Member postings for Peter Greene

Yes - edited or complete post deleted... and worse, the complainer does this behind a cloak of anonymity instead of having the...er ... thingies .... to state his views in the forum in the usual way.

As blowlamp says ...

Edited By Peter Greene on 15/02/2021 22:22:45

I remember roughly what Bazyl originally wrote. So one person "felt upset" by it and the other 1067 (at current count) who've read the thread weren't apparently bothered significantly. You yourself believe it was meant figuratively - as was obvious to me and, I'm sure, the other 1067.

I'm curious: how do you decide in this instance to pander to the one person?

Not possible to comment without getting into politics/partisan issues which get censored here.

Edited By Peter Greene on 15/02/2021 16:04:52

Thinsulate is fine when used for its design purpose .... thin apparel such as "dressy" gloves. If you don't need that, there are much better ways (as discussed here).

I don't use Thinsulate in a Canadian Winter.

Edited By Peter Greene on 15/02/2021 01:33:45

Thanks for this gents. It gives me an overview for whenever they get around, here, to vaccinating a 78 year-old with several serious underlying health issues. Last I heard, August was being talked about. 

You guys are so lucky believe it or not.

Edited By Peter Greene on 15/02/2021 01:07:25

Sorry .... I've reposted my question to its own thread. Unfortunately the mood varies in these forums from on-topic extremism to "anything goes" so it's hard to tell sometimes. Generally, a minor amount of topic shift/looseness has been taken in good part over the years but ...

Since you guys seem to be way ahead of us in (Ontario) Canada, I have a question:

With the 2-part vaccinations, presumably you are fully protected (at least against the original strain) after the second shot. But what level of protection do you have after the first shot?

With people here checking out the RCM&E forum and many (presumably) creating new logons to do so, the owners of that site might conclude that their new look is having highly positive results!

+1 for the silk gloves (horse riders use them too). Especially used under mittens rather than gloves.

-1 for anything Thinsulate.

| Edit: __ please excuse the scruffy background, but this is what my arthritic finger joints look like ... getting on for twice the height they were:

So that's what you look like .... not a bit as I imagined!

Edited By Peter Greene on 14/02/2021 17:29:32

Since you guys seem to be way ahead of us in (Ontario) Canada, I have a question:

With the 2-part vaccinations, presumably you are fully protected (at least against the original strain) after the second shot. But what level of protection do you have after the first shot?

OK, Vic .... I, for one, get the message.

Bye.

Can't imagine they'll sell many of these then.

Edited By Peter Greene on 13/02/2021 23:06:33

No, of course not. Why would you give a pregnant woman Thalidomide knowing the problems? That doesn't mean it should be denied to others though. I just means that you control it to ensure that women of child-bearing age (not just pregnant women) neither take it nor handle it (unless wearing medical gloves).

Many still do. It does a sterling job of keeping their blood cancers under control.

Just as a follow-up to what I said earlier, John, I did a search for those earlier posts on the SCAYT topic and I think this quote from one of those threads about sums it up (and is why I accept the CTRL-key penalty):

"The problem with the online spell-checker (SCAYT) is that it keeps your added-word list as a cookie on your machine. If you ever lose that cookie (such as when you are trying to solve a computer problem and someone suggests that you - willy nilly - delete all your cookies ... ! ) you start again from scratch.

SCAYT isn't particularly good and the best way around this is to turn it off and use the built-in spell checker in your browser (which you can also setup for English language variations if such is your wont). Moreover, the added word list is now available globally for all sites you visit. The penalty for this is that you have to use the CTL-key (on this site or any others using SCAYT) when you click on a mis-spelled word. It appears that this is how you are set up."

The jaw positions are controlled by LH-thread and RH-thread leadscrews. As far as I can see, the positional/centring accuracy is determined wholly by the accuracy of those threads. Other accuracy/precision determinants (jaw-alignment; parallelism etc) would be as for any other vice I suppose.

Edited By Peter Greene on 13/02/2021 01:55:24

Presumably you get a reference centre instead of an edge which I, for one, would find useful in some circumstances. There are several ways to do any job. Everyone has their own preference(s) but it's usually worth keeping an open mind.

I've looked at self-centering vices and - like others I suppose - wondered just how accurate they are. It would be nice to have a feel for that.

Don't know if this ever got answered but I stumbled across it while reviewing the thread.

This came up years ago and iirc it depends whether you are using the spell checker provided by the forum message editor, SCAYT (in which case a simple right-click will do it) or whether you have that turned off and are using your browser's spell checker in which case ctrl-rightclick is needed.

I've always used, and prefer, the latter as it gives me a single dictionary (including my own additions) for everything here and elsewhere. I think the compromise is reasonable.

If you click on the editor icon above the message pane, you can turn SCAYT on or off.

(Note: I'm writing this from memory ... it was years ago this was discussed/explained .... the original posts should succumb to a search).

Did I miss something here? I had thought that this thread was just a a likes/dislikes thread about the current forum software .... essentially a continual topic around here.

Now it seems to have morphed into a discussion about the "new forum software" coming down the pipe. When did that get announced?

Why? ... No one, it seems, ever told Microsoft about their three tiny boxes up in the top right hand corner.