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[Maurice Winn] The best thing for the Ukrainian people would have been a negotiated settlement....

Maurice Winn — 6/3/2023 2:36:35 AM

The best thing for the Ukrainian people would have been a negotiated settlement. Better still would have been Nuland, Biden, and Peace Prize Obama not starting the war in the first place. Obama had really excellent skin colour which must be why he won the Peace Prize because he sure did start a lot of wars including what might turn out to be the biggest and most spectacularly catastrophically calamitous cataclysm in history.

Of course Hunter and Biden were being paid many $millions so they were keen to ensure their politicians were in charge in Ukraine, so they were not going to accept the wrong people being in charge. A coup was necessary to keep the cash flowing in the right direction, and also to make lots of lovely sales by Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Halliburton et al. And to keep the squeeze going on Russia.

Hunter was getting all the cocaine, concubines, cash, colt 45s, cars, cigarettes, he could use. He had a LOT of fun. Bad luck for those splattered into bits by the carnage, traumatized, bankrupted, fleeing out of the country. Hunter was having fun. Still is. All legit. according to his father's judicial authorities, FBI and co. But Donald Trump is the target. Crazy but that's the way the voting goes. And the political power.
Mqurice

[Maurice Winn] War is still Hell any way you cut it. Not for lots of people = they love it. Es...

Maurice Winn — 6/3/2023 1:48:35 AM

War is still Hell any way you cut it. Not for lots of people = they love it. Especially if they are in the rivers of $billions. Which is why they are so keen to do it. They dress up their desire to kill and dominate and confiscate with slogans and other verbiage with little to no reasoning and that's good enough for them. The most common words in the current war are "Putin started it by wanting to conquer Europe and reconstruct the USSR." Totally moronic but that's the line they're pushing. After 23 years of being in charge, during which he tried to get NATO/Eurostan/USA to buddy up and did not make any moves to rebuilding the USSR it's pretty obvious he did NOT want to have to resort to military means.

At the rate he's been going for quarter of a century, it would take about 10 centuries to get to the other side of Poland. Apart from the current war which was totally started by Obama, Biden, Nuland, Graham, and co-conspirators, Russia/Putin held on to Chechnya which went jihad, and a bit of Georgia to hold the line against the insurrection there inspired by the CIA/USA. The bit of Ukraine Russia has annexed is just the Russian bit in the far east. Crimea was Russian at least since one of my English great great grandfathers died due to trying to conquer Crimea in the Crimean war 170 years ago.

With only 150 million relatively poor people spread over a vast country, the chance of Russia conquering any part of NATO/Eurostan/USA is zero. The NATO co-conspirators have 330 million Americans, and about 700 million Euroserfs on their side. 1 billion wealthy people with the best military equipment vs 0.1 billion poor people can easily hold the line.
China would not support Russia attacking Eurostan. But they will defend Russia against a USA/Eurostan attack as China does NOT want their north-western border to be the Great Wall of China.

China will be quite happy for their western Belt and Road border to be the line down from Norway, Finland, Poland, to Turkey.

Mqurice

[Drygulch Dan] I cast my lot with the military minded, though I served mostly as a Reserve, I s...

Drygulch Dan — 6/2/2023 5:50:44 PM

I cast my lot with the military minded, though I served mostly as a Reserve, I started in the Viet Nam war era, it really was a war. I did 22 years of combined active and reserve, retired a Major in the Air Force Reserve the day after Clinton (I smoked but didn't inhale) was elected) as I didn't want him soling my retirement orders. People tell me the military has changed a lot since those days. War is still Hell any way you cut it. and if the big weapons get tossed then we will all be in it.

[JF Quinnelly] When I was a boy of kindergarten age I lived on the Army post of Ft Leavenworth....

JF Quinnelly — 6/2/2023 5:29:30 PM

When I was a boy of kindergarten age I lived on the Army post of Ft Leavenworth. I was surrounded by veterans of WWII and Korean combat who were attending Staff & Command college.

On Saturdays the dads would gather behind our housing where we kids liked to play. Being nosey I'd eavesdrop on their conversation and I heard one of them say: "See these little kids? In about 10 years half of them will lie dead on some Asian battlefield."

If you hear this in a movie it won't affect you much, but hearing those words from some Army major who had witnessed it firsthand will make your hair stand up. Especially when you're one of the little kids he's speaking about. I remember it like yesterday.

That major surely had Korea in mind, but ten years later Vietnam is where the fighting was. My father had been sent there early on before most Americans realized that we were in a war. When I registered for the draft six years later the war was still raging.

Anyway I see parallels between how we ended up in open combat in Vietnam and what's occurring in Ukraine. And don't be fooled, there's a lot of American involvement already at the "advisory" level. I suspect there's already been American deaths. It's not the uniformed military that gets us into these fights, it's politicians and think tank experts who have never seen war up close. They are dangerous fools who think this is a game. The best thing for the Ukrainian people would have been a negotiated settlement. Instead they will get a negotiated settlement plus a needless slaughter, instigated by us.

[Maurice Winn] Taniwha = actually is devouring. Maoris are in the process of forming a Master ...

Maurice Winn — 6/2/2023 4:26:48 PM

Taniwha = actually is devouring. Maoris are in the process of forming a Master Race to rule over the rest, confiscate their money and assets. $billions are gushing with plans for total rule. It's amazing to be enmeshed in the process. Slavery is a bad idea. But here we are. Maoritanga is another religion - I forgot that brand in my previous list. Christianity doesn't fit that apartheid ideology, so the move to Islam is underway - slaves are allowed in Islam. Not just allowed, but compulsory - infidel subservience. Or compulsory conversion, or head-hacking.

Mqurice

[Maurice Winn] Hello DGD. Mq

Maurice Winn — 6/2/2023 4:18:24 PM

[Maurice Winn] Spooky action at a distance and you are just like Schroedinger's cat = I have no...

Maurice Winn — 6/2/2023 4:08:19 PM

Spooky action at a distance and you are just like Schroedinger's cat = I have no idea what you'll do until you have done it. [Note 1] The dead/alive aspect is not the main point of the process. So I click clickety click, then pixelation and photonic/electronic magic move those 0s, 1s to a place near you. You might or might not observe. Then you might or might not think something in response. And might or might not click clickety click or make sounds towards somebody or fire an AR15 or pull the trigger on 10 megatons or go fishing or have a nice cup of tea in the sun. Or do anything you like, free willy style. Hey that's a cool triple pun.

I note that Tulsi [a soldier type], you, [an army brat], Colonel MacGregor [a dinkum soldier], Donald Trump [ex boss of the military], are disinclined to war and carnage in Ukraine. But the TV armchair people are loving war - as seen on TV. Chant some slogans, catch a headline and that's their thinking done. It's a very strange process I find hard to understand. Do they not remember Weapons of Mass Destruction [which I ranted about as being obviously fake]? The fake "chemical" attacks by Assad were as obviously fake = they were obviously USA-backed jihadists sprinkling swimming pool chlorine around in a confined space to make a bit of action for the propaganda tv. The USA/Ukraine propaganda is laughably absurd = they have gone crazy with it. Almost nothing they say is true. It's strange that so many people are so gullible and credulous that they swallow it hook line and sinker. But they do and here we are a whisker away from umpty gigatons obliterating most of USA, Eurostan, much of Russia, and China to ensure they don't simply take over, and whatnot. With systems collapse starving billions more. With murderous wars galore to establish local bosses to grab what's left.

27 years ago, there was negligible peer to peer communication. With Qualcomm, we now have anywhere to anywhere video, talking, writing, stored and real-time, at almost zero cost. What's fascinating is that so few people seem to understand the scale and paradigm shift that has happened. But it isn't stopping the attack on Russia. The lies just seem to propagate further and faster without attenuation. There are hordes hate Trump. One of my sisters in law said [just a few days ago] that she hoped somebody would assassinate Trump. Swarms think like that. TDS is a religion for the irreligious - they could choose Environmentalism, or the specific Climate Change variety, or Communism, or Wokey, or LGBTQWERTY, or Vaxx, or WEF, but if those are unappealing, TDS is another popular religion.

I like your opinions. And if not any particular opinion, your added value thinking. But I can't recall an opinion that was bung.

So there's that.

Mqurice

Note 1 .... I recall John Kenneth Galbraith discussing being spied on when he was ambassador to India. He said they spied on him to find out what he was going to do, but he said it was pointless as he didn't know himself what he was going to do until he'd done it. At which time the spying was irrelevant.

[Drygulch Dan] breath of fresh air

Drygulch Dan — 6/2/2023 7:54:15 AM

[JF Quinnelly] Good to see that the Taniwha hasn't devoured you Mq, and that Drygulch is still ...

JF Quinnelly — 6/2/2023 2:19:16 AM

Good to see that the Taniwha hasn't devoured you Mq, and that Drygulch is still lurking as well. You mentioning Schroedinger's Cat is a bit spooky since I may (or may not) be known by that nom de chat out in cyberspace where I do battle, well, basically for my own entertainment.

27 years... tempus fugit.... we had our own little salon here with Penni serving as ringmaster.

101 is doable... both of my parents have now passed, but they both lived nearly that long. 98 and 99.

I grew up an Army brat and that may have made me a good deal less enthusiastic about getting into wars than a lot of people seem to be. I don't believe airy platitudes and speeches about noble causes. Wars take on a life of their own. I wouldn't just fire Nuland I'd try to put her in the hoosegow before she manages to get millions killed by igniting a global war. There's people in this country who have been stoking a conflict between Ukraine and Russia since at least 2014, it's not new, and it's not as simple as "Russia invaded". But no one asks my opinion so there's that.

[Maurice Winn] Hello jfred. I'm passing by. 4 years since you were spotted. Schroedinger's c...

Maurice Winn — 6/1/2023 6:06:22 PM

Hello jfred. I'm passing by. 4 years since you were spotted. Schroedinger's cat comes to mind. Which are you? Hello to Drygulch Dan and other passers by too. Even epicure! And in remembrance and honour of Penni and the good old days - heck, now 27 years ago. Another 27 and I'll be, let's see, only 101. Doable. Record setting, but doable.

So much imagined back then for the mobile Cyberspace realm has come to pass. Even It is discussed as a serious thing, now referred to as AI. It's now considered so real as to be a threat. Move over Luddites, It's coming through.

It's ability and power of apostrophe's is unparalleled. People will have to tow the line. Voila, viola's will return to being musical instruments. I could care less. The proof of AI is in the pudding. And the future is nigh. Hopefully crazed Yanks, Boris/Rishi/Liz, Ursula, Herr Gruppenfuhrer Stoltenberg, Annalena and the 4th Reich Barbarossa II march to Moscow is less tragic than efforts such as the 1812 Overture, Charge of the Light Brigade, WWI War to End Wars and Barbarossa I in bygone times. But with umpty gigatons of fission and fusion obliterating most of USA and Eurostan, and a lot more besides, it will be in the record books. Or in the fossil record in the absence of books.

Here's a suggestion = Americans and Eurostan, have a nice cup of tea and a lie down. Then arrange a few little countries in eastern Ukraine, with voting which is considered good enough for Brexit England, Scottish independence, and Ireland, and Canada, and Quebec. Accept that Crimea is still part of Russia as it has been for hundreds of years. And we can all live happily ever after. For some psychopath reason, voting isn't good enough for eastern Ukrainians according to USA, England, 4th Reich, etc, though it's okay in what was Yugoslavia and everywhere else.

Tell Victoria Nuland she's fired and to get a real job. Cancel Obama's Nobel Peace Prize as he started it, and a lot more besides.

Mqurice

[Maple MAGA ] Rex Murphy: Don Cherry's cruel exclusion from the Order of Canada May 17, 2022 ...

Maple MAGA — 5/18/2022 8:22:54 PM

Rex Murphy: Don Cherry's cruel exclusion from the Order of Canada

May 17, 2022

Hockey commentator Don Cherry in Mississauga, Ont. on Tuesday November 9, 2021.

I wish to speak of the venerable, Mr. Don Cherry, he who reigned so long as the Emperor of Coaches Corner, now for some time in what I will term a kind of forced retirement. I do not think it can be challenged that for as long as he so briskly issued his wisdom on the national game from that singular podium there was no other individual Canadian broadcaster who commanded so large and loyal an audience. From the smallest, most remote village to the most crowded cities, old and young, everyone knew Don Cherry.

Now it would be wrong to say that during that long career he pleased everyone. Though it should be added that it is given to no man to please everyone (with the possible exception of course of Mr. Dressup). There were a few of determinedly elevated tastes and pacifist sensibilities that felt he was — what is the word? — a tad too “loud,” but that was probably an understandable confusion with his wardrobe. He favoured rather high-visibility outerwear and favoured colours derived from tropical festivals and the more extroverted birds of the Amazon rainforest.

What we often refer to as the great mass however liked him, and more. And, this was the key, he liked them. And he exuberantly loved, and still does, Canada as he loved Canada’s emblematic pastime. A living piece of Canadiana is Mr. Cherry.

It has been a curiosity of mine for a long time why this most vivid of Canada’s patriots, a gentleman so greatly favoured by our military, and hailed by such a broad sweep of Canadians, was never enrolled in our country’s honour system, the Order of Canada, as one of its outstanding citizens and achievers.

There are very few who have won the honour — and this is no disparagement of them — who can measure up to, in influence, affection among the Canadian public, energy, or sheer presence, as Mr. Cherry.

And yet he has been resolutely passed over again for that honour, even now in his twilight, as he had been passed over for decades.

I presume it was those who arbitrated the award viewed Cherry as a little too vigorous, thought perhaps his heart-on-the-sleeve boosting of Canada’s many glories too brash, or his unique verbal style — there was something of a bulldozer directness to it — most unCanadianly assertive. Was he perhaps too “common?” I would not like to think so, for that would imply a certain snobbishness attends the choice of who may be considered for the country’s great honours.

After his abrupt departure he was not treated well either.

Here he was the highest rated presence on CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada — finest tribune of the national sport, and undeniable favourite of its most zealous fans.

And there in a snap of woke fingers he was gone.

No salutes. No farewell dinner from Hockey Night in Canada, no memorial news reels of his more exuberant moments. He was there large as life and more lively on every TV screen in the country for decades, a living personification of the love of the national pastime, and then … he just wasn’t.

CBC, in particular was shameless in its silence, in fact callous in refusing him the kind of celebratory farewell they have given to so many with far less connection to the wide audience of Canadians. It does not take much imagination to guess how large an audience would have tuned it to a Farewell For Don night. But then, perhaps high audience numbers are an allergy risk at CBC.

However, what most irritates is that the well-placed who determine which Canadians are placed on the honour roll of Canadian achievement, the Order of Canada, have for so long kept him off that high scroll.

This is no criticism of any to whom that honour has been granted.

It is, and is meant to be, a major rebuke to those who determine who receives the honour, and who have so studiously and condescendingly persisted in making sure Don Cherry didn’t receive it. Whatever, he has been kept out of the Order, and there will be a time when it is the Order that is the less for it, not the man who has been effectively refused it.

You know something, it is just mean.

[Drygulch Dan] I met Penny once, one summer afternoon, she was as charming in real life as her ...

Drygulch Dan — 5/8/2022 11:38:57 PM

I met Penny once, one summer afternoon, she was as charming in real life as her presence on SI. She was beyond extra special. It was sad that we all lost her so soon.

[Graystone] Hacked or Lost it all, again I would be lying if I told you that I made any mon...

Graystone — 5/8/2022 6:51:11 PM

Hacked
or
Lost it all, again

I would be lying if I told you that I made any money on cryptocurrency.
I am one of the Cryptopia losers and am verified with the trustee Grant Thornton.
It was exciting, for a while I even had the Auckland clock set up in Windows, hook, line and sinker.
I spent a lot and I have lost a lot, it is just the price I paid for learning.
I only ever spent money on hardware to mine, this was a good learning experience.
I have lost everything I mined a few times, hacked, fooled and defrauded, not in that order.
I only stopped mining recently when the price of power went ballistic.
I can still mine if I want to but it is difficult to justify, even just to support a blockchain.
My proclivity for careful wording pays off, notice I didn't predict Monero would be $18,000. <smile>
Monero has been a contender when it comes to shaping the crypto landscape, KYC matters today.
The entire trust landscape has been changed, or should I say chainged.

I am glad that I am still able to keep up and get to stay on the ride.
There will come a day when I won't be interested in doing that anymore I am sure.
Health matters a lot, a bad bout of anything can end happiness completely when you're old.
Penny was a good companion in the early days of SI, a true den mother.
I loved reading stories about everyday life, about everyday things noticed and commented upon.
SI came before blogging, SI gleaned us, we agglomerated and the result was a catalyst.
Today SI is an embedded system and there are many of us who can still spin those cogs.
The cogs are fully engaged as always, controlling vast movements in shadow realms.
.We came here to discuss gas pricing models and gold index predictions, it was about tech.
Today we have to define ourselves ever more clearly, there are so many reflections.
Even today there is nothing that prevents those old cogs from engaging in cross-section.
The teeth of the gears cut across ethnicity, sex, politics and in some cases even reason.

[Maurice Winn] stuff.co.nz Cryptopia = gone bust. Another one bites the dust. Monero not at ...

Maurice Winn — 5/8/2022 3:27:11 PM

stuff.co.nz

Cryptopia = gone bust. Another one bites the dust.

Monero not at $18,000. Bouncing along around $200.

4 years goes by quickly.

Mqurice

[epicure] No need to say sorry.

epicure — 11/2/2019 9:50:05 PM

[SI Ron (Crazy Music Man)] I am sorry for posting that. My intentions were not to upset anyone. I am sure ...

SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) — 11/2/2019 9:32:27 PM

I am sorry for posting that. My intentions were not to upset anyone. I am sure when I use to post under Cheeky Kid back then I had her PeopleMarked. SI was a flurry of activity back in the 90's. Lots of new friends were made, I am glad to be a part of this community.

[Sun Tzu] Damn that brings back so many memories...and many who were around those days are...

Sun Tzu — 11/2/2019 9:01:37 PM

Damn that brings back so many memories...and many who were around those days are now either inactive or passed away :(

[epicure] I don't remember any of that. Pretty glad not to. Too many good memories to t...

epicure — 11/2/2019 8:24:05 PM

I don't remember any of that. Pretty glad not to.

Too many good memories to turn over, don't need the bad.

I thought about not posting about Ilane. So I searched her profile and made sure she had put all her contact info on SI- which she had- she had a post to her law practice. I figured she'd want people she talked to here to know she was gone. Could be wrong, though. Now that I remember how hosed up things can get here, I'll just keep things to myself from here on out. Over and out.

[SI Ron (Crazy Music Man)] SI Bob was the one who suspended her for 7 days back in 1999. SI Bob passed awa...

SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) — 11/2/2019 8:16:04 PM

SI Bob was the one who suspended her for 7 days back in 1999. SI Bob passed away sometime ago.

[epicure] Do you realize Ilane posted her law office info on SI? Yup. But next time I ...

epicure — 11/2/2019 8:13:00 PM

Do you realize Ilane posted her law office info on SI? Yup.

But next time I hear of a death, I'll keep it to myself. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.

[SI Ron (Crazy Music Man)] From the old days. (see reply for why) Message 11724397

SI Ron (Crazy Music Man) — 11/2/2019 7:37:29 PM

[Sun Tzu] While she went by CB, I sometimes wondered if her husband or someone else wrote ...

Sun Tzu — 11/2/2019 6:26:57 PM

While she went by CB, I sometimes wondered if her husband or someone else wrote some of her posts and fought some of her battles.

Regardless, life is too short to be spent fighting on such nonsense!

[Cogito Ergo Sum] Interesting you say that... I always thought there was another person inside of ...

Cogito Ergo Sum — 11/2/2019 3:14:19 PM

Interesting you say that... I always thought there was another person inside of Cobalt.. She seemed conflicted to me..

Saddest thing was her posting on Booms Busts wondering what all the hub hub was about .. it was 911.. she slept in I guess.. missed the news.. She caught some some major crap for unintentional insensitivity on that one..

OMG... I have been here toooooo long

66... yeah.. I am focused on my bucket list... before it's too late ... I won't be like Morgan Freeman's character.. dying before completion...

EDIT: I hope...

[Cogito Ergo Sum] Cobaltblue :( Yes a regular on Tradermike's old Booms Busts..

Cogito Ergo Sum — 11/2/2019 3:08:12 PM

[Sun Tzu] I remember her from when she went as "Cobalt Blue". She came across as very com...

Sun Tzu — 11/2/2019 2:09:58 PM

I remember her from when she went as "Cobalt Blue". She came across as very combative (and sometimes racist) conservative. Then suddenly she stopped all her political participation and instead focused on health and well being. She became a gentler and more loving person.

I suspected at the time that something happened to her to make her leave the stress of political debates behind. I also suspected that the stress had had a negative impact on her. 66 is to early to go. I think all that anger got to her.

[epicure] A mutual friend told me that Ilane had died: legacy.com Since she used to post ...

epicure — 11/1/2019 10:46:07 PM

A mutual friend told me that Ilane had died:
legacy.com

Since she used to post here, I thought I'd let you know.

[3bar] Whats Happening ? Hot Stock Tip - TLT.v . Has found a way to slip reactive oxyg...

3bar — 10/31/2019 5:20:47 AM

Whats Happening ? Hot Stock Tip - TLT.v . Has found a way to slip reactive oxygen undetected into a cancer cell .

Reactive oxygen says in cell language " divide and die " . Killing cancer from the inside out .

3 rd party independents think it is the real deal .

stockhouse.com

[Maurice Winn] What a pleasant visitation. Mqurice

Maurice Winn — 4/22/2019 3:56:04 PM

[Drygulch Dan] Then again my cabernet vines kept regrowing their shoots every year and I have t...

Drygulch Dan — 4/22/2019 2:40:50 PM

Then again my cabernet vines kept regrowing their shoots every year and I have to prune them back when the growth gets too robust then harvest the grapes in the fall, and prune away the wood in winter down to the cordone. Its an endless cycle. We produced 82 tons of product last Fall. Our best year so far. No idea who will drink all that. But we sold it and have been paid.

[JF Quinnelly] Yo.

JF Quinnelly — 4/22/2019 2:06:03 PM

[JF Quinnelly] Checking in. Beware the Taniwha.

JF Quinnelly — 4/22/2019 2:04:54 PM

[Kid Rock] Party like is 1999 !!! or Weed Kills My daughter works in PR in LA and is very ...

Kid Rock — 10/26/2018 7:08:06 PM

Party like is 1999 !!!
or
Weed Kills

My daughter works in PR in LA and is very busy with cannabis clients.
She told me to buy MMNFF . Says they will be the "Apple store of Cannabis Stores"
I dont like their balance sheet and revenues of 12M, 86M in debt ???

im sure there are some cannabis threads around SI where i can research

feels like 1999 again.

[Graystone] Marijuana is legal or Only in Canada, pity How are you doing Kid, been awhile. ...

Graystone — 10/24/2018 8:30:28 PM

Marijuana is legal
or
Only in Canada, pity

How are you doing Kid, been awhile.

So that is what is new, marijuana has been legal for a week now.

Canadians like strong teas, names like Salada and Red Rose are familiar to most. The steeped tea that is sold by Tim Horton's is a very strong orange pekoe, very nice tea. The tannins are so strong in these teas and if you drink enough you are probably preserving your esophagus through a tanning process. There used to be an ad, I am pretty sure it was for Red Rose Tea, and British characters were drinking the tea and then were told it was only available in Canada, the tag line was of course...Only in Canada, pity

[Kid Rock] whats news?

Kid Rock — 10/24/2018 6:24:38 PM

[Graystone] Bitcoin is a sissy, the CIA and the FBI can already do substantial tracking thro...

Graystone — 9/5/2018 11:04:52 AM

Bitcoin is a sissy, the CIA and the FBI can already do substantial tracking through the ledger and have identified many accounts. The steel fist inside the velvet glove is Monero, with it's ring signature cryptography it is the digital equivalent of walking across the road in the Cayman's, all tracking is lost and the money disappears. A recent crypto article contained a prognostication that Monero would reach $18,000USD in the next five years, it is currently around $120.00USD.

Cryptopia is a NZ cryptocurrency exchange and one of the most innovative and different exchanges in the crypto universe. The young owners are not the usual business types. They have a chat stream called the Trollbox and Trollbox rules are startling and allow almost anything - except shilling.

[Maurice Winn] Getting old isn't for sissies. The list of those missing in action grows long. ...

Maurice Winn — 9/5/2018 1:19:01 AM

Getting old isn't for sissies. The list of those missing in action grows long. Rambi has been gone a long time. Silicon Investor is long in the tooth.

I haven't kept an eye on bitcoin in recent years. My original criticisms of it remain. But it has certainly become useful to $billions as a place to bide time.

Mqurice

[Graystone] Bitcoin seems unstoppable at this point, not only do feral Americans not want to...

Graystone — 9/4/2018 11:46:02 PM

Bitcoin seems unstoppable at this point, not only do feral Americans not want to see a garnish on their steak, they want to hide their stake there. As soon as a Bitcoin was worth a pizza it became inevitable that unsavoury gains could become anonymous public ledger entries in a blockchain. We had better be prepared for asset flight because it is coming, think of all the pizza.

Cruising through old bookmarks and reading a few here and there. Missing Rambi as always, a vital spirit of this community

[Maurice Winn] Once again, Americans go feral, parsleying the language: ethics.npr.org They r...

Maurice Winn — 2/8/2018 3:07:41 AM

Once again, Americans go feral, parsleying the language: ethics.npr.org

They refuse to tow the line and put apostrophe's all over the place to. The "living language" excuse wears thin. But I agree that the language needs metrication to make it rational. As a lingua franca it makes about as much sense as bitcoin, but the network effect is so powerful that everyone is forced to learn english with all its torturous tormenting.

Mqurice

[Ilaine] It is proper to refer to people being garnished as garnishees. The verb is garni...

Ilaine — 2/7/2018 7:39:44 PM

It is proper to refer to people being garnished as garnishees. The verb is garnish, and one says garnished wages or garnished bank accounts. The process is called garnishment. A very painful process if one is the garnishee.

[Ilaine] The word fuck is neither scatological, having nothing to with scat, at least not...

Ilaine — 2/7/2018 7:35:36 PM

The word fuck is neither scatological, having nothing to with scat, at least not ordinary fucking, nor foul, being a plain Anglo Saxon word for one of humanity's greatest joys. I concede it is obscene, not that (most) obscenity offends me. Mere, common garden obscenity offends me not in the least.

Eye of the beholder, and all that.

[Maurice Winn] Do people get garnished or garnisheed? Echoes in my memory from decades ago say...

Maurice Winn — 2/7/2018 7:02:05 PM

Do people get garnished or garnisheed? Echoes in my memory from decades ago say garnisheed. I will ask Google. I saw garnished on your website. Food is garnished. Maybe you were hungry when you wrote that.

...edit... sure enough, Mq's legal advice is on the money which is garnisheed not garnished.

I thought it might be an Americanism like meter instead of metre which is different from a metering device. Or like "I could care less" or "tow the line" or "viola!" or etc etc .

Mq

[Maurice Winn] Mq jfred and drygulchdan are always civil though in response to some barbarians ...

Maurice Winn — 2/7/2018 6:35:13 PM

Mq jfred and drygulchdan are always civil though in response to some barbarians have been known to reply in kind for fun.

I think I even recall something by way of taunt about the photovoltaic wings on satellites keeping them way up off the ground.

Our bff Rambi of course always enjoyed highly civil and fun interactions with us and the records are still here going back to 1996.

Sorry about your bung foot. A word of advice though is that only people like Epicure use scatological, foul language and gutter thinking in public. They think they are keeping it real or something but it's like facial tattoos and tramp stamps in general. I know it's currently fashionable for movie stars and others to show how cool they are, right there on tv, but they aren't.

Mqurice

[Drygulch Dan] I had a bottle of good old vine Zinfandel and it lasted about one night.

Drygulch Dan — 2/7/2018 2:04:21 PM

[Ilaine] Goodness. I've been off SI for a long time, signed back on and what do I see, b...

Ilaine — 2/7/2018 1:53:50 PM

Goodness. I've been off SI for a long time, signed back on and what do I see, but people posting on DAR, being polite and interesting. Much longer time since that happened. Very nice.

I've opened up my own law office recently, which has kept me rather busy.

Uptonlaw

Boys are grown up, one is married, one is engaged. Everybody is doing well.

I've had six foot surgeries, five to correct the fuckup that the first one turned out to be. In a wheelchair for months, lost a lot of muscle and tone. Walking with a cane, now, but getting a little bit stronger every day. Need physical therapy, and stuff.

If any of you Facebook, look me up.

Ilaine Upton

[Maurice Winn] The two things that last are knowledge and DNA. Everything else is eroded in th...

Maurice Winn — 12/29/2017 2:45:49 AM

The two things that last are knowledge and DNA. Everything else is eroded in the passage of time. Knowledge and DNA are filtered and selected over decades, centuries and millennia so even those don't last permanently.

It was only 30,000 years ago that some African bloke came out of Africa and replaced all other males who were then extant outside Africa. All non-Africans descended from him. For women it was longer ago but still only 90,000 years. Men are more prone to genocide, Darwin Awards and being eliminated from the gene pool by women choosing to mate with the alpha males, so our genes are more rapidly eliminated than women's. Hence the difference in time from African descent.

So good things do last, but there's not much that's good enough to last for many thousands of years. Heck, there's not much that lasts even 100 years.

Ephemeral.

Mqurice

[Drygulch Dan] Its been a couple weeks since the ghosts of Christmas past have been out and abo...

Drygulch Dan — 12/28/2017 7:34:37 AM

Its been a couple weeks since the ghosts of Christmas past have been out and about. It seems good things never last.

[Maurice Winn] Thanks for the history. A small correction regarding ruminant animals and their...

Maurice Winn — 12/12/2017 2:45:46 AM

Thanks for the history. A small correction regarding ruminant animals and their efforts to achieve global warming via greenhouse gases; it's actually methane they produce from their swallowing end, not the finished product end.

When I got an email notification of your post I was driving and the car in front of me had number plate JQF890 What are the chances of that spooky coincidence?

Mqurice

PS reading Rambi's introduction again, nostalgically, I note that she wrote presciently that she probably wouldn't be here. So we would have wide latitude in posting. In that introduction I note she also descibed epicure's posting style well. I wonder if epicure even bothers reading. Probably not.

[Drygulch Dan] Cabernet savignon, 5.5 acres Produced about 32 tons last year

Drygulch Dan — 12/9/2017 10:27:10 AM

[JF Quinnelly] What variety of grape do you have?

JF Quinnelly — 12/8/2017 5:21:17 PM

[Drygulch Dan] well the good news is that my boat was pulled off the mangroves on Tuesday. I g...

Drygulch Dan — 12/8/2017 4:25:24 PM

well the good news is that my boat was pulled off the mangroves on Tuesday. I got down here late Thursday, and we are now having a party for the two boats that were floated on Tuesday, mine and a large catamaran (63 tons). It is great to sleep on her again.

Grapes will probably be pulled by some of the farmers and then replanted with new crops. Takes about three years to get new plants productive. Farmers tend to expect to change crops occasionally this fire event probably just accelerated their plans.