Ace-Garageguy

Worries seem to be the only thing some people live for, but I prefer to change the things I can and ignore the rest.

Guess I spoke too soon, as apparently the local PO has gone back to using the driver on my route who can't read English street names and understand numbers.

Breakdown on a foggy mountain inspired some fine pickin'.

Floyd's Knob, eh? Iffen I hain't looked it up, I'da thought ya was funnin.

Bleed all you want, but I'm still not going to give you a cookie.

Madness ends when you're pushing up daisies, but my luck there'll be some bozo planted next to me with his idiot music turned up loud even then.

Lady and laddy are kinda polar opposites, but it all depends on what your definition of "is" is.

Filament printing isn't used for high-quality kits. They're printed with laser-cured goo. The current drawback to 3D printing anything in high resolution is simply the time it takes to do it. For the foreseeable future injection-molding is blazingly fast by comparison. BUT...metal dies that can be used to injection-mold styrene parts CAN be 3D printed, so that's a viable near-term option for cost-effective short runs. The tech to put parts or sprues in a "smart" chamber to be scanned exceedingly accurately already exists, as does the numerical crunch capability required to turn a scan "inside out" to create a print file for injection-molding dies. Integrating all the required steps into a "one touch button" system is not particularly difficult from an engineering standpoint, and "desktop" injection-molding is also already a thing.

Being a good mechanic was always something I took pride in because it requires a depth of knowledge, experience, and decision-making ability few ever realize, but being associated with the current crop through "professional classification" is disheartening

OK. Thanks for the clarification. I had assumed, wrongly apparently, that because when you run a YT video on this site you also have the option to "watch on Youtube" displayed at the lower LH corner of the enlarged thumbnail displayed in the post, that the entire vid was copied to the MCM server. Is the thumbnail itself, displayed in a post here as large as an uploaded photo of any other type, taking up space on MCM server drives?

"Mechanics" and "technicians" who are nothing but parts-changers who can't do anything without scan-tools and yoo toob are different species entirely.

Best to understand what one is so you never use one. They are usually not clear communication.

It's fixed. You can post the old way again. Read through both threads for all the gory details.

Politicians always seem to magically get hugely rich on smallish salaries. Life strategies should include long-term planning for the future, no matter what happens.

Mea culpa there. YT autoimbeds most of the time if you link to a vid, and I've been lax about not letting it happen. I'll be better in the future.

Some of the more spectacular work almost justifies that, but certainly not everything. Nor is there a need for excessive incremental multi-angle shots during the build process. Or copying every photo when a quote is made. HOWEVER: the modification Dave was trying to implement was specifically intended to limit data uploaded to INDIVIDUAL POSTS, which would alleviate much of the problem for the time being. Unfortunately it didn't go as intended... ...but everything is back to normal now.

Recruits to any endeavor or group kinda like to know what the mission is with no ambiguity...if they're the kind of people you want to recruit. College degrees in many majors today cost a lot and leave graduates virtually unemployable.

"Drag" and "choose files" is back.

Geez...y'all don't need to be in a rush to be deleting stuff. Some fixes are in the works to get the storage and upload functions back to normal. Calm down.

Which, of course, doesn't work if the photo you link to isn't hosted somewhere else on the web. We USED to be able to post photos directly from our own devices (for the past few years), and the fact that that is no longer an option (an unintended glitch), as well as new upload limits intended to conserve server space on THIS SITE, is the subject of the thread I linked to above.

"Be All You Can Be" said the Army recruitment poster.

There is an entire thread about the ongoing effort to fix this latest glitch.

Many of us have been requesting folks to do that for years. Many others don't read, don't understand photo storage, or just don't care, and apparently assume storage capacity ON THIS SITE is unlimited. Photos stored on OFF SITE SERVERS like Fotki and P'bucket can still be inserted in posts, as they are not stored on this site as data-hog photo files, but only as short links to the actual storage platform.

If I were one of 'em, her refit would have started at least a decade ago.

Pay me on time, or you can get another boy.