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Thanks for the info guys. So, what I have, is just something on my counter top that just takes up space. I hate it when people say thanks with gifts instead of money.

I was given a set of ceramic knives. I was told they were super sharp, they are. I was told they would cut vegetables especially potatoes, celery, and other firm vegetables more easily than my steel knives, they do not. The only thing I have noticed about them is they are more colorful than my steel knives.

Am I missing something?

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on October 20, 2016, 08:06:12 AM
She was kept in the dryer too long. Ten minutes is ample. After that, they start to bruise badly anyway.

Commonly referred to as the falkie treatment.

Quote from: starrmtn001 on October 20, 2016, 07:42:06 AM
Oh for God's sake.  Here!

I need a smoke.

Quote from: KevinIsAHybrid on October 20, 2016, 07:39:23 AM
George Noory is not human. He is an Aswang/Alpha Draconian. He has ruined Coast to Coast on purpose to feed on our negative energy.

He should be one fat motherfucker.

Quote from: Paper*Boy on October 20, 2016, 06:23:00 AM
Absolutely not.  I may poke a bit of good natured fun at George now and then - and I've told him I thought his videos could be of higher quality, and that I consider his interview with Noory as a lost opportunity - but I would not and could not lower myself to the depths of depravity of, say, an MV.

I'm not sure why Falkie turned on me.  I didn't come away from there talking about ''throwing out his things'' - his memory of the timing on that is way off.  It was weeks if not months after visiting him that he began asking that ''people living near him'' come help him clean, and I said I would under the condition that I could actually be helpful rather than just moving things from place to place while cleaning under where they'd been.

If he had so many things that he was unable to clean, and even had to begin renting storage space, why not sell some of the less important books, memorabilia, and collectables for some real cash, throw out some things that he no longer had use for, and cut back a little instead?  Some of these things he's apparently done on his own since then.  For that suggestion I'm lumped in with the evil MV?  Perhaps I phrased it poorly, and perhaps he took what I posted a little too literally and not in the spirit it was offered?

You spent time pondering why falkie "turned" on you? Really? You are one of the brightest posters on this forum (yeah we disagree a great deal), falkie is completely unable to appreciate anyone that offers any help that conflicts with his facade of respectability. Falkie is such a black and white thinker that any criticism of him, in any way, makes the person that suggests something critical, the enemy.

There is a great book by Scott Peck, a christian psychiatrist titled People of the Lie. It defines falkie perfectly.

Quote from: theONE on October 19, 2016, 11:38:57 PM
Was it emotionally hard -or liberating ??

It's been a long time. I still hang with a couple people that worked for me, others I wonder how they are doing. I miss seeing a project grow from a concept to shipping it out the door. But I sure don't miss some buyer taking a magnifying glass to finished work to chisel a cheaper price. I don't miss carrying companies with more money than I had for more than 90 days.

Quote from: mv on October 19, 2016, 11:28:48 PM
Thanks!

Wallace, no snark, really. I was afraid he would be biased, and he was the most unbiased of all the moderators.

Quote from: theONE on October 19, 2016, 11:25:31 PM
..admitted - you run out of ink

That does sum it up nicely, yes.

Quote from: SciFiAuthor on October 19, 2016, 11:20:46 PM
You burned out then.

Yeah, I did. Mostly, though because I hated every minute of it.

Quote from: SciFiAuthor on October 19, 2016, 11:14:40 PM
Did the business fail or did you sell it?

I did what I needed to do to be independent while my kids got through school. I let it fail I guess. I quit taking new jobs and told my customers where they could find other suppliers. I still have a few pieces of pre-press gear, some old macs, I could let you have.

Quote from: SciFiAuthor on October 19, 2016, 11:11:24 PM
What was that business?

The glorious business of printing and graphic design.

Quote from: SciFiAuthor on October 19, 2016, 11:06:55 PM
Sure he can. If you're in business then your job is to make money. Bottom lines are what matter there. You starve if you don't follow those rules. If you're in politics, your job is to bullshit people. You starve there if you don't. He's now bullshitting people. Makes perfect sense to anyone that's functioned outside of an academic or government career.

Oh, please. I ran my own business for almost a decade, don't lecture me about survival.

Quote from: Donald Noory on October 19, 2016, 11:04:59 PM
How about Trump ties and suits being made in China?

That too.

Quote from: albrecht on October 19, 2016, 11:03:24 PM
Why?

Well, I guess he can. I mean he has made so many other, believe me, great decisions.

Quote from: Value Of Pi on October 19, 2016, 10:54:31 PM
If I can do it buying tools at my local hardware store, so can Trump. Our goods are often more expensive, but I make it a priority to buy American. Besides, our stuff is usually way superior to Chinese crap.

Trump can't have it both ways. He can't talk about the loss of jobs to foreign countries and then buy steel from China. He can't talk about the evils of illegal aliens and then hire them to do work.

I think Chris won.

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on October 19, 2016, 11:33:48 AM
He only strangled her once! It isn't exactly a major event goddamit!

She made him mad, it is her fault. I mean, what was her neck doing in his hands, anyway?

Quote from: The General on October 19, 2016, 11:25:28 AM
Does Paul Ryan and the other nevertrump asshats
WANT a "social justice" activist style Supreme Court?
Because that's what's at stake here.

That is a great question.

Quote from: mv on October 19, 2016, 11:23:26 AM
But a fox in the hen house is?

I guess we will have to wait and see.

Quote from: mv on October 19, 2016, 11:12:53 AM
So things should stay as they are because that's how things are.  Got it.

Point taken. A bull in a china shop, no matter how entertaining, is not a good plan.

Quote from: mv on October 19, 2016, 11:07:09 AM
that's exactly it.

I like straight forward discussions as much as the next guy, maybe more. Like it or not politics are just that, politics.

Quote from: SciFiAuthor on October 19, 2016, 10:55:15 AM
Yeah, but Hillary has a record and is a warmonger. She has voted to send people to their deaths in what has to be history's most useless war. It's easier to defend Vietnam, it at least had an ideological purpose. Iraq had only two effects: regional destabilization and a windfall for oil infrastructure corporations. It's the same story with Libya, only it had even less benefits. Grave errors in judgment were made when we started removing middle eastern dictators from power.

Look, we all know that you like your politicians to be polished bullshit artists that watch their words and know how to snow the public. That would normally be okay. But their track record fucking sucks on both sides the last few decades and we just can't afford anymore of this. Trump is not ideal, but the Republican party failed to put anyone up there that wasn't yet another piece of cardboard shilling for god knows what special interest. If the party had been smart, it would have treated Ron Paul better when it had the chance. That was the time for reform, even if he wasn't ideal either. Instead, they just showed their ass and illustrated how much of an establishment they really were.

So came the rise of Trump. And the fact is, if Trump surrounds himself with competent people, which I see every indicator that he will, then his presidency will be fine. I'll go so far as to say that it will probably be a non-event in the face of all the apocalyptic bullshit that's been tossed out there. Case in point, he consults Henry Kissinger, which is precisely who Trump needs to be talking to if global stability is to be reestablished. Contrast that with Hillary, who publically insults Putin. I think I'll go with the guy that consults the right folks and claims to want to lower tensions instead of raising them.

Hillary Clinton, as evidenced by plenty of stuff that's coming out, is exactly who we all knew she was. A sociopathic whackjob that can't control her temper.

Lots of senators and house members voted for going into Iraq. 77 senators and 296 representatives.

I've seen little surrounding of skilled to guide him. Kasich, when offered the position of VP was told he would be in charge while Trump would be making America great.

Quote from: albrecht on October 19, 2016, 10:35:29 AM
I don't think Hillary or her neo-con and billionaire friends really want an outright war with Russia because that would/could go nuclear and it is bye-bye but certainly she is "all in" for the destabilization of the regions peripheral to Russia, proxy wars, electronic war, and the continued destabilization of Middle-East, and, for whatever reason, pushing China and Russia closer together in trade and defense and forcing Europe and the USA to take in radical "refugees" (though this is more likely just a nod to Soros since that is one of his projects.)

I'm not an expert on this, but it seems to me, Hillary wants to spend her time in country rather than in other countries. War would take away resources from what I believe are plans.

And yeah, it is hard not to claim she is a hawk. But I remember some position she was spouting about using "smart power", I think she meant using other means in conjunction to hopefully resolve issues in other countries.

Not movies, but just binged on Goliath. Billy Bob Thornton as noir-down-on-his-luck lawyer. Done before, but this is pretty good.

Also started watching Chance with Hugh Laurie.

Quote from: FightTheFuture on October 19, 2016, 10:06:53 AM

I don`t worry. One reason I don`t worry is because Trump will go down in humiliating defeat. Clinton is much more unlikely to get us back in a war than Trump.

However, if war is warranted, my sons are both highly capable special operators and willing to do what your cowardly ass isn`t.

let's hope the don't have to.

Quote from: 21st Century Man on October 19, 2016, 03:14:25 AM
Well, did the NOAA lower the temps on the graph or not?  It sure looks like it comparing the two, side by side.

QuoteBefore delving into the new study, it’s worthwhile to revisit the temperature adjustments that Lamar Smith disputes. Volunteers have been logging measurements from weather stations around the world for over 150 years, and climate scientists use that data to estimate the Earth’s average surface temperature. But over a 150-year period, things change, as the authors of this study explain.

    Stations have moved to different locations over the past 150 years, most more than once. They have changed instruments from mercury thermometers to electronic sensors, and have changed the time they take temperature measurements from afternoon to morning. Cities have grown up around stations, and some weather stations are not ideally located. All of these issues introduce inconsistencies into the temperature record.

To find out how much actual temperatures have changed, scientists have to filter out these changes in the way the measurements were taken. Those are the adjustments under attack from Lamar Smith. They’re important, scientifically justified, and documented in the peer-reviewed literature.

http://www.skepticalscience.com/no-conspiracy-noaa-adjustments-closer-to-pristine.html

Quote from: 21st Century Man on October 19, 2016, 12:14:26 AM
More tampering of data by the NOAA.

http://realclimatescience.com/2016/10/more-on-the-noaa-texas-temperature-fraud/

This is the kind of shit that is really annoying. It's an article based on some dumbfuck Texas politician with an axe to grind. The article is quickly picked up by every right wing dissemination agency. And god forbid anyone question them, because doing so would mean questioning their bias on the subject.

People like Lomar Smith, who oppose taking action to slow global warming have focused their arguments on the past 18 years, during which time the warming of surface temperatures temporarily slowed down but have started picking up speed again. The latest version of the NOAA method to adjust the temperatures made the slowdown a little smaller, and that didn’t sit well with Lomar.

Quote from: Astrid Galactic on October 18, 2016, 05:37:23 PM
I might actually listen to him if I didn't have other options, including silence.

Every other Sunday I have a three hour drive in the middle of the night. I was tired of the songs on my phone so I turned on the Radio and caught Knapp, it was a good show. So a couple nights later, I turned on the radio just to see if maybe I had been to hard on "Dave", I hadn't been. Phoning it in takes more skill than noory has. Silence is preferable.

Quote from: Yorkshire pud on October 18, 2016, 03:58:17 PM
So? It wasn't relevant then. Now its proved to involve black ops and Clinton. Proven. Ermmmm, oh, maybe not.

I liked the fact that Assange was poking the govt in the eye then, I can't disavow him now. Although, I do think, with his dislike of Clinton and the amount of info dumping he may the biggest pawn of all.