Some members I wonder about these days in no particular order are KROC, LHMark, MattD, Superfly, FlyMCO, NeilYYZ, and Alpha1/Falcon84. I know there’s so many more, but the list of who I can actually remember seems to get smaller by the year. Turns out the old site's Respected Users list got put int...
Jump to postAs you posted before, there is also bang for buck in terms of QOL, if one's purpose is not purely to sell the property later. The huge disadvantage of most of the postwar neighborhoods in the San Jose area is relatively small yards and lot sizes compared to other parts of the country. The same is t...
Jump to postIt’s been a bit over 20 years now since I joined (had to plead with parents to pay the fee on behalf of a young teen and prove to them it wasn’t a scam on the new thing called internet), crazy to think. Lurked for years before that. Picture this -- back in the dial-up era of the Internet in 1995 (a...
Jump to postPerhaps of interest: F1 seeking 10-team limit in new Concorde Agreement – report Not a big surprise that in effect F1 is moving towards a franchise system. The current CA allows for 12 teams with $200m dilution fee. We see how contentious the current Andretti effort is. In days of past showing up wi...
Jump to postBoth cell phones and walkie-talkies use radio waves. I would say it isn't an unsolvable problem, but it's also not a straight-forward one either. You need some assurance that the energy being radiated is at a safe level and remains effective without interfering with valid uses of the spectrum. To d...
Jump to postI don't think there are constitution amendment that guarantee right of being able to communicate with others (There are freedom of.speech but I think that's different) but there are constitution amendment that say private communication should be private, and that supposedly include But then, in rea...
Jump to postBeen a member since 2014 but a long time lurker before (maybe since 2001-2002 time frame?) Loved the older site when you could scroll over an airport code or airline code and it would tell you what that was As a person who participates in a few other forums, I'll also say the way the old site did q...
Jump to postMy parents were going to leave in the early 2000s but managed to snag a ranch house in Santa Clara for $500K. A few years later, construction started on the new Apple HQ just a couple miles away. They sold in 2021 for north of $3 million, and the market was 'down' at the time. They bought a place i...
Jump to postClearly when you see China building thousands of ugly, copy and paste buildings aligned by the dozens, that has to be a mistake, and they didn't learn anything from others. It's not just a China thing. While my current area was almost completely (over)-developed by the end of the 90s, the places th...
Jump to postWhy can't the prison implement signal jamming across the prison? Walkie Talkies use radio waves, and will be available for COs themselves to use. Both cell phones and walkie-talkies use radio waves. I would say it isn't an unsolvable problem, but it's also not a straight-forward one either. You nee...
Jump to postThere's no doubt Mercedes have been successful under Toto Wolff's tenure, but I think at times their success was in spite of his presence, especially in the period 2014-2016 when everyone else were making up the numbers like they are now with Red Bull. The work to create a killer hybrid engine that...
Jump to postTen years ago this week I was on "Cruise to the Edge" in the Caribbean, featuring the then-current lineup of Yes, along with many great prog rock acts of the time. I was with a large group of friends so it was a great time. Most of us bought the drinks coupon book so it turned into a five-...
Jump to postWhatever happens on the outside, happens on the inside said a trapshooting friend who was a CO. He told me inmates would scare COs by telling what school their children attended, where their wives or husbands worked. Not hard for them to figure that stuff out given they can get a phone with interne...
Jump to posthttps://apnews.com/article/south-carolina-prison-cellphones-supervisor-charged-captain-6b5932e5aedc1bd57262f4ea6f14cf69 To me the most likely source of contraband has always been clear, it's typically an inside job. It's gotta be pretty tempting if you're a modestly-paid prison worker to take the ca...
Jump to postIt's an interesting thing. Earlier in my lifetime, people in general thought part of their role in life was to help others, now it's me-first, forget the rest. To me the tipping point was the Reagan "greed is good" era. OTOH it's clear to me that attempts to provide public housing in the U...
Jump to postMy profile says 19 years but I know I lurked for a year or two before then. I also lurked on usenet's misc.transport.airliners group for many years before what we now know of as 'The Internet' became known to more than just hard core computer nerds. If people want to see the exact date, they can go ...
Jump to postThe main buzz today seems to be around Sainz's options. https://www-funoanalisitecnica-com.translate.goog/2024/04/contratto-mercedes-sainz-f1.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp is an interesting source. It says there is an offer on the table from Audi, but it ha...
Jump to postIt's not a new story. In my case over 30 years ago I looked at housing prices, traffic issues and taxes in the SF Bay / Silicon Valley area and decided whatever upside that was possible there was not worth all the down sides. My periodic trips there have only confirmed my earlier judgement. Unless y...
Jump to postI remember vividly his white Bronco chase, and his Hertz commercials in the 70s and 80s. https://6abc.com/orenthal-james-simpson-oj-dead-cancer/14646553/ As I was an NFL fan early in my youth, I remember his playing days. Anyone who followed the league back then could not forget his performances, h...
Jump to postThe following is a pretty interesting report on the aftermath of the eclipse from a New Hampshire point of view. Turns out deciding to view the eclipse north of Franconia Notch then try to drive back south after it that night would cost you around 3 to 6 hours because the road goes down to 1 (!) lan...
Jump to postI was in the DFW area. When I went outside at the beginning of the eclipse (not the totality), it was so warm and muggy, that I went back inside and changed to just a t-shirt for the top. But as it got closer to totality, it got cool enough that I went back inside and changed to a long sleeved top....
Jump to postSome more interesting driver gossip: [Mark Hughes] (In response to a baseless rumor that Hamilton, Leclerc, and Alonso all avoided Verstappen) That’s just plain untrue. Neither Leclerc, Hamilton nor Alonso were offered a place. Hamilton and Alonso both tried and were told no. (twitter.com) Ref: http...
Jump to postI read all of https://www.the-race.com/formula-1/fernando-alonso-new-aston-martin-f1-deal-our-verdict/ where a bunch of correspondents gave their takes on the Alonso signing, and to me the best one was the shortest and the last, from Gary Anderson: MAYBE HE'LL GET A NEW TEAM-MATE... Let’s look at th...
Jump to postRe: Alonso: He did indeed throw shade on Merc last weekend and talked up AM. It made me think he's got what he wants from AM, otherwise why hurt his negotiating position? Yet Alonso always talks about winning championships while only a huge optimist can see AM giving him a car that can clear RB or ...
Jump to postMeanwhile multiple sources are reporting Alonso has re-signed with AM through the end of '26.
Here's a release from BBC: https://www.bbc.com/sport/formula1/68793179
His recent comments in support of AM were hints that this was coming, IMO.
Good news for Kimi Antonelli, IMO, one obstacle removed.
With the greats like Messi, Jordan, Gretzky, etc… we could see their greatness because they used the same ball or puck as everyone else in the game. The goal was the same size. Even though their teammates were of varying ability, their individual talent and skill was easy to see. To me it doesn't m...
Jump to postI don't know how in depth the US coverage of F1 is. I presume ESPN gets the Sky feed. Do are they air the the pre-qualifying and Grand prix Sunday pre race shows and the checkered flag post race show they will have that analysis especially for qualifying. That is when the true talent of a lap is br...
Jump to postOne question: Did you notice the change in temperatures? Where I was in northern VT there was a very noticeable drop in temperature as the sunlight dimmed, and there was an increase in wind too. This to me added to the primal/visceral aspects of the event. Despite the earlier heavy cloud, it was pr...
Jump to postI also live in southern New England, heard from an RN the traffic was a 50 mile back-up in VT. Long red lines on Google Maps. The James Webb Space Telescope could not detect my interest in experiencing that for 3 minutes of darkness. It really wasn't that bad since I wasn't driving. I thought of it...
Jump to postThe problem I see at the moment is , that the RB is in general a very well rounded car, it is not at a disadvantage on any track. In relation it is not perfect on tracks with slow-medium speed corners between full speed straights while it absolutely dominates high speed corners that need a lot of d...
Jump to postWhen people think all teams are equal , dream on. Holy exaggeration, Batman! There's a difference between having enough competition to drive fan engagement and having "all teams equal". Some quotes: ⋅ In US for 2023: An average of 1.11 million viewers watched the 22 race teleca...
Jump to postI was on the roof of the A Parking Garage at Dallas Love. I got there before 8am and was just about the only person there. By 12:00 it was packed and I was surrounded by nerds and hippies. You were among my people! From just before 9am there had been a total grey blanket of cloud and I had very low...
Jump to postAs some may expect, a long-form post from me on my journey of yesterday... I traveled in a bus convoy from home turf in Southern NH to the little town of Waterbury VT yesterday to be in the Total Eclipse zone. Of course long bus journeys can be problematic, as I recount below. It was a really great ...
Jump to postI guess this is how it goes. Predictable outcome. Top 9 will be two RB, two Ferrari, two Merc, two Mclaren, one AM, only thing up for grabs is the details of the order. 10th up for grabs because the rich guy's kid can't get much out of the other AM. The only time things get shaken up a bit is if Max...
Jump to postStill, I lack confidence to make an opening offer that's $4K below asking; that's nearly 25% off and I sense getting laughed off the lot. As they always say, business is business. Don't let your emotions enter into it. They actually respect a tough bargainer more than a fool who walks in and pays l...
Jump to postIts a tough cut throat business. When I was working at Larry Hopkins Honda the GM made it very clear, if you dont have 10 cars on the board on the 31st, dont come to work on the 1st. I remember seeing a (BBC?) documentary shot at a car dealership in the US several years ago. It showed the total foc...
Jump to postThe furthest spots from the open ocean can have the greatest tides, Bay of Fundy or the much gentler Olympia Washington yofrd for example. Tides are complicated, and early mathematicians/astronomers 'cut their teeth' on predicting them. No doubt any group of humans in the past living on tidal water...
Jump to postHigh tide ? If I am reading it correctly, NOAA suggests the mean range of the tide is only 1.1 ft in Baltimore. I think that makes sense, it is quite far up the Chesapeake Bay from the open Atlantic. But it probably is some detail like that I am missing because we can see with our own two eyes that...
Jump to postMeanwhile, the cargo companies are passing the buck to their customers... MSC, the largest ocean carrier in the world, has notified clients it will terminate their container contracts once cargo is delivered to a diversion port, leaving shippers responsible for moving goods or potentially face delay...
Jump to post1) the area to span is 1.6 miles long. That’s longer than the longest suspension bridge in the world. 2) the shoots are already required to stay in the channel. The Chesapeake Bay and the Patapsco river are not very deep. They have been dredged in a channel in the middle to allow the neopanamax shi...
Jump to postI bought my first brand new car in April 1988. It was a 1988 Ford Tempo GL 4-door. I turned around in the dealership to look at it on the showroom floor. Seconds later, I witnessed two little kids on bikes cross the busy highway in front of the dealership. A car struck them both. The car was doing ...
Jump to postI grew up in a family that bought and sold cars often, went to all the local dealers to see the new cars in the fall. It was pretty normal, drove whatever was in the stable until college. I bought my first car, wait for this…a Ford Pinto, 1973. I put over 300,000 miles it and it’s follow on in 1977...
Jump to postNope, not a lot of parental guidance, nor older brother advice either. Older brother was a stoner, father was a boozer, so not a lot of extra bandwidth for them to sort out things for me. As Dave Chapelle says in his act, some sh*t you just gotta figure out on your own! I worked ever since I could. ...
Jump to postI’m sure Maersk loves its former employees talking about what happened while the investigation is open. That's one of the joys of the 401(k) era, the company can't play games with your pension once you retire, everything is in your name not theirs. Who knows, maybe this post will get him a few phon...
Jump to postThe one I see the most is the Zakim bridge near Boston. It's lack of symmetry still triggers me. Ugh, same. Interesting Reddit thread on the asymmetry of the Zakim Bridge, complete with photos that probably will trigger many: https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/8g2wgo/why_does_bostons_zakim_br...
Jump to postSeems plausible to me... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GJtmSWGXQAABo2U?format=jpg&name=small Ref: https://twitter.com/mercoglianos/status/1773123345820614699 It comes via the guy who runs the "What's Going On With Shipping" u2b channel, Sal Mercogliano. Someone linked one of his videos e...
Jump to postHere's more information on the dead. The immigration debate will inevitably come into focus in this story. Some are bad, but most do a job no one else will. These men paid with their lives. https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/03/27/what-we-know-key-bridge-collapse/ The article says they are immigrant...
Jump to postFormer US Senator Joe Lieberman has died at the age of 82 after complications from a fall. He was elected to the US Senate as the first Orthodox Jewish Senator to be elected to the Senate and ended up serving from 1989 until 2013. Furthermore, Lieberman was Al Gore's running mate during the 2000 US...
Jump to postHaving seen much self-insurance elsewhere, please educate me (us) on “P&I clubs”. Google is your friend... The twelve P&I Clubs which comprise the International Group (the “Group”) between them provide marine liability cover (protection and indemnity) for approximately 90% of the world's oc...
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