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They help when you want to give someone the hairy eyeball. Just an enhancement.

Not almost anything - everything. If you go down that line of reasoning there is nothing that is impossible, including the idea that none of us even exist. ...and also from beowulf's previous post: "We have no evidence that the mind can live with out a physical body." Cool questions to ponder (at least to me, even if a bit crazy or meaningless in any kinda way that can be known.)! Imagine an "observer" viewing the Universe from "outside". What could be "seen"? Would stars, planets, dark matter, "elementary" particles, chinchillas, and Toyota Coronas be seen as "we" see them? Is the existence of, and relationships (as we perceive them) among matter, energy, space, and time only a 4-dimensional manifestation of reality as felt, experienced, or seen by "things" residing within the Universe? Sort of an interpretation of the "way" the Universe "is" by things (matter, energy, etc.) that are affected by its physical laws. Why not 5, or 9 perceived dimensions? (I suppose that if we experienced a 5 dimensional world, we would ask "why not 4?".) Where does our "mind" or consciousness "go" after the lights go out? Is there really a "before" and "after"? Or is that just another of our perceptions resulting from our being part of the Universe.

MI6

Wow Ron! Glad you guys are OK!

Soooooo ...... Over 6 years later. Who got SN 50000? Mine is #25000 dated 1993. I wonder what the numbers are up to now?

Take this here road a few miles. Turn left about a mile and a half before you get to the tracks. After a while you'll see a field where the old barn used to be. Take another left right there and after about 3 miles, you'll see some kids playing kickball. Ask one of them.

Never did like that change. Besides sounding silly, only one end is anywhere near a beach.

Strong!! ...like bull !!

Perverts will exploit any opportunity available to them. They use those opportunities (whether by seeking positions of trust or by exploiting legal loopholes) to place themselves near their victims. That's just what they do.

I would say "Interstate 5" or "I-5" or "the Interstate" but not "the 5 Interstate". Also - "Highway 39" but not "the 39 Highway". It is also called "the Paul Buchman Highway". OTOH - "the 408 Expressway" (or simply "the 408") but not "Expressway 408". (also called "the East-West Expressway") So here are the rules - "The" is used when referring to the type of road (e.g. - highway, expressway, freeway, turnpike) and when the type is preceded by the name or number of the road (except in cases where the number never precedes the type, as in "Highway 41" or "Interstate 75"). The road is referred to without the "the" in cases where the type of roadway precedes the name or number, but you would never say "Expressway 408" or "Freeway 134". Be aware that these "rules" are based on my casual observations and have no other basis. Also, be aware that I never questioned my casual observation that all old, gray-haired people always and without exception spoke only Italian. I was around 5 or 6 years old before I realized that my hypothesis was flawed and I then had to formulate a new theory to incorporate newly observed data.

I picked up an old rig many years ago (maybe '91 or '92) from a thrift shop or pawn shop. I think I paid 10 or 15 bucks just for the novelty. I remember it was very wet/damp, maybe having been stored in a basement or shed. Description from memory: I was told it was possibly a "Sodfarm" container, and was not TSOed. It has R2 releases. An old-time jumper (younger than I was, actually ) called them "scare-2". I think the reserve was a Pioneer round that I gave away to the loft for water training aid, etc. I also gave away the Strato Star main. It still had rings but reefing had been converted to a slider. Most interesting to me was the PC bridle. IIRC, it was attached to cells 2 & 4 in inverted Y-shape and then to the PC. I still have the container.

I don't think so. Not unless you spent a lot of time at Zhills or Lk Wales throughout the 90s and 00s. You've listed your website in your DZdot com profile.

Same here. I built a recording studio in my basement and a custom guitar building business in my garage. Took all my time, money, and focus for a long time. Fortunately, luck wont be a factor in my getting my weight where I want it to be. It tends to go up when I'm not paying attention to it, but I've always had the ability to dial that right back in once my attention is focused on the problem, and its now fully focused :) Spent a few minutes browsing your website. I know you said “Other peoples opinions are merely hurdles constructed out of inanity”, ...but beautiful work!!

I drifted away for pretty much the same reasons (except the getting fat part), but for a bit longer. Really no excuses since I'm surrounded by world-class DZs. ....maybe one day before I get old ..........

Another -- using "due to" rather than "because of" or "as a result of". Probably perfectly correct, but for some reason it has always grated on my ears. Also, using "quantum leap" when describing a large advancement. But I usually ignore these types of things if I think I'm getting someone's meaning in the context the conversation. I usually only call someone on spelling and other misuses if I'm losing an argument and have no other response to support my position.

no no its beans beans the magical fruit. The more you eat the more you toot I have heard "musical" rather than "magical".

no no its beans beans the magical fruit. The more you eat the more you toot Nope! ...It's "beans, beans, they're good for your heart; the more you eat, the more you fart!" Prolly a regional thing.

Language slowly evolves through use or misuse ...even to the point that, in only a few hundred years, not only words, but pronunciation becomes unrecognizable. As a current example, the word "gender" really had little to do with "sex" until it did.

Um - National Defence - Yes - But National Healthcare is not in any founders document anywhere. Probably no National Road Building Clause either. Do you like using Interstate Highways? I sure do. I'd much rather drive your roads than Canadian roads. I wonder why the Interstate Highway System was built. ..or, for that matter, what the space program was really all about.

I bet that drives your spell checker up a wall.

Cool if that's the case. I don't have anything new enough to have a solid state drive so I can't say.

I've had mostly Dells, and IIRC, you have an option to create the "Recovery Disc". Best to do this when the computer is new. I think some other brands do it this way, too. Some other brands and some laptops have it included on a separate partition on the HD.

Might find some help with this (Hiren's Boot CD): You'll have to download the file and create the CD or bootable USB drive. Zip file download is a little over 600 MB. Extract the files and the tools & instructions are there to create the bootable media from the iso file. www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd www.hirensbootcd.org ccm.net/download/download-24112-hiren-s-bootcd Lots of handy utilities. It can boot to a "skeleton" version of Windows XP with options, and you may then be able to access and copy important files from your HD to a USB drive, etc. Maybe even use some of the utils to repair the HD long enough to salvage any files you need before the drive deteriorates further. The utilities included are handy to keep around even if they can't help with this particular problem right now. Or..if you get a new computer, you could try to set up the old HD as a secondary HD and copy what you can from there. Then toss it.

Weird side note but I'm hungry and now am really craving a stovetop can of pork and beans. Add Hormel light salt bacon pieces. Try this: Heat a can of pork & beans and dump onto your plate. Heat up a couple of cheap, cooked smoked pork sausages (Hillshire Farms, Bryan, etc.) in a frying pan with a little olive oil. I like to blister them a little. Pour a generous amount of chilled apple sauce (not the healthy natural kind) over the top of the beans and sausages.

Drove through there last year. Certainly not home to the brightest minds on the planet. We know how to survive. So do jellyfish. Can jellyfish salinate the water if it is too clean? Can they avoid predators? Can they vary their diet to allow for shortages in some areas and surplus in others? Can a jellyfish field strip and reassemble an AK? Can a jellyfish even get a can of pork & beans opened?