On the google.com page, there if a little menu box upper-right, that used to have a link to MAPS. Now clicking that box pulls up pages of blather about viruses and racial equity and google features.
Does it do that for you too?
I can't get google maps to work. Is it not public any more?
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Found it. I have a Firefox addon that restricts scripts per web site, and that was doing partial script blocking. So Maps works now.
Can't imagine why the tool box gave me all that blather.
I wanted to use Street View to see what a vendor facility looks like. Some are nice, some are falling-down garages. This one looks legit, a nice little brick industrial park in Watertown, South Dakota.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc trk The cork popped merrily, and Lord Peter rose to his feet. "Bunter", he said, "I give you a toast. The triumph of Instinct over Reason"
Right next to Willy's Sportsbar Grille and Casino. Site visit?
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc trk The cork popped merrily, and Lord Peter rose to his feet. "Bunter", he said, "I give you a toast. The triumph of Instinct over Reason"
If someone 'sincerely' wanted to kid you, I imagine a street address isn't the hardest thing to arrange, unless your mail correspondence (if any) specifies 'do not redirect or forward'.
RL
On a sunny day (Thu, 02 Jul 2020 08:11:31 -0700) it happened John Larkin wrote in :
Works OK here on
google, whats that?
I use Speed Dial 2 add-on in Chrome and have bookmarks linking to the sites I visit most often, including Google maps.
If they want checks from us, it would be good to have the right street address.
This is Newava, and the make great custom transformers. Ask for Todd.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc trk The cork popped merrily, and Lord Peter rose to his feet. "Bunter", he said, "I give you a toast. The triumph of Instinct over Reason"
Seems to be a commuter bus service that picks up and drops off people in my neighborhood. Drives property values up.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc trk The cork popped merrily, and Lord Peter rose to his feet. "Bunter", he said, "I give you a toast. The triumph of Instinct over Reason"
Google is a very creative advertising and data collection agency, which trades user data for the free use of some nifty apps and services, which Google soon abandons or discontinues. (203 so far)
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On a sunny day (Thu, 02 Jul 2020 21:27:43 -0700) it happened Jeff Liebermann wrote in :
Google is the greatest thing since the forming of the Internet, It is a chance for everybody who can read to get educated fast. It is the most valuable thing we have. Same for the other search engines bing, etc
Data collection is part of it strength, and data collection is done by Big Brother in most countries.
As far as advertising goes google very often finds products on a site faster than the sites own search engine.
If you (Larkin) complains property prices are driven up, well property prices go up everywhere it is part of capitalism and even more so printing money to finance people who lost their jobs due to some what's it ? ah corona, and the decoupling of the US doolaar from gold.
Anyways google and wikipedia, anybody who can read, no discrimination. An if you contribute your contribution will be found by it Freedom is what google is all about.
I think that Wikipedia is a close runner up to Google
Not for the Chinese people, or (presumably therefore) any country that pressures google in the same way.
Digikey is even better. That's the first place I go for data sheets, and you can see the price too.
Did I do that? I own all my property outright, and Prop13 keeps our property taxes low. No cause to complain.
There has been a trend for decades to ratchet interest rates down, based on some absurd economic theories. There is resistance around zero, which is about where all the moronic central banks are now. Governments can borrow without limit, because it costs nothing to borrow at zero interest rates.
This won't end well.
That, and money.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc trk The cork popped merrily, and Lord Peter rose to his feet. "Bunter", he said, "I give you a toast. The triumph of Instinct over Reason"
But it's free. So it's not about money, it's about power.
Both google and wiki are good of course, but because the market made them that way.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc trk The cork popped merrily, and Lord Peter rose to his feet. "Bunter", he said, "I give you a toast. The triumph of Instinct over Reason"
On a sunny day (Fri, 03 Jul 2020 07:06:04 -0700) it happened John Larkin wrote in :
Oops, reading back I see it was Martin Riddle who wrote that, my apologies.
Inflation and decreasing dollar value can be used to make government debt go away That is why Nixon decoupled the dollar from gold. I expect massive inflation to happen. When USD no longer becomes the world's main currency anything can happen.
I dunno how you mean that, sure they make lots of money on advertising but they give the world a very useful thing in return. Therefore I am against taxing them, say ripping them off as some countries in Europe try.
Europe is also into making big debt to handle corona industry losses, Airbus may be firing like 15000 people:
There is a risk for wars, in wars all the unemployed are drafted and burned.
And a taxpayer sucking industry (military club) is forced to make useful products.
Am I pessimistic? It is just human nature one ant heap against the other. Wars have a purpose.
Maybe it will finally get us to colonize space. Was just watching a 2 hour documentary on the human made space probes, the voyagers, opportunity, cassini... new horizons...
There is a lot out there property on Mars?
I have commented on the insane property values in San Francisco, caused by all the software companies here and in SV. They bus workers back and forth, so a tiny apartment rents for $3K a month. It's interesting. My only complaint is that my employees have to compete for housing, which creates some awful commutes.
Yes, that has to happen. Government steals everyones' savings.
The other central banks are doing the same thing. The crash and inflation will be worldwide.
They have always been popular in Europe.
Lots of free radiation. Not many restaurants or parks.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc trk The cork popped merrily, and Lord Peter rose to his feet. "Bunter", he said, "I give you a toast. The triumph of Instinct over Reason"
If they didn't have zoning laws then enough units would be built to meet the demand and prices would drop.
In NYC we have a lot of homes illegally converted to 2 or 3 units. I once lived in one with no fire escape to the third floor, which is a big no-no. Government imposes zoning laws that prevent the construction of more proper units. And now NYC is giving lockdown bailouts to landlords whose tenants can't pay, but the tenants in illegal units are out of luck. Amazing how people create problems and think they're solving them.
Although nations often avoided war simply because they couldn't afford it. That changed in 1913 Europe and 1914 US when everybody started printing fiat money.
Mineral rights might be worth something.
It might help a little, but demand is almost infinite. In addition to too many over-paid jobs, we are a Sanctuary City with a lot of free services. A billion people would lmove here if they could.
And it's crowded already. We don't need more people per square mile.
Much of SF is zoned for single-family, so builders buy an old cottage, tear it down, and put up a hideous 4000 square foot showplace and sell it for 4 or 8 million. If the zoning allowed it, that could have been a couple of 2000 sq foot residences, or five nice apartments.
We have a few of those tacky monsters near our house. I'd be embarassed to live in one.
Sometimes they literally leave a few sticks from the old cottage and call it a rebuild.
Even mining the moon would be crazy expensive.
I suspect that the moon has little or no segregated minerals.
Something wonderful happened on Earth to put gold here, aluminum there, iron in heaps, oil and gas in quantity, copper and diamonds and uranium for the taking. Even the ratios are about right.
Mars may have useful separated minerals, but minimg and transport is going to be expensive. Finding, say, massive heaps of diamonds would just drive down the price of diamonds.
I don't see how a Mars colony could survive without constant supplies from Earth. That would be a more expensive but equally useless ISS.
-- John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc trk The cork popped merrily, and Lord Peter rose to his feet. "Bunter", he said, "I give you a toast. The triumph of Instinct over Reason"
On a sunny day (Fri, 03 Jul 2020 08:09:48 -0700) it happened John Larkin wrote in :
Bit like Amsterdam (where I used to live at times)... not quite 3k$ yet...
Oh, there will be Chinese restaurants before you know!
If people can make their own spacecraft like they now make and fly their own drones anything is possible.
I have read that water (H2O) can function as a shield against radiation. Technically I think there is no problem.
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