Recent content by K7SN

Stuff to do around Las Vegas other than gambling?

Yes we have nice cactus and bristlecone pine, Sandstone, granite and good visitors centers at the various locations with a hour of the Las Vegas proper. I was born here some 70 years ago and other that my time in the service have lived in Clark Country my whole life. We have an excellent...
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- Post #58
- Jul 6, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
Do you remember where you were when the space shuttle Challenger blew up 30yrs ago?

I agree - My heart went out to all the seven and always thought Judy Resnik was upstaged in death by the teacher. I was preparing for Objective C class I was teaching at UNLV - not C++ or modern dialects of object oriented programming which hadn't replaced structured program as mainstream yet..
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- Post #85
- Jan 30, 2016
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
Went playing in the dirt today

Cool - didn't see anything my street enduro M/C or my 6 cylinder Bronco wouldn't love to play in but you had a comfy vehicle and much more quiet I bet than my old beaters. Ain't it nice to get away and away from people for a while. A few pictures of what you saw would be appreciated. :D
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- Post #3
- Dec 15, 2015
- Forum: The Garage
Damn ISIS lov'in Texans

I did and he will prevail in the law suit - guess he needs to change his company name - how much damage do you think he will be awarded.
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- Post #9
- Dec 14, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
School principal bans Santa,Thanksgiving and Pledge of Allegiance

I agree. I'll be more careful to add in parenthesis (solace not solstice intended). Sorry, I made a typo and it auto -corrected to solace which I knew was wrong, I then thought if we can't have a star then we should be fair and not include the people who celebrated the solstice so I left...
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- Post #96
- Dec 14, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
School principal bans Santa,Thanksgiving and Pledge of Allegiance

I still stay the Pledge of Allegiance the way I learned and see absolutely nothing wrong with that, it is the two words they added when I was in 4th grade that have no place in the pledge and make it a hypocrisy; I still don't say the two new words, just because Dwight and Congress altered it...
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- Post #34
- Dec 13, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
Rats, and the hard lesson I learned.

When I was a lad we had a barn cat, no affection given, no cat papering and no rats, mice or other vermin. Sorry calahan you can't not feed the cat, a motivated cat will quickly eliminate their source of food! A non pampered barn cat will amuse themselves hunting, a fat cat pet will not, Cats...
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- Post #25
- Dec 10, 2015
- Forum: Home and Garden
Cheap options for MS Office?

Have an older office with Access on a test XP machine ,along also with Word Perfect which I preferred then, that only writes a up to 2003 but is older than that. Also have a Vista Machine, again for testing with 2003, A windows 7 machine with 2007 Office (no Access), and development machine with...
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- Post #33
- Dec 8, 2015
- Forum: Windows
Cheap options for MS Office?

I was going in the a rehab facility (Broke Arm) for a couple week physical therapy once my arm was mended enough to rehab (Medicare). I have never had a laptop but wanted one for the two weeks when I was in that facility; bought a used but guaranteed one on eBay for $136 with Windows 7 and...
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- Post #7
- Dec 7, 2015
- Forum: Windows
How old are ya anyways? (in computer years)

Using a AST-33 Teletype to login in to a Xerox Data Systems Sigma 7 computer over above ground wire telephone lines which when the wind was over 10 MPH the communication even at 110 baud was not possible; You logged in, load or wrote your code, modified your code and then printed your modified...
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- Post #16
- Dec 7, 2015
- Forum: Distributed Computing
Simple climate change test.

Same here but only one question made me think, carbon comes from life and life comes from the sun but I wasn't sure they thought that deep; an old fogey I recall the Sinclair Oil Commercials and knew that dinosaurs played a very minor part of fossil fuel creation so had to go to the source.; was...
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- Post #23
- Dec 6, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
Jehovah's Witnesses

Jehovah's Witnesses were sent to Concentration camps before the Nuremburg laws, their persecution began in 1933 when their refusal to give a Nazi salute lead to their doom. That said they are pests when they knock on your door and if busy I just dismiss them otherwise I use logic which...
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- Post #16
- Dec 5, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
Is Steph Curry already the best shooter in NBA history?

Steph Curry is the best 3 point shooter in the last five years by far and if he plays another ten at or near the same level he may well the title of Best Three-Point Shooter but as of now there are still better "shooters" in the history of the NBA but no one can ever hold the title of Best...
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- Post #61
- Dec 5, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
Is 8 years old too young to be left in a car?

Thanks for the link. Not in Nevada - Seems like a reasonable law since dismissal is possible if the parent attends an educational program. My guess is if you're in a rural community then take your keys and leave your kid for a few would not be consider a violation while leaving your kid...
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- Post #63
- Nov 23, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
How close to Civil War is the USA?

Methinks you confuse the difference between an uprising, venting of frustration through rioting, looting an general mayhem with what a civil war is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_war The real possibility of a riot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot occurring from festering resentment in...
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- Post #43
- Nov 23, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club

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