Good for Remington.....Cuomo is an Idiot! (Page 9): I thought some people I knew were quite wealthy because they had an electric antenna. You just dialed a point ot the compass, and...

Loki Loc: Georgia

Art wrote:

Maybe the T.V. below is closer to what you had. I remember getting on the roof and adjusting the antenna trying to get better reception. Someone would yell out through a house window if the picture on the T.V was getting worse or better. Getting on roof was a lot easier than getting off , found out I had an issue with heights. :shock:

I thought some people I knew were quite wealthy because they had an electric antenna. You just dialed a point ot the compass, and the motor rotated the antenna. I thought it was witchcraft.

Art

banjojack wrote:

I thought some people I knew were quite wealthy because they had an electric antenna. You just dialed a point ot the compass, and the motor rotated the antenna. I thought it was witchcraft.

:lol: I envied my neighbors that had that. I suppose we could have had one, but I think my father loved going on the roof with me, and my mother loved yelling out the window up to us. You know, family time together. :)

Loki Loc: Georgia

Art wrote:

:lol: I envied my neighbors that had that. I suppose we could have had one, but I think my father loved going on the roof with me, and my mother loved yelling out the window up to us. You know, family time together. :)

We had a ground mounted antenna, with a very long pole, secured to the gutter, with an ingenious homemade clamp at ground level to hold the antenna steady once it was tuned into a station. (We got one channel, and sometimes we kind of got another).

Art

banjojack wrote:

We had a ground mounted antenna, with a very long pole, secured to the gutter, with an ingenious homemade clamp at ground level to hold the antenna steady once it was tuned into a station. (We got one channel, and sometimes we kind of got another).

Clever about the antenna set up. I remember a gradual addition of up to 8 or maybe 9 channels as time past until we started using cable. Oh yea, I think occasional the sun did something and we had poor reception for days.

Art

bdamage wrote:

Good for Remington & the Gov of Alabama!! br ... (show quote)

........and then there is the story about corporate gun control....came across this today. Facebook is regulating its 1.06-billion-monthly-world wide-active-users from viewing or acquiring guns through its services and will also bar users under 18 from viewing gun offers posted by individuals or groups.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57566550-93/facebook-by-the-numbers-1.06-billion-monthly-active-users/
Gov. Bentley is powerless to offer safe haven to Remington as Alabama has 1,599,260 Facebook users as of August 31/10, with a 33.6% penetration rate (I am afraid to ask what that 33.6% means). In my opinion, New York's gun regulation of a few million people is petty when you compare it to Facebooks influence.
http://www.internetworldstats.com/unitedstates.htm

Quoted section of Facebook, Instagram crack down on gun sales shown below.

"Facebook Inc and its photo sharing subsidiary, Instagram, will delete posts offering to buy or sell guns without background checks, Facebook announced on Wednesday.
In an effort to curb what gun control advocates say is the increasing use of the social networks to circumvent checks and controls on firearms sales, Facebook and Instagram will also bar users under 18 from viewing gun offers posted by individuals or groups.
"We will not permit people to post offers to sell regulated items that indicate a willingness to evade or help others evade the law," Facebook said.
The move by the world's largest social network and Instagram may add fuel to an already intense debate over U.S. gun rights .."

bdamage Loc: My Bunker

Art wrote:

........and then there is the story about corporat... (show quote)

Facebook Is About to Lose 80% of Its Users, Study Says
Sam Frizell Jan. 21, 2014

Social media is like a disease that spreads, and then dies

Facebooks growth will eventually come to a quick end, much like an infectious disease that spreads rapidly and suddenly dies, say Princeton researchers who are using diseases to model the life cycles of social media.
http://time.com/1405/facebook-is-about-to-lose-80-of-its-users-study-says/

astrolite

Art wrote:

Maybe the T.V. below is closer to what you had. I remember getting on the roof and adjusting the antenna trying to get better reception. Someone would yell out through a house window if the picture on the T.V was getting worse or better. Getting on roof was a lot easier than getting off , found out I had an issue with heights. :shock:

We had "rabbit Ears" we lived close enough to get pretty good reception. The TV was in a large black "bakelite" plastic case, maybe 24"X 24" , but the screen was only about 8" round, older than the square ones, remember this was in the early 50's. But you got the Corsair right! Fla. Air National Guard! At about 500 ft that big pratt litterly shook the houses! I'v been an airplane fan ever since! Mom complained about the TV rolling, but it stopped after the planes were out of sight! Fifi is down here in Naples, I think I might go for a ride...if I can afford it, soon we'll all be ruined after the dollar collapses! Spend it now!

Art

astrolite wrote:

We had "rabbit Ears" we lived close eno... (show quote)

I think you should go for that ride and go to one of your Wings of Freedom shows if it is near you.

http://www.collingsfoundation.org/cf_schedule-wof.htm

Airplane fans love the annual air show near where I live now if . Planes flying all day last year included P-51 Mustangs, a Lockheed P-38J Lightning, Republic P-47D, Focke-Wulf FW 190 D-9, Thunderbolt, B-25 Mitchell and even your house rattling Chance Vought F4U-4 Corsair :)

On the ground at the show was a B-17 Flying Fortress where you are allowed to go into and look. Most exciting of all was the war bird rides. Have some links below that explain it.

http://www.wingsovercamarillo.com/index.php/event-program/warbirdrides

This event is put on by the Commemorative Air Force. I hear that their are clubs like this found through out the U.S. and maybe there is one near you.

http://www.wingsovercamarillo.com/#

Art

bdamage wrote:

Facebook Is About to Lose 80% of Its Users, Study Says
Sam Frizell Jan. 21, 2014

Social media is like a disease that spreads, and then dies

Facebooks growth will eventually come to a quick end, much like an infectious disease that spreads rapidly and suddenly dies, say Princeton researchers who are using diseases to model the life cycles of social media.
http://time.com/1405/facebook-is-about-to-lose-80-of-its-users-study-says/

For me I find anything using mathematical formulas to predict outcomes interesting and thank you for bringing this study up. My Dad was a Physicist. He would come home from work when I was in High School and if I claimed to be done with homework, he would challenge me with some new equation which at first bothered me to no end. Today I wish he was here now so we could go over the controversial Epidemiological modeling of online social network dynamics. He passed away 5 years ago.

Im sure that there will be those who argue that users dependent or addicted to Facebook or other OSNs do not have a disease, but a character flaw. Whatever it is, I sure I am on the 1PP a lot more than I should be. If Princetons is right about its theory, this forum will die off long before I am ready for it to go away.

This application of the classical SIR model for the spread of infectious disease theory to predict the demise of the very popular Facebook has brought about much discussion and emotion from techs and fans of Facebook. Some Academies say the calculations Princeton are correct, however, the use of Google search data to predict engagement trends, instead of studying the actual engagement trends is a flawed methodology. In in other words, the old computer adage applies here, Garbage in Garbage out (GIGO).

I have a link below of one of the many rebuttals to this theory I found on line including Facebooks parody response to the study.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/01/27/dont-predict-facebooks-decline-yet
https://www.prod.facebook.com/notes/mike-develin/debunking-princeton/10151947421191849

astrolite

Art wrote:

I think you should go for that ride and go to one ... (show quote)

The B24, B17, and a Mustang were here last month, The only flying B29 leaves Naples and will be in Ft Myers at Page field this week! I will get away from my customers......somehow! It's been years since I went to Oschkosh and Lakeland.

Art

astrolite wrote:

The B24, B17, and a Mustang were here last month, The only flying B29 leaves Naples and will be in Ft Myers at Page field this week! I will get away from my customers......somehow! It's been years since I went to Oschkosh and Lakeland.

:thumbup: Sounds Good :!: