TOTALLY RANDOM POST II

[tobedetermined]

You have to buy them from a retailer who include the initial setup as part of their selling price. Let them. After that you can go back to them for changes or learn to do your own.

 

[moose eater]

Exactly. Taxpayer's money . . . but the great unwashed somehow don't see it that way.

I am going to buy some seeds with my cheque.

All Alaskans receive the Permanent Fund Dividend Check, which former 'Bush Rat Governor' Jay Hamond (a very good man, by the way) helped to put into the State statutes back then, somewhat naively believing it would give cause for the average Alaskan to watch oil markets and make sure their jointly-owned resources (in this specific case, oil) were being sold and/or developed wisely by the Producers and the often co-opted legislature..

In retrospect, as I've put it years ago, instead it taught a bunch of lesser educated entitlement-oriented idjits to note heavily when the first week of October is each year; the date which most PFD checks are issued.

Key issues being that while the Permanent Fund itself (a State savings account that's divided up various ways including investments into stocks/portfolios) is a matter of State Constitution, the PFD checks are merely statutory, and not necessarily guaranteed despite statutory classification, as each legislature has the authority to handle the budget, putting a lock on a budget from one legislative body/fiscal year to the next is unconstitutional here, and after years of uneducated and/or corrupt legislators allowing our oil to be retrieved at what were OFTEN WELL BELOW market rates, in violation of Article 8, sections 1 & 2 of the State Constitution, we're not nearly as self-sufficient or 'fat' as we might've been, had many not been so spend-thrift, including engaging in what amounted to vote-buying by promising full PFD checks during years we shouldn't have issued such.

Many people are truly shallow and self-serving, as exhibited on these boards many days.

As I've put it publicly in the past, when my family's in debt, we DON'T typically choose that time to go out for steak and lobster dinners or eat out at all. It's called common sense, which seems more and more uncommon.

In the past, both (infamous) former Governor Sarah Palin and current Governor Mike Dunleavy have both somewhat successfully engaged in this 'legal' rouse.

This year, Cornell West has managed to gain ballot status via the Borealis Group/Party here, for the US Presidential race, and in what seems to be a parody of all parodies, he's mocking the shallow folks of Alaska by putting in the State's election pamphlet that if he's elected, every Alaskan will receive a $10,000 PFD.

Now, mind you, an independent (60% non-partisan) but heavily red State like Alaska isn't apt to vote for a political activist with a late 60s/early 70s afro and a history of willingly being arrested at OCCUPY, etc., but the prospect of those who are shallow enough to make decisions based on such promises from a man who likely can't otherwise win even 3% to 5% of the vote here is utterly hilarious to me. Putting the shallow greed of the masses to a test, as it were.

When you see Bubba voting for such a guy, I hope someone's got the cameras rolling. Ought to be something to save in the voter comedy archives for generations to come.

We put all of our PFD checks into debts and #1 home heating oil purchases this year, of which I'm now sitting on about 1,000 US gallons, which is good for this very warm house for about a year and a half or so of hot water and heat, so when I pass, if during this timeframe, my wife is set, other than for needing help transferring drums into the main tank..

Many will fly off on some elaborate vacation, buy a new snowmobile or ATV, buy Christmas gifts, or pay off debts like us. I always told my kids when they were growing up (and still do), debt is invisible prison. Pay it off and free yourself up. Otherwise, it'll impact many decisions down the road a ways.

 

[moose eater]

I just phoned a local feed store where I've sometimes scored my headlamps in the past, knowing they had been discontinuing some of their more affordable but 'decent' brands, and sticking solely now with Lupine headlamps. Which, if you're a pro-musher (dogs) and need a truly amazing piece of gear on your head to illuminate the darkness, they're likely in the top ranks.

But I had no idea of price range or features/models, so I took the dive... and reached for non-existent heart medication afterward.

Their cheapest model here that's in stock and available is the Piko X4 and is priced at a mere $390 USD.

I'm starting to think that at that price, if Hellen Keller could learn to effectively stumble around in the darkness and not immediately die from it, then I might be able to over time as well.

 

[CreatorJim]

everyday i take walks, in town or i take car and go in to the woods

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looks like bitch take long weekend here, its what piss me of

 

[moose eater]

I got offered $100 for a 1-hour interview. I guess I'll see if I can work it into my busy schedule... sometime in that crunch period between morning coffee and lunch.

Oddly enough, I am unable at the moment to imagine any specific item I need to spend $100 on currently... Maybe swapping out the rusty steel rims on one of our vehicles for the used (not rusty) alloy rims for said vehicle sitting part-way into the walkway in the basement? Voila!

Once again, more money that's spent before it gets here.

Doubt they'll really feel like they got their $100 worth, though. But they're merely a contracted firm, so I doubt they'll care too awful much.

 

[CreatorJim]

dunno im going wrong way or what, hide and seek

 

[420PyRoS]

Really getting tired of trying to pull a rabbit outta my ass to fix automated machines with no spare parts. Red/Green show reboot.

 

[moose eater]

Really getting tired of trying to pull a rabbit outta my ass to fix automated machines with no spare parts. Red/Green show reboot.

If you must, ebay.

We run well-maintained cars, trucks, snowblowers, etc., and many are well over 20 years old, some even older.

These days many corporations make parts obsolete anywhere from 8 years to 20 years after production and many shops won't work on anything older than 10 years (must be a lot of yuppies in the world to keep them busy with new stuff), so we end up scouring for (often OEM, as that's my preference) parts. Successfully a surprising amount of the time.

There's obsolete parts buyer warehouses in addition to ebay. Perhaps you're already aware of this? If so, apologies for the redundancy.

 

[Grow44DE]

 

[moose eater]

Supersonic jetliner that may fly from NYC to London in 90-minutes?

I'd hate to hit nearly ANYTHING at that speed, but....

New York to London in 90 minutes? NASA exploring passenger jet that could do it

NASA is exploring the idea of a supersonic passenger jet that could fly from New York City to London in 1.5 hours, potentially four times faster than the speed of sound.

abcnews.go.com

 

[pop_rocks]

remember the british airways concorde

now that looks like class

 

[moose eater]

remember the british airways concorde

now that looks like class

The newer aircraft is supposed to cut down on Concorde's time by about half.