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This time he has decided not to modify it, and leave it completely stock. Just like other times. 😄

It is good that it is still subject to the will of the people, but if it succeeds, then Newsom is very likely to be our next President.

I just did some simple math, and assuming ability to use a tower at a distance of 15 miles (30 total), and 172mph, the maximum talk time would be about 627 seconds. This is a long call. Note that the maximum range to a cell tower is 25 miles (50 miles total) given ideal circumstances. This is...

A mile is 5280 feet. When I am hiking at over 3500 feet from the valley floor (and multiple/many miles away from the closest cell tower) I am sometimes still able to use my cell phone to communicate with my wife. Speed is another factor entirely given that it would not take long at all (a few...

In 2001? At the time, no one seemed to question that brief calls were possible, and in fact they were sometimes made. The technology is totally different now. Vastly more sophisticated. We are taking about the level of difference between a walkie-talkie and a directed energy beam.

He will miss it, just like Pippi.

Are you sure? 2001 cell phones (and supportive telecom systems) were very simple and would not know if a call was placed from 33,000 feet up, or 33,000 feet horizontally across the earth. If the radio works, then you are golden.

Most people I worked with had cell phones in 2001, but I didn't. It was already difficult to find a pay phone which still worked. Then again I worked for a telecommunications company in an area near "telecom corridor" (where the movie "Office Space" was filmed). In 1988 (or 1989), one of my...

Eddie liked your request so I think that it is a done deal.

California still has Proposition 13. If you bought your retirement home 47 years ago, you would be just fine. Your $60k house might be worth a couple of million, and the taxes would still be ok. Arizona has a property tax but they have a wonderful feature in that they can not increase your...

The author of this article is even more confused than the people she claims are confused!

That is assured by the surfboard in the back!

Permission to light everything up is granted by default if he is living in a red state.

In Dallas, you would need to pay three or four times as much as that in order to get the crappiest moldy apartment.

I have heard the same. Since I am now old, I can see that the forests are not like when I was young. When I was young, you could just walk through most of the forest, but now it is often impenetrable brush, or young trees so close together you can almost not stick your arm between them. To me...

This really hurts my ego given that I hold you in such high esteem. 😔

The huge fires on the north rim of the Grand Canyon 1/5 of forested area burned already) have given the forestry department the heebie-jeebies. The fire which burned the Grand Canyon Lodge was being used like a controlled burn.

Fires are actually a good thing, if there are enough of them. The problem is that the full suppression approach used for a great many years has made many fires into a calamity. If there are many smaller fires, them the forest and scrub land is much nicer. So how do we reset our forests to the...

You were much smarter then?

I don't recommend Phoenix or other crowder inferno places. The Democrat politicians seem different than California and not as batshit crazy. The governor seems rather thoughtful and describes why she makes her decisions. Regardless, as one would expect, the wild horses are in 'red' politics...