The last thread was getting a little long. So time for a new place to post those one off comments or news that just does not justify it's own thread.

Rules, just keep it kid G rated.

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A notice for Monday, and anybody else that lives in or visits that part of the world.

Mooning and streaking outlawed in Victoria, Australia

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That's the sort of legislation i'd expect in Queensland, not Victoria.

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Grant
Darwin NT

The act also outlaws singing "an obscene song or ballad" and behaving in a "riotous, indecent, offensive or insulting manner".

Rugby will never be the same down there.

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The act also outlaws singing "an obscene song or ballad" and behaving in a "riotous, indecent, offensive or insulting manner".

Rugby will never be the same down there.

But who is going to police the police rugby team.

It's not going to be the senior officers because they probably got their promotion by being good "team players" because they were in the rugby team.

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My latest attempt at finding a mover for the Home and Me for the near future is still going no where, I looked up the distance from Hemet CA to Yermo CA, one way 119.3 miles, that could be why I can't get a hold of the company, that or the owner is really busy and I've not called His cell phone yet.

I think I have a dealer in the Victorville CA area, who may know of someone who moves, does tear down, and setup of a mobile home, Victorville is only 45 miles away, got a number, that might work or that might not, I tried looking in the local phone book, and I found nothing useful. If I had a Victorville phone book it might be different, but I don't.

I really don't like living here as much as I used to, this park used to be a nice place to live at, and that is not just My opinion of how low the park has sunk, one of My friends is of that opinion too. The word slumlord has been mentioned by others here in the park, the park is being sued.

I can't afford $600.00 rent per month, and buying most mobile homes that are on their own land requires a good sized down payment($17,000.00 on a $74,900.00 price would be within a range that I could pay, like $331 a month), over 8 years(gathering $17,000.00 over 8yrs, in theory), I'll be lucky if the park here is still running in 2 or 3 years, I'm lucky that no one has stolen My car, I see finger prints on the drivers side, clean the dust off, more show up.

The broken window on the washroom is still boarded up after nearly 1 year, empty mobile homes still have boarded up windows and/or broken windows, except for a street light that the park does not control, all other lights the park controls are off at night. The washroom is where 2 coin operated clothes washers and 2 dryers are at, there used to be 2 vending machines there, first one machine was robbed, then one was withdrawn, then the last was withdrawn, all the dryer vents except one have been broken off.

So land in Adelanto CA is My only answer, I looked at section 8 housing and found I was not given any consideration for being disabled, nor any info on storage, just a 1 bedroom apartment, no word on if it was on the ground floor or not, or where I could park My car at(hopefully close by) and have it be secure, I don't have theft coverage on My car, as that is expensive for Me.

Buying the land, once I have the money, sometime in 2018, maybe, should be no problem, its a real estate transaction, I just need a mover and not a simple transport company, the net is all I have, and searches gives apartments as dealers, parks as dealers or as a mover. I can't find much, lots of information, but nothing usable...

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

More proof of the K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Sam) computing concept and proving that newer is NOT always better:
This Commodore 64 bad boy helps drive an auto shop in 2016

An auto repair shop in Poland does just fine running some of its operations on a C64C from the '80s, thank you very much.

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An auto repair shop in Poland does just fine running some of its operations on a C64C from the '80s, thank you very much.

K.I.S.S ? na that's more like " if it ain't broke , why fix it :-)"
rule no 1 is K.I.S.S that's the 2nd rule

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Life is what you make of it :-)

When i'm good i'm very good , but when i'm bad i'm shi#eloads better ;-) In't I " buttercups " p.m.s.l at authoritie !!;-)

More proof of the K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Sam) computing concept and proving that newer is NOT always better:
This Commodore 64 bad boy helps drive an auto shop in 2016

An auto repair shop in Poland does just fine running some of its operations on a C64C from the '80s, thank you very much.

LOL:)
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication!
And KISS is an acronym for "Keep it simple, stupid" as a design principle noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960.

Oh. You could also call it Less Is More.

The Saturn V launch computer had way less power than the Commodore 64.
The LVDC was capable of executing 12190 instructions per second. The Commodor can do 10 Million instructions per second.

NASA would have loved to have a couple of C64's They were darn good computers.

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The Saturn V launch computer had way less power than the Commodore 64.
The LVDC was capable of executing 12190 instructions per second. The Commodor can do 10 Million instructions per second.

NASA would have loved to have a couple of C64's They were darn good computers.

Along the same lines, I've read that due to the time in r&d it takes to get a chip radiation-hardened for space travel, the things NASA sends out into space always have old computer technology.

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The mind is a weird and mysterious place

LOL of the day........
A heckler in the crowd sinks 12 foot putt at Ryder Cup practice.
Which garnered cheers and laughter all around.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Just went on ebay and bought a couple of wiener whistles.
Robert Trentlage died on the 21st, aged 87.
He wrote the jingle we all knew as kids and adults since then, the Oscar Mayer wiener song.

I have posted a couple of clips I happen to love about Jerry Ringlien, who was the advertising exec at the time, who used Jerry's jingle with much success for O.s.c.a.r.......
I have posted the links again in the comments on CNN.

Jerry passed on back in 2007 at the age of 77.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAz5Jc0DWpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNObgEXOpYA

Few us will ever create anything so engraved into our culture.

RIP, Robert. And of course, also Jerry.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Some times following medical advice can have it's up side. WebMD

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Why the future of package delivery is better than drones
A drone alone can't make 'last-mile' home delivery scale. But robots can. Here's how.

Remember WebVan?

The grocery delivery startup was considered "high-tech" because you could order groceries on a website and have them delivered. A darling of the late '90s dot-com boom, WebVan ultimately failed, becoming a poster child for the dot-com bust (the company went bankrupt in 2001) and a cautionary tale about the perils of so-called "last-mile" delivery -- the link in the supply chain that brings products to consumers.

Delivery is expensive and inefficient. Unlike most parts of the supply chain, the last mile doesn't scale, especially when a human employee drives a big car to bring one product to one consumer.

The "last mile" is ripe for disruption. But how?

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The self-driving ice chest idea

An Estonian company called Starship Technologies makes a robot that looks like an ice chest on wheels for delivering packages and food autonomously or semi-autonomously.

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I found someone who could move this place, plus everything else that is needed
(tear down and setup too), they're in Victorville CA,
M & P Mobile Home Specialists.

Now I just have to eventually get the money after I know how much this will
cost, oh I have a rough amount based on experience maybe as much as $25,000.00
total, the amount includes Me buying the land. But then I've been down this route before.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

I found someone who could move this place, plus everything else that is needed
(tear down and setup too), they're in Victorville CA,

M & P Mobile Home Specialists.

Now I just have to eventually get the money after I know how much this will
cost, oh I have a rough amount based on experience maybe as much as $25,000.00
total, the amount includes Me buying the land. But then I've been down this route before.

I say this, since they called Me back, after I had called them.

Now I do need a quote, plus I need the total cost of the land, which has been lowered in price a few times, the owners started at $12,000.00, is currently at $9,999.00, I know I'd need a building permit($300? The county charged Me $293 in 2006 as an example), pay sales tax on the land(8%), closing costs(3%?), plus I'll need a real estate agent to negotiate on the price, I'd like to get the 4,705sqft of land for $6,000... Unrealistic, maybe or maybe not, but then you never know.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

One correction, there is no sale tax on land in California.
There is property tax, but that is yearly, not based on a sale.

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One correction, there is no sale tax on land in California.
There is property tax, but that is yearly, not based on a sale.

Ok I've never bought raw land before. I know about property tax, I pay that every year.

I wonder can the cost of moving a mobile home be added to a property tax bill, in the form of added tax value?

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Are you talking about adding the cost of the truck etc. to the land tax?
If so, it is very doubtful, because the trucking cost (including the taxes due on that amount) is paid to them, and the Land Taxes to the State/County.

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?