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From: Jan Panteltje on 3 Jun 2010 13:17 On a sunny day (Thu, 3 Jun 2010 10:10:43 -0700 (PDT)) it happened Jan Panteltje <panteltje(a)gmail.com> wrote in <650df527-d46e-4d79-a594-82253ce4be7c(a)r27g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>: >On Jun 2, 8:55�pm, John Larkin ><jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >> Shot from our conference room: >> >> ftp://jjlarkin.lmi.net/Sun_1.jpg > >Taking about art, ever seen a movable bridge like this? >Shot that one today... Well, here then is the link: ftp://panteltje.com/pub/Leeuwarden_bridge_img_1981.jpg
From: John Larkin on 3 Jun 2010 14:26 On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:34:14 -0500, "krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" <krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote: >On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 20:54:28 -0700, John Larkin ><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > >>On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:44:30 -0500, "krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz" >><krw(a)att.bizzzzzzzzzzzz> wrote: >> >>>On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 18:57:02 -0700, John Larkin >>><jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >>> >>>>On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 15:27:30 -0700 (PDT), "langwadt(a)fonz.dk" >>>><langwadt(a)fonz.dk> wrote: >>>> >>>>>On 2 Jun., 20:55, John Larkin >>>>><jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: >>>>>> Shot from our conference room: >>>>>> >>>>>> ftp://jjlarkin.lmi.net/Sun_1.jpg >>>>>> >>>>>> Somebody covered the billboard across the street with plywood, and now >>>>>> two guys are working with chisels and mallets to strip away the darker >>>>>> surface layer and make an image. >>>>>> >>>>>> We rented out one window to a time-lapse photographer, who will >>>>>> eventually produce a video ad for the sponsor. $500 will fund a pretty >>>>>> nice barbeque. >>>>>> >>>>>> The lighthouse is part of the cafe/car wash. I don't know why they >>>>>> need a lighthouse. Across the street is another lighthouse, part of >>>>>> the u-store business. Goodwill, on a third corner, has sort of a >>>>>> lighthouse too. >>>>>> >>>>>> John >>>>> >>>>>why didn't they do the carving before they put it up? would be easy >>>>>with a >>>>>cnc router too. Not artsy enough? :) >>>> >>>>Not artsy enough. >>>> >>>>As far as that goes, why don't they use paint? At the rate they're >>>>going, the BP well will be capped before this billboard is done. >>>> >>>>> >>>>>price gas here in Denmark is around twice that >>>>> >>>> >>>>Gas is too cheap in the USA. I don't generally approve of tax >>>>increases, but a huge increase in gas tax makes a lot of sense. >>>>Proposing it is political suicide, even for the craziest Democrats. >>> >>>It's a great recessive tax, though the government doesn't need any more money. >>>It'll just go even further in debt. >> >>It's not recessive. > >Sorry, "regressive". > >>The tax on every gallon would be the same. > >That's like saying a flat tax isn't "regressive" (technically it's neutral, >but...) I learned in economics class that a progressive tax had a greater-than-1 exponent on the cost of the thing taxed (like US income taxes), and that a flat tax has a constant percentage (like most sales taxes, past the 12 cent threshold), and a regressive tax had a less-then-1 exponent (like Social Security taxes.) Lots of people now call a tax "regressive" if it taxes everyone at the same rate (like a sales tax, for instance) because rich people can theoretically afford it easier than poor people. That's a transition from mathematics to morality. There used to be a different definition of "species", too. It used to be scientific, now it's moral. So we have lots more species than we used to have. > >>Poor >>folk could even buy Regular and pay less tax than rich folk who buy >>Premium. They could even buy small, high-mileage cars. > >The tax today is per gallon, not percentage. "Poor folk" often have old >beaters, which are more often than not gas-guzzlers. > >But that doesn't alter the fact that the government spends far too much money >now. They don't need more smack. Tax policy influences behavior. There are bad ways to collect X dollars and better ways to collect X dollars. Lots of our current ways kill jobs and encourage a huge balance of payments deficit. John
From: Charlie E. on 3 Jun 2010 14:46 On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:07:44 -0700, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon(a)On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote: >On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:58:53 -0700, Charlie E. <edmondson(a)ieee.org> >wrote: > >>On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:04:59 -0700, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> >>wrote: >> >>>John Larkin wrote: >>>> On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:34:15 -0700, Joerg <invalid(a)invalid.invalid> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> John Larkin wrote: >>>>>> Shot from our conference room: >>>>>> >>>>>> ftp://jjlarkin.lmi.net/Sun_1.jpg >>>>>> >>>>>> Somebody covered the billboard across the street with plywood, and now >>>>>> two guys are working with chisels and mallets to strip away the darker >>>>>> surface layer and make an image. >>>>>> >>>>> The guy in the left bucket must be pretty brazen. All it takes is a >>>>> minor swipe from a car that veered off the right lane and ... >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> We rented out one window to a time-lapse photographer, who will >>>>>> eventually produce a video ad for the sponsor. $500 will fund a pretty >>>>>> nice barbeque. >>>>>> >>>>>> The lighthouse is part of the cafe/car wash. I don't know why they >>>>>> need a lighthouse. Across the street is another lighthouse, part of >>>>>> the u-store business. Goodwill, on a third corner, has sort of a >>>>>> lighthouse too. >>>>>> >>>>> What happened to the palm tree in front. It doesn't look all that >>>>> healthy. Oh, hey, gas is 6c cheaper out here :-) >>>> >>>> They hacked the trees last week, for better photography I guess. >>>> >>>> Gas does cost more in downtown SF than where you (or I) live. The car >>>> wash top-end detailing job is fabulous, for about $250. It's worth it >>>> if you're trying to sell a car. >>>> >>>> The camera in the conference room goes SNAP! every 30 seconds. It >>>> freaked me out at first, after hours. He's taken over 12,000 4Kx4K >>>> images so far. >>>> >>>> Here's the guy's site: >>>> >>>> http://chadrichard.typepad.com/ >>>> >>>> Check out the fog in the Big Sur flic. >>>> >>> >>>That is nice. We have the same happen here more inland. When our >>>Rottweiler was younger and a big chunk of fog would come at him while in >>>the deck he'd growl at it. Made it go away, worked every single time. >> >>Fog can be a trick! When I designed the 91 Express Lanes, I built a >>vehicle sensor that was basically two laser light curtains abount a >>foot apart. I designed it to only distinguish vehicles going in the >>proper direction. What I hadn't anticipated was fog. I heard that, >>one day a few months after I was let go, they had thick fog move >>through the pass, and recorded hundreds of phantom cars in the toll >>lanes! >> >>Charlie > >What? And collected no tolls ?:-) > > ...Jim Thompson Exactly! And the customer was trying to get the contractor to pay the tolls for all the non-existent cars... ;-) Charlie PS: the inductive loops I insisted also be installed didn't see anything... ;-)
From: Michael A. Terrell on 3 Jun 2010 17:02 John Larkin wrote: > > Shot from our conference room: > > ftp://jjlarkin.lmi.net/Sun_1.jpg > > Somebody covered the billboard across the street with plywood, and now > two guys are working with chisels and mallets to strip away the darker > surface layer and make an image. > > We rented out one window to a time-lapse photographer, who will > eventually produce a video ad for the sponsor. $500 will fund a pretty > nice barbeque. > > The lighthouse is part of the cafe/car wash. I don't know why they > need a lighthouse. Across the street is another lighthouse, part of > the u-store business. Goodwill, on a third corner, has sort of a > lighthouse too. Art Fern? ;-) -- Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to have a DD214, and a honorable discharge.
From: Michael A. Terrell on 3 Jun 2010 17:03
"Charlie E." wrote: > > Fog can be a trick! When I designed the 91 Express Lanes, I built a > vehicle sensor that was basically two laser light curtains abount a > foot apart. I designed it to only distinguish vehicles going in the > proper direction. What I hadn't anticipated was fog. I heard that, > one day a few months after I was let go, they had thick fog move > through the pass, and recorded hundreds of phantom cars in the toll > lanes! They are too stupid to close toll roads in heavy fog? -- Anyone wanting to run for any political office in the US should have to have a DD214, and a honorable discharge. |