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Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 6:14 pm

Unagi wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 1:24 pm Mass: Kraken (but moving), El Guapo

We're just moving from one end of the state to the other, so I'll still be a Masshole.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 6:48 pm

Kraken wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 6:14 pm
Unagi wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 1:24 pm Mass: Kraken (but moving), El Guapo
We're just moving from one end of the state to the other, so I'll still be a Masshole.

Do you have to change your accent when you do that?

Also I STILL have not put those little 3d metal puzzles together I got from you years ago. lol.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 6:54 pm

I'm pretty sure msduncan (the silent one) is in Alabama too.

Fardaza · Post by **Fardaza** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 7:45 pm

I'm in east central Tennessee since moving here from California 3 years ago. I think I'm about 2 hours north of Daehawk.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 7:47 pm

Knoxville is not even that far from me. Nashville now that is a bit of a drive..and theres a big ass mountain in the middle.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 7:49 pm

Unagi wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 1:24 pm Pennsylvania: Holman

I'm in Philadelphia, as are Default and (a recent arrival) Madmarcus. I've met both of these nice folks!

Fardaza · Post by **Fardaza** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 7:50 pm

Daehawk wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 7:47 pm Knoxville is not even that far from me. Nashville now that is a bit of a drive..and theres a big ass mountain in the middle.

Knoxville is about an hour east of us.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 8:00 pm

Daehawk wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 7:47 pm Knoxville is not even that far from me. Nashville now that is a bit of a drive..and theres a big ass mountain in the middle.

IIRC, aren't you near Chattanooga?

When I was still in Atlanta (until the early 1990s) I briefly dated someone in Chattanooga, and it seemed like a nice place with a lot going on. My sense was that they had had a renaissance during the 80s and were doing well.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 8:45 pm

Im in Bradley county with the city of Cleveland. Im very far south side of the county so the Hamilton county line with Chattanooga in it is just down the road from me. I call both as home as I have basically lived in both all my life and shopped here.

Chattanooga had a huge reemergence . It used to be a dirty little river city filled with iron and ore smelting and factories. It reinvented itself into a green city with gig internet, a big riverfront development with top tier aquarium and Imax and downtown revibe. The Ironman race is run here in Chattanooga annually. Businesses flock here now like Volkswagen. Cleveland got a Jet port...our old airport was too small for jets so they built a new one and that has attracted places like Amazon warehouses and Whirlpool is still here

Chattanooga is the 4th largest TN city behind Nashville Knoxville and Memphis. Cleveland is like the 11th or so.

em2nought · Post by **em2nought** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:12 pm

Ages ago, my parents briefly considered buying a house on top of Lookout Mountain.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:22 pm

Nice area..Signal is too

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:49 pm

Daehawk wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 6:48 pm
Kraken wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 6:14 pm
Unagi wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 1:24 pm Mass: Kraken (but moving), El Guapo
We're just moving from one end of the state to the other, so I'll still be a Masshole.
Do you have to change your accent when you do that?

The Berkshires are culturally closer to NYC than to Boston, and physically closer to upstate NY than to central or eastern MA. When Bostonians go on vacation, they either go south to the Cape or north to NH and ME; most have never been to the Berkshires. So yeah, the accent is different. I lived in Albany (pronounced AW-bunny) for a few years so I've already got that down.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Tue Dec 05, 2023 10:00 pm

Kraken wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:49 pm I lived in Albany (pronounced AW-bunny)

Spoiler:

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 11:36 am

Friendly reminder to try to keep political stuff out of EBG. Thanks.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 11:43 am

Buncha heathens.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 12:01 pm

ImLawBoy wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2023 11:36 am Friendly reminder to try to keep political stuff out of EBG. Thanks.

My bad.

Holman · Post by **Holman** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 6:25 pm

em2nought wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:12 pm Ages ago, my parents briefly considered buying a house on top of Lookout Mountain.

SEE ROCK CITY

Also:

Spoiler:

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 7:22 pm

SEE ROCK CITY

Used to be so many barns with that art on them back in the day.

Jaymon · Post by **Jaymon** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 8:11 pm

Unagi wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 10:00 pm
Kraken wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:49 pm I lived in Albany (pronounced AW-bunny)

Spoiler:

Thats crazy beans. I also live in Albany!

Probably a completely different one. Which gives me endless amounts of anger when doing google searches.

"Tire repair Albany"

No google, thats five thousand miles away, WTF?

Jaymon · Post by **Jaymon** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 8:12 pm

Jaymon wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2023 8:11 pm
Unagi wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 10:00 pm
Kraken wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 9:49 pm I lived in Albany (pronounced AW-bunny)

Spoiler:

Thats crazy beans. I also live in Albany!

Probably a completely different one. Which gives me endless amounts of anger when doing google searches.

"Tire repair Albany"

No google, thats five thousand miles away, WTF?

How many states have an albany?

top result

There's an Albany in at least 23 other states (Wisconsin has two towns and a village by that name).Mar 15, 2012

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 9:12 pm

I'm not really sure where to put this article of Polish Corporate malfeasance and good guy hackers, but it is one heck of a tale:

A train manufactured by a Polish company suddenly broke down during maintenance. The experts were helpless – the train was fine, it just wouldn’t run. In a desperate last gasp, the Dragon Sector team was called in to help, and its members found wonders the train engineers had never dreamed of.

In this story, we will take you on an unusual journey. A journey full of unexpected discoveries and events, a journey under pressure of time and money, as well as unusual technologies. A journey in which the train plays the most important role – although unfortunately it doesn’t move, even though it should. Fasten your seatbelts – or at least sit comfortably, because there are sharp turns ahead.

Why the train broke down

Figuring out how to get the train to run wasn’t even half the battle – you still had to figure out why it broke down, and this is where the thrill ride begins.

Months of analysis and reverse engineering uncovered some extremely interesting conditions written into the software code of various trains supplied by Newag. After hundreds of hours spent on code dumped from dozens of trainsets, it was possible to identify some very interesting mechanisms causing sudden train sickness.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 10:11 pm

Pyperkub wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2023 9:12 pm I'm not really sure where to put this article of Polish Corporate malfeasance and good guy hackers, but it is one heck of a tale:

That is some deep levels of bullshit.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 10:28 pm

Daehawk wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 4:59 pm Random thought.....I wonder if part of a person's or animal's spirit remains in places they were during life be a home or a store...just everywhere they went part of them remains in a way.

Then I wonder if like here at home the part that remains doesn't know they've passed on and they go about their time as always. But the living occupy that space as well. Like if I move some stuff around or walk through do the spirits think Im the ghost? Do they feel me or notice things in the home moved or a small of my cologne?

The answer will vary wildly depending on the religion (or lack thereof) of the person being asked.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Wed Dec 06, 2023 10:29 pm

Unagi wrote: Tue Dec 05, 2023 1:24 pm I feel like I can place about 70%
BH and Daehawk are easy (although I put Daehawk in Tenn/Kentucky interchangeably)

Top of my head:
I picture the Chicago group mostly as Lawbeef, Lawboy, Zarathud, Hepcat, JeffV, Seppe, Hentzau, Archinerd, hipolito... (I'm here too)
Texas has Isgrimnur, Cooposonic, LittleRaven
Michigan: LordMortis, Remus West, Chaosraven, recently Scoop### moved there.
Colorado: MHS, Meal, Zaxxon, TheMix, gilraen, I think Defiant too?
California: Piperkub, Jaymann
Pennsylvania: Holman
Mass: Kraken (but moving), El Guapo
Florida: jstemple, msteelers, Jag
Canada: MaxPeck, GreenGoo, Rumpy, Sudy
NJ: Smoove_B?, maybe Malchior?
NY: AWS###
Alabama: Lassr
Georgia: Grifman, I think?
Oregon: Exodor, Kurth
Washington: Alefroth
Utah: Skinypupy
North Carolina: Yellowking
South Carolina: stessier (but he may have moved again) , carpet_pissr

By fun coincidence, I just found a backup copy of the Gone Golders Map Project a couple of days ago (for the two and a half people who remember it.)

It was a forum post, combined with an actual map with pins for every Gone Gold member who volunteered their location.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 12:35 am

I talked my d-i-l into getting me a landline as I can't figure out the I pad they got me. Guess what ? There is no laneline company in the area.
The world really hates me!

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:17 am

dbt1949 wrote: Thu Dec 07, 2023 12:35 am I talked my d-i-l into getting me a landline as I can't figure out the I pad they got me. Guess what ? There is no laneline company in the area.
The world really hates me!

I suspect Florida will be one of the last states where landlines are a thing.We still have ours and know folks who are keeping theirs.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:24 am

Continuing on the subject, I asked Bard about landlines in Florida:

No, there is no law in Florida requiring phone companies to provide landlines. In fact, Florida was one of the first states to deregulate the telecommunications industry, removing the requirement for universal landline service in 2012.

This means that phone companies in Florida have the freedom to choose which services they offer, and they are not obligated to provide landlines if there is sufficient competition from alternative voice communication services like Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and wireless phones.

While landlines are still available in some areas of Florida, many residents have opted for more affordable and convenient alternatives. This has led to a significant decline in landline subscriptions over the past decade.

Here are some resources you may find helpful:

* **Floridians continue pulling plug on landline phones:** [https://winknews.com/2022/08/03/floridi ... ne-phones/](https://winknews.com/2022/08/03/floridi ... ne-phones/)
* **Landline rules frustrate telecoms:** [https://www.washingtonpost.com/business ... story.html](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business ... story.html)
* **Landline service shutdown by FCC Order 19-72:** [https://www.communityphone.org/blogs/la ... -fcc-19-72](https://www.communityphone.org/blogs/la ... -fcc-19-72)

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:29 am

jztemple2 wrote: Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:17 am I suspect Florida will be one of the last states where landlines are a thing.We still have ours and know folks who are keeping theirs.

I suspect you are right. Old-folk being drawn to a Florida retirement and old-folk being famous for holding on to old technology makes it a pretty clear vision.

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:43 am

I do not believe I know a single person IRL that has a landline anymore. Not even a cable bundled landline. I hear reports on broadband actually shrinking, suggesting people are moving to hot spots and 5G modems for their internet needs, which would explain the comcast and WOW ads both pimping and attacking hot spot Internet.

GreenGoo · Post by **GreenGoo** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:50 am

Isgrimnur wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2023 10:11 pm
Pyperkub wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2023 9:12 pm I'm not really sure where to put this article of Polish Corporate malfeasance and good guy hackers, but it is one heck of a tale:

That is some deep levels of bullshit.

Criminal, for sure.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:51 am

I have a cable bundled landline which I did not ask for and never use. I suppose it could come in handy if cell service goes out.

Fardaza · Post by **Fardaza** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:53 am

I have a landline phone number that is attached to my cell phone/internet subscription. I don't have a phone attached to it though. If I wanted to use it, I'd have to do some digging to even find out what the number is.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 12:00 pm

LordMortis wrote: Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:43 am I do not believe I know a single person IRL that has a landline anymore.

We've met at Octocon, so you do too!

LordMortis · Post by **LordMortis** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 12:06 pm

stessier wrote: Thu Dec 07, 2023 12:00 pm
LordMortis wrote: Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:43 am I do not believe I know a single person IRL that has a landline anymore.
We've met at Octocon, so you do too!

Heh. I will amend. I don't think there is a single person I know whose house I have been in within the last decade whom have landline anymore.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 12:08 pm

Post by **ImLawBoy** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 12:09 pm

The old copper infrastructure for landlines is expensive to maintain and demand is way down. We had a copper landline when I moved into this house a few years ago, but my employer asked me to switch it to VoIP. I'd likely drop it altogether if I had to pay for it, but it's free as an employee so it remains in place and mostly unused. I saved the phone number for it in a note on my phone in case I ever need it.

gilraen · Post by **gilraen** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 12:11 pm

Jaymann wrote: Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:51 am I have a cable bundled landline which I did not ask for and never use. I suppose it could come in handy if cell service goes out.

But it won't if the power goes out which is a major distinction between this and the original analog landline that had its own power. That's part of the reason why many municipalities do not allow emergency phones in elevators to be VoIP.

In theory, though, there should be be VoIP offerings in dbt's area. If there's internet, someone would be offering phone service.

Pyperkub · Post by **Pyperkub** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 12:29 pm

gilraen wrote: Thu Dec 07, 2023 12:11 pm
Jaymann wrote: Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:51 am I have a cable bundled landline which I did not ask for and never use. I suppose it could come in handy if cell service goes out.
But it won't if the power goes out which is a major distinction between this and the original analog landline that had its own power. That's part of the reason why many municipalities do not allow emergency phones in elevators to be VoIP.

In theory, though, there should be be VoIP offerings in dbt's area. If there's internet, someone would be offering phone service.

YEah, POTS is the main reason we still have a landline, especially after a week-long PG&E "personal safety power shutdown" (PSPS) a couple of years ago. The fact that we can have an older phone that just jacks into the phone line and works without power, without battery, without cellphone tower power, etc. was important.

But that bill keeps going up and up and up, hard to justify keeping it around for emergencies... but convincing Mrs. Kub is tricky.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 12:47 pm

we have a landline (over fiber) because my wife won't give her mobile number to her work on principal... yet she texts most everyone at work including her lead tech... it doesn't cost enough for me to push. If I could just get her to give up cable.

jztemple2 · Post by **jztemple2** » Thu Dec 07, 2023 12:47 pm

Unagi wrote: Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:29 am
jztemple2 wrote: Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:17 am I suspect Florida will be one of the last states where landlines are a thing.We still have ours and know folks who are keeping theirs.
I suspect you are right. Old-folk being drawn to a Florida retirement and old-folk being famous for holding on to old technology makes it a pretty clear vision.

That's because old-folk have a refined sense of what is just a fad and what are the things that are really important