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[John Larkin]

On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 08:34:56 GMT, Cindy Hamilton
<hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:

On 2023-09-08, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 09:58:19 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

On 7 Sep 2023 03:36:59 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Wed, 06 Sep 2023 22:38:08 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 22:05:36 +0100, Cindy Hamilton
hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:

On 2023-07-28, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 06:57:46 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

There is no \"typically American.\" The USA is amazingly big and
diverse.

And to paraphrase the Dixie Chicks singer, I\'m ashamed to share the
same planet with some of them.

That\'s ok. Some of them are ashamed to share the same planet with
you.

Would you two have a duel or something?

I\'ve been reading the \'April\' series by Mackey Chandler. Set in an
orbital habitat, the people have almost no laws or regulations but the
duel is alive and well. It makes for a polite society.

In real life, it makes for a thug-ocracy like Haiti.

The other part of the equation is the habitat has a very small population.
Like a small town being a prick is not a long term plan. It\'s a long
series and it will be interesting to see how it develops.

Another author I enjoy, Fran Porretto, is less optimistic in his Spooner
trilogy. Flee the Earth to avoid tyranny and eventually try to reinvent
it.

Dueling might be a little extreme but I grew up in a tough, decaying mill
town. Being an asshole could have consequences. The internet is the worse
case; you can bark like a junkyard dog with no consequence. Why be
reasonably polite if nobody is going to physically kick you in the balls?

Because politeness fosters politeness.

And thuggery fosters thuggery.

Humans are ultra-social, in that most of them get their beliefs and
behavioral standards from the people around them, and not from
principles. So a group has unstable, positive-feedback dynamics,
Switzerland and Haiti being system states.

And some people would rather steal and rape to get what they want.
That couples into the social positive feedback. A safe, productive,
civil society needs forces to continuously push it in the right
directions, to counter the natural feedbacks being seeded by the bad
minority.

They used to hang petty thieves. Now they lock up the Tide.

I struggle with that every day on Usenet. The killfile helps; if I
don\'t see assholes, I\'m less inclined to lash out.

Usenet, being mostly unmoderated, has terrible social dynamics. The
jerks chase the good folks away. Insults become the norm. Envision
positive feedback.

 

[Max Demian]

On 08/09/2023 09:42, alan_m wrote:

On 05/09/2023 20:44, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 19:19:52 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:05:32 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

Maybe there is no \"wrong\" about colors. Maybe we use the same names for
very different perceptions. Maybe that\'s why we have such varied tastes
in colors.

I\'ve recently been tasked with coming up with some of the visualizations
loved by managers, bar charts, pie charts, doughnut charts, the works.
Shiny! Unless you\'re color blind of course.

I want to watch a colour blind fool get the traffic lights mixed up
and die.

Wouldn\'t someone who is colour blind rely on the position of the lights?
 Top light is red, bottom light is green.

In suspect that the red and green lights look a different \"colour\" even
to someone who has red/green colour blindness. The colour blindness
cards will be designed to confuse colour blind people.

--
Max Demian

 

[Cindy Hamilton]

On 2023-09-08, alan_m <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

On 05/09/2023 20:44, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 19:19:52 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:05:32 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

Maybe there is no \"wrong\" about colors. Maybe we use the same names for
very different perceptions. Maybe that\'s why we have such varied tastes
in colors.

I\'ve recently been tasked with coming up with some of the visualizations
loved by managers, bar charts, pie charts, doughnut charts, the works.
Shiny! Unless you\'re color blind of course.

I want to watch a colour blind fool get the traffic lights mixed up and
die.

Wouldn\'t someone who is colour blind rely on the position of the lights?
Top light is red, bottom light is green.

Breaks down when the lights run horizontally. IIRC the one I saw
had red on the left.

--
Cindy Hamilton

 

[Peeler]

On Fri, 8 Sep 2023 09:42:44 +0100, anal_m, the notorious troll-feeding
senile retard, blathered again:

Wouldn\'t someone who is colour blind rely on the position of the lights?
Top light is red, bottom light is green.

Wouldn\'t someone who has not got shit for brains refuse to feed the trolling
attention whore and fall for his very dumbest baits, you troll-feeding
senile cretin?

 

[Ed P]

On 9/8/2023 4:42 AM, alan_m wrote:

On 05/09/2023 20:44, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 19:19:52 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:05:32 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

Maybe there is no \"wrong\" about colors. Maybe we use the same names for
very different perceptions. Maybe that\'s why we have such varied tastes
in colors.

I\'ve recently been tasked with coming up with some of the visualizations
loved by managers, bar charts, pie charts, doughnut charts, the works.
Shiny! Unless you\'re color blind of course.

I want to watch a colour blind fool get the traffic lights mixed up
and die.

Wouldn\'t someone who is colour blind rely on the position of the lights?
 Top light is red, bottom light is green.

It is the single blinking light that can fool some. Friend of mine
would always ask if someone was with him, stop if alone as he could not
tell the difference.

 

[Bob F]

On 9/8/2023 1:33 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2023-09-08, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 16:36:24 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

He\'s tried CBD. One of the oils had the effect you reported.

Ah, maybe it wasn\'t just me. I tried the gummies first without any
noticeable effect either. Besides being expensive they tasted like a roach
rolled in sugar.

Yeah, that\'s why he uses capsules. And makes his own, so he knows
what kind of oil is inside.

Maybe some people get a benefit from CDB but not me. I\'m pragmatic. I take
turmeric which is supposed to be good for joints. I wouldn\'t swear one way
or the other but the stuff is cheap. Something that is expensive and
doesn\'t seem to have a benefit gets cut from the list fast.

$100 worth of THC tincture lasts him months. Much cheaper than
some of the prescription stuff he takes. We end up in the Medicare
Part D donut hole every year. (Which is why Biden\'s effort to regulate
the price of 10 medicines he doesn\'t take makes us yawn.)

I thought they shrunk to donut hole too.

 

[Cindy Hamilton]

On 2023-09-08, Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com> wrote:

On 9/8/2023 1:33 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On 2023-09-08, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Thu, 07 Sep 2023 16:36:24 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

He\'s tried CBD. One of the oils had the effect you reported.

Ah, maybe it wasn\'t just me. I tried the gummies first without any
noticeable effect either. Besides being expensive they tasted like a roach
rolled in sugar.

Yeah, that\'s why he uses capsules. And makes his own, so he knows
what kind of oil is inside.

Maybe some people get a benefit from CDB but not me. I\'m pragmatic. I take
turmeric which is supposed to be good for joints. I wouldn\'t swear one way
or the other but the stuff is cheap. Something that is expensive and
doesn\'t seem to have a benefit gets cut from the list fast.

$100 worth of THC tincture lasts him months. Much cheaper than
some of the prescription stuff he takes. We end up in the Medicare
Part D donut hole every year. (Which is why Biden\'s effort to regulate
the price of 10 medicines he doesn\'t take makes us yawn.)


I thought they shrunk to donut hole too.

They might have shrunk it, but it\'s not gone. The last time I dropped
$900 at the pharmacy (on a single prescription), my credit card company
texted me over suspicious behavior.

--
Cindy Hamilton

 

[rbowman]

On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 08:33:00 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

$100 worth of THC tincture lasts him months. Much cheaper than some of
the prescription stuff he takes. We end up in the Medicare Part D donut
hole every year. (Which is why Biden\'s effort to regulate the price of
10 medicines he doesn\'t take makes us yawn.)

My ex is a Type 1 diabetic so I assume she isn\'t yawning. Back in the \'70s
I don\'t even remember what insulin cost; in other words it was a trivial
expense in the greater scheme. My jaw dropped a couple of years ago when a
co-worker mentioned what his monthly outlay was.

The technology has advanced in 50 years but the price increases seem to be
out of proportion.

I\'m fortunate that the only prescription drug I take is lisinopril. Even
that is optional but at about $10 for a 90 day supply I figure why not.
This spring my doctor left it up to me. In her words \'I don\'t have a
crystal ball and don\'t know how long you\'ll live but if it offers a little
protection against a stroke you might want to try a low dosage.\'

 

[rbowman]

On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 12:04:22 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

Breaks down when the lights run horizontally. IIRC the one I saw had
red on the left.

So says the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals. Of course
the US isn\'t a signatory. The US does have a national standard but some
states have their own version. Red on the left of a horizontal light
probably is safe unless the local DPW drone is dyslexic.

A friend pointed out an oddity from his years in Japan. Japanese certainly
can see green but for historical reasons the word for it means blue. Japan
follows the convention but uses the bluest shade of green they can get
away with to satisfy the \'green\' convention while not going against the
language usage so in Japan they go on blue.

I think that fits in with the fallacy that ancient Greeks were colorblind
because Homer and the boys named colors differently. Then there was the
\'white\' statues thing. Better surface analysis showed they were originally
painted in rather garish colors.

 

[rbowman]

On Fri, 8 Sep 2023 08:56:00 -0400, Ed P wrote:

It is the single blinking light that can fool some. Friend of mine
would always ask if someone was with him, stop if alone as he could not
tell the difference.

I saw something different last weekend. The intersection has the blinking
light but the side road had a blinking stop sign. By that I mean the
standard octagonal stop sign had what looked like flashing red Christmas
tree lights around the perimeter. It has to be homegrown.

Apropos: I went to CostCo yesterday and they had artificial Christmas
trees and blinking reindeer. Shoot me now.

 

[rbowman]

On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 08:34:56 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:


> Because politeness fosters politeness.

\"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.\"
Jim Mattis

I struggle with that every day on Usenet. The killfile helps; if I
don\'t see assholes, I\'m less inclined to lash out.

True. Pan makes it easy to drop people into the bozo bin but the default
sentence is a month. When some idiot like peeler reappears I\'m careful to
select the \'until hell freezes over\' option instead of the default.

 

[Cindy Hamilton]

On 2023-09-08, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 08:34:56 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:


Because politeness fosters politeness.

\"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.\"
Jim Mattis


I struggle with that every day on Usenet. The killfile helps; if I
don\'t see assholes, I\'m less inclined to lash out.

True. Pan makes it easy to drop people into the bozo bin but the default
sentence is a month. When some idiot like peeler reappears I\'m careful to
select the \'until hell freezes over\' option instead of the default.

I maintain my slrn killfile manually, the way Larry Wall intended.

--
Cindy Hamilton

 

[rbowman]

On Fri, 08 Sep 2023 04:15:05 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

> They used to hang petty thieves. Now they lock up the Tide.

https://nypost.com/2023/09/07/anti-cop-minnesota-democratic-party-
official-left-bloodied-in-violent-carjacking/

https://tinyurl.com/bd558fky

In a forest of hideous conglomerated words German sometimes crafts a gem,
Schadenfreude in this case.

 

[Peeler]

On 8 Sep 2023 20:19:38 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:


> My ex is a

I KNOW that all your ex\'s most certainly dumped you because of your
obnoxious big mouth! LOL

--
Yet another thrilling account from the resident senile superhero\'s senile
life:
\"I went to a Driveby Truckers concert at a local venue and they made me
leave my knife in the car. Never went back. Come to think of it the Truckers
had a Black Lives Matter banner. Never bought any of their music again
either.\"
MID: <k84ip9Fesb1U1@mid.individual.net>

 

[Peeler]

On 8 Sep 2023 20:42:02 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

Breaks down when the lights run horizontally. IIRC the one I saw had
red on the left.

So says the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Signs and Signals. Of course
the US isn\'t a signatory. The US does have a national standard but some
states have their own version. Red on the left of a horizontal light
probably is safe unless the local DPW drone is dyslexic.

She makes a simple statement, and you sick bigmouth follow up with another
huge load of your known idiotic grandiloquent verbose senile CRAP, you
abnormal senile bullshit artist!

<FLUSH rest of senile crap unread again>

--
And yet another idiotic \"cool\" line, this time about the UK, from the
resident bigmouthed all-American superhero:
\"You could dump the entire 93,628 square miles in eastern Montana and only
the prairie dogs would notice.\"
MID: <ka2vrlF6c5uU1@mid.individual.net>

 

[Peeler]

On 8 Sep 2023 20:48:14 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

I saw something different last weekend. The intersection has the blinking
light but the side road had a blinking stop sign. By that I mean the
standard octagonal stop sign had what looked like flashing red Christmas
tree lights around the perimeter. It has to be homegrown.

Apropos: I went to CostCo yesterday and they had artificial Christmas
trees and blinking reindeer. Shoot me now.

Feeling better again, after you had your last say, you abnormal endlessly
driveling senile moron? LOL

--
And yet another \"cool\" line from the resident bigmouthed all-American
superhero:
\"I was working on the roof when the cat came up the ladder to see what I
was doing. Cats do not do well going down aluminum ladders.\"
MID: <k9roshF2rjdU1@mid.individual.net>

 

[Peeler]

On 8 Sep 2023 21:06:29 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

https://nypost.com/2023/09/07/anti-cop-minnesota-democratic-party-
official-left-bloodied-in-violent-carjacking/

https://tinyurl.com/bd558fky

In a forest of hideous conglomerated words German sometimes crafts a gem,
Schadenfreude in this case.

ROTFLOL What a miserable high-faluting senile bullshit artist!

--
Yet more of the abnormal senile gossiping by the resident senile gossip:
\"I never understood how they made a living but the space where the local
party store was is now up for lease. It probably was more than helium. I
often walk over the the adjacent market to get something for dinner and
people stuffing balloons in their cars was a common sight. No more. I\'ve
no idea if there is another store in town.\"
MID: <kafs2nF6vi1U15@mid.individual.net>

 

[Peeler]

On 8 Sep 2023 20:57:35 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

\"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.\"
Jim Mattis

In your case: Be a bigmouth, talk big and even bigger ...and baffle them all
with your endless bullshit! LOL

I struggle with that every day on Usenet. The killfile helps; if I
don\'t see assholes, I\'m less inclined to lash out.

True. Pan makes it easy to drop people into the bozo bin but the default
sentence is a month. When some idiot like peeler reappears I\'m careful to
select the \'until hell freezes over\' option instead of the default.

You perverted bigmouthed asshole should try killfiling yourself! But then,
everybody here knows how much ENAMOURED you are with your own sick crap, you
ridiculous pathological bigmouth! LOL

--
Gossiping \"lowbrowwoman\" about herself:
\"Usenet is my blog... I don\'t give a damn if anyone ever reads my posts
but they are useful in marshaling [sic] my thoughts.\"
MID: <iteioiF60jmU1@mid.individual.net>

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Wed, 02 Aug 2023 13:31:17 +0100, Max Demian <max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:

On 01/08/2023 21:12, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jun 2023 12:06:38 +0100, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
On Sat, 24 Jun 2023 11:43:32 +0100, Max Demian
max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:
On 23/06/2023 16:02, John Larkin wrote:

Nature has thoughtfully arranged that there is a good mate for just
about anyone. But the farther out on the distribution you happen to
be, the harder it will be to find that good mate. So you have to shop
around.

The mistake I see some people making is \"I\'m lonely, so I\'ll latch
onto the first person I see walking down the street\".

I qualify opamps more carefully than some people qualify spouses.

Once upon a time people had four arms, four legs, two faces and two sets
of genitalia. There were males, females and hermaphrodites. They
offended the Gods, who split them all into two. The faces and genitalia
were moved to the new front, and where they were joined was gathered up
and became the navel.

We just have to find our \"other half\".

I recently read a paper that explains why most critters (and most
plants) have two sexes. Evolution found that to be optimum. I\'ll see
if I can find it.

Wouldn\'t it be better if there were seven sexes and mating required one
of each in a big romp? The kids would have a huge array of genetics to
choose from.

By the time the seven sexes were together one or two would have lost
interest.

Clearly you\'ve never been to a drunken orgy.

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Wed, 02 Aug 2023 17:10:06 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On Tue, 01 Aug 2023 21:12:15 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Sat, 24 Jun 2023 12:06:38 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On Sat, 24 Jun 2023 11:43:32 +0100, Max Demian
max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:

On 23/06/2023 16:02, John Larkin wrote:
On Fri, 23 Jun 2023 07:14:59 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Mon, 29 May 2023 17:05:12 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

You should meet a better class of women. Try.

Those are very rare.

Nature has thoughtfully arranged that there is a good mate for just
about anyone. But the farther out on the distribution you happen to
be, the harder it will be to find that good mate. So you have to shop
around.

The mistake I see some people making is \"I\'m lonely, so I\'ll latch
onto the first person I see walking down the street\".

I qualify opamps more carefully than some people qualify spouses.

Once upon a time people had four arms, four legs, two faces and two sets
of genitalia. There were males, females and hermaphrodites. They
offended the Gods, who split them all into two. The faces and genitalia
were moved to the new front, and where they were joined was gathered up
and became the navel.

We just have to find our \"other half\".

I recently read a paper that explains why most critters (and most
plants) have two sexes. Evolution found that to be optimum. I\'ll see
if I can find it.

Wouldn\'t it be better if there were seven sexes and mating required one of each in a big romp? The kids would have a huge array of genetics to choose from.

Evolution didn\'t like that. Not even four.

Two people in one bed is bad enough. Out of seven, probably three will
snore and there will be a line for the bathroom.

Do I need to book you a marriage councillor?