Post Race!

[Shaggy Hiker]

It would be misplaced. There's a whole site devoted to palindromes.

[szlamany]

It would be misplaced. There's a whole site devoted to palindromes.

Wow!

[Shaggy Hiker]

Don't the Spanish use exclamation points at either end of a word? Wow and Mom are not just palindromes, because they also have a rotational symmetry with one another. If you add in exclamation points at either end, you almost still have the same result (except that exclamation points are not, themselves, symmetrical when flipped vertically).

[dday9]

Alt + 0161 ¡

[dday9]

¡wow!

[RobDog888]

Made more progress packing up the stuff in my room yesterday. My large closet (double sliding wardrobe mirror doors) is nearly empty. Downsizing to just under half that size at my wifes house. Packing 20 years of "stuff" isnt fun until you find things from the past or back in the day lol

[Shaggy Hiker]

That's why I've said that if I move I'm selling the place as is. Not really true, but it's the way I feel about it.

[RobDog888]

I kinda wish I could sell the house. Its a pita to rent it out to strangers and my daughter cant afford to get her own place yet so for now I pay the majority of the mortgage. No room for the 3 of them at wifes house unless we expand which will cost thousands and thousands. Sucky situation but it is what it is at least for now.

[dday9]

I'm taking my series 6 on Thursday.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'm annoyed at Microsoft, at the moment, but it doesn't matter cause the thing that annoyed me was an installation, and I can't remember why I was doing that install in the first place.

[dday9]

Who is the member that calls Microsoft "Mickeysoft"?

[passel]

Is that a rhetorical question, or were you looking for someone like "Honduras 2811" or "King_Ging" or "dirty_howi", etc...

[dday9]

No, there was somebody in the CC who always hated MS and called it Mickeysoft. I just can't remember who.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Who is the member that calls Microsoft "Mickeysoft"?

I thought there was a member with that name, either here or somewhere else.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Well, not here, I guess.

[RobDog888]

Morning guys!

dday its here - http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...ght=Mickeysoft

[RobDog888]

I'm annoyed at Microsoft, at the moment, but it doesn't matter cause the thing that annoyed me was an installation, and I can't remember why I was doing that install in the first place.

The memory is the first thing to go they say

[RobDog888]

I'm taking my series 6 on Thursday.

Good luck!

[FunkyDexter]

It was one of the VB6 supporters who resented them for moving to .Net. I can't remember who though.

[FunkyDexter]

Ah, RD beat me to it.

[dday9]

I'm redeveloping my tutorial website. Here's a sneak peak: .

[homer13j]

It was one of the VB6 supporters who resented them for moving to .Net. I can't remember who though.

Ah, those were some fun times.

[dday9]

I just got from an ultrasound. They found a nodule on one of my jewels... thankfully it isn't the big C, just a scrotum hematoma as a result from my vasectomy.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Maybe it's an oyster. Oysters usually produce pearls, it's only fair that pearls return the favor.

[homer13j]

Wow, I just read the last few dozen posts in Tyson's latest Republican Hate Thread™ and I feel like I need a shower. I find it hard to believe that all that childish baiting and name-calling aren't blatant violations of this site's terms of use, yet I post a mildly racy comedy bit here and some humorless admin deletes it within hours.

Obviously it's perfectly acceptible to this site's admins to call our president a "buffoon" and Republicans "pieces of ****" but hey, no sexual innuendo! This is a family site!

No wonder this site is fading away. This place used to be fun, informative, engaging, intellectually challenging and BUSY. Now it seems it's nothing more than a bunch of ideological hatred and the random (clean) bullpoopie that is Post Race.

[RobDog888]

Wow, I just read the last few dozen posts in Tyson's latest Republican Hate Thread™ and I feel like I need a shower. I find it hard to believe that all that childish baiting and name-calling aren't blatant violations of this site's terms of use, yet I post a mildly racy comedy bit here and some humorless admin deletes it within hours.

Obviously it's perfectly acceptible to this site's admins to call our president a "buffoon" and Republicans "pieces of ****" but hey, no sexual innuendo! This is a family site!

No wonder this site is fading away. This place used to be fun, informative, engaging, intellectually challenging and BUSY. Now it seems it's nothing more than a bunch of ideological hatred and the random (clean) bullpoopie that is Post Race.

The primary way a post comment can be dealt with is by reporting it. His thread is long and we cant be everywhere. Appreciate any assistance members provide us so we can review it for any site violations

[RobDog888]

I just got from an ultrasound. They found a nodule on one of my jewels... thankfully it isn't the big C, just a scrotum hematoma as a result from my vasectomy.

You got snipped? So the picture on your website isnt up to date or you just decided to get snipped at a young age?

[dday9]

I'm 25. I've had two kids and my wife has some serious complications as it is, so I decided I might as well.

[RobDog888]

Ah I see. My wife cant get prego for risk of death. So know what you mean

[dday9]

@homer - I have gone in that thread and I'm cleaning up all the profanity. I'll have to write a love note and close it down too.

[szlamany]

Wow, I just read the last few dozen posts in Tyson's latest Republican Hate Thread™ and I feel like I need a shower. I find it hard to believe that all that childish baiting and name-calling aren't blatant violations of this site's terms of use, yet I post a mildly racy comedy bit here and some humorless admin deletes it within hours.

Obviously it's perfectly acceptible to this site's admins to call our president a "buffoon" and Republicans "pieces of ****" but hey, no sexual innuendo! This is a family site!

No wonder this site is fading away. This place used to be fun, informative, engaging, intellectually challenging and BUSY. Now it seems it's nothing more than a bunch of ideological hatred and the random (clean) bullpoopie that is Post Race.

I told the admins about this in forum feedback a month ago.

Most days I just close the page...

[dday9]

I don't mind getting political and having political discussions, but that particular thread went beyond what it should have.

[dday9]

For example, I consider myself a deep conservative, but I think that Trump is a terrible president. I have been very critical of Trump his entire presidency, but at the same time, I give him praise where praise is due.

Trump has a bad problem with how he is perceived, most of that is his own doing, though not all. Trump also has a problem of flipping too much, the most recent example is the house's heath care bill. A month ago the plan was a "great plan", "very, very incredibly well-crafted", and of course "we want to brag about the plan." Then as of yesterday, the bill is "mean."

Where I found Trump has done well is through his nomination and subsequent approval of Supreme Court Judge Neil Gorsuch, aside from that all he has really done is some historical flights in the Middle East and has really done well with stopping illegal immigration (though it was being slowed when he took office, to his credit it was slowing because it was ramped up so high).

The reason I say that Trump has been a terrible president is that he hasn't gotten any legislation passed, he hasn't really improved the economy, and he continues to time and time again to shoot himself in the foot. If he would get away from the fibbing unemployment model deployed under Obama and show significant improvements there along with getting his goal of an average of 4% GDP growth, then all of his ill-perceived notions won't matter. To this, I refer to President Reagan, in his last 4 years he was riddled with the Iran-Contra scandal, but everybody remembers the economic boom of the 80's and this is because of the GDP growth during that time (I think he averaged like 7% which is phenomenal).

[dday9]

Today I take my series 6.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Obviously it's perfectly acceptible to this site's admins to call our president a "buffoon" and Republicans "pieces of ****" but hey, no sexual innuendo! This is a family site!

Rookie! I got banned over one of those.

No wonder this site is fading away. This place used to be fun, informative, engaging, intellectually challenging and BUSY. Now it seems it's nothing more than a bunch of ideological hatred and the random (clean) bullpoopie that is Post Race.

Wait...are you talking about Chit-Chat? The sites still informative, and engaging, but are you really saying that Chit-Chat was intellectually challenging? Your glasses may need cleaning, cause they're getting a bit rose-colored. I'd agree that it was more active, and you've been around to remember when it was considerably more profane. After all, there was more swearing FROM MODERATORS on the first page of the snake thread than in the ENTIRE Trump thread. Woka had posts that were mostly asterisks.

But do your remember the immigration thread? That was also more profane, and savage, than the political thread, but there wasn't much intellectually stimulating about it. At the time, the OP could delete the first post and the whole thread was gone, which is what happened to the immigration thread.

I also remember pages of cat threads, a few game threads (what was that called? All I can think of is Urban Assassins, and that's not it), and lots of nonsense...from a bunch of people who were a whole lot younger than they are now.

Face it: We're gentrifying, and your post is just part of the gentrification.

[szlamany]

Moar mermaids!

[szlamany]

MOAR MERMAIDS!!!

Back on page 1006!

[Shaggy Hiker]

Just girls in tight skirts. Fish don't have knees, so they don't bend like that.

[Shaggy Hiker]

getting his goal of an average of 4% GDP growth, then all of his ill-perceived notions won't matter. To this, I refer to President Reagan, in his last 4 years he was riddled with the Iran-Contra scandal, but everybody remembers the economic boom of the 80's and this is because of the GDP growth during that time (I think he averaged like 7% which is phenomenal).

Leaving aside politics, is 4% even possible for a mature economy like the US? The Hudson Institute puts the GDP under Reagan at 3.5%.

https://hudson.org/research/12714-ec...ef=patrick.net

They do put the GDP under Johnson as high as 5%, but things were different back then. It's easy to get a high percentage growth when you are starting from a low point. That's how China managed to get double digit growth. All they were really doing was industrializing and building loads of excess capacity...for a variety of reasons. Back under Jonhson, the world at large was still rebuilding following WW II. That was tailing off, and has completely tailed off, by now. Devastate ALL other industrialized nations and there will be a whole lot of customers to buy stuff as they rebuild. That helps, but it's hardly a recipe I'd like to see followed again.

I've heard several economists say that 4% may not be possible in the US simply because that's 4% on a really BIG starting number, which itself is a really BIG number. You need somebody to buy that stuff. There isn't a rebuilding Europe anymore. There isn't much going on domestically, unless we decide to re-build our infrastructure at a frantic pace, which can only be funded by deficit spending in the current economy.

What can make it work? Apple can put out a new iPhone and count on millions to line up and buy, but what will we do? Interstate Highway System 2.0! Now with tolls every mile for corporate profit! That's not as absurd as it might sound. Currently, we pay a gas tax, which was supposed to pay for highways, but hasn't increased since the early 90s, whereas no other cost has held steady for so long. Also, with cars being more efficient, we use less gas per mile to begin with, so even if we drove as much (I heard that we weren't, which, if true, surprises me), there isn't as much money coming in. If we went electric, that "pay to play" model is dead. A "pay per mile" design would solve that, which tolls do as long as they are automated and don't also slow traffic to a crawl periodically (e.g. Florida).

Anyways, is 4% realistic? I'd say not. At least not sustained for more than a quarter here and there.

[dday9]

I passed my series 6!!!