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One other Chrome thing. It gets very annoyed if you have too many tabs open at once.

I noticed it was pancreatic - like RBG, Steve Jobs and Patrick Swayze amongst many other people I've known. A surprisingly common cancer that hits people in their 50's. Along with primary brain cancer and a number of other lesser-known but common problems. A very unpleasant illness. May his relatives have a long life.

Thanks, I'll write a stern letter to Apple. It's probably because I get the poodles to do the clicking and they aren't very good at it on account of not having opposable thumbs.

Given that many other people are using Chrome and aren't having this problem, and given that the current Windows browser is also Chrome-based, it is more likely that the problem is due to something at your end. Possibilities include: Your service provider Your computer Your network Your plan Try using speedtest.net to test the quality of your service. Mine is Ping 12 Upload 89.54, Download 4.29. Which is fine. Try checking for updates on your computer/phone/tablet Try going for a walk Try asking a teenage girl (girls are better than boys in my experience) Try incognito/private mode. Try turning off then on again and waiting 20 minutes and then get coffee. Come back if none of that works.

Leopards, spots...

Yes, Richard. Super clever.

I don't think that they do it for fun, I think they are deadly serious. Here is a link to a document from Baylor college. A Christian University. They assert inter alia that: "How God sustains the American Dream Paul Froese and Scott Draper Most Americans believe that God has a plan for them. This is not so surprising given the number of Americanswho believe in God. Still, Americans who believe strongly that God has a plan for them look very different fromthe rest of Americans, both demographically and attitudinally. Their belief in God’s plan mitigates how we expectdemographics and attitudes to correlate." This was the start of the first article in a 68 page document.

And, just in case you were not certain that there really wasn't an organised group of people that are as silly as wheels, here is a link to the 2014 abstracts of the USA parapsychology society. Learn about how to distinguish dead people from living people by looking at them.

Mind you, the freelance Journalist's report that you cite was interesting. Here is a link to the original research which is even more fascinating. I agree with the point. The cupidity of the general population is astonishing. https://www.essentialvision.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Essential-Report_260917.pdf The inability of people to tolerate any ambiguity of meaning is a major problem.

Well, I won't discuss it with supreme beings such as yourself. Obviously, you take your advice from Paula White - here watch this video it'll appeal to you.

When I retired I stopped characterising. So I won't. The fact that people other than Americans believe things that Americans believe has no effect on the point. My father was once asked to see a patient. The resident told him that he had a very strange and complex delusion. My father saw the man and listened carefully to his story. When he had finished talking my father asked him if he knew anyone else that believed the same thing. The man replied, "yes, there's a group of us that meet in a building at the end of the street on Sundays". My training in bullshit detection started before I could talk.

It just astonishes me that less 5% of Americans will deny the existence of God. Does this mean that when they are making a plan at trick 1 what they are doing is praying that their finesses will work? That would explain why I've started to get better results in ACBL tournaments compared to BBO or Australian tournaments.

Here is a link to some Research by the unfortunately named Pew Center No doubt many of you have seen this stuff before, but what does it mean? I have been running for public office since I was 14. I ran for state parliament as a Labor candidate and I know and have discussed the significance of internal party polling with candidates Journalists, Party leaders, etc. I learned a few things along the way. Fact: the only time you can trust someone is when they look you in the eye and tell you they are NOT going to vote for you. Everything else is BS. Fact, only internal party polls are accurate and you don't get to see them. Fact scrutineers (poll-watchers) reports are the most accurate on election night. A most important fact. There are some things that people are concerned about, but there are some things that they will 100% change their vote for no matter that the candidate has three heads and speaks Aramaic. Abortion is one of them, Money is another, and in the USA it seems that guns and socialism are a third. Although Biden is going to win, America lost. The Democrats lost seats in Congress they failed to pick up seats in the Senate. Graham, McConnell and Collins are still there. Trump garnered more votes than any other candidate in history (apart from Biden). Had it not been for the coronavirus I do not think Biden+Harris would be where they are now. Biden is 78 years - good luck to him. Trump just played golf, tweeted, watched TV and intoned the delusional rantings of Stephen Miller via the teleprompter. Trump claims to have read one book - "All quiet on the western front" - the evidence that he actually read it is very slim. Well, it isn't going to be quiet on the Western front for a long time. Tighten your seat-belts - it's going to be a bumpy ride.

Can you be a little more specific please? I'm having no problems today, although I have had problems accessing movies on the myhands database for about a week.

Those of you old not old enough to recall John Cleese as Basil Fawlty 'serving' German Guests will need to watch this first. German humour as my Father always said, is no laughing matter. There is a policy on BBO, and apparently throughout America that it is inappropriate to discuss politics. Or anything else interesting either. Well, I'm sick of it. I'm sorry that 20% of Americans believe that aliens (and I'm not talking about Mexicans) live on the planet Earth. I'm sorry that 45% of Americans do not deny the existence of ghosts. And I'm really sorry that the ridiculous idea of the existence of God and the denial of climate change and science, in general, is so important to enough Americans that they're willing to vote for Trump and his idiot Family. And tolerate the murder of ordinary citizens (mainly black) by trigger-happy poorly trained returned servicemen and women. But, I'm not allowed to talk about it in a polite conversation because they might get offended. Well, bad luck partner. I've had enough.

Probably... edit...wait, let's discuss it

What you seem to be saying with this commentary is that America is country that is a complete and utter disaster, but at least one can drive from one city to another and the restaurants still serve food. That is not what I call success.

One could almost imagine that there was a deliberate strategy amongst Republican party stalwarts (thinking the Lincoln project) to organise to ditch Trump for Biden so that the 'Republican base' could happily return a conservative house. A similar approach is used in campaigns in Australia when Labor (that's how we spell it) looks like gaining office. The conservatives (called the liberals in Australia) convince everyone that it's a good idea to vote liberal in the senate so that someone can 'keep the bastards honest' (1). Naturally, as you have seen in the USA, this simply the means that nothing useful gets done at all. (1) 'Keep the Bastards' honest was a genuine election slogan for the Australian Democrats. A modestly successful party in Australia in the 1970's and the forerunner of the Greens. Australia has compulsory preferential voting and a federal electoral commission independent of government so the nonsense that we are seeing in the USA is not likely to happen here. In other words, an actual democracy.

Did you have a particular example in mind that led to this discussion?

By a strange coincidence, the French gave the Americans the statue of liberty as a gift: Its framework is - wait for it - iron. Bastille day is on the 14th of July. Exactly one month after Trump's birthday on 14th of June. Obviously, the solution is to take some of the iron from Lady Liberty, ....

I'm voting for Elba - let's start a fund-raiser!

It was Oswald Jacoby who walked out as South when the siren went off to indicate that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbour. He joined Naval intelligence and made outstanding contributions to cryptography. This hand was 'posted' by Truscott in the NY Post which prints all the news that's fit to print. So as I said, the intelligent man transferred himself after the preemptive attack.

They haven't stopped fighting the first civil war yet. That's what this current stupidity is all about. The so-called red states are the antebellum slave-owning Southern states still hoping for a return to .Even Southern California sent Confederate soldiers to war. This election seems to have proven what an unsophisticated poorly developed infantile political system the Americans have. The persistent and entrenched concept that being sociable and fair, being altruistic and empathetic is exactly equivalent to becoming a Stalinist state is so entrenched in the minds of even so-called liberal-minded Americans that there is no hope for near-term improvement. Like the Oil barons in the middle east and the chinless wonders that rule Britain, they have been spoiled rotten by vast wealth. Not having to be concerned about starvation because a cornucopia around them led to sloth. Now, these chickens are coming home to roost. In the UK, ordinary people aren't permitted to own property, they buy long leases and gaze in wide wonder at gormless cucumber sandwich eaters that talk to plants. Governments can be rated on a scale ranging from none (0) through medieval to warlord to authoritarian and so on all the way up to sophisticated egalitarian and well-organised fair societies where all citizens care for each other (100). The same sort of scale applies to Bridge players as a helpful comparator. In terms of wealth, America is a Zia. In terms of international standing, it's a mere novice, politically, as of today, it's not even a pilowsky.

I think his Village must be in lockdown and he can't get back into it so we have to put up with him ranting here a while longer.