I hear you!
There are times that I have to question weather or not all new technology is an advancement
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I hear you!
There are times that I have to question weather or not all new technology is an advancement
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Still using my Samsung S4. Nurse Paula wants to upgrade to the S9 so I'll take her S7 when she does. not in any hurry though. Only advantage I can tell is a better camera.
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The last one was in 1894 when Rudolf Diesel was the first person to ever hear that wonderful symphony of sound from his creation...Originally Posted by Dave Grubb
There are times that I have to question weather or not all new technology is an advancement...Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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Very cool----I'm not sure I ever saw that before!
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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That was his second prototype, and the first one that ever actually ran on its own...Here is the first practical, fully functional one from 1896......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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That appears to be in a museum in Munich---one I don't recall visiting---but I will be in Munich in May and with luck have time to change thatThat was his second prototype, and the first one that ever actually ran on its own...Here is the first practical, fully functional one from 1896...
Until a few years ago when I sold it, I had a Fairbanks Morse single cylinder vertical diesel that started with a 12 ga shotgun shell
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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Kind of like the old War Birds......
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BTW Ben---has anyone ever mentioned to you that you have a striking similarity in appearance to Rudolf Diesel?
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
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