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ancroidubh 3 points ago +3 / -0

I’ve owned two Fords across sixty years of car ownership and ten years as a service technician. To be fair, one of mine was an ‘03 Thunderbird, really a Lincoln, but it too became a maintenance money pit. They are and always have been junk cars from a junk company once owned by a junk family. Chrysler and GM aren’t far behind in the race to the bottom either.
I currently own a ‘15 VW Passat with over 165,000 miles on the odometer. It gets close to 50 MPG on the highway and around 37 MPG around town. It’s either my sixth or seventh VW, I’ve lost count.

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ancroidubh 4 points ago +4 / -0

“When you are weak, appear strong. When you are strong, appear weak…”

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ancroidubh 11 points ago +11 / -0

This is the officer’s oath. The President administered the enlisted oath.

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ancroidubh 19 points ago +19 / -0

It appears that the ones in ACUs are re-enlisting and the ones in sport shirts and khakis are new recruits.
I think the significance is that their enlistment certificates will have been signed by the CIC. It is something they and their descendants will treasure forever.

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ancroidubh 6 points ago +6 / -0

Good ones today, Unc. Thanks.

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ancroidubh 11 points ago +11 / -0

I posted yesterday about free building materials. Do you really think they’ll call the cops?
Make sure you stay strapped if you do go “street shopping”.

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ancroidubh 2 points ago +2 / -0

It did seem like “the good old days” but in reality, they weren’t so much. I think we are in for better times.
Cheers to you, fren.

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ancroidubh 2 points ago +2 / -0

Yep, I started as a BAL and COBOL programmer in 1978 for an aerospace company in NJ. I retired forty-two years later as a network engineer for a hosting company. Along the way I programmed in BAL, COBOL, PL/1 (my personal favorite), FORTRAN, C and a bunch of others. Coding is a way of thinking rather than a particular language. I moved into networking in ‘89/‘90 and found another niche.
According to most of my relatives and friends, I don’t know nuttin about no computers, to avoid the inevitable questions and never-ending support.

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ancroidubh 1 point ago +1 / -0

I have a stack of flow chart and drafting templates and a variety of “yellow cards” for the 360/370 computers and vi as well.

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ancroidubh 2 points ago +2 / -0

Ahh, the sound of a 1403 running the 48 character chain at full speed printing on multi-part forms.
I still have my 1978 issued Moore Business Forms steel print chart ruler.

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ancroidubh 4 points ago +4 / -0

An enterprising builder or mason should be taking out his truck(s) and a mini-skid loader and picking up the free material found laying in the street.

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ancroidubh 2 points ago +2 / -0

Sorta like garlic and fermented cabbage...
Oh yeah, and burned nitrocellulose.

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ancroidubh 4 points ago +4 / -0

Greta Thunberg couldn’t plan her next meal…

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ancroidubh 2 points ago +2 / -0

I worked with FO from the 1988-89 until retirement in 2019. You are correct that a clear sheath will let in ambient light but the tranceivers and the software can compensate for that. The strand is indeed fragile, but remember, it's single use only.

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ancroidubh 6 points ago +6 / -0

After, as "the friends of our friends" would say, he "dips his beak" for his payoff.

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ancroidubh 1 point ago +1 / -0

Ahh, let me introduce you to... The bratwurst hot tub.
Grill your brats to your taste and then put an aluminum foil baking dish full of beer or stout on the grill. Add the brats and let 'em slow boil.
Enjoy them on a roll with some spicy mustard; now you're eating good!

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