On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:35:07 -0700, Jeff Liebermann
wrote:

On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 19:20:50 +0700, John B.
wrote:

You are getting into the realm of the Weight Weenies. The weight
everything and then drill holes in it crowd. Funny thing it was nearly
a religion and now they tell you that just because your wheels are
heavier then ever if they are streamlined they say they are better.

I'm just trying to deduce or guess why there are no CF bicycle lights.
I can get most everything else in CF but not lights. If the industry
can produce CF water bottle cages, helmets, and bicycle pumps, why not
lights?

I suspect it is that thing called "demand". Practically every bike I
see has a bottle cage on it and far less often do I see a light.

But I suspect that with a intensive SAFEYTY! program it might be
possible to change that.

I just bought a new phone, Samsung J2 with 6.0.1. I do not find the
latest Android to be that wonderful. they seem to have stream-lined it
to the point that you can't accomplish what you want to do.

We shall soon see. I've noticed some things missing but also some
useful stuff added. It's difficult to tell at this point if I have a
winner or a pile of bugs.

I usually backup my "contacts" list to my gmail account. With 6.0 I
can't figure out how that is done and if you disable the Facebook App
the phone stops working :-( When you try to turn it on it pops up a
warning "Facebook has stopped" and goes no further.

Ummm, try Google Takeout:
https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190
I just ran it and downloaded 123MBytes of compress whatever. It's a
bit on the large side because I have some Google music and videos
tossed into the mix. It seems to get everything. In the past, it
would show the size of each archive before downloading. Now, you have
to download before it offers any useful numbers. However, after
midnight, things never go smoothly. I forgot about takeout and didn't
run it before last nights upgrade. I lost all my downloaded maps. Oh
well.

It demonstrates the deterioration of modern America. Kids used to be
able to buy a "Chemistry Set" that contained enough stuff to make
nitro glycerin. Now you can't buy a telephone that you can control :-)

Well, there's some truth to that. When I took High Skool chemistry in
the early 1960's, there was everything needed to fabricate a small
bomb factory. I waited until college before actually doing that.
Today, students get colored liquids instead of chemicals, which are
useless for making anything really dangerous. Learn By Destroying is
a thing of the past.

Calcium Carbide is also quite useful as a fishing tool. A screw top
bottle or can, a bit of calcium carbide and a rock. Put the rock and
the carbide in the bottle/can, add the cap, after punching a tiny nail
hole in it, and drop in the lake. After a few minutes fish will start
to float by. Belly up.

Hint: I still carry an old LG VX8300 dumb cell phone for making phone
calls. The battery lasts several days. It's totally reliable and has
much better range than my various smartphones. The smartphone acts as
a PDA (personal digital accomplice) where the phone section is not
activated. 5 cents per minute (about $15/month) for the voice only
plan. Cheep.

We have a "pre-paid" option here where you buy a prepaid sim card
which can then be "topped up" when the money runs out. For a call only
system it is much cheaper than any "plan". Calls are in the 1 - 2
baht/minute ( say 3 - 5 cents).

Years ago I, when I bought my first "hand phone" I had a plan and
every month made my ritual visit to the phone office to pay my bill.
Sometime later my wife decided that if I had a phone she should have a
phone also so I bought her a phone "just like mine", but being a
cautious chap I didn't enter into any contract agreement for her
phone, I just bought a prepaid sim and some top up cards.

At the end of the month it became painfully obvious that although she
talked a lot more than I did that her "bill" was noticeably cheaper
than mine :-(

When I went to the phone company and cancelled my account the nice
young lady there asked me if I minded telling her why I wanted to
cancel my account and I related my little story. She smiled and
replied, "Yes, some people do notice"

Currently I am looking for a small talk only phone. I can buy a brand
new phone for about $20 but I really want one of the tiny phones like
Nokia used to sell. Remember when phones used to be advertised as
small and petite?

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Cheers,

John B.