... be nice to win on Monday ahead of the Champions Trophy.

Today, I don't even like getting on the ladder to clean my gutters out!

Neither do I but I use being 71 as an excuse.

And it's a good excuse. With age comes wisdom.

No aerial hero stuff any more. I do still clean my gutters and trim my trees & hedge off a ladder at 70. I do it for the exercise. Only for a few minutes at a time now, not for hours or all day long anymore. I can't do that kind of work anymore, that's for sure. Har!

I'll dig out some more photos.

Thank you for your comments. ;^)

Of course, I would prefer a consumption tax to an income tax, but one can't always get what one wants.

Hmm. Do you know any nations who tried that?
I know it have been discussed here but never being implemented because it's a political suicide.
One reason is because if you tax consumption the consumption will drop.
A lot of jobs will get lost.

Now I'm being attacked.

How can we keep believing in the RELIGION of liberalism when this is what it gets us?

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-16/collapsing-pensions-are-about-bring-hell-america

AH that may be true but peasant I am know that nails that stick out are hazardous.

The 2 nails in this case that need hammering are "intellectual" "history professor". :-)

Surely such an "intellectual" would understand comprehension & word their statements accordingly?

When ethical and moral people, finally toss their hate into the toilet of history. We can then have a real discussion to solve our problems.

My Belief, unlike yours. Is that the Nazi, KKK, and other hate filled beliefs. Must be tossed, by the ethical and moral people, into the toilet.

Unless my comprehension has gone whacko, those are two different statements.

You really do need to cease projecting your beliefs on to others.

For anyone that thinks they need Frump, for anything, I'll gladly sell you a Brick
to hit yourself in the Head with whenever you get a Headache.

pierre castro...

Just a question. Since you are Posting from Cuba (flag).

I find it interesting that you have the funds to own a computer and have access to the internet in a wonderful socialist dictatorship where less than 8% of the citizens have those means.

How do you do it?

In a few minutes, the Dragon spacecraft launched by SpaceX will dock to the ISS carrying an amount of supplies and scientific instrumentation like SAGE III by NASA.

Your claim that the

9th Circuit has a record of 80% rulings overturned by SCOTUS

is demonstrably false.

Snopes presents data between 1998 and 2008 and PunditFact presents more recent data that effectively debunk this misleading claim.

From YOUR source Pundit Facts more recent data:

"Among cases it reviewed from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, it reversed about 79 percent.

The 9th Circuit’s reversal rate is higher than average, but it’s not the absolute highest among the circuit courts. That distinction goes to the 6th Circuit, which serves Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky and Tennessee, with an 87 percent average between 2010-15. The 9th Circuit is in third place."

So I missed it by ONE percentage point.............the point being if you fail at 79% of your judgements you need to be replaced. I vote to remove all judges from the bench at each election for one reason. Familiarity breeds contempt. Judges like everybody else need to be reminded they too are mortal and fallible, and foremost they are not paid to be Legislators.

9th Circuit has a record of 80% rulings overturned by SCOTUS

Economic figures also show 93,000,000 of us are out of work

And Thanks, Cindy Hess-Luth for saving me the bother of trying to hunt down these statistics!

A quick look at a sampling of the January and February, 2016, APs that I got early this month, however, seems to indicate that almost all of those were 100% blanked. I'll try to take a more in-depth look at those tomorrow. It looks like the dates on those run from mid-January to early February.

A quick look back here shows that most of the Nov 2015 stuff was OK, but most of the Dec 2015 stuff is blanked.

Blanked... blanked... blanked...

Yeah, at least 90% of 'em.

Compressibility test, anyone?

So just to restate the test, you must catch an AP task that is in queue and has not yet been run, and attempt to zip it. If it's a good AP, it will barely compress, if it's a "stuck bit" unit, it will compress to about 50%. Is that about correct?

Yup, exactly so. The raw file should be about 8MB: the 'stuck bit' ones zip to just over 4MB.

I managed to download Task 5168328866, ap_18no15aa_B3_P1_00346_20160920_22804.wu_1, which is part of workunit 2270430643. It zipped down to 4,808 KB from 8,196 KB. But this workunit is from the infamous "B3_P1" data channel, which generates almost exclusively "bad" data - so no real help there, I suspect.

Blanked... blanked... blanked...

Yeah, at least 90% of 'em.

Compressibility test, anyone?

So just to restate the test, you must catch an AP task that is in queue and has not yet been run, and attempt to zip it. If it's a good AP, it will barely compress, if it's a "stuck bit" unit, it will compress to about 50%. Is that about correct?

Yup, exactly so. The raw file should be about 8MB: the 'stuck bit' ones zip to just over 4MB.

. . I am going to have to seek out this "Server page". I am in the dark here :)