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October 13th, 2024 at 9:42:31 AM permalink
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I've completely lost interest in gambling of any kind
not sure why this happened now
maybe it's really hit home that the winning or losing would be meaningless since I'm not willing to bet big enough to really make a difference in my finances
I used to see it as a fun challenge - not anymore - I know that if I am good enough to win it will only be by a small %

I've gotten back into reading books -

I have just read a couple of Elmore Leonard's books - pretty light stuff but very entertaining

and I re-read my favorite book from Faulkner - "Light in August" - probably my favorite book of all time - just an amazing work of literature

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October 13th, 2024 at 4:38:09 PM permalink
This is why Elon Musk will be the world's first trillionaire. He had all this in his head 20 years ago and everybody thought it was impossible. Listen to the crowd reaction as to what they accomplished here today.

"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
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October 13th, 2024 at 6:21:06 PM permalink
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This is why Elon Musk will be the world's first trillionaire. He had all this in his head 20 years ago and everybody thought it was impossible. Listen to the crowd reaction as to what they accomplished here today.



As many reasons as there is to not like the guy, he is a visionary and a person that makes things happen. He may go down in history similar to Thomas Edison.
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October 13th, 2024 at 7:20:51 PM permalink
I went looking for a new TV at BJ's a week ago, saw one with some gamer label that attracted me (AMD FreeSync VRR). Came home, got the instruction manual off the internet. The TV didn't have RCA audio out or headphone out; only optical audio out or HDMI out. I'd have to get a whole new amplifier setup to accommodate that. The TV has bluetooth for headphones, so I ordered a bluetooth adapter for my stereo, but I can see that is going to be a pain to get going if it is capable of hooking wirelessly with the TV. I can play my SiriusXM from my phone OK to my stereo now via bluetooth, but I already had a headphone adapter cable for that. I'll just have to integrate a 2nd amplifier into my setup and get off this Dolby Pro Logic kick from last century and get some Dolby 5.1 and use an HDMI cable.

Spectrum called and offered 1 gigabit download & upload speed internet and TV Select for $140/month, which is $100/month less than they were charging just 6 months ago for much slower internet & TV. It was a special backroom call, a deal not made in stores. I turned them down this time. I'm paying less currently for my present services. But I'll consider moving back if I get going on the 4K viewing train because there are data caps on my current plan that will kick in. I guess Netflix is charging extra for 4K, so maybe I should just buy a 1080p TV anyway, that should have analog audio outputs.
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October 14th, 2024 at 4:21:33 AM permalink
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I went looking for a new TV at BJ's a week ago, saw one with some gamer label that attracted me (AMD FreeSync VRR). Came home, got the instruction manual off the internet. The TV didn't have RCA audio out or headphone out; only optical audio out or HDMI out.



You can buy an HdMI to RCA out cable for less than $10.
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October 14th, 2024 at 4:41:14 AM permalink
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This is why Elon Musk will be the world's first trillionaire. He had all this in his head 20 years ago and everybody thought it was impossible. Listen to the crowd reaction as to what they accomplished here today.



As many reasons as there is to not like the guy, he is a visionary and a person that makes things happen. He may go down in history similar to Thomas Edison.
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Personally I’m mixed on him. Lots of his ideas may be “cool” but take billions of dollars to a mixed end. Also the guy cannot get it into his head that at his level he can’t make off the cuff comments about business finance like he is a basement YouTuber.
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October 14th, 2024 at 7:30:32 AM permalink
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This is why Elon Musk will be the world's first trillionaire. He had all this in his head 20 years ago and everybody thought it was impossible. Listen to the crowd reaction as to what they accomplished here today.



As many reasons as there is to not like the guy, he is a visionary and a person that makes things happen. He may go down in history similar to Thomas Edison.
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Name a fantastically wealthy person in the United States  thatwas ever well liked. They were mostly reviled and hated because of their wealth. Jealousy of rich people is embedded in our genes.
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October 14th, 2024 at 7:44:16 AM permalink
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This is why Elon Musk will be the world's first trillionaire. He had all this in his head 20 years ago and everybody thought it was impossible. Listen to the crowd reaction as to what they accomplished here today.



As many reasons as there is to not like the guy, he is a visionary and a person that makes things happen. He may go down in history similar to Thomas Edison.
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Name a fantastically wealthy person in the United States  thatwas ever well liked. They were mostly reviled and hated because of their wealth. Jealousy of rich people is embedded in our genes.
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Taylor Swift
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October 14th, 2024 at 8:10:29 AM permalink
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Aboriginal Australians are still around and living a relatively primitive lifestyle
they make up about 3.8% of Australia's population
they are one of the oldest living populations in the world outside of Africa
their ancestors left the African continent about 75,000 years ago
the pic is of the Yoingu people




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_Australians#Viability_of_remote_communities


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October 14th, 2024 at 8:42:02 AM permalink
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This is why Elon Musk will be the world's first trillionaire. He had all this in his head 20 years ago and everybody thought it was impossible. Listen to the crowd reaction as to what they accomplished here today.



As many reasons as there is to not like the guy, he is a visionary and a person that makes things happen. He may go down in history similar to Thomas Edison.
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Name a fantastically wealthy person in the United States  thatwas ever well liked. They were mostly reviled and hated because of their wealth. Jealousy of rich people is embedded in our genes.
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Dolly Parton comes to mind.
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October 14th, 2024 at 11:22:58 AM permalink
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This is why Elon Musk will be the world's first trillionaire. He had all this in his head 20 years ago and everybody thought it was impossible. Listen to the crowd reaction as to what they accomplished here today.



As many reasons as there is to not like the guy, he is a visionary and a person that makes things happen. He may go down in history similar to Thomas Edison.
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Name a fantastically wealthy person in the United States  thatwas ever well liked. They were mostly reviled and hated because of their wealth. Jealousy of rich people is embedded in our genes.
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Taylor Swift
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I should have put that I meant in the past. Billionaires today if they're worth under 10 billion are pipsqueaks compared to the billionaires of the past like the robber barons. Rockefeller at the height of his wealth calculated in today's dollars was worth about $450 billion and everybody hated his guts. They hated all the robber barons mostly just because they were rich. Didn't matter how much money they gave to charity how many colleges and libraries they built people still hated their guts because that's what people do.
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October 14th, 2024 at 12:42:01 PM permalink
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This is why Elon Musk will be the world's first trillionaire. He had all this in his head 20 years ago and everybody thought it was impossible. Listen to the crowd reaction as to what they accomplished here today.



As many reasons as there is to not like the guy, he is a visionary and a person that makes things happen. He may go down in history similar to Thomas Edison.
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Name a fantastically wealthy person in the United States  thatwas ever well liked. They were mostly reviled and hated because of their wealth. Jealousy of rich people is embedded in our genes.
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Taylor Swift
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I should have put that I meant in the past. Billionaires today if they're worth under 10 billion are pipsqueaks compared to the billionaires of the past like the robber barons. Rockefeller at the height of his wealth calculated in today's dollars was worth about $450 billion and everybody hated his guts. They hated all the robber barons mostly just because they were rich. Didn't matter how much money they gave to charity how many colleges and libraries they built people still hated their guts because that's what people do.
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There is still so much envy in this country. People hated Gates and Jobs. Never mind the great products they gave us, if they made profit so much of society hates them. You can suggest why not just invest in these companies if they make so much money. Nope, this segment will never consider that, they want the money taken away simply because there is something not right.

There are some of these types I do not like (Mark Cuban) but if I do not like them it is something about them, not that they have money.
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October 14th, 2024 at 1:27:01 PM permalink
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This is why Elon Musk will be the world's first trillionaire. He had all this in his head 20 years ago and everybody thought it was impossible. Listen to the crowd reaction as to what they accomplished here today.



As many reasons as there is to not like the guy, he is a visionary and a person that makes things happen. He may go down in history similar to Thomas Edison.
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Name a fantastically wealthy person in the United States  thatwas ever well liked. They were mostly reviled and hated because of their wealth. Jealousy of rich people is embedded in our genes.
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I think Warren Buffet is generally well liked.
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October 14th, 2024 at 1:35:22 PM permalink
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This is why Elon Musk will be the world's first trillionaire. He had all this in his head 20 years ago and everybody thought it was impossible. Listen to the crowd reaction as to what they accomplished here today.



As many reasons as there is to not like the guy, he is a visionary and a person that makes things happen. He may go down in history similar to Thomas Edison.
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Name a fantastically wealthy person in the United States  thatwas ever well liked. They were mostly reviled and hated because of their wealth. Jealousy of rich people is embedded in our genes.
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Taylor Swift
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I should have put that I meant in the past. Billionaires today if they're worth under 10 billion are pipsqueaks compared to the billionaires of the past like the robber barons. Rockefeller at the height of his wealth calculated in today's dollars was worth about $450 billion and everybody hated his guts. They hated all the robber barons mostly just because they were rich. Didn't matter how much money they gave to charity how many colleges and libraries they built people still hated their guts because that's what people do.
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Perhaps they should have called themselves super-heroes instead of robber barons. Robber Barons has such a negative vibe.
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October 14th, 2024 at 1:40:56 PM permalink
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This is why Elon Musk will be the world's first trillionaire. He had all this in his head 20 years ago and everybody thought it was impossible. Listen to the crowd reaction as to what they accomplished here today.



As many reasons as there is to not like the guy, he is a visionary and a person that makes things happen. He may go down in history similar to Thomas Edison.
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Name a fantastically wealthy person in the United States  thatwas ever well liked. They were mostly reviled and hated because of their wealth. Jealousy of rich people is embedded in our genes.
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Taylor Swift
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I should have put that I meant in the past. Billionaires today if they're worth under 10 billion are pipsqueaks compared to the billionaires of the past like the robber barons. Rockefeller at the height of his wealth calculated in today's dollars was worth about $450 billion and everybody hated his guts. They hated all the robber barons mostly just because they were rich. Didn't matter how much money they gave to charity how many colleges and libraries they built people still hated their guts because that's what people do.
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Perhaps they should have called themselves super-heroes instead of robber barons. Robber Barons has such a negative vibe.
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I think Robert Morris to name one was better off than Washington. Before he went broke anyhow.
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October 14th, 2024 at 3:06:24 PM permalink
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There is still so much envy in this country. People hated Gates and Jobs. Never mind the great products they gave us, if they made profit so much of society hates them. You can suggest why not just invest in these companies if they make so much money. Nope, this segment will never consider that, they want the money taken away simply because there is something not right.

There are some of these types I do not like (Mark Cuban) but if I do not like them it is something about them, not that they have money.
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I don't hate Gates because of his wealth, I hate him because he got rich having us pay to beta test Microsoft's software. He rushed Windows 95 (which he essentially stole from Apple... who stole it from Xerox, but that's, as they say, a "whole nother story") to market to head off IBM's arguably superior OS/2 Warp operating system. The result was a buggy OS that, while undeniably a significant technological advance, caused a bunch of headaches (and I'm not even an IT guy).

Well, that and his Moe Howard haircut!

I never had anything against Jobs. Although I don't own any Apple products, I appreciate their significance.
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October 14th, 2024 at 4:23:46 PM permalink
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He rushed Windows 95 (which he essentially stole from Apple... who stole it from Xerox, but that's, as they say, a "whole nother story") to market to head off IBM's arguably superior OS/2 Warp operating system. The result was a buggy OS that, while undeniably a significant technological advance, caused a bunch of headaches (and I'm not even an IT guy).



Don't forget, Microsoft developed most of OS/2 for IBM. OS/2 is still used in many ATM's in the middle east.
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October 14th, 2024 at 4:36:01 PM permalink
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There is still so much envy in this country. People hated Gates and Jobs. Never mind the great products they gave us, if they made profit so much of society hates them. You can suggest why not just invest in these companies if they make so much money. Nope, this segment will never consider that, they want the money taken away simply because there is something not right.

There are some of these types I do not like (Mark Cuban) but if I do not like them it is something about them, not that they have money.
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I don't hate Gates because of his wealth, I hate him because he got rich having us pay to beta test Microsoft's software. He rushed Windows 95 (which he essentially stole from Apple... who stole it from Xerox, but that's, as they say, a "whole nother story") to market to head off IBM's arguably superior OS/2 Warp operating system. The result was a buggy OS that, while undeniably a significant technological advance, caused a bunch of headaches (and I'm not even an IT guy).

Well, that and his Moe Howard haircut!

I never had anything against Jobs. Although I don't own any Apple products, I appreciate their significance.
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OS/2 was out years before Windows95 I thought. I would not put it as "stolen from Apple." By that point it was all going in a similar direction. Sort of similar to saying Ford stole the assembly line from Oldsmobile.
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It's October folks the Monsters are out, Heed this warning... "Beware the Puffy Coat"

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/2uyOnO1wZDc
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If you watch closely you will see this is a team of older Asian Women
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October 14th, 2024 at 8:11:51 PM permalink
On this date in 1912, former President Teddy Roosevelt was shot in an assassination attempt. Out of office for four years, he'd been denied the Republican nomination by backroom deals and was running as an independent candidate for his old office. Teddy took office when William McKinley was assassinated and elected in 1904. He chose not to run in 1908 but decided to run against his hand-picked successor. Without Secret Service protection, a man had got within three feet of Roosevelt as he exited his open car. Shot in the chest, the bullet was slowed by his eyeglass case and a copy of the speech he was about to deliver. Badly wounded, he supposedly rose and implored his supporters not to hurt the assailant, gathered his wits and went on to give an hour and a half speech. He was in a hospital overnight before being transferred to Chicago, where he was treated and released a few days later. His Bull Moose Party outdid the Republican ticket but lost badly to Woodrow Wilson and the Democrats.
Roosevelt let it be known he would run again in 1920, but died suddenly from a coronary issue.
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October 14th, 2024 at 8:35:01 PM permalink
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This is why Elon Musk will be the world's first trillionaire. He had all this in his head 20 years ago and everybody thought it was impossible. Listen to the crowd reaction as to what they accomplished here today.



As many reasons as there is to not like the guy, he is a visionary and a person that makes things happen. He may go down in history similar to Thomas Edison.
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Name a fantastically wealthy person in the United States  thatwas ever well liked. They were mostly reviled and hated because of their wealth. Jealousy of rich people is embedded in our genes.
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Taylor Swift
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I should have put that I meant in the past. Billionaires today if they're worth under 10 billion are pipsqueaks compared to the billionaires of the past like the robber barons. Rockefeller at the height of his wealth calculated in today's dollars was worth about $450 billion and everybody hated his guts. They hated all the robber barons mostly just because they were rich. Didn't matter how much money they gave to charity how many colleges and libraries they built people still hated their guts because that's what people do.
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Sam Walton.

The Mars family (yes from the candy), they might be as rich as the Waltons but they tend to stay out of everything, so they're neither liked nor disliked. You could probably meet a Mars and not realize they were anyone special.

The difference might be that they are very mainstream products and companies and we don't think of Walmarts and Milky Way bars as something outside of our lives.
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October 15th, 2024 at 5:03:53 AM permalink
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There is still so much envy in this country. People hated Gates and Jobs. Never mind the great products they gave us, if they made profit so much of society hates them. You can suggest why not just invest in these companies if they make so much money. Nope, this segment will never consider that, they want the money taken away simply because there is something not right.

There are some of these types I do not like (Mark Cuban) but if I do not like them it is something about them, not that they have money.
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I don't hate Gates because of his wealth, I hate him because he got rich having us pay to beta test Microsoft's software. He rushed Windows 95 (which he essentially stole from Apple... who stole it from Xerox, but that's, as they say, a "whole nother story") to market to head off IBM's arguably superior OS/2 Warp operating system. The result was a buggy OS that, while undeniably a significant technological advance, caused a bunch of headaches (and I'm not even an IT guy).

Well, that and his Moe Howard haircut!

I never had anything against Jobs. Although I don't own any Apple products, I appreciate their significance.
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OS/2 was out years before Windows95 I thought.

I think "Warp" was the 3rd version of OS/2, which came out about the same time as Win95.

I was in college at the time, and I went to a presentation on campus by IBM touting the benefits of OS/2 Warp, saying how much better it would be than "Chicago" (it wasn't publicly known as "Windows 95" at the time). They handed out demo CD-Rom's of it at the presentation. I remember showing mine to a friend who was a Computer Information Science major. He just scoffed at it! He was confident that it would be eclipsed by Win95.

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I would not put it as "stolen from Apple." By that point it was all going in a similar direction. Sort of similar to saying Ford stole the assembly line from Oldsmobile.
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Fair point, but when I first saw Win95, I was struck by how close to identical it was to Apple's GUI. It's like MS just said, "Let's just use Apple's GUI, except change the 'Trash Can' to a 'Recycle Bin!'"
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October 15th, 2024 at 5:15:29 AM permalink
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There is still so much envy in this country. People hated Gates and Jobs. Never mind the great products they gave us, if they made profit so much of society hates them. You can suggest why not just invest in these companies if they make so much money. Nope, this segment will never consider that, they want the money taken away simply because there is something not right.

There are some of these types I do not like (Mark Cuban) but if I do not like them it is something about them, not that they have money.
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I don't hate Gates because of his wealth, I hate him because he got rich having us pay to beta test Microsoft's software. He rushed Windows 95 (which he essentially stole from Apple... who stole it from Xerox, but that's, as they say, a "whole nother story") to market to head off IBM's arguably superior OS/2 Warp operating system. The result was a buggy OS that, while undeniably a significant technological advance, caused a bunch of headaches (and I'm not even an IT guy).

Well, that and his Moe Howard haircut!

I never had anything against Jobs. Although I don't own any Apple products, I appreciate their significance.
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OS/2 was out years before Windows95 I thought.

I think "Warp" was the 3rd version of OS/2, which came out about the same time as Win95.

I was in college at the time, and I went to a presentation on campus by IBM touting the benefits of OS/2 Warp, saying how much better it would be than "Chicago" (it wasn't publicly known as "Windows 95" at the time). They handed out demo CD-Rom's of it at the presentation. I remember showing mine to a friend who was a Computer Information Science major. He just scoffed at it! He was confident that it would be eclipsed by Win95.

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I would not put it as "stolen from Apple." By that point it was all going in a similar direction. Sort of similar to saying Ford stole the assembly line from Oldsmobile.
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Fair point, but when I first saw Win95, I was struck by how close to identical it was to Apple's GUI. It's like MS just said, "Let's just use Apple's GUI, except change the 'Trash Can' to a 'Recycle Bin!'"
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95 came out right after I got out of college. I barely used the previous Windows and to be honest at the time thought DOS based was easier. 95 changed everything. I do not get why they changed the START button in the latest version. To me it is like they did on car headlights. Used to be pull the switch to turn the lights on, left for dome light, right to dim the dash. Much has been changed since, none have improved it. START was bottom left and controlled everything. Why mess around with it?

Standards in computers happen like that. Early web pages were all over the place. But standards emerged. By 1998 corporate pages all had "About us", "Contact", "Careers" and such all at the top or bottom. What is copyrightable and not works under common law. Meaning that we have some laws but as new things come up the courts will decide the details as needed.

Apple made the same mistake as Sony. They wanted total control of a proprietary standard. It might have been superior in some ways, but when 90% of the market uses the common standard you have lost the battle.
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October 15th, 2024 at 5:57:58 AM permalink
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pretty amazing - world's first in rocketry

Musk's Space X booster rocket returns to Earth and is captured on its lander by mechanical jaws





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October 15th, 2024 at 10:24:06 AM permalink
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This is why Elon Musk will be the world's first trillionaire. He had all this in his head 20 years ago and everybody thought it was impossible. Listen to the crowd reaction as to what they accomplished here today.



As many reasons as there is to not like the guy, he is a visionary and a person that makes things happen. He may go down in history similar to Thomas Edison.
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Name a fantastically wealthy person in the United States  thatwas ever well liked. They were mostly reviled and hated because of their wealth. Jealousy of rich people is embedded in our genes.
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Taylor Swift
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I should have put that I meant in the past. Billionaires today if they're worth under 10 billion are pipsqueaks compared to the billionaires of the past like the robber barons. Rockefeller at the height of his wealth calculated in today's dollars was worth about $450 billion and everybody hated his guts. They hated all the robber barons mostly just because they were rich. Didn't matter how much money they gave to charity how many colleges and libraries they built people still hated their guts because that's what people do.
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Sam Walton.

The Mars family (yes from the candy), they might be as rich as the Waltons but they tend to stay out of everything, so they're neither liked nor disliked. You could probably meet a Mars and not realize they were anyone special.

The difference might be that they are very mainstream products and companies and we don't think of Walmarts and Milky Way bars as something outside of our lives.
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The Johnsons, who own Fidelity.
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According to my wife, this is our song.
♪♪Now you swear and kick and beg us That you're not a gamblin' man Then you find you're back in Vegas With a handle in your hand♪♪ Your black cards can make you money So you hide them when you're able In the land of casinos and money You must put them on the table♪♪ You go back Jack do it again roulette wheels turinin' 'round and 'round♪♪ You go back Jack do it again♪♪
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October 23rd, 2024 at 11:07:39 AM permalink
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Record For Largest Known Prime Number Broken By Amateur Mathematician Using Free Software

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October 24th, 2024 at 3:00:01 PM permalink
I was listening to a call in radio show where people were asking questions to a doctor.

"Doctor, I have what I think is a yeast infection in my groin area, is it flammable?"
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October 25th, 2024 at 4:06:19 PM permalink
The newly hired Police Commissioner of Pittsburg resigned after it was revealed that he working as an NCAA basketball referee and his schedule could take him out of town for 120 days over the next twenty weeks.
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October 27th, 2024 at 5:19:00 AM permalink
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some possible causes of Global Catastrophe - see link

no one should panic - it's not likely to happen in our lifetime - although possible - but one of these events will prolly happen sometime in the distant future of the universe


A gigantic asteroid could collide with the Earth and destroy our planet or much of it

Planetary or Interstellar Collision - scientists say there is a 1% chance that the planet Mercury's orbit could be made unstable by Jupiter's gravitational pull and that it possibly could collide with Earth

The Sun - a powerful solar flare, solar superstorm or solar micronova could cause a drastic increase or decrease in the Sun's power and could have severe consequences for life on Earth

Uninhabitable Universe - the expansion of spacetime could cause the destruction of all matter in a Big Rip scenario - I don't really understand this one at all

Extraterrestial Invasion - intelligent alien life if it exists could invade Earth and destroy it or enslave humans or exploit the planet's resources

Natural Pandemic - viruses and diseases caused by antibiotic resistant bacteria - similar to and worse than smallpox, bubonic plague and Covid

Natural Climate Change - such as an ice age

Super Volcano - the eruption of a super volcano could lead to a volcanic winter similar to a nuclear winter - human extinction is possible

Nuclear War or Chemical warfare



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_catastrophe_scenarios

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October 27th, 2024 at 2:50:36 PM permalink
Ah, story behind paywall unfortunately.

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Queen Elizabeth's Corgis Were Actually "Psycho," Apparently

In his new biography of the late queen, Craig Brown documents the dogs' many, many crimes against
people and furniture.

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October 27th, 2024 at 4:34:47 PM permalink
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Ah, story behind paywall unfortunately.

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Queen Elizabeth's Corgis Were Actually "Psycho," Apparently

In his new biography of the late queen, Craig Brown documents the dogs' many, many crimes against
people and furniture.


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Were they crimes of passion?
It’s a dog eat dog world. …Or maybe it’s the other way around!
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October 27th, 2024 at 4:46:09 PM permalink
Barely watch football anymore but today might have been the Hail Mary of all time.

Hail (Mary) to the Redskins, hail victory.........
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October 27th, 2024 at 6:55:11 PM permalink
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Hail (Mary) to the Redskins, hail victory.........



Blasphemy!!! It was the Commanders.
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October 28th, 2024 at 2:24:06 AM permalink
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Hail (Mary) to the Redskins, hail victory.........



Blasphemy!!! It was the Commanders.
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That's their slave name.
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October 28th, 2024 at 8:38:54 AM permalink
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sign of the times -

for maybe about a year now grocery stores in my area have posted private Security Guards in uniform by the exits due to an increase in shoplifting

now, in the last week I've been to 2 very large stores - and they both now have a County Policeman carrying a gun and baton and wearing a bullet proof vest at the exit

maybe the shoplifters didn't respect the private Security Guards and walked out with the products even though they were there

I've very surprised that the County Police are willing to utilize their manpower in this manner -

my area is very safe and there is almost no crime except I guess for shoplifting

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October 28th, 2024 at 8:42:00 AM permalink
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I've very surprised that the County Police are willing to utilize their manpower in that manner -

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Most counties allow their policemen to work outside of the department on their time off. I believe many places hire off duty cops.
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October 28th, 2024 at 8:46:06 AM permalink
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I've very surprised that the County Police are willing to utilize their manpower in that manner -

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Most counties allow their policemen to work outside of the department on their time off. I believe many places hire off duty cops.
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yes, I'm aware of that
but I wouldn't expect them to be wearing their County Police Uniform

in any event - I've never seen this before about one week ago -

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October 28th, 2024 at 9:03:16 AM permalink
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sign of the times -

for maybe about a year now grocery stores in my area have posted private Security Guards in uniform by the exits due to an increase in shoplifting

now, in the last week I've been to 2 very large stores - and they both now have a County Policeman carrying a gun and baton and wearing a bullet proof vest at the exit

maybe the shoplifters didn't respect the private Security Guards and walked out with the products even though they were there

I've very surprised that the County Police are willing to utilize their manpower in this manner -

my area is very safe and there is almost no crime except I guess for shoplifting

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They are probably being paid. Lots of police departments will post a cop for an hourly rate as long as manpower is available.
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October 28th, 2024 at 9:04:25 AM permalink
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I've very surprised that the County Police are willing to utilize their manpower in that manner -

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Most counties allow their policemen to work outside of the department on their time off. I believe many places hire off duty cops.
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yes, I'm aware of that
but I wouldn't expect them to be wearing their County Police Uniform

in any event - I've never seen this before about one week ago -

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At all the events I've been to that hired off duty officers as security, the officers have been in official (county/city/state) uniform.

I think once I saw an off duty officer moonlighting as a guard at a hospital; they were in the security company's uniform.

What they wear may have something to do with how they are hired for the job.
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October 28th, 2024 at 10:48:56 AM permalink
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I've very surprised that the County Police are willing to utilize their manpower in that manner -

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Most counties allow their policemen to work outside of the department on their time off. I believe many places hire off duty cops.
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yes, I'm aware of that
but I wouldn't expect them to be wearing their County Police Uniform

in any event - I've never seen this before about one week ago -

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Check where they wear their badges. In Florida, cops can work off-duty in uniform but must wear their badges on the right side, not over their heart. That lets everyone know who is on duty and who is working a side gig when there is a problem. Cops working a side gig in NY can't be uniform. It differs from place to place.
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October 29th, 2024 at 8:24:14 AM permalink
Insurance companies checking your property from space?

Quote:

A couple in California lost their home insurance after their insurance company claimed they saw "moss" growing on the roof of their house in a satellite photo.



Turned out to be solar panels, but still...
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mysterious white blobs have been washing up on Newfoundland's shores - see link

the Canadian Feds have been called in to investigate - but they can't figure out what they are - nobody knows
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https://archive.ph/C9aI5


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mysterious white blobs have been washing up on Newfoundland's shores



Slimy, glowing orange ‘alien egg pods’ discovered in river — and they’re ‘spreading rapidly’

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mysterious white blobs have been washing up on Newfoundland's shores



Slimy, glowing orange ‘alien egg pods’ discovered in river — and they’re ‘spreading rapidly’


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I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords.
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I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords.


an obvious attempt to curry favor early on and obtain special status when the takeover is complete

prolly hoping to become a "Moderator" operating freely in the margins between the two entities

very, very shrewd

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mysterious white blobs have been washing up on Newfoundland's shores - see link

the Canadian Feds have been called in to investigate - but they can't figure out what they are - nobody knows
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https://archive.ph/C9aI5


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Strikingly similar to one of EBs culinary masterpieces. I'm getting a MIB vibe.
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I, for one, welcome our new alien overlords.


an obvious attempt to curry favor early on and obtain special status when the takeover is complete

prolly hoping to become a "Moderator" operating freely in the margins between the two entities

very, very shrewd

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Me?
Shoot an angle?
Yeah, probably.
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October 30th, 2024 at 8:47:32 AM permalink
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one more of these incredible true crime stories - so very devious - this one just happened - will prolly come to Dateline soon - it's a double homicide - see link
an Au Pair (nanny) and the husband get hot and bothered together and hatch a plan to kill the wife
she lures a stranger there from an internet app to have sex
when he gets there the husband shoots him dead and then stabs his wife to death
they then try to convince the Cops that the stranger attacked the wife and killed her and so the husband was justified in shooting the stranger dead

didn't work - she has confessed - this is really crazy stuff

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https://archive.ph/XwkAo

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October 31st, 2024 at 10:09:37 AM permalink
Just read this a.m. that the average NEW car price is $47K+, and the average USED car price is $27K+. That is crazy!! I see ads on TV showing certain new vehicles selling for ONLY $84k. Your kids and grandkids better start learning and getting in shape to peddle to work or play. Good luck to all.

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