CunningCanuk
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Sorry about your luck but Larry Robinson is retired.
Pandemic 2020
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cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
I like a bit of vitamin T
which really makes me wonder who can fill the role of Mrs. T
Roger A. Shrubber
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well, they can't be a fool...that knocks pretty much ever republican out of the running...I like a bit of vitamin T
which really makes me wonder who can fill the role of Mrs. T
I remember Larry,and a whole host of "Les Habitant" tormentors in my childhood years,fuzzy UHF TV channels where you'd be lucky to see the puck.Sorry about your luck but Larry Robinson is retired.
CunningCanuk
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On Saturday night games the youngest sibling was forced to stand next to the tv holding the antenna.
To this day I don’t understand how that made the picture clearer, but it did.
HGCC
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I have seen the foot thing more and more, or at least a handle that let's you use your elbow to pull it. I was pretty middle aged by the time I realized that the little trashcan places put by the door is so you can use a paper towel to open the door and then throw away the towel.
Looking back it's all hard to believe,from a 12 yo happy to have a portable TV (maybe even B/W) in the bedroom,to the present a 8 yo w/a IPhone w/more computing power than a mainframe the size of a living room.Today we're presented w/a dizzying array of choices and I seriously question how happy people are compared to then.
Roger A. Shrubber
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we lived on a farm about a mile outside of town the first two years we lived in Mn, until my parents found a good deal on a house in town...i would have to sit on a stool holding the flat ribbon wire in different positions till one worked, then hold it there till the show was over....then we moved to town and they were just getting cable...so we got a box with a dial on it that had...6 numbers? and then you used to tvs dial to see what was on that number...which ws still a pain in the dick, but not as big a pain as holding that ribbon wire for an hour at a time
Roger A. Shrubber
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ignorance is bliss...it's not that a damn thing was better then than it is now, we just didn't hear about 90% of it until it was over, if then.
CunningCanuk
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You had to be fairly limber to hold the antenna and watch the show.
CunningCanuk
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Could the advent of instant information at our fingertips be our downfall?
If nothing else, the pandemic has shown us the danger in easily obtained, unverified information.
Roger A. Shrubber
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beyond that...people can only absorb so much at one time, without feeling overwhelmed, sometimes dangerously so.
and it leads to desensitization...when you see incredibly stupid people doing stupidly reckless things all day on tiktik, facebook, youtube...then people doing incredibly stupid shit right in front of you is just normal...don't try to talk them out of it, just get your camera out so you can post the next idiot doing something recklessly stupid...
Agreed, the digital age has had a highly disturbing effect on attention spans,the increasing influence of AI is frightening, children's cognitive creativity(the ability to imagine and have fun) is now dependent upon electronics, and misinformation is scary,my hometown newspaper for a city of 86,000 is now all AP fed,w/no local reporters,that's crazy,and I can't say what the news is over here anymore. And that's a CITY of 86K people,what about all the small towns.No reliable print media w/vetted news gathered by reporters overseen by a editor,then an ombudsman to fess up to indiscretions is extremely alarming and happening all over the country as more newspapers have folded than I can list.All of this is a breeding ground for misinformation to become the norm. When I heard that bitch K.Anne Conway mention "alternative facts" at the beginning of 2016 it immediately struck me as "we are now entering a strange new time.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
An antenna relies on a physical quantity called relative permittivity. That’s why you need a relative.
cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Instant information is inseparable from instant disinformation. Back when all we had were newspapers, the evening news and libraries, the filters were more or less in place. (Though at the age of fifteen I happened onto a book in the library that presaged Jones and Rogan. Lotsa weird conspiracy shinola centered on the crackpottery of one Velikovsky.)
PJ Diaz
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Haver you ever even watched a Joe Rogan episode? He mostly just interviews people.
DIY-HP-LED
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DIY-HP-LED
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Looking ahead 10 years to 2033, I wonder what percentage of cars on the road will be full EV or hybrid? How will that affect Alberta's economy, especially with global concerns about the tar sands dirty oil and climate change. I think they better get used to the smell of cow shit again.
Energy is a global market and gasoline looks like the first victim of the green revolution, but in the EU and other places they are also looking at charging electric trucks on the move with overhead wires by then. There should be a demand for jet fuel and diesel, so they can turn more of crude into that with refining processes. NG should only be used for power generation by then too, except for peaking and when renewables and energy storage run low. We will see many more heat pumps and I wonder if they would be worth putting in an EV for a heater and AC, since they can produce 3 watts of heat for every 1 watt of power put in and using heat from the electric motor could help with that too and drive up efficiency further.
Alberta will be on the rocks, quicker if they don't dump this bitch and bunch of crazies.
Energy is a global market and gasoline looks like the first victim of the green revolution, but in the EU and other places they are also looking at charging electric trucks on the move with overhead wires by then. There should be a demand for jet fuel and diesel, so they can turn more of crude into that with refining processes. NG should only be used for power generation by then too, except for peaking and when renewables and energy storage run low. We will see many more heat pumps and I wonder if they would be worth putting in an EV for a heater and AC, since they can produce 3 watts of heat for every 1 watt of power put in and using heat from the electric motor could help with that too and drive up efficiency further.
Alberta will be on the rocks, quicker if they don't dump this bitch and bunch of crazies.
PJ Diaz
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I watched Beau once, and found him to be full of disinformation and opinion.
I noticed that you didn't answer my question, so I'll assume that you've never watched a Joe Rogan episode, and have no idea what his show is really about.
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