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My medicare doesn't work in Canada or Chili or UK. I can't afford UK and the weather is vile. Mass shootings happen everywhere in USA, also random shootings on the roads and in groceries. I'm 2 miles from the symphony & ballet here, can ride the bike and park out front. Also many free organ concerts 3 miles away.
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Last time I travelled south it seems to me that there are plenty of people who say the places they live in the usa are not war zones. I hope you get something sorted out my friend, that’s no way to live in a developed country.
The old rhetorical trick: "I came to bury Caesar, not to praise him..."
I could be wrong, and probably am, but I wouldn't suggest that importing 95 million tons of soy protein every year to feed my folk would put a country on quite a diet. (hat tip to Edward Luttwak).
Ha, ha. Close eyes, put head in sand. People that get their news only from social media miss a lot of trends. The western high plains, they only shoot Indians & sexual deviants. I'm an Indian. Canada has a bad rep on Indians, also.
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Sure, but that requires a World class crystal ball or set of Tarot cards.
Even better, MUCH better, why not buy 1981 shares in a tiny company run by a University dropout who can´t program, or from Amazon at $1.96 per share or Bitcoin at $1 each?
Problem being "everybody knows match results ... on Monday" 🙁
For my life´s sake I can´t predict what will be in HOT demand in 2032 or 2042, go figure.
Can anybody?
Sure thing, but a few thousand song stash + EBooks plus a humble Tablet or similar + solar charger can keep you happy and busy for a long time, with very little investment and zero operation cost 🙂
I much suspect such blindness was not triggered by some kind of biological time bomb but due to untreated Diabetes, big time.
Way back then, it was a "silent killer", much the same as high blood pressure.
But nowadays we are checked often (I hope you do) and we have all kinds of medication, so you will avoid that fate.
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Indeed, Canada has plenty of opportunities for improvement. We call our original peoples “Indigenous”, neither Indians nor Eskimos. I’m an immigrant here.
There’s much more of a genuine attempt these days, to reconcile with the past. In the university town I live it’s been publicised more and more, this is to be found on the town’s web page:
“Waterloo is situated on the land traditionally cared for by the Haudenosaunee, Anishnaabe and Neutral Peoples.
We acknowledge the enduring presence and deep traditional knowledge and philosophies of the Indigenous People with whom we share this land today.”
I attended a graduation ceremony in Ottawa this year and such language of recognition and thanks was made in the opening speech by one of our senators, a lady who is also Indigenous.
Maybe it is better not to be busy with differences and see all people as eh .. people. It seems the more is spoken of a painful but far away history (and for instance differences) the more the present suffers from it.
Here it is a trend to say sorry for things we don't have done to people that don't have suffered from it. Absurd.
Here it is a trend to say sorry for things we don't have done to people that don't have suffered from it. Absurd.
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Oh, I do that too. Every Friday evening I record the Stonehenge radio show off WREK's "HI-FI" 128k Internet feed, it's full of 1960s and 1970s music that I may or may not have heard before. I've decided a lot of it's crap, but there are nuggets I hadn't heard in about 50 years, notably Procol Harem's "A Salty Dog" and "Shine On Brightly." I couldn't afford many LPs back then, but there was WPLO-FM, part of the "progressive" radio format that only lasted a few years, and I waas fortunate to hear growing up. They had complete albums on their playlist.
Last week I was listening to the local public radio in the car and I heard the "American Roots" [SIC, but that's how I heard it] radio show with a bunch of bluegrass. There was also Johnny Rivers' "Mountain Of Love" but I knew immediately from how it was sung that that it was an ALTERNATE TAKE. I had no idea that recording existed, and I tried Youtube and didn't find it there. It was the October 12 show, IIRC hour 2 and yes, I now have a .wav capture. Listen here before it goes away:
http://americanroutes.wwno.org/archives
Please explain. Feedback is good but only when one can be pointed to what is exactly absurd otherwise the reaction only adds to the absurd.
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I'm very familiar with TSMC.
If they go off line, we're going to be worried about many more things than audio products, I'm quite afraid. It is a behemoth that affects the entire World and yet most people are unaware of it.
They did try to build a fabrication plant (*) in Germany and Arizona. I believe they've been building them for a couple of years, it takes forever to build these things because they are essentially giant clean rooms.... mind you... like MEGA GIANTS clean rooms. Imagine a Costco warehouse turned into a clean room... now figure it with two floors ( the lasers for the light sources are in the bottom floor ) and larger yet.... now you can start to understand the huge costs for one of these things.
The other one is that a fab plant takes a lot of water too... but I guess they figured out how to handle that in Arizona of all places. I figure the plant is Germany is gonna be hosed with their energy problems.
(*) That's what we call a "factory".
Interesting... chez moi we know chips and automakers.
If the chips go down, the automakers will just be one of many to get hit.
My concern is with the power grid, medical components and telecom. We can always do with an older car or phone.
The automakers have had supply issues because of their own "just in time" myopy. When their needs slowed down in '20, they cut back on their Tier 1 orders which eventually mean they lost fab slots for chips. Since the plants were already running at capacity, others stepped in to take over the production slots. Consequently when the automakers realized their knee jerk error and tried to increase production they ran into a non availability of fabrication capacity to build their parts. Duh!
Thanks for putting WREK on my radar screen.
Just checked "currently playing" list and it is very good.
A little too ethnic today, but I guess they update it all the time.
https://www.wrek.org/playlist/
I could foresee the present situation so stockpiled much, years ago. Enough to construct (and repair) several amps (chip, AB, SE A) plus sensitive FM receivers (will be popular when the WWW goes down). Those projects can be built using vacuum tubes as well. A few hectares of organic highland coffee plus fruits (including the famous borojo, could predict it would thrive due to increase of temperature) will serve for barter.
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