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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
As a child of 6-8 living in Malibu in the 50s, it was a paradise. We left the year before a fire took the home of one of my childhood friends in Malibu canyon. I am grateful for learning more of the the history of Malibu and am reminded onc
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
SAE standards are there so North American manufacturers can cheap out.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
Cataracts are commonplace in older drivers. Until the operation is done driving at night can get you dazzled. But if you get the fancy multifocal lenses, you will get halos.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
Brings back memories of renting indoor parking spaces in oddball locations near work in downtown Toronto including Union Station. Apartment buildings often have parking spaces for rent as many tenants don't have cars. Buzz the superint
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
Managing fuel was included managing skin temperature and center of gravity against center of lift and pitch moment as the flight regime changed. Theoretically you could end up in a very bad place if you couldn't set up a proper CG in t
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
I'm a Canadian citizen with a Canadian passport. My US citizenship lapsed over half a century ago under a now repealed provision of the INA. CBP officers today may not be cognizant of historic provisions of the INA.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
Entering the US with a foreign passport and US birthplace can lead to a bunch of questions from US CBP as US citizens are required to reenter the US with a US passport (helps the IRS). A number of provisions in the US Immigration and Nation
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
At risk of showing my age I remember the magazine and newspaper articles on SS America when it came out. The 35 or so knot wind over the deck discouraged passengers from sauntering about the exterior spaces. One article highlighted that the
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
Some lawyer could sign up several hundred people as plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit. The other problem is that noise control bylaw officers seem to be on 9-5 schedules (don't ask how I know) rendering noise control bylaws effectiv
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
One would like to hope that the more clever aspiring rapist-murderers will clue in that their DNA will catch up to them and that their time on the loose will be shorter and shorter.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
My mistake. Most of my Android devices are unlocked.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
Don't know Apple, but Androids can be put into Bootloader and Recovery without password or pin. Most Recovery[s] give you access to the file system (if not, Bootloader can be used to install your own Recovery). Extract the files and ru
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
Car dependent suburban sprawl necessitating 3 hours a day commutes by car 5 days a week,50 weeks a year is a much heavier load on the planet than an annual plane trip .
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
The approach chart shows an MDA (Minimum Descent Altitude) of 940'. You DO NOT DESCEND BELOW MDA unless the runway is in sight. Approach design standards provide some margins, but a 500-600' altitude bust blows past those margins.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
WBB was a favorite place to discover and explore topics.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
It really surprises me that women's needs were neglected when mens' erectile dysfunction was quickly addressed back in the 90s. But back then few women were on road bikes. Perhaps this is why it took so long for this article to ap
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
These days it's the transmutation of money into unusable applications.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
Women are not as much attached to the backwoods life as men. I know two that went back to the big city after a few years.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
Not just Europe, I regularly see a bunch of students with laptops taking up half the tables at my local coffee shop. They don't order very much. Admittedly in an earlier life, I would spend hours with a laptop in a larger coffee shop,
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
Back in the 90s, Object REXX was available on OS/2. I used it to tie a mainframe application on 3270 to SQL calls to update a database for a windows application. Once Object REXX was released on Windows, we moved it off OS/2. REXX
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
The instructions to changing firmware on a tablet before repartitioning had me backing up and restoring IMEI and MAC address etc.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
Stalling with a wing drop at 15m, you will be hitting the ground or water before recovering, even with perfect technique. It seems his takeoff technique was adequate for thousands of takeoffs until a gust hit at the wrong time and place and
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
The author has definitely described the problem, but I find it difficult to follow his explanation of the cause. I suspect the pandemic, not mentioned by the author, triggered the price (and eviction) boom in smaller cities where big city t
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 2y ago
Same reason I don't use facial recognition either.
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You might not want to use your fingertip to unlock your phone(reason.com)
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
My perspectives from being a software developer at Xerox Canada until being downsized: 1. The folks running the show started out as copier salesmen who had trouble getting their heads around the fact that the banks, utilities, governments e
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
The DOJ had MS on the ropes in 2000 until Bush fils became president and in the words of one journalist "snatched defeat from the jaws of victory" and walked away from the case.
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
So what are your suggestions for staying alive when you are about to be hit?
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
After several near death experiences in daylight crossing with a green light in a crosswalk from left turning cars and a city bus across four lane arterial roads, I now have a high intensity blinking flashlight that I aim at the driver. I s
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by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 3y ago
Peary took an iron meteorite from Greenland to the chagrin of the local Inuit who had been using it for knives. Whacking it with a rock in -40 temperatures might have been the mechanism. The meteorite is now in a New York museum.

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