DocHeb
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You know, piracy sounds a lot like Privy Seat.
Thread Piracy
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Inspector507
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<font color="orange"> Orange </font> ??
<font color="blue"> Blue </font> /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
<font color="blue"> Blue </font> /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
<font color="blue"> "...unless ofcourse you were pontificating..." </font>
To do so would make me the Pontiff, which, by common wisdom, would make everything I say infallible. I admit to striving for sainthood (especially because I don't believe there has ever been a Saint Donald), and I sometimes act as if I'm god, but I haven't given any thought to being the Pontiff. I should probably become a Catholic, first...
...but, ironically, the entire post was completely accurate, including the price of the generator. I'm not creative enough to make up a sequence of events like that; only real life can take such twists.
I finally did get the diesel fuel today, stopping at another station because I didn't think the truck would have been to the first station yet, only to stop at the original station a few minutes later and find they now had diesel in stock. The truck must have come last night. I now have a 5 gallon gas can, red because our Walmart does not carry yellow, with "DIESEL" written all over it in permanent marker, that I really don't need. On the other hand, it led to the generator purchase, which I also don't need, but couldn't do without at the price.
Oncew I got fueled up, I finished loading the dump trailer with the FEL (since the heart business, I've been learning to work smart instead of hard, and am doing more every day), and headed off to the landfill. Our landfill is a technological wonder; the only one like it in the world. See the basics at http://www.stlucieco.gov/solid-waste/Vtour/index.htm . Since the hurricanes, the amount of debris hauled to the landfill has increased so dramatically that I had a 15 minute wait to get across the scales going in and a 30 minute wait to get weighed out and pay the $12.50 bill.
To do so would make me the Pontiff, which, by common wisdom, would make everything I say infallible. I admit to striving for sainthood (especially because I don't believe there has ever been a Saint Donald), and I sometimes act as if I'm god, but I haven't given any thought to being the Pontiff. I should probably become a Catholic, first...
...but, ironically, the entire post was completely accurate, including the price of the generator. I'm not creative enough to make up a sequence of events like that; only real life can take such twists.
I finally did get the diesel fuel today, stopping at another station because I didn't think the truck would have been to the first station yet, only to stop at the original station a few minutes later and find they now had diesel in stock. The truck must have come last night. I now have a 5 gallon gas can, red because our Walmart does not carry yellow, with "DIESEL" written all over it in permanent marker, that I really don't need. On the other hand, it led to the generator purchase, which I also don't need, but couldn't do without at the price.
Oncew I got fueled up, I finished loading the dump trailer with the FEL (since the heart business, I've been learning to work smart instead of hard, and am doing more every day), and headed off to the landfill. Our landfill is a technological wonder; the only one like it in the world. See the basics at http://www.stlucieco.gov/solid-waste/Vtour/index.htm . Since the hurricanes, the amount of debris hauled to the landfill has increased so dramatically that I had a 15 minute wait to get across the scales going in and a 30 minute wait to get weighed out and pay the $12.50 bill.
frank_f15
Super Member, Rest in Peace
oh sure! now that you guys pirated the poor guys thread( laughing) i hope he don't feel hurt. but there were some interesting topics thrown in. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif i like the idea of a bunch of guys sitting around a fire just shooting the breeze , topics are going to go all over the place, but still interesting. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
sendero
Gold Member
I hereby apologize if I've ever caused anyone here distress by pirating a thread /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
I don't do it on purpose, but my brain is full of tangents and I've learned to let them be.
It's sometimes hard to separate a tangent from a great new idea!
I don't do it on purpose, but my brain is full of tangents and I've learned to let them be.
It's sometimes hard to separate a tangent from a great new idea!
ronjhall
Super Star Member
<font color="blue"> especially because I don't believe there has ever been a Saint Donald </font>
Don
I just had to check into this. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
Saint Donald seems to be taken. Saint Donald. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
I thought about letting you have Saint Ronald because I'm never going to reach that high of a position. But it has been taken. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
Next I did a search for OkeeDon . Even that name was taken by some guy on a site called Tractorbynet . /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
Don
I just had to check into this. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
Saint Donald seems to be taken. Saint Donald. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
I thought about letting you have Saint Ronald because I'm never going to reach that high of a position. But it has been taken. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif
Next I did a search for OkeeDon . Even that name was taken by some guy on a site called Tractorbynet . /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
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<font color="orange"> Orange </font>
<font color="blue"> Blue </font>
I feel like I'm at a Florida Gators football game ... the student section yells <font color="orange"> orange </font> and the alumni section shouts back <font color="blue"> blue </font>.
BTW, I think this thread as gone off-topic ... wait a minute, no it hasn't ... the topic is Thread Piracy. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
<font color="blue"> Blue </font>
I feel like I'm at a Florida Gators football game ... the student section yells <font color="orange"> orange </font> and the alumni section shouts back <font color="blue"> blue </font>.
BTW, I think this thread as gone off-topic ... wait a minute, no it hasn't ... the topic is Thread Piracy. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Libertine
Gold Member
OkeeDon:
Good example of "wandering about" . . .
<font color="blue">Is that "final theory" or "final solution"? </font>
Actually, it's customarily referred to as a final theory, but either says the same thing. If interested in the topic, you might try a book by Steven Weinberg entitled "Dreams of a Fnal Theory." (please note, in some areas he is full of it, but he's a physicist, not a philosopher - his explanation of the issues is simple and written for the layman)
<font color="blue">If the latter, what are they trying to do, destroy energy? </font>
Nope. Classical physics dichotomized matter and energy. Certain events at the quantum level appear random (quanta - subatomic particles which appear/disappear). My use of the term "interface between matter & energy" is a metaphor (which I like using to explain, or, visualize the issue). Human brains "think" better in metaphor. Any further discussion here really WOULD be pirating his thread, instead of having fun with it.
<font color="blue"> Does it matter? </font>
Yup. If true randomness exists in the universe it upsets the whole epistemological basis of science. There is an unbridgable gulf between the unknown and the unknowable. The implications are enormous.
JEH
Good example of "wandering about" . . .
<font color="blue">Is that "final theory" or "final solution"? </font>
Actually, it's customarily referred to as a final theory, but either says the same thing. If interested in the topic, you might try a book by Steven Weinberg entitled "Dreams of a Fnal Theory." (please note, in some areas he is full of it, but he's a physicist, not a philosopher - his explanation of the issues is simple and written for the layman)
<font color="blue">If the latter, what are they trying to do, destroy energy? </font>
Nope. Classical physics dichotomized matter and energy. Certain events at the quantum level appear random (quanta - subatomic particles which appear/disappear). My use of the term "interface between matter & energy" is a metaphor (which I like using to explain, or, visualize the issue). Human brains "think" better in metaphor. Any further discussion here really WOULD be pirating his thread, instead of having fun with it.
<font color="blue"> Does it matter? </font>
Yup. If true randomness exists in the universe it upsets the whole epistemological basis of science. There is an unbridgable gulf between the unknown and the unknowable. The implications are enormous.
JEH
