If we refuse to rule ourselves with reason, then we shall be ruled by our passions.
He, Who Will Not Reason, Is a Bigot; He, Who Cannot, Is a Fool; and He, Who Dares Not, Is a Slave. -Sir William Drummond
There are some things I will not abide within my sight!
Was that a goat I saw briefly over her right shoulder?
"And how we burned in the camps later thinking, what would things have been like, if every security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain, whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?"
Originally Posted by Oswald Bastable
Think I could sell one to her for $1000? LOL Still have one of those techie things in my house........... Yes they were goats behind her. They might just be a little smarter than her in fact. This next generation is pretty fucked.. Hey lady I came up with this great thing, the dial one cost $1000, the button one costs $2000. But i'd give you a break at 1/2 price for either.
Last edited by 1 Patriot-of-many; 09-08-2023 at 06:46 PM.
I'd give you 10 to 1 she's a Democrat....and proud of it, too.
"Valar morghulis; valar dohaeris."
Commucrats are most efficient at converting sins and crimes to accidents or misunderstandings.-Oswald Bastable
Making good people helpless won't make bad people harmless.
Freedom isn't free.
"Attitude is the paintbrush that colors our world." TV Series, Haven.
My Spirit Animal has rabies.
I'd rather be an American than a Democrat.
"If you can make a man afraid, you can control him" Netflix Series, The Irregulars
What do you think she would do seeing an old time phone booth like the ones Superman was supposed to use to change clothes? These "kids" just don't know what they have lost in the form of "old tech".
“I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted. The Bill of Rights, contained in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, is every American’s guarantee of freedom.” - - President Harry S. Truman, “Years of Trial and Hope”
Damn it Oswald, I think I lost 10 IQ points watching that loonie!
I know! The stupid...it burns...IT BURNS!!!!
If we refuse to rule ourselves with reason, then we shall be ruled by our passions.
He, Who Will Not Reason, Is a Bigot; He, Who Cannot, Is a Fool; and He, Who Dares Not, Is a Slave. -Sir William Drummond
There are some things I will not abide within my sight!
It's not just the users. The Phone companies made it almost impossible. I tried to keep a central land line in my house, and the phone company here wanted to charge me $100 a month for one line. Also the phone never stopped getting SPAM robo calls. I think that's the ONE THING that killed houseline phones is the constant robo calls. At least on mobile phones you can silence the ringer and block callers.
We still have a land line...'bout $45 a month. The main selling point for me is that the telecom co's are required to keep massive battery farms operational to supply power to the phone system should power be down.
By the by...land lines operate on a 48V system...did you know there are multiple low voltage devices that can be run off your land line connection? Radios, lights, etc., all designed to work on 48 volts of dc power...
Last edited by Oswald Bastable; 09-10-2023 at 02:04 AM.
If we refuse to rule ourselves with reason, then we shall be ruled by our passions.
He, Who Will Not Reason, Is a Bigot; He, Who Cannot, Is a Fool; and He, Who Dares Not, Is a Slave. -Sir William Drummond
There are some things I will not abide within my sight!
I did not know that. I still keep mine. What stuff runs off 48V in particular?
After I posted that, I did a few searches. Used to be you could find multiple devices...lights, radios...all kinds of stuff that were designed to run on that low voltage from a phone jack...egay, cramazon. At the time I thought I should order a few, but being a niche item of course they were rather pricey, so I didn't pull the trigger. My recent searches turned up nada. I'm inferring the gooberment cracked down on the makers/sellers of such stuff...should have bought when I could...shit out of luck now.
If we refuse to rule ourselves with reason, then we shall be ruled by our passions.
He, Who Will Not Reason, Is a Bigot; He, Who Cannot, Is a Fool; and He, Who Dares Not, Is a Slave. -Sir William Drummond
There are some things I will not abide within my sight!
I don’t have a traditional landline, but we use, and Ooma that is hooked to a cordless phone with three separate handsets. Hardly anyone calls that line, but it was the number I used for notifications from the school, so if we were lying in bed on a snowy morning, and it wasn’t quite time to get up, if we heard the house phone ring, we knew it was a snow day.
"if you jokers can't handle Bluedog's comments you are nothing but a bunch of woosies. There's a real simple way of solving your frustration. There is a place for you to click on called "Log Out" in the upper right portion of your monitor screen while you are at this website. Just click on that and don't ever log back in here and your problems are solved." --Pogo
Blue Pig...how the fuck are ya?
By the by...finally married CC...it'll be eight years in five days, since we tied the knot. 20 years together before...we did the deed in Vegas...the little white chapel...no Elvis...
But seriously...what's up with you and how the hell are you doin'?
Give us all the dirt...
If we refuse to rule ourselves with reason, then we shall be ruled by our passions.
He, Who Will Not Reason, Is a Bigot; He, Who Cannot, Is a Fool; and He, Who Dares Not, Is a Slave. -Sir William Drummond
There are some things I will not abide within my sight!
WOW welcome back BlueDog been a while since I saw you on here.
We've had the same phone number for our land line for over 40 years, the "adult" kids think we're crazy and wasting $35 a month. I rarely carry my cell phone since i retired (that thing was a f^cking anchor) and don't miss it at all.
The kids get pissed cause they can't text us and my sons absolutely REFUSE to call the home phone cause it's old fashioned.
My 15 yr old grand daughter loves it, she thinks it's cool and more private than a cell phone, when she's here she always calls her friends from it and they all think it's cool, one of her friends was like the girl in the video, didn't know what a land line is....so maybe someday they'll come back...when folks realize that cell phones are just tracking devices
When I moved into this 1961-built house 19 years ago, it had (and still does) a "copper-wired" landline. Two years ago, AT&T ran fiber along the major street that this dead end subdivision comes off of and they didn't bother to put in a node for us ! Because of my low income, I get DSL from AT&T for only $5/mth. BUT, a tech has warned me to NOT give it up. When I did get it, the limit was about 18,000' of "cable-run from the central office and I'm about 16,000' out. I get MAYBE 1 mb/sec. download and I can still lose connectivity in the middle of a session, sometimes multiple times. The tech said that they have cut that distance back to less than 15,000' because of the poor results over copper beyond that.
“I have little patience with people who take the Bill of Rights for granted. The Bill of Rights, contained in the first ten amendments to the Constitution, is every American’s guarantee of freedom.” - - President Harry S. Truman, “Years of Trial and Hope”
You must’ve heard I got divorced and we’re worried about me stealing her way. Lol! I’m nine years into my current relationship, so I guess the sho is on the other foot now. I guess looking back my life isn’t all that different. I don’t get online nearly as much but I still come back from time to time to see if you guys ever crank the roadhouse back up.Blue Pig...how the fuck are ya?
By the by...finally married CC...it'll be eight years in five days, since we tied the knot. 20 years together before...we did the deed in Vegas...the little white chapel...no Elvis...
But seriously...what's up with you and how the hell are you doin'?
Give us all the dirt...
"if you jokers can't handle Bluedog's comments you are nothing but a bunch of woosies. There's a real simple way of solving your frustration. There is a place for you to click on called "Log Out" in the upper right portion of your monitor screen while you are at this website. Just click on that and don't ever log back in here and your problems are solved." --Pogo
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