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Things That Will Soon Disappear Forever
Kiplinger Magazine ^
| February 2017No date
| By David Muhlbaum, Online Editor and John Miley, ReporterNo author
Posted on 03/18/2017 6:04:20 PM PDT by upchuck
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To: upchuck
10. The incandescent lightbulb - No, government energy cops are not coming for your bulbs. But the traditional incandescent lightbulb that traces its roots back to Thomas Edison is definitely on its way out. As of January 1, 2014, the manufacture and importation of 40- to 100-watt incandescent bulbs became illegal in the U.S., part of a much broader effort to get Americans to use less electricity. Bullshit. I bought new incandescent lightbulbs yesterday at my local Menards. They've never stopped carrying them, neither has the local Lowes, Home Depot or Ace Hardware. Fact check much?
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posted on
03/18/2017 7:08:15 PM PDT
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: akalinin
Toyota Tacomas have them as an option. Mine is a 6 speed.
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posted on
03/18/2017 7:10:05 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: upchuck
Here in Oklahoma we will always have ice storms and tornadoes. I am not giving up my generator. I will give up my six speed standard Shelby GT500 when they pry the steering wheel from my cold dead hands.
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posted on
03/18/2017 7:10:19 PM PDT
by
SVTCobra03
(You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
To: Bryanw92
>>People shoot transformers all the time around here. Snipers! LOL.
Why? Are they good eatin’? :)
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posted on
03/18/2017 7:10:29 PM PDT
by
vikingd00d
(chown -R us ~u/base)
To: upchuck
1. Keys - Keys, at least in the sense of a piece of brass cut to a specific shape, are going away. When the EMP SHTF happens how are people going to open all those gun safes equipped with electronic keypad locks or biometric fingerprint locks?
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posted on
03/18/2017 7:11:13 PM PDT
by
Vlad The Inhaler
("Prepare Now - You never know when today really is the day before.....)
To: vikingd00d
>>Why? Are they good eatin? :)
They go well with beer.
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posted on
03/18/2017 7:11:34 PM PDT
by
Bryanw92
(If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
To: upchuck
The clutch pedal - Every year it seems that an additional car model loses the manual transmission option. Even the Ford F-150 pickup truck cant be purchased with a stick anymore.Because driving a 10-speed auto with panel shifters is soo much fun.
To: umgud
Those old 2 speed powerglides must have had magic in them.
Around 1964, I was riding with a friend in his Impala which had a 300HP 327 and a powerglide. At 65 he stomped it and to my amazement it downshifted and stayed in low til around 75.
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posted on
03/18/2017 7:12:35 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: upchuck
FWIW, Ad Block Plus says it is blocking 12 ads and/or graphics and Ghostery says it is blocking 22 trackers; 16 advertising, 3 site analytics, 2 social media and 1 comments. Im using Slim Jet as a browser. Based on Chrome. Beyond pop-up ads, I'm talking about the stupid design of "columns" that require you to click on each point they're touting. I HATE that kind of format. Why not just put the darned column in one page, instead of this weird click, click, click crap?
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posted on
03/18/2017 7:13:33 PM PDT
by
WXRGina
(Repeal and DON'T replace!)
To: upchuck
I don’t see keys going away anytime soon.
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posted on
03/18/2017 7:15:23 PM PDT
by
rwa265
To: Enterprise
To: House Atreides
I was looking for something in my in-laws basement last week, and there’s a Royal and an IBM Selectric down there.
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posted on
03/18/2017 7:16:51 PM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: upchuck
1,2,4,10- nope, not going away.
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posted on
03/18/2017 7:17:34 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: BenLurkin
I haven’t had to buy a comb for quite awhile.
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posted on
03/18/2017 7:18:46 PM PDT
by
wjcsux
(The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
To: beethovenfan
I’m gonna miss #4 manual transmission. It was on the Mustang my mom bought me when I was 15 1/2 [the first year Mustangs came out] and it had been harder and harder to buy it on newer cars.
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posted on
03/18/2017 7:19:05 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS!!!)
To: upchuck
Authors and dates will also be disappearing.
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posted on
03/18/2017 7:19:49 PM PDT
by
aspasia
To: upchuck
Thanks for the humor, but a gentle correction if I may: We dont need CO2 to live but plants do. We will die from starvation. Technically, every carbon atom in your body--the basis of every fat, protein, sugar, and nucleic acid--came from carbon dioxide "fixed" by plants. Essentially, we are made of carbon dioxide.
In addition, we use carbonic acid--the acid carbon dioxide makes when it is dissolved in water--to regulate the pH of our blood. We get sufficient quantities of carbon dioxide from the metabolism of our cells to regulate our blood pH quite adequately, and change the rate of breathing to keep the concentration of carbon dioxide constant in our blood.
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posted on
03/18/2017 7:21:07 PM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: nopardons
Try out the surfacenter pro 4
To: COBOL2Java
Good one, you old-time. COBOL is the tell, born in the fourties, schooled in the fifteys, worked at a terminal with green striped printouts in the sixties. Made a ton of money in 1999 too, I’ll bet.
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posted on
03/18/2017 7:25:05 PM PDT
by
SandwicheGuy
(*The butter acts as a lubricant and speeds up the CPU)
To: BunnySlippers
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