245 responses to “Sandbox – 28feb22”

1. 

   Scott O

   28 February 2022

   from the previous sandbox:
   S(capital S?)cenes 9:20 – first time I’ve seen that. Same person?
   “You wouldn’t like the price if your only source of electricity could charge anything it liked.”
   Ahem…
   Only the very hottest whores can charge ‘anything’ they like.
   I would dare any monopoly electrical company to start that crap. Because it wouldn’t just be my bill going up, it would be every ones’.
   My valid point was that the ‘regulators’ should only allow the energy utilities to produce and distribute their product at the lowest possible rate to the users and not involve themselves and the rate payers’ money in trendy political BS and ‘green’ experiments.
   Here’s what your laughable ‘regulators’ have done in CA:
   https://calmatters.org/california-divide/debt/2021/03/california-high-electricity-prices/

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   George Rebane

   28 February 2022

   We have intermittent internet now. The problem for those of us at the end of the DSL distribution tree that there is a PG&E noise source which the ATT guys discovered with the help of an AM radio. It started to hiss and squeal when they drove by the PG&E pole that transmitted the noise. According to the mavens in the bucket trucks, there are nine of us up here that have ‘dirty power’. The dirty power is picked up by our ATT modems which corrupt the packets before decoding, therefore increasing the packet error rates that require frequent resends, which, of course, cuts down our data bandwidth. When the noise gets real bad, then the modem basically quits functioning. This goes on and off during the day. PG&E is supposed to have their experts on site today to fix the noise source. More than you wanted to know.

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   Gregory

   28 February 2022

   I’m bpwing out of Walt’s graveside today… 1PM? I have sniffles and a cough that in saner times I’d place squarely on seasonal allergies as Mother Nature is behaving like it’s Spring. My condolences to all who knew and loved him.

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   Scott O

   28 February 2022

   Also from the old sandbox from BT:
   ““No one needs a new Porsche”. Who are you to tell me what I need or how to spend my greenies? Socialist/Marxist alert!!”
   I didn’t say “no one” should buy a Porsche – I said no one needs to buy a Porsche. I really don’t care who buys the damn things. It’s their money – their choice.
   Since they sell everything they make, I just didn’t understand scene’s bitching about the issues with the dealers and the factory. If there really is a problem, no one will buy them as no one actually needs them.

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   Scott O

   28 February 2022

   re George’s DSL issues – Thanks for the update. It was exactly what I wanted to know. We still have friends in Nevada County on DSL and I’ll pass that along to them for the next time they start having problems. It may have even been the problem for us at one time. They had 3 bucket trucks out that day working on the line trying to solve the issue and one guy admitted they were just going to “replace a bunch of stuff” and hope that it would solve the problem. It did.
   Credit given where it’s due – when we had DSL and there was a major snow dump that took out the power for over a week, ATT within one day had portable gens out running next to the DSL distribution boxes to keep the 110 volts DSL system going.

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6. 

   Gregory

   28 February 2022

   George, if the Nine move their modems onto UPS power … might that help? Nothing terribly expensive, just a $120 box from Costco or Staples.

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7. 

   scenes

   28 February 2022

   “George, if the Nine move their modems onto UPS power ”
   So the problem is coming in through the ‘lectric? I didn’t know it would make it through a wall wart.
   Maybe a power conditioner is the thing. My guess is that a UPS just kicks the battery and inverter in when the power goes down.

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8. 

   scenes

   28 February 2022

   “Only the very hottest whores can charge ‘anything’ they like.”
   That would be true.
   I’m making the point that public monopolies need price controls, and I’m not aware of a good way of making your own power unless your property has a good drop and a year-round creek. Since they’re midway between genuine free markets and full-on gubmint, you’re bound to get a half-assed solution.
   Reminds me of a story. From Viktor Suvorov about his time growing up and then in the Soviet Army (apologies for the length, but it’s hard to edit, hopefully George forgives me, but this is the Sandbox). Government enterprise in action:

   The next morning, the Director of the Chemical Combine telephoned
   to the Regional Committee and said that, if the collective farms did not,
   during the next twenty-four hours, collect the free fertilizer presented to
   them, the Chemical Combine would come to a standstill: all its tanks
   were full to overflowing with excess fertilizer production and there was
   nowhere to put current production.
   There followed a series of insistent calls from the Regional Committee
   to all the small District Committees, and from them to all collective
   farms. Each of the fifty regional collectives had immediately to take
   away the 150 tons of the fertilizer presented by the Combine. The news
   that our own collective had been given such an amount of fertilizer free
   of charge did not please our Chairman. Our collective farm owned
   seventeen lorries, but only three of these had tanks. One was used for
   milk, another for water, the third for petrol. Those used for milk and
   water could not possibly be used for liquid fertilizer. There remained
   only the one used for petrol. The lorry was old and battered beyond
   recall. The capacity of its tank was one and a half tons of liquid. The
   distance from our collective farm to town was seventy-three kilometres;
   taking into consideration the state of our road, that meant five hours there
   and five hours back. I was the driver of this lorry.
   ‘Now look here,’ said the Chairman, ‘if you do not sleep for twenty-four
   hours, if your battery does not pack up, if your radiator does not melt
   with the heat, if your gear-box does not jam, if your lorry does not get
   stuck in the mud, you can do two trips in twenty-four hours, and bring
   back three tons of this bloody fertilizer. But you have to do, not two, but
   a hundred trips!’
   ‘Right,’ I said.
   ‘That is not all,’ he said. ‘We are short of petrol. Of course I will give
   you petrol for three trips but, for the remaining ninety-seven, do the best
   you can. Push your lorry with your arse if you have to!’
   ‘Right,’ I said.
   ‘You are our only hope. If you cannot do a hundred trips, you know
   only too well I will be dismissed from the chairmanship.’
   I knew it. I knew also that, although our chairman was not to everyone’s
   liking, nevertheless his replacement was a bloody sight worse.
   ‘Any questions?’
   ‘Yes. Even if I do a hundred trips – without petrol – where shall I put all
   this fertilizer?’
   The Chairman glanced anxiously round the broad farmyard and
   scratched the back of his head. Where indeed? 150 tons of liquid,
   poisonous, stinking matter? Lenin’s birthday is in April, worse luck, but
   the fertilizer only goes on the soil in June. So where to keep the fertilizer
   until June?
   ‘Look here,’ he said. ‘Don’t start nattering on about it. Get yourself to
   town as soon as possible. All the region’s farms are busy with the same
   problem. Somebody may have some bright idea. You just watch what the
   others do and then you do the same. Get a move on! And don’t return
   unless you’ve succeeded.’
   I sighed, spat on my palms like a boxer before a fight, then got into my
   wretched lorry and set off to town over the bumps, pot-holes and huge
   puddles, which the spring sun had not yet dried up.
   There was a long queue of trucks of different makes, dimensions and
   colours standing outside the Chemical Combine. But the queue was
   moving fast. I soon discovered that lorries, which had only a moment
   before been loaded, were already returning and taking up new places in
   the queue. Every one of these lorries ostensibly needed many hours to
   deliver its valuable load to its destination and then to return. But they
   rejoined the queue in a matter of minutes. Then came my turn. My tanks
   were rapidly filled with the foul-smelling liquid and the man in charge
   marked down on his list that my native kolkhoz had just received the first
   one and a half tons of fertilizer. I drove my lorry out through the
   Combine’s gates and followed the group of lorries which had loaded up
   before mine. All of them, as if at a word of command, turned off the road
   and descended a steep slope towards the bank of the river Dnieper. I did
   the same. In no time at all, they had emptied their tanks. I did the same.
   Over the smooth surface of the great river, the cradle of the Russian
   civilisation, slowly spread a huge poisonous, yellow, stinking stain.
   Having emptied my tank, I headed again for the Combine and another
   one and a half tons of fertilizer were marked off for our kolkhoz. And so
   it went on. The work proceeded vigorously and noisily. Tens of lorries,
   hundreds of trips, thousands of tons! Never in my life have I seen so
   many fish. And I would never have believed that
   there were so many fish in the Dnieper. The whole surface of the river,
   from one side to the other, was crammed with the dead bodies of pike,
   bream and other fish. And still the lorries came, in a never-ending
   stream. And every driver knew that, if we did not succeed in emptying
   the gigantic reservoirs of that huge Combine, it would grind to a halt -and
   this would be a crime for which our unfortunate Chairman would have to
   bear responsibility.

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9. 

   Gregory

   28 February 2022

   “So the problem is coming in through the ‘lectric?”
   That seems to be the moral of George’s story.

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10. 

    Bill Tozer

    28 February 2022

    From the Canadian Border to Mexico, the Pacific Coastal states are school mask mandate free. CA,OR, and WA

    https://www.dailywire.com/news/california-washington-oregon-to-lift-school-mask-mandates

    ‘It’s A State Of The Union Miracle!’: Cruz Mocks White House Dropping Mask Requirement Hours Before Biden’s SOTU
    https://www.dailywire.com/news/its-a-state-of-the-union-miracle-cruz-mocks-white-house-dropping-mask-requirement-hours-before-bidens-sotu

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11. 

    Scott O

    28 February 2022

    That fella in Truckee better move over – the street hustlers from da hood are wise to where the real money is:
    https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-young-people-of-color-can-save-the-earth-and-build-wealth-while-theyre-at-it-11645831401?mod=home-page
    This chap has the message down cold for his brothers –
    “One of the most exciting experiences I’ve had in my career was founding Cloverly, a clean tech company that helps brands create carbon-neutral or carbon-negative experiences for their customers. This was the first-to-market sustainability-as-a-service platform, which calculates and purchases carbon reduction solutions to neutralize the environmental impact of every transaction.”
    Yep! EVERY transaction!
    Nice little business ya got here – be a shame to have the public find out ya aint doin’ business with us to “neutralize” yer carbon footprint.

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12. 

    Bill Tozer

    28 February 2022

    So the problem is coming in through the ‘lectric?”
    This will not help the present, but back in the day of analog cable, there was a head scratching end of line problem knocking out a whole bunch of customers intermittently. Trips to the truck, trips to the (forget the names of the line boosters): trips to the headend, trips up and down the street looking for leakage or ingress. Every piece of equipment monitored, still no solve the ghost problem. Every line to House checked. No impedance mismatch, no out of bounds signal leakage.
    Turns out it was a particular brand of cordless phones when those Jerry Steinfield big cordless phone were coming out and dropping in price. It was one of that particular cordless phones that was back feeding electrical pulses on a certain frequency that was the problem. Solution: buy the lady a new phone. Problem reoccurred, but for her neighbors down the street. But, this time we knew what to look for. Another of the exact same bargain brand cheap cordless phone was found. Go figure. A phone‘s frequency and AC wiring got foreign electrical pulses in the system.
    Big cumbersome testing equipment back then could not do 1/ 10 of the functions a expensive hand held devise can do now.
    The 22 bullet found in the feeder line off the truck solved another problems after months of ghosts.

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13. 

    Scott O

    28 February 2022

    Looking back at George’s post, I’m thinking the “noise” is inductive to the phone lines?
    Yes? No?

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14. 

    Bill Tozer

    28 February 2022

    Dr. Rebane. Thought I saw you today up at the cemetary. You are bigger than I thought. Pictured you as shorter, so the cameras do lie. I was about to introduce myself, but you and your bride exited towards the street, if that was you. Turned around and you where almost gone.
    yep, I could see that man splitting firewood on occassion. I was too choked up to speak anyway. Went to introduce myself to Mrs. Walt, but could not get any words out. Opened my mouth and nothing came out, so I too walked away. What a beautiful family.

    The ancients spoke about a friend that sticks closer than a brother.

    Scott, now that I think about it, it was one of those phones you plug the homebase into the AC outlet and the other auxiliary phones would use the power outlets for dial tone. And the name of boosters where called amplifiers. Then came nodes and virtual splits and new terminology.

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15. 

    Scott O

    28 February 2022

    Bill – thanks for your thoughts of the service and your interaction with Walt’s widow. I wish I could have been there. I probably wouldn’t have had much to say myself. What is there to say that probably wasn’t already said?
    I never met Walt yet feel I knew him better than many I see on a regular basis.

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16. 

    Scott O

    28 February 2022

    scenes 3:27 – “I’m making the point that public monopolies need price controls…”
    I quite agree and am wondering what happened to the ‘control’?
    In 2014 Idaho Power charged .06 dollars a KW. Didn’t matter how much or when you used it. Then the ‘controls’ kicked in. They deliberately shut down a perfectly good power plant with decades left of use and told the rate payers this was to ‘save’ us money.
    But of course in order to save us money we needed a rate increase. Now we pay more the more we use even though that is the inverse of how most all wholesale and retail works. If we use more than a given amount a month we start paying a ‘sin’ rate for overuse but of course we are told by the same outfit that we need to buy an electric car. Do we then get a discount if the overuse is for a ‘good’ cause? Of course not! If my current 3 motor vehicles were added to my usage I would be charged even at a higher rate. Please save me from ‘price control’. It’s costing me money.

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17. 

    Barry Pruett

    28 February 2022

    Love the dipstick joke!

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18. 

    Scott O

    28 February 2022

    Bill 6:01 – “the other auxiliary phones would use the power outlets for dial tone.”
    Huh?
    Dial tone comes from the DC power from the phone company. Are you saying these old phones were using the house wiring to communicate with each other rather than using a radio freg as they do now? Weird. I remember the old schemes cooked up where the internet would piggyback signals through the power lines. It worked great in theory but the transformers in the system rendered it a no-go.

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19. 

    scenes

    28 February 2022

    ” I quite agree and am wondering what happened to the ‘control’?”
    I wish I had more visibility into who actually runs utilities.
    It strikes me as too pat an answer to say “IT’S FOR THE MILLIONAIRE EXECUTIVES”.
    In the case of PG&E, is it decades of institutional cruft that makes them a poor supplier? evil executives? impossible to satisfy special interest groups? incompetent government oversight? hereditary government boards?
    probably ‘yes’, but it would be nice to have real knowledge.

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20. 

    Bill Tozer

    28 February 2022

    Scott. No. The only electricity needed for phone was a 13 volt system for the phone ringer. For about 80- 100 years, the biggest change in the Ma Bell phone system was the change from pulse to tone. Phone was so easy back then that all it took was a four hour class, including lunch and drive time home. 🙂
    I have seen some old old technology and items ‘As Seen On TV!’ folks were using I never saw before. It’s fuzzy up in the backroads of my mind tonight, but at one time there were phones that, as mentioned above, one would plug in the base station into the phone outlet and use the ac lines in the house to carry the dial tone to ac outlets in other rooms via the electrical lines. The base station’s so-called ‘wireless” handset phone would let you go about 12-18feet max.
    I have seen some old stuff for sure using the same idea. Plugging a little devise into AC 110w outlet that worked as an antenna for TVs plugged into wall without antenna or cable outlets in a room. When they built those new outlets in days of yore, the modern home came with the wall phone in the kitchen and one tv connection in the living room. They never foresaw folks having tvs or phones in multiple rooms.
    I have seen old dialup internet connections using the same principle with using the house’s electrical wiring to send the signal to a printer/fax machine on another level in the house. That stuff is all at the dump now.
    That was before CAT 3, CAT 4, CAT 6 and 8. Nevada City still had old homes with the three wire, one of the three wires was a thick ground wire, lol.
    I never worked,for,the phone company, but know enough how the DSL system worked and why it is obsolete. So, I ain’t offering no advice. Voice of Internet IP, true VoIP not the misnamed VoIP that uses public internet systems. Fiber was the game changer. Before that, HD was a game changer. Before that, digital TV, before that…….Community Antenna Television….CATV, which meant community antenna until people erroneously called CATV “cable television”.
    Anyway, it worked back then that your could send dial tone down a long barbed wire fence on a long lonely road to grandma’s house. And it worked…Party lines and all. Some folks strung a line from Colfax to Iowa Hill and it worked for 6 homes for years. Just need 13 volts for the ring tone.
    My greatest find back then was probably one of the first tv remotes ever made. On the kitchen table was a nice crafted polished wooden box about the height of a inch or two bigger than a cigar box. From that box (with a plunger on top ) ran a cord to the TV. Remember 5 clear channels was considered great back in the day. The guy using it would push on the plunger to change the channels. Probably Dr. Rebane invented it, lol.
    The old fellar did not even know what a real remote looked like. I told him that when his antique tube TV finally gives up the ghost, his new TV will come with a wireless remote! Not sure he was ready for that, lol.
    ——————-
    Man, I cried so much at Walt’s funeral today I could barely hold it back. Caught me off guard as I have been to too many funerals. At the end I wanted to meet Jackie. Tried to say, “Hi, I am Bill Tozer.” I opened my mouth and just groans weird ass sounds and tears came out. “Hello, my name is….groan, moan, high pitched sounds gasps came out. I hugged the sweet woman, she hugged me back and held me and I told her that if she ever needs anything, even free yard work or help moving something, anything will be there for her. She told me she was not Jackie, but Jackie’s friend and asked if I needed a tissue. Opps. I did sign the book so in time Walt’s daughters and wife would know I was there.
    Like you, I never met Walt, but I think I once was parked somewhere in his way and he let me know. :).

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21. 

    Paul’s Stand-In

    01 March 2022

    hile democracy is under attack in Europe, GOP plots to destroy democracy in America
    https://www.rawstory.com/while-democracy-is-under-in-europe-gop-plots-to-destroy-democracy-in-america/

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22. 

    Gregory

    01 March 2022

    toes 818pm
    first, thanks for the report back from Bre’r Walt’s going away party.
    second, sorry not sorry , no such thing as “Voice of Internet IP, true VoIP not the misnamed VoIP that uses public internet systems”. Voice over IP/Voice over Internet Protocol is the same sh*t… the endpoint don’t care if it’s on a public internet or private internet… just can the packets I’m trying to throw away get to where I’ve been pointed?
    I was writing code and representing both US Robotics and Cisco at International Multimedia Travel Club (the joke name my boss hated) meetings for a number of years, starting with H.324 (over point to point links), H.323 (Voice over IP) and SIP. Used a prototype Cisco H.323 endpoint over Frame Relay back to the Cisco mother ship circa ’99 for my phone in my home office.
    Also Fax over IP which has another set of issues. I was fixing bugs from my Nirvana Silly address by generating a fax call from a really cheap fax machine over a POTS line, to a gateway in the bowels of Cisco in San Jose, which would IP over to another gateway in the bowels of Cisco and then out to call in to my second POTS line into a PC with a fax/modem port and I’d see the call progress from my periscopes into the gateways. It was the best setup in the company.
    I never worked for a telco either, but it took about a year to ship gateways for the first million endpoints.

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23. 

    Gregory

    01 March 2022

    btw
    Temperatures aren’t exactly plummeting but they definitely ain’t going up:
    https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/UAH_LT_1979_thru_February_2022_v6.jpg

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24. 

    George Rebane

    01 March 2022

    Bro Walt’s funeral was proper and moving. The local veterans supplied the bugle for Taps and the honor guard for the three-gun salute. The assembled crowd was appropriately sized and several of the family and friends offered their ‘Walt stories’. The officiating pastor’s watch ran a little slow, thereby stretching the promised ten-minute scripture readings to over 20 minutes. I think that comes with the territory for men of the cloth; the watches they’re issued all run a mite slowly. I think Walt would have understood. Jo Ann and I had to leave after the graveside service because I didn’t want to pass on my cold to others in an enclosed room. I still have a bottle of rye from Ireland that Walt gave me on his return – I will cherish it slowly.
    The nine customers at the end of the local DSL tree are now up and running. Both PGE and ATT were out here on our land with their bucket trucks this morning, having isolated the noisy power source to a faulty surge suppressor that was very old, leaky, and should not have been installed there in the first place. According to the PGE mavens, it transmitted both RF and line noise into our neighborhood. Because it was near our power meter and house, we were impacted the most. And this apparently has been going on for at least 20 years. Now we’ll see if the service survives the coming rain later in the week. Lack of internet for almost two weeks and getting a cold from the tech confirms that ATT is the gift that keeps on giving.

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25. 

    Gregory

    01 March 2022

    George, congrats on your gremlin being found and dispatched. “Squirrel chews”, the bane of my POTS and DSL existence here in/on Kentucky Flat, were always comparatively easy to get tracked down when the service got degraded enough for me to bitch loudly.
    The Irish rye sounds wonderful. Bittersweet now, no doubt.

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26. 

    Bill Tozer

    01 March 2022

    Dr. Rebane. “Bro Walt’s funeral was proper and moving.” Yes it was. When the Air Force representatives folded the flag over the casket and handed it to Jackie, that is when the stiff upper lip went out of the window. Couldn’t hear the stories about Brother Walt, save one. I will relay it to the readers.
    Walt’s oldest daughter and first born had a flat on the highway and called Dad. Dad showed up in his pick-up as usual to the rescue and said to her, “You are going to learn how to change a tire. There is probably a jack in the truck.”
    So, the daughter was out there on the highway jacking up the car and changing the tire, as Walt grabbed his usual orange vest and stood by watching. She said cars were passing by and some honking and yelling at Walt, seeing a grown man standing there watching a young woman changing a tire, not offering the damsel in distress any aid, the worthless bastard. (The worthless bastard part I added). She ended the story by saying that because of her dad, this is one girl that knows how to change a tire!
    All family members (that I could hear) spoke of Walt being a keyboard warrior and by inference, loved coming over here. Although I could not hear as I behind those who spoke and they faced the casket, I caught parts of a story how Walt said to one daughter that she had to wait because he wanted to run and go say hi to those on RR first.
    If only we knew how much RR meant to him and if only he knew how much he meant to us….me…speaking solely for myself. The three gun salute seemed louder and crisper than any I can recall. I was so messed up I could not maintain my composure…so I did not go to the reception following.
    This one hurt. Been to a lot of funerals for contemporaries and parents, but this one got to me big time, more than any other. But, it ain’t about me.
    Walt was both deeply loved and he loved deeply. Walt is in a bigger tent now. I love ya, Brother Walt. See ya again in due time.

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27. 

    Bill Tozer

    01 March 2022

    Gregory. I see we have a difference of opinion here on VoIP private (superior) and VoIP the lesser. Hey, that was how I was schooled. Cutting edge, baby. Our team is red hot, your team ain’t diddley squat. Cisco Kid was a friend of mine. 🙂 I will concede the point about the end user, since they don’t know how good it could be anyway. I only know one side of modem and could make ‘em scream at 50MB down when folks that 6MB was fast. Just give me something to work with and I’d do rest.
    But, for some odd reason, just didn’t care to learn much about the other side of the modem, the dreaded customer owner computer devise. Still don’t. Just fix the sucker.
    On the other side it’s, “Hey, where is the go-back button? Dang it. I watched a you tube video on how to copy and paste. Fake it til you make it. If you can’t dazzle them with your brilliance, then baffle them with your horse pucky.
    A faulty surge protector, eh? “So the problem is coming in through the ‘lectric?” The Ghost of Hind Tit Holler. Something about that word ‘lectric’ triggered something from way back. I knew a guy who was one of those model train enthusiasts, with a yearly tour of his backyard train set. He said once he had a problem and tore just about everything out, including the the little train station and checked all the wiring and replaced some connectors and still no workie. It was an empty soda can on the rails he didn’t see.
    ————-
    Hey Scott O. Re: Inside 110w…forgot to tell ya what each phone plugged into the AC outlet had a little box/converter with a phone line attached. Same with dial up. Tiny outlet cover boxes to plug into wall and you got dial up in another room!

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28. 

    Don Bessee

    01 March 2022

    This tells the whole story about creepy grampa joe. LETS GO BRANDON! –
    https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/03/01/oil-prices-climbed-higher-during-bidens-state-of-the-union/
    😉

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29. 

    fish

    01 March 2022

    State of the Union…..eeeewww……Elder abuse!
    THAT WRINKLED OLD PUPPET IS SCARING ME MOMMY!!!!

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30. 

    Don Bessee

    01 March 2022

    OH the pain, the pain of being a lefty propping up creepy grampa joe –
    ‘A Pound of Ukrainian People’? 10 Brain Freezes in Joe Biden’s State of the Union Delivery
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/01/joe-bidens-stumbles-through-state-of-the-union/
    😉

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31. 

    Don Bessee

    01 March 2022

    Well there is one problem with this idea, how do the addict homeless factor in? What will keep them out and from destroying it all? –
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/newsom-announces-296m-green-grants-042433512.html
    😉

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32. 

    Don Bessee

    01 March 2022

    HUH why for what?
    https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/03/01/biden-claims-they-will-be-able-to-deploy-new-vaccines-in-100-days/
    😉

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33. 

    fish

    02 March 2022

    Sacramento mass shooter wasn’t supposed to have a gun. His restraining order didn’t stop him*
    So we’ve been right all these years……?
    * from the reliably worthless and idiotically paywalled SacBee

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34. 

    scenes

    02 March 2022

    In local news:
    https://www.theunion.com/news/hearing-on-door-tiff-opens-elections-office-staff-say-they-felt-unsafe-as-recall-supporters-tried-to-barge-in/
    OK, I get it. The ‘My Rules’ gals sounds like a complete harridan. It could be that the Petition People weren’t 100% polite, although you couldn’t tell that from the video. ‘Say they felt unsafe’ lol, no doubt. It’s probably an employee list that draws from the risk-intolerant teacher population.
    Naturally, there’s a Hearing. Gotta have a Hearing. Burn up lotsa lawyering and judging time, everyone tell their official story. Hopefully more hearings.
    God save me from the modern world.

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35. 

    fish

    02 March 2022

    ‘What the hell is she doing?’ Nancy Pelosi distracts viewers during State of Union by jumping out her seat, rubbing her knuckles and grinding her teeth while Biden speaks solemnly about toxic burn pits
    I don’t see what the big deal is here. A sane person might need a drink or eight to listen to The Pride of Scranton bumble his way through an extended address.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10569077/What-hell-doing-Nancy-Pelosis-bizarre-behavior-distracts-State-Union-viewers.html

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    fish

    02 March 2022

    OK….my long term report on SFgate.com. They hate racists (everything though it seems….except Disneyland is racist….oh yeah…and burritos ….those aren’t racist either except maybe from corporate burrito vendors! Looking at you Chipotle), feel that the reader absolutely must know that they all have same sex partners, like to eat burritos (probably to not seem racist), and, as mentioned earlier are really, really, really preoccupied with Disneyland.
    What a waste of fucking electrons….

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    George Rebane

    02 March 2022

    re fish 909am – I too was stunned by Pelosi’s performance during the SOTU. Most of the time she sat there with an pasted-on exaggerated smile on her face that reminded me of certain institutionalized wretches who are given their periodic medications as they sit in their assigned chairs all day – watching but understanding nothing. Was this intentional, or has Nancy started her slide?

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    fish

    02 March 2022

    Posted by: George Rebane | 02 March 2022 at 10:21 AM
    …..or has Nancy started her slide?
    The whole of the democrat party leadership seems to be in the midst of some sort of decrepitude cascade.

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    Bill Tozer

    02 March 2022

    fish @ 9:09
    Lol. Thanks for the morning chuckle.
    “Some asked if she was ‘OK’ while others remarked that she looked like she was ‘on drugs or drunk’ “. She always looks that way, but a least she got her face to quit sliding to the side.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf-frtZJu7M
    Anyway, I could not subject myself to the SOTUS and having a less pain threshold than my days of Wine and Roses, I didn’t. Made me sleep better. Old Chuckie jumped the gun as well. Timing was a bit off if you ready to stand and applaud reading the script and Biden has a brain freeze. That one (of two) R Congresswomen who Raw Story hates the most became a yeller, lol. How disrespectful. Shame on her. That’s just doing a quick headline scan. I have seen enough, thank you very much.
    We should have a designated person here to suffer through watching things like SOTUS and Kamala Harris interviews. I am not that much of a glutton for punishment, so any volunteer but me. Some blogs and websites have a designated NYT reader. The mystery reader.

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    Gregory

    02 March 2022

    Toes
    “Gregory. I see we have a difference of opinion here on VoIP private (superior) and VoIP the lesser. Hey, that was how I was schooled.”
    Did you graduate?
    It sounds like sales and marketing blather to me.

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    Gregory

    02 March 2022

    I kept waiting for the ceremonial ripping the speech in two by the Speaker.

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    scenes

    02 March 2022

    “I kept waiting for the ceremonial ripping the speech in two by the Speaker.”
    The trick in a gerontocracy is to keep the speech thin enough to tear.

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    scenes

    02 March 2022

    “Most of the time she sat there with an pasted-on exaggerated smile on her face…”
    The proper term is ‘rictus’.

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    fish

    02 March 2022

    Posted by: scenes | 02 March 2022 at 12:32 PM
    The proper term is ‘rictus’.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cROY4m4Ftiw

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    scenes

    02 March 2022

    To anyone who watched the SOTU, did President Potato actually do this? or is it just a BS Twitter thing?
    https://twitter.com/JetsenSunday/status/1498850133319970816

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    Gregory

    02 March 2022

    Xiden did indeed say “Iranian”. I mentioned it to my wife who didn’t hear it, but I did and added a 3 second pour to my cuppa Rye as a bona fide senior moment for El Presidente.

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47. 

    scenes

    02 March 2022

    lol. We are about five minutes removed from a line of aged dignitaries solemnly waving as a parade of missile trucks steams by.

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    Bill Tozer

    02 March 2022

    Gregory @ 11:28 am
    Graduate? Yep, I graduated from high school. It was touch and go my senior year, but I refocused at the end and finished it. Oh, I passed the VoIP class. Can’t remember if it was a one or two day class. :).
    I can’t code. Did fail the computer class. It was a bonehead beginners “how to use a computer class’ designed for those who may not feel comfortable with or never been on a computer. It was a last ditch effort to bring the resistant into the brave new word.
    The instructor opened the class with person sitting at an old computer by saying “left click the mouse” to follow along. I was the only one in the room to not know what a mouse was or ever heard of lingo like DOS or ‘Word’.
    There was probably five minutes spent on voice over private network verses voice over public internet and it was a test question that I passed.
    So, yeah, it probably did come marketing or the boyz in the lab or the equipment manufacture. I am a college dropout myself. I am glad you are still involved and doing jobs and inventing stuff. That recent retirement of yours did not last long.

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    Bill Tozer

    02 March 2022

    About last night
    AN SOTU POSTSCRIPT
    “And am I the only one who thinks that, with the plastic surgery she has had, Pelosi has taken on something of the air of a high school girl, as in this performance during the SOTU?
    Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Kamala Harris, in close proximity as they were last night, give off a force field of weirdness.“
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/03/an-sotu-postscript.php

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    Bill Tozer

    02 March 2022

    re: dipstick
    “Translation from PolitiFactSpeak: This statement is accurate but terribly inconvenient to our agenda.”
    ‘More great moments in “fact” checking: Politifact gives Bartiromo a “mostly false” rating while confirming accuracy’
    https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2022/03/01/more-great-moments-in-fact-checking-politifact-gives-bartiromo-a-mostly-false-rating-while-confirming-accuracy-n452127
    Well, whether it is 500,000 (half a million) or 595, 000 barrels of oil a day we import from Russia is for others to quibble about. The fact remains that the USA now imports more oil from Putin than the horrid journalist killing Saudi Arabia….Trump’s buddy. Opps, both are Trump’s little buddies.

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