the food is
    mostly mediocre.

    I believe things are changing there also.

    I was just reading about Ireland's economic crisis. Their tax policies
    have encouraged so many companies to move there that they have a huge government budget surplus and can't agree on how to spend it.

    Other european countries are proposing plans to prevent that sort of
    thing in the future.

    Preventing other countries from under taxing? And how would they do that short of launching missiles?

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to rbowman on Thu Oct 26 01:09:40 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 04:41:33 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:25:16 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    Where my parents live they all put 20 signs on the wheelybins. That just irritates me and makes me go 50 instead of 40.

    https://www.step2.com/kidalert-v-w-s

    Somehow those things make me think "Keep your fucking slow kids out of the road."

    Yip, I've seen signs saying "slow kids", and one where slow had been crossed out and replaced with retarded.

    I was once told off by a neighbour when I drove home a little faster than he liked.
    Him: "What speed do you think you were going?"
    Me: "About 40."
    Him: "40 for goodness sake!"
    Me: "It's only 10 over."
    Him: "There's kids playing in the road!"
    Me: "You shouldn't let them do that, shall I call social services and have them taken away?"
    Him: Blank expression, then walked off.

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to rbowman on Thu Oct 26 01:06:43 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 04:21:59 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 23:36:47 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 04:33:02 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 09:41:38 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

    His primary care physician won't involve himself in medical marijuana
    cards, worrying about jeapordizing his relationship with Medicare. My
    husband showed up at the "pot doctor" office with a thick sheaf of
    documentation on his chronic pain and had no trouble getting his card.

    I don't use the stuff (currently. I did inhale) but I wouldn't get a
    medical card assuming I could spin the aches and pains of old age.
    Filling out a 4473 might be iffy and I'm not Hunter Biden. The Gods
    know I paid enough booze taxes without batting an eye.

    Why the fuck would you pay tax on booze? I brew my own for less than a
    tenth of the price.

    At one time I made dandelion wine and hard cider. The problem was keeping
    up with the demand. I would have had to make a lot of booze and that would have cut into my drinking time.

    I make mine in two 50 litre containers, to 21% alcohol. Draw it straight out the tap into the glass.

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to The Natural Philosopher on Fri Oct 27 00:55:49 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Thu, 21 Sep 2023 10:03:24 +0100, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    On 21/09/2023 04:32, rbowman wrote:

    I tended to paranoia. A friend had a beagle with some sort of black
    flea control pendant on his collar. It looked sort of like a
    microphone so I concluded the dog was working for the Man. I really
    preferred Black Beauties:

    No wonder you ended up paranoid

    https://www.drugs.com/medical-answers/remember-taking-black-capsule-1970s-called-black-2367873/

    Back then they were handed out by the doctors as 'diet pills'. Today
    they changed there name to Adderall and are handed out to kids. It is
    not surprise to me why the kids are so fucked up.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMzoqpyUbhg

    Today kids not getting everything they want, now!, is regarded as a
    medical problem, not an excuse for a clip round the ear.

    When I were a lad, the kids who got a jolly good thrashing from their father turned out a lot better. Those with no discipline ended up in council houses.

    Alledgedly it's against the law to even smack your kid, but I see it regularly in supermarkets when they won't shut the fuck up, and nobody complains, so I guess it's just an English softy thing.

    Back in the day they were handing out stimulants and depressants to
    problem kids as well.

    And their mums..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAszapI0unE

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  • From Handsome Jack@21:1/5 to Commander Kinsey on Fri Oct 27 12:01:36 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    In uk.d-i-y Commander Kinsey <CK1@spam.com> wrote:

    Preventing other countries from under taxing? And how would they do that short of launching missiles?


    You impose financial sanctions on them. See OECD Inclusive Framework BEPS Pillar Two.

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to Handsome Jack on Sun Oct 29 05:45:10 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 13:01:36 +0100, Handsome Jack <Jack@handsome.com> wrote:

    In uk.d-i-y Commander Kinsey <CK1@spam.com> wrote:

    Preventing other countries from under taxing? And how would they do that short of launching missiles?

    You impose financial sanctions on them. See OECD Inclusive Framework BEPS Pillar Two.

    I seem to have lost the page with subsection 3b, part 47c.

    When will governments grow up? If nobody imposed any taxes on any imports, everything would still be fair. Trade is good.

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to Handsome Jack on Sun Oct 29 05:50:39 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 13:01:36 +0100, Handsome Jack <Jack@handsome.com> wrote:

    In uk.d-i-y Commander Kinsey <CK1@spam.com> wrote:

    Preventing other countries from under taxing? And how would they do that short of launching missiles?

    You impose financial sanctions on them. See OECD Inclusive Framework BEPS Pillar Two.

    Hang on, were we talking about import duty? (You've snipped so I can't tell, don't do that).

    If so, say the UK had no import duty, wouldn't that benefit other countries trying to sell us stuff? So they'd not want us to charge it. This is backwards way first.

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  • From Commander Kinsey@21:1/5 to rbowman on Mon Oct 30 00:11:28 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y

    On Mon, 25 Sep 2023 03:40:34 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

    On Sun, 24 Sep 2023 23:43:10 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

    I once called a policeman a wanker, he didn't bat an eyelid.

    Just don't call one a lesbian.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12392871/Autistic-girl-16-arrested-dragged-screaming-home-Leeds-12-officers-saying-female-cop-looked-like-lesbian-nana.html

    We must be importing American cops.

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