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Replied To a Post in How Should Voting Machines Work?
* Sorry about the flying car issue! * Regarding block-chains - a new twist, it appears that certain types of banned porn is being written into the block-chains. Either actual … -
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I think we can all agree (this will likely provoke disagreement) that a voting machine that records a vote electronically without a way to do a manual verification is a … -
Gave Reputation to Reverend Jim in Tech Advances I'd Like to See
Another tech advance that can be done right now. For both TVs as well as computers (particularly laptops) - the ability to plug in headphones without muting the sound coming … -
Replied To a Post in How Should Voting Machines Work?
I am not sure but I bet that we will not get flying cars until we get self-driving cars. In crowded cities, people have trouble traveling in 2 dimensions so … -
Replied To a Post in Reintrodutory note from Grimmy
My Amiga 1000 was stolen during a burglary while I was in Paris; I bought a 3000 then upgraded to 1500 - I kept them for years but I was … -
Replied To a Post in Reintrodutory note from Grimmy
Dani, Yes it gave me fits b/c NOTHING looked the same and I had to tweek LastPass (my p/w protection program) to get in; the 'stay logged in' feature is … -
Replied To a Post in Windoze Defender is ruining my gaming - help, it won't let me save.
Actually, I did not google because I used it as an excuse to come back for a visit. So, now I googled it and it is fixed - ''check aps … -
Created Reintrodutory note from Grimmy
I have been otherwise occupied for the last 10 years or so - got a job with the IRS (boo, hiss) on a seasonal basis. Got back into making puddles … -
Replied To a Post in Looking for an example of food and drink on a handheld device ?
It seems to me that would get pretty messy right off the bat. My cell could only hold a stack of about 10 wings before they started falling off; plus … -
Created Windoze Defender is ruining my gaming - help, it won't let me save.
It blocks every attempt to modify any file anywhere. I give Steam and all its subsidiary .exes permission and then it says that there is no permission to modify 'Documents'. … -
Replied To a Post in Amazon Stock Dip
I think that the proposed tarif wars may have conributed to some of the drop. -
Replied To a Post in Will a true AI have a net positive or negative impact on society?
OMG! So many faces from the past (I just stopped by to ask a simple (?) about Windows 10's effing Defender) - I am gobsmacked that you guys are still … -
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Of penguin dreams and other things -
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Replied To a Post in Jokes
What do you call it when someone does the same thing over and over again expecting a different outcome - a freethrow champ. -
Replied To a Post in Could you share your knowledge about life?
If you are glisading down Mount Rainier - know your ice-axe arrest -
Replied To a Post in Is an asthma air purifier good to go to get rid of smoke ?
HiHe: agreed - I wonder sometimes about all those different 'stink' producers available on the market - up to and including one that allows you to set moods. The most … -
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Replied To a Post in Is an asthma air purifier good to go to get rid of smoke ?
HiHe: agreed - the only true solution is to not have a smoker nearby. What I am offering is a way to remove 99.97% of particles that are .3 micrometers … -
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The first college I went to had been called Montana State Normal School - it was a teachers college. It was there I first heard: Those who can - do … -
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Replied To a Post in Is an asthma air purifier good to go to get rid of smoke ?
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Replied To a Post in Random Facts
Almost all experts outside of the FBI do not think it was the N.Koreans who hacked Sony. Many think it was a disgruntled (ex?)employee - in the beginning of the … -
Replied To a Post in Uber-Sydney charging AU$100.00 for trip out of CBD
It gets better! [Ubber](http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/uber-begins-charging-2-dollar-taxi-hailing-fee) is now charging a $2.00 booking fee in New York City! Life is good. -
Replied To a Post in Email that can't be surveilled
People still forget about the Blackberry; still so secure that is the only cell phone the President can use. Still uncrackable after all these years. -
Replied To a Post in What is your dream vacation?
Paris - till I walked the whole city from Arrondissement 1 to 20 looking for pochoir (Jeff aeroplane, MissTik, banksie, et cetera -
Gave Reputation to vegaseat in What is the last place you visited?
Virginia City in Nevada. Pretty wild area, home of the Bonanza western. -
Replied To a Post in Bitcoin
You need a lot of money, a lot of hardware that emmulates a super-computer, the software, and plenty of time. all the easy bitcoins have been mined; you now need … -
Created Uber-Sydney charging AU$100.00 for trip out of CBD
Can you dig it! In the midst of the hostage situation in downtown Sydney, [Uber](http://crooksandliars.com/2014/12/uber-criticized-charging-minimum-100-fare) was charging $100 to get to safety plus 4 times normal milage. I know - … -
Replied To a Post in What is the last place you visited?
Well, if we don't count my just cooking some lamb in the kitchen I will have to say Buenos Aires AR. My first and only visit to that continent. (other … -
Replied To a Post in i just ordered a RR placement screen for my hp
With new laptops as low as $200.00, that screen better be pretty cheap. TSA cracked the screen on my laptop - I did not notice it until I opened the … -
Replied To a Post in Nature's Temper
Vega: We used to spray tumbleweeds with fake snow and use them as Xmas trees. Hard to believe that 'weeds are not native to US - what would a western … -
Replied To a Post in looking for a laptop. Any suggestions on a good one? one
The only real use I have for laptops is to attach external monitors and keyboards to them. I hate HP products because of the the excess shite that they load … -
Replied To a Post in Nature's Temper
In Seattle the main distraction is plate subduction quakes plus there has been so much fill that the ground could liquify and everything sink just a bit - they found … -
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I have a great new knock knock joke - you start it -
Replied To a Post in do you still do snail mail?
I still have checks from my last apt - I pay rent and utilities with checks. I use to send 7 page letters; I use send letters that wandered through … -
Gave Reputation to Reverend Jim in Random Facts
If you took all the people who slept in church and laid them end to end they'd be a lot more comfortable. Can we get off the guns now? -
Replied To a Post in Voodoo Chile
> could you please produce several other examples of such language "distortion"? How about the entire English language is a distortion of Middle English which was a distortion of - … -
Replied To a Post in Things I hate about TV shows
What I am beginning to hate is the torture of 'criminals' or they catch the bad guy and someone just slugs them. Hawaii 50 is big on knocking bad guys … -
Replied To a Post in 4th dimension
@kplcjl: no it didn't - the story started from the point of view of the stranded traveler and followed that point of view for a number of years and landed … -
Replied To a Post in 4th dimension
ddanbe: > Time travel? What if you go back in time and killed your father or mother or both, when they were 10 years old? Read [All You Zombies](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Zombies) Every … -
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> vmanes: 4th dimension, time travel....they give me headaches! I read a time travel novel years ago that started with the point of view of someone being rescued and ended … -
Replied To a Post in Anyone try a portable laser keyboard ?
EP: of course I did, sigh. Look [here](http://www.theendearingdesigner.com/creative-and-unique-computer-keyboards). -
Replied To a Post in Anyone try a portable laser keyboard ?
Here is a referral to 77 'interesting' kybrds, including the wrist one - I liked #1, #11, maybe 14&15, #42, #46?, #57 could be interesting, #77 is just too vegan. -
Replied To a Post in 4th dimension
There is an interesting twist on the Flatland named "[the Planiverse](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planiverse)" - Flatland was a 2d world seen from above; Planiverse is 2d world seen from the side (ie a … -
Replied To a Post in 4th dimension
Time is not a dimension it is a coordinate; there is a 4th dimension and it is the space occupied by a hypercube,hypersphere, and so on. The mathematics of lower … -
Replied To a Post in Anyone try a portable laser keyboard ?
How useful you find the laser keyboard might depend on how you learned to type. I learned on a manual typewriter where there was almost an inch of play while … -
Replied To a Post in Arable area per human?
The book "Stank On Zanzibar" starts with (among other very VERY weird shit) the human race, standing shoulder to should, could fit on Zanzibar and ends with ... a list … -
Replied To a Post in Random Facts
Window glass is made by floating molten glass on molten tin. Glass is vitrious ie. an amorpheus solid that softens as heat is applied until gravity is able to affect … -
Replied To a Post in The last song you heard/ listened to
I just went all nostalgic and listened to Frank Zappa "[Trouble Every Day"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=girnJH7tvpM)
The End.