On 18 Oct 2024 04:07:25 GMT, rbowman wrote:

> When you live on the same island you really get to know the neighbors.

It was Robin Williams who said that being Canadian was like living in a
really nice apartment over a crack house.

On 2024-10-18, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 08:50:07 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>
>> Yet, the mere fact that it exists allows the United States to be freer
>> than the other countries in the Western Hemisphere.
>
> Lots of other countries do democracy better than the USA.

I'll bet their people have a lot less freedom than even the USA today.

> Some countries with better freedom of the press than the USA:

Freedom of the press is one thing. Monopoly ownership of the press is
another. But you're right about one thing. If the Democrats get their way,
freedom of the press will be severely hamstrung by government censorship in
the USA.

> Western hemisphere: Dominican Republic, Belize, Trinidad and Tobago, Costa
> Rica, Suriname, Jamaica.
>
> Others: Timor-Leste, Samoa, Mauritania, Seychelles, Namibia, Cabo Verde,
> Taiwan.
>
><https://rsf.org/en/index>

Judged by what standard and by whom who are pushing what agenda?

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On 2024-10-18, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 03:38:55 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 08:50:07 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>
>>> Yet, the mere fact that it exists allows the United States to be freer
>>> than the other countries in the Western Hemisphere.
>>
>> Lots of other countries do democracy better than the USA.
>>
>> Some countries with better freedom of the press than the USA:
>>
>> Western hemisphere: Dominican Republic, Belize, Trinidad and Tobago,
>> Costa Rica, Suriname, Jamaica.
>
> The DR does do somethings better than the US; they're successfully sending
> the Haitian invades back to Haiti. When you live on the same island you
> really get to know the neighbors.

Yep.

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what has been invented or made by the forces of good.” —J.R.R. Tolkien

On 2024-10-18, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On 18 Oct 2024 04:07:25 GMT, rbowman wrote:
>
>> When you live on the same island you really get to know the neighbors.
>
> It was Robin Williams who said that being Canadian was like living in a
> really nice apartment over a crack house.

That was before Trudeau and his myrmidons took over Canada.

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“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.” —J.R.R. Tolkien

Le 2024-10-17 à 23 h 38, Lawrence D'Oliveiro a écrit :
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 08:50:07 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>
>> Yet, the mere fact that it exists allows the United States to be freer
>> than the other countries in the Western Hemisphere.
>
> Lots of other countries do democracy better than the USA.
>
> Some countries with better freedom of the press than the USA:
>
> Western hemisphere: Dominican Republic, Belize, Trinidad and Tobago, Costa
> Rica, Suriname, Jamaica.
>
> Others: Timor-Leste, Samoa, Mauritania, Seychelles, Namibia, Cabo Verde,
> Taiwan.
>
> <https://rsf.org/en/index>

Hence the use of the superlative "most." There is no doubt that the
United States does better than Canada and the United Kingdom at the very
least. However, it's going down the same rabbit hole and seems to be
taking joy in restricting the rights of its citizens.

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Le 2024-10-18 à 00 h 07, rbowman a écrit :
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 03:38:55 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 08:50:07 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
>>
>>> Yet, the mere fact that it exists allows the United States to be freer
>>> than the other countries in the Western Hemisphere.
>>
>> Lots of other countries do democracy better than the USA.
>>
>> Some countries with better freedom of the press than the USA:
>>
>> Western hemisphere: Dominican Republic, Belize, Trinidad and Tobago,
>> Costa Rica, Suriname, Jamaica.
>
> The DR does do somethings better than the US; they're successfully sending
> the Haitian invades back to Haiti. When you live on the same island you
> really get to know the neighbors.

They are fully aware that it only takes one Haitian to spoil the bunch.
Here in Montréal, the Rivière-des-Prairies and Montréal-Nord boroughs
have long ago been ruined by allowing Haitians to settle there. The
moment they arrived, so did rampant crime. Heck, just yesterday police
found two Italians dead in the exact same car as I own in a mall parking
lot in the neighbouring St-Léonard sector. Before then, we'd always hear
gunshots and hear about muggings and drive-by shootings in RDP, and
Montréal-Nord is so bad that its name became synonymous with crime.
Meanwhile, that last one, when I was a kid, was a nice place to raise a
family... before they too decided that it should be a spawning point for
their niglets.

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Paleoconservative, Catholic, Christ is king.

candycanearter07 wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote at 10:34 this Thursday (GMT):
>> rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>
>>> On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:31:48 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>
>>>> There were many ergonomic designs coming out around that time. For
>>>> example, there was one with the two halves rotated so the midpoint was
>>>> higher than the sides; this way, your wrists could adopt a more natural
>>>> orientation with your hands at an angle to each other, instead of having
>>>> to be close to horizontal and side by side.
>>>>
>>>> A lot of them were adjustable, too, on the basis that one angle does not
>>>> fit all.
>>>
>>> Being left handed I am not a fan of ergonomic designs. It goes beyond
>>> computer accessories. I had an Audi that touted its ergonomic design. It
>>> must have been someone else's ergos.
>>
>> I'm left-handed as well (through I learned to throw right-handed as well when I
>> won a baseball mitt for righties for selling tickets in the Cub Scouts).
>> Also use the left pinkie wayyyy too much for Esc, Ctrl, and Shift, hence
>> my mapping of Caps Lock to Esc and Ctrl. Then there's the fscking Super
>> (Windows) key, which I have allocated to tons of functions in Fluxbox and
>> xbindkeys.
>>
>> The problem is exacerbated by the delay (due to temporary palliative fixes) in
>> getting plates in my neck, which left me with a numb/tingly little finger.
>>
>> I went through a stage of using very small wireless keyboards, but having to
>> press the Fn key at the left was another issue. So I've got an ergo keyboard of
>> modest price with now. Also bought a left-handed vertical mouse.
>>
>> But enough about me. :-D
>
> Hey cool, I'm left handed too! I still use mouse with right hand bc I
> never realized you were supposed to use your dominant hand. Ergonomic
> designs sometimes are nice, but usually not.

What's weird is on trackpads I use my right hand. I have no idea why.

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By the men who moil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
I cremated Sam McGee.
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Le 2024-10-18 à 15 h 29, Chris Ahlstrom a écrit :
> candycanearter07 wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>
>> Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote at 10:34 this Thursday (GMT):
>>> rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:31:48 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> There were many ergonomic designs coming out around that time. For
>>>>> example, there was one with the two halves rotated so the midpoint was
>>>>> higher than the sides; this way, your wrists could adopt a more natural
>>>>> orientation with your hands at an angle to each other, instead of having
>>>>> to be close to horizontal and side by side.
>>>>>
>>>>> A lot of them were adjustable, too, on the basis that one angle does not
>>>>> fit all.
>>>>
>>>> Being left handed I am not a fan of ergonomic designs. It goes beyond
>>>> computer accessories. I had an Audi that touted its ergonomic design. It
>>>> must have been someone else's ergos.
>>>
>>> I'm left-handed as well (through I learned to throw right-handed as well when I
>>> won a baseball mitt for righties for selling tickets in the Cub Scouts).
>>> Also use the left pinkie wayyyy too much for Esc, Ctrl, and Shift, hence
>>> my mapping of Caps Lock to Esc and Ctrl. Then there's the fscking Super
>>> (Windows) key, which I have allocated to tons of functions in Fluxbox and
>>> xbindkeys.
>>>
>>> The problem is exacerbated by the delay (due to temporary palliative fixes) in
>>> getting plates in my neck, which left me with a numb/tingly little finger.
>>>
>>> I went through a stage of using very small wireless keyboards, but having to
>>> press the Fn key at the left was another issue. So I've got an ergo keyboard of
>>> modest price with now. Also bought a left-handed vertical mouse.
>>>
>>> But enough about me. :-D
>>
>> Hey cool, I'm left handed too! I still use mouse with right hand bc I
>> never realized you were supposed to use your dominant hand. Ergonomic
>> designs sometimes are nice, but usually not.
>
> What's weird is on trackpads I use my right hand. I have no idea why.

Because the left one is busy with your junk. Mystery solved.

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Paleoconservative, Catholic, Christ is king.

On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:10:05 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:

> Hey cool, I'm left handed too! I still use mouse with right hand bc I
> never realized you were supposed to use your dominant hand. Ergonomic
> designs sometimes are nice, but usually not.

Whatever works. The first time I ran into a mouse I reached for it with my
left hand. Then came the adventure of figuring out how to switch the
buttons. Windows was easy, Linux with xorg.config or whatever that file
was, not so much.

I play guitars, banjos, and flutes the standard right hand way and shoot
long guns right handed, handguns left handed. I've got both left and right
handed bows. It's all what you get used to.

The thing with using a mouse left handed is a 'right click' really isn't
but that's what I call it.

On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:10:05 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:

> I still use mouse with right hand bc I never realized you were supposed
> to use your dominant hand.

There is no “supposed” about it. Handedness is a spectrum. Use whatever
works for you.

On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 08:46:10 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

> Le 2024-10-17 à 23 h 38, Lawrence D'Oliveiro a écrit :
>
>> <https://rsf.org/en/index>
>
> There is no doubt that the United States does better than Canada and the
> United Kingdom at the very least.

Canada at position 14, UK at 23, US at ... 55. That’s almost a third of
the way down the list.

Best regards from number 19.

On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:29:10 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:

> What's weird is on trackpads I use my right hand. I have no idea why.

I've never used a trackpad but if it's anything like those postage stamp
sized touchpads on laptops I doubt I'd be very good with either hand. I'm
not that great with a mouse when it comes down to it.

rbowman wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:29:10 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>
>> What's weird is on trackpads I use my right hand. I have no idea why.
>
> I've never used a trackpad but if it's anything like those postage stamp
> sized touchpads on laptops I doubt I'd be very good with either hand. I'm
> not that great with a mouse when it comes down to it.

Yes, I was talking about the pad on a laptop.

Sometimes I have to disable them, as the mouse movement to another window in
Fluxbox makes the window auto-focus and auto-raise and I'm typing into the
wrong terminal :-(

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rBowman: What happens when the cheap Chinese imports [] dry up ?

Americans could compete with China if housing were more affordable.

On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 08:55:27 -0700 (Seattle), Relf wrote:

> rBowman: What happens when the cheap Chinese imports [] dry up ?
>
> Americans could compete with China if housing were more affordable.

That's rather simplistic.

You(rBowman)Replied(to me):
> > Americans could compete with China if housing were more affordable.
>
> That's rather simplistic.

Tariffs are beyond "simplistic", they're stupid.

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote at 00:49 this Saturday (GMT):
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:10:05 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
>
>> I still use mouse with right hand bc I never realized you were supposed
>> to use your dominant hand.
>
> There is no “supposed” about it. Handedness is a spectrum. Use whatever
> works for you.

Yeah, fair enough.
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On 10/20/24 13:08, rbowman wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 08:55:27 -0700 (Seattle), Relf wrote:
>
>> rBowman: What happens when the cheap Chinese imports [] dry up ?
>>
>> Americans could compete with China if housing were more affordable.
>
> That's rather simplistic.

Moronic rather.

Rent is high to prevent disasters in this country. The Mormon is still
in the aura of Joseph Smith's America.