electronics is fun

Been doing it four years now, though not that long/far at the start. Started after bypass surgery and keep pushing it. Netflix and Amazon Prime help with the boredom thing.

Or you could part at the bottom and walk up to work in the morning. ;-) I walk about 4.5 miles around the building (inside or out) every morning before anyone else gets in and about 8.25 miles at the gym on the way home.

They gotem. But the oil companies always want to lower production in these "pipsqueak" countries to help their Saudi buddies. Keeps the price up. Poor Saudis got bills y'know.

IRAQ you...nevermind that adjective.

Can't do that. Work is only 70 feet above sea level, and the free parking is across the freeway, uphill from work.

It is a cool walk. There a footbridge that crosses over US101, and Pot Hill is on the other side.

Parts of San Francisco are dreadful, full of homeless druggies and suits and tourists. We never go there.

Downtown is nice, seen from a safe distance.

In a country with the world's largest oil reserves, people can't afford to buy a few eggs.

My father helped "liberate" Italy, by summer 1945 there wasn't much to the job outside of standing around guard over a bunch of sullen Italian POWs (and a few Hungarians and a couple Mongolians, even.) Dull work. No flowers and the local women weren't particularly attractive.

He committed a serious war crime as an MP by liberating a shipment of lemonade from the Red Cross to give to his platoon instead of its intended destination the sullen Italians. There was plenty of water to go around they'll be fine with that.

The Allies never broke all the way up through the Po valley and into the Anschluss before the end of the war AFAIK; the Apennines and southern Alps were excellent natural defenses where even the ragtag bunch of defenders by that point were often able to hold out right up until the cease-fire.

It is much more destructive than snark.

Of course they are hypocrites! So what?

That has never stopped demagogues.

How would Cursitor Doom know? He subcontracts his thinking to the Daily Mail and Russia Today, which suggests that his stupidity detector hasn't been well-calibrated.

Says the groups best approximation to a hapless fool. Though John Larkin's susceptibility to denialist web-sites does make him a plausible contender.

Nonsense. Those are the people who hahve changed the world from 30 year life expectancy living in caves to what it is today.

NT

Pointing out that some so-called experts don't know what they're doing or aren't getting real is constructive.

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cted from reality. It's fundamentally very foolish.

fe expectancy living in caves to what it is today.

None of the people who actually did that had that particular aim in mind. I t was an incremental process, solving particular problems as well as the cu rrent technology allowed.

I can't think of examples who had convinced themselves that what they were doing was anything more than worthwhile - it's politicians and philosophers who think that what they are doing is of "very great importance" and while Jonathan Israel makes a good case that what Spinoza did was of very great importance, Baruc h Spinoza was not a self-important character, and sorted theological points out mainly to keep his own thinking in good order. Rather better order tha n pretty much everybody else, as it happened.

aren't getting real is constructive.

Or so NT tells us. He's happy to call himself expert on any number of subje cts, but less than forthcoming with his "expert" opinions. Those few that h e has posted here look like the opinions of a gullible twit, and his dislik e of real experts presumably comes from being told to get lost by people wh o really do know what they are talking about.

afford to buy a few eggs. "

That is because the new government is kissing the oil companies' asses.

That's backwards. The poverty is because they kicked the oil companies out, nationalized everything, fired or ran off the people who understood oil, and installed politically-connected doofuses to run stuff.

The military controls the food supply, with similar results.

'It was precisely that evening in Lodi that I came to believe in myself as an unusual person and became consumed with the ambition to do the great things that until then had been but a fantasy.' - Napoleon Bonaparte, "Thoughts"

What's Haight-Ashbury like these days?

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Gosh, haven't been there in years either.

I'm just wondering if there are still some groovy, far-out cats with flowers in their hair hanging out around the joint? Or *a* joint, even. :)

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