Le_Forgeron <jgr### [at] freefr> wrote:

> News via Facebook from Cousin Ricky:

I unhooked myself from FZuckerberg's creepy site years ago.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-39947942
http://jimlynch.com/internet/facebook-users-work-for-zuckerberg-for-free/

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On 6/13/2017 8:16 PM, Bald Eagle wrote:
> Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
>
>> It is the American Virgin Islands not Jamaica. ;)
>
> Somehow, I'm not going to cry for him.
>
> The last island I got to go to was Loon Island.
>

Well I live on a large Island myself. An archipelago if you want to be 
pedantic. They have problems different from living on continents.


> Not a word.
> Not a single word, Frog-Licker.

I prefer pharmaceuticals or herb.

And in Doric (NE of Scotland dialect) a loon is a young man. As in Fit 
like m' loon/quine? (How are you my young man/girl?)

>
> ( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ )
>

Ooo! Get you with your ricky ticky Dongers. ;)

>> His battery was not charging either. And he seems to have forgotten that
>> you can use the Web view on your phone.
>
> Hmm.
> Batteries are definitely known to go bad.

They do indeed. But his laptop did not recognise his new power cable as 
being a genuine Dell part. Which smells of a propriety circuit somewhere 
in his machine that is goosed.

> We have boxes upon boxes of dead laptop batteries that are destined for sale to
> someone doing lithium reclamation.
> We had a power outage / one leg of the 3-phase power, and when the transformer
> got repaired, my work laptop wasn't charging - so it must have fried the
> battery.
>

Or the charging circuit.


> https://www.myus.com/vir/
> looks like it's about $15/lb to ship to there.
>
>

But then he would have to strip his laptop and fit it. He did say that 
he was a programmer. With all that implies. ;)

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     Stephen

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On 6/13/2017 8:34 PM, Bald Eagle wrote:
> Le_Forgeron <jgr### [at] freefr> wrote:
>
>> News via Facebook from Cousin Ricky:
>
> I unhooked myself from FZuckerberg's creepy site years ago.
>

[Smug face] I never joined in, in the first place. :D

I could never understand why you would want to tell everyone when you 
went to the shops or the toilet. No that is twatter. ;)

OMG There is an actual site called twatter. How rude. :)
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     Stephen

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Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:


> And in Doric (NE of Scotland dialect) a loon is a young man. As in Fit
> like m' loon/quine? (How are you my young man/girl?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loon

> > ( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ )
> >
>
> Ooo! Get you with your ricky ticky Dongers. ;)

:O  Stephen!  That sounded _naughty_.
And on the Interwebs, no less.


> They do indeed. But his laptop did not recognise his new power cable as
> being a genuine Dell part. Which smells of a propriety circuit somewhere
> in his machine that is goosed.

Yeah, those suck.


> Or the charging circuit.

Nope.  Popped in a different battery, and it was good as used.

> But then he would have to strip his laptop and fit it. He did say that
> he was a programmer. With all that implies. ;)

Well, yeah.  But maybe he has helpers who could do that part for him.

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On 6/13/2017 9:57 PM, Bald Eagle wrote:
> Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
>
>
>> And in Doric (NE of Scotland dialect) a loon is a young man. As in Fit
>> like m' loon/quine? (How are you my young man/girl?)
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loon
>

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03mzv9d


>>> ( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ )
>>>
>>
>> Ooo! Get you with your ricky ticky Dongers. ;)
>
> :O  Stephen!  That sounded _naughty_.

:) It does indeed, if you have that sort of mind. :P

> And on the Interwebs, no less.
>

But no more bonny lad (NE England dialect).

>
>> They do indeed. But his laptop did not recognise his new power cable as
>> being a genuine Dell part. Which smells of a propriety circuit somewhere
>> in his machine that is goosed.
>
> Yeah, those suck.
>
>

It does and should be made illegal.
Come the day that I rule the world...

>> Or the charging circuit.
>
> Nope.  Popped in a different battery, and it was good as used.
>

;)

>> But then he would have to strip his laptop and fit it. He did say that
>> he was a programmer. With all that implies. ;)
>
> Well, yeah.  But maybe he has helpers who could do that part for him.
>
>

Even if he had to pay for it. Gasp! :)

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     Stephen

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