I have no idea what scares me the most. However, I have somewhat overcome speaking in public as I spent 7 years teaching electronics for the military. Still, you get me outside electronics and my knees shake.
By the way, anyone who has a fear of heights should be well aware that they will have to manage those fears in the Marines as I did, more than once. I’m not real proud of it. If I hadn’t jumped, they would have pushed me and that’s worse.
Not a fan of even the word religion. I am a Christian. That is to say, I have a relationship with Jesus Christ. Religion is for people who like to follow rituals. Many times, God has scolded the Israelite people for mindlessly following rituals, for being religious while leaving God out of it.
When Jesus set up His church, He left but two rituals, baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Even so, people have made this into a ritual and they leave Jesus out of it. Many of those who go through the ritual have no relation with God. They do not love Jesus nor do they desire to do his his will.
They call themselves religious but they love not his children, but rather kill them before they are born. Some would go so far as to kill them after they are born. They look at God’s children as an inconvenience to be gotten rid of as a wart or something cancerous. However, many show up on Sunday and chant the words without even considering them.
Old Joe calls himself a Catholic, but he has intentionally said and done things that result in the deaths of thousands. Truth be told, I don’t think the man has any relationship with Jesus. He might call himself Catholic but I can’t see any proof of him being a Christian.
Such can be said of many. They have their faith in their church, their religion and or their preacher. When they see Jesus face-to-face, they will realize they should have had their faith in Jesus. Only, it will be too late. Some with have decades to accept Jesus as their Savior. They will have no excuse. There is simply no religion that will save them and it will be too late for any extensions or revisions of their remarks.
The words ‘and’ and ‘or’ are almost always conjunctions. However, in the sentence “It was and I said not or,” they are both nouns. The one speaking is saying he used the word, ‘and,’ rather than the word ‘or.’
For instance, if I tell a person to move a table and a chair and later realize that one the chair has been moved, I might say I told you to move the table and chair, not the table or chair.
Still, you’re right. It is a dumb sentence that will only like be used as a puzzle.
The above sentence is a little difficult, but it is completely, grammatically correct. You could of course ignore it. On the other hand, you could have some fun with it.
I might mention that a few have figured it out immediately. I would like to say I am among them, but I’m not. My father had to explain it to me 3 times.
It’s helped and it’s caused problems. Mostly, it has caused problems. If only tools, such as hammers, can only be used for good. The problem is, with some, you give them a hammer and everything is a nail.
I generally receive 2 or 3 calls a year wanting me to take a survey. Many years ago I jumped at the chance to let my opinion be known. Then, I guess about 20 years ago, I decided to put a stop to that.
I have three reasons. Now let me see. How is it that you spell neusance? (It took me 3 times before the spell checker accepted it) As I said, they call me 2 or 3 times a year and always at a bad time.
Secondly, they love to put words in my mouth. That is to say, they word their questions in such a way so that they get the answers they want instead of what I think.
Finally, sometimes they expect a yes no reply when yes or no is not accurate. The best example is the question asked me, are you in favor of immigration?
It was a stupid question and the woman who wrote the survey knew it. I found out three days later that I was not the only one upset with the question. Yet she made it clear that she thought it was a good question. It told me a lot more about her than what she found out about me. It was obvious she wanted me to say something I was totally against, regardless of which way I replied.
It is an advantage of my blog. Anyone who wants to know what I think need only read my my posts. I pretty well put it out there for all to read on just about all subjects.
As for the immigration thing: Anyone going through all the laws and doing it legally should be welcomed as long as they are willing to put their former flag aside and completely give their allegiance to their new country, as in their vow. If they spend 4 years in any military branch, it should be almost automatic. Finally, and certainly, they need to follow our laws, not the laws and or customs from whence they came. Those who don’t like our laws can return to their native country at any time.
Personally, I think coming into this country illegally should be a felony and those who break that law should be punished before they are returned. A year or two of that and illegal immigration would greatly be reduced.
Passwords are going to be the death of me yet. Two or three days ago, I bought an all-in-one Dell computer. I had to. My laptop was getting really slow and it seemed I was always having to update it. The computer is great. The migration was enough to make me want to pull out what hair I have left.
I guess, in a way, the all-in-one is similar to a laptop, just bigger and a great deal heavier. Well, I don’t guess anyone has put a battery in one, yet anyway.
Let me first say a little about the hardware. One slick thing is the camera. It slides down into the computer when not in use. Not only is it a little cleaner looking but the camera absolutely cannot be used when inside its little Hidie hole. It says a lot about security, and it begs the question, why didn’t someone think of that a whole lot sooner?
My laptop takes roughly 2 minutes after it’s turned on to do any real work. The new computer is ready to go in about 3 or 4 seconds. Try to convince me that wasn’t surprising the first time I turned it on. I use MS office 7.0. It pops right up there without any hesitation. It’s ready to go much quicker than I am. I don’t like the newer versions, or at least the one I used for about 10 minutes. Removed them immediately after. I suppose, after a while, I’ll try them again, but I’ll not be in any hurry.
The camera comes with a flash and takes very good pictures. The problem is that no one wants to see photos of me. I guess the one thing that surprised me most were the speakers. I have no idea how they did it but they really put some high-quality speakers in there. It’s not just that it sounds good, but it is easy to distinguish one instrument from another. Most speakers, unless they are very expensive, let the sounds from the clarinet combine with violin so that a band or orchestra has just one sound. With this system, each instrument could be easily distinguished from the other. And, by the way, I had to turn the volume down about half-way. Did not expect that.
Now, as for the migration. Just for the sake of helping anyone else fixing to go through the same thing, might I suggest one thing that will save everyone a lot of pain. Before starting the migration, make dead sure you know all your passwords. In fact, if I were to do it again, I would change them all to the same thing before starting. Normally, that is a bad idea, but it is only temporary, and it will save a lot of time. Once you have everything migrated and working, go back and change the passwords again. Indeed, it might be a good time to change passwords. They do suggest we change them regularly.
At any rate, after 3 days, I have most of the migration done. There is one more thing to set-up but after all the frustration, I might as well just say forget it.
On the other hand, that is sort of the problem, I mean, I just keep forgetting it, the passwords I mean.
Perhaps the one thing about my Nissan EV where I must face reality with is the planning. In theory, my car can go 210 miles without changing. This means I have a maximum round trip range of 105 miles. That is, I must be able to return from wherever I go.
Moreover we are talking idealism. The actual range is determined by a wide variety of things. Personally, I get a little uncomfortable going more than 60 miles from home. This gives me quite a margin.
I might feel comfortable going further if I have a good generator in my trunk. Even then, I should be willing to wait a while for the recharge. Alternately, I probably should carry a good long extension cord.
Looking back on it, I think any EV with a range of less than 300 miles is not going to work well as a primary transportation unless you’re retired like me.
Moreover, I hate to break it to the going green gang, but, until EVs are built with a true 350 range, the internal combustion auto is here to stay. No one is going to like to make a 2 day trip out of 300 mile trip.
Release oil from the reserves, which leaves less reserves.
or
Produce more oil, which leaves less reserves for emergencies, as it was originally intended.
Releasing the oil is the quick fix. Production of more oil is the long term solution. Old Joe decided to release a million barrels from reserves. At his age, why should he be concerned about anything long term.
Today they got on TV bragging that they decreased traffic fatalities this year by 30%.
I shouldn’t wonder. Their drivers have been heading south to play bumper cars…and north and east and west. I know. I generally come close to meeting my share on a regular basis.
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