On Thu, 07 Sep 2017 07:19:58 -0700, Joerg
wrote:
On 2017-09-06 16:50, John B. wrote:
On Wed, 06 Sep 2017 11:44:02 -0700, Joerg
wrote:
On 2017-09-06 11:10, Doug Landau wrote:
On Monday, September 4, 2017 at 12:27:34 PM UTC-7, Joerg wrote:
On 2017-09-02 07:56, wrote:
On Saturday, September 2, 2017 at 7:49:34 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote:
On 2017-08-30 18:00, John B. wrote:
On Wed, 30 Aug 2017 10:41:49 -0700 (PDT),
wrote:
On Tuesday, August 29, 2017 at 3:31:55 PM UTC-7, Joerg
wrote:
On 2017-08-29 14:38, wrote:
On Tuesday, August 29, 2017 at 11:45:45 AM UTC-7,
Joerg wrote:
On 2017-08-29 09:42, sms wrote:
On 8/28/2017 3:59 PM, AMuzi wrote:
On 8/28/2017 4:28 PM, wrote:
On Monday, August 28, 2017 at 1:59:20 PM
UTC-7, Joerg wrote:
On 2017-08-28 13:43, sms wrote:
I replaced the chain that I broke on
Saturday with one I had in my garage that I
must have purchased five to ten years ago.
It has a connecting link and it says "Taya"
on it. It's for 6,7,8 gearing. It seems
okay, but I think that this is the first
time I've used a chain with a connecting
link since childhood. I looked up Taya and
it's a big Taiwanese chain manufacturer.
I still have a Sachs-Sedis 7-speed chain on
my road bike which I bought from a friend as
NOS, for $6 which was the old sticker price
(the sticker had already turned brownish). No
link, mounted with hammer and anvil as usual.
To my utter amazement it doesn't show any
measurable stretch after over 2000mi and
sometimes I really put the coals on because
of our hills. Even the old Wippermann chains
could not rival that. I am very religious
about chain cleaning and lube though.
The old 5-6-7 speed Sachs chains wore out
three days after the bike was junked.
The Sedis (later Sachs-Sedis) material and Delta
hardening process was not only exceptional but
unsurpassed down to today except for possibly
Record chains. That ended with SRAM.
You can still find some NOS (new old stock) of the
Sedisport 6/7 chains. About $25.
I saw a lot of them on EBay at that price range
stating "pre-owned" in the ad, meaning used and who
knows for how many miles or whether properly
maintained.
The topper I ever saw was "pre-owned" underwear.
Yikes.
What if they were pre-owned by Elizabeth Taylor?
It was men's underwear ...
What makes you think that Elizabeth Taylor didn't wear
men's underwear? She got pretty large near the end.
In a less humorousness vein, did you know that "back in the
day" runners used to wear women's panties?
I remember a cowboy on horseback telling us something similar
and it was a real manly John Wayne style guy. "Now I'll let you
in on a secret on how to avoid rashes from very long rides, but
don't ya tell your mama or anyone for that matter, ya hear?"
Speaking of manly - virtually every single star in Hollywood
after the mid-40's had been in the service and many of them
(often the guys that played bad guys) had silver stars and purple
hearts. Even Soupy Sales and Ernest Borgnine. The one exception
was, surprisingly, John Wayne, who volunteered three times but
they wouldn't let him in because of a bad back or something.
Today we have these guys playing heros that don't even know what
a hero is.
John Wayne could certainly play them right. On Sunday we saw
"Flying Tigers" for the umpteenth time.
What was one of his sayings? "Courage is being scared to death but
saddling up anyhow".
-- Regards, Joerg
http://www.analogconsultants.com/
Uhm... OTOH, we have him saying to a Viet Namese 6-y/o, at the end of
'the green berets': "You're what this is all about." Yea, rite.
Uh-huh.
He was right. If we hadn't lost that war the 6-year olds back then would
now not have to live under communism.
But what's wrong with living under communism?
For example this:
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/201...apters/vietnam
... Given Vietnam's history
since, say the 1850's, the average Vietnamese is probably as happy
under the present government as they were under previous regimes.
Having met a lot of Vietnamese people, including people where not all
relatives made it out, I do not think this is true. I also had relatives
who had to live in a former communist country. They would have been shot
if they had tried to leave. Nobody will ever tell me there is nothing
wrong with communism.
As a general statement, those who escaped from Vietnam were people
with a certain amount of money. Call them the middle class. Certainly
Thai pirates were active in robbing them and in cases where the
Vietnamese were subsequently rescued they all complained of being
robbed of money, and from personal knowledge an escape boat that
approached a drilling platform in Malaysian waters offered to pay for
food and water and a later boat that landed on Karimun Island in the
Java Sea offered to pay for food and water using gold.
But the so called middle class is a minority in Vietnam, The Boston
Consulting Group estimates that the "middle class" may include as much
as 1/3rd of the Vietnamese people by 2020.
It was the remainder, the "peasants" that I was referring to when I
said "the average". Perhaps I should change that to "the majority".
As for the blissful life under the U.S. supported "democratically
elected government, well religious freedom didn't really exist, to the
extent that Buddhist monks burned themselves in protest. Of course
that was right and proper for the Christians (some 6 million
Catholics) to persecute the heathen Buddhists ( some 12 million).
By the way, the number of "boat people" who escaped Vietnam and
arrived in a foreign country amounted to about 800,000, call it a
million and an additional 1,000,000 escaped by other means for a total
of 2,000,000 during the 20 year period from 1975 - 95. Or roughly
100,000 annually.
From a nation with an average population of about 61.5 million during
the same period.
--
Cheers,
John B.