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So who here is taking off work to watch the eclipse? (In North America, that is)
I've had the day off scheduled about 4 weeks in advance, and I'm going to be gathering with my astronomy club at a National Park Service event in NJ. We'll all have our telescopes and solar binoculars ready to go. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I envy you your chance to see a Solar eclipse. No such eclipses are predicted for Israel for the next few hundred years 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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We're a bit luckier. Next total solar eclipse will be in year 2135 here. Mere 118 years to go. 
!false - It's funny, because it's true
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: So who here is taking off work to watch the eclipse?
I'm going to be taking a couple pieces of paper off the copy machine and a paper clip and make a pinhole camera. Won't have totality up here in Albany though.
Marc
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I've seen an 80+% eclipse in Israel, but I'm told that the difference between it and a total eclipse is like the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: is like the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
So I've heard too. I haven't gone eclipse chasing, and the one time I had a chance to see one, it was overcast.
Marc
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Pinhole camera view -> WOW! I did that when I was a kid when the last one (incompletely) rolled in.
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They are really freaky.
In 30 seconds it goes dark, and cold, and the birds think it is dusk and start squaking.
It is a very surreal experience, worth doing! 
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I'll be at my neighborhood pool swimming . I'm well north of Atlanta, and we'll be at 95+% eclipse level - good enough for me.
Regrets: should have bought up solar eclipse glasses, could easily turn a 300% profit right now.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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May you have clear skies!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Thanks, looks like 89F and clear skies.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Work in Charlotte, NC - maybe 80 north of Columba, SC where it will be total.
Where I live, we will have about a 98% coverage, so my wife and daughter will be meeting up with friends to watch it.
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I'm not near the total eclipse but was excited to view the partial. Even got my eclipse glasses. And now...clouds.
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On the way can they drop farcebook back to the asylum?
Sin tack
the any key okay
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Why don't we begin with making Win 10 an offer that one finally can refuse?
The user can't update the up: we update it for them (Choice in the CP poll)
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There are many things in Windows 10 that I hate, but it is still the default for most businesses. Linux offerings may be free, but they are also more difficult for the typical user (not us )
Microsoft may be the company that everyone loves to hate, but it, not Linus Torvalds, is the one that made computers accessible to the masses.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Microsoft may be the company that everyone loves to hate, but it, not Linus Torvalds, is the one that made computers accessible to the masses
...and Phillip Morris made cigarettes available to the masses
signature upgrading ... please wait.
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Lopatir wrote: ...and Phillip Morris made cigarettes available to the masses
You make that sound like a bad thing 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Unless you consider Microsoft's products to be as damaging to Human health as cigarettes are, that's one hell of a nonsequitur!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I've been using BetterNet - when out of the USA, since some websites I access, including the one for my credit card that is touted as being a "global card" (at least it doesn't charge a currency exchange fee)  - but now that it has been revealed to be hacked, I would like to use another one, so I am interested in any opinions. I know that this website is very global, so certainly folks here should be in the know on this.
Here is the article about BetterNet being hacked. Interesting, I have not noticed any rogue ads except when I am watching pirate sports channels.
If you have Betternet installed... Uninstall it immediately - Programs, Apps and Websites - Linus Tech Tips[^]
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is your data valuable? some things are worth paying for.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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There are pirate sports? Things like saying Arrrr really convincingly?
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