Why do circuit breakers go up for on and down for off?
Feb 11, 2023 Last reply: 2 years ago 1848 Replies
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rbowman
I may have been on parts of it at Lassen or Kings. The only part I'm sure of was about 100 yards at Donner Pass. It might have been spring in most of CA but it was still winter there.
I've done parts of the AT, the Long Trail in VT, and the Continental Divide trail but never with the intention of through hiking.
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rbowman
In very limited circumstances. With the current trend toward catch and release policies it takes several tries to get a death sentence.
Deaths by black bear are extremely rare. The ones I've encountered either run in the opposite direction, tree, or go on doing whatever they were doing while ignoring me.
The cats are spookier. Most of the problems are when something fits their food profile, like a child running away or a jogger/mountain biker passing them. Stand your ground and they seem to feel they're in the presence of another alpha predator that isn't worth messing with. They will walk away but they're not running away like a bear.
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Commander Kinsey
You still lock up a third of your population. Steal a chocolate bar three times and you're jailed I believe. Or is that only the blicks?
Odd, I always thought the best idea was to accept they're superior and walk away.
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Commander Kinsey
You still lock up a third of your population. Steal a chocolate bar three times and you're jailed I believe. Or is that only the blicks?
Odd, I always thought the best idea was to accept they're superior and walk away.
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Commander Kinsey
You still lock up a third of your population. Steal a chocolate bar three times and you're jailed I believe. Or is that only the blicks?
Odd, I always thought the best idea was to accept they're superior and walk away.
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rbowman
350/100,000. Were you always good at maths? When 13% of the population commits 54% of the homicides they do tend to be over-represented.
Cats are better at some things like bringing down a deer bare-pawed. I'm better at some things like putting 8 250 grain projectiles in a cat sized target. We call it a draw.
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rbowman
Yes, we all know you're capable of super-human feats. I'm reminded of a Dripkick Murphys song:
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Make sure you listen to the end.
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rbowman
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"Wir können alles. Außer Hochdeutsch."
Baden-Württemberg is a high-tech area and came up with the ad campaign. "We can do anything. Except speak standard German".
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rbowman
When I was in the Boston area I met quite a few well educated professionals who thought the world ended at 128.
NYS helped to show people new horizons. Upstate was going downhill so fast anyone with git up and go got up and went. I left when I was 22 and never looked back.
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rbowman
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You may think you're superhuman but you wouldn't last long in 45F water.
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rbowman
Might have been an anomaly but I remember one guy in NO that sounded like he was from Brooklyn.
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Rod Speed
rbowman snipped-for-privacy@montana.com wrote
Nothing like as bad as Italian.
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SteveW
I wonder why Americans (it seems to me anyway) pronounce the H in the the name Herb, but not in the foodstuffs?
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SteveW
My sons went to school with a child named Finbar, which wouldn't have been too bad, except that his surname is Furey. Finbar Furey is a very well known name in Irish music circles.
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SteveW
Accents are weird.
Until he died a few years ago, my mother's uncle by marriage had a VERY pronounced American drawl (I forget where he was from), but he'd lived in the UK (Manchester) since WW2, only going back to the US once for a 2 week visit!
Over 60 years after he came here, he was known to say "Weeell I gueeess Iyyy lost ma accsent nowww," while having a stronger accent than most Americans just arriving in the UK.
My cousins' Manchester accents disappeared totally when living in Germany, but would return within weeks of coming back to the UK to visit.
A teacher I met had an almost impenetrable Scots accent, but our neighbours in France told us that he spoke French with no accent at all.
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Cindy Hamilton
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And:
"Apparently the English used to drop the H sound as well, but in the
19th century they brought it back. By then America had been an independent country for many years so we kept the dropped-H pronunciation."
I kind of doubt the latter, but I totally believe everything on the WWW.
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The Natural Philosopher
I thought that the whole point of San Francisco is that it is inhabited by aliens and shows no sign of civilisation?
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The Natural Philosopher
Whatever happened to Bertram?
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The Natural Philosopher
It is the new Green Future.
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Carlos E.R.
Oh, my, how dumb you are...
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