On Friday, January 24, 2020 at 6:39:40 PM UTC, Tom Kunich wrote:
On Friday, January 24, 2020 at 10:17:50 AM UTC-8, AMuzi wrote:
On 1/24/2020 12:06 PM, Tom Kunich wrote:
On Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 3:23:21 PM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote:
On Thursday, January 23, 2020 at 4:34:59 AM UTC, Tom Kunich wrote:
On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 7:34:54 PM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 1/22/2020 4:40 PM, jbeattie wrote:
On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 1:17:17 PM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 1/22/2020 4:01 PM, jbeattie wrote:
On Wednesday, January 22, 2020 at 11:33:32 AM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 1/22/2020 2:09 PM, sms wrote:
On 1/17/2020 7:36 AM, sms wrote:
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In 2003 I was riding home from work with my homebrew lighting system
that used two 14 watt 12V sealed beam halogen lamps and a kid called
out "nice lights." Does that count as "congratulations?" It was
unsolicited praise. These days good lights are so common that no one
would think to praise a cyclists using them.
I guess that I should also point out that besides probably 25% of the
personally owned dyno lighting systems in my city being in my own
garage, my city also probably has the most dyno equipped bicycles per
capita of any city in the United States; this is due to the bicycles
owned by a very large fruit company with its world headquarters in my city.
So, have you stripped your websites of all your previous disparagement
of dyno lighting and its users?
Why would he do that?
If a person spends ten years or more implying that dyno users are fools,
ISTM he should say _something_ when he begins using a dyno.
Dyno lights suck compared to decent LED battery lights except for the fact that you don't have to recharge them. I regard my dyno light as a novelty item or a back-up. But I must say that the dyno was almost acceptable on Monday when riding home on a rare dry night -- on a flattish part of my route. I thought "this is what it must be like for Frank." And then I started up the broken-up goat road and turned on my battery light. https://tinyurl.com/v8mod75 And yes, low tree branches are a thing. https://tinyurl.com/tblfewk
But you don't want to trade for a brighter-than-the-sun Oculus??
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- Frank Krygowski
I already have a battery light -- in fact, three battery lights. I don't need four. And after drilling and tapping my thick-as-a-brick fork crown, I'm going to use the Luxos even if the light sucks -- sort of like a glowing hood ornament. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/73/30...19a3721acc.jpg
"Some people keep complaining about their lives, but do absolutely
nothing to change their situation". - Frederica Ehimen
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- Frank Krygowski
Has your education fallen to such a low that you're now quoting radio hosts? Tell you what - should I quote Rush Limbaugh or Michael Savage or would you prefer Ben Shapiro who would probably make a marvelous President though people like you do not vote for Jews.
I vote for Sean Hannity. He goes for the jugular, every time. -- AJ
Don't you think you're taking a chance in the extreme left wing communist inspired people on this group? Jay has a career as one of the great capitalists in this country and will STILL mouth communist homilies as often as he can fit them in.
No matter how often the failures of the leftist policies of Democrats he continues to think, "next time it will work."
Communist totalitarianism can work:
https://tinyurl.com/w4qdgg3
For various subsets of 'Work for whom?'.
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Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971
The estimate of the numbers of people that Stalin murdered for not wanting totalitarianism is 20 million. To listen to the Democrats they seem to think that an acceptable number here.
Mao's "cultural revolution" immediately murdered about 3 million. However, those were the 3 million who knew how to run the country - farmers, etc. and that was followed by a great famine that killed another 40 million.
It wasn't a revolution in the culture, it was a revolution against the cultured, meaning in the main the educated, who grasped that Mao was running their country into the ground, and whom he wanted removed. Smashing the fingers of pianists was incidental to the murder of every leading economist in the country.
It is not possible to have a "democratic socialism" because people will not willingly give up their money, their incomes and their businesses so the government takes it by force of arms. The trouble is as Frank fears most - the "gun nuts FAR outnumber any government bent on a dictatorship and they would wipe out a socialist government down to the last living being. Unlike Russia or China or Venezuela, the military would NOT side with the government for a full bowl of rice. They obey the Constitution and would NOT interfere in a war between the population of this country and a government bent on socialism.
This makes Frank feel awful and that is why he is so anti-gun.
Quite. Dictatorships fall when they lose control of the forces of oppression. The Afghanistan war ruined the Russian Army, and the pressures of Mr Reagan's SDI, commonly known as Star Wars Initiative, turned the "guns or butter" equation which had so long ruled Russian economics, and kept the Army and other forces of oppression happy at the expense of the populace, adversely against the Army because the most ruthless men in the Soviet Union were dead or sick and the latest Party Boss was an agriculturalist, so the populace got butter and the Army didn't guns, with predictable results.
I should also point out that Stalin was wildly popular, especially at times when we in the West think he was at his most evil. For instance, his 1937 Purge included in the lists* of those shot over 3000 KGB men of the rank of Colonel and higher, and the populace applauded. When Stalin died, Beria used trucks and tanks to control the grieving people who wanted to touch his corpse. The tank and truck sides ran with the blood of sorrowing Russians being crushed against the barriers. This is all true.
"Stalin used to stand at a lectern in his small office high up in the Kremlin and "seal" each page of the lists of those to be executed by a red tick from a wax pencil, sometimes without reading the list, sometimes commenting on names that caught his eye, along the lines of, "He was with me in the 1905 Revolution. How did he go so bad?" Then he would laugh and use his red wax pencil to seal the man's life and that of everyone else on the sheet.