I just realized that the sun is out. It's been foggy for so long that I didn't notice the sun, at first, but that's what all that light is coming from.
Went to Costco last night @ 6:45 and the fog was already starting to set in. Coming home @ 8:15 it was pea soup. I hadn't driven in thick fog fog quite a while. Some parts were out in the country, those parts you couldn't see ahead much, it was all about keeping the car between the center line and edge of the road. Then hope everyone else was doing the same.
I got to a point on a road where some fog was so thick that I had to open the driver side door to see the yellow line. I knew the fog, while thick, only extended a very short distance, which was the case. There was no place to pull over, though, so I just had to make my way through it. Fortunately, it was in a place where there was essentially zero traffic.
I've also been in rainstorms in Florida that were strong enough that even with the windshield wipers going full speed I couldn't see the road. That was on a major highway, too, so I was at a loss as to what to do. Continue, knowing I'd be out of it in seconds? Pull to the shoulder, knowing it would pass over in a minute (probably)? If I was on the shoulder, would other people be there, and would they be driving or stationary?
I've also been in rainstorms in Florida that were strong enough that even with the windshield wipers going full speed I couldn't see the road. That was on a major highway, too, so I was at a loss as to what to do. Continue, knowing I'd be out of it in seconds? Pull to the shoulder, knowing it would pass over in a minute (probably)? If I was on the shoulder, would other people be there, and would they be driving or stationary?
This happened to me with my kids in the car. It was scary. It was on freeway 580 just as it goes over the Altamont Pass. I could see but the road was flooding. I slowed way down and tried to stay out of the way of those who were still going fast. They started hydroplaning and wrecking. I must have seen a dozen wrecks happen right in front of me in about a half mile stretch. It was crazy.
I was driving a semi in a hailstorm, once. Within the space of just a few seconds, hail stones knocked both windshield wiper blades off, at which point I couldn't see anything out of the windshield. I pretty much drifted over to the shoulder and waited for the storm to pass. I didn't have much choice.
I can break the files out into individual lessons.
It does nothing for the end user, but for the developer it turns one huge file into several large files. Plus since they all follow the same format of:
Header
Content
Footer
So from the server's perspective I could create a class to represent the data which would introduce code reuse.
Anybody looked at gold prices since I brought it up... I think back in July? Wow.
I suspect part of it is really USD weakness and "real" inflation. But since other currencies are Dollar-based and they are doing even worse... something is going on. Canuckabucks are down to 72 cents US.
In July, gold held steady around $3,300 an ounce. Today it's reached a new all-time high of $4,738.43.
Not that surprised.
Here in Europe someone "kicked off" the idea, what would happen, if all european-held US-Bonds would be sold now at the same time....
Food for thought.....
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It's not surprising, at least not from an Austrian economics point of view. The money supply has steadily grown for decades (really a century), but in the last decade it has exploded.
Since gold is money and the FED has tacitly admitted this by shifting back to accumulating gold instead of foreign fiat reserves, it is basically reverting to its historical role of being a store of value.
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