Why do circuit breakers go up for on and down for off?...

[rbowman]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 08:14:48 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

The opposite is the Pacific Crest Trail, a roughly 3 month hike from
Mexico to Canada. I\'ve only done bits of it but have acted as a trail
angel. What the hikers really appreciate is a cold beer.

I may have been on parts of it at Lassen or Kings. The only part I\'m sure
of was about 100 yards at Donner Pass. It might have been spring in most
of CA but it was still winter there.

I\'ve done parts of the AT, the Long Trail in VT, and the Continental
Divide trail but never with the intention of through hiking.

 

[Peeler]

On 16 Apr 2023 21:04:16 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

I may have been on parts of it at Lassen or Kings. The only part I\'m sure
of was about 100 yards at Donner Pass. It might have been spring in most
of CA but it was still winter there.

I\'ve done parts of the AT, the Long Trail in VT, and the Continental
Divide trail but never with the intention of through hiking.

Keep your stinking senile shit out of these newsgroups, you obnoxious senile
bigmouth!

--
Yet more of the very interesting senile blather by lowbrowwoman:
\"I save my fries quota for one of the local food trucks that offers
poutine every now and then. If you\'re going for a coronary might as well
do it right.\"
MID: <ivdi4gF8btlU1@mid.individual.net>

 

[rbowman]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 21:42:03 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

> I\'ve walked barefoot through snow at about that temperature for 5 hours.

Yes, we all know you\'re capable of super-human feats. I\'m reminded of a
Dripkick Murphys song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXiVb-raNJY

Make sure you listen to the end.

 

[rbowman]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 21:42:31 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 19:07:48 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 08:11:51 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 15:38:46 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com
wrote:
The funniest lot are scuba divers in big condoms. It\'s not a
watersport if you don\'t get wet. I scuba dive naked.

You wouldn\'t here! Just walking in the surf will cramp your toes. The
people who swim here tend to be chunky ladies with a lot of natural
insulation.

It would solve a lot of problems if Kinsey did some naked scuba diving
on the Maine coast. I\'d give him about an hour. Many lobstermen can\'t
swim. They figure if you fall out of the boat and can\'t get back in
you\'re going to die. Why prolong the agony?

Are there sharks? Can\'t think of much else that could kill a scuba
diver.

https://seatemperature.info/gulf-of-maine-water-temperature.html

You may think you\'re superhuman but you wouldn\'t last long in 45F water.

 

[Peeler]

On 17 Apr 2023 01:21:09 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

https://seatemperature.info/gulf-of-maine-water-temperature.html

You may think you\'re superhuman but you wouldn\'t last long in 45F water.

Well, the clinically insane asshole does think he\'s superhuman, just like
you pathological bigmouth think you are some all-American superhero! LOL

--
More of the resident bigmouth\'s usual idiotic babble and gossip:
I\'m not saying my father and uncle wouldn\'t have drank Genesee beer
without Miss Genny but it certainly didn\'t hurt. Stanton\'s was the
hometown brewery but it closed in \'50. There was a Schaefer brewery in
Albany but their product was considered a step up from cat piss.

My preference was Rheingold on tap\"

MID: <k9mnmmF9emhU1@mid.individual.net>

 

[Peeler]

On 17 Apr 2023 00:19:41 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

Yes, we all know you\'re capable of super-human feats. I\'m reminded of a
Dripkick Murphys song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXiVb-raNJY

Make sure you listen to the end.

Yes, we all know that YOU are some sort of self-admiring all-American
superhero who can\'t get enough of listening to himself talking! It\'s the
most obvious thing about you, you endlessly gossping senile washerwoman! 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>

 

[SteveW]

On 08/03/2023 17:36, John Larkin wrote:

On Wed, 08 Mar 2023 10:19:48 GMT, Cindy Hamilton
hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:

On 2023-03-08, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 11:23:13 +0000, NY wrote:


OK, so some British-English spellings have mutated over the years: few
people uses \"gaol\" instead of \"jail\", and \"disk\" is becoming common as
an alternative to \"disc\" - and not just in computing. Of course CD is
\"compact disc\" with a C, so British spelling rules there ;-)

Gaol always threw me as in \'The Ballad of Reading Gaol\'. I suppose it\'s in
line with Gerald and so forth. I\'m never sure about disk and tend to
alternate. \'Ax\' is another one. This newsreader flags \'axe\' but I tend to
favor that spelling.


The one difference that works the opposite way round is the
pronunciation of \"herb\". British pronounces the H whereas American often
omits the H sound \"erb\" as if it were French.

I\'ll go with herb. \'Erb\' sounds affected to me.

Herb sounds affected to me.

It\'s a guy name.

I wonder why Americans (it seems to me anyway) pronounce the H in the
the name Herb, but not in the foodstuffs?

 

[Cindy Hamilton]

On 2023-04-17, SteveW <steve@walker-family.me.uk> wrote:

On 08/03/2023 17:36, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 08 Mar 2023 10:19:48 GMT, Cindy Hamilton
hamilton@invalid.com> wrote:

On 2023-03-08, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 11:23:13 +0000, NY wrote:


OK, so some British-English spellings have mutated over the years: few
people uses \"gaol\" instead of \"jail\", and \"disk\" is becoming common as
an alternative to \"disc\" - and not just in computing. Of course CD is
\"compact disc\" with a C, so British spelling rules there ;-)

Gaol always threw me as in \'The Ballad of Reading Gaol\'. I suppose it\'s in
line with Gerald and so forth. I\'m never sure about disk and tend to
alternate. \'Ax\' is another one. This newsreader flags \'axe\' but I tend to
favor that spelling.


The one difference that works the opposite way round is the
pronunciation of \"herb\". British pronounces the H whereas American often
omits the H sound \"erb\" as if it were French.

I\'ll go with herb. \'Erb\' sounds affected to me.

Herb sounds affected to me.

It\'s a guy name.

I wonder why Americans (it seems to me anyway) pronounce the H in the
the name Herb, but not in the foodstuffs?

https://www.lbc.co.uk/radio/special-shows/the-mystery-hour/words/why-do-americans-say-erb-not-herb-133028

And:

\"Apparently the English used to drop the H sound as well, but in the
19th century they brought it back. By then America had been an
independent country for many years so we kept the dropped-H
pronunciation.\"

I kind of doubt the latter, but I totally believe everything on the WWW.

--
Cindy Hamilton

 

[The Natural Philosopher]

On 16/04/2023 16:17, John Larkin wrote:

There are places in San Franciso where one can take a (short) hike in
the woods and see no people and no evidence of civilization. That\'s
nice for a big city.

I thought that the whole point of San Francisco is that it is inhabited
by aliens and shows no sign of civilisation?

--
“Progress is precisely that which rules and regulations did not foresee,”

– Ludwig von Mises

 

[The Natural Philosopher]

On 16/04/2023 18:42, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 08:51:38 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

I wouldn\'t name any kid Herbert.

How about Hubert, Norbert, Cuthbert, Gilbert, Filbert and so forth. It\'s
odd the only *bert that survived is Robert, to the point of being a
cliche. Albert is a distant second.

I did go to high school with a Hubert, who was black.

Whatever happened to Bertram?

--
There’s a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons and reasons
that sound good.

Burton Hillis (William Vaughn, American columnist)

 

[Carlos E.R.]

On 2023-03-16 04:37, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Thu, 02 Mar 2023 20:49:37 -0000, Carlos E.R.
robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote:

On 2023-03-01 16:07, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sun, 19 Feb 2023 18:37:18 -0000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sun, 19 Feb 2023 12:38:00 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:


In practice the railroads were built to run steam trains with up to 8
close spaced driving wheels, and if that made life difficult, tough.

The big 8 wheelers were more suited to the USA with bigger steeper
inclines but seldom tight curves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geared_steam_locomotive

https://fortmissoulamuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Brief-History-
of-Engine-7.pdf

The Mount Ranier museum has a working Willamette but they shut down
during
the covid panic.

ROFL, there\'s still people wearing masks here.  I went to hospital with
a suspected broken thumb and everyone had a mask on.  They glared at me
sternly when I refused.

It is mandatory here in hospitals.

I make fun of snowflakes scared of a bad cold.

And it is to protect other patients from YOU.

Yeah, because masks are magical and only work one way.  Here\'s a tip -
put your mask on backwards, then the virus can\'t get in.

Oh, my, how dumb you are...

--
Cheers, Carlos.

 

[Peeler]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 12:47:38 +0200, Colin Bignell, an especially retarded
troll-feeding senile ASSHOLE, blathered:


> Oh, my, how dumb you are...

Well, he\'s a troll... What\'s YOUR excuse?

 

[Max Demian]

On 16/04/2023 19:28, John Larkin wrote:

On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 20:02:42 +0200, Peeler <trolltrap@valid.invalid
wrote:
On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 10:25:16 -0700, John Larkin, another obviously brain
dead, troll-loving senile asshole, blathered:

Where is the electronic design content?

Sadly, an unmoderated forum is a magnet for sickoes.

Sadder, there are so many sickoes. It\'s amazing how well our societies
work, when such a large fraction of the population is deranged.

You are even sicker than everyone already knew you were, you hypocritical
trolling piece of senile shit!

I challenge you to go a week without using the s-word.

You can\'t. Poop is the center of your life.

You could probably program your PC to make it a hot key, and save time
typing.

What PC keyboards need is a fuck off key. Red, the size of four normal keys.

--
Max Demian

 

[The Natural Philosopher]

On 17/04/2023 14:15, Max Demian wrote:

On 16/04/2023 19:28, John Larkin wrote:
On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 20:02:42 +0200, Peeler <trolltrap@valid.invalid
wrote:
On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 10:25:16 -0700, John Larkin, another obviously brain
dead, troll-loving senile asshole, blathered:

Where is the electronic design content?

Sadly, an unmoderated forum is a magnet for sickoes.

Sadder, there are so many sickoes. It\'s amazing how well our societies
work, when such a large fraction of the population is deranged.

You are even sicker than everyone already knew you were, you
hypocritical
trolling piece of senile shit!

I challenge you to go a week without using the s-word.

You can\'t. Poop is the center of your life.

You could probably program your PC to make it a hot key, and save time
typing.

What PC keyboards need is a fuck off key. Red, the size of four normal
keys.

I found it ! 🖕🖕🖕🖕

--
Climate Change: Socialism wearing a lab coat.

 

[John Larkin]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:02:35 +0100, SteveW <steve@walker-family.me.uk>
wrote:

On 16/04/2023 18:33, rbowman wrote:
On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 16:18:24 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

To a certain extent, those regional accents are smoothing out under the
influence of radio and television. Just as in the U.S. Young Texans
are more apt to speak \"General American\".

In theory I should have a Western New England accent that\'s perceived
around here as \'back east someplace\' rather than General American.

Accents are weird.

Until he died a few years ago, my mother\'s uncle by marriage had a VERY
pronounced American drawl (I forget where he was from), but he\'d lived
in the UK (Manchester) since WW2, only going back to the US once for a 2
week visit!

Over 60 years after he came here, he was known to say \"Weeell I gueeess
Iyyy lost ma accsent nowww,\" while having a stronger accent than most
Americans just arriving in the UK.

My wife is from Boston but sounds neutral-American. But if she goes
back east to visit for a week or two, she comes home with the
southie-Boston accent. It\'s funny.

My cousins\' Manchester accents disappeared totally when living in
Germany, but would return within weeks of coming back to the UK to visit.

Yes, the time constant is a week or two.

A teacher I met had an almost impenetrable Scots accent, but our
neighbours in France told us that he spoke French with no accent at all.

Some people, even kids, can switch accents at will. Actors do that a
lot too.

 

[Joe]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 08:38:23 -0700
John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:

On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 10:02:35 +0100, SteveW <steve@walker-family.me.uk
wrote:

On 16/04/2023 18:33, rbowman wrote:
On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 16:18:24 GMT, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

To a certain extent, those regional accents are smoothing out
under the influence of radio and television. Just as in the U.S.
Young Texans are more apt to speak \"General American\".

In theory I should have a Western New England accent that\'s
perceived around here as \'back east someplace\' rather than General
American.

Accents are weird.

Until he died a few years ago, my mother\'s uncle by marriage had a
VERY pronounced American drawl (I forget where he was from), but
he\'d lived in the UK (Manchester) since WW2, only going back to the
US once for a 2 week visit!

Over 60 years after he came here, he was known to say \"Weeell I
gueeess Iyyy lost ma accsent nowww,\" while having a stronger accent
than most Americans just arriving in the UK.


My wife is from Boston but sounds neutral-American. But if she goes
back east to visit for a week or two, she comes home with the
southie-Boston accent. It\'s funny.

My cousins\' Manchester accents disappeared totally when living in
Germany, but would return within weeks of coming back to the UK to
visit.

Yes, the time constant is a week or two.

Or about five minutes on the phone to a schoolfriend for my wife\'s
accent to strengthen noticeably.

A teacher I met had an almost impenetrable Scots accent, but our
neighbours in France told us that he spoke French with no accent at
all.

Some people, even kids, can switch accents at will. Actors do that a
lot too.

For anyone who knows of Jake Thackray, he had a Yorkshire accent of
immense power, but could also speak French fairly fluently. There are a
few recordings of songs sung in French, but with his own normal accent.
This appears to be the only one on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xM69rBnAv8

--
Joe

 

[John Larkin]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 14:31:34 -0400, Ed P <esp@snet.xxx> wrote:

On 4/16/2023 12:18 PM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On 2023-04-16, John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

Strange that a tiny place like England should have so many distinct
accents.

It comes from a time when people very rarely traveled more than a few
miles from home.

To a certain extent, those regional accents are smoothing out under the
influence of radio and television. Just as in the U.S. Young Texans
are more apt to speak \"General American\".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American_English



I grew up in Philadelphia. I often could tell what part of the city you
lived in the same way. When we moved to CT, people knew we were
outsiders.

Amazing how many people in recent years never traveled more than a few
miles from home.

I stopped for gas in South San Francisco. When I paid the guy, he
thought he knew me. He asked where I was from and I said \"San
Francisco.\" He said \"I\'ve never been to San Francisco.\"

I got lost once in New Jersey, pre-GPS. I asked a local for directions
to the NJ Turnpike. He said \"That\'s White Horse Road up there but I
don\'t know where the turnpike is.\"

Been about 20 years, but a neighbor wanted to get an appliance his wife
asked about. Local store did not have it but I found a store 30 miles
north of us in Worcester MA had it. I suggested he buy it there. His
reply? \"OK, I\'ll go but you\'ll have to drive\"

 

[Peeler]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 14:15:34 +0100, Max Dumbian, the REAL dumb, notorious,
troll-feeding senile idiot, blathered again:

I challenge you to go a week without using the s-word.

You can\'t. Poop is the center of your life.

You could probably program your PC to make it a hot key, and save time
typing.

What PC keyboards need is a fuck off key. Red, the size of four normal keys.

I doubt any key of any size will help you endlessly blathering senile
assholes wrt your senility and senile behaviour. <G>

 

[John Larkin]

On 17 Apr 2023 01:09:40 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 14:31:34 -0400, Ed P wrote:

Amazing how many people in recent years never traveled more than a few
miles from home.

When I was in the Boston area I met quite a few well educated
professionals who thought the world ended at 128.

NYS helped to show people new horizons. Upstate was going downhill so fast
anyone with git up and go got up and went. I left when I was 22 and never
looked back.

I grew up in New Orleans. When I reached The Age Of Reason (32 in my
case) I packed my MG Midget and drove to California.

 

[John Larkin]

On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 14:19:59 +0100, Max Demian
<max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:

On 17/04/2023 10:41, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 16/04/2023 19:31, Ed P wrote:

Amazing how many people in recent years never travelled more than a
few miles from home.

It is the new Green Future.

Yeah. the \"fifteen minute city\". So everything you need is no more than
a mile from where you live. No chance.

The rich greenies want the rabble to live in tiny apartments in dense
clusters, not have cars, and walk everywhere in architected
landscapes.

And they want the poor people of the world to stay poor.