Re: [MBZ] Newfangled electronic key fob thingie

2015-07-23 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
When I was in high school dad gave me his old '84 Ford Tempo. The trunk lock busted off its mount (inside so it would just spin, big fun) so we pulled it out and opened the trunk with a big screwdriver. There was a technique to finding the latch from outside and once I figured it out I got

Re: [MBZ] Newfangled electronic key fob thingie

2015-07-23 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
She sent me a piccie of the instructions, I had it open in 5sec. Then I reiterated the instructions and she also got it open. -R On 7/22/15 11:46 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes wrote: Wifey wants to change the battery but can't figure out how to get it open. I have one, no instructions bug

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Curt wrote: ...Broke a rule but got away with it? Awesome, good for you. And we wonder where innovation and invention have gone? Education should sponsor innovation and invention. If all we do is repeat the past, where is future? Your idea is the statement entirely of why I love hackers. NO,

Re: [MBZ] 300CD

2015-07-23 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
Thanks Mao, Please let me know how I get in touch with him. ABQ is in my backyard sort of. I welcome any and all connections. Grant... On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Mountain Man via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Dwight wrote: I might have some leads on parts for your CD

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
WILTON wrote: ...put simply, integrity is the ability to do what is right when nobody else is watching. Maybe it is missing universally. Construction zone is 45mph - I can do that instead of risk $375 fine. Many pass at higher speed, just to stop 3 miles ahead at light - what's the sense? Is

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
RB wrote: ...you cannot get a job anywhere unless you are reasonably proficient in Autocad (or the newer version, - Ribbit or something like that). Revit. mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
Rick wrote: Sorry for the lengthy off topic diatribe. Nope - totally ontopic, and you know it. Now, go see Gonzo and speak some more. Anyone else also - see the movie Gonzo. A documentary about HST - Hunter S Thompson. mao ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Mountain Man via Mercedes
fmiser wrote: I would amend that just a bit because the integrity does not strictly include anything about what is right. And since each of us will have a slightly (or not so slight?) difference of opinion about what is right. Yes!! Uniformity sucks. Diversity rules. mao

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity ethics

2015-07-23 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
ATTABOY! Wilton - Original Message - From: Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 2:58 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity ethics I am so so glad

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
On 23/07/2015 1:58 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: I am so so glad I went to a small state college . . . . I had one design class where for a month we worked with crayons. Yeah crayons. You go out and try to make a crayon drawing that doesn't look like a crayon drawing and tell me how

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Dwight Giles via Mercedes
Having worked at a big 10 school and an SEC school I totally agree and i would abolish the NCAA. On Jul 23, 2015 2:23 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: As far as I'm concerned athletics has no place in college beyond the intramural level. The idea of college sports as

[MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity ethics

2015-07-23 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
'Nother ATTABOY! Wilton - Original Message - From: Randy Bennell via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com; Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: Randy Bennell rbenn...@bennell.ca Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 3:45 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT

Re: [MBZ] Newfangled electronic key fob thingie

2015-07-23 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
ATTABOY! On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: When I was in high school dad gave me his old '84 Ford Tempo. The trunk lock busted off its mount (inside so it would just spin, big fun) so we pulled it out and opened the trunk with a big

Re: [MBZ] Trump card

2015-07-23 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
When hell freezes over? On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Curly McLain via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Getting in the race is easy now. And, with name recognition you can win mby losing - land a lucrative broadcast TV gig, like Herman Cain, Huckerly, and Sarah Painin. Andew,

[MBZ] OT When WDC freezes over (was Trump card)

2015-07-23 Thread Max Dillon via Mercedes
Andrew, you've got about 20 years until Hell freezes over, should be able to get a fifteen year mortgage term so you have a warm place to live by then Charleston should be tolerable then, but I wouldn't be thinking about Maine.

Re: [MBZ] OT When WDC freezes over (was Trump card)

2015-07-23 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Boy people are excited about that. Its fun to watch both sides make big predictions based on very little actual data. It'll be fun to watch both sides prove the other wrong. -Curt From: Max Dillon via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc:

Re: [MBZ] OT When WDC freezes over (was Trump card)

2015-07-23 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Hey, I watched a documentary called Sharknado 3 last night. Learned that DC is now a wasteland from the shark attacks. I'm not venturing inside the beltway any more. On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Boy people are excited about that.

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
I am so so glad I went to a small state college. I read about schools indoctrinating students and refusing to listen to other points of view and I'm horrified, that was not my experience at all. We were encouraged to disagree with our teachers, if you could back up your point they'd listen.Part

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
As far as I'm concerned athletics has no place in college beyond the intramural level. The idea of college sports as quasi professional is completely at odds with the real job of college which is education. As long as there is money to be made in college sports there will be abuse of the

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Fred Moir via Mercedes
+1 Fred Moir.Lynn MA.Diesel preferred. To: mercedes@okiebenz.com Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 14:07:16 -0400 Subject: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity ethics From: mercedes@okiebenz.com CC: wilt...@nc.rr.com Re. the unsavory crap (sham, paper, classes) going on for nearly 20 years at UNC-CH to

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity ethics

2015-07-23 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
'Been my thoughts on the subject, too, for more than 60 years. Wilton - Original Message - From: Curt Raymond via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com Cc: Curt Raymond curtlud...@yahoo.com Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 2:23 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity ethics

2015-07-23 Thread Rich Thomas via Mercedes
I would have an interesting story to tell about the wages of sin at UNC-CH, outside the whole football program, but it would violate my integrity to do so, so I won't. But in universities, independent simple solutions are not acceptable, the school has to form committees to beat the issue to

[MBZ] OT - UNC-CH integrity ethics

2015-07-23 Thread WILTON via Mercedes
Re. the unsavory crap (sham, paper, classes) going on for nearly 20 years at UNC-CH to accommodate athletes, an article in today's Raleigh News and Observer, discusses two working groups (committee's) looking at UNC integrity and policies. Co-chair said that they first want to define

Re: [MBZ] Way OT: Blendtec recipes, anyone?

2015-07-23 Thread archer75--- via Mercedes
Rick Knoble wrote: ‎Gerry writes: As for living forever, I've been on a mega nutrients diet for 31 years; 55 to 86; and still have negative lab and xray reports.  Please expound.  Rick   I'll send you the info in a few days, Rick. Anyone else interested in this vitamin/mineral diet and