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John Larkin
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On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 14:16:14 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
Try it and let us know.
Try it and let us know.
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bitrex
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On 10/8/19 12:04 PM, jlarkin@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
I've never been a gay man so I can't speak to their experience of what
happens to them when they get pissed off and punch somebody. Probably
not good, either
I've never been a gay man so I can't speak to their experience of what
happens to them when they get pissed off and punch somebody. Probably
not good, either
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bitrex <user@example.net> wrote in
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No... Unless you are *this* (read current) buffoon president.
news:Xj2nF.34677$1A2.10022@fx07.iad:
No... Unless you are *this* (read current) buffoon president.
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Phil Allison
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Rob the Ratbag wrote:
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** The fool lives on plant Rob, where everything is just as he imagines it to be - no more and no les.
** Head stuck firmly in the sand, arse up.
Must be one of them rocket scientist / hippie types.
Had one tell me she wanted street lights turned off at night so the local bird population could get some sleep. Dead serious.
...... Phil
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** The fool lives on plant Rob, where everything is just as he imagines it to be - no more and no les.
** Head stuck firmly in the sand, arse up.
Must be one of them rocket scientist / hippie types.
Had one tell me she wanted street lights turned off at night so the local bird population could get some sleep. Dead serious.
...... Phil
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Phil Allison
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Rob the Ratbag wrote:
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** Smartarse.
** This fool simply cannot comprehend what is posted.
Speeding away to escape police attention IS way more than a "traffic offence".
Of course, admitting to that fact wrecks his non existent case.
** Idiotic false comparison.
This anencephalic jerkoff is not worth pissing on.
** The fool says, clutching at imaginary straws.
...... Phil
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** Smartarse.
** This fool simply cannot comprehend what is posted.
Speeding away to escape police attention IS way more than a "traffic offence".
Of course, admitting to that fact wrecks his non existent case.
** Idiotic false comparison.
This anencephalic jerkoff is not worth pissing on.
** The fool says, clutching at imaginary straws.
...... Phil
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bitrex <user@example.net> wrote in news
n4nF.18712$zQ2.15151@fx10.iad:
Gay or straight, adults call this felony assault, asshole.
And barroom, jailhouse mentality jackoffs like you should get a year
in stir every time you do it. Gene pool erasure is asking too much,
but that is what you deserve.
n4nF.18712$zQ2.15151@fx10.iad:Gay or straight, adults call this felony assault, asshole.
And barroom, jailhouse mentality jackoffs like you should get a year
in stir every time you do it. Gene pool erasure is asking too much,
but that is what you deserve.
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Phil Allison
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jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
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** My $20 is thoroughly safe.
What a vile Septic cunt.
...... Phil
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** My $20 is thoroughly safe.
What a vile Septic cunt.
...... Phil
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Phil Allison
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bitrex is a Fuckwit wrote:
** Massive logical fallacy, argues from an irrelevant & atypical example to a to false conclusion.
Q:
Why do so many fools base their false points on clever sounding examples that THEY drag up from fuck knows where ?
Reality is that examples do not prove anything, cos one can find or invent ones that point to ANY damn conclusion you like.
Examples that are of *common knowledge* may be used to illustrate a general truth but cannot be the sole basis of one.
..... Phil
** Massive logical fallacy, argues from an irrelevant & atypical example to a to false conclusion.
Q:
Why do so many fools base their false points on clever sounding examples that THEY drag up from fuck knows where ?
Reality is that examples do not prove anything, cos one can find or invent ones that point to ANY damn conclusion you like.
Examples that are of *common knowledge* may be used to illustrate a general truth but cannot be the sole basis of one.
..... Phil
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Phil Allison
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bitrex wrote:
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** I can vouch for that.
I was fired from one job with a DJ gear hire business after two weeks, along with my supervisor and a younger tech cos the boss's heavily pregnant missus took a strong disliking to us all.
She first stalked the supervisor, watching and misinterpreting his every move, aided and abetted by a teenage female office staffer who would appear suddenly in the service area - scream at him and then disappear.
One morning, I arrived a tad late without eating breakfast - so I headed to the tea room for a cup of coffee. I was spotted by the missus and ordered to get straight to work. Pointing out to her that I might work better with some coffee in my belly had no effect.
Essential spares like TO220 triacs and xenon flash tubes were kept in the office and doled out by her *one* at a time - but only if you could prove the need beyond doubt.
The fact that items worked perfectly after replacing said triacs or tubes was not enough - I was generally expected to repair *customer damaged* items without using any precious spares.
One some days, I completed no work at all cos the boss or his missus kept shifting me from one task to a different one, at whim. I was then blamed me for being inefficient.
I could go an and on - but you get the idea.
A friend said to me later, after hearing my sad story: " Congratulations Phil, you lasted two weeks in a job that I would have walked out of on the first day".
...... Phil
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** I can vouch for that.
I was fired from one job with a DJ gear hire business after two weeks, along with my supervisor and a younger tech cos the boss's heavily pregnant missus took a strong disliking to us all.
She first stalked the supervisor, watching and misinterpreting his every move, aided and abetted by a teenage female office staffer who would appear suddenly in the service area - scream at him and then disappear.
One morning, I arrived a tad late without eating breakfast - so I headed to the tea room for a cup of coffee. I was spotted by the missus and ordered to get straight to work. Pointing out to her that I might work better with some coffee in my belly had no effect.
Essential spares like TO220 triacs and xenon flash tubes were kept in the office and doled out by her *one* at a time - but only if you could prove the need beyond doubt.
The fact that items worked perfectly after replacing said triacs or tubes was not enough - I was generally expected to repair *customer damaged* items without using any precious spares.
One some days, I completed no work at all cos the boss or his missus kept shifting me from one task to a different one, at whim. I was then blamed me for being inefficient.
I could go an and on - but you get the idea.
A friend said to me later, after hearing my sad story: " Congratulations Phil, you lasted two weeks in a job that I would have walked out of on the first day".
...... Phil
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Phil Allison
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bitrex is a Fuckwit wrote:
** Massive logical fallacy, argues from an irrelevant & atypical example to a to false conclusion.
Q:
Why do so many fools base their false points on clever sounding examples that THEY drag up from fuck knows where ?
Reality is that examples do not prove anything, cos one can find or invent ones that point to ANY damn conclusion you like.
Examples that are of *common knowledge* may be used to illustrate a general truth but cannot be the sole basis of one.
..... Phil
** Massive logical fallacy, argues from an irrelevant & atypical example to a to false conclusion.
Q:
Why do so many fools base their false points on clever sounding examples that THEY drag up from fuck knows where ?
Reality is that examples do not prove anything, cos one can find or invent ones that point to ANY damn conclusion you like.
Examples that are of *common knowledge* may be used to illustrate a general truth but cannot be the sole basis of one.
..... Phil
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Phil Allison
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bitrex a moron who cannot read or think wrote:
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** Never said they did - fuckwit.
** How absurd - one of the many fucked things about the USA.
** Here we have state police to enforce stare legislation plus Federal police for Commonwealth legislation. No local police.
** Nevertheless, despite Great King Shit Bitrex of SFA* not knowing about it - it happened.
IIRC, some time in the 1980s in California or part thereof.
Was covered on TV news here in Sydney, Australia.
The topic of police "hot pursuits" was hot then here too.
Pushed by the exact same off the planet fuckwits who want illegal drugs made legal, right to vote for school kids, a change to non compulsory voting and reducing the age of consent.
We have to fight such narcissistic idiots here too.
Mostly members of the loony, far left Green Party.
..... Phil
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** Never said they did - fuckwit.
** How absurd - one of the many fucked things about the USA.
** Here we have state police to enforce stare legislation plus Federal police for Commonwealth legislation. No local police.
** Nevertheless, despite Great King Shit Bitrex of SFA* not knowing about it - it happened.
IIRC, some time in the 1980s in California or part thereof.
Was covered on TV news here in Sydney, Australia.
The topic of police "hot pursuits" was hot then here too.
Pushed by the exact same off the planet fuckwits who want illegal drugs made legal, right to vote for school kids, a change to non compulsory voting and reducing the age of consent.
We have to fight such narcissistic idiots here too.
Mostly members of the loony, far left Green Party.
..... Phil
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Bill Sloman
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On Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 2:17:32 AM UTC+11, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
John Larkin experiences lack of flattery as a droning 3rd party insult. It would be a neat trick for me - as a 76-year-old - to cite a paper I published 98 years ago.
The paper I published in 1996 now has 24 citations - only two of them mine - so it probably isn't silly. It was the first in that area to use a sigma-delta A/D converter to get the temperature signal from the voltage drop across the temperature sensor, which is a technique which John Larkin has boasted about using recently, as if it were some kind of novelty.
John Larkin is a sub-contractor, who solves well-defined problems presented to him by other people. Apparently his typical time to work up a solution and document it is about two weeks.
I can do that, but I'm also a systems engineer, and had two jobs that involved working for a couple of years to work up well-defined job requirements that could be presented to sub-contractors to get them to produce solutions that would work for my employers.
I didn't find John Larkin's advice useful. Marketing involves getting yourself noticed by potential customers, which involves spending money. I could do that, but there's no obvious place where it could be usefully spent.
But you don't get hired as a consultant until people in the business know about you. Moving from the UK to the Netherlands to Australia didn't help me there.
Phil Hobbs managed to write a book about his special skills which helps get you known to potential customers, but then again so did Howard Johnson with his "High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic".
That wouldn't get me the kind of work I like doing.
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John Larkin experiences lack of flattery as a droning 3rd party insult. It would be a neat trick for me - as a 76-year-old - to cite a paper I published 98 years ago.
The paper I published in 1996 now has 24 citations - only two of them mine - so it probably isn't silly. It was the first in that area to use a sigma-delta A/D converter to get the temperature signal from the voltage drop across the temperature sensor, which is a technique which John Larkin has boasted about using recently, as if it were some kind of novelty.
John Larkin is a sub-contractor, who solves well-defined problems presented to him by other people. Apparently his typical time to work up a solution and document it is about two weeks.
I can do that, but I'm also a systems engineer, and had two jobs that involved working for a couple of years to work up well-defined job requirements that could be presented to sub-contractors to get them to produce solutions that would work for my employers.
I didn't find John Larkin's advice useful. Marketing involves getting yourself noticed by potential customers, which involves spending money. I could do that, but there's no obvious place where it could be usefully spent.
But you don't get hired as a consultant until people in the business know about you. Moving from the UK to the Netherlands to Australia didn't help me there.
Phil Hobbs managed to write a book about his special skills which helps get you known to potential customers, but then again so did Howard Johnson with his "High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic".
That wouldn't get me the kind of work I like doing.
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bitrex
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On 10/8/19 9:13 PM, Phil Allison wrote:
The United States discovered an airtight solution to the existential
anxiety over nation-states becoming tyrannies - you can't have a tyranny
if nobody knows what they're doing.
You can argue about the how universal the logic is that lead to such an
overwhelming anxiety in the first place but I think it's hard to argue
with the logic of the "solution", such as it is.
The United States discovered an airtight solution to the existential
anxiety over nation-states becoming tyrannies - you can't have a tyranny
if nobody knows what they're doing.
You can argue about the how universal the logic is that lead to such an
overwhelming anxiety in the first place but I think it's hard to argue
with the logic of the "solution", such as it is.
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Rick C
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On Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 11:08:40 AM UTC-4, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
So are you good with trans? Have any in your company?
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So are you good with trans? Have any in your company?
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Rick C
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On Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 3:45:26 AM UTC-4, Rob wrote:
Not true. The driver is the one at fault, not the owner. They just assume the two are the same unless you can prove or at least make an official statement to the contrary. To make the official statement at least requires taking a day off and dealing with the hassle of going to a hearing in a very inconvenient location.
Sure, in the real world the vast majority of people caught are the correct person... but not always and in those cases it is very inconvenient to deal with.
If you are pulled over by a cop there is very little uncertainty of who is driving the car.
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Not true. The driver is the one at fault, not the owner. They just assume the two are the same unless you can prove or at least make an official statement to the contrary. To make the official statement at least requires taking a day off and dealing with the hassle of going to a hearing in a very inconvenient location.
Sure, in the real world the vast majority of people caught are the correct person... but not always and in those cases it is very inconvenient to deal with.
If you are pulled over by a cop there is very little uncertainty of who is driving the car.
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Rick C
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On Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 3:45:06 AM UTC-4, Rob wrote:
Then there is the problem of being informed. The owner may not even be the driver and if he doesn't get the notice in the mail (it's not like they are sent certified) the fine quadruples.
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Then there is the problem of being informed. The owner may not even be the driver and if he doesn't get the notice in the mail (it's not like they are sent certified) the fine quadruples.
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Rick C
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On Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 3:43:00 AM UTC-4, Bill Sloman wrote:
Or maybe you just aren't tuned in as much as you thought. I am told repeatedly there are many homes that only have a 50 amp service, or maybe it's 40 amps. The hot water kettle draws something like 9 amps is what comes to mind. Surely you are aware how many people watch football matches? Actually, I believe the point was about matches of interest to nearly every football fans, so it would be whatever the playoffs are in the UK. Commercial comes on the telly and the kettle gets plugged in. Two or three minutes later the water is poured and they return to the game that is just restarting.
We have the same phenomenon here in the US, but the kettles don't draw as much power, the houses generally have higher power service and the rest of the distribution just doesn't care about a few tea pots running at once. I think here it is the toilets flushing at once and the water pressure dropping.
You are looking at a different issue. The point is the places to drive through on route between Sydney and Melbourne are fairly low density. They current aggregate service to the area is not up to the task of supplying many megawatts to charge EVs if the vast majority of the traffic was BEV. This is not a national grid issue or an issue of generating capacity. This is an issue of there just not being sufficient transmission capability in the areas that would need power to charge cars.
So stuff will need to be built. That's all. Just like in Puerto Rico and many other third world countries.
LOL! Maybe Australia has better politics than the US, but in general politicians are the least capable even to understand the needs for EV charging.
As I've said above, the issue that was being addressed was when EVs become dominant, there will need to be new transmission facilities built since the large number of vehicles traveling between those cities will be drawing huge amounts of power.
Currently there is a Tesla charging facility in Quartzsite, AZ, a location that is not so easy to skip when traveling between LA and Phonenix. So there are frequent congestion issues, especially on holiday weekends. They are limited to how many charging stalls they can add since the area does not have huge power feeds. It's not much of a town.
https://goo.gl/maps/ByJ4CuApCXhTrpRp7
Every 8 stalls is a MW. Double the number of cars between these cities and you will need twice as much power. Now imagine what is needed to provide 100 times the number of cars... 1,000 times as many cars.
> The drive from Melbourne to Sydney takes about ten hours. I've done it a few times. There are bunch of decent sized provincial towns along the way, all of them plenty big enough to support charging stations. Eastern Australia is linked by a high voltage grid,and if a provincial town need extra capacity to support a fast charging station - which seems unlikely - they'd just beef up the transformer at the local sub-station.
So you are picking the locations? Yeah, you can put chargers where they are convenient, but you are still thinking of charging a few dozen cars a day.. This is about charging the thousands or tens of thousands of cars traversing these roads each day when EVs rule the earth.
The kettles was about the UK. Don't get your facts confused. Someone else was complaining that EVs driven between Sydney and Melbourne would be a big deal when 95% of cars are EVs. Let's not forget the semi-trucks. I was reading something that talked like electric semi-tractors were not suited for long hauls which made me wonder what info they had that I, Tesla and a couple of other startups don't. Seems to me electric semi trucks are ideal! They can be charged in an hour every four hours or maybe longer since they are not nearly as limited for the battery weight as a car. The motors are already pretty powerful, so there should be little trouble adapting them to semis. Tesla uses 8 standard chargers to charge the semi. I don't know if they use 8 separate charger pairs. If so, that means they use a MW for each truck! They will need to be charged during the day as well as night, but that might work out since they could be charged with solar.
Tesla has not made large inroads in Australia. They may make more efforts once they are making cars in China. 2019 is all about the model 3. 2021 will be about the model Y. Not sure what other companies are doing, but Australia is not a tiny market, just not a big one.
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Or maybe you just aren't tuned in as much as you thought. I am told repeatedly there are many homes that only have a 50 amp service, or maybe it's 40 amps. The hot water kettle draws something like 9 amps is what comes to mind. Surely you are aware how many people watch football matches? Actually, I believe the point was about matches of interest to nearly every football fans, so it would be whatever the playoffs are in the UK. Commercial comes on the telly and the kettle gets plugged in. Two or three minutes later the water is poured and they return to the game that is just restarting.
We have the same phenomenon here in the US, but the kettles don't draw as much power, the houses generally have higher power service and the rest of the distribution just doesn't care about a few tea pots running at once. I think here it is the toilets flushing at once and the water pressure dropping.
You are looking at a different issue. The point is the places to drive through on route between Sydney and Melbourne are fairly low density. They current aggregate service to the area is not up to the task of supplying many megawatts to charge EVs if the vast majority of the traffic was BEV. This is not a national grid issue or an issue of generating capacity. This is an issue of there just not being sufficient transmission capability in the areas that would need power to charge cars.
So stuff will need to be built. That's all. Just like in Puerto Rico and many other third world countries.
LOL! Maybe Australia has better politics than the US, but in general politicians are the least capable even to understand the needs for EV charging.
As I've said above, the issue that was being addressed was when EVs become dominant, there will need to be new transmission facilities built since the large number of vehicles traveling between those cities will be drawing huge amounts of power.
Currently there is a Tesla charging facility in Quartzsite, AZ, a location that is not so easy to skip when traveling between LA and Phonenix. So there are frequent congestion issues, especially on holiday weekends. They are limited to how many charging stalls they can add since the area does not have huge power feeds. It's not much of a town.
https://goo.gl/maps/ByJ4CuApCXhTrpRp7
Every 8 stalls is a MW. Double the number of cars between these cities and you will need twice as much power. Now imagine what is needed to provide 100 times the number of cars... 1,000 times as many cars.
> The drive from Melbourne to Sydney takes about ten hours. I've done it a few times. There are bunch of decent sized provincial towns along the way, all of them plenty big enough to support charging stations. Eastern Australia is linked by a high voltage grid,and if a provincial town need extra capacity to support a fast charging station - which seems unlikely - they'd just beef up the transformer at the local sub-station.
So you are picking the locations? Yeah, you can put chargers where they are convenient, but you are still thinking of charging a few dozen cars a day.. This is about charging the thousands or tens of thousands of cars traversing these roads each day when EVs rule the earth.
The kettles was about the UK. Don't get your facts confused. Someone else was complaining that EVs driven between Sydney and Melbourne would be a big deal when 95% of cars are EVs. Let's not forget the semi-trucks. I was reading something that talked like electric semi-tractors were not suited for long hauls which made me wonder what info they had that I, Tesla and a couple of other startups don't. Seems to me electric semi trucks are ideal! They can be charged in an hour every four hours or maybe longer since they are not nearly as limited for the battery weight as a car. The motors are already pretty powerful, so there should be little trouble adapting them to semis. Tesla uses 8 standard chargers to charge the semi. I don't know if they use 8 separate charger pairs. If so, that means they use a MW for each truck! They will need to be charged during the day as well as night, but that might work out since they could be charged with solar.
Tesla has not made large inroads in Australia. They may make more efforts once they are making cars in China. 2019 is all about the model 3. 2021 will be about the model Y. Not sure what other companies are doing, but Australia is not a tiny market, just not a big one.
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On Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 3:52:55 AM UTC-4, Rob wrote:
What??? In serious criminal cases the speeding or other traffic offense is of zero significance. "Well, we can't get him for the bank job, but let's write him up for running that red light... It'll be his third offense so he'll get 20 years!"
I have no idea what you are talking about "chasing" people.
LOL!!! No one in the US "begs" to keep their guns. They have the NRA twisting Congressional arms to the point of breaking and the gun owners simply say, "Come and get 'em... if you dare".
I don't know what car chase you are talking about... Anyone who is going to run from the cops will not be even getting, much less paying a ticket in the mail. In general, the cop sounds his siren and the car pulls over. Ticket is written and all drive off safely. What is going on in your head?
Great! That's wonderful. Do they get tickets mailed to them as well or do the cops have to chase them?
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What??? In serious criminal cases the speeding or other traffic offense is of zero significance. "Well, we can't get him for the bank job, but let's write him up for running that red light... It'll be his third offense so he'll get 20 years!"
I have no idea what you are talking about "chasing" people.
LOL!!! No one in the US "begs" to keep their guns. They have the NRA twisting Congressional arms to the point of breaking and the gun owners simply say, "Come and get 'em... if you dare".
I don't know what car chase you are talking about... Anyone who is going to run from the cops will not be even getting, much less paying a ticket in the mail. In general, the cop sounds his siren and the car pulls over. Ticket is written and all drive off safely. What is going on in your head?
Great! That's wonderful. Do they get tickets mailed to them as well or do the cops have to chase them?
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Bill Sloman
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On Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 4:50:58 AM UTC+11, Michael Terrell wrote:
One has to wonder what Michael Terrell might imagine would constitute a "good attitude". Agreeing with idiot posts from Jim Thompson and John Larkin could be part of the mix.
> Who would hire someone that constantly caused friction for them, and their other employees?
Anybody who tried to infer face-to-face social behavior from on-line interactions would have to be a bit silly. Some of my previous bosses are still around, and could testify that I worked for them for years, and spent most of my time being helpful and cooperative - I do that here too, but Michael Terrell doesn't notice.
> Pre-internet a jerk could move to another town where no one knew their history and find work. Now it follows you anywhere in the world and maybe the rest of the solar system.
Of course, I'm not actually a jerk.
> When I first started working, there were a few well known names of locals that were unemployable. That was over 50 years ago. It didn't matter what their problems were. After a couple times of being fired or laid off, no one wanted them. No one wants to work with a troublemaker, unless they are even worse.
I've never been fired. I have been made redundant, but that's a different situation. I lost my last job - in Venlo in the Netherlands - because the local rules meant that if I'd stayed in the job for another month, I'd have been automatically put into the pension scheme, who would have charged my employers 65% of my salary to cover the risk that I'd immediately take early retirement (which I could have done under the same local rules).
The Dutch don't think that anybody over 55 should keep on working, and I was 60 at the time.
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One has to wonder what Michael Terrell might imagine would constitute a "good attitude". Agreeing with idiot posts from Jim Thompson and John Larkin could be part of the mix.
> Who would hire someone that constantly caused friction for them, and their other employees?
Anybody who tried to infer face-to-face social behavior from on-line interactions would have to be a bit silly. Some of my previous bosses are still around, and could testify that I worked for them for years, and spent most of my time being helpful and cooperative - I do that here too, but Michael Terrell doesn't notice.
> Pre-internet a jerk could move to another town where no one knew their history and find work. Now it follows you anywhere in the world and maybe the rest of the solar system.
Of course, I'm not actually a jerk.
> When I first started working, there were a few well known names of locals that were unemployable. That was over 50 years ago. It didn't matter what their problems were. After a couple times of being fired or laid off, no one wanted them. No one wants to work with a troublemaker, unless they are even worse.
I've never been fired. I have been made redundant, but that's a different situation. I lost my last job - in Venlo in the Netherlands - because the local rules meant that if I'd stayed in the job for another month, I'd have been automatically put into the pension scheme, who would have charged my employers 65% of my salary to cover the risk that I'd immediately take early retirement (which I could have done under the same local rules).
The Dutch don't think that anybody over 55 should keep on working, and I was 60 at the time.
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On 10/8/19 8:13 PM, Phil Allison wrote:
Can we talk about booze
Can we talk about booze