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Yes I'm looking forward to what Space X comes up with in a broadband Space Mesh satellite constellation. Good answer Lou without more info. Remember when we'd hoped Gates would somehow do his Teledesic System just before the turn of the century. Launches were too expensive, and Gates did not have a successful rocket company - Musk does. The ULA (United Launch Alliance - essentially Boeing and Lockheed) is still using the Russian RD-180 engines for their Atlas ISS resupply missions AFAIK. But The ULA is Boeing and Lockheed, and aside from charging twice as much then as Space X did and does, even more so not able to develop their own capacity for reusing the rockets, they just seem to be falling further behind in space. Now for space vaporware they take the cake. Boeing's been in the airplane biz since 1916, a century or more, but can't seem to get their last jet to fly reliably and the rumors now are they knew about the issues but covered them up. My point? If they can't do what they supposedly know, how are they going to best Musk to Mars, a NASA goal with only the ULA and Tesla competing for the mission. And now this: Oct. 22 2019 Will 777X Flight Test Failure Hit Boeing's (BA) Q3 Earnings? https://finance.yahoo.com/news/777x-flight-test-failure-hit-140902158.html Now that's not vaporware just another production failure. Back to the topic. When Musk took over at Tesla in 2003 or so and said he was going to disrupt the status quo ICE age engines. He's actually done that already despite some "Dead Companies Walking." Everyone knows that all the world's car makers are going all electric as soon as they can despite being about 5-10 years behind Tesla. Y'all can argue that the big American manufacturers haven't made the statements that Daimler Benz, Volkswagen Gruppe, Volvo, and most companies in China and India, have. That they are going all electric ASAP for them. The American companies don't know what to do and it may be too late. They say there is no profit in EVs and Tesla is finally turned that corner this past quarter according to some market analysts. Musk executes, love him or hate him no one can believe different unless they refuse to actually look. I have seen a lot of willful ignorance. Remember Boeing getting him laughed out of Moscow by their Russian buddies? Then when Musk said he was not going to rely on our traditional enemies and would have a rocket designed, built, and tested in five years and Boeing tried to laugh him off saying that even Boeing could not do a new engine in even ten years. Musk did. Musk said he would land his rockets boosters for reuse lowering costs and increasing margins, Everyone laughed then Bezos with a low altitude test actually beat Musk but Musk did it with actual space missions and are the only company currently able to with virtually 100% success. Not Boeing, not Lockheed, not even Richard Branson. https://cleantechnica.com/2019/09/30/why-spacexs-starship-rocket-represents-the-future-of-spaceflight/ Excerpt: "SpaceX’s Starship Rocket Represents The Future Of Spaceflight September 30th, 2019 by Harry Stoltz SpaceX’s presentation on Saturday night in Boca Chica was an exciting and uplifting event that focused mainly on development changes since last year’s “Dear Moon” event for their rocket, Starship. I was at the Boca Chica event to report back on the updates for CleanTechnica. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk kicked off the presentation by talking about the company’s Starship MK-1 rocket, which dazzled in the moonlight behind the stage at the event. Musk detailed that the main purpose of the event was to “inspire the public, and to excite people about our future in space.” Musk stressed the importance of becoming a spacefaring civilization that makes people “excited to be alive.” In order to achieve multi-planetary status, rockets will need to reach rapid reusability of all components." Much more with pics and links here: https://cleantechnica.com/2019/09/30/why-spacexs-starship-rocket-represents-the-future-of-spaceflight/ Now the Starlink system. (Anybody see Boeing in all this other than non flying concepts, could they be vaporware?) The ULA land any spacecraft for reuse? Isn't that a requirement for a Mars mission? Now that is Vaporware. Launch and land one Boeing, before the Mars mission by Space X, and I'll stand corrected. But you might want to stick with what you know, building transport commercial jets. But you are faltering in what you're supposed to know too! How are you going to build your own engines for local launches, and one for Mars, when you can't do what you know, Jets, reliably, as we saw above!

Thanks Rob! I'll keep using the base.

Thanks Ray, They messed up on the last forum software update and 1. Removed the undo button and 2. Made it necessary to use the link button on the top of the composing page that looks like a chain link. Just paste it into that box and let it stay with no title and it comes out the way pasted links do everywhere but here. Sometimes a cut and paste will be a hot link (in blue,) sometimes not, but that part here is flaky. We are not a priority here. They are OK about these forums. I just pasted your link into it and it made it a hot link. Just get used to doing it that way, then they'll change it back! LOL

I read that but am closing this coming Monday so am doing all the setting up to drive with all my stuff to Colorado next Tuesday. Goodbye horrible climate and lowest school ratings, highest crime rate Shreveport/Minden LA and surrounding area, two of which are in the top ten most dangerous cities list. Not gonna miss this Bubba belt at all. Dennis, this link works: https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/21/nordvpn-confirms-it-was-hacked/

Makes sense now! I was looking for who you were referencing! I love good self deprecating humor, thanks for that! (Even if you had to explain it to one who sees less fun here than we used to have)

What did you mean by that???? I saw no 20 Amp comments.

We've discussed it before, but now it's tested, and you won't believe how fast this will happen! This is huge! Space X has already launched 60 Starlink broadband satellites, and just tweeted through it to announce it: Excerpts: "SpaceX is confident it can start offering broadband service in the United States via its Starlink constellation in mid-2020, the company’s president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell said Oct. 22. Getting there will require the company to launch six to eight batches of satellites, Shotwell told reporters during a media roundtable. SpaceX also has to finish the design and engineering of the user terminals, which is not a minor challenge, Shotwell acknowledged. Shotwell said SpaceX will need to complete six to eight Starlink launches — including the one that already took place in May — to ensure continuous service in upper and lower latitude bands. “We need 24 launches to get global coverage,” she said. “Every launch after that gives you more capacity.” The company caused a stir last week when it requested the International Telecommunication Union to approve spectrum for 30,000 additional Starlink satellites to build the world’s largest low-Earth orbit broadband constellation. This was in addition to 12,000 already approved by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Shotwell said SpaceX is not certain that will need that many satellites. Far fewer are needed for global coverage but the company wants extra spacecraft to be able to offer customers customized service options. Starlink is a mesh network of satellites connected to each other by space lasers. https://spacenews.com/spacex-plans-to-start-offering-starlink-broadband-services-in-2020/ Cue naysayers, negative Musk comments, experts who've never built a mini sat or examined one, and the folks who say he'll never hit that deadline. The only thing remotely possible is that he is three to six months late. But he's gotten better - like that on-time under-budget largest battery in the world he built with Tesla energy division in South Australia that made millions in its first few months. I think it still is the largest since 2017: https://www.popsci.com/tesla-building-worlds-biggest-battery-how-it-will-work/

Ugh! We never encountered all that back before 2003 when we stopped fulltiming. Guess I'll stay only at Military Famcamps for future trips. We don't need one for weekends or even a week long trip.

Joel, thanks. I leave my phone in the car while shopping and let it go to voicemail most of the time. I do not want to do email on my phone, nor messaging on my computer. Just preference. So now we know it has an irritant your app does not. Kewl!

Not samples Chalkie, he was always trying to write me prescriptions for Oxycontin. He fooled me once a decade ago when he prescribed Lortabs and I took one for a cramp pain from a small clot we treated fine with Heparin as it was tiny. It made me feel so drugged I looked it up, found it an opioid, and then poured them down the toilet. I have since become aware that is not ecologically sound, getting frogs hooked on it. Now we take them to the base pharmacy for proper disposal.

Yep, that was good timing for you. I am fine with a few years wait. I would take a loss if I sold now. But the 6000 shares bought cheap should do quite well in the next two or three years. I have only about $30k tied up in ACB. With my Tesla shares, I had to wait eight years until I sold my 1000 shares.

Lynda is and has been there since we moved. I came back to mow the grass after cleaning the house outside and bringing in the ChemDry carpet cleaners. I used to use Stanley Steemer but the Chem Dry was amazing! Less expensive and really did dry in an hour. It cleaned stains way better. So I've been here since late May and had the house on the market since July and just sold it three weeks ago, and we close a week from Monday, then I'll be home in CO by 29th or 30th. May be in time for Halloween. This time of year I am glad we decided to get two Subarus. I'm driving the 2019 Forester, she the completely restored by my guys down here 2006 Subaru Baja turbo. I may need the AWD if I get caught in a winter storm. Finally can unpack and set up my office and workshop.

Excerpt: "As 'Cannabis 2.0' kicks off in Canada, industry strangled by limited retail outlets" (Reuters) - A year after Canada legalized use of recreational marijuana cannabis stocks have lost half their market value, and investors betting that the launch of higher-margin pot-infused drinks and other products will quickly lift shares may be in for a bumpy ride. So-called cannabis 2.0 - legalization of marijuana derivatives including edibles, beverages, extracts and vape pens - takes effect on Thursday, with sales seen beginning in mid-December. While that is expected to help sagging share prices, the crucial factor for a turnaround is a significant increase in the number of stores selling the products, investors, companies and analysts said. Share prices in the Horizons Marijuana Life Sciences Index ETF have slumped as companies’ revenues missed expectations. Cannabis producers, investors and analysts have blamed Canadian regulations that have slowed the opening of new retail outlets, strangled sales and imposed higher costs. Investment bank and advisory firm Seaport Global figures Canada needs about 1,055 stores to realize the cannabis market’s true potential. About half that number currently exist, with about 300 of those stores in Alberta, which has looser regulations than the rest of the country, while the most populous provinces of Ontario and Quebec have lagged far behind. “We would probably give the first year a C minus,” said Seaport Global analyst Brett Hundley, giving the industry performance a barely passing grade. The slow roll-out of stores “creates a real problem for Canadian licensed producers, because they’ve expanded rapidly with cultivation and production facilities and have nowhere to go,” he added. Lackluster results from cannabis producers “will continue and potentially worsen,” Hundley cautioned. Canada’s biggest cannabis companies including Canopy Growth and Aurora Cannabis reported larger-than-expected losses in the latest quarter and pushed back their timelines to profitability, blaming their woes on the need for more stores to sell their wares. “But at the end of the day,” he said, “the multi-100-billion-dollar cannabis opportunity that existed yesterday still exists today.” More in the article here: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-canada-marijuana-anniversary-idUSKBN1WW0DH Here are more articles on the edible phase in in Canada: https://www.bing.com/search?q=Canada+cannabis+edibles+legal&filters=tnTID%3a"9541CD29-7077-4170-A3C7-02E9D5A2651E"+tnVersion%3a"3222441"+segment%3a"popularnow.carousel"+tnCol%3a"2"+tnOrder%3a"6fa3bd92-6963-4c9e-a51e-25aa909bf1e9"&FORM=BSPN01&crslsl=247&efirst=2

Ray, some folks like Kirk only served one or two tours and can't use the base facilities unless they were separated with a medical retirement. Those folks don't have TFL or Tricare. I served 27 years and retired. I just have my civilian doc call them into the base, fill them at the base, no copay. We used Barksdale but my wife already uses Peterson which is a bit closer than the Academy for us in Constitution Hills. I'll be checking them out in a little over a week after I close the sale of this house and drive up to rejoin my wife in the Springs. Life's good! However the VA docs were hard asses about what and how much they prescribe and they order them to be mailed almost without consent. My doc discusses all prescriptions as I refused about a third of the drugs he's tried to prescribe. He must have been getting kickbacks from the opioid folks as he kept trying to get me to take it.

If you are on the Prepay, and had the phone paid off, you can call and ask if they can give you a free phone as a new post paid user. We were pre paid an got the Lumia 750 phones free as new customers. Two years later we switched to the Moto Z Play free when we switched to post paid. Then we this past year switched again to PrePaid and got the outgoing Z3 phones free. Of course we had to pay taxes on the full price and activation fees but we also this last time switched to unlimited data no throttling we've seen and with our military discounts pay $95 for that with no phone payments but they are still making like we're paying as they do a charge then refund automatically every month. The charges don't get right until the third or fourth month. So try calling and ask for a free Z3 if they still have them you should be able to get one free. I did all this online and by phone. The Verizon store folks were clueless. We had a military discount when post paid but not as Prepay but the deep special discount deal worked out almost the same price just a couple dollars less. Right now you can but the Z3 outright from Motorola. We still have our Z Play phones as backup phones. We have the Lumias which are not supported by anyone. You can buy the Z3 set up with a free Alexa speaker or battery pack that also adds wireless charging alone or attached to the phone by buying from Motorola direct for $169.99: https://www.motorola.com/us/products/moto-z-play-gen-3#buy Or new Z4 $10 bucks month for 24 months https://www.verizonwireless.com/smartphones/moto-z4/ I'd go with the Z3 for 169.99 And free battery pack mod.

Sure just use a USB hub for the USB receivers for each keyboard. The Surface Pro only has one USB port, and the type cover magnetic bottom attachment.

Why Bluetooth? I have two Surface Pro typecovers, one for my Surface Pro 3 and another for my Pro 4. I have this dock which works with either one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAHMiTZNDyA That dock was $199.99 new but I got mine from eBay with the power supply in perfect shape. See, the Surface Pros have only one USB 3 Port. So the wireless keyboard and mouse I use with the dock has one USB receiver for both. But then I can't plug in any other USB like a USB drive. Here's mine: Here's a used typecover for $35 https://www.ebay.com/itm/OEM-Microsoft-Surface-Pro-3-4-Type-Cover-Keyboard-Model-1725-Color-Blue-Untested/223697846693?_trkparms=aid%3D1110001%26algo%3DSPLICE.SIM%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D20160323102634%26meid%3D03139a46373548859773248bfd1b3cf6%26pid%3D100623%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D183957954349%26itm%3D223697846693%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2047675&_trksid=p2047675.c100623.m-1

You're welcome Dan.

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That's right, here in Louisiana too.

It took a while after prohibition ended too. I was just reading about fake CBD harming folks. Both vapes and oils/edibles. Fakes or dangerous chemicals will get folks to migrate to legal, where legal, as the fakes increase in the back alleys. https://www.bing.com/search?q=fake+cbd+poisoning&qs=AS&pq=fake+cbd+&sk=AS6&sc=8-9&cvid=33A87F8B687644658DD2A2B821ADD4B3&FORM=QBRE&sp=7 I want my medicines reliably processed and safe. This includes package labeling. I just want off my NSAIDs and 5mg Flexeril. They cause me to bruise more easily because they thin blood and disable platelets some. Here's the chocolate bar still in my fridge in CO. It had ten squares, we both tried it twice. Each square is one dose: Another incentive for legalization, besides tremendous revenues, is that the same folks with weed for sale illegally will have other really harmful hard drugs available when they are out of weed. Our ignorance about the laws not working is that kids can get illicit drugs easier than beer. I don't drink or smoke anymore and being high or needing a drug to relax does not appeal to me. And there's no hangover with edible weed.

I liked my cursor big and black in light mode, but folks you should try dark mode, now that really reduces strain on my old post cataract surgery eyes. I run it on all my systems. At first I hated it, then in an hour I was not impressed but after only a day I won't go back. Here's how: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-enable-dark-mode-in-windows-10/

1971 Ford Econoline with bed we set up for camping, but not really an RV with no water system or toilet. It was the one with the engine between the driver and passenger but only a sheet metal cover. In 1974 our first VW camper bus, and many we modified to superstock.

Look at TSLA the first two years: http:// It looked a lot like ACB now. That doesn't mean I'm right. But I can afford to lose the money or I would not be investing it. I'm in Flux now until we are settled in our new home, but I'm all cash other than those two, and need to decide on a new portfolio.

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