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Brokers and intermediaries are useful. The risk with that role is that peop le who do it are in a great position to exploit their role to rip of their clients as skimmers, spongers and leaches, and do need to be watched carefu lly. Having several independent brokers and intermediates finding deals for you is a wise precaution.

There's a whole class of computer games that purport to simulate reality - the Sid Meiers "Civilisation" series comes to mind.

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LTSpice is more accurate, and cheaper.

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Woodworking uses many of the same sorts of skills as engineering. A lot of problem solving, stress analysis, and spatial visualization. I find it very satisfying, though don't have much time to do it right now. It'll figure heavily into my retirement, though (I'm trying to hang in for another two years but I'm ready to go now ;-).

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I walk over 100 miles per week (~500/month), half on a treadmill. Is that enough?

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Lefties do, yes.

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"Gee, the hold of that slave ship is VERY uncomortable; let me help you out..."

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Sure, if you can tolerate the boredom long-term.

I park a ways uphill and walk down to work. At the end of the day, I have no choice but to hike up to my car.

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The late Barry Norman was a witty BBC film critic. I think his father was a film director, so he was well steeped in the industry. But his wit could be a bit naughty. As when he commented that a film included a game of pocket billiards, and he said he hadn't realised it could be competitive...

Mike.

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From 'Two Tramps in Mud time'

But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and the future's sakes. Robert Frost

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I like English novels, Jane Austin and PG Wodehouse and Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers sorts of stuff. What's amazing to me is that the English looked down on work and "trade", and respectable gentry did nothing. They just visited one another and socialized and dressed for dinner. Maybe shoot something in season, with help to carry and load their guns and chase the game in front of them. How did they bear the boredom?

They all had many servants, most of whom were seldom mentioned in the novels. They had governnesses to take care of their kids until they were old enough to send away to school. [1]

Civilization has given us so many toys.

[1] I knew rich kids who were mostly raised by their black nannies.
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... with Lord Peter Wimsey being a particularly egregious example of ...

The Merkins and others have an anti-intellectual streak.

The current incarnation is "don't trust the experts".

I hereby volunteer to do surgery on Michael Gove[1], when he next needs it.

[1] MP and prominent brexiteer who repeatedly used that mantra in the run-up to the referendum.

Sending away to school was not a difficult choice in the heyday of the empire. There weren't many good schools within daily (or even monthly) travel distance of many parents.

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There are the people who improve life and there are the people who make life worse, according to JL...

i.e. There are the good people and the evil people

i.e. politics is lifted straight from The Lord of the Rings

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Was Mao a good guy? Stalin? The various Kims? How do you like Maduro?

Is starvation really such a bad thing?

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He was a real estate developer and solved the occasional murder. And he ran an agency that employed women and helped many people.

Yeah, we hardly invent anything, and only rarely save Europe from mass genocide and starvation and becoming Soviet satellites.

The girls had to do with being educated by governnesses.

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I believe it is supposed to extend lifespan, at least if used in moderation. (Like most things. of course...)

Mike.

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These are straw-man rhetorical questions not really relevant to the point I was making.

I would make a bad politician because I would probably refuse to sign off on most of those "massively expand the size and power of the military-industrial complex and police state + protect children and save all cute kittens"-acts that seem to come up fairly regularly.

"see how he hates children and kittens" my opponent would say, and win in a landslide.

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the "always attack, never defend" strategy by way of redirecting the line of discussion towards me is noted, however, it's not a bad strategy sometimes and I even noticed you gladly did not Godwin the thread by bringing up you-know-who, you have some skill.

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I dimly recall an early 70s TV series starring Ian Carmichael. The main memory is that he swanned in and solved murders that eluded the local plod /because/ he had the right breeding.

I formed the impression that Sayers was a snob, and have only just seen the wackypedia section on his origin, viz:

In How I Came to Invent the Character of Lord Peter Wimsey,[6] Sayers wrote: Lord Peter's large income... I deliberately gave him... After all it cost me nothing and at the time I was particularly hard up and it gave me pleasure to spend his fortune for him. When I was dissatisfied with my single unfurnished room I took a luxurious flat for him in Piccadilly. When my cheap rug got a hole in it, I ordered him an Aubusson carpet. When I had no money to pay my bus fare I presented him with a Daimler double-six, upholstered in a style of sober magnificence, and when I felt dull I let him drive it. I can heartily recommend this inexpensive way of furnishing to all who are discontented with their incomes. It relieves the mind and does no harm to anybody. ... Another theory is that Wimsey was based, at least in part, on Eric Whelpton, who was a close friend of Sayers at Oxford. Ian Carmichael, who played the part of Wimsey in the first BBC television adaptation and studied the character and the books thoroughly, said that the character was Sayers' conception of the 'ideal man', based in part on her earlier romantic misfortunes.

That does nothing to dispell my impression.

That's contentious, and is orthogonal (if that) to the point.

If that, in the case of the Royal family.

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I can distinguish between part numbers having more than a dozen characters, needed for modern surface-mount parts. E.g., the C0805C104K1RACTU is a 0.1uF, 100V X7R 0805 cap.

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Ya, our acting and probable soon-to-be full time secretary of defense is a Boeing MBA-gineer there for no other reason but to move Boeing product on taxpayer dime.

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sive, IMO. "

If you are talking hookers I am all for it. They should have health cards t hat they don't have AIDS every year, maybe semi-annually, whatever.

One thing more disgusting than paying for immorality is trying to stop it b y legislation. they got no right to tell us these things. Sex, recreational drugs, nowhere in the Constitution are they empowered to f*ck with that. ( that's why prohibition was an amendment, the Constitution was still in effe ct) And powers not delegated to the US government are reserved for the Stat es or the People. That's the supreme law of the land. They don't care, they now make so much money on forfeiture it is also more disgusting, and they also do that without due process.

They need to mind their own business. The war on drugs you got more drugs a nd shit made in some basement full of arsenic in shit, no hookers you got t hem with diseases and working for pimps who abuse them and use drugs to con trol them, no abortion and you got coathangers and blood all over the place .

What is even more disgusting is that they turned this whole thing into a mo ney game. I got a friend who did ONE YEAR for 200 pounds of weed. Some peop le get five years for one pound. It is not just money, it is also who you k now. He had money and a very well connected cousin. No way do I want to see my friends in jail, but is that fair ? Isn't justice sorta like the same t ime for the same crime. If I were to let myself pity, the people in prison would be high on the list. It's not that all of them were framed or broke u nconstitutional laws, it is that because they don't know how to pick a good lawyer and/or work the system like some of us they go away for longer and are more likely to take a plea deal even if they're innocent. They trump up the charges to make that happen, like my guy with the 200 pounds, they cou ld have decided to charge him with 200 counts of possession of one pound.

And the cops have discretion. The kid, busted with the shit in the ashtray and a VERY small amount. It wasn't that good. The cop searched, found it wh ere he was told, took a wiff and let the kid off. The kid swears the cop fe lt sorry for them smoking such shitty weed...

Even though I never got busted for drugs, mainly because my involvement wit h them is very tertiary for lack off a better word, one of my lawyers was o ne of the best drug lawyers in town. I was there for a DUI and I said "This shit used to just go away, what happened ?". He grabbed a stack of papers looked as thick as the proverbial NYC phone book and threw it on the desk a nd said "THIS is what happened". It is a money game. you are about five tim es more likely to die from a medical mistake than a drunk driver. Do they e ven THINK of charging people criminally for medical negligence ? If the num ber of deaths impelled the creation of the draconian DUI laws, why doesn't this much greater number of deaths get them to do something ?

Money. Disgusting.

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