Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!border-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 05:59:07 +0000 Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <8687e191-71e3-4458-1628-a30ade9bb12a@example.net> <080b1cff-52cf-c9cb-6aa0-dc2c4c73fff3@example.net> <8a58cd46-6477-7b17-06a0-692f3ea842fe@example.net> <072d1a3f-8bf5-035f-b7c0-e6adc84a8673@example.net> <10366897-b37e-5fee-3895-1524008f8b3b@example.net> From: "186282@ud0s4.net" <186283@ud0s4.net> Organization: wokiesux Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2024 00:58:53 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <4b2cnTX5lsAz0Pf6nZ2dnZfqn_qdnZ2d@earthlink.com> Lines: 98 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 99.101.150.97 X-Trace: sv3-EWm2OilVxuxlyoSzmfCHkpRX7FiwYP0Fxwmf2BITlrVFtHx8Du9CzhbHu8/XD3P0fd3x95v5xw1tBn2!7WzT4SSw2YthVJeXIaF/zDoHH3U74+o7kyH7lIB7kPlipIBn0xsAwEPBFAuXrEQ+7Mp7Lrz3cye/!Y3zW0EkX0Hypbeq5GyfI X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:63000 On 12/23/24 6:46 AM, D wrote: > > > On Mon, 23 Dec 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: > >> On 12/22/24 5:09 PM, D wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Sun, 22 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun, 22 Dec 2024 11:55:57 +0100, D wrote: >>>> >>>>> Montana is on the list! Someone suggested that we might like eastern >>>>> Oregon. Someone suggested Wyoming, but that maybe is too flat? >>>> >>>> Much of Wyoming is high prairie. There are signs on I-80 when you cross >>>> the Continental Divide but it's hard to discern exactly where it might >>>> be.  You hit mountain ranges in the west including the Tetons. Even >>>> Yellowstone, while definitely worth visiting, is mostly flat, at >>>> least the >>>> more accessible parts.. Grand Teton NP is at the southern border of >>>> Yellowstone and is where the fun begins. >>>> >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Teton_National_Park >>> >>> Very beautiful! >> >> >>  Also very COLD ... and when age gives you >>  medical issues, maybe TOO FAR from top- >>  notch facilities. > > Only cold below -25 C scares me. That's one advantage of having grown up > in northern europe. ;) I'm not saying I like cold, I don't, but it > doesn't bother me that much. > > Sadly though, my wife does not like overly warm climates. I would be > perfectly happy in florida or texas, but that is waaaay too warm for > her. So northern US it is. Perhaps the foot-hills in North Carolina or Virginia ? Two or three hundred meters elevation to get you above the humid layer. Not TOO cold in the winter, not TOO hot in the summer, not Wokie-infested Yankeeland. >>  In my youth I often thought about moving to >>  Alaska - even bought a .375 H&H for bears. >>  NOW I don't wanna be more than 30 minutes from >>  the docs and hospitals Just In Case. > > Who hasn't ever thought about moving to alaska? I too, have a dream > about a small, remote, off grid cottage, where local trading is a thing, > and where income taxes are a thing of the past. ;) > > All fun and games, until you cut yourself and the wound gets infected. ;) Aw ... those damned PRACTICAL issues again :-) Not much motion in Alaska without using some kind of aircraft. >>  .375 ... imagine a light 12-ga shotgun with >>  3" mags - NOT pleasant to fire ! You do it >>  only IF something large and furry is about >>  to eat you  :-) > > I've heard squirrels in alaska are very aggressive! I'd worry more about the BEARS. A .375 is over-kill for caribou and such, but it'll work OK. >>>> The Bighorns are another spur, but not as dramatic as the Tetons. >>>> >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bighorn_Mountains >>>> >>>> That page has a nice relief map for reference. >>>> >>>> Eastern Oregon is also pretty flat high desert until you get to the >>>> Cascades. >> >>  That along with east Wash, esp with Trump, is likely to >>  become "Greater Idaho". The locals HATE the Wokies for >>  good reasons. > > This is what I would count on! ;) If you want a good sane life in the USA then avoid the Wokie areas ! >>  The re-distribution of the original Texas territory >>  sets the legal precedents.