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![]() "Jeffrey Herman" wrote in message ... : : Accusing me of lying? Are you sure you want to commit libel? : According to Funk et Wagnall's, something about "grossly unflattering utterance". OK I can commit that. Watch this. JEFFREY IS AN IDIOT! Now all the idiots will sue me for libel. Barnabus Grumwitch Overbyte sends |
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![]() Mike Coslo wrote: Like "Hello Mother and father, I am alive and healthy, but in need of a new passport." - Mike KB3EIA - I'm sure the State Department will send one right over, on Mom and Dad's say so. |
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Len Over 21 wrote:
In article , (Jeffrey Herman) writes: It's paid for with federal funds, thus it's part of the federal interstate highway system. It's no different from Interstate 405 in California: It begins in LA and ends in San Diego -- it never leaves the state yet it's yet it's still an "interstate." Ooooo...going to lecture me about my local geography? :-) Well, you didn't seem to know about how how things worked. Try Interstate FIVE as an illustration...begins at the Canadian border goes all the way south through Washington, Oregon, California, ends at the Mexican border. Over a kilomile long, takes two days to drive at lawful speeds. Been there, done that, many times. The point was about a part of the Interstate highway system which never leaves a particular state. Gee, if I wanted a LECTURE on highways, I'd go to the AAA website of my local auto club office...they give out free maps to us members. You don't want to get one; you want to give one. Go for it! "TECHNICAL" best seller! What year? And who was the compiler of that gem of information? [was it a bookstore in Newington?] You might try the ABA or some other book industry associations first to verify some nonsense claim. Or take off your blinders. Whichever is easiest. Do you have any information to the contrary, Leonard, or are you just blowing smoke? I've only been USING technical books since 1960 and my first job assignment as an electronics engineer responsible for new design. To quote you, "Why must you always live in the past"? The Green Bible, the Blue Bible, Millman & Taub, Henney, Petersen and Weldon, Floyd Gardner, lots of names which are very familiar in my small 30+ foot total length personal bookshelf right above the immediate computer desk here. Since I already write for money and know several authors (who work at that full time) plus book store owners-managers, I have some acquaintenceship with the professional book associations. Now, if you wish to LECTURE me on "best sellers" of anything, I will invite you to pass gas on a shuttle flight ("go take a flying fart") between islands. So because you have a shelf full of books and since you've written for money, Jeffrey's claim can't possibly be true. Does that sum it up? I am happy to hear that you have a personal bookshelf though. Dave K8MN |
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"Dave Heil" wrote in message
... Len Over 21 wrote: In article , (Jeffrey Herman) writes: It's paid for with federal funds, thus it's part of the federal interstate highway system. It's no different from Interstate 405 in California: It begins in LA and ends in San Diego -- it never leaves the state yet it's yet it's still an "interstate." Ooooo...going to lecture me about my local geography? :-) Well, you didn't seem to know about how how things worked. I think there's a difference in highways; as in "intrastate" and "interstate." I believe it's intrastate if it stays inside the boundary of a state and "interstate" if it goes outside the boundary of a state. Kim W5TIT |
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![]() I think there's a difference in highways; as in "intrastate" and "interstate." I believe it's intrastate if it stays inside the boundary of a state and "interstate" if it goes outside the boundary of a state. Kim W5TIT It's more to do with who funded the construction of what highway. The Interstates were federally funded (about 90%, 10% by the state that whatever interstate highway is in). Before the Interstates were built, long distance driving was a real PITA. That the Dept of Defense partially funded the Interstates so they would be able to get convoys of troops and stuff to somewhere. Intersections with local roads were designed so if a bridge was bombed, traffic could still get thru (go on the off ramp and then across the local road and back on on the on ramp). Railroads worked well in WWII, but our mainland for the most part wasn't bombed. Take out a railroad bridge and things get bottled up for a while. |
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Jeffrey Herman wrote:
Len Over 21 wrote: The state of Hawaii has an Interstate Highway System. It is fudging the truth a bit to claim one can drive that system to any other state...without another means to span part of the Pacific Ocean. It's paid for with federal funds, thus it's part of the federal interstate highway system. It's no different from Interstate 405 in California: It begins in LA and ends in San Diego -- it never leaves the state yet it's yet it's still an "interstate." 3 digit numbered Interstate highways are usually short spurs and circle routes. Built to bypass cities drivers are not looking to stop in, or to connect to other Interstate or local highways. The numbering pattern is NXX, where XX is the number of a long Interstate highway, and N to give each spur or circle its own name inside the same state. Circles usually get even numbered Ns, and spurs odd numbered Ns. Also odd numbered XX Interstates usually run north/south, and even numbered XX Interstates east/west. They put the low numbered XX Interstates in the southwest, as the Northeast had the low numbered old US route roads (cuts down on user confusion). AFAIK, there's no Interstate 666, Bible Belters would think it was the "Highway to hell" ;-) Or an Interstate 13.... |
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![]() The semester begin tomorrow -- I'll be teaching a calculus class at the university campus (which is not a "junior college"), 8:30-9:20 MWF, Keller Hall room 403. The class is full but I'll let you register, if you think you can handle the class. Oh Calculus. I enjoyed it so much I took it twice! :-) Oh I learned enough to do exam problems to pass, but I can't say that I actually learned anything enough to actually use it to solve a real world problem. I once could do (intergral)(csc x^3)/(tan^2 x^4 +1) dx but what would you use that on? Oh and proofs. What a waste of time proofs were. And you never had to do any on tests. I must have missed the day of class where they taught how to do proofs and how to read them. And why you should care. It seemed to be just so much BS, as the only real proof of something is what gets a right answer on a test. |
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![]() "robert casey" wrote in message ink.net... : AFAIK, there's no Interstate 666, Bible Belters would think it was : the "Highway to hell" ;-) Our here we have US-666 coming up across the reservation out of Gallup and heading out into Utah somewhere. Deadly stretch south of the NM border and indeed probably is the "highway to hell" for many of its intoxicated user-victims. M.A.N. -- "I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it." - Voltaire |
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