Posts by jake

Re: 52nd in population - they just want attention

"They just need to sit back down and shut up."

What an un-American comment. Are you a Republican by any chance?

Re: Just a symptom...

Sure, cancel them. We can easily manage on our own, if we don't have to grow food for you lot.

Re: Just a symptom...

My Uncle showed me how to use the old methods when harvesting Coastal Redwoods when I were a nipper. I can go back to a two-man saw if I need to, I even know the nearly lost art of sharpening them and properly setting their teeth. But why would I, when I have perfectly serviceable chainsaws? Besides, I rarely harvest redwoods anymore ... mostly I just eradicate the absolutely useless and dangerous eucalyptus weeds & send 'em through the chipper.

Yes, when pruning trees know-how is far more important than modern equipment.

_{Have hit&miss dragsaw, will travel.}

Re: Just a symptom...

"if you can get it"?

Meaning you don't actually cut your own?

Apple and nut trees do burn nicely, I'll give you that ... but that's not why I plant apple and nut trees. The first family who cleared portions of this land (pre-California) planted oak trees for the future, and every land owner since has planted a few oaks every year, and we are still planting more. The original trees (now 200 years old) are ready for harvest. We're going to let 'em grow a little longer ... There are still plenty of older, naturally planted trees that are past their sell-by-date that we make firewood from. Several of them have fallen over in this last month's saturating rain and should provide more than enough firewood for next year.

Re: Just a symptom...

I run my chainsaw on ethanol..

Re: Just a symptom...

I treat my soil properly. I'm a farmer, not a libtard. Watch your mouth, wannabe.

Re: Just a symptom...

They could sell their coal to China in return for batteries and solar panels. Or does Australia have that market cornered?

My old Farmall M is more than enough tractor to feed the dozen adults living on this property. It runs on Ethanol, which we grow here. Fertilizer is a byproduct of animal husbandry.

Re: Just a symptom...

I could happily live in Wyoming in the winter ... with the off-grid system I have here in Sonoma it would be fairly easy. With the one I have in Nevada it would be near trivial.

I grow lots of food without John Deere or imported fertilizer.

Re: What of all the towns and cities named after Native American tribes?

"Been unable to find any examples of native America feathers that bear any similarity to the various feathers the Apache Foundation uses as logo's."

And again you miss the point. Feathers aren't simple haberdashery or adornment. They are badges of hono(u)r. Makes no nevermind what the feather is from, it is a feather and should signify something important in the eyes of the people who awarded it to you.

Doing what the Apache Foundation is doing is the equivalent of wearing a soldier's uniform, badges of rank and medals in order to appear legitimate, despite not ever having served in the armed forces. It is deceitful, dishonest and bordering on fraudulent when used in conjunction with that name.

Re: Nobody else has asked, so I will.

I would say both.

I can sympathize with Prince (never thought I'd ever say THAT!).

Almost 50 years ago, I legally changed my name to "jake"[0], all lower-case, as my legal name on everything from my tax returns to the deed to my house to my passport to my driver's license. For several years. Caused no end of headaches for "the authorities" ... which, as a young man who understood database programing, I took great delight in.

Then I grew up, no longer having time to "be pulled aside" by petty officials. Today, I use the name my parents gave me on legal stuff. I'm the same dude, regardless of handle ... but everyone who knew me back then still calls me jake.

MY name could be typed on (most) standard keyboards, I can't imagine the headaches he went through.

[0] Name changed to protect the guilty ...

Re: Bit ridiculous

What fedora? I'm a Slacker.

Re: Just to set the record straight ...

Whatever. I've had deep-fried (in duck fat! YUM!) potatoes in Peru that were claimed to be "as served to Inca royalty". They certainly tasted it, and I see no reason to doubt the story.

Only stands to reason. If one has hot fat and spuds in a kitchen, eventually they will meet up. Potatoes and ducks were eaten in that neck of the woods at least 10,000 years ago. How long would it take the two to meet? IMO, the Belgians are probably over 5,000 years late in making the claim.

Beer that has not been aged long enough is sometimes called green, i.e. "not yet ripe".

Re: A patchy server

It's hard to say. Jim Henson was human, not a lawyer.

Besides, they only agreed to the use of the name in regard to the comms protocol.

"as usual all sense of nuance is lost to many internet commenters."

"Nuance" doesn't mean "taking a technical term out of context", and it never will.

Re: What of all the towns and cities named after Native American tribes?

"If you see someone driving through a red light, you would not call it "speeding"."

Misdirection noted.

Re: What of all the towns and cities named after Native American tribes?

"I suspect Jake you are falling for the Woke daftness."

I would agree with you, if that feather wasn't being used in conjunction with the word Apache. In that context, it makes it appear that said group of peoples somehow not only condones the software, but has bestowed a high hono(u)r upon it. They haven't. It's false advertising.

Re: What of all the towns and cities named after Native American tribes?

"And yet you did."

In idiomatic English, "I have no say in the matter" does not preclude having an opinion on the matter. I have expressed an opinion, I have in no way indicated that I have, nor should I have, any claim on the final resolution.

Re: Jerry Cans?

Every single plastic "safe and non-polluting" gas can I've ever used has spilled more gas than the "unsafe, polluting" steel jerrycans of my yoot, Until a friend turned me on to Rotopax gas cans (rotopax.com), retro-fitted with aftermarket jerrycan-style spouts (amazon or ebay, probably).

Rotopax gas cans come in all shapes and sizes to fit most needs, and have a very useful and secure mounting system. They are spendy, but they work, don't spill or leak. and they last. I have a few knocking around here that are well over five years old, used near daily, and show no signs of quitting on me. Highly recommended.

Re: A patchy server

It's not gaslighting. It's an attempt to re-write history.

_{(Un)Fortunately, TehIntraWebTubes has a long memory.}

Re: What of all the towns and cities named after Native American tribes?

"Nothing is being stolen. The Apache people *still* have their culture. Nobody took anything."

Well, there is one thing ... that feather logo. Feathers are never chosen by the individual wearer, they are presented to them by the entire tribe for important spiritual or political reasons. As regalia, they should never be taken lightly.

IMO, the Apache Foundation should choose a new logo, and apologize for misappropriation of the feather, as used in that context with that name.

But I'm not Apache, so I have no say in the matter.

Re: Bit ridiculous

"Put your hand ::snip:: you'll get the exact Pantone color"

For your hand. Your forearm, elbow, bicep and shoulder will all be different.

_{So will four more different spots on your hand ...}

Re: Oracle? Sun? Java?

Even more apropos, Memoriae Sacrum.

Re: A patchy server

"so it seems really difficult to debunk a story that's literally what the people involved say happened."

And the election was rigged, right?

Re: Bit ridiculous

What's wrong with hosepipe, you hoser?

Not "on to something", rather "on something".

Re: Bit ridiculous

Well, a variation of the original. Perhaps two or three generations old.

But exactly.

Re: British... bad guys in movies

Van Dyke was vocally too cardboardy to play a convincing Cockney. But again, consider the intended audience.

Re: Trademark incompetence

See: "Streisand effect".

Just to set the record straight ...

... so-called "Freedom Fries" was the brain-child of disgraced Republican congressman and convicted felon Bob Ney (served 17 months of a 30 month sentence at Club Fed (Federal Correctional Institution, Morgantown)).

Nobody in the US paid all that much attention to the supposed name change, other than the Press and the usual rabid Republican sycophants, who are a very small, if vocal, subset of the population as a whole. I can quite honestly say that I never saw the item on a restaurant menu, even when it was supposedly an in thing.

Re: Bit ridiculous

"It does not surprise me that God does not show up"

Doesn't surprise me, either, seeing as god does not exist outside the fertile minds of shamans, and the less-fertile minds of the easily brainwashed and subjugated.

Re: A patchy server

The Kermit Protocol was indeed named after the famous Frog ... WITH the expressed, written consent of Henson Associates.

The world was a much smaller, easier to get around in space in 1981.

Re: Embarrassing parcel

"he left the company within the month"

Poor bastard must have felt like a beetle on its back.

Re: As an engineering project, I applaud.

There is a big difference between audiophules babbling about the differences between two audio systems and an actual musician hearing the difference between a human violinist and a robot violinist. Or a piano player and a player piano.

For one thing, humans make mistakes, sometimes on purpose. Robots do not, they always play the way they are programmed. Even an untrained ear can tell the difference between Madonna un-plugged and the same thing run through autotune. Music is supposed to be human, organic, imperfect (dare I say emotional in this forum?). It is not supposed to be the proper queuing up of ones and zeros.

_{Unless you are into that kind of thing, in which case enjoy!}

Re: sloppiness

No. Blondie and Madonna were completely different genres and appealed to completely different audiences. I seriously doubt (m)any people spent the money they could have bought Blondie tickets and singles with (had the band not broken up in '82) on tickets and singles for Madonna in her sudden bursting on the scene in '83ish.

Re: (Talking of Deep Purple) - The acid test...

Depends. How many power strips does he have plugged into his powerstrip? And how many wall-warts are plugged into those?

Re: old news

Well, sure. And I have a restored 1915 player piano. I love the engineering in that, too :-)

She's not the Steinway at The Met, but she has a soul that is all her own.

Re: sloppiness

"sloppy" is both an ambiguous and a relative term ... Listen to Cyndi Lauper for "good" sloppy, or Madonna for pitch-perfect no-slop. Madonna and her autotune always gives me a splitting headache, where Lauper doesn't.

Note that I'm not particularly fond of either performer, I just chose two that I'm fairly certain most readers would be familiar with.

Re: Stick them on a Tesla.

Probably quite a bit better than a standard CCTV, and just a little worse than most speed cams, barely enough to be useful. With all of the speed cam's maintenance headaches. Can't take good pics with Gull shit on the glass ...

Re: Stick them on a Tesla.

There is a difference between CCTV and a speed camera's snapshot.

Re: Stick them on a Tesla.

"Speed-cams are expensive, they take pictures"

Yep. But even they don't work without a spendy maintenance contract to keep the lens clean.

Re: Stick them on a Tesla.

Fog Lights: pl. Noun. Small low-hanging lights on the front of a vehicle, often turned on in bright, sunny weather to indicate the driver's head is in a fog.