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Ted's pretty flexible with respect to what's "permissible" on MFO. Basic rule: If Ted posts it, it's OK. Anyone else, different set of rules, as promulgated by... well, Ted, of course!
@Crash- Actually, if you want to navigate easily through SF traffic without being required to observe signals, stop signs, or any traffic regulations whatsoever you will need to ride a bicycle. Our progressive board of supervisors has decreed that t…
@Crash- that will happen if you are using a browser which doesn't support Flash. I get the same message, but in small blue letters in the upper left-hand corner there is a line of text which says "Try watching this video on youtube.com". If I click …
@Crash- 2013. Of course the A380 has replaced the B777... they ran out of 777s. The problem's not with their planes- it's with their "pilots".
We just flew to France (via Air France) on an A380, and returned on a B777. Back in peasant class there's…
"So your team effort is reduced to ending with a crude and vulgar proclamation that is not common on MFO. That's too, too bad. It just demonstrates the soundness of my arguments and the shallowness of yours."
@MJG: not to put too fine a point on th…
@hank- I'm sure that you meant to say "unimpeachable". :)
"In my own case I barely survived HS Algebra with a C - and have avoided all math classes since." Me too. :(
@Maurice- I just mentioned to my wife that it's not fair to lay this one on Trump... he inherited the situation. No good choices it seems to me, never has been. I wouldn't bet that NK would even listen to China.
Add: Seems to me though that by thre…
@Maurice- Those seat belts were designed by West Coast libs to strangle conservatives whenever possible. That's how Clinton got elected. Lucky that you survived!
OK, you other small men: behave yourselves and stop discrediting ol' MJG and interrupting his march. Especially with all of those ranting polemics and ad-hominem attacks! And no more iotas, either.
@MJG: that's "much too much, not much to much. You…
@msf- Now you've done it!! "Monte Carlo spews out magic numbers" indeed. Welcome to MJG's cadre of ex-communicants. At least you're in fairly decent company! :)
"No disrespect of MFO readers is intended; many have stated that statistics is not their forte."
"Did you consider skew and kurtosis?"
@msf- I thought that those were foot problems. What you mean statistics aint my forte??
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"If there's a problem, it's what to do with the crummy old bulbs."
@BenWP- Send me your mailing address and I will ship two boxes of somewhat used old bulbs, FREE to you!!!
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"and put a penny in a burned out fuse."
Actually, that's not all that uncommon. The older systems that use fuses instead of circuit breakers are very vulnerable to such practice and because of that many insurance companies refuse to write insurance…
@Flack- Have you had the supply voltage to your home measured? Years ago I noticed that light bulbs in my parent's house were burning out prematurely. I measured the PG&E supply voltage and found that it was almost 140 volts per leg vs 120 volts…
Have changed out upwards of thirty incandescent bulbs with LED replacements. No problems whatsoever. Not too fond of the older fluorescent bulbs, though (the standard 4' and 8' tubes are fine).
Add: Many of the LED bulbs are the dimmable type, usin…
@davidrmoran- Your post is a bit confusing, as the middle large paragraph is a response to one of my previous posts, but the other comments evidently are not meant for me?
Actually, my surprise isn't at the misuse of emergency rooms (that's well do…
"The legislature promptly overrode six of the eight gubernatorial section vetoes, on May 4, 2006, and by mid-June 2006 had overridden the remaining two."
@LewisBraham- It looks like you may have missed that last clause, which brought the total over…
From that wikip entry:
"There was a widespread feeling that emergency rooms were misused for non-emergency medical care (the misuse was and is undeniable, not unique to Massachusetts, and continues; the relation to healthcare insurance or lack of it…
@Maurice- I wonder if you are not inadvertently obscuring a larger point? To my knowledge, TRP's funds were not previously available NTF at Schwab, either. Has TRP recently gone the NTF route with a number of brokers, or am I missing something here?…
