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As stated, no. Modern PASSENGER rail, yes. But the EU is reportedly on a campaign to increase the share of internal freight transport that goes by rail to 30% by 2030. The US has been running 50% for at least a couple decades. "Why is Europe so absurdly backward compared to the U.S. in rail freight transport" - Freightwaves
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We have finally taken the big step of ordering replacement pots & pans for our kitchen. The old, El Cheapo, Wal-Mart special KitchenAid open stock plus the OrGreenic stuff we bought at CVS some years later will finally be going the way of the dinosaur (or in this case, be recycled, if our city pickup will take aluminum pots & pans). In their stead, we have ordered a not-too-expensive matched set of pots & pans that use the newfangled ceramic non-stick technology (not ceramic like Le Creuset, mind you - it's not that thick and heavy, and Le Creuset's famous ceramic coating is not non-stick by default, at least not without help). What we researched and ordered was a set made by GreenPan. We got an 11-piece set that you can find at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YD2KF4W , called the "GreenPan Chatham Black Prime Midnight" set. It's got two frying pans, two saucepans, a saute pan, a stockpot, and a steamer insert, plus lids for everything but the frying pans and the steamer insert. We also ordered a matching 12" frypan with a lid, seen at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YD2KF4W . Basically, by doing that, we ordered the 15-piece set and omitted that set's 8-qt. stockpot. We wound up saving almost $40 bucks in the process. All told, we only spent $199.17 for the whole kit and caboodle. Not a bad deal, as long as it holds together and doesn't lose its non-stick properties. The wares should arrive on Saturday. Can't wait to try them.
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The chore is done. It took almost 26 hours to transfer and bit-verify everything from drives C: and H: to drive D:, then another hour-plus to make Native Instruments KOMPLETE recognize the new locations of all of the libraries, one at a time. We're talking almost 950 Gigabytes of data moved, verified, and address checked. Whew! And it all works, too. I hope I never have to do that again.
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Whereas, the Ptolemies have gone the way of the Pterodactyl. (That was pterrible.)
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Darth Fluffy replied to The Old Hack's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Reminds me of that AI song, 'I think I'm a drone now'. -
"The Best Wurst" I recently found out that the long standing top Pennsylvania Dutch restaurant in the Lehigh Valley that was still there the last time I visited, has been closed for some years. I'll probably have to look on the way there or back next trip. Might happen soonish, I have a friend there who has dropped off the map. I'm a little afraid of what I might find.
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You lack context to relate the information to when you are very young. As you mature, the circumstances of XYZ become clearer as you live through them. 'experienced XYZ' presumes you have enough context to retain the information in a meaningful way. To your point, you do pick up a lot of that from your parents. The Great Depression was years before my time; but my parents and the parents of my friends and our teachers lived through it and even as kids would have been affected, and it weighed heavily on them. So my generation all knows about the Great Depression in a way my kids won't access. Ditto WW II, it was a big deal for our parents. Vietnam was very real to me. I had a low draft number, expected to have to go, like most of my generation, thought the 'war' was a dumb idea. A classmate down the block ran off to Canada and as far as I know, never returned. I've met vets who had returned traumatized, and the commanders I worked for in the Air Force were all Vietnam vets. I also recall Three Mile Island as a current event. (BTW, the second link is a parody song) Also the moon landing, pretty much the entire space race. I was too young at the very beginning, and needed to have it explained what Sputnik was and the whole notion of a satellite going around the earth. I also recall rail travel in its fading heyday, we took a family trip on one of the last trains to NYC from the Lehigh Valley. Modern rail in the US is very sparse, but we used to be very connected.I also recall my dad flying to meetings in other cities on propeller airliners. Where it gets troublesome are when lack of context escalates recent events to far more importance than they deserve. The most recent presidents become the norm (think about that!). This is why history is important, it give context for assimilating new information, and an understanding of how we got to where we are.
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Kennedy was elected (ignoring controversy over the election) and sworn in when I was 6. I vaguely remember Eisenhower speaking on TV, but I could not tell you what he was talking about. I also remember Nixon campaigning, about the same. Kennedy I remember more clearly, from a bit later; it recall "We will go to the moon", and of course where I was when I heard he had been killed.
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Well according to the recent flashback, the incident that awakened her changed her hair color from a dark shade to light (presumably the current blonde). That said, it seems odd that her roots would still have their natural color when her awakening was twelve years ago. Dan did mention on the site formerly known as Twitter that he meant Jay's hair to be a yellow-green, but his monitor apparently needs re-calibration.
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ijuin replied to The Old Hack's topic in Off Topic Discussion
In that case a cheaper motor vehicle could be made up as a decoy tank. -
What bugs me is when those "kids never experienced XYZ" lists present it as "kids don't know about XYZ". You don't need to have experienced something to know about it. Sure, you'll always be able to find people who really don't know about XYZ, but a lot of time the things on those lists are things with such a big impact on the culture that lots of people too young to have experienced them first-hand will still be aware of them. The Three Mile Island incident took place over a year before I was born but I still know about it. Then again, I haven't heard it mentioned very often, so I could see someone not being aware of it. (Actually, now that I think about it, the first time I heard about it was when the Chernobyl disaster happened, and my parents informed me that wasn't the first Nuclear Power Plant disaster.) The Vietnam war was also before my time but I've known the basics of it since I was a kid, and it gets talked about so much to this day that I continue to learn more about it without ever seeking the information out. It does strike me as strange to think there are adults today who were born after 9/11. I can't imagine there aren't too many Americans who haven't heard about it though, given it gets talked about every September.
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I was alive when Eisenhower was president. Granted I wasn't aware of much, being only 1 a the time.
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Red, or this being EGS green.
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I miss the sausage heaven that is Tulsa. There are something like 5 sausage makers in town, not counting the BBQ places that make their own hot links.
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mlooney replied to The Old Hack's topic in Off Topic Discussion
The mortar rounds in question work with infrared signatures, so pile of dirt isn't gonna look right to it. -
Well, their both interbreed like nobody's business, but Hapsburgs win out because there are still some of them living and acting like they mater. Actually reading Karl's wiki page he seems like a fairly good dude. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_von_Habsburg
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It's Harney and Sons. Available at the river store, at not hideous prices.
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BTW, the laptop got shipped on October 1st. It'll arrive on the 7th. It had to go UPS Ground, since we had to ship it with its lithium ion batteries still inside. Those aren't allowed to travel via air freight at UPS. 'Twas an expensive package to ship - something like $50, mainly due to the insurance on the $3k replacement value of the thing. One thing this event has helped motivate me to do is to get my installations of certain software on the Music Computer up to date. I'm currently updating - and moving - my copy of Native Instruments KOMPLETE 14. That one piece of software took up so much space on the system's C: drive that I nearly ran out of disk space, quite literally. That's one reason why I installed a new 2TB NVMe drive some while back as a D: drive. (Not to be confused with the new 4TB D: drive I just put into the laptop a few months back.) I'm now in the process of moving every single one of KOMPLETE's libraries from the C: drive to the D: drive. All 254,750 files, taking up 605,146.2 Megs of space. This has taken the better part of 24 hours so far (including verification after copy by Total Commander's copy process), and there's still an estimated 1 1/2 hours left to go. I'll still have some manual follow-up work to do after that, but it won't take nearly as long. Suffice it to say that my system should operate a lot more smoothly afterwards. I am wondering if I should find a standalone TRIM utility to release all of the sectors that were used by the moved data when I'm done, though...
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Eee...no. Now, if you'd have caught me back in 1992, I'd have been close. My mailing address was in Kyle, TX (the place that keeps trying to break the record for the most people with the same name gathering in one spot). That's just a couple dozen miles north of New Braunfels and its treasure trove of Germanic Wurst goodness.
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Don Edwards replied to The Old Hack's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Or if you can quickly make a pile of dirt that looks like a tank to the AI... -
Like the sinking of Atlantis?
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This one has been bothering me for a while. Habsburgs or Ptolemies?
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Mmm, the tea sounds yummy.
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Short answer, yes. Have you never read those 'the kids graduating this year never experienced XYZ' lists? Three Mile Island incident happened in the late 70's. The Vietnam conflict is further behind us than WW II was when I was a kid. No, wait, it's further behind us than WW I was when I was a kid. (Trivial side note, stegosaurus is further back from T-Rex than T-Rex is from us.)
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Discussion of Military, real or fictional
Darth Fluffy replied to The Old Hack's topic in Off Topic Discussion
Oops. Fixed it.
