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Kurt wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Larry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Kurt <[email protected]> wrote in news:labolide-B51D9D.17225718012007
>> @news.giganews.com:
>>
>>> You east-coast commuters have all the fun.
>>> The LA rail system is actually quite good, but then again, it's all new.
>>> But then again, I have a business that I run out of my house.
>>>
>>>
>> But then again, a 3BR, 2BA brand new home on a 1/2 acre lot full of oak
>> trees with a 2-car garage in a nice neighborhood is $130K in Charleston,
>> SC. You don't have to work 80 hours a week to buy one...(c;
>>
>> Oh, Gas is $2.07/gallon at Sunoco up the street....which makes Californians
>> drool, obscenely.
>>
> But you do have the weather. There's a reason why it's so cheap to live
> there.
>
I have to work out here for 6 months. and it is hell for me. people are
scared to death of weather love to sit in traffic and willing to pay for
overpriced homes. When my time is up I am back to Boston never to
return. Just my 2 cents.

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SMS wrote:
> decaturtxcowboy wrote:
>
>> SMS wrote:
>>
>>> "http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/16470186.htm"
>>
>>
>> Last year, perhaps year before last...I posted an item about cellphone
>> TV. One side of the story pointed out TV is a "sit-down" experience,
>> one not adaptable to driving or walking.
>
>
> That's the big difference between the U.S. and much of Europe and Asia.
>
> When I'm in Japan and Korea, there's a tremendous amount of text
> messaging and watching other crap on phones, but it's because people are
> bored while commuting on the train or subway and because it's considered
> rude to be talking on your phone on the subway.
>
> If commuting on public transit ever became more popular for the middle
> class in the U.S., outside of cities like NY, Chicago, and San
> Francisco, then data usage on the cellular networks would go way up.

And it is on a long bus ride, over 35 minutes for one route I can take,
when I sit there and use WAP or play a BREW application. I'll get the
spam cleaned out in my email on my ride home, making sorting it easier
when I sit down at the main system later in the evening.

Other than text messaging, I'm surprised I'm not seeing more WAP usage
from others.
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In article <[email protected]>,
"John Richards" <[email protected]> wrote:

> "Larry" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > Kurt <[email protected]> wrote in news:labolide-02586E.17330320012007
> > @news.giganews.com:
> >
> >> But you do have the weather. There's a reason why it's so cheap to live
> >> there.
> >>
> >
> > But, no earthquakes since 1886. No major plate faults running under the
> > dining room and garage....(c;
>
> But you do have hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, high humidity,
> mosquitoes, etc.

Inviting, isn't it?

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In article <[email protected]>,
Sky <[email protected]> wrote:

> Kurt wrote:
> > In article <[email protected]>,
> > Larry <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Kurt <[email protected]> wrote in
> >> news:labolide-B51D9D.17225718012007
> >> @news.giganews.com:
> >>
> >>> You east-coast commuters have all the fun.
> >>> The LA rail system is actually quite good, but then again, it's all new.
> >>> But then again, I have a business that I run out of my house.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> But then again, a 3BR, 2BA brand new home on a 1/2 acre lot full of oak
> >> trees with a 2-car garage in a nice neighborhood is $130K in Charleston,
> >> SC. You don't have to work 80 hours a week to buy one...(c;
> >>
> >> Oh, Gas is $2.07/gallon at Sunoco up the street....which makes
> >> Californians
> >> drool, obscenely.
> >>
> > But you do have the weather. There's a reason why it's so cheap to live
> > there.
> >
> I have to work out here for 6 months. and it is hell for me. people are
> scared to death of weather love to sit in traffic and willing to pay for
> overpriced homes. When my time is up I am back to Boston never to
> return. Just my 2 cents.

And Boston is any better? LOL

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Kurt <[email protected]> wrote in news:labolide-
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> Tornado will wipe you out quicker than an earthquake. Lots of those in
> southeast. Charlotte is 28% more than nation-wide average.
>
> 70s today, rode bike to beach. Had margaritas. No big heating bill in
> winter, no AC bill in summer (because no AC - don't even need fans in
> house).
> I know I could own a mansion back there, but you pick your poison..
> Too damn nice here.
>
>

“Tornadoes” in the South aren’t what you see on TV in Oklahoma with
idiots chasing them with portable radars. They look like swinging ropes
hanging out of the sky, about 10’ wide. They can take the shingles off
the roof and tear up small trees. But, being 10’ wide, your chances of
being run over by one are about nil, unlike the monsters on the plains.
28% more 10’ wide “tornadoes” isn’t much. The warnings are scarier than
the storms.

It was 80 last week, but Canadian air came blasting South and it
eventually gets us, here on the coast. It’s 63 at 2230 EST, right now.
We didn’t quite make 70. I spent the last two days fooling around with
my English friend’s French Amel Sharki 41 ketch, installing a new AIS
(Automatic Information System) receiver and integrating it into The Cap’n
nav software on the boat’s navigation computer, yesterday. Today, I was
glad it was cool. I reinstalled our driveshaft alternator that provides
power to run the toys when we are under sail, about 20A at 8 knots. The
free-turning propeller the sails haul through the water power the shaft
and turn this special, slow-turning, alternator. It charges the massive
batteries while underway for radar, sonar, sailing instrumentation,
autopilot so I can sleep on watch and go straight, computer, chart
plotters, LCD TV. I ran the 4-cylinder Perkins diesel engine for 10
minutes before I sat on it to keep my hiney warm while working in the
engine room. We sure don’t do that in summer in SC...(c;

I was quite cold, last night at the marina dock party thrown for some old
friends who have completely restored a beautiful old double-ender sloop.
They’re leaving us for the Caribbean islands Tuesday with the tide,
offshore. The oyster roast was fantastic....

Larry
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Liberty is when the sheep has his own gun.

"John Richards" <[email protected]> wrote in news:GVSsh.511$4H1.455
@newssvr17.news.prodigy.net:

> But you do have hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, high humidity,
> mosquitoes, etc.
>
> --
> John Richards (in northern California)
>
>

Hmm...you left out alligators, gnats, the damned sea otters that ate the
floatation foam out of our little dingy boat and a pelican that stole my
lunch off the cabin roof of the yacht this afternoon. He just swooped down
and it was GONE! Sneaky bastard....

How far are you from Bohemian Grove, where the elite class holds their
satanic rituals?

Larry
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Liberty is when the sheep has his own gun.

Kurt <[email protected]> wrote in news:labolide-
[email protected]:

> And Boston is any better? LOL
>

We had dinner in a very nice Italian restaurant in Boston a few years
back. I forget the name but it’s not far from the Coast Guard Base,
where we were working on HF transmitters.

We were working on dessert when this very nicely dressed man in a very
expensive suit came up to our table and asked John and I if we had
enjoyed our meal. We had. He then asked us to leave, quickly, and told
us our check had been taken care of. John was about to say something,
but I hushed him up and we took our leave. Stepping outside onto the
street, there was a line of black limos with LARGE, really fit men in
black suits guarding them. I surmised “the family” was having a little
business meeting in the Italian restaurant. Later, the Coasties
stationed there said that was the right restaurant for such a meeting.
The food was superb, if one can just leave when told to..(c; That was my
lasting impression of Boston....(c;

I understand they closed up the strip with all the porn shops and dirty
movie houses.........Pity.

Larry
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Liberty is when the sheep has his own gun.

Larry <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> Kurt <[email protected]> wrote in news:labolide-
> [email protected]:
>
>> And Boston is any better? LOL
>>
>
> We had dinner in a very nice Italian restaurant in Boston a few years
> back. I forget the name but it’s not far from the Coast Guard Base,
> where we were working on HF transmitters.
>
> We were working on dessert when this very nicely dressed man in a very
> expensive suit came up to our table and asked John and I if we had
> enjoyed our meal. We had. He then asked us to leave, quickly, and
> told us our check had been taken care of. John was about to say
> something, but I hushed him up and we took our leave. Stepping
> outside onto the street, there was a line of black limos with LARGE,
> really fit men in black suits guarding them. I surmised “the family”
> was having a little business meeting in the Italian restaurant.
> Later, the Coasties stationed there said that was the right restaurant
> for such a meeting. The food was superb, if one can just leave when
> told to..(c; That was my lasting impression of Boston....(c;
>
> I understand they closed up the strip with all the porn shops and
> dirty movie houses.........Pity.
>
> Larry

Yes the in crowed lives there so what? The strip was The Combat Zone. A
great idea put it all in one area and if you wanted that stuff that is
where you went. It was nicely controlled.

skip wrote:
> Larry <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
>> Kurt <[email protected]> wrote in news:labolide-
>> [email protected]:
>>
>>> And Boston is any better? LOL
>>>
>> We had dinner in a very nice Italian restaurant in Boston a few years
>> back. I forget the name but it’s not far from the Coast Guard Base,
>> where we were working on HF transmitters.
>>
>> We were working on dessert when this very nicely dressed man in a very
>> expensive suit came up to our table and asked John and I if we had
>> enjoyed our meal. We had. He then asked us to leave, quickly, and
>> told us our check had been taken care of. John was about to say
>> something, but I hushed him up and we took our leave. Stepping
>> outside onto the street, there was a line of black limos with LARGE,
>> really fit men in black suits guarding them. I surmised “the family”
>> was having a little business meeting in the Italian restaurant.
>> Later, the Coasties stationed there said that was the right restaurant
>> for such a meeting. The food was superb, if one can just leave when
>> told to..(c; That was my lasting impression of Boston....(c;
>>
>> I understand they closed up the strip with all the porn shops and
>> dirty movie houses.........Pity.
>>
>> Larry
>
> Yes the in crowed lives there so what? The strip was The Combat Zone. A
> great idea put it all in one area and if you wanted that stuff that is
> where you went. It was nicely controlled.

Thank God there are no criminals in California Stay there you will be safe.

In article <[email protected]>,
Larry <[email protected]> wrote:

> Kurt <[email protected]> wrote in news:labolide-
> [email protected]:
>
> > And Boston is any better? LOL
> >
>
> We had dinner in a very nice Italian restaurant in Boston a few years
> back. I forget the name but it’s not far from the Coast Guard Base,
> where we were working on HF transmitters.
>
> We were working on dessert when this very nicely dressed man in a very
> expensive suit came up to our table and asked John and I if we had
> enjoyed our meal. We had. He then asked us to leave, quickly, and told
> us our check had been taken care of. John was about to say something,
> but I hushed him up and we took our leave. Stepping outside onto the
> street, there was a line of black limos with LARGE, really fit men in
> black suits guarding them. I surmised “the family” was having a little
> business meeting in the Italian restaurant. Later, the Coasties
> stationed there said that was the right restaurant for such a meeting.
> The food was superb, if one can just leave when told to..(c; That was my
> lasting impression of Boston....(c;
>
> I understand they closed up the strip with all the porn shops and dirty
> movie houses.........Pity.
>
> Larry

Still too cold in winter and too hot in summer.

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Kurt <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

> In article <[email protected]>,
> Larry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Kurt <[email protected]> wrote in news:labolide-
>> [email protected]:
>>
>> > And Boston is any better? LOL
>> >
>>
>> We had dinner in a very nice Italian restaurant in Boston a few years
>> back. I forget the name but it’s not far from the Coast Guard Base,
>> where we were working on HF transmitters.
>>
>> We were working on dessert when this very nicely dressed man in a
>> very expensive suit came up to our table and asked John and I if we
>> had enjoyed our meal. We had. He then asked us to leave, quickly,
>> and told us our check had been taken care of. John was about to say
>> something, but I hushed him up and we took our leave. Stepping
>> outside onto the street, there was a line of black limos with LARGE,
>> really fit men in black suits guarding them. I surmised “the family”
>> was having a little business meeting in the Italian restaurant.
>> Later, the Coasties stationed there said that was the right
>> restaurant for such a meeting. The food was superb, if one can just
>> leave when told to..(c; That was my lasting impression of
>> Boston....(c;
>>
>> I understand they closed up the strip with all the porn shops and
>> dirty movie houses.........Pity.
>>
>> Larry
>
> Still too cold in winter and too hot in summer.
>

Yes this is true Californians are brain washed into thinnking they have the
best weather on earth. I see it in the radio stations. It is sad but take
for what it is worth.

In article <[email protected]>,
skip <skip[@nospam.com> wrote:

> Kurt <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
> > In article <[email protected]>,
> > Larry <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Kurt <[email protected]> wrote in news:labolide-
> >> [email protected]:
> >>
> >> > And Boston is any better? LOL
> >> >
> >>
> >> We had dinner in a very nice Italian restaurant in Boston a few years
> >> back. I forget the name but it’s not far from the Coast Guard Base,
> >> where we were working on HF transmitters.
> >>
> >> We were working on dessert when this very nicely dressed man in a
> >> very expensive suit came up to our table and asked John and I if we
> >> had enjoyed our meal. We had. He then asked us to leave, quickly,
> >> and told us our check had been taken care of. John was about to say
> >> something, but I hushed him up and we took our leave. Stepping
> >> outside onto the street, there was a line of black limos with LARGE,
> >> really fit men in black suits guarding them. I surmised “the family”
> >> was having a little business meeting in the Italian restaurant.
> >> Later, the Coasties stationed there said that was the right
> >> restaurant for such a meeting. The food was superb, if one can just
> >> leave when told to..(c; That was my lasting impression of
> >> Boston....(c;
> >>
> >> I understand they closed up the strip with all the porn shops and
> >> dirty movie houses.........Pity.
> >>
> >> Larry
> >
> > Still too cold in winter and too hot in summer.
> >
>
> Yes this is true Californians are brain washed into thinnking they have the
> best weather on earth. I see it in the radio stations. It is sad but take
> for what it is worth.

LOL

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skip wrote:
> Kurt <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
>> In article <[email protected]>,
>> Larry <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Kurt <[email protected]> wrote in news:labolide-
>>> [email protected]:
>>>
>>>> And Boston is any better? LOL
>>>>
>>>
>>> We had dinner in a very nice Italian restaurant in Boston a few
>>> years back. I forget the name but it’s not far from the Coast
>>> Guard Base, where we were working on HF transmitters.
>>>
>>> We were working on dessert when this very nicely dressed man in a
>>> very expensive suit came up to our table and asked John and I if we
>>> had enjoyed our meal. We had. He then asked us to leave, quickly,
>>> and told us our check had been taken care of. John was about to say
>>> something, but I hushed him up and we took our leave. Stepping
>>> outside onto the street, there was a line of black limos with LARGE,
>>> really fit men in black suits guarding them. I surmised “the
>>> family” was having a little business meeting in the Italian
>>> restaurant. Later, the Coasties stationed there said that was the
>>> right restaurant for such a meeting. The food was superb, if one
>>> can just leave when told to..(c; That was my lasting impression of
>>> Boston....(c;
>>>
>>> I understand they closed up the strip with all the porn shops and
>>> dirty movie houses.........Pity.
>>>
>>> Larry
>>
>> Still too cold in winter and too hot in summer.
>>
>
> Yes this is true Californians are brain washed into thinnking they
> have the best weather on earth. I see it in the radio stations. It is
> sad but take for what it is worth.

California really does have 4 seasons: Fire, Flood, Earthquake and
Drought. (credit: Johnny Carson)

In article <[email protected]>,
"BruceR" <[email protected]> wrote:

> skip wrote:
> > Kurt <[email protected]> wrote in
> > news:[email protected]:
> >
> >> In article <[email protected]>,
> >> Larry <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Kurt <[email protected]> wrote in news:labolide-
> >>> [email protected]:
> >>>
> >>>> And Boston is any better? LOL
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> We had dinner in a very nice Italian restaurant in Boston a few
> >>> years back. I forget the name but it’s not far from the Coast
> >>> Guard Base, where we were working on HF transmitters.
> >>>
> >>> We were working on dessert when this very nicely dressed man in a
> >>> very expensive suit came up to our table and asked John and I if we
> >>> had enjoyed our meal. We had. He then asked us to leave, quickly,
> >>> and told us our check had been taken care of. John was about to say
> >>> something, but I hushed him up and we took our leave. Stepping
> >>> outside onto the street, there was a line of black limos with LARGE,
> >>> really fit men in black suits guarding them. I surmised “the
> >>> family” was having a little business meeting in the Italian
> >>> restaurant. Later, the Coasties stationed there said that was the
> >>> right restaurant for such a meeting. The food was superb, if one
> >>> can just leave when told to..(c; That was my lasting impression of
> >>> Boston....(c;
> >>>
> >>> I understand they closed up the strip with all the porn shops and
> >>> dirty movie houses.........Pity.
> >>>
> >>> Larry
> >>
> >> Still too cold in winter and too hot in summer.
> >>
> >
> > Yes this is true Californians are brain washed into thinnking they
> > have the best weather on earth. I see it in the radio stations. It is
> > sad but take for what it is worth.
>
> California really does have 4 seasons: Fire, Flood, Earthquake and
> Drought. (credit: Johnny Carson)

My favorite Carson quote was that you could tell that winter was here
when the Marlboro ad on the Sunset Strip had a snow scene.

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"Larry" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> "John Richards" <[email protected]> wrote in news:GVSsh.511$4H1.455
> @newssvr17.news.prodigy.net:
>
>> But you do have hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms, high humidity,
>> mosquitoes, etc.
>>
>> --
>> John Richards (in northern California)
>>
>>
>
> Hmm...you left out alligators, gnats, the damned sea otters that ate the
> floatation foam out of our little dingy boat and a pelican that stole my
> lunch off the cabin roof of the yacht this afternoon. He just swooped down
> and it was GONE! Sneaky bastard....
>
> How far are you from Bohemian Grove, where the elite class holds their
> satanic rituals?

That's about 50 miles west of me. I'm in the Napa Valley wine country,
aka paradise.

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