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Out of curiosity, how much empty hard drive space do you have now?

Unless, of course, you're one of the majority that uses programs that won't run under Linux. Or, you may have the time and patience to download a bunch of Linux programs then spend hours and hours reformatting all your files because they never seem to get them looking quite right. If I were to get started today in home computing, I'd avoid Windows. There are great alternatives out there today. But there weren't when I built an entire library of files using Windows, starting with Win3.0. And I'm always opening a reference spreadsheet for wire sizes, and a ton of others I've built over the years.

That's a common thing. Instant butthole. Just add alcohol. Not every drinker, of course. But that's one of the many indicators that he may have an alcohol problem. I hope he gets the help he needs. But in the meantime, he needs to be kept away from polite society.

Maybe you're right. But I'm not willing to risk it.

I'm pleased that they're letting us Luddites mess with the system to identify problems before they cause real trouble. I'm forecasting an issue in my case since I don't really have a legal "residence" any more. My last one, I haven't seen in over 2 years. And I'm not a legal resident where I'm staying now. But I'm pretty sure that will all be worked out before mid-May when I actually have to file one. If not, I'll enter my address from 2 years ago and cross my fingers.

How does that connect with 2 German guys being refused entry at the border, other than Orange Man Bad... The lack of constitutionally protected civil rights at the border has been an ongoing topic for decades. They can confiscate your phone and your laptop, they can confiscate your money. It's been that way for a long time but the MSM pretty much ignored it as long as Trump wasn't president. Personally, I'm glad it's finally coming to light, even if the only reason is that reporting on it is bad for the Orange Man. Finally, we may have a discussion about civil asset forfeiture and your utter lack of 4th Amendment protections at the border.

Strange. I'm enjoying life, including off color jokes. The lefty screamers that take offense at everything, not so much.

I remember when we couldn't wait for a family get together to try out the Pollock (Polak?) jokes we'd just heard. And to hear the new ones from my Polack uncle. He was hilarious. We were kids and every ethnic joke was new to us. None of them were shared to demean anyone.

Someone catch me up here. Have they explained why he missed his court date? Regardless of the water under the bridge (or spilt milk if that's the way you lean), that was dumb unless he has a good excuse.

After dying of myocarditis, no less.

Not to mention Corvettes.

You're saying that if the MSM didn't report it, it didn't happen before?

I agree, and that's been the case at least since 2000 when I started traveling international. Ramped up to supercharge level after 9/11. The disingenuous thing is insinuating that it's connected to Trump's term. That's the only reason it's being reported now. Until Trump, the MSM ignored it.

There's a good, albeit preliminary, YouTube from a guy that did a lot of follow-up on the Florida condo collapse a few years back. I can't link because YouTube is blocked here in China. I downloaded it last week when I was in Thailand. This isn't the complete title, but it can be used to search for the YouTube. I'll be following the guy for updates on my monthly visits to LOS. He goes pretty deep as the information becomes available. Why Did Bangkok 33-Story Building COLLAPSE

+1 I don't think the average outsider realizes just how tolerant the average American is. I always figure that's the way it is around the world. But it's not.

It doesn't matter which hoards. It's a fact that heavy industrial capacity has been key to winning wars. Full stop. Americans have conceded that capacity in the pursuit of cheap prices. A lot of that on stuff that we don't even need. I'm as guilty as most. I upgrade my goodies when something newer and zoomier hits the shelves. Big screen TVs and entertainment gizmos are perfect examples. I have closets full of perfectly good stuff that I upgraded when the next thing came along. We've been conditioned by adverts to believe that consumerism is the key to happiness.

Maybe, but that was at family gatherings. We had Pollocks, Russkies, WOPs, Micks and others, all married up to each other. Nobody got their panties in a wad back then.

Hosers? I thought that was a compliment.

Russian Teacher to Thais: Drop ‘Farang’ if 'Ni Hao' Offends Here's a thought. Quit being a snowflake. What happened to the good old days when we jokingly referred to each other as Pollocks, Guineas, WOPs, Rednecks and a hundred other familiar greetings that would trigger a lefty tantrum today? Back then, we could take a joke.

Europeans better hope Trump succeeds, in case they need another bail out when the German Russkie hoards descend on the continent. Again. Trump looked at recent history and figured out that American industrial capacity was key to winning WW2. That transcends economic (P&L) considerations and takes it into national security concerns. What's that worth?

Sorry I didn't bother to go too far down the rabbit hole. I figured it was intuitively obvious that a 10 year backlog wouldn't have been cleared after 2 years. So here's a January, 2025 update. 45 deliveries against a backlog of 6,236 planes. That's a 138 month backlog. Airbus, BTW, has a 29 year backlog. Make of that what you will... Edit: Oops. Here's my link: Airbus and Boeing Report January 2025 Commercial Aircraft Orders and Deliveries - Flight Plan

From investors.boeing.com: Full Year 2023 Delivered 528 commercial airplanes and recorded 1,576 net orders Total company backlog grew to $520 billion, including over 5,600 commercial airplanes For the arithmetic challenged, that means they have a 10+ year backlog. If someone cancels an order today, they won't feel it for years. They'll just deliver someone else's order that much sooner. And by that time, the "trade war" will have settled into a "new normal". As far as Boeing "absorbing it or passing it on to their customers", I predict they'll start buying more stuff from US sources, using US capacity with US labor to get around the tariffs. And that's the goal. Edit: And I'd add that anyone who thinks Airbus will be the big winner hasn't been following the C919 and C929 and CXXX.

Sounds like what the US lefties are doing to TESLAs. On an aside, I like his shirt.

They have a backlog of thousands of unfilled orders. If any one customer refuses delivery, someone else on their years long backlog will just get their's earlier.

Not to mention that crap like this has happened under every administration since 9/11. (And probably even before that). But when it wasn't Trump's term, it was widely ignored.