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Jul 21, 2010 2:15 PM by Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

Is the ability to delete images from one's own gallery gone forever?

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delete an image

Jun 15, 2010 2:30 PM by Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

Call me slow, but I can not figure out how to delete and image form the gallery that is no longer desired.  Anyone?

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Jun 30, 2009 3:07 PM by Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

For user of Firefox, the latest version has been released.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/about/whatismozilla.html

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Jun 5, 2009 3:25 PM by Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

INTERESTING HISTORY LESSON

Railroad tracks. This is fascinating.


The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number.

Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England , and English expatriates built the US railroads. 

Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.

Why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.

Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in E ngland , because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts. 

So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (and England ) for their legions. The roads have been used ever since.

And the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels.. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome , they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever.

So the next time you are handed a specification/procedure/process and wonder 'What horse's ass came up with it?', you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horse's asses.) Now, the twist to the story:

When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRB's. The SRB's are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah . The engineers who designed the SRB's would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRB's h ad to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRB's had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is sli ghtly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds. 

So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass. And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important? Ancient horse's asses control almost everything... and CURRENT Horses Asses are controlling everything else.

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May 2, 2009 4:00 PM by Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

It seems to me that for the past several months, this site limps through the week and pretty much collapses every weekend.  Yep, I know of the new version is being worked on but that is a tired excuse.  With poor ID in FLA and Jafo on the other side of the planet how much can they be expected to fix? I never see other folks acknowledging the issue or responding the way Zoomba or Andrew used to do.  Maybe its just me!

 

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Jan 13, 2009 11:39 AM by Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

I have over subscribed again.  There is no excitement however, more of an old habit thing.  Why would I want a subscription anyway?  The best skins cost addition money vis-a-vis the Masters Program (which I support).  As for the rest of the skins ,there are some some excellent ones by some of the yet to be master skinners, but frankly, if you have been subscribed to the site for years, you have only the very newest ones to select from and the high quality ones are few and far between in my view unless you are an aero clone fan (nothing wrong with that if that is your taste).  So if I find 10 "free" skins during the year that I want to run for a while and thus download, I consisder myself lucky.  But I have paid $30 to do that and that makes them cost $3.00 each anyway.  There is simply not enough new high quality content being produced that I can't get elsewhere to make the numbers work for me as a motivation to subscribe.  But I subscribe out of habit.  How about you?

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Remember the bailout?

Nov 6, 2008 9:59 PM by Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

For those following the great $700B bailout plan, it would appear that we have been had again.  First, Paulson was going to buy "toxic assets from the banks.  That was changed to a plan to give loans to the banks with oversite and strings attached.  None of that happened.  What did happen was the government simply bought non-voting shares of stock in the banks and the banks are free to do with the cash whatever they wish.  There are no strings attached, not even a requirement to begin lending again.  Ergo, Fannie Mae will be using part of the funds to retain defense attorneys for the very executives that created the problem in the first place.  Not only are we giving them these funds without strings or oversite, we are now paying the defense fees of the executives.  It would appear that we have been had again.

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Sep 24, 2008 1:49 PM by Discussion: Community

I just figured it all out!  God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

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Sep 18, 2008 8:54 AM by Discussion: WinCustomize Talk

I can't find where one is now supposed to post site issues.  Where is it and why so hard to find?  My personal WC site seems to have vanished when I try to access it from the top right menu bar on the main page.

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Aug 5, 2008 5:51 PM by Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
Seems the ads are again appearing throughout the forums, at least pour moi!


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