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MaxHeadRoom
- Joined Jul 18, 2013
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Signs of the future.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/worlds-first-airport-flying-cars-23396771
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/worlds-first-airport-flying-cars-23396771
Thought for the day...
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DickCappels
- Joined Aug 21, 2008
- 10,661
The zero carbon airports for flying cars will get their power from...coal?
MaxHeadRoom
- Joined Jul 18, 2013
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Well, Duh yeah!
MaxHeadRoom
- Joined Jul 18, 2013
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When you just cannot figure out those darn Ikea instructions! 
justtrying
- Joined Mar 9, 2011
- 439
We are in the process of flooding farm land to expand hydro generating capacity in order to provide power for non existent LNG plants!
Delta Prime
- Joined Nov 15, 2019
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Thought for the day...
The only gracious way to accept and insult is to ignore it;if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it,it's probably deserved.
The only gracious way to accept and insult is to ignore it;if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it,it's probably deserved.
I don't know what the answer is. Here, the county deputies will give them a free ride to the county line. Not that that is the answer. Traveling by Amtrak from Seattle to Sacramento I saw a lot of that. Don't know what it is about the West Coast but it seems to be a magnet for them. They call it the "Other side of the tracks" for a reason and traveling by rail you see some of the worst. As a kid and before public housing, there were a lot of folks living in cardboard boxes on "the other side of town" but that disappeared when they built HUD housing. Even so, there are a lot of folks who just don't want to be helped for one reason or another.
djsfantasi
- Joined Apr 11, 2010
- 9,237
What? HUD housing alleviated the problem? I can’t believe that a socialist program helped American citizens. Just like the Interstate highway system helped businesses. Socialism is bad and leads to Communism, which is worse.
Delta Prime
- Joined Nov 15, 2019
- 1,311
Thought for the day...
It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.
It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.
justtrying
- Joined Mar 9, 2011
- 439
When society gets too large, everyone is painted with same color... Individual approach is not possible as systems tend to reward a specific type of individual. As a whole this eventually leads to collapse, as happened before us and as we are witnessing now.
I quite liked this movie - https://www.npr.org/2018/06/29/624649490/leave-no-trace-follows-a-father-and-daughter-off-the-grid
You dont have to have PTSD to not want to be involved in today's society...
Delta Prime
- Joined Nov 15, 2019
- 1,311
Thought for the day...
Experience: What causes a person to make new mistakes instead of the same old ones.
Experience: What causes a person to make new mistakes instead of the same old ones.
Shifu meaning both Master and Father. My experience in Kung Fu gave me a large lesson that we don’t have to learn by mistake but rather if we are willing to put the work in, we can come close to perfection. Doing things my way I thought I was close enough until during sparing, called Sticky Hands, is up close either trapping arms or opening up your opponents rib cage for a close strike, hands only, but if you fight Mu Tie they are very good at using brute force raising their knee up into an opponents lower rib cage can be difficult, they put both hands on the opponents shoulders and thrust up into the rib cage breaking ribs, which now your opponent can’t raise his hands without pain.
Doing things my way, as I said when sparing with my Shifu he repeatedly would strike my rib cage open handed to not break my ribs but take my breath, the only way to stop a hand strike was to keep your elbow down while protecting my center line it’s almost not natural hard to hold. However, with enough practice I learned, instruction with experience, now gained I spared with my friend who was called bone breaker, bar fights he would win in short order. We were walking one day when he learned I knew Wing Chun a close style of fighting, when he stepped in front of me and said so if I did this what would you do, suddenly he put his hands on my shoulders and thrust up intending to hit my my lower rib cages, what did I do, I didn’t even have to think about it, when my elbows responding in protection, e.g. my Shifu lighting strikes, and yes his thigh hit my elbow then quickly his other knee came up and press into my other elbow as I switched to the blow. Because of his close proximity hands on my shoulder I raise my hands palms together hit him under his throat and chin raising him off the ground backward landing hitting his head on the ground, I stood over him ready to strike again, as he said, I guess you do know Kung Fu, I was sorry because I didn’t mean to hurt him he suffered deep bruising on both thighs he said his thigh muscles instantly cramped, and his throat still sore and head that struck the ground dazing him, he felt in that moment for once in a long time someone had bested him.
His background studied over Sea’s grew up in a Military family and studying most of his life from childhood, I told him be careful jumping to quickly into a fight, because of a lot of people in Wing Chun to be careful, eventually you will run into a student who won’t be so kind, I told him this art form is not only to stop an attack and aggression, but kill if someone threatens your life.
My take away, doing something over and over again expecting a different result, is the definition of insanity. I have gone further in life listening to Masters and Fathers, I do tend to test their instruction making sure they are masters using their teaching in other things in life, my Shifu said although I’m teaching you eventually you will begin to learn to create movements based on my instruction, without deviating from the primary architecture, Bruce Lee learn this from Ipman who has been popularized in recent films. Bruce started his own school Jeet Kune do. Although a good style Wing Chun has it’s limits not good for ground fighting, but Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, on the ground devastating.
Delta Prime thanks for the memories. I studied Wing Chun for 10 years, I didn’t want to learn weapons but learn the 2 primary forms hands and feet, 2 years hands and 2 years feet, then 6 years of using them together in combination, I taught new students hands and feet 3 times a week for 2 hrs each, while my Shifu watched and corrected as needed, he would put his hands behind his back walking around and around his students insuring that art form is maintained, that way I couldn‘t miss lead a new student. I was told to practice nightly or when I could the more the better like anything else, instruments etc. until you didn’t have think taking the mind out of the equation. It has served me well in an un-gentleman environments. Some of our best students were engineers, programmers, intelligent people, I seen a guy come in one night, round thick glasses, I thought he wouldn’t last and would quit in short order, not having the stomach for it, boy was I wrong, his art form is impeccable.
Now in his own studio Teaching only previous students who have at least 4 years of training from a specific master from our school that has long since gone. 30 years ago.
kv
Doing things my way, as I said when sparing with my Shifu he repeatedly would strike my rib cage open handed to not break my ribs but take my breath, the only way to stop a hand strike was to keep your elbow down while protecting my center line it’s almost not natural hard to hold. However, with enough practice I learned, instruction with experience, now gained I spared with my friend who was called bone breaker, bar fights he would win in short order. We were walking one day when he learned I knew Wing Chun a close style of fighting, when he stepped in front of me and said so if I did this what would you do, suddenly he put his hands on my shoulders and thrust up intending to hit my my lower rib cages, what did I do, I didn’t even have to think about it, when my elbows responding in protection, e.g. my Shifu lighting strikes, and yes his thigh hit my elbow then quickly his other knee came up and press into my other elbow as I switched to the blow. Because of his close proximity hands on my shoulder I raise my hands palms together hit him under his throat and chin raising him off the ground backward landing hitting his head on the ground, I stood over him ready to strike again, as he said, I guess you do know Kung Fu, I was sorry because I didn’t mean to hurt him he suffered deep bruising on both thighs he said his thigh muscles instantly cramped, and his throat still sore and head that struck the ground dazing him, he felt in that moment for once in a long time someone had bested him.
His background studied over Sea’s grew up in a Military family and studying most of his life from childhood, I told him be careful jumping to quickly into a fight, because of a lot of people in Wing Chun to be careful, eventually you will run into a student who won’t be so kind, I told him this art form is not only to stop an attack and aggression, but kill if someone threatens your life.
My take away, doing something over and over again expecting a different result, is the definition of insanity. I have gone further in life listening to Masters and Fathers, I do tend to test their instruction making sure they are masters using their teaching in other things in life, my Shifu said although I’m teaching you eventually you will begin to learn to create movements based on my instruction, without deviating from the primary architecture, Bruce Lee learn this from Ipman who has been popularized in recent films. Bruce started his own school Jeet Kune do. Although a good style Wing Chun has it’s limits not good for ground fighting, but Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, on the ground devastating.
Delta Prime thanks for the memories. I studied Wing Chun for 10 years, I didn’t want to learn weapons but learn the 2 primary forms hands and feet, 2 years hands and 2 years feet, then 6 years of using them together in combination, I taught new students hands and feet 3 times a week for 2 hrs each, while my Shifu watched and corrected as needed, he would put his hands behind his back walking around and around his students insuring that art form is maintained, that way I couldn‘t miss lead a new student. I was told to practice nightly or when I could the more the better like anything else, instruments etc. until you didn’t have think taking the mind out of the equation. It has served me well in an un-gentleman environments. Some of our best students were engineers, programmers, intelligent people, I seen a guy come in one night, round thick glasses, I thought he wouldn’t last and would quit in short order, not having the stomach for it, boy was I wrong, his art form is impeccable.
Now in his own studio Teaching only previous students who have at least 4 years of training from a specific master from our school that has long since gone. 30 years ago.
kv
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Delta Prime
- Joined Nov 15, 2019
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Thought for the day...
A clever man tells a woman he understands her; a stupid one tries to prove it.
A clever man tells a woman he understands her; a stupid one tries to prove it.
