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Message 1819553 - Posted: 25 Sep 2016, 3:27:52 UTC

The last thread was getting a little long. So time for a new place to post those one off comments or news that just does not justify it's own thread.

Rules, just keep it kid G rated.
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Message 1819861 - Posted: 26 Sep 2016, 6:17:21 UTC

A notice for Monday, and anybody else that lives in or visits that part of the world.

Mooning and streaking outlawed in Victoria, Australia
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Message 1819868 - Posted: 26 Sep 2016, 7:27:53 UTC - in response to Message 1819861.  

That's the sort of legislation i'd expect in Queensland, not Victoria.
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Message 1819922 - Posted: 26 Sep 2016, 16:02:56 UTC - in response to Message 1819861.  

The act also outlaws singing "an obscene song or ballad" and behaving in a "riotous, indecent, offensive or insulting manner".

Rugby will never be the same down there.
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Message 1819955 - Posted: 26 Sep 2016, 18:44:13 UTC - in response to Message 1819922.  

The act also outlaws singing "an obscene song or ballad" and behaving in a "riotous, indecent, offensive or insulting manner".

Rugby will never be the same down there.

But who is going to police the police rugby team.

It's not going to be the senior officers because they probably got their promotion by being good "team players" because they were in the rugby team.
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Message 1820394 - Posted: 29 Sep 2016, 6:03:40 UTC

More proof of the K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Sam) computing concept and proving that newer is NOT always better:
This Commodore 64 bad boy helps drive an auto shop in 2016
An auto repair shop in Poland does just fine running some of its operations on a C64C from the '80s, thank you very much.

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Message 1820420 - Posted: 29 Sep 2016, 6:56:37 UTC - in response to Message 1820394.  
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An auto repair shop in Poland does just fine running some of its operations on a C64C from the '80s, thank you very much.


K.I.S.S ? na that's more like " if it ain't broke , why fix it :-)"
rule no 1 is K.I.S.S that's the 2nd rule
Life is what you make of it :-)

When i'm good i'm very good , but when i'm bad i'm shi#eloads better ;-) In't I " buttercups " p.m.s.l at authoritie !!;-)
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Message 1820422 - Posted: 29 Sep 2016, 7:01:41 UTC - in response to Message 1820394.  
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More proof of the K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Sam) computing concept and proving that newer is NOT always better:
This Commodore 64 bad boy helps drive an auto shop in 2016
An auto repair shop in Poland does just fine running some of its operations on a C64C from the '80s, thank you very much.

LOL:)
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication!
And KISS is an acronym for "Keep it simple, stupid" as a design principle noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960.

Oh. You could also call it Less Is More.
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Message 1820669 - Posted: 29 Sep 2016, 23:13:21 UTC

The Saturn V launch computer had way less power than the Commodore 64.
The LVDC was capable of executing 12190 instructions per second. The Commodor can do 10 Million instructions per second.

NASA would have loved to have a couple of C64's They were darn good computers.
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Message 1820679 - Posted: 29 Sep 2016, 23:53:24 UTC - in response to Message 1820669.  

The Saturn V launch computer had way less power than the Commodore 64.
The LVDC was capable of executing 12190 instructions per second. The Commodor can do 10 Million instructions per second.

NASA would have loved to have a couple of C64's They were darn good computers.



Along the same lines, I've read that due to the time in r&d it takes to get a chip radiation-hardened for space travel, the things NASA sends out into space always have old computer technology.
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Message 1820865 - Posted: 30 Sep 2016, 16:44:22 UTC

LOL of the day........
A heckler in the crowd sinks 12 foot putt at Ryder Cup practice.
Which garnered cheers and laughter all around.
"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

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Message 1821067 - Posted: 1 Oct 2016, 10:42:11 UTC
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Just went on ebay and bought a couple of wiener whistles.
Robert Trentlage died on the 21st, aged 87.
He wrote the jingle we all knew as kids and adults since then, the Oscar Mayer wiener song.


I have posted a couple of clips I happen to love about Jerry Ringlien, who was the advertising exec at the time, who used Jerry's jingle with much success for O.s.c.a.r.......
I have posted the links again in the comments on CNN.

Jerry passed on back in 2007 at the age of 77.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAz5Jc0DWpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNObgEXOpYA

Few us will ever create anything so engraved into our culture.

RIP, Robert. And of course, also Jerry.
"Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once."

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Message 1821169 - Posted: 1 Oct 2016, 23:05:50 UTC

Some times following medical advice can have it's up side. WebMD
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Message 1821242 - Posted: 2 Oct 2016, 5:26:12 UTC

Why the future of package delivery is better than drones
A drone alone can't make 'last-mile' home delivery scale. But robots can. Here's how.

Remember WebVan?

The grocery delivery startup was considered "high-tech" because you could order groceries on a website and have them delivered. A darling of the late '90s dot-com boom, WebVan ultimately failed, becoming a poster child for the dot-com bust (the company went bankrupt in 2001) and a cautionary tale about the perils of so-called "last-mile" delivery -- the link in the supply chain that brings products to consumers.

Delivery is expensive and inefficient. Unlike most parts of the supply chain, the last mile doesn't scale, especially when a human employee drives a big car to bring one product to one consumer.

The "last mile" is ripe for disruption. But how?

--- snip ---
The self-driving ice chest idea

An Estonian company called Starship Technologies makes a robot that looks like an ice chest on wheels for delivering packages and food autonomously or semi-autonomously.

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Message 1821640 - Posted: 4 Oct 2016, 4:45:59 UTC

One correction, there is no sale tax on land in California.
There is property tax, but that is yearly, not based on a sale.
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Message 1821669 - Posted: 4 Oct 2016, 9:11:22 UTC

Are you talking about adding the cost of the truck etc. to the land tax?
If so, it is very doubtful, because the trucking cost (including the taxes due on that amount) is paid to them, and the Land Taxes to the State/County.
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Message 1821691 - Posted: 4 Oct 2016, 12:35:49 UTC - in response to Message 1821672.  

Sure the earthquake resistant foundation system that was county mandated cost $1,500.00, but not $7,000.00 as that was the only new thing that was added back in late 2006.


Mite have only cost $1,500 back in 2006 but what would it cost to do it now .

House prices are partly valued on what they would cost to build them today not on what it cost 10 years ago plus the value of the land witch can go up or down but in suburbia they don't go down and mainly go up or stall but rarely go down

Or did you not expect that !!!!

go fund me again then we can expect !!!!!

Should be so lucky to own a home and whine about having to pay land tax those where the days I remember it well , when I was a younger man but alas all I have now is my memory's
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Message 1821848 - Posted: 5 Oct 2016, 5:09:18 UTC

Great news on the tax reduction and refund Vic :-)
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Message 1821853 - Posted: 5 Oct 2016, 5:23:33 UTC

Relatives do pass away, sometimes one does get lucky, question is, will lightning strike twice or not? I've no idea.

Vic, please tell us that you didn't mean that the way it sounds!
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Message 1822891 - Posted: 9 Oct 2016, 3:08:59 UTC

Be aware of Civil Code sec 798.56(f) (part of the mobile home residence law) A tenancy shall be terminated by the management only for one or more of the following reasons: (f) Condemnation of the park.
There are no conditions to section f like there are to g which you reference. From what you describe sounds like f could be a possibility.
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