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Well, I have no right to be writing this, as we sure don't know each other, BUT I hope the remaining days/hours of this trip you are taking are a whole bunch better! Your next update will delight us with great information about a great change in fortune, yes!!?

Good gosh, this getting old business can sure be interesting sometimes. Well, maybe that "getting" word is misinformation. Still, that link you put up, sdbardwick, sure kicked in some memories from back then. And how I could forget the name 'Space Invaders' - - - well, just feeble brain power, I...

That post up there about needing a passport to go to Canada was/is quite a surprise to me. I haven't been in North America since about 1977, so I haven't had to go from U.S. to Canada, but I . . . well, last I remember I was probably active duty and just showed a driver's license and the...

Interesting point about static electricity being a possible problem. Thank you for bringing that up. Never thought of it and will study that. As for that metal box idea, I started wrapping all my USB sticks in aluminum foil many years ago. I don't remember what got me started doing that as it...

jtr1962, you covered a lot of ground in your thoughtful responses, but I would like to ask what you think folks that live outside of urban areas should do for transportation? The kind of areas where local bus transportation isn't commercially viable? Now we can't suddenly un-invent the...

I watched the "WerbeVideo" you posted, ddrueding, and I admit he seems quite good at troubleshooting, but one thing I have a problem with; I would like to have seen the inner winding of the strands of any of those wires/cables in that connector. Why? I have had some experience with some...

I got too carried away with those other posts the last time I was able to focus on this topic and had wanted to focus on your post, sedrosken, but maybe ran out of time or something. Point is, I'm a tad late on this one. You see, the big production as of late is that fracking stuff, but that...

I hope that "like" thingy works this time after I log out. I tried to "Like" Mercutio's post yesterday, maybe yesterday; but just now saw no Likey thing. Oh well, these various software platforms do tend to get all human like (my wife) and do little glitchy things and that makes it so fun for...

Do you mind if I toss out the political thought process and ask a question? How many of those folks that are so heavy-duty-cool at making speeches about "clean" and "green" have ditched having a personal vehicle? How many of those super high profile folks that are supposed to have influence on...

When the vocabulary "clean" is used in relation to energy I have to ask whether the individual that wishes to be honest about using the word "clean" --- as in where the special raw material is coming from to make all that fancy "clean" energy stuff --- is that aspect of the overall picture...

The search engine here informs me that using the search term "USB" is too short, or some such information. Even when it is added to other words. So I have been going through various threads and found this: I am needing to learn and this relates to archiving using USB sticks back more than ten...

I see I am too late to use the edit tool, so let me do it this way: I should have typed ... cannot in any way be compared ... and an apology for not properly checking my post in a timely manner. Very careless of me.

Okey-dokey, I should get back to the simple "comparison thing" and that "comparison thing" is that 2025 in the U.S. of A. can in any way be compared to 1933 in Germany. The first vocabulary that jumps out of my feeble mind is "vibrant democracy". Now the qualifying word "vibrant" is assuming I...

I've had a very odd relationship with Google since about a year before they launched the email tool. I am still a member of a very small group of folks that have all had some connection with Google in the work sort of aspect of it (weird vocab usage there; sorry) - - - a couple in the group are...

Interesting to see that thought process about SoftBank, as I had an interesting skirmish with them last year and eventually had that brought to a close that was not so bad for both them and I, but only after a gentle bit of a push from the CEO and the assigning of one of their smarter management...

Sedrosken, you are spot on with this: In another tech Community I have a thread going that is meant to draw out some really new thought processes on programming languages and that inevitably caused a bunch of the citizens of that Community to wander into the AI sandstorm. Then a few weeks ago...

DP = EP ... That means Democracy & Politics = Eggs & Pots/Pans Of course, the teacher will inform me I have that description written incorrectly and it should be the Egg&Pot/Pan = Democracy&Politics; but we'll consider we are at recess and forgive the teacher for not properly understanding why...

I feel compelled to assure you, sedrosken, I am not intending to neglect a proper read/study/response to your post, but when I determined a few hours ago to remain in this swamp I then came to the view this will be a complete study in and of itself and that means a whole bunch of work and I...

There are those around me asking me to stop this posting here and focus my attention on sorting out the many unfinished projects I have my fingers into before the next coma puts me in that three-year Loui Prima style coma he went into in the mid-1970s, rest his soul. I confess I gave that...

I have to identify myself as someone who doesn't give a rat's arse what political party a given candidate may belong to when I am deciding if she/he might be up to the job they are asking voters to let them do. Just so y'all know, that's all. But, why do I make that clarification? Well, I am...

And digging a little deeper, I found this: Here: https://usgovernmentmanual.gov/Agency?EntityId=WcNYnKjjTyQ=&ParentEId=+klubNxgV0o=&EType=jY3M4CTKVHY=

Not to take away from the impact of your numbers on the female population of the U.S. --- minus one, me --- I have found the following answer to my wandering brain's question: https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-people-work-for-the-federal-government/ That site lists the number as just over...

Does anyone wish to offer any thoughts on how large our U.S.A. government should be? I mean the Government Schedules ranks? Or does OPM fall outside the GS ranks? Actually, my question above would also require some specifics, so do any of you have the numbers? Myself? I confess that I don't...

It's good to see some effort placed into a post in a Community such as this. Thank you. I actually got into the little handheld device with what we called a keitai here in Japan and that was introduced to me by my wife, but I used it only for communications with family and then it became a kind...

Wow, this thread brings back a memory; I still have one of those media type cameras that splits the normal frame into two so with a 36 roll we could get double. And I seem to recall a good photographer could get 37 or maybe it was 38 frames with a regular camera on a regular 36 off-the-shelf...

This brings back a partial memory; and I use the vocabulary "partial" because the year escapes me. But I was on leave when on active duty and returned to Miami where I had done my high school years and one of the mornings out of maybe just a few days I had there, it actually snowed in Miami and...

An excellent summary, Chewy509, and that point in your last paragraph about the number of firearms already out-and-about is quite significant. That one has been a thorny issue in my brain since I first started giving this apparent dream idea full thought processes. Now, I suspect that a good...

My goodness, sedrosken, you're good at this summary stuff. Second one in such a short period of time. Thank you. Just thinking; you should work in public relations.

sedrosken, you have given an excellent summary of a sane person's response, but I think you may have already realized that I am very close to the border of insane, if I'm not already over the line. Okay, maybe I have one foot on the other side of that sanity border. But one thing has been in my...

And I agree that the U.S. of A. is a mighty difficult nation in which to make this case. Gonna require a really special group of minds to accomplish that. Do we have that group here?

You'll have to forgive me on one point, if we are to be serious about a given project, like I wrote about; we can't allow other matters to be put into the notes. You wonder what I mean? If we are to focus on this gun thing and do it properly, we cannot throw in stuff about clean this-or-that...

As I start to poke around in other tech posts/threads I ran into this thread and I am quite perplexed by a tech thought process that what IP address is showing in a given context is unimportant? Now that use of the vocabulary "context" isn't quite right, but I didn't want to use configuration...

I would seriously appreciate finding a group of people who would like to fully explore how it might be possible for humans to get a handle on ALL civilian firearms allowed. And I write that as "ALL" because I mean every human in every nation/community on this planet. The trouble with that...

Not so sure how much any of you folks know about small arms; and, yes, I view an AR type as "small arms" - - - but my view is that anyone who owns such a weapon is a lot less dangerous than the individual who is carrying around a sidearm. I sure don't know the stats, but I would suspect handguns...

Thank you for the feedback, sedrosken. I agree, it's not such a big deal and I was more like thinking that the admin might want to know in case it could add information to help with a bigger problem. Sometimes little clues can help with a bigger problem. Myself, I've never run a site that was...

Reference to the point raised by jtr1962 about Japan and this aging situation I just ran into an NHK article that is interesting. Well, let me be lazy and see if providing a translation link works here. Meaning, being lazy and not doing a translation myself. (Actually, Ms./Mr. Google has gotten...

Being a newbie around here makes this an odd question, I suppose, but are all members in this Community accounted for, IF any of them may live in that firestorm area in California? Reports we can get here in Japan make it seem that is a very bad business! Well, I assume it IS a very, very bad...

I'll just use this thread, instead of creating a new one. Is anyone else noticing they get sort of auto logged out after doing a post? This has happened to me twice --- once yesterday (JST) and just now. But I also don't allow any of that 'stay logged in' stuff, nor never remember this-or-that...

Until I read your post I hadn't even remembered those syringe guns. I think those started showing up at the evac hospitals in about the mid-70s. But I haven't seen those in use at any of the civilian hospitals over the past few years after these docs started dealing with my cancer battle. They...

By the way, I am understanding that agreement related to the Canal Zone included a clause that has some sort of language that if the U.S. is getting a raw deal in some manner then all bets are off. But I haven't studied that agreement. Not my AO at any time during active duty, or DoD or State...

I was drafted and remember that there was a line of us in preparation for an overseas tour of duty and there was a medic on each side and we'd step up and get whatever number of shots it was in both arms. It was so long ago that I don't remember how many shots in each arm, but at least two in...

And hello to you, Mercutio. It was a technical something I was working on and the Google search engine had this site providing a possible answer and then I poked around after the initial read and thought this might not be such a bad Community to pop in from time-to-time, but just popping in as...

On this unit at this work station I have been doing some hardcore studying of what is stored by browsers; 'entries' / 'places' / 'favicons' / and so many others. And yes, that favicons file has information about where a person has been with their browser. I have not had the time to study what...

That's quite a list and some I don't remember, so a thank you for helping my old brain do some work. I might add that as I have lived in Asia for some 4 decades or so we keep an eye on the Lunar calendar because many people in Asia celebrate the New Year that the Lunar calendar offers up each...

I have recently started getting the feeling that there is a need for elected representatives of people, in nations that allow that in a fair way, to start paying closer attention to what is going on in this new world of digital money-making through the sale of such things like operating systems...

I've recently gone into some earnest studying of this topic; empires that eventually decline or dissolve. Before I had the time to study this subject I simply had a gut feeling something wasn't quite right with the U.S. of A., but not until 2023 and into 2024 did I have the chance to really...

I might not have poked around enough and missed where I am supposed to put a "Hello!" post, but I will blame that mistake on age --- being in my 8th decade as a human. Not sure what I was before I was a human, as I can't remember that far back. And my "Feedback" part of this post is I am very...