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BlueBirdMusic wrote: »Recent excavations have shown that the "giant heads" on Easter Island are actually buried "stone giants" whose heads emerged from the earth..
Not exactly "recent."
This was big news 10 years ago, but the scientists actually knew this going back more than 100 years.
https://explorersweb.com/easter-island-statues-bodies/
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nooshinjohn wrote: »It’s worth noting for sure… so I’ll just add that something similar happened to my wife in Fresno, of all places.
She was competing in an equestrian event and was parked at a hotel overnight in our almost 20 year old Mercedes-Benz.
When she came out next morning, she found a note from a young rider from Palo Alto staying at the same hotel. She had backed into the car in a borrowed pickup truck and pushed it over the cement bump at the end of the space (the ubiquitous things that frequently delineate the end of a space).
Her dad was a doctor from 🇫🇷 working in the 🇺🇸. He didn’t want to bother the owners of the truck his daughter had borrowed with an insurance claim so he asked us to get a couple of estimates for the repairs and sent us a check for $3,500.*
Not everyone has lost all sense of decency and community spirit. I know I’ll do the same if I ever make a similar mistake.
* (Bent trunk lid, damaged bumper cover, bent bodywork behind the bumper etc.)
Way to once again try to make things all about you…I’ve been away for over a week, but this might be the stupidest post I’ve ever read
Well Sir (or Madam, not trying to gender assign) I take umbrage
(gawd I love that word)
at the inference that that is the stupidest post you've ever read ! 😳
For instance:
"She was competing in an equestrian event and was parked at a hotel overnight in our almost 20 year old Mercedes-Benz"
Now, a n'er do well would make some sort of untowards comment like
"Oh, what size saddle does she wear ?" 🤔
or
certainly ungentlemanly inferences regarding parking at a hotel overnight
"Why didn't she just get a room ?"
As you can see, some of us Polkies are successful graduates of the "Mr Nightly 'Careful What You Say, That's My Wife !" graduate school.
I'll now retire to my LazyBoy, saitisfied that, once again, I've been able to bring edification and edumacashun to the masses 🧐Sal Palooza -
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Tom~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~ -
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Source: BRP Panasonic UB9000, CDP Emotiva ERC3 - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Pre/Pro: Marantz 8802A - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-2 x 2, XPA-6, Speakers, Mains/2ch-Focal Kanta No2's, C-LSiM706, S-702F/X, RS-RTiA9's, WS-RTiA9's, FH-RTiA3's, Subs - Epik Empire x 2
Cables: AudioQuest McKenzie XLR's/CDP/Amp, Carbon 48/BRP, Forest 48/Display, 2 channel speaker cable: Furutech FS Alpha 36 12AWG PCOCC Single Crystal (Douglas Connection)
EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman -
Source: BRP Panasonic UB9000, CDP Emotiva ERC3 - Display: LG OLED EVO 83 C3 - Pre/Pro: Marantz 8802A - Amplification: Emotiva XPA-DR3, XPA-2 x 2, XPA-6, Speakers, Mains/2ch-Focal Kanta No2's, C-LSiM706, S-702F/X, RS-RTiA9's, WS-RTiA9's, FH-RTiA3's, Subs - Epik Empire x 2
Cables: AudioQuest McKenzie XLR's/CDP/Amp, Carbon 48/BRP, Forest 48/Display, 2 channel speaker cable: Furutech FS Alpha 36 12AWG PCOCC Single Crystal (Douglas Connection)
EXPERIENCE: next to nothing, but I sure enjoy audio and video MY OPINION OF THIS HOBBY: I may not be a smart man, but I know what quicksand is.
When I was young, I was Superman but now that old age has gotten the best of me I'm only Batman -
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Hmmm....that butter sculpture art takes some real skill 🤓
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LOL!! These Hartley drivers are expensive, and can be hard to come by, a guy I work with is sitting on a bunch of them, his whole system is built around them.. -
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Sony 850c 4k
Pioneer elite vhx 21
Sony 4k BRP
SVS SB-2000
Polk Sig. 20's
Polk FX500 surrounds
Cables-
Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable
Kitchen
Sonos zp90
Grant Fidelity tube dac
B&k 1420
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HT SYSTEM-
Sony 850c 4k
Pioneer elite vhx 21
Sony 4k BRP
SVS SB-2000
Polk Sig. 20's
Polk FX500 surrounds
Cables-
Acoustic zen Satori speaker cables
Acoustic zen Matrix 2 IC's
Wireworld eclipse 7 ic's
Audio metallurgy ga-o digital cable
Kitchen
Sonos zp90
Grant Fidelity tube dac
B&k 1420
lsi 9's -
"This may not matter to you, but it does to me for various reasons, many of them illogical or irrational, but the vinyl hobby is not really logical or rational..." - member on Vinyl Engine
"Sometimes I do what I want to do. The rest of the time, I do what I have to." - Cicero, in Gladiator
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This year in April was the anniversary of IBM Mainframe - celebrating the memorable milestone of 60 years of existence and transformation.
IBM System/360 Model 65 Mainframe Computer
The IBM System/360 was a groundbreaking family of mainframe computers announced on April 7, 1964. Designing the System/360 was an extremely risky "bet-the-company" project for IBM, costing over $5 billion. The platform was initially designed to serve the Apollo project, launched in 1961 by American President John Kennedy. The Apollo project carried out its great mission in 1969 when man set foot on the Moon for the first time. The S/360 was the protagonist of this project, from the construction of the aircraft to monitoring its entire trajectory, from launch to the return of the aircraft and astronauts to Earth.
Although the project ran into severe problems, especially with the software, it was a huge success, one of the top three business accomplishments of all time.
System/360 set the direction of the computer industry for decades and popularized features such as the byte, 32-bit words, microcode, and standardized interfaces. The S/360 architecture was so successful that it is still supported by IBM's z/Architecture mainframes.
Release date March 1965
Discontinued March 1974
Memory 128 KB–1 MB Core"Sometimes you have to look to the past to understand where you are going in the future"
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Just think, the phone in your hand has more processing power by a factor of 10 to 20 times than the computer used to allow man to step foot on the moon. Think about that.Memory 128 KB–1 MB Core -
Just think, the phone in your hand has more processing power by a factor of 10 to 20 times than the computer used to allow man to step foot on the moon. Think about that.Memory 128 KB–1 MB Core
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This is not funny, but is informative as it shows what a teenager thinks a 30 year old looks like.
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An what this means is that this woman has to be around 105.
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Ah, home
Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
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oops... I mean... I like that one, but I actually meant to post this one.
(both seen at ASR)
