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11-17-2021, 03:05 PM - 1 Like   #93271
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Used car salesman? LOL

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There you have it.

A lawyer, politician, journalist, car salesman, the lowest form of life.

Lower than the amoeba.
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QuoteOriginally posted by Racer X 69 Quote
There you have it.

A lawyer, politician, journalist, car salesman, the lowest form of life.

Lower than the amoeba.
Actually, I think there's one combination that beats even that:

A lawyer, politician, journalist, car salesman who is an evangelical preacher on Sundays.
11-17-2021, 03:30 PM - 4 Likes   #93274
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QuoteOriginally posted by MarkJerling Quote
Actually, I think there's one combination that beats even that:

A lawyer, politician, journalist, car salesman who is an evangelical preacher on Sundays.
... and who's wife sells essential oils to keep away the COVID. How much further can we keep going?

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... and home schools the kids.
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I think this better stop right now. Large groups of people are being insulted here.
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I thought at first this was the beginning of a joke? It needs refining, more like a shaggy dog story now but without the dog.

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QuoteOriginally posted by Parallax Quote
I think this better stop right now. Large groups of people are being insulted here.
As long as they don't know where we live......
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As long as they don't know where we live......
You wouldn't be that hard ti find, Norm.
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You wouldn't be that hard ti find, Norm.
Tell that to the Fedex guy.
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5MB hard drive in 1956.

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QuoteOriginally posted by robtcorl Quote
5MB hard drive in 1956.
It's interesting to think how little data 5MB is and how much space that took up at the time.

So a byte is 8 bits, where one bit is either a 0 or 1. With a word document open and writing down some bytes, just "01010101" for simplicity with a space in between to separate them, I can fit 2500 "bytes" on a US standard letter page at a small but readable font size 5 with ¼" page margins. If one were to print that double sided, you get 5KB of data per sheet of paper. That means that 5MB hard drive there only has the data capacity of 1000 sheets of paper. With a ream of standard copy paper being roughly five pounds, that's only 10 lbs.

On the other hand, look at the 64GB SD card in my camera... it's figuratively nothing and "holds" nearly 13 million sheets of this paper... but wait. You get up to 1TB microSD cards now, which is equivalent here to 200 million sheets of paper... or around 2 million pounds of paper! How can one even visualize how much that is... according to Google, a Boeing 747 is around 400 thousand pounds. So that 1TB microSD card has the equivalent weight of five 747s of paper in data. All in something that weighs one quarter of a gram! Pretty amazing. And there I go mixing imperial and metric units again
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Hell ya!

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Getting my every 3 month scan this morning.
That bacon soda sounds much better than the barium contrast I'm about to start drinking.
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barium contrast I'm about to start drinking.
Keep in mind, there are no known untoward reactions between barium and other drugs, including ethanol, and doctors always advise to drink plenty of liquids during and after.

Just sayin'.....................................
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