Posts by Sherrie Ludwig 311 posts • joined 10 Nov 2013
and I have a couple of D8 Caterpillars
Curiousity, how hard is it to nick a D8 Caterpillar? Is it a keyed start, and can it be hot-wired? Since there were questions raised about someone else getting hold of large tracked vehicles, and there are many left next to road repair overnight, why aren't joyriders all over the place?
@Ordinary Donkey
Twitler's anointed, endorsed candidate just lost a runoff election for a Texas house seat (she is the wife of the late office-holder, usually a shoo-in for GOP voters) to another Republican, in a deep GOP area. I hope and pray this is another example of, as the book title has it, "Everything Trump Touches, Dies". He nearly killed the USA, by unchecked epidemic and then by attempted coup.
Yes, I think {Twitler} is touring as an inefficient means of making a few dollars - he is using the slush fund of campaign dollars sent by his suckers, so it isn't costing him anything, AND he's getting the strokes his pathetic, yawning maw of an ego desperately needs. Besides, he is completely bollocks at being a businessman, so why should this be any different?
I have been posting a wager on social media, which none of you trumpers have taken: I bet $1000 US dollars that Trump will NOT be "reinstated" or "returned to power" at the White House by Aug 13, as the pillow guy has been hollering. Hell, I'll give it to Aug. 31st. On August 31, we meet (loser pays their own way) and one of us walks away with ten $100 bills. Otherwise, all you trumpers concede, aver, and maintain you are gutless, inverted-weenie scum suckers who are desperately hoping there is someone dumber than you who might actually swallow that codswallop.
So, Rainer, I'll take that bet about Biden making it to midterm. I'll even make it for that same $1000, same terms. I live in the US Midwest. Deal? Or do you concede,, aver,,,etc.?
He's very sweet old lady on the phone with them so he can drag the call out. Also he speaks enough Hindi to give them an ear bashing
Yes, I've asked my nephew from Mumbai for some choice cuss words to use on this slime mold. Telling a male scammer he should make his family proud by becoming a prostitute got me a callback, "why are you being so mean to me?" I laughed heartily as I hung up.
Wasn't there a Sherlock episode (A Scandal in Belgravia) that hinged on an MOD worker divulging classified information to impress somebody (his dominatrix)? Does not speak well for MOD hiring practices, if it becomes a trope in fiction because it happens in real life. Coat because she nicked Sherlock's.
Ordered sunscreen from Amazon, because the product I had expired in Jan. 2021 (Dermatologist said it drops precipitously in effectiveness, and I need all the SPF I can get). Surprise! The "new" sunscreen expired in OCT. 2020! The third party seller balked at replacing or refunding, (I believed I WAS ordering from Amazon directly) so I emailed Amazon. Got the refund. Not ordering anything foodstuff or medical from those idiots again.
"Mind you, on a tourist visit with my wife, we decided to get takeaway fish'n'chips after a visit to The Tower and it turned out to be what were clearly frozen chips and those horrible pre-formed triangular fish Birdseye sell made from "formed" fish like big fish fingers. 10 fucking quid a portion too!"
American here, who had the pleasure of touring London some years back. Learned that the best way to find good food, particularly breakfast and lunch, was to ask a local shop attendant. Or, when at the Tower, a Beefeater. The pub he directed us to was downstairs near a post office, as I recall, and quite good. We also had a memorable lunch at Covent Garden from a food truck called "Dinner Jackets". Baked potato with your choice of topping, mine was chicken curry, delicious.
What if you have had a stroke & no longer control one side of your face, will the system refuse to let you in because you "refuse" (*can't*) smile?
I had carotid artery surgery February 2019, and for three months any attempt to open my mouth resulted in the right side of my mouth dropping alarmingly. Talking was very difficult, and I had to eat in solitude or gross out my meal companions. It's back to normal now, thankfully, but I wonder how a situation like that would have been handled.
I owned a few clothing shops in the time of "call over $X for authorization". There was also a "code 10" authorization - if you thought the circumstances or the card presenter looked dodgy, you could call for authorization and say "code 10" which alerted them that something seemed off. you either 1. got the authorization code or 2. the card was declined but you gave it back to the customer or 3. you were told to keep the card if you could without endangering yourself. One lucrative year, I got enough from turning in dodgy cards just myself (if my employees caught it, they got the dosh) to mostly finance a nice vacation to Cozumel.
If there was a way to genetically identify self-important overpaid ay-holes who treat other people badly, then I would fully support that Wuhan virus lab in actually creating a virus to target them, and them only.
That would be a virtual slate-wiper for the human race, I bet everyone except maybe the Dalai Lama has been a PITA once or twice. Me included.
Because if people get the idea that things advertised on Facebook and Google are scams, they won't respond to the ads in future, and if people don't respond to ads, advertisers won't pay for them.
Already don't. If something perchance looks interesting, I will look it up through a regular search engine. Why people don't do this is just a measure of the conjecture that intelligence is a constant and the population is rising.
The observation that hotdesking never extends to the C suite people, although they spend so much of their time in meetings not in their office, tells you what they actually think of hotdesking. Until they eliminate the "corner office suite" and grab a desk with the rest of us, not buying it.
The only losers were the tax-payers who paid for all this, but they saved $2.7bn !
And the homeowners who got eminent domained out of their houses.
Gov. Walker got Foxconned. Wisconsinites paid the price. This is all just facesaving fancy dancing. Look up Harvard Illinois Motorola plant to find another example. That rotting hunk in my hometown just got auctioned off again. Not holding my breath for anything to happrn there either.
A phone in a superposition of lost and found states can emit foul smelling smoke? Could this observation be the long sought after key to truly understanding quantum mechanics?
When the sulfur smell is detected, the wave form collapsed. "Observation" can be olfactory or auditory (I suppose tactile as well) in addition to Mark I eyeball.
The point of the tale being that if you don't do something about abusive colleagues right there and then, you are tacitly accepting their behaviour and allowing it to continue.
And, if your manager had said, "I'll handle it. Get back to work." and nothing you could discern had changed, would you have quit if you heard another outburst, perhaps at another colleague? Or if the behavior had started out as merely being annoying or boorish, but subtly escalated over time to uncomfortable levels? "You didn't complain before, why all of a sudden?'
If one is either somewhere that one did not want known (for reasons varying from simple privacy to paranoia to criminality) can one simply turn the phone off until needed? Or, if that is not enough, is there a box analogous to a Faraday cage that could be used to store the phone in until needed? So, the phone would "stop showing up" on cell tower data, then "show up again" later? Or are people are too used to carrying the phone to simply leave it at home, do the crime/visit the secret paramour/just want to not be tracked, then come home and pick up the phone again?
The lab postdoc told me of the guy back in the day before computers who handed his hand written thesis to the typist he had contracted to type it up (de rigeur back in the day). She put it on the back of her moped but it wasn't there when she got home. The guy went and vented his frustration on a reinforced fire door (he paid for the damage) then reconstructed it painfully from his notes.
Even in the days before personal computers, there were copiers. Something that precious SHOULD have been run through a Xerox, cheap insurance even at the extortionate prices of the library copiers in my educational heyday.
A one-L lama is a priest,
A two-L llama is a beast,
But a three-alarmer is a fire.
(Ogden Nash)
Actual poem:
A one-L lama, is a priest
A two-l llama, is a beast
But I will bet a silk pyjama
that there is not a three-l lllama.*
*I have been subsequently informed there is a conflagration known colloquially as a "three-alarmer". Pooh.
Why, yes, that's from memory.
Point of pedantry: the assailants were armed with butcher's knives, which I take to mean cleavers, rather than chef's knives.
The victims could have expected to die from CHOPPING wounds, not stabbing wounds.
Point of pedantry - nope, what is colloquially called a butcher's knife is very different from a cleaver - it is technically a chef's knife, a long pointed knife with a stiff spine which could stab one - a la Michael Myers in the Halloween movie series.
Because as we all know, everybody has an automatic combat shotgun light enough for every day carry at hand just in case of an odd-ball, once in a lifetime emergency.
Well, yes, in the USA I have seen people toting them in the supermarket. I think it's looney, and I laugh at them, but in this case, it was useful. Sort of like we all might look askance at a guy toting an oversized teddy bear around for his comfort (really, these oversized guns are the same thing). but in confronting a knife-wielding attacker, the teddy would be great as a shield.
So you're saying if one were to see Gordon Ramsay with a knife, it would be their moral obligation to shoot him?
If he's waving it menacingly at me and my friends in a car park, and any weapon was at hand to defend us with, damn straight, that bloke's a seriously dangerous short fuse.
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I can understand the sentiment, but I assume the company did some calculations what the damages are, and ended up with 2.7 billion, not 27 billion.
Go read the lawsuit. It's only 285 pages. Yep, a plausible case is made for the amount, I think they aimed too low, actually. And while, in the style of legal briefs, it has to be somewhat repetitive, there's enough meat on these bones to choke every single defendant.
Still remind me,has any politician since Hilary been found to be using non federal systems for handling email?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ivanka-trump-used-a-personal-email-account-to-send-hundreds-of-emails-about-government-business-last-year/2018/11/19/6515d1e0-e7a1-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/06/politics/donald-trump-secure-phone-calls-impeachment/index.html
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-officials-private-email-ivanka-jared-kushner-betsy-devos-1449556
These elected officials use all kinds of tools owned by private companies - newspapers (remember them), billboards, radio and tv stations, etc. they buy advertising space, they give out press releases, they offer interviews and opinion pieces to be disseminated.
Just saw he's had his book publishing cancelled and has thrown a massive hissy fit and is claiming it breaches his First Amendment rights. Apparently he doesn't know the difference between censorship (which this is not) and a commercial decision (which this is).
If this pond scum Hawley thinks he has something to say, he can always self-publish, nobody is stopping him from using his own money to exercise his !st A rights. The publisher is just not going to fund his pathetic bleating.
I am a born American citizen, old enough to remember Eisenhower. I am not posting as an anonymous COWARD, because I am neither in this matter. This loser bastard in the White House is the most destructive thing to have ever happened to the Republic since Jefferson Davis stood up on his hind legs and pretended to have some authority. There is a 25th Amendment. It is long past time to invoke it, and save us from two weeks of stupid bloodshed.
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