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Well, I'm not sure quite which emoji that would be?? Seems like :eek: would be the right one.
When I fall out of touch with somebody it means I can't remember where I buried it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Coming from a cat....that's some disturbing imagery.
It was :spam: actually, if you look at the emoji list it is there but it is listed as text instead of an icon.
It seems you have the same problem on the coding context thread where it inserted -insert facepalm- instead of the emoji.
Always under the roses, it's good as fertilizer.:cool:Quote:
When I fall out of touch with somebody it means I can't remember where I buried it.
I have a raised bed garden that managed to flood. It did this by having such a high clay content that the drain holes were blocked. This let the muck go somewhat anoxic. I've lately been turning that, and mixing in some material to break up the clay....but that muck sure does smell bad. Anoxic muck tends to smell bad.
I went visit my grandfather's house, this is the first time since before Laura. I went out to the swampy area where I like to hunt and couldn't recognize it, but sure could smell it.
Wet earth just smells weird.
You swamp dwellers are a bit strange. Wherever I have lived, swampy ground was, by definition, wet. How would a swampy area NOT smell wet? How wet would a swampy area smell?
I once knew a marketing executive that used to talk like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Sue him.
Sue him twice.
Then sue him again, for good measure.
I just ate a lunch that was so spicy that I had to drink various things and eat almost an entire head of iceberg lettuce to cool my mouth down.
Little known fact: If you see a head of iceberg lettuce floating in the water, only 10% of it is above the surface.
Another, better known fact: I made up the previous fact.
Unwarranted Assertion: A collision with iceberg lettuce has never sunk any large ship.
but may a collision with iceberg lettuce sink any large chip??
Only in its salad days.
The remaining 57% is hiding its bad math grades from its alcoholic father.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Give him more booze, it might work.
Bought two cords of wood from an urban forester, so I could get hardwood (there's darn little of it out here).
I have a space that I can stack almost exactly two cord. Last year, two cord didn't quite fill it, which was fine. The year before that, two cord filled it plus just a bit, which probably means that I got exactly two cords.
This time....by the time I had filled the space, I had moved a bit over HALF the wood, and I was getting a bit tired. I kept going until well after sunset, though, and got it all moved, though I haven't finished cleaning up the yard debris that remains. I estimate that my "two cords" was right around three. I had been intending not to use much this year, but now I have so much that I have to work through that excess just to get it out of the yard. Yeesh.
I'm not complaining too much about getting more than I paid for. My legs and back are complaining, my hands are complaining a bit, but the majority of me isn't complaining, so those parts that are, are being voted down. Still, I do wonder how this place figures out cords of wood? I suspect they just straight up guess, or base it on what looks right in the trailer. Maybe it's different people different years?
That last post is just because the Post Race was sliding down the board.
Oof, can't let that happen.
Just tried a bit of raking to get up the detritus from all that wood. It makes excellent kindling, as it is all wood chips with a bit of bark mixed in. I filled three barrels plus a wheelbarrow. That's enough kindling for two years....and I then filled my trash bin, and there is still some left over. That was a LOT of wood.
it is interesting that you use the word "cord" in the US for a volume of wood. This word comes from the french word "corde" which mean rope. In the past they were doing the measure of wood volume with a rope. It is funny because you have a translation for the word and could use the English term. It is like dday9 that use the word parrain instead of godfather.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
by the way, in France a cord is about 3 m3, sometimes a bit more depending of the area of the country. Sometimes, they give you a bit more in volume if the logs are large as they are more empty space.
In France, people use a lot of English words but just because it is hip or cool and half of them don't even know the real meaning of the words they use.
Keep the barks, it is very good to start the fire.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
This bark is ruff.
That pun is a dog.
I told the vicar it was a new tarpaulin. Single bead of rain. Regret.
Fin.
Fin???
Are you in fin-tech now?
That would be kind of dicey, but you ARE on a roll, now.
I feel you're being overly critical
My old boss used to keep a few D10 dice on his desk for when the salesmen came to ask him questions about how many zeroes we should add to the price of the crap we used to sell.
He thought that was a truly hilarious concept and used to tell everyone he could about it. The funniest thing is that he's still working there and I'm not. This makes me laugh and laugh.
And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh.
And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh.
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Ah ahahaaa. Yes it is actually rather brilliant.
When you think about it. I try not to.
Oh how I laughed though. How time gets away from us eh?
Why just D10?
Do you ever wonder if you are getting your money's worth from your ISP?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
No, I never wonder. I LOATHE my ISP, as does most everybody who uses them. The only reason I stick with them is that the other alternative is one of the most detested companies in the country.
My only two options are AT&T (30down/5up) or Hughs Net (25down).
We have another hurricane :(
At least I didn’t put everything back from the last one.
Whoa.....That is extremely surprising. I live in a place many would consider a 3rd world country yet my cheap internet connection is 100up/100down. I thought in first world countries like America you guys have like gigabit internet in your homes on the lower end. 30down/5up is like.......like I'd never expect that kind of thing in a 1st world country.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
I am sorry for you, that's too bad:(. You should really think about getting a house in the north to have a drop-off point if you have too move every few weeks.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
This is particularly true in the UK, where the only widespread infrastructure available (until recently, with the growing proliferation of FttC) is the PSTN phone network, which is now so incredibly old that the copper wires are simply failing a lot of the time. The PSTN cable to my house it at least 60 years old and used to go flaky when it rained. Before I swapped to FttC the old up down was something like 5 up, 0.2 down!Quote:
Originally Posted by Niya
The UK may be small enough to seem easy to fit with lots of lovely optic fibre, but the wobbly terrain and centuries old street layouts make this a nightmare for contractors.
We bought a camper a few months back, it was something my wife and I always wanted. Since I sold the business and paid off my house and truck, I figured what the hell and went ahead with the purchase.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delaney
Part of the reason we went with a travel trailer instead of a class C was that in the event of a hurricane we can take both my truck and the camper. My wife doesn't drive (never has had her license), so we had to take that into consideration.
I would take it for this hurricane, but this one was so fast forming that I really didn't have time. We found out about it yesterday, they were saying it would be a strong tropical storm, maybe a category 1, and so we decided not to leave. Now they're saying it is probably going to be a 2 and a we'll be taking a direct hit.
Its too late to leave now. I'm just going to weather this thing out.
Yeah, that was a sneaky storm. I had one of those narrowly miss us when I was living in the Keys. It's better when you get a bit of warning.
The US has notoriously slow and patchy internet service. We're getting better, but only slowly. Cities are getting better and better service, while rural areas are generally being left behind...with strange exceptions. We have a fish trap that has awesome internet, despite being at the end of the road in one of the most remote places in the lower 48 states. The local phone company must have put a relay station out there, for some reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niya
I keep hearing ads about fiber coming to...well, to places that don't include where I live, though I'm pretty much in a small city. It does mean that we'll get it at some point in the future, but if it is through my current ISP....I probably won't get it, because I LOATHE that company. They'd find a way to stick it to me over that.
The town I live outside of is a town of 2,200 people. There really isn't any incentive to run fiber optic here.
This has me rethinking whether the US should be classified as a 1st world country. I find this very surprising and strangely fascinating. I mean where I'm from, it's pretty normal to expect places like the US to have much better versions and all the things we have. I'd never expect something as common and as essential as internet to be so poorly implemented and in the country that invented it no less. This is really shocking to me that so many US citizens have such garbage internet. I never would have guessed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
I live in a village that most likely has a lot less people than that and as I suggested earlier, our entire country could be considered 3rd world. Yet, even in this village we have like 3 or 4 different choices of ISP and every single one of them offer packages that far exceed what you have. They have lower end packages but a couple of these ISPs offer very decent bandwidth for prices we would consider quite reasonable.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
I'm wondering if it's simply that you are using lower end packages. I'm curious, what do you pay for your 30down/5up. I want to compare it to similar packages offered here to see if you really have it that bad or if it's just the package you chose. Our 100up/100down connection is about $400/month in our local currency which translates to about $58 a month in US currency. The current exchange rate is $1 US to $6.80 of our local currency.
For all I know, we might be vastly over paying for our internet which could be a possible explanation for this disparity in quality between my country and the US.
I'm paying about $60 a month after their fees and theft (aka - taxes).
Wow, you guys are being ripped off. You're paying more money than we do for less bandwidth. This is truly sad. I just looked up pricing on a couple of packages offered by our local ISPs and the cheapest one I found closest to your package is one for $275/month or around $40 US/month and it's for 75down/10up. You're paying way too much for that internet connection you have there.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
I really hope the situation improves over there for you guys. A first world country like the US really shouldn't be offering it's citizens such ****** deals on internet bandwidth.
Well I just called because I looked on AT&T's website and apparently they offer a 75down with 20 up for the same price.
They told me I didn't qualify for it so I cancelled it. I then called them right back and got it setup under my wife's name. So now we'll get 75/20 for about $60/mo.
I'm curious. Why didn't you qualify?Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
I've been giving it a bit more thought and I think I figured why deals on bandwidth seem less reasonable in the US. It may not even be the deliberate on the part of US based ISPs. I imagine that ISPs pay a fixed amount of money for a specific amount of bandwidth which they then divide between their customers. My country is very small and very rural. We have only 2 major cities and they are not even close to comparable to even the smallest US cities. It might just be that on account of our relatively small population and more rural disposition, local ISPs can be more generous with how they share bandwidth. The US on the other hand has cities everywhere and I'm sure most are far larger and far more densely populated than anything we call a city over here. That's a lot of people that have to share bandwidth.
No idea and I pushed back because I've been an AT&T for my internet for about 8 years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niya
I'll give odds of twenty to one that it was because he was already a customer...Quote:
Why didn't you qualify?
So would I. The company that I do reluctant business with sent me an advertisement stating that I could get about 10x the speed I'm currently getting for about $5-10 more per month. I knew they were lying a bit about that, but it wasn't really a bad deal. Better yet, it was a "price for life", which I currently have, which would keep them from changing rates whenever they felt like it.
When I went to the web site, I found out that new customers were the only ones who could get that rate. If you were an existing customer, the rate was about %50 higher (not 50% of the 5-10 dollars, of course). Basically, they penalize you HEAVILY for loyalty. That's just one of the reasons I loathe them.
@Niya: I don't think you have it quite right, but also not quite wrong.
The US has multiple tiers of service. If you are really rural, you're probably completely out of luck. Keep in mind that the US is enormous. The providers don't want to be running cable dozens of miles to some little Podunk hamlet with half a dozen people, one cow, and an inebriated dog. It costs more than they can get back.
Electrification had the same issue, so the federal government created the rural electrification program to make it cost effective to get electricity, then phone service, all over the place. The same has not happened with internet, so whether you can get much of anything in some places is based more on whim than anything else. Hence the fish trap with crazy good internet service. So, the first tier is rural: Good luck, you have no idea what will be available until you ask.
The second tier is places like where I am: There are two providers, both of them among the most detested companies in the country for their business practices. You will either get service via cable or your phone company. There is ZERO competition for either one, so you choose one or the other and they are both free to do whatever they please. The price you pay is roughly what the other guy is charging, cause that's their only competition, and even that isn't very serious competition. You probably choose cable or phone for some reason, so you may not be able to freely switch from one to the other. Therefore, they don't have to be competitive with much of anybody, but when they do, it will be with a company that competes with them for rapacious business practices.
The third tier is bigger cities, in which case there can be multiple providers, competition, and all that comes with it. That's slowly spreading out from Boise, but hasn't reached my area. If it does, I'll be jumping off my current provider immediately...unless the new provider has proven to live down to the competition, by then.
The US is notorious for lagging in infrastructure in a variety of areas (roads, internet, public transportation, etc). A part of that has to do with the way some things are funded, and a big part has to do with the vast spaces that have to be crossed. The center of this country has a whole lot of...corn, cows, and not many people.
This hurricane is actually much worse that we had anticipated. Apparently its a few MPH lower than a category 3.
Growing fast, from the sound of it.
Quite the year. Florida has been missed by all of them, but the smaller target of Louisiana hasn't been missed by anything.