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- Thu Feb 22, 2018 11:23 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: ART Experts - Identify a painting or painter
- Replies: 14
- Views: 11318
Re: ART Experts - Identify a painting or painter
It looks like a ho-hum painting with no ITM content. Why post it here?
- Wed Feb 21, 2018 9:10 pm
- Forum: Traditional String Instruments
- Topic: Gibson Guitars in financial trouble
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13981
Re: Gibson Guitars in financial trouble
Philip's revenue in 2016 was more than 24 billion euros, so I still doubt that it could be bought for $135 million.. Profits 1.4 billion euros, assets 32 billions. Yet the evidence says they were. Whoever owned them in 2014 certainly saw Gibson coming. It looks like the balance sheet proves otherwi...
- Wed Feb 21, 2018 3:06 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Cocktails
- Replies: 56
- Views: 73949
Re: Cocktails
Yeah. Plates these days are about three inches wider in every dimension.
- Wed Feb 21, 2018 3:04 am
- Forum: Traditional String Instruments
- Topic: Gibson Guitars in financial trouble
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13981
Re: Gibson Guitars in financial trouble
I dunno. Philips is known for, what? High end analog audio components and inventing the CD. And a bunch of other electric devices, all of which are being made cheaper in China. None of that seems all that valuable to me these days. I suspect that price was for the whole show. All the CD patents must...
- Tue Feb 20, 2018 5:59 pm
- Forum: Traditional String Instruments
- Topic: Gibson Guitars in financial trouble
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13981
Re: Gibson Guitars in financial trouble
Corporate shenanigans. The guitar biz is sound, but they got suckered into buying Philips in 2014, just as the audio business was being wiped out by hi tech. Gibson is not a hi tech company; it's difficult to see what value they could have added to Philips that would enable them to compete in the i ...
- Mon Feb 19, 2018 2:18 pm
- Forum: Forum Support
- Topic: Private messages
- Replies: 7
- Views: 22158
Re: Private messages
Da, Kommissar!Nanohedron wrote:Do read the CCCP.
- Sat Feb 17, 2018 1:10 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Whistle Forum
- Topic: Feadóg D vs Feadóg pro
- Replies: 30
- Views: 11155
Re: Feadóg D vs Feadóg pro
The nickel tubes are nickel plating over brass, surely. It stands to reason they'd be thicker than plain or painted brass.AuLoS303 wrote:If anything the nickel one looks thicker, but it may be the lighting.
- Fri Feb 16, 2018 9:45 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Quick, somebody start a fight!
- Replies: 149
- Views: 64390
Re: Quick, somebody start a fight!
Coyotes get larger the farther east you go. On the west coast they're on the order of 30 pounds. By the time you get to Nova Scotia, they're twice that size, or more. This is usually attributed to the admixture of dog and/or wolf genes, but I dunno how sound that conclusion is. It may also be signif...
- Fri Feb 16, 2018 5:33 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Of Beers
- Replies: 86
- Views: 49295
Re: Of Beers
First, you should know that GT got it dead wrong. None of it is Gaelic, but it is Scots. "Dinnae" is "do not"; "fash" here is in its verb form, meaning "concern", "trouble" or "annoy"; and "yersel" is "yourself". It's a...
- Fri Feb 16, 2018 6:47 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Quick, somebody start a fight!
- Replies: 149
- Views: 64390
Re: Quick, somebody start a fight!
The cats already existed. If a colony attracts cats, then somewhere else is losing cats - even-steven. Thus leaving open territory someplace where the cats aren't spayed. Nature abhors a vacuum, so with an extra niche open, the cat population there will expand to fill it. Edited: Cats are fungible....
- Thu Feb 15, 2018 11:29 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Quick, somebody start a fight!
- Replies: 149
- Views: 64390
Re: Quick, somebody start a fight!
Feral cats clustering around a food source is how colonies get started in the first place. The bigger the food source, the more cats it attracts. When you start supplying extra, you're increasing the size of the food source. Thus, attracting more cats. Simple. Also with a regular food supply (and of...
- Thu Feb 15, 2018 10:18 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Quick, somebody start a fight!
- Replies: 149
- Views: 64390
Re: Quick, somebody start a fight!
Nonexistent litters are irrelevant when the food you're providing quadruples the size of the colony. From an ecological POV, it is far better for a given habitat to have 3 or 4 adult cats and a mom struggling to provide for 2 or 3 kittens than a colony of 20 sterile adult cats. In any case, you'll n...
- Thu Feb 15, 2018 8:03 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Quick, somebody start a fight!
- Replies: 149
- Views: 64390
Re: Quick, somebody start a fight!
In reality, it's almost always the first impulse.Nanohedron wrote: I couldn't tell you. That's why I said that I should think that feeding them would be the last priority.
- Thu Feb 15, 2018 7:46 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Quick, somebody start a fight!
- Replies: 149
- Views: 64390
Re: Quick, somebody start a fight!
Then why do they need extra food?Nanohedron wrote: Colonies exist first because the locale could naturally support them without human agency.
- Thu Feb 15, 2018 7:08 pm
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Quick, somebody start a fight!
- Replies: 149
- Views: 64390
Re: Quick, somebody start a fight!
Besides, what Dan is doing is helping to control that colony of feral cats. It's got to be better than doing nothing. We don't have such programmes here in the UK (or if we do, they're not well known about), but my understanding is that control is one of the principal aims. No, what Dan is doing is...