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[micky]

So I guess that means I got some Ed didn't get because I dl'd earlier than he did, and in between they disappeared from servers.

[Ed P]

Seems to be back to normal. Probably a server down.

[Ed Pawlowski]

So 2000 years later, we have Crypto. Nothing has changed.

[Art]

We don't have to go into that anymore. I only talked about it because I thought you had already referred to it.

It sounds like a very good idea. I had never heard of this aspect of their bank before you included it here.

FWIW, I found my own method which might work in select locations. Years ago I was visiting a friend in Geneva and I borrowed her car while she was at work and drove a mile or two into France and came across a gambling casino, (Maybe close to Switzerland because Sw. doesn't have legal gambling? No, they have at least 8 now just in or near Geneva.)

AFAICT, you could buy chips with your own form of money, like Swiss francs, and then redeem them later for French francs and maybe other kinds of money too. I hope they give the same rate for a given currency in both directions, since they they're making money on the gambling. But I didn't try it so I'm not sure.

Yes.

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Art wrote on 3/4/2024 12:16 PM:

It makes sense that the exchange rates will be different in changing from one currency to another currency and then back, otherwise you can stand there all day and keep exchanging between the two currencies 1,000 times and they'd be wasting time to deal with your folly. The money changers (currency exchange) have to make money. They will take a cut in every transaction. That means if you keep exchanging between two different currency back-and-forth, eventually you will end up with no money.

[cshenk]

I posted a lot on repairs to my house after rental damage. Also how to rescreen a wooden porch.

[micky]

Speaking of screened-in porches, at the house I was living since birth, my parents had the porch screened in, and the porch had pillars, with details at the bases, that the carpenter had to fit. I was 10 when I left and I didn't realize that not everything is done right, because this was. But when I went back this fall, the current owners had removed the screening.

Could it be because there are not so many insects anymore?

[cshenk]

That could be, but mostly it reduced house value. At least here in Virginia. People would try to reduce the price for estimates of having it properly screened. You didn't reduce, they shop elsewhere.

[Jim Joyce]

It might have something to do with the passage of 60 years. The original screen might have been replaced multiple times during that period, eventually just being removed.

[Jim Joyce]

Even if they did temporarily disappear from your server, that wouldn't affect what you see in Agent unless you were to perform a purge. It also wouldn't affect any other news servers.

[Ed P]

Still something strange with Thunderbird. One one computer I get everything OK, on the other, it will not connect with one of the groups. I've uninstalled it, reinstalled, cleared cache, etc.

[micky]

Not in this case. She had already bought the house when she took off the screens and has no plans to move soon. they made other changes to my old house too. Moved the door from the kitchen to the dining room, rarranged the kitchen, moved the appliances, changed the roof of the back porch, cut down the wonderful buckeye tree. I want to sue but the lawyer told me I'd lose.

[Jim Joyce]

You know that you can change your message view in Agent, right? You always make it seem like you might be using All Messages, which would be rather strange.

[Jim Joyce]

I've never used Thunderbird, so I don't know what's going on there.

[Cindy Hamilton]

Why do you care what happened to the house? (And, I can't believe you considered for a millisecond that you should sue.)

Someone recently tore down the house I lived in until I was 9 years old and built a McMansion. I just don't care.

When my mother dies, I'll sell her house (in which I lived from age 9 to 18). I don't care what happens to it, either. I'm hoping I can sell it to a flipper who's willing to dispose of all her stuff. Otherwise I'll have to rent a dumpster.

[micky]

I don't mind the other changes but I "loved" the buckeye tree. The buckeyes were beautiful and the tree grew over my sandbox.

My attachment to the tree was far, far less than one would feel towards a dog, but to understand, imagine that your pet dog had gone to live with someone else years ago, and then it died. Would you care.

You're right!

I think flippers are pretty easy to find. And there are people who go through contents and sell your stuff on ebay. Maybe if the economy is even better than now, they'll all be doing something else, but I doubt that will happen.

I'm expecting a flipper to buy my house, when I move out or die. After I give the tools to a tool co-op in town, and a few other things.

[micky]

I do use All Message almost all the time. (I don't think that's strange ;-) ). Unless I'm searching for something, with Find Global or just using a search category like Kept, Bodies, or Watched. A long time ago I had about 5 other combination categories but they got lost along the way.

[Ed Pawlowski]

But,but, but, it is your heritage. You should go back every couple of months to make sure they made no changes without your approval.

I've lived in six houses in my life. Last year when I was in CT, I did drive by my old house but did not care about the few changes they made in five years. I was also in Philadelphia that trip but did not go by any of the four houses I lived in there. I did go to a bakery that has really good cinnamon buns though.

[micky]

Yes, the screen must have been replaced several times, but the owner, middle aged or a little older, said iirc that she didn't like having the screens. Maybe because it obscures the view and interferes with the breeze, and I think bugs are not the problem they used to be.

Have you noticed that when you drive on the highway in the summer, there used to be lots of bugs squashed against the windshield, but that doesnt' happen anymore? I think it's observable that the insect population is dropping.

[Ed Pawlowski]

They moved most of the insects to government supplied nesting in the national parks. Part of Biden's migration plan.