Just got mine out 5 minutes ago! And the one I left overnight.
Just got mine out 5 minutes ago! And the one I left overnight.
OTOH, a horse was incredibly valuable to a common man.
Yeah, but they should have gone with a 486DX, or SX at least. HUGE difference. The 386 was just too damned frustrating, but it was the first work PC I ever laid hands on. For a personal computer, I upgraded from a 286 to a Pentium 200.
Industrial applications might be a thing!
I’ve got a 486SX industrial PC that I refurbed. Much fun!
But you can hardly expand this thing at all. And there’s a hella dividing line between a 386 and any given 486. I got mine loaded with 128MB, USB floppy emulator (a MUST have) and an SSD (through adapters). You just can’t do that with this animal, can’t even add a math coprocessor.
I’d give $20 to have one to play with, that’s it.
Good job! Not as big as I had thought, perfectly tasteful size.
Maybe you can tell me if this is true, or still in line with modern thinking.
Read a book 30 years ago about eating wild mushrooms. The author suggested that, if you weren’t certain, you could chip a tiny piece off with your tooth, see how it goes. No stomach issues? Try a slightly larger piece. Rinse and repeat.
Does that ring true? Always sounded perfectly reasonable to me. I’ve got 2.5 acres of swamp with all kinds of fungi, love to start trying some. Now and again I find monster shelf fungi that look good. And my god, I learned what stinkhorns are last spring.
Also, is there any easy way to start leaning field ID? I’m familiar with the parts and terms, so I got that going for me.
Smelling salts are now a “new” thing. Take me out back like Old Yeller.
What was it Robert Heinlein said about the best revenge being to outlive your enemies? LOL, we short fuckers live longer.
Heard the term “little old man” or “little old lady”? Yeah, that’s why they’re old.
The one guy is right. You can have a beer or two and be perfectly safe to drive. (Unless you’re my 99lb. wife who hardly ever drinks.)
For those not around, MADD was a force to be reckoned with. I was a kid/teenager in the 80s, who wouldn’t normally have given a shit, but we were well aware of MADD. They were powerful and they were heard. I give them about all the credit.
As to the stats at the end, kinda wishy washy. Deaths dropping despite the huge population increase is eye opening. But vehicles and driving practices became far safer in those years. Crumple zones? No thanks. We rolled tanks. Seat belts were for communists and air bags were considered deadly.
FFS, my parents were very safety minded, but I was napping in the rear-view window deck, hauling ass on the interstate. Not sure I ever wore a seatbelt in the backseat. (And then there was the time I pulled a toy revolver on a Missouri State trooper. LOL, dad had to go downtown and pay that ticket on the spot.)
The 38,000 number is for 2020. Remember that year when we weren’t driving? Car deaths are on par with gun deaths, about 50K per CDC numbers. And one type of violence is rarely random while the other type almost always is. Driving is still pretty scary if you look at it like that.
So I’d hardly give the turnaround on drunk driving all the credit. OTOH, nobody seemed to give a shit before MADD got mad. Young people would be fucking appalled at what attitudes were like in the day.
It’s got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It’s got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It’s a model made before the catalytic converter so it’ll run good on regular gas.
I used to make stupid shit in my 70s elementary school that would have me up on terrorism charges in the 20s. 2 come to mind:
Battery bombs: I thought if you crossed the poles on an alkaline battery it would explode. Wired up AA and 9-volts with switches, told the other kids they were bombs.
KDAK: Killer Diller Acid Killer. Yeah. I’d take a 2L bottle, fill it with leaves, dirt and water, chunk it under a bush to rot for a couple of weeks. Told kids they could take a vial to sniff and it would make them temporarily sick to get out of school. I think I actually sold some.
I’m sure there was dumber stuff I’m forgetting. I seem to remember a “bomb” I made out of a fire alarm or some such. Dad was always giving me broken electronics and a trip to Radio Shack was like Christmas. I’d wear the catalog down to shreds until the next year’s came out. “What’s a MOSFET? Do I need one?”
Conservatives aren’t against solar, their politicians are paid to be so.
I’ve never lived anywhere more conservative, and I’m from Oklahoma. Solar is exploding everywhere. I’d bet there are 1,000+ acres of solar farm between my house and camp, all brand new. And more coming.
I learned it working telecom. For example, if you wish to offer 911 service, your service has to be operational 99.999% of the time.
It’s more casually used to mean a service or operation is insanely reliable.
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Or shotgun shell sizes and loads.
“It all started in 1840 when the dram was a common unit of measurement…”
Yes. This is exactly how capitalism is supposed to work. The corporation bows to the wants and needs of the consumer, or they risk being replaced.
And this is an even greater example, consumers telling a mega-corp to get fucked and getting results.
But don’t let me get in the way of you kids and your anti-capitalism bent, typed on a machine made possible by capitalism. If I could send every fucking one of you back to the 70s and let you get an eye full of communism, I’d deport every one of you to the USSR.
We have a Bloom County sub!
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