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Spin Zone / Sign this and we will nuke the West
« on: October 27, 2022, 11:23:07 PM »
Oh beer, we're toast.


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Spin Zone / Place your bets!
« on: October 26, 2022, 09:14:16 AM »
John Stossel says your best bet on learning who wins the next election is bettors:

https://reason.com/2022/10/26/this-election-day-listen-to-the-betting-market-instead-of-pundit-predictions/

If you want to place your own bets, only place for U.S. citizens to go is:
https://www.predictit.org/

Stossel's betting aggregation site:
http://electionbettingodds.com/

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Spin Zone / New open aviation forum - Flyers Forum
« on: September 20, 2022, 04:51:44 PM »
Just what the world has been waiting for - another aviation forum! But here's why you might want to try FlyersForum:

https://flyersforum.org/

FlyersForum uses a new user moderation model to provide an open forum for a large robust public community while controlling abuse of and on the forum.

We believe moderation is best applied by each member because they know best the members they prefer to engage in conversation. If you see two members in never-ending squabbles you should be able to block their posts from your view without having to ask a moderator to silence them somehow. Likewise, if someone starts trolling or stalks your posts you should be able to promptly block them from seeing your posts and vice-versa. Member-level moderation is naturally tuned precisely to the member's desires and sensibilities and the most timely mechanism available. We also feel that the ability to promptly block another poster from seeing your posts and vice versa greatly reduces the need for traditional central moderation and the sins that eventually arise from such "absolute power."

We hope you see the advantages of FF's choice of policies and self-moderation tools and will give it a try.

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Pilot Zone / Vans Aircraft high wing RV-15
« on: July 09, 2022, 07:58:49 PM »
Video of test flight of their RV-15. Personally would have preferred a cantilevered high-wing to go with their cantilevered low-wings. Strutted high wing designs are a dime a dozen.


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Spin Zone / California Court Rules That Bees Are Fish
« on: June 01, 2022, 04:00:22 PM »
Story: https://reason.com/2022/06/01/california-court-rules-that-bees-are-fish/

"Insects aren't a category protected by the California Endangered Species Act. So state officials classified four bumblebee species as fish to get them listed."

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Good episode of "The Lieutenant" - only watched one other episode on Youtube and thought it was nicely done also, so may watch a few more:


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Spin Zone / Metal exchange cancels trades to save big supplier
« on: March 10, 2022, 10:29:27 PM »
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-moral-hazard-lessons-from-nickel-market-disaster-11646923194?st=0jd47xwn5eewsdu&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
The Moral Hazard Lessons From Nickel Market Disaster

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The problems started on Tuesday morning, when traders on the London Metal Exchange smelled blood and nickel prices almost doubled. China’s Tsingshan Holding faced a $1 billion-or-so margin call that exchange officials feared it couldn’t meet. Rather than let it fail, which would probably have taken down several of the smaller LME brokers that had serviced Tsingshan, LME decided to cancel all that day’s trading, more than 9,000 trades worth about $4 billion.

It. Canceled. The. Trades. Not because of a fat-finger error, which exchanges often cancel. Not even because of a rogue algorithm (as regulators claimed in the 2010 flash crash in U.S. stocks). But because someone with too much leverage was going to blow up, with knock-on effects on some members of the exchange.

Hopefully the trader's who would have made money had their trades not been cancelled will have grounds to sue and win against the Exchange. An exchange acting so nakedly on behalf of one client deserves to lose its traders to other exchanges.

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Pilot Zone / FAA Administrator To Resign
« on: February 16, 2022, 11:14:02 PM »
Got an email alert from AVweb about his pending resignation:
https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/faa-administrator-to-resign/

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Spin Zone / "Your Fraudulency:" The 1876 election
« on: February 13, 2022, 10:59:16 PM »

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Spin Zone / Elon Musk Sits Down With The Babylon Bee
« on: December 22, 2021, 09:31:33 PM »
Not a joke - for real. Musk takes jabs at leftists and Wokeness, among other things.


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Pilot Zone / Novel aircraft.
« on: December 13, 2021, 12:23:54 AM »
Which of these, if any would you be willing to fly?


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I think this is worth 3:22 of your time.


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Spin Zone / Truck driver wins against politically powerful NJ lawmaker
« on: November 04, 2021, 11:17:50 AM »
“A Truck Driver With a Few Thousand Bucks and an iPhone Just Toppled New Jersey's Most Powerful Lawmaker”
https://reason.com/2021/11/04/a-truck-driver-with-a-few-thousand-bucks-and-an-iphone-just-toppled-new-jerseys-most-powerful-lawmaker/

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Spin Zone / Video capture of a meteor
« on: October 30, 2021, 07:45:50 PM »
First time I’ve ever seen one of our wildlife/security camera capture a meteor. In commemoration of the event I converted the moments of the capture first to MPEG and then to a GIF and reduced the pixel size considerably. The camera is facing west.

In the past I’ve thought of mounting one  of my older unused video cameras and point it more directly upward. Been too lazy to consider where to mount it, what direction would be best, and then how to route the power cable. May now give it some more consideration.

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