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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
Columbia Student Traumatized by Reading About White People

Hmmmm - I've heard this before; meekly said "All people matter" and loudly chanted [Only] "Black people matter." Do African Americans want to be the boyars of the future; methinks all should understand what happened to the bowars. Look at what happened to the boyars in France: It would behoove...
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- Post #35
- Nov 21, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
Problem with Microsoft Excel 2016

akkha - I have 2013 Excel and Windows 7 BUT ther're three things you can try. The first two are mentioned above; If Microshaft broke Excel then a good reason not to upgrade, if they broke Win 10 then a good reason to consider staying with 7 for now. The one problem I have with all previous...
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- Post #12
- Nov 21, 2015
- Forum: Windows
Problem with Microsoft Excel 2016

I know that because I do it what I assume is the wrong long way. I have two monitors and only use excel maybe once every month or so but when I use it I am typically need to wor5k with two files at the same time. I bet there is an easy way to open a second window from the first; I...
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- Post #9
- Nov 20, 2015
- Forum: Windows
If you could have the power of one mammal?

I'll chose the livespan of a bowhead whale; I'd get to see what has happens in the 22nd century; just longetivity; still wish to be as sensient as I think am now.
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- Post #11
- Nov 20, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
Is 8 years old too young to be left in a car?

I drove a Ford Ferguson on streets when I was 8 so it really depends on the kid, If a city cop would question me (only the days when the regular cop was off) I'd just tell him I was going down to another ranch (I was) to grade something (usually had a blade on the back except planting time) and...
- K7SN
- Post #8
- Nov 20, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
Could you shelter in place for a month?

Done it, except I have friends who visited; last time I broke my arm was coped up so to speak (could drive); I did go into my backyard and the mailbox but that is nothing I needed to do I couldn't have waited a month. Now if FedEx would leave packages at my door I could for a year and keep from...
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- Post #30
- Nov 20, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
Stump removal - burning it out!!!

Good advice if you can live with it but add a fertilizer Saltpeter (potassium nitrate) or ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3) by drilling and softening with boiling water to make a solution after filling the bored holes with a nitrate significantly help nature complete the rotting process and nitrates...
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- Post #20
- Nov 19, 2015
- Forum: Home and Garden
Vietnamese vs Afghans: who were better at guerrilla warfare?

58,200 if you count the hundred + Canadians who enlisted in the US. Sadly that number is just a mouse fart compared to what the Vietnamese suffered. Remember they First Indochina War; and the millions that died there. Add those who died at the hands of the Japanese in the greater 2nd...
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- Post #11
- Nov 19, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
Abaaoud is dead.

I see only one victim in the assault on the apartment. Abaaoud got the result he wanted. His female cousin got the result she wanted. The police go to help Abaaoud on his way to Paradise with minor red badges of courage. The only unfortunate was the police dog. Repose en paix courageux chien
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- Post #24
- Nov 19, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
End of the world as we know it? Superbug gene found in animals and people in china

Happened within the last 100 years; 1/3 of the population of the world got infected but mere 50 to 100 million people died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic
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- Post #11
- Nov 19, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
Can we live without oil?

The answer is already stated - not at this time or for anytime in the foreseeable future. We could make it out of coal; Germany was reduced toward that after we cut off the Romanian Oil Fields at Ploesti but by the end of the war we had almost ground the last of their internal combustion...
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- Post #25
- Nov 17, 2015
- Forum: The Garage
What is one movie that should never be remade?

+1 Good list as was DrPizza's I can't believe I'm posting in a Mayne thread either :o Bogart made several only fit in time movies between 42 and 44 of which Casablanca is one of the best for all time Bogart. Consider also WWII movies are not as classical Across the Pacific Action in the...
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- Post #65
- Nov 17, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
What time do you get out of bed?

When the morning sun comes in my window.
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- Post #13
- Nov 17, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
Solder Gun or Iron

Soldering iron, soldering gun and soldering station are all different meanings; #10 wire needs a typical gun like a Weller with a 1/4" tip and keeping clean; keeps it useful. I own a soldering station with a small tip for circuit boards and wire in 18, 20, 22 or higher range; A old Weller gun...
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- Post #4
- Nov 17, 2015
- Forum: Home and Garden
.NET on linux - short answer and opinions on best way.

What is the best stable way to run .net programs on Linux nowadays?
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- Thread
- Nov 17, 2015
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Open Source
What is one movie that should never be remade?

Probably there isn't any movie that should not be remade although there are some that id it better the second time around when exposed to new media like talkies (Wizard of Oz) versus silent (Wizard of Oz); better direction (The Bogart Maltese Falcon was the second and the best remake)...
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- Post #20
- Nov 16, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
Need a good computer prank

If it is a windows based machne The old ctrl + Alt+ [Arrow Key] used to get em almost all the time; you could just turn the screen upside down but not sure that works nowadays. Messing with keys has potential a bad idea written all over it; if and only if you can get access to his...
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- Post #49
- Nov 16, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
I remember when Ramen was 10 for $1.00

As a native Nevadan we used silver dollars till at least 1964; when my family would go east to visit relative (two week vacation each summer) my dad would get a $20 roll and leave them for tips along to and from upstage New York; they were not used east of the Rockies and once in a while a...
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- Post #44
- Nov 16, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
NOW CLOSED ; List some movies you've watched recently. Theatre, rental, TV... and give a */10

Traffic in Souls (1913) 5/10 but a movie worth watching as the theme; luring innocent young women in to coerced prostitution a hundred+ years ago; a social problem that is still rampart today. Two immigrants from Sweden are offered 'legitimate work' by what appear (except for the subtitles) to...
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- Post #10,636
- Nov 16, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
I remember when Ramen was 10 for $1.00

Nope; bought middle grade gas in Texas for 18.9 cents a gallon in the 60s; good 17 cent burgers in high in 1962; they raised the price to 19 cents in about 1964. Tax on gas is three time that now. Matinee movie with a serial was 50 cents and my mom would expect change from the silver dollar...
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- Post #6
- Nov 15, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
what would be the best way to eliminate isis/al queda

What is the only difference between a fundamental Muslim and a fundamental Christian; Christian's call their Jihad a Crusade.
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- Post #51
- Nov 15, 2015
- Forum: Politics and News
I remember when Ramen was 10 for $1.00

17 cent burgers; 10 cent cokes; 50 cent matinee at the movie theatre and gas was as low as 18 cents a gallon; faded memories now.
- K7SN
- Post #3
- Nov 15, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
Lower cost off road vehicle

I faced the same problem a few years back; I still wanted to explore and I didn't like getting wet when it rained so I sought a capable 4wd and parked my Husqvarna Motorcycle. I selected a 1992 Ford Bronco with five speed transmission which I purchased from a private party for $2,600 (10...
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- Post #23
- Nov 14, 2015
- Forum: The Garage
Ever simply visit a site, then get an email from them?

Walmart and many others are in cahoots with Goggle. I searched RZR for prices to post earlier today and now I'm getting their adds if I go search something. Damn data mining if they get your IP your see there cap everywhere. I guess it is what it is; the 21st century.
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- Post #19
- Nov 13, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
Multiple attacks in Paris

ISIS usually is quick to claim responsibility; haven't heard anything yet on anyone claiming they did. CBS news (West Coast) as I type this: "If this turns out to be middle east or even Al-Qæda...." The French have no friends in Yemen, Syria, etc... If we were quick to place the blame I...
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- Post #117
- Nov 13, 2015
- Forum: OT Discussion Club

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