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Did you bother reading the link I sent you? Here it is again Geico Agents

That's not what Geico says. Geico Agents

Not as much as Elio. 🙂

Here is a compilation of Starlink FAQ's from Reddit. Consider the source, but I've read most of these at other locations. Pretty interesting info and supports what you're saying. It also lists expected cost to be under $50 month. If that's so, how will Starlink regulate who gets to sign up and who doesn't? I would think that most people would jump at that, unless they had some type of sweetheart deal like the Mobley connected car plan. Makes for some challenges. The most interesting fact to me represented in the Reddit link is that the satellites are only good for five (5) years. So, by the time they get all the sats up and working, many will have already reached end of life. From reading this, my understanding is that each satellite will support 20 Gbps and there will be three satellites within view at any one time.

I share your hope. However, average household broadband cost in the USA is probably around $70 month. I don't see how Starlink will be able to deliver for that or less. The value may be in the product quality and availability, and not price.

RV, I can sympathize. Finally, I've reached a financial point in my life when I can afford a Corvette or Miata etc. just as a fun drive. I just can't get in and out of them without much effort and agony. Hope the Y works out for you.

I'll add a third big question. How many of us will still be alive when the service goes mainstream?

I bought a King Jack to replace my old Winegard batwing. A year later went back to the Winegard Sensar. the King Jack did fine on UHF, but was inferior to the Sensar on VHF. Lot's of stations are on VHF. The Sensar is the superior product.

Wow! I just looked.................$726. I'll just have to make do with what I've got for now.

You made an assumption. Actually, $100,000 is more than I made in 1 1/2 years at my peak earning time. My last year to work, I made almost $60,000, the most I'd ever earned in a year. I stand by my statement, $100,000 is more than I made in a month. 🙂

Well, the rumor is that the stock will hit $1,000 today. So, if I buy 1,000 shares this morning at $890 and sell this afternoon at news of $1,000, I'll make a smooth $100,000 in one day. That's more than I made in a month as a first responder.. Now, if I could just get someone to loan me the $890,000 this morning I'd be set.

Yep, makes you wonder how he got a column to write in the first place. If he lives long enough, there will be a correction in Tesla stock and he'll say that he told you so.

Stumbled across this article with an interesting take on the Tesla stock. https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/TAYLOR-Never-ever-forecast-individual-stocks-15010901.php

You're right, I apologize. I should have said "avoid all white people with polished shoes".

If I withdrew $100,000 from a bank, it would most certainly belong to someone else, and I would expect the cops to be following me. 😁

Threads have a tendency to go like other conversations go in real life, they follow the path that the participants choose. But, since RV and Kirk are upset that this thread has gone off astray, I'll address the original post quoted above. Asia is a large continent with 4.55 billion people. China is a country with 1.38 billion people. Since this coronavirus evidently started in China, perhaps we should limit our exposure to those who have recently been in China, which would include Chinese tourist wherever they may be or others, whatever ethnic group they belong to. However, to lump all Asians into that group is both ignorant and bigoted. It'd be like if a virus had begun in New Zealand, to say we should avoid all white people. I think the reason that the subject turned to the flu is that the OP is constantly exposing himself to people who are carrying the flu virus and most likely stands a much greater risk of dying from the flu than from the coronavirus. So, that discussion is certainly on topic, IMO. Flame suit deployed. 🙂

Man, that brings back memories. I remember walking through a gauntlet of medics with those guns on both sides. Seems like I got seven or eight shots in just a few minutes. I could barely hold my arms up for the rest of that day.

Okay, I'll bite. What does age have to do with it? I was old enough to get the shot, but got the sugar cube.

If you're referring to the original post, then this thread is about Asians taking over the Grand Canyon. I'm glad it got tastefully re-directed from that subject.

Agree, especially since that tractor can straddle an alligator which could do considerable damage to our vehicles.

Actually, I don't think age has much to do with it. There were two types of vaccine given, either by shot or oral, after Salk's 1953 discovery. I don't know why some were given the shot and others the oral, but both were effective.

When many of us here were children in the 1950's, it was common for entire families, neighborhoods, and communities to get the measles in one season or two, mumps almost as commonplace. Then schools started requiring vaccination for them and they were almost eradicated in the USA. In the past 20 years or so, people have quit getting their kids vaccinated............and measles is making a comeback. I'd rather be one of the very few who have a reaction to a vaccine and get sick than one of the many who don't get vaccinated and get sick. Three hundred million people (300,000,000) died from smallpox in the 20th century alone. Thanks to vaccination, that disease has been eradicated from Earth. As a young child, I remember living in fear of Polio. All the telethons and visuals of people being in iron lungs and crippled from that terrible disease. I remember to this day how happy I was when they started serving up the sugar cubes with the vaccine in it. How can anyone rationally argue against vaccines? Their track record is phenomenal.

In 1918, 50 million people died from the flu. It can definitely kill.

If you buy another Mobley, then all you would have to do is take the sim out of the old one and put it in the new one. You wouldn't have to call anyone. There's a few of them on eBay right now, if you want to go that way.