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On Sep 28, 2020 at 11:35:48 AM MST, ""Commander Kinsey""
<CFKinsey@military.org.jp> wrote:
> 
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>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> 
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>>> 
>>>  Do you really have to wrap the quoted text like that?  Look at all those
>>>  orphaned words.  So many fucked up newsreaders that wrap to 72 chars, then a
>>>  > appears and it's 73!  Oh no!  Wrap again!
>> 
>>  The tool I am using is supposedly going to get better re-wrapping. I think I
>>  can turn off what it has.
> 
> I don't wrap at all, I don't see the point.  If your monitor is narrower than
> my line, presumably it folds it round anyway.
> 
> And nothing should ever re-wrap.  Because the indents are eventually going to
> make it exceed the tipping point.

Without re-wrap there are many clients which handle it poorly and make things
harder to read.

>>>>>   The results of those depend on who is doing the test and what their agenda
>>>>>  is.
>>>> 
>>>>   In short: you do not think the evidence backs your view.
>>> 
>>>  No, I've seen proper tests.  And it's fucking obvious that a modern car will
>>>  brake faster than those that were around when the health and softy book was
>>>  written.
>> 
>>  The question was if you can brake as fast in a car when you are driving in
>>  normal conditions as you can click a mouse when primed.
> 
> You're always primed in a car.  Driving makes you alert, which is why it's
> impossible to fall asleep at the wheel.

You cannot remain primed non-stop as you drive. Human attention does not work
that way. With the test we did we were hyper-alert, in way that you are not as
you drive.

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>>>> 
>>>>   These are rentals where I see them -- I assume there is an option. And you
>>>>  can
>>>>   turn these things off but NOT when the car is in motion, even if you are
>>>> the
>>>>   passenger and the console is in the middle. Which is stupid.
>>> 
>>>  On the subject of consoles, why do so many modern cars have no knee room in
>>>  the middle?  WTF is that huge console for?  Why does it stick out a foot? 
>>> Is
>>>  the engine inside it?!
>> 
>>  They have shrunk everything down and had to make concessions. Or they store
>>  alien larva there.
> 
> What do you mean shrunk?  The centre consoles are BIGGER.

I meant shrunk everything else down. I will admit I was thinking in terms of
the lump in the middle for the transmission, even though you clearly said the
console. That is for storage -- or in the case of some vehicles (such as the
Dodge Ram) it will even fold up to be another chair. 

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>>>  What is an =3DA3500?  That is not what I wrote.
>> 
>>  I see your comments like that. Not others. But the program I am using is not
>>  even quite out of beta and the developer has said he is going to add a new
>>  editor.
> 
> The ASCII set was never written properly.  I think it started out with only
> 127 characters, then was updated to 255, and now it's enormous.  

That is Unicode -- a superset of ASCII. 

> Quite why anyone used 7 bit I don't know. 

Early on to save bits. They were expensive. 

>  Computers operate in powers of two.  Anyway the smaller sets were country
> specific I've found.  Sometimes the British pound sign doesn't work on
> American software.
> 
> I said British pound because I believe you use a symbol for the weight pound?
>  We write lb (for the Latin word Libra meaning scales), but you write the
> hash/octothorpe symbol? 

Both are used here... and you are one of the few that refer to it as the
octothorp. That was from Bell.

>  ROFL, it's not even on my keyboard, I have an American keyboard and hash is
> on the number 3, but if I use it, I get a British pound, as I reprogrammed it
> to be a UK keyboard.  Using hash for pounds in the UK would get confusing,
> because we use hash to mean "number".  Hash 3 would mean "number 3 in the
> list".

It is used for both here, but more number than pound. Pound is generally "lb".
Why lb? Don't know.
> 
>>>>   I have had a number of those... now would need a bigger vehicle for a
>>>>  family.
>>> 
>>>  You can get big old bangers.
>> 
>>  They would be more expensive... but have looked into it. Might do so again
>> at
>>  some point.
> 
> I've bought a 7 seater in roadworthy condition and running perfectly for
> =A3500.  Mind you it was French and didn't remain running perfectly for long,
> but that could be down to the way I treat them.  I broke the first  engine by
> overrevving it, since I assumed all cars had rev limiters since the dawn of
> time.  I left it in 2nd slightly too long when overtaking, it didn't complain
> at the time, but a loud rattling noise the next day made me take it at 10mph
> (that's all it would do) to the nearest garage, who asked if I'd been racing
> it, since I'd smashed the sparkplugs up inside the engine.  I guess the
> timing couldn't cope at those revs.  Strangely enough, that same car at
> Knockhill racetrack (where I'd gone to be a spectator) - they assumed I was
> taking it to the track day event and going to race it.  I think it was
> because it was so old and beat up.  and the second engine seized solid in
> France when it repeatedly overheated, despite having a new water pump and
> being full of water.   
> Apparently with Renaults you actually have to bleed the air out in seven
> places every time you add water!

My wife and I are talking options for vehicles to take on trips to handle
various health and comfort issues and the like... 


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