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

[rbowman]

On Sat, 22 Apr 2023 06:38:41 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

On Sat, 22 Apr 2023 06:16:14 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Mon, 03 Apr 2023 21:15:12 +0100, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On 3 Apr 2023 19:29:01 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Mon, 03 Apr 2023 11:14:28 -0700, John Larkin wrote:


We were in the Castro yesterday and I didn\'t see many dogs. There
are other neighborhoods where I think it is a felony to walk around
without a dog or a kid.

Around here a Subaru Forester and a Labrador with a red kerchief are
issued at birth. I like dogs but I wish their owners were bright
enough to realize you\'re supposed to take the little bags of shit
with you. The cartoon instructions at the trailheads omit that part.

We have Teslas and custom bred-to-order labridoodles. The Brat is
unusual in adopting SPCA mutts.

Everyone here that walks a dog carries poop bags and uses them.

If nobody\'s looking, I fail to see the point in picking it up.

Poop smeared everywhere appeals to you?

Probably so. It\'s a common syndrome.

Another example of why a libertarian society is a pipe dream; it requires
adults.

 

[John Larkin]

On 22 Apr 2023 18:05:07 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sat, 22 Apr 2023 06:38:41 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

On Sat, 22 Apr 2023 06:16:14 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Mon, 03 Apr 2023 21:15:12 +0100, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On 3 Apr 2023 19:29:01 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Mon, 03 Apr 2023 11:14:28 -0700, John Larkin wrote:


We were in the Castro yesterday and I didn\'t see many dogs. There
are other neighborhoods where I think it is a felony to walk around
without a dog or a kid.

Around here a Subaru Forester and a Labrador with a red kerchief are
issued at birth. I like dogs but I wish their owners were bright
enough to realize you\'re supposed to take the little bags of shit
with you. The cartoon instructions at the trailheads omit that part.

We have Teslas and custom bred-to-order labridoodles. The Brat is
unusual in adopting SPCA mutts.

Everyone here that walks a dog carries poop bags and uses them.

If nobody\'s looking, I fail to see the point in picking it up.

Poop smeared everywhere appeals to you?

Probably so. It\'s a common syndrome.


Another example of why a libertarian society is a pipe dream; it requires
adults.

It varies by culture. The Russians don\'t understand register lines or
elevators. Everybody just rushes and pushes.

There are some Youtube videos of North Koreans reaction to the USA.
They are shocked by how nice we are, how we smile and help strangers
and hug our kids in public.

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Thu, 06 Apr 2023 05:15:32 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:49:33 -0400, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net
wrote:

On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 10:13:39 -0700, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:

On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 17:55:54 +0100, SteveW <steve@walker-family.me.uk
wrote:

On 29/03/2023 16:20, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 12:57:26 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 17:08:08 -0000, tony sayer <tony@bancom.co.uk> wrote:

In article <op.11yr4xc1mvhs6z@ryzen.home>, Commander Kinsey
CK1@nospam.com> scribeth thus
On Sat, 04 Mar 2023 13:57:51 -0000, tony sayer <tony@bancom.co.uk> wrote:

You will deserve what happens next.

Very unlikely for all those things to happen at once. I didn\'t get
vaccinated
either,


I never wear a seatbelt,



I remember as a lad going to nick a few light bulbs from cars at Ron
Charlton\'s scrapyard. Whilst going about that we noticed the number of
cars that had very bent steering wheels, this i was told was because
the drivers having hit most anything their body flew forward and their
chest impacted the wheel and bent it, and no way could we bend it back.

Ron\'s old boy there said that most all the drivers in that sort of
impact didn\'t survive

Then came a seatbelt\'s and that became a thing of the past once people
started using them and we got round the stupidity of \"its better to be
thrown clear of the car you know\" idiocy.

I know someone who\'s an ex A&E consultant he\'ll give you chapter and
verse on car injuries;!...

You\'re missing one important thing - likelihood. At what chance fo death would
you decide to be safe? The answer is different for everyone.

Well he doesn\'t get much choice in who he treats, be that the person who
caused the s accident or the innocent ones affected.

Me not wearing a seatbelt harms nobody else. The chances of my flying out of my car and happening to hit someone else, and having the velocity to harm them are zero.

Seat belts make room in ambulances and emergency rooms for people who
aren\'t idiots.

But on those grounds, we\'d ban people from playing rugby, swimming in
the sea, mountain climbing, motorcycling, mountain biking, etc.

If you drive a car on private property, you don\'t have to wear a seat
belt, or obey a speed limit, or have a drivers\' license.

Cars could be programmed to not go over 35 MPH if the driver isn\'t
using his seat belt. Car makers should do that to avoid liability for
injury and death.

The equivalent was tried in the 1970s, with seat belts. There were
lots of malfunctions and stranded motorists.

Technology has advanced in the last 50 years.

No excuse to enforce safety on people. My life, stay the fuck out of it. The seatbelt protects me, nobody else. And don\'t start that shit about I might fly through the windscreen and kill you, the chances of that are 0.0000000001% of fuck all.

The car can\'t know I\'m not wearing a belt. My friend is a taxi driver, he legally doesn\'t have to wear one incase a passenger in the rear seat uses it to strangle him to get a free fare. So he simply went to the local scrapyard, cut the end off a seatbelt, and plugs that into his car. His car thinks he\'s wearing it. Tech can always be defeated by humans, because humans are cleverer than tech.

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Thu, 06 Apr 2023 17:17:02 +0100, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net> wrote:

On Wed, 05 Apr 2023 21:15:32 -0700, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:

On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:49:33 -0400, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net
wrote:

On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 10:13:39 -0700, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:

On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 17:55:54 +0100, SteveW <steve@walker-family.me.uk
wrote:

On 29/03/2023 16:20, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 12:57:26 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 17:08:08 -0000, tony sayer <tony@bancom.co.uk> wrote:

In article <op.11yr4xc1mvhs6z@ryzen.home>, Commander Kinsey
CK1@nospam.com> scribeth thus
On Sat, 04 Mar 2023 13:57:51 -0000, tony sayer <tony@bancom.co.uk> wrote:

You will deserve what happens next.

Very unlikely for all those things to happen at once. I didn\'t get
vaccinated
either,


I never wear a seatbelt,



I remember as a lad going to nick a few light bulbs from cars at Ron
Charlton\'s scrapyard. Whilst going about that we noticed the number of
cars that had very bent steering wheels, this i was told was because
the drivers having hit most anything their body flew forward and their
chest impacted the wheel and bent it, and no way could we bend it back.

Ron\'s old boy there said that most all the drivers in that sort of
impact didn\'t survive

Then came a seatbelt\'s and that became a thing of the past once people
started using them and we got round the stupidity of \"its better to be
thrown clear of the car you know\" idiocy.

I know someone who\'s an ex A&E consultant he\'ll give you chapter and
verse on car injuries;!...

You\'re missing one important thing - likelihood. At what chance fo death would
you decide to be safe? The answer is different for everyone.

Well he doesn\'t get much choice in who he treats, be that the person who
caused the s accident or the innocent ones affected.

Me not wearing a seatbelt harms nobody else. The chances of my flying out of my car and happening to hit someone else, and having the velocity to harm them are zero.

Seat belts make room in ambulances and emergency rooms for people who
aren\'t idiots.

But on those grounds, we\'d ban people from playing rugby, swimming in
the sea, mountain climbing, motorcycling, mountain biking, etc.

If you drive a car on private property, you don\'t have to wear a seat
belt, or obey a speed limit, or have a drivers\' license.

Cars could be programmed to not go over 35 MPH if the driver isn\'t
using his seat belt. Car makers should do that to avoid liability for
injury and death.

The equivalent was tried in the 1970s, with seat belts. There were
lots of malfunctions and stranded motorists.

Technology has advanced in the last 50 years.

But actual reliability has not improved at all, partly because it\'s
all software these days, but also because most cars are sold a bit too
soon in their development process, letting customer do the early field
testing.

My car (2018 Honda CR-V) is the poster child. It\'s always throwing
random contradictory codes and demanding to be towed in when driving
at highway speed in heavy rain. I\'ve learned to ignore the dire
warnings and keep on driving, and let the car dry out.

Honda are Japanese, I expect better from them. But I too have had a CRV, a lot older than yours, made in 1998. Automatically turns on 4WD eh? BULLSHIT. Two wheel drive until they start slipping, then it engages the other two wheels, by which time the first two wheels are jammed in the mud. Why not just leave the 4WD on all the time!? The extra fuel used to run a bit more mechanism is fuck all. Fucking greenies spoiling everything as per usual.

My wife has had similar problems with her car (2016 Audi Q3), starting
right after delivery, when on Thanksgiving Day it claimed to be
dangerously low on brake fluid. Well, brake fluid can be inspected -
the level was normal. So, sensor is confused. She did not understand
how the computer could be wrong, and we used my car instead. But
later drove her car to the dealer. There were later episodes where we
did need to have her car towed, but the effects and warnings made no
sense at all.

To solve a problem with a warning light, remove the bulb. I drove a car with broken ABS for years. It needs ABS for the safety test, but if they don\'t see the warning light....

 

[John Larkin]

On Thu, 06 Apr 2023 12:17:02 -0400, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net>
wrote:

On Wed, 05 Apr 2023 21:15:32 -0700, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:

On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:49:33 -0400, Joe Gwinn <joegwinn@comcast.net
wrote:

On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 10:13:39 -0700, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:

On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 17:55:54 +0100, SteveW <steve@walker-family.me.uk
wrote:

On 29/03/2023 16:20, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 12:57:26 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 17:08:08 -0000, tony sayer <tony@bancom.co.uk> wrote:

In article <op.11yr4xc1mvhs6z@ryzen.home>, Commander Kinsey
CK1@nospam.com> scribeth thus
On Sat, 04 Mar 2023 13:57:51 -0000, tony sayer <tony@bancom.co.uk> wrote:

You will deserve what happens next.

Very unlikely for all those things to happen at once. I didn\'t get
vaccinated
either,


I never wear a seatbelt,



I remember as a lad going to nick a few light bulbs from cars at Ron
Charlton\'s scrapyard. Whilst going about that we noticed the number of
cars that had very bent steering wheels, this i was told was because
the drivers having hit most anything their body flew forward and their
chest impacted the wheel and bent it, and no way could we bend it back.

Ron\'s old boy there said that most all the drivers in that sort of
impact didn\'t survive

Then came a seatbelt\'s and that became a thing of the past once people
started using them and we got round the stupidity of \"its better to be
thrown clear of the car you know\" idiocy.

I know someone who\'s an ex A&E consultant he\'ll give you chapter and
verse on car injuries;!...

You\'re missing one important thing - likelihood. At what chance fo death would
you decide to be safe? The answer is different for everyone.

Well he doesn\'t get much choice in who he treats, be that the person who
caused the s accident or the innocent ones affected.

Me not wearing a seatbelt harms nobody else. The chances of my flying out of my car and happening to hit someone else, and having the velocity to harm them are zero.

Seat belts make room in ambulances and emergency rooms for people who
aren\'t idiots.

But on those grounds, we\'d ban people from playing rugby, swimming in
the sea, mountain climbing, motorcycling, mountain biking, etc.

If you drive a car on private property, you don\'t have to wear a seat
belt, or obey a speed limit, or have a drivers\' license.

Cars could be programmed to not go over 35 MPH if the driver isn\'t
using his seat belt. Car makers should do that to avoid liability for
injury and death.

The equivalent was tried in the 1970s, with seat belts. There were
lots of malfunctions and stranded motorists.

Technology has advanced in the last 50 years.

But actual reliability has not improved at all, partly because it\'s
all software these days, but also because most cars are sold a bit too
soon in their development process, letting customer do the early field
testing.

Cars are vastly more reliable than they were 50 years ago. I don\'t
suppose you remember filing and gapping points, replacing fouled spark
plugs, replacing oil and filter every few thousand miles, fixing
flats, topping off the battery, things breaking.

I take my car in once a year for service. It has never failed to go
and never had a flat tire. The headlights are original, 2008.

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Sun, 09 Apr 2023 07:42:03 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sun, 09 Apr 2023 05:33:44 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 01:28:09 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sat, 01 Apr 2023 21:36:38 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 03:20:59 -0000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com
wrote:
My brother in law asked how the thing handled in a sarcastic tone. I
did a bootlegger turn. \'Oh\' he said, very quietly.

I\'ve never heard that expression, I thought it was a J turn the world
over.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-turn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleg_turn

Not the same thing.

Looks like a bootleg turn is similar to a handbrake turn, except using
engine braking instead of the parking brake.

You\'re playing with weight transfer and the engine to break the rear end
loose. I\'ve never tried it but I think you would need the handbrake with a
FWD car.

I\'ve almost always had FWD cars. RWD is shit, uncontrollable shit.

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Sunday, April 23, 2023 at 10:42:56 AM UTC+10, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Thu, 06 Apr 2023 05:15:32 +0100, John Larkin <jla...@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 13:49:33 -0400, Joe Gwinn <joeg...@comcast.net> wrote:
On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 10:13:39 -0700, John Larkin <jla...@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:
On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 17:55:54 +0100, SteveW <st...@walker-family.me.uk> wrote:
On 29/03/2023 16:20, John Larkin wrote:
On Wed, 29 Mar 2023 12:57:26 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\" <C...@nospam.com> wrote:
On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 17:08:08 -0000, tony sayer <to...@bancom.co.uk> wrote:
In article <op.11yr4...@ryzen.home>, Commander Kinsey <C...@nospam.com> scribeth thus
On Sat, 04 Mar 2023 13:57:51 -0000, tony sayer <to...@bancom.co.uk> wrote:

<snip>

> The car can\'t know I\'m not wearing a belt.

It could, but that would make it more expensive. Nobody wants to spend money saving idiots from winning a Darwin Award.

> My friend is a taxi driver, he legally doesn\'t have to wear one in case a passenger in the rear seat uses it to strangle him to get a free fare. So he simply went to the local scrapyard, cut the end off a seatbelt, and plugs that into his car. His car thinks he\'s wearing it. Tech can always be defeated by humans, because humans are cleverer than tech.

Not exactly true. Humans can be stupid enough to mislead mechanisms that could protect them. We could make the mechanisms harder to fool, but that would make them more expensive, and why impoverish sensible people to protect the lives of fools?

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Sunday, April 23, 2023 at 4:57:45 AM UTC+10, John Larkin wrote:

On 22 Apr 2023 18:05:07 GMT, rbowman <bow...@montana.com> wrote:
On Sat, 22 Apr 2023 06:38:41 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
On Sat, 22 Apr 2023 06:16:14 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\" <C...@nospam.com> wrote:
On Mon, 03 Apr 2023 21:15:12 +0100, John Larkin <jla...@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:
On 3 Apr 2023 19:29:01 GMT, rbowman <bow...@montana.com> wrote:
On Mon, 03 Apr 2023 11:14:28 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

<snip>

Another example of why a libertarian society is a pipe dream; it requires adults.

It varies by culture. The Russians don\'t understand register lines or elevators. Everybody just rushes and pushes.

There are some Youtube videos of North Koreans reaction to the USA.
They are shocked by how nice we are, how we smile and help strangers and hug our kids in public.

They are less surprised by the gun massacres. Presumably they think that it\'s US undercover security dealing with a bunch of subversives.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Peeler]

On 9 Apr 2023 06:42:03 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

You\'re playing with weight transfer and the engine to break the rear end
loose. I\'ve never tried it but I think you would need the handbrake with a
FWD car.

He\'s playing with you and your personal misery, gossip girl, trying to see
whether he can make you suck him off every single time he baits you! <BG>

--
More of the pathological senile gossip\'s sick shit squeezed out of his sick
head:
\"Skunk probably tastes like chicken. I\'ve never gotten that comparison,
most famously with Chicken of the Sea. Tuna is a fish and tastes like a
fish. I will admit I\'ve had chicken that tasted like fish. I don\'t think I
want to know what they were feeding it.\"
MID: <k44t5lFl1k3U4@mid.individual.net>

 

[Carlos E.R.]

On 2023-03-16 19:21, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 05:45:10 -0000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 22:43:31 -0400, 😎 Mighty Wannabe ✅ wrote:

rbowman wrote on 3/12/2023 10:05 PM:
On Mon, 13 Mar 2023 00:30:39 -0000, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Thu, 02 Mar 2023 03:09:14 -0000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com
wrote:

On Wed, 01 Mar 2023 15:05:31 -0000, Commander Kinsey wrote:


Why were they never made of something more grippy than highly
polished steel?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Washington_Cog_Railway
Should be used on all tracks, then perhaps trains could stop in the
distance my car is required to by law.
Do the math. A fully laden coal car weighs about 140 tons. I\'ve never
been bored enough to count cars when I stopped at a crossing but there
are a lot of them. Let\'s say 30 for the sake of argument, 4200 tons
plus the weight of the engines. Let\'s say 4 at 200 tons each. So,
roughly 5000 tons traveling at 50 mph. That\'s quite a bit of kinetic
energy to dump in 300\'.
I can hear snapping axles and see flying wheels.


The wheels and the rails are steel. A train can never have enough
friction to stop at a short distance. The brakes can lock all the wheels
but the train will still move forward due to inertia.

The reference was to the Mt. Washington Cog Railway. The wheels are for
guidance but the motive power is a rack and pinion.

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

At least on Mt Washington it\'s only the engine and a small passenger car
operating at less than 10 mph. They\'re not feasible for general use.

Surely cogs can go over 10mph.  Your car gearbox is full of them turning
at very high speed.

Inside a box full of oil.

--
Cheers, Carlos.

 

[Peeler]

On Sun, 23 Apr 2023 14:24:52 +0200, cretinous Carlos E.R., another brain
dead troll-feeding senile ASSHOLE, blathered:


> Inside a box full of oil.

Somewhat like your senile head is full of shit, eh, troll-feeding dumb
spick?

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 05:34:17 +0100, John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 03:12:45 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:49:59 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On Sun, 2 Apr 2023 16:08:26 -0700, Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/1/2023 11:00 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Sat, 01 Apr 2023 21:05:15 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 09:48:57 -0000, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 08:17:19 +0000, alan_m <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk
wrote:

On 22/03/2023 17:15, John Larkin wrote:

They were primitive, barbaric, dangerous, leaky, unreliable, and great
fun.

Fun until you get older and just want the comfort

And AWD and a ski rack.

Old people don\'t ski.

That\'s excellent news. I have a season pass at Sugar Bowl.


He\'s right in my case. I snowboard.

I tried that for a couple of days, a lot of falling and hopping around
like a frog. I\'m too old for THAT.

I like that a boarder can go any direction, forward or backwards or
sideways, but I can do that on skis too. I\'m teaching a nice lady from
Hawaii how to spin.

Here\'s my technique:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/c3u33eojlglnrn4/Features_crash.avi?dl=0

What\'s with the heavy breathing at the start?

Some of us need oxygen when we ski hard at 8200 feet with a camera in
one hand and two poles in the other.

You were stood still!

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 11:52:59 +0100, Max Demian <max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:

On 12/04/2023 07:38, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Mon, 03 Apr 2023 13:44:24 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

But remember ffolks, its not cold that kills, its less than 1,5°C
warming that threatens the entire planet.

No they gave up on that, it\'s climate CHANGE now not global WARMING.
Now they think extra CO2 is somehow bad, that stuff plants (as in our
crops) breathe. I look forward to bumper crops.

No, its global *heating* and climate *crisis* or *emergency*.

Everything\'s an emergency, crisis, nightmare, or treacherous. FFS, it\'s about time people learned to take it easy.

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 14:31:50 +0100, John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 07:36:21 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 17:28:54 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 15:03:18 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:

Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com> writes:
On 2023-04-02, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:
On Sun, 2 Apr 2023 11:06:19 +0100, Max Demian <max_demian@bigfoot..com
wrote:

On 01/04/2023 18:51, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:19:36 -0000, Max Demian <max_demian@bigfoot.com
wrote:
On 22/03/2023 02:16, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:51:43 -0000, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

The old Victorians and deco and moderne houses are quirky and
wonderful.

Best thing for inside and outside are half logs.

I expect most modern log cabins cheat that way, with insulation between.

What\'s cheating about it? There\'s no point in the half you can\'t see.

*Real* log cabins just have logs with some kind of caulking to keep out
the draughts. Building a small house and just sticking half logs inside
and out is just pretending to go back to nature.

I wonder how people survived in Nebraska in 1800, with no waterproof
parkas, no moon boots, uninsulated log cabins, no phone or internet,
no penicillin, no Safeway down the street.

A lot of them didn\'t. Old graveyards and ad hoc burial grounds
are everywhere to tell the tale.

In 1800, 46 percent of children did not reach their fifth birthday.

My mom was one of 10 kids, and two died in infancy. That was better
than average.

Your mum was alive in 1800?

Do the math.

It\'s maths, but I\'ll oblige.

Your mum reached her fifth birthday in 1800. This is 2023, so I guess if she had you when she was just over hundred, and you\'re just over a hundred now....

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 16:03:36 +0100, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 14:02:50 +0100, Commander Kinsey wrote:

I don\'t have much experience with stylists either. I\'m a partial Sikh;

I wasn\'t aware you were a religious nut.

I\'m eclectic.

Slightly nutty?

I don\'t cut my hair or beard

Ah, a neanderthal.

An identifiable male Neanderthal. 23AndMe confirms the Neanderthal DNA.

At what percentage?

and I always carry a knife.

In the UK that\'s actually illegal, unless you can prove it\'s a tool and
you\'re a carpenter on your way to a job.

Which is why I have no intention of visiting the UK. Fortunately this is
the US and i could balance it with a .45 ACP should I choose to do so. I
do not because unlike the UK we don\'t have Moslem no-go zones in this
state. The cold climate discourages parasites.

We now have one of those sort for our British and Scottish leaders. Neither of which was voted in by the populace.

 

[John Larkin]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2023 20:30:03 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
<CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 05:34:17 +0100, John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 03:12:45 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Mon, 03 Apr 2023 00:49:59 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On Sun, 2 Apr 2023 16:08:26 -0700, Bob F <bobnospam@gmail.com> wrote:

On 4/1/2023 11:00 PM, John Larkin wrote:
On Sat, 01 Apr 2023 21:05:15 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 09:48:57 -0000, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2023 08:17:19 +0000, alan_m <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk
wrote:

On 22/03/2023 17:15, John Larkin wrote:

They were primitive, barbaric, dangerous, leaky, unreliable, and great
fun.

Fun until you get older and just want the comfort

And AWD and a ski rack.

Old people don\'t ski.

That\'s excellent news. I have a season pass at Sugar Bowl.


He\'s right in my case. I snowboard.

I tried that for a couple of days, a lot of falling and hopping around
like a frog. I\'m too old for THAT.

I like that a boarder can go any direction, forward or backwards or
sideways, but I can do that on skis too. I\'m teaching a nice lady from
Hawaii how to spin.

Here\'s my technique:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/c3u33eojlglnrn4/Features_crash.avi?dl=0

What\'s with the heavy breathing at the start?

Some of us need oxygen when we ski hard at 8200 feet with a camera in
one hand and two poles in the other.

You were stood still!

You might notice that I didn\'t start filming at the top of the
mountain.

Where do you ski? How high?

 

[John Larkin]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2023 20:33:07 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
<CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 14:31:50 +0100, John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 07:36:21 +0100, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 17:28:54 +0100, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

On Sun, 02 Apr 2023 15:03:18 GMT, scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
wrote:

Cindy Hamilton <hamilton@invalid.com> writes:
On 2023-04-02, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:
On Sun, 2 Apr 2023 11:06:19 +0100, Max Demian <max_demian@bigfoot.com
wrote:

On 01/04/2023 18:51, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:19:36 -0000, Max Demian <max_demian@bigfoot.com
wrote:
On 22/03/2023 02:16, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Thu, 09 Mar 2023 16:51:43 -0000, John Larkin
jlarkin@highlandsnipmetechnology.com> wrote:

The old Victorians and deco and moderne houses are quirky and
wonderful.

Best thing for inside and outside are half logs.

I expect most modern log cabins cheat that way, with insulation between.

What\'s cheating about it? There\'s no point in the half you can\'t see.

*Real* log cabins just have logs with some kind of caulking to keep out
the draughts. Building a small house and just sticking half logs inside
and out is just pretending to go back to nature.

I wonder how people survived in Nebraska in 1800, with no waterproof
parkas, no moon boots, uninsulated log cabins, no phone or internet,
no penicillin, no Safeway down the street.

A lot of them didn\'t. Old graveyards and ad hoc burial grounds
are everywhere to tell the tale.

In 1800, 46 percent of children did not reach their fifth birthday.

My mom was one of 10 kids, and two died in infancy. That was better
than average.

Your mum was alive in 1800?

Do the math.

It\'s maths, but I\'ll oblige.

Your mum reached her fifth birthday in 1800. This is 2023, so I guess if she had you when she was just over hundred, and you\'re just over a hundred now....

Excellent. You have real talent for advanced mathematics.

Logic, maybe not so much.

 

[Peeler]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2023 13:32:22 -0700, John Larkin, the obviously brain dead,
troll-feeding senile asshole, blathered:

Excellent. You have real talent for advanced mathematics.

Logic, maybe not so much.

Even more excellent: the retard manages to bait you with very dumbest shit
he can think of! What does that make YOU? An eager eater of troll shit!

 

[Peeler]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2023 13:29:36 -0700, John Larkin, the obviously brain dead,
troll-feeding senile asshole, blathered:

You might notice that I didn\'t start filming at the top of the
mountain.

Where do you ski? How high?

I notice that you are as much of a trolling piece of senile shit as the
Scottish wanker and a few other miserable trolling senile Yankeetards in
these groups!

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2023 17:46:53 +0100, Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> writes:
On 12/04/2023 16:52, Mark Lloyd wrote:
On 4/12/23 01:35, Commander Kinsey wrote:

[snip]

I\'m 47. When I was a teenager, my friend actually thought you could
catch a cold from being cold. We were both helping out an 80 year old
at his chicken farm, so I got the old guy to educate my friend.

Some people still seem to think that.

yeah its why people catch colds more in summer. And why living in damp
cold houses is so healthy

Actually common colds are caused by one of several viruses. They reason
that they are more common in cold weather is because people spend more
time in close indoor quarters during cold weather and thus virus transmittal
is more common.

You catch colds less if you get cold. I regular go out running/hillwalking/swimming in winter naked or in shorts and barefoot in the snow. I can\'t remember the last cold I caught. Didn\'t get covid either, despite not having that evil vaccine.