[MBZ] Could be interesting 2004 Mercedes Wagon E500 - $2, 500 (Columbia)

2021-02-24 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
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[MBZ] Need it off my hands by the end of the week. Mercedes benz ML 350 - $3, 500 (Bluffton)

2021-02-24 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
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[MBZ] Fwd: 2005 Mercedes Benz E 320

2021-02-24 Thread Bob Rentfro via Mercedes
Looks nice. Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > > > 2005 Mercedes Benz E 320 > > https://phoenix.craigslist.org/cph/cto/d/phoenix-2005-mercedes-benz-320/7281882961.html > > Please go to the preferences page if you don't want to receive email-a-friend > messages in the future.

Re: [MBZ] Could be interesting 2004 Mercedes Wagon E500 - $2, 500 (Columbia)

2021-02-24 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
Guy says this is a 4M and is clean inside and out, has no other pics.  I might take a little road trip and go look at it. Anyone have an interest? Very clean and dependable garaged kept and we'll maintenanced. Everything works as it should. Fresh oil change and new tires. The only thing this

Re: [MBZ] OT The next IT revolution: System Oriented Programming?

2021-02-24 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
Silicon computing has reached a plateau. They can continue to multi-core things, but software cannot be multi-cored easily, or very thoroughly. The current performance limit IS software efficiency. Current high-end desktop hardware would be able to serve thousands of users simultaneously, IF

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
The two doses are are the same, but the thinking is that you may have a stronger immune response to the second one, because your system has been primed by the first one to respond to the second one. So the second one may cause more muscle aches etc. On Wed, Feb 24, 2021, 10:32 AM Allan Streib via

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Its a total cluster, vaccinating the oldest folks, particularly those in nursing homes is ass backwards. Vaccinate all the people AROUND the old people, the healthcare workers, food service etc. Don't let anybody into a nursing home that isn't vaccinated. That way you protect the old people

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
I scheduled a first dose for Mar26 then the scheduling software gave me a second dose for today (!!!) so I was planning to go to the hospital this afternoon for my first shot. (When I went for a AZ trial blood draw a coupla weeks ago wherein I got the placebo, the girl told me I could get the

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
Still only 65 and older here, unless you’re a buddy of the governor. -D > On Feb 24, 2021, at 11:51 AM, Jim Cathey via Mercedes > wrote: > > My 55yo wife has gotten #1. Her secret: volunteered to work at the > vaccination clinic! > They take care of their own... > > -- Jim > > >

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
Floyd Thursby via Mercedes writes: > I told the guy this would be the first not the second and he said well > we aren't doing first shots now, we have run out of them. WTF. I did not think the 1st shot and 2nd were different. Everything else I have read says they are the same. Though I do think

Re: [MBZ] Base model white 240D on BAT

2021-02-24 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
To me that makes it less valuable. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 24, 2021, at 10:05 AM, Randy Bennell via Mercedes > wrote: > > Did you read the text? It had a tubo 300D transplant. > > >> On 23/02/2021 6:42 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: >> I guess I sold that last one way too

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
Preexisting conditions. I guess it was high blood pressure for me and asthma for the wife Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 24, 2021, at 10:36 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > wrote: > > I scheduled a first dose for Mar26 then the scheduling software gave me a > second dose for today (!!!) so

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
My 55yo wife has gotten #1. Her secret: volunteered to work at the vaccination clinic! They take care of their own... -- Jim ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
Y'all can have mine. I'm going to pass. https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=241577 https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=241632 Rick ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change

[MBZ] OT The next IT revolution: System Oriented Programming?

2021-02-24 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Dan and others in the IT field, Is this a thing? https://www.softwarebusinessgrowth.com/doc/end-of-silicon-era-is-at-hand-software-about-to-change-in-big-way-0001 By Jay Valentine, ContingencySales.com Moore’s Law means hardware gets about twice as fast every 24 months as chips can have smaller

[MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
Any of you guys got the Rona shot yet? I was not going to do it but a buddy of mine who is a pharmacist in a surgical hospital said I should. He says to get the moderna shot not the phizer one, not sure why. Anyway I went online yesterday and it said I was approved and only appointment I could

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Bob Rentfro via Mercedes
i’m just going to wait, even though my doc at MD Anderson said I should get it sooner rather than later. At one point we were told we could get it with the emergency response folks, since I am part of the emergency response team at the old Nuke plant, but when I showed up one day to get the

Re: [MBZ] Base model white 240D on BAT

2021-02-24 Thread Randy Bennell via Mercedes
Did you read the text? It had a tubo 300D transplant. On 23/02/2021 6:42 PM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: I guess I sold that last one way too cheap to snookie. ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/

Re: [MBZ] Could be interesting 2004 Mercedes Wagon E500 - $2, 500 (Columbia)

2021-02-24 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
I do. PM me. > On Feb 24, 2021, at 11:34 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes > wrote: > > Guy says this is a 4M and is clean inside and out, has no other pics. I > might take a little road trip and go look at it. Anyone have an interest? > > > Very clean and dependable garaged kept and we'll

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
h --FT On 2/24/21 11:46 AM, Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes wrote: Preexisting conditions. I guess it was high blood pressure for me and asthma for the wife Sent from my iPhone On Feb 24, 2021, at 10:36 AM, Floyd Thursby via Mercedes wrote: I scheduled a first dose for Mar26 then the

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
Our nanny pulled a shift or two at a nursing home to get an early place in line. Her 50yo brother died of COVID last Fall, so she was highly motivated. I received the first Pfizer before Christmas and the second a few weeks later. Made me feel like crap for a couple days each time. In fact I was

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
I'm scheduled for my Moderna #2 tomorrow morning. On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 12:16 PM Rick Knoble via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Y'all can have mine. I'm going to pass. > > https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=241577 > > https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=241632 > > > Rick >

Re: [MBZ] Need it off my hands by the end of the week. Mercedes benz ML 350 - $3, 500 (Bluffton)

2021-02-24 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
Might be worth making a stupid lowball offer since the car was a gift from his aunt. On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 10:28 AM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > *2004 mercedes benz ml350* > > * >

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
*Vaccinate all the people AROUND the old people, the healthcare workers, food service etc. Don't let anybody into a nursing home that isn't vaccinated. That way you protect the old people and get vaccines into people moving around in general population and thus slow the spread..*. This would

Re: [MBZ] OT The next IT revolution: System Oriented Programming?

2021-02-24 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
I listen to the "Retro Computing Roundtable", some time ago in one of their discussions they referenced the idea that optimizing code would improve the speed of an application some ridiculous amount, like 10x or more. The problem was that traditionally spending a bunch of time optimizing code

Re: [MBZ] 2002 Mercedes Benz ML500 - $2,700 (OBO)

2021-02-24 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
I am guessing that these have high operating and maintenance costs, which explains the seemingly bargain prices On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 2:51 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > 200kmi Doesn't look too bad, price is not too unreasonable > > >

[MBZ] 2002 Mercedes Benz ML500 - $2,700 (OBO)

2021-02-24 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
200kmi Doesn't look too bad, price is not too unreasonable https://charlotte.craigslist.org/cto/d/charlotte-2002-mercedes-benz-ml500/7282216647.html -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe

[MBZ] Price is firm - 2006 CLS500 73k miles - $10,500

2021-02-24 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
https://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/cto/d/chicago-mercedes-benz-cls/7282085124.html Allan ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

[MBZ] NEED GONE ASAP - 2004 C240 148k miles - $4,000

2021-02-24 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
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Re: [MBZ] 4mat 4magic Mercedes R350 - $4,500 (JACKSONVILLE)

2021-02-24 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
When I met Wilton's family during their visit to DC I was blown away by their R class behemoth. Such roomy luxury... On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 2:54 PM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Pine cones extra > > >

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Karl Wittnebel via Mercedes
Not very many people have had it twice. Very few. The antibodies do not persist in many cases however, so something else seems to mediate protection also. In other words, immunity may not be measured well or completely by antibody levels. They are saying one dose of vaccine is sufficient after

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
Is it a big deal to run an anti-body test? I've been wondering why we're just bulk vaccinating and not testing to see if people already had antibodies.If just about 29 million people have already had it that we know of and there are a whole bunch of people that have had it and didn't know it,

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Curt Raymond via Mercedes
More risk than the other way? There is always risk... -Curt On Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 2:10:33 PM EST, Andrew Strasfogel wrote: Vaccinate all the people AROUND the old people, the healthcare workers, food service etc. Don't let anybody into a nursing home that isn't vaccinated.

Re: [MBZ] 2002 Mercedes Benz ML500 - $2,700 (OBO)

2021-02-24 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
Not really, mostly the normal stuff.  The 500 engine is quite stout and reliable.  I wouldn't be too afraid of it but would be looking more at like $2k for a 19yo vehicle. --FT On 2/24/21 3:15 PM, Andrew Strasfogel wrote: I am guessing that these have high operating and maintenance costs,

Re: [MBZ] Could be interesting 2004 Mercedes Wagon E500 - $2, 500 (Columbia)

2021-02-24 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
The only issue I see is the salvage title, wonder what the deal is with that. - Max Charleston SC On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 11:35 AM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Guy says this is a 4M and is clean inside and out, has no other pics. I > might take a

Re: [MBZ] 2002 Mercedes Benz ML500 - $2,700 (OBO)

2021-02-24 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
And to elaborate, the drive train is, for the most part, pretty solid. They have issues with the chassis nannies relative to BAS/ABS and other such things, and the telematics, specifically the head unit, can be wonky, but they’re not too difficult to work on. If you want a solid cheap AWD

[MBZ] More rona

2021-02-24 Thread Rick Hawkins Java Letterpress Cycles Photon via Mercedes
Folks, We have had both doses of Pfizer Vaccine. Dose 2 was Thursday and I still feel pretty crappy... mostly just exhausted and achy I’m by Savannah Xx rick ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To

[MBZ] 4mat 4magic Mercedes R350 - $4,500 (JACKSONVILLE)

2021-02-24 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
Pine cones extra https://jacksonville.craigslist.org/cto/d/jacksonville-mercedes-r350/7282089883.html -- --FT ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] Price is firm - 2006 CLS500 73k miles - $10,500

2021-02-24 Thread Floyd Thursby via Mercedes
Considering E500s are going for much less than $10k this is a sorta crack price.  The lower miles is a plus but it is still a 15yo car at this point --FT On 2/24/21 3:05 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes wrote: https://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/cto/d/chicago-mercedes-benz-cls/7282085124.html

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes
True, but people have been infected twice despite their antibodies. There is talk about the efficacy of a single vaccination for those who have already had a mild case/tested positive. On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 3:10 PM Curt Raymond wrote: > More risk than the other way? There is always risk... >

Re: [MBZ] 2002 Mercedes Benz ML500 - $2,700 (OBO)

2021-02-24 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
They do, and they’re horribly inefficient as far as fuel consumption, too. On top of that, they’re a truck. Period. They drive and ride like a truck. They are not a “luxury SUV” by any sense of the term. -D > On Feb 24, 2021, at 3:15 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes > wrote: > > I am

Re: [MBZ] OT The next IT revolution: System Oriented Programming?

2021-02-24 Thread Allan Streib via Mercedes
Mostly BS by a guy trying to sell something. He's right about a few things, many modern systems are more complicated and bloated than they need to be -- precicsely because people buy into the sort of fad architectures that he himself is selling. Read "No Silver Bullet" essay by Fred Brooks.

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
I heard NC had it’s act together on administering the vaccine, so much so that people in southern VA were crossing state lines to get it in NC. Since the vaccine is a Federal effort, they can’t deny it to anyone based on their address, so people in southern VA who haven’t been able to get it

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
Oklahoma official line is 65+ or mitigating circumstances. I got my first one last Friday, second dose in mid March. I has very little soreness in the arm the two days after the shot, no other symptoms ( Pfizer ). On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 10:36 AM Floyd Thursby via Mercedes <

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
Here in OK their site says OK residents only and you will be turned away if out of state. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 24, 2021, at 6:31 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes > wrote: > > I heard NC had it’s act together on administering the vaccine, so much so > that people in southern VA were

Re: [MBZ] OT The next IT revolution: System Oriented Programming?

2021-02-24 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
MS was notorious for rather poor code, on the whole. Excel was their first best-in-class product, if I recall. It came along rather late. MS specialized in 'good enough', but quickly, and high priced. Get there first, don't (quite) get thrown out the door due to shoddy workmanship, and

Re: [MBZ] OT The next IT revolution: System Oriented Programming?

2021-02-24 Thread Peter Frederick via Mercedes
More to the point, it's too complicated to write much of anything in machine code anymore, due to the graphical interface, touch screen environment (plus all the bloatware). Software is orders of magnitude more complicated and difficult than hardware, and we are stuck for the foreseeable

Re: [MBZ] OT The next IT revolution: System Oriented Programming?

2021-02-24 Thread Peter Frederick via Mercedes
Silicon reached it's speed limit more than a decade ago, and multi-core processors are limited by the overhead of managing tasks -- at some point the time needed to distribute and collect the processing threads is more than running them consecutively. I have also come to the conclusion that

Re: [MBZ] OT The next IT revolution: System Oriented Programming?

2021-02-24 Thread Scott Ritchey via Mercedes
As I recall the story, a bastard-child division of IBM decided to produce the PC using CPM for the disk operating system. But the folks that owned CPM saw all those Big Blue dollar signs and got greedy. In the meantime, Bill Gates had observed a demonstration of a disk operating system (forgot

[MBZ] OT - battery capacity testing

2021-02-24 Thread OK Don via Mercedes
This from a review of this: http://www.westmountainradio.com/product_info.php?products_id=cba4 "The CBA does it's job. The only problem is with the defination of it's maximum power load. When I called them to get a better defination of the spec., I got a very rude and incomplete answer. I'd like

Re: [MBZ] OT The next IT revolution: System Oriented Programming?

2021-02-24 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
> As I recall the story, a bastard-child division of IBM decided to produce > the PC using CPM for the disk operating system. But the folks that owned > CPM saw all those Big Blue dollar signs and got greedy. The story is well-known. Gary Kildall (only owner of CP/M) thought the day was too

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Dan Penoff via Mercedes
https://www.wavy.com/covid-19-vaccine/virginians-are-traveling-to-north-carolina-for-covid-19-vaccinations-and-theyre-receiving-them/ -D > On Feb 24, 2021, at

Re: [MBZ] OT The next IT revolution: System Oriented Programming?

2021-02-24 Thread Peter Frederick via Mercedes
If you looked at the actual machine code all those many years ago when I was doing some piddly programming in C+, until it was optimized it was full of dead space filled with no-op opcodes (do nothing, skip to the next opcode) since the programming language set aside large amounts of data space

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Meade Dillon via Mercedes
Haven't heard from Clay in quite awhile, maybe the Rona (or a reaction to the vax) got him? - Max Charleston SC ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to:

Re: [MBZ] OT The next IT revolution: System Oriented Programming?

2021-02-24 Thread Jim Cathey via Mercedes
> The problem was that traditionally spending a bunch of time optimizing code > was wasted time because you could just wait for the hardware to get faster... They always said that, but you don't have to spend much time optimizing to get the 10x benefits. It's getting that last 10% out that

Re: [MBZ] OT The next IT revolution: System Oriented Programming?

2021-02-24 Thread Rick Knoble via Mercedes
>systems originally written for 8 bit processors (thank you Microsoft) >, if you remember the Millenium Bug scare (another product of Microsoft, by >the way, the issue was known in 1970 by the mainframe people and fixed), If nothing else, you now understand why I am sceptical of ANYTHING Bill

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Scott Ritchey via Mercedes
In NC, a few weeks after COVID shots were approved 65 and up I called the County Health Dept on a Monday and they scheduled me that Wednesday, very easy. Maybe I just timed it right? Got the first shot (Moderna) with no side effects except tenderness at injection site the next day, about like a

Re: [MBZ] Rona

2021-02-24 Thread Russ Williams via Mercedes
Both me and SWMBO got ours. Got the Mederna first shot in Jan and the second one two weeks ago Monday. Arm was a little stiff for a couple of days on the first one no soreness on the second one for me SWMBO had soreness for two days on both shots. Russ W On 2/24/2021 10:15, Kaleb Striplin

Re: [MBZ] OT The next IT revolution: System Oriented Programming?

2021-02-24 Thread Peter Frederick via Mercedes
Actually, what Gates bought was a technical reference clone of CPM (by Digital Research) modified to run on a 16 bit 8080 chip. Seattle Computing? Dont' remember the company, and I believe the guy who did the (illegal) clone is now dead. Flat-out copyright infringement that the Reagan

Re: [MBZ] OT The next IT revolution: System Oriented Programming?

2021-02-24 Thread G Mann via Mercedes
There is nothing wrong with Microsoft that a massive EMP strike could not fix in .0008 nano seconds. Perhaps, then it could be replaced with something that actually worked well and was not designed on bloated code that is based on work stolen, and then claimed as "new and better", but in

[MBZ] Somebody needs this

2021-02-24 Thread Kaleb Striplin via Mercedes
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