1 hour ago, ozimoron said:

 

I know I'm "woke". I'm proud to be educated, enlightened and not bigoted.

 

It seems like you are one of those with no clue what the word means.

 

 

I disagree, you have in the past displayed very strong bigotry.  

I have found that the definition of woke, depends on what a particular person of group, wants it to be.   Are you also a progressive?

6 hours ago, Dolf said:

Top Gear - worst show ever to be successful.

You are writing about the American version, right? 

On 2/19/2024 at 5:17 AM, ozimoron said:

 

They're much more offended by people carrying on about it without having the fain test clue what the word means.

You are one of the woke ones, whether you know it or not.

7 hours ago, Walker88 said:

I feel compelled to tell all the gentle snowflakes so outraged by anything they term “woke” to Grow a Pair, because clearly they have none, so easily upset by matters of such minor importance in the overall scheme of things.

Yet, it seems that the woke is so easily offended by those that will not accept their ... wokeness!

1 minute ago, charleskerins said:

If he was on weed he would be happy and calm

I remember being happy, and loopy, and non-combative!    

1 hour ago, Stocky said:

Ganja

Many years ago, before it was illegal to use in the United States, the U.S. Army did a study of marijuana use and its affects on the user. 

The U.S. Army found that the worst effect that marijuana had on the user was, it made them hungry and pacified them!

11 hours ago, Bandersnatch said:

 

I was the poster in the  "last power bill ever" 

 

I just want to correct something you said in case people get the wrong impression about solar thermal.

 

"the temps are probably not great" 

 

Unless ambient temperatures drop to low teens I always have to add cold water as the hot water is scalding hot on it's own.

 

"some are using solar water panels at ground level for hot water systems" - yes that's me again

 

 

"and tanks need mounting at a higher level to prevent reverse cycling at night."

 

I am not sure what you mean by "reverse cycling at night" I assume you mean the daytime convection system working in reverse at night, but that doesn't happen with my setup.

 

On the right side of the tank (the side you can see) fresh cold water is added to the bottom of the tank as hot water is used (blue pipe)

Hot water leaves the top of panel (green pipe) and enters the top of the insulated 200L tank 

 

The side of the tank you can't see 

 

Hot water leaves the top of the tank (green pipe) to go to the bathrooms

The coldest water in the tank is most dense (convection) sinks to the bottom of tank and follows another green pipe to enter bottom of the panel to be reheated by the sun.

 

During the day water is constantly moving via convection as water gets heated in the panel rises and displaces the coolest water in the tank.

 

At night the tank is insulated so stays hot, the panel is not insulated so the water is cooler and no water moves between the panel and the tank unless hot water is sent to the bathroom.

 

My system has an emersion heater with various settings like time to start and stop heating; minimum temperature to maintain, but I have never used it.

 

 My system has also worked amazingly for over 5 years now.

 

One criticism I would acknowledge about solar thermal is that it is expensive. My system cost ฿30,000 6 years ago, but I have heard people paying more than twice that more recently.

 

The system is pressurized with pressure release valves so no pump is required  

 

 

How hot does the water get with that system?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

15 hours ago, transam said:

BN, his age has nothing to do with the thread, what is WMD and its relation to the topic....?

If not already answered ... WMD, weapons of mass destruction.   Chemical and biological warfare agents.   Some of them extremely nasty and extremely deadly, like, Sarin, VX, the atomic bomb and that other more bigger bomb. 

18 hours ago, candide said:

That was not an official promise, and the interlocutor at that time, the Soviet Union, collapsed since Russia declared its independence.

About the so-called peace plan, same quote:

"You can’t negotiate with a bear while it’s eating your leg,"

A few years ago I heard an audio recording of a man, while he was being eaten by a bear.   I still feel squeamish in my stomach when I think about it.   He was not trying to negotiate!

12 minutes ago, VBer said:

Drug and rape related convicts were not allowed to join this program. Now this program is shut, so the only possible  next destination for him is jail for several years.

Really?   Sounds like he will still be screwed then.   

1 hour ago, lopburi3 said:

I probably looked at that clock during the six months I spent there.  In 60/61.

Off topic post!

I don't think so, I could be wrong though.  It is a Quartz C cell battery powered clock.   If it was in the large conference room at the end of the building on the 2nd floor at coords 42 32 53.7 x -71 36 37.4, then this is the clock.   In the 60's I think that clocks that looked like this were plug in only.   I think that back in the early 70's they were plug in only.   This clock may have been an INSCOM clock.  The exterior has not aged well and it appears to have been dropped and a piece of the brown surround broken off.  Other than that, it is the most accurate clock in the house, even if I only use AA batteries with it rather than a C cell. 

Checking google earth I see that windows facing the streets are now boarded up and there are fences blocking access.  I, rescued, the clock back in 2013 about a week after returning to the U.S. of A. from my 5 weeks in Thailand. 

 

10 hours ago, billd766 said:

You seem to think it is simple to run a country of 300 million people yet you have no idea of what it takes.

 

Define a real job please.

 

I was driving a truck before I was 21.

 

I was never a pilot because I was not good enough or smart enough, and neither are you.

 

I used to install and commission mobile base stations in many countries across the world. Could you do that?

 

I also worked on aircraft radio equipment, at a satellite radar station, on police radio equipment. I also worked on preparing land and buildings for mobile base stations as far apart as Chile, Venezuela, Mexico, Qatar, Abu Dhabi and around the Arab Gulf, Brunei, Indonesia, Thailand building 1G and 2G and CDMA, for AIS and DTAC during 1993, 94, 95, 96 and 1997. Sri Lanka Pakistan. Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand and perhaps other places that I have forgotten about.

 

Politics never interested me as a career and I am the first to admit that I would be hopeless at it.

 

President Biden has been very good at it and made it a career and his life's work.

 

I wouldn't expect him to drive a truck, be a pilot or sell insurance as it is not in his skill set.

 

If you think it is so easy, then prove it and become a politician.

 

Prove to us all, that you are not all hat and no cattle.

 

 

Off topic question. 

What you posted is interesting.  Were those aeronautical en route ground stations you worked with?

18 hours ago, Jingthing said:

Yeah she looked good on paper when picked. I doubt she foolish enough to bother ever running for president herself.

Do you mean, ever bother to run again?

I think her support dropped down to 2% of the democrat voters. 

I wonder how much of the democrat voter support she has now?
 

Data suggests some of her supporters have migrated to candidates who were previously their second choice.

After a blockbuster debate performance in June, Sen. Kamala Harris shot up in the national polls, peaking at 15 percent voter support. Cut to five months later, and she’s announced her decision to drop out, after polling in the single digits.

https://www.vox.com/2019/11/20/20953284/kamala-harris-polls-2020-election

7 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

They still do - time zone 24 is Zulu.  Makes it much easier as just add the letter "Z" to date/time and you know what it means anywhere in the world.

 

WWVH is NIST (formally National Bureau of Standards) transmitter in Hawaii.

I have a battery powered wall clock that used to belong to the Army Security Agency at Fort Devens, MA.   It had the letter Z stuck to the face of it.  

I used to work with  a high frequency direction finding network.   WWV and WWVH were two of our calibration DF targets.   Depending on the time of day at the location of the DF station, one or the other WWV stations could not be heard due to propagation of the signal.  Sometimes neither could be heard.  If either station was in the Grayline, then some stations might get a false line of bearing on the station.    

Correction, that clock has Z 5 on it.   Zulu plus 5 hours. 

On 2/8/2024 at 10:06 PM, jvs said:

Or you could pretend to be a woman and use another rest room?

I could try that.  But, would the other women accept that?   

10 hours ago, lopburi3 said:

Understand - but I still call it GMT and consider WWV the time standard authority.  Bit long in the tooth I admit.

When I was in the Army, they called it Zulu time.  

Oh, and WWV or WWVH?   🤪

I wonder if any "netizens" complain about Thai men exposing their genitals in men's restrooms or openly masturbating in a men's restroom so that anyone entering cannot help but see it being done?

Probably not.   

I think I need to learn how to navigate into and out of men's restrooms in Thailand with my eyes closed.   

33 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

It was clearly SMS in morse code and the techs knew very well what is was - that also had another morse code ringtone as below.

 

Whoo boy...  All those ring tones just to get to the only other Morse code (that I heard) ring tone, the last one,  for "CONNECTING PEOPLE" . 
 

Now that I think about it.   Here is some Morse code trivia, from Vietnam.   But first, some info about . (dots) and _ (dashes).   In the radio Morse world, a dot is correctly called a dit.   A dash is called a dah.  

In the radio Morse net I used to operate in, some of the operators (OP/OPS), instead of ending a communications with dit dah, dit dah dit, which is AR (I don't know why AR was chosen to end communications) the OP  would end communications with, dit dit.   Those who knew what was going on would respond with, dah, the first OP would then send, dit.  The second OP would a, dah, the first op would send a dit, the second OP would send dah, ending the communications.  

It would look like this (translated into English)
dit dit = I, dah = T, dit = E, dah = T, dit = E, dah = T.    Someone not knowing what was going on, but copying the Morse code from each of the individual ops, might copy the letters, I, T, E, T, E, T.   

But if only one op sent all the code, it would be copied as FTA, which means,  F ... The Army!

This might only be of interest to old Army Morse operators, or any one else that could copy code.   

20 hours ago, treetops said:

Trivia, but did you know the original notification for an SMS on Nokia phones was Morse code for SMS?  ... -- ...

I had a Nokia a few years back.   I called their tech support and asked why it was sending s m s in Morse code.   The guy said it wasn't Morse code.   I assured the tech that it was, that I had been a military trained Morse code operator able to send and receive Morse code.   He still claimed it was not Morse code.   OK, I said.  Have a good day. 

I would still like to know what the notification was for as I never was able to find out.  It would be interesting to know why it was chosen too. 

I did an internet search for information about the Gofug Network and only found news articles about it being busted.   What is/was the Gofug Network  (aside from the obscene sound of the word). 

26 minutes ago, ignore it said:

Having smoked weed regularly since 1968, I am no stranger to the herb. Yet, I am not a connoisseur.

 

I am amused and amazed at the level of differentiation and varieties available here. Yet my criterion is quite simple.

 

Do it get me high? Do I have to clean it?

 

My 24 year old (a second generation pot head) is all over it.

I smoke his stash with him and enjoy listening to the story of his current choice.

Organic, indica/sativa, THC %, grow farm/indoor, pure strain/blended, mulled ect ect.  

It's all just blah blah blah to me.

 

After a toke or two, I'm hopefully stoned and if not I take another toke or two.

 

All the hullabaloo and hoopla seems silly to me. Like the coffee thing.

 

Y'all can have your expresso, double latte, mocha, arabica, robusta, macchiato, affogato, cappuccino etc.

 

"I'd like a cup of coffee please, hey got any weed?"

 

 

Were you in Thailand and smoked Thai Stick in 1968 and afterwards?  I was in Thailand in 1972/1973 and smoked it.    But I don't know how it compares so current crops of Thai weed as I stopped smoking over 25 years ago.   Not sure I could tell the difference today.   Thai stick was better than what was sold in Vietnam and much better than what was being sold in the U.S. of A. from 1973 - 1983 or so.   

A friend bought some weed that he was told was Thai, I smelled it and smoked some and told him it was Mexican weed.   Then one day he buys some from a good source who claimed it was Thai Stick.   It was shorter sticks than what I was used to in the Udon Thani area, but it was real Thai weed.   That was about 1975 or 1976.  My friend said it was the best weed he ever smoked. 

I like Mocha coffee, because it has chocolate in it.   

16 hours ago, xtrnuno41 said:

So i thought what would they cost buying here in online shop

They cost 155 euro, with rate today 155 x 38 = almost 5900 baht. Expensive as well.

Same like the toaster of same series.

However it is not the most expensive one.

THis was the topper: A titanium bolling tank, not electric. 2000 X 38 = 76000 baht !1??!!

 

There are electric toothbrushes costing 16270 Baht !! Really, wtf , incredible

 

 

 

I really dont get what they try to achieve with those prices. Yha of course money, but I will not ever buy.

You have to be crazy to buy, I think.

This looks like the exact one in your post, only 71 euros

https://www.ubuy.co.nl/en/product/4DHTLGWGW-boundless-voyage-titanium-kettle-kettle-3-3-fl-oz-1-l-teapot-all-titanium-direct-fire-compatible-campfire-outdoor-camping-equipment-kettle