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pantone159

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  1. What is UCS? I cannot figure out what that acronym means.
  2. Turn those things all off. I would fly to Hawaii just to throw my phone into a pool of lava if I could not control the notifications and pings.
  3. Originally, these gold coins (both the Mexico 2 and 2.5 pesos, and also many other world coins) were issued for normal circulation, back when gold was still money. These got different dates each year like other coins. Later, the government decided to make more of these as bullion, meaning they were sold for their gold content (which was a lot more than face value) but these were no longer used as money. The restrikes were typically all one year, 1945 I think in this case. So these restrikes are genuine gold, the same as the originals, but they were never really money. I am (slowly) working on a set of each type of Mexican coin that circulated as money (a 'type set'). For this for me, the restrikes do not count, but the originals do. If all you care about is the gold (true for most people), there is no reason to avoid the restrikes.
  4. https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/comment/12857058#Comment_12857058 You mean like this??? I am starting to look for one of the dos pesos as well, though I will insist on one of the circulating ones (not the 1945 dated restrikes). I'm willing to pay a little more for the circulating version, but last I looked the best price I found was $200 so I will wait. I'm game for the 2.5 as well, same deal, no restrikes, not to much north of spot.
  5. I thought the Norris Geyser Basin in YNP was really cool, very unworldly looking terrain. That is not too far south of Gardiner. The Mammoth Hot Springs area is even closer to where you will be. I did not get into that as much as the Norris area, but part of that is I was tired by that point. A little farther south of Norris is the Artists Paintpots trail, which I thought was cool, a bit low-key, but the 'paintpots' are cool. Farther south than this is Great Prismatic Spring, which is also very cool, and very crowded. The best views are supposedly from above, but all the places with higher-up views were closed when I was there, so I just had the standard views from down low. To appreciate the thermal features in Yellowstone, you really need to see them in person, and see/hear/smell all the gurgling and splashing, which makes them feel alive. Photos do not capture that. And for checking out thermal pools, make sure you have polarized sunglasses, so you can see down into the depths better.
  6. Wait until BIL gets married off to some gay douchebag French trapper living out in the wilderness, who speaks no English at all. That yankee nonsense won't bother our modern-day Charbonneau much.
  7. Maybe see if he gets kidnapped like Sacagawea did.
  8. Nile crocodiles as well.
  9. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep...
  10. I think I made a PIN for mine somehow. I forget the details, but I did end up using at Spec's and the ATM, and both of those would have asked for a PIN.
  11. That is how my 2020 stimulus payment was sent. Shady-looking prepaid debit card. I don't think that I ever logged into that website.
  12. tl;dr;strangely specific,... Sure, you can be under investigation and extorted at the same time. But from what I read (not everything) it sounds like the 'extorters' weren't threatening to publicize anything, they just said they could make it go away for $$$. And they would have just taken the $$$ of course. I call that 'fraud' not 'extortion'.
  13. It seems like this is kind of a Why Not Both? situation. Matt was being investigated, and somebody else found out and tried to hit up Matt's dad for money. Though 'attempted con' seems a much better description than 'extortion'.
  14. Actually the book was pretty cringey as well. Not quite in the same way, thankfully.
  15. I just realized that this is the An-124 and not the gigantic An-225. Still cool, but not quite as epic.
  16. Sitting in the cockpit, that is pretty cool. I wish I had seen that airplane. Does anybody know what it was bringing to (or taking from) Austin?
  17. Yes, it sounds like that.
  18. I doubt that the plants would be idle for years at a time. It sounds weird to talk about generating plants that are normally not used, but if they are normally used then they are not really surplus capacity. Ideally, I think, there would be a pretty liberal use of special conditions where ERCOT calls up these plants, so they can at least keep things in working order. And I would presume that BH wants to be able to spool up in minutes and sell electricity if the price goes to $8K again.
  19. I do not think that there is ANY evidence that this virus was not naturally occurring. And in any case, that would have nothing to do with whether it could be eradicated completely.
  20. A new analysis suggests that 'Ouamuamua is a chunk of nitrogen ice that had been knocked off some extra-solar Pluto-like planet, and ended up our way. https://phys.org/news/2021-03-scientists-extra-solar-oumuamua.html
  21. I see my avatar, not yours. I think we all get our own donor emails!!!
  22. Yes please. That is the one thing about current office culture that needs to die a horrible permanent death.
  23. Needs a current inspection...
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