General tools.

[Lobby Dosser]

[Robatoy]

Use a Festool Tracksaw as a starting point....mmmmmmm

[Lobby Dosser]

Use a Festool Tracksaw as a starting point....mmmmmmm

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yeah, I thought Festool but didn't want to be considered as contributing to the delinquency of a woodworker.

[Larry Jaques]

On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:23:29 -0700 (PDT), Robatoy wrote the following:

You just gave yourself another business idea, didn't you? I can see you making up the sign for your new biz, too:

FESTERING PANEL SAWS Done Dirt Cheap (not)

When I was finishing up a deck last week, I was often thinking how a Festeringtool track saw would have made my life a lot easier. Damn your eyes. I'm enjoying my new Makita BD-141 3AH lithiummed impactor and may jump for their track saw soon, too.

A note about retirement, though. Every retiree I know says they have LESS time to play now that everyone knows they're off work. It seems that family and friends have no qualms about overutilizing ( or even commandeering) your entire set of waking hours once you use the "R" word around them. Caveat Grumpy Old Festerer.

-- Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst. -- Lin Yutang

[Larry Blanchard]

It's not just that. I find I take more time to do *anything* than I did while not working. Something about no pressure :-).

[larry moe 'n curly]

along with a detailed graph of the US situation:

think Canadian public debt/GDP is now 38%, compared to about twice that for the US, and the US figure is going to reach 100% while Canada's ratio will continue to decline, to zero in a few decades. So if the Canadian ever gets into another recession (because the US stimulus is too small or because Germany's Merkel refuses to face reality and implement much needed stimulus), it will be in a much, much better position to finance any needed stimulus than most nations will.

[Dave Balderstone]

Yeah, but we're still an exporting nation. We don't have the population to do otherwise, and if those Ontario and Quebec lefties succeed in hamstringing oilsand production in Alberta and Sask they're going to learn real time what "let the Eastern bastards freeze in the dark REALLY means.

Oh, and the US is going to have some energy problems, too. China, OTOH...

[Lew Hodgett]

--------------------------------- China, who consumes fossil fuels at less than half the rate of the USA, is making serious investments in renewable energy sources while we in the USA continue to whistle in the dark.

The latest being the guy in New Jersey who has developed a new lower cost photo-cell.

Tried to get investment capital in the USA, was told it would take in excess of $750K up front in just legal fees and permits to get started.

The Chinese welcomed him with open arms.

They are closing the deal as this is written.

Lew

[dpb]

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Well, according to CIA Factbook 2008 data China's electric power generation was within 85% of that of the US and they're adding roughly

500 MWe of generation per/_WEEK_ (MIT, EIA) and IEA and EIA estimates 70% of that will be coal-fired thru 2030. They've added 1000 TWH-hrs of coal-fired generation between 2005 and now.

It won't be long before they've caught and passed US. Meanwhile, indeed they're looking at alternative but it's going to be nearly impossible to see in the larger picture as being of any real difference. One thing for sure is they're not going to hamstring their economic development on the say-so of the green movement.

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[Larry Jaques]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:37:17 +0000 (UTC), Larry Blanchard wrote the following:

Lazyarse bastid. ;)

-- Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst. -- Lin Yutang