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@hank- After the last ruinous Russian River flood some twenty years ago we tore down the old house and built a new one. Our flood insurance now consists of nine twenty-foot high x 3-foot diameter cement pylons holding up the new house. FEMA evidentl…
• "we'll buy you out (at what we think it is worth) and convert the beachfront property to public land."
• "but I guess in the socialist mind, spending someone else's money is hardwired."
Say what?
Please don't confuse Maurice with actual facts from this universe. He lives in an alternate universe, which is very confusing because it has a few things in common with ours.
"This increase in cost results from population aging, not because we are living longer, but because birth rates dropped from three to two children per woman."
@msf: All the more reason to expand the deportation of "illegal" immigrant workers rather…
"Even earlier she was able to tell how many extensions you had connected by checking the load on the line."
@msf: Actually, Telco could check to see how many ringers were attached to the line, not how many extensions. The trick was to disconnect on…
There certainly was no "option" with respect to PG&E, for either gas or electricity service. The City of San Francisco followed PG&E with their water meters. No more meter readers in SF!
@PennyBonds Tells us a lot about your value system: You have no problem with someone arbitrarily denigrating another as a "socialist" but get all righteous when that same person is shown for what he is. General attacks on those not kowtowing to your…
@willmatt72- But it's for sure an interesting alternative to RPHYX. Now you guys have got me thinking about maybe splitting my RPHYX for the sake of diversity.
@Maurice: Nice weasel response. You had no problem with "getting into the cetusnews dispute" when you said that "But I guess in the socialist mind, spending someone else's money is hardwired."
Now how about simply answering the question?
"If steal…
"But I guess in the socialist mind, spending someone else's money is hardwired."
If stealing someone's work product isn't the same as "spending someone else's money" then what exactly is it, @Maurice??
It's OK for a "capitalist" like Ted, but not …
Interesting... I'm also using a variant of the current FireFox which has been modified specifically for use on this older Mac, so the problem may possibly be FireFox itself rather than the NoScript add-on as I had previously suspected.
You can probably find a decently equipped Toyota Tacoma for $30k-ish. Maybe not the most "wonderful" pickup out there, but it does a reasonable job at a sort-of reasonable cost. Our 2009 with some 90k miles has been trouble-free so far. Going to be …
I use "NoScript" to prevent loading up tons of unwanted cookies and other tracking garbage. NoScript is asking me if I want to allow TEN additional scripts/trackers to load from the Stockcharts site alone. That's in addition to a few which are alrea…
The Washington Post:
Blackouts, hyperinflation, hunger: Maduro faces reelection as Venezuela deteriorates
"As Maduro has sought to further consolidate power in the past 12 months, the economy, public services, security and health care have all but…
"Amazingly K has not dropped 20% today. It is performing today almost exactly to the market."
What's amazing about it? It's hardly a secret that Bozo-for-Life Maduro has long ago run Venezuela so far into the ground that it will take many years if …
@MikeM- Are you "semi-retiring" because you want more time for yourself, or because of a situation with your employer? If the latter, you could probably find part-time work to offset the income loss, but if the former, then I'm not at all sure. We p…
"We won't be linking any article by freelance authors who believe their intellectual property has been stolen."
@Ted: What "we" would that be? Are you now so fat-headed that you believe there is more than one of you? Or are you just once again pree…
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@hank- Been following the Venezuela situation pretty closely in The Economist for quite a while. There may be a very few pockets of retail goods stashed in a few places available to those high in the government or who have major political influence …
We don't have kids, so this particular subject was not of much personal interest. But given the number of responses, I thought that I'd take a quick look at it. What a wonderful example of knowledgeable and thoughtful people extending their help to …
