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bd139 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 11:48 pm Also to note, you are now no longer likely to be victim of the "Virgin cabinet left open and now used as a tramp urinal" problem

tggzzz wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 1:22 am

bd139 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 11:48 pm Also to note, you are now no longer likely to be victim of the "Virgin cabinet left open and now used as a tramp urinal" problem

We don't have tramps around here. But we don't need them since there are plenty of dogs on the way to a walk in the park.

Robert wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 8:42 am Anyway back to TEA. I got this little beauty for work.
RS-RTC1002-scope.jpg

It's a bit like a updated HP 54622D, one of my favorites. Seems pretty good. Very small but it's in a tiny "workshop" in what is mainly a "showpiece" new office. No tatty boat anchors there.

Specmaster wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 11:14 pmincluded was 2 digital cordless phones that use the internet connection and these phones can do some pretty clever things,

Specmaster wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 11:14 pmi
The downside and there is one, if you have an alarm system, or a monitoring system for elderly folk, these might work on the digital system, especially in the case of a power cut, so emergency services cannot be contacted, you will need to work around those events by other means.

Specmaster wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 11:14 pm Speed is being optimised and the service takes around a week for the equipment to find the optimum setting for the line, so more on actual speeds later, but for now its seems to around 450MBps download and 50MBps upload, considerable improvement over the Virgin media speeds I was getting.

bitseeker wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 6:14 am

Robert wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 8:42 am Anyway back to TEA. I got this little beauty for work.
RS-RTC1002-scope.jpg

It's a bit like a updated HP 54622D, one of my favorites. Seems pretty good. Very small but it's in a tiny "workshop" in what is mainly a "showpiece" new office. No tatty boat anchors there.

Wait a second. Yes, it's cute, but despite having only two channels, they still went for combined vertical controls? I can think of a few reasons it ended up that way, but the Mint Mobile commercials come to mind: "that's not right."

MED6753 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 3:08 am

tggzzz wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 1:22 am

bd139 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 11:48 pm Also to note, you are now no longer likely to be victim of the "Virgin cabinet left open and now used as a tramp urinal" problem

We don't have tramps around here. But we don't need them since there are plenty of dogs on the way to a walk in the park.

Fenton?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GRSbr0EYYU

MED6753 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 11:56 am White Tailed Deer are a pest here. Last weekend we went back to "standard time" which means it gets dark much earlier with still a significant amount of traffic on the roads driving in the dark. This just so happens to occur right during the rutting season for the deer which means they go from stupid to outright insane. The amount of car/deer accidents has increased exponentially and probably will continue that way until the end of the month. For some strange reason the deer instincts do not see a vehicle as a threat and sometimes will even stand in the middle of a road and not move unless you blast the horn. But if they see a human from 25 yards away they run like hell.

Specmaster wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 1:00 pm

MED6753 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 11:56 am White Tailed Deer are a pest here. Last weekend we went back to "standard time" which means it gets dark much earlier with still a significant amount of traffic on the roads driving in the dark. This just so happens to occur right during the rutting season for the deer which means they go from stupid to outright insane. The amount of car/deer accidents has increased exponentially and probably will continue that way until the end of the month. For some strange reason the deer instincts do not see a vehicle as a threat and sometimes will even stand in the middle of a road and not move unless you blast the horn. But if they see a human from 25 yards away they run like hell.

There is maybe a perfectly logical reason why they are scared of humans, they have learned over the years that over in your country many humans are armed with guns and may seek a venison steak for dinner, so they vote with their feet and run like bleeding hell

MED6753 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 1:21 pm Actually the problem is that there are no longer ENOUGH hunters to keep the deer population under control as well as natural predators although slowly the coyotes are increasing. And then you have the animal rights groups. Recently a local college had an over population of deer on their farm so they hired professionals and with the state's permission to do a cull. Of course the animal rights group took them to court...and lost.

Cerebus wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 1:59 pm

MED6753 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 1:21 pm Actually the problem is that there are no longer ENOUGH hunters to keep the deer population under control as well as natural predators although slowly the coyotes are increasing. And then you have the animal rights groups. Recently a local college had an over population of deer on their farm so they hired professionals and with the state's permission to do a cull. Of course the animal rights group took them to court...and lost.

I think if you asked the deer whether they'd prefer a completely natural world, where you get to either be chased down by wolves, or watch your fawns chased down by wolves, to an artificial one where adult deer get taken out quickly and cleanly by a single round of .338 I think I know which option the deer would take.

I too like fluffy animals, but in a world where all the top predators have been themselves predated by humans then as the new top predator we have to take on the role of keeping the ecosystem in balance. (Which, obviously, we're terrible at doing. There's nothing worse for an ecosystem than an infestation of humans.) The fluffy bunny brigade have to accept that it's a simple choice between a few people with rifles or reintroducing enough wolves, coyotes, or whatever the local natural predator is, to recreate balance. I bet they'd bitch like hell if there were enough wolves to do the job who occasionally snacked on the odd small child as well as lots of fawns.

MED6753 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 3:08 am

tggzzz wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 1:22 am

bd139 wrote: ↑Thu Nov 10, 2022 11:48 pm Also to note, you are now no longer likely to be victim of the "Virgin cabinet left open and now used as a tramp urinal" problem

We don't have tramps around here. But we don't need them since there are plenty of dogs on the way to a walk in the park.

Fenton?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GRSbr0EYYU

Cerebus wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 1:59 pm

MED6753 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 1:21 pm Actually the problem is that there are no longer ENOUGH hunters to keep the deer population under control as well as natural predators although slowly the coyotes are increasing. And then you have the animal rights groups. Recently a local college had an over population of deer on their farm so they hired professionals and with the state's permission to do a cull. Of course the animal rights group took them to court...and lost.

I think if you asked the deer whether they'd prefer a completely natural world, where you get to either be chased down by wolves, or watch your fawns chased down by wolves, to an artificial one where adult deer get taken out quickly and cleanly by a single round of .338 I think I know which option the deer would take.

I too like fluffy animals, but in a world where all the top predators have been themselves predated by humans then as the new top predator we have to take on the role of keeping the ecosystem in balance. (Which, obviously, we're terrible at doing. There's nothing worse for an ecosystem than an infestation of humans.) The fluffy bunny brigade have to accept that it's a simple choice between a few people with rifles or reintroducing enough wolves, coyotes, or whatever the local natural predator is, to recreate balance. I bet they'd bitch like hell if there were enough wolves to do the job who occasionally snacked on the odd small child as well as lots of fawns.

Specmaster wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 12:06 am While that may be true, I have yet to see any such goings-on happening around here, that does seem to be more of a London problem, mind you I also said a few years back that shootings, stabbings and murder was more of a London problem. Sadly that is now not the case, we have had more than our fair share of these, including a particularly brutal murder just 14 doors away from me and another outside the pub where I used to hold the monthly electrical circle meetings a few years ago. So much for the so-called party of law and order, under their watch things have got steadily far worse than ever.

Cerebus wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 1:59 pm

MED6753 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 1:21 pm Actually the problem is that there are no longer ENOUGH hunters to keep the deer population under control as well as natural predators although slowly the coyotes are increasing. And then you have the animal rights groups. Recently a local college had an over population of deer on their farm so they hired professionals and with the state's permission to do a cull. Of course the animal rights group took them to court...and lost.

I think if you asked the deer whether they'd prefer a completely natural world, where you get to either be chased down by wolves, or watch your fawns chased down by wolves, to an artificial one where adult deer get taken out quickly and cleanly by a single round of .338 I think I know which option the deer would take.

I too like fluffy animals, but in a world where all the top predators have been themselves predated by humans then as the new top predator we have to take on the role of keeping the ecosystem in balance. (Which, obviously, we're terrible at doing. There's nothing worse for an ecosystem than an infestation of humans.) The fluffy bunny brigade have to accept that it's a simple choice between a few people with rifles or reintroducing enough wolves, coyotes, or whatever the local natural predator is, to recreate balance. I bet they'd bitch like hell if there were enough wolves to do the job who occasionally snacked on the odd small child as well as lots of fawns.

Specmaster wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 2:11 pm And to think that all I was doing was trying to make a joke out of why the deer run when confronted with a human and yet don't see a car as threat, jeez, it beggars belief. I total agree that sometimes they need to be culled to maintain balance.

Cerebus wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 1:59 pm

MED6753 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 1:21 pm Actually the problem is that there are no longer ENOUGH hunters to keep the deer population under control as well as natural predators although slowly the coyotes are increasing. And then you have the animal rights groups. Recently a local college had an over population of deer on their farm so they hired professionals and with the state's permission to do a cull. Of course the animal rights group took them to court...and lost.

I think if you asked the deer whether they'd prefer a completely natural world, where you get to either be chased down by wolves, or watch your fawns chased down by wolves, to an artificial one where adult deer get taken out quickly and cleanly by a single round of .338 I think I know which option the deer would take.

I too like fluffy animals, but in a world where all the top predators have been themselves predated by humans then as the new top predator we have to take on the role of keeping the ecosystem in balance. (Which, obviously, we're terrible at doing. There's nothing worse for an ecosystem than an infestation of humans.) The fluffy bunny brigade have to accept that it's a simple choice between a few people with rifles or reintroducing enough wolves, coyotes, or whatever the local natural predator is, to recreate balance. I bet they'd bitch like hell if there were enough wolves to do the job who occasionally snacked on the odd small child as well as lots of fawns.

bd139 wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 2:12 pm I'd be quite happy to let wolves snack on the feral shits around here.

Population control isn't popular when you apply it to humans though.

Zenith wrote: ↑Fri Nov 11, 2022 2:34 pm I believe a large part of what deer hunting about, is stalking them to within say 75 yards, to be completely confident of placing a shot in a vital area. Bringing one down at 1,000 yards with a .300 Weatherby magnum, would not win the ghillie's approval.