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email from a friend and scioto ^ | 4/22/2018 | unknown

Posted on 04/22/2018 6:13:57 AM PDT by sodpoodle

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To: TexasGator

I rode across the Pony Express Trail in 2001 with a total of 101 riders & 289 horses. Kansas—Nebraska—Colo—Wyoming-Utah- Nevada—ending at Virginia City, NV. Lots of places on that trip where NO ONE had a cell signal.


221 posted on 04/22/2018 10:42:16 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: bgill

“I have rarely had a gps show me the correct location of anything.”

GPS doesn’t show the location.


222 posted on 04/22/2018 10:42:24 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: TheNext

“That is poor lousy highlighting.”

You have not provided a basis for your statement.


223 posted on 04/22/2018 10:43:26 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: coloradan
"Please drive me to the NRA meeting downtown."

CLICK

"Sir, that request is invalid. Destinations that are evil are prohibited. Instead you will be taken underground to the HOPE education center. The door handles are now electrified."

224 posted on 04/22/2018 10:43:34 AM PDT by deadrock
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To: bgill

“Another time, instead of going from A, to B, to c, it took me from A, to Q, to C, to L, to X wasting my time and gas driving all over town.”

But without it you would still be driving around looking for it!


225 posted on 04/22/2018 10:44:35 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: arthurus
I have a $6 a month internet phone because it is a hell of a lot cheaper than having long distance on the land line.

Mine is cheap but would be interested in saving more money since it's off most of the time. Please, what company do you use?

226 posted on 04/22/2018 10:44:59 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: ridesthemiles

“I rode across the Pony Express Trail in 2001 with a total of 101 riders & 289 horses. Kansas—Nebraska—Colo—Wyoming-Utah- Nevada—ending at Virginia City, NV. Lots of places on that trip where NO ONE had a cell signal.”

How did your landline perform?


227 posted on 04/22/2018 10:45:17 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: TexasGator

I only had one person on each client getting a paycheck. One annual calculation & used it all year long. Both were on salary. They were the owners. No outside labor.


228 posted on 04/22/2018 10:46:39 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: TexasGator

I spent time at a used book business. I know exactly how people highlight. Few do it, the few who do, highlight poorly. And unfortunately good, valuable marking of books really is a ‘trade secret’. Sorry but that is how it remains.
And E-Book software is greatly inferior.


229 posted on 04/22/2018 10:47:02 AM PDT by TheNext
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To: TexasGator

I did NOT have a cell phone & I didn’t need one. 8 weeks without interruption from clients.


230 posted on 04/22/2018 10:47:47 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: TexasGator

Trade secret.


231 posted on 04/22/2018 10:48:44 AM PDT by TheNext
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To: sodpoodle

6. Music

suffered a black death in america


232 posted on 04/22/2018 10:49:26 AM PDT by bert (RE)
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To: ridesthemiles

Every time you answer, even if you hand up after hearing the robo voice, your number is saved and sold as a number that is active so they’ll continue to call and call and call and send it to other scammers to call some more. Caller ID and the ability to block numbers will stop the vast majority of those calls.


233 posted on 04/22/2018 10:49:48 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: TheNext

” And unfortunately good, valuable marking of books really is a ‘trade secret’”

Did you work for the FBI?


234 posted on 04/22/2018 10:51:34 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: ridesthemiles

No such thing as Goodwill or used book stores within 2 hours. And no amount of money will get me to the uber lib hell hole of the city. Much easier, convenient and relaxing to look online for old books.


235 posted on 04/22/2018 10:54:50 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: thecodont
With a dead tree book, you read it. Privately. No one knows which pages you’ve highlighted or annotated or lingered over.

Although if you buy your books online, as I do, “they” still know what you prefer to read. Amazon.com constantly recommends books to me based on previous selections.

236 posted on 04/22/2018 11:02:39 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: ridesthemiles

I’d have given my right arm to have a cell phone back in those days. I had to go on investigations in the middle of the night by myself. I was all alone and covered 3 rural counties normally but when on call would cover 6. It wasn’t safe for a 20 something female even in the daylight. More than once, I had my life threatened. A cell phone would also have saved me from having to sit by the landline 24/7 for two weeks a month waiting for the hotline to call. Couldn’t go anywhere, not even the grocery store, while on “on call” duty. It was straight to the office and straight home and I worried how long I’d be out of reach just getting gas. Any errands had to be done during my lunch hour because the office could handle any calls.


237 posted on 04/22/2018 11:05:05 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: TexasGator
Way.

But it is limited as seen in post #114.

238 posted on 04/22/2018 11:08:24 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Perhaps we should care less about who we may offend and care more about who we may inspire.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Dude, as soon as you put a load on that phone voltage, the voltage drops steeply. It is NOT a healthy voltage and will NOT provide enough current for any lighting.

I seriously doubt you have any idea what you are talking about.


239 posted on 04/22/2018 11:17:32 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: sodpoodle

You can get a voip landline for practically nothing. My wife hates it when the phone rings, however so I had to forward it to my cell.


240 posted on 04/22/2018 11:17:33 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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