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philip964 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 01, 2020 9:00 am https://ktla.com/news/california/califo ... r-slavery/

Gov signs new law to begin process of reparations for Slavery.

I don’t believe California was part of the US until after the Civil War.

California became a state in 1850.

If they let the fire department just do their thing, and if it was just a few plants the fire fighters would have probably just ignored the weed. The peeps just made things worse for themselves

The Marshal wrote:Back when I was a wee lad growing up in Campbell CA (Suburb of San Jose) Dad would take us to this restaurant a 1/2 mile from the house.
Now, they had a jukebox and I played the snot out of several songs (American Pie, Maggie May, Take me Home)
But what amazed me more than the jukebox, up by the register the glass counter was not filled with pies (they were in glass case behind it), no sir, it was FIREARMS! Yep! ALL KINDS of wheel guns. And I will NEVER forget the most expensive one that I could touch.
A triangular hand guard, FULL AUTO M16 (maybe A1) for something like $600. (May have been $1400)
I used to run to the counter after putting on John Denver and then gaze at that guns.

HA! Imagine in California, you go to get a burger and on the way out pickup a Full Auto M16 as an after dinner treat.

Praise God Dad moved us to East Texas in the winter of 1978.....

California isn't the only state that has shifted so radically to a no guns policy.
I moved to Texas in '88 from the people's republic of Massachusetts. In Mass I had a both an FID and a Pistol Permit. The FID card was supposed to be a forever thing and the Pistol permit allowed both open and concealed carry. The state proudly proclaimed that they had the strictest handgun laws in the country, attributable to the fact that there was a 1 year mandatory jail sentence for unlicenced carry. The thing was that it was possible for ordinary citizens to carry. I was not allowed to carry a handgun in Texas except under some very arbitrary conditions. Things have changed!! Today most commonly styled guns are restricted or outright illegal, while in Texas our carry laws are considered to be progressive.

I started off with an Atari 8 bit system. I expanded the computer with an MIO which expanded memory from 64 K into 4 Meg Which could be used like a high speed hard drive, I was able to add some Real hard drives for what was at the time an incredible 70 MegaBytes. Created and went online with the BBS "The Lost Byte" Took some computer courses and learned some programming

Those of us who were active in ths during the 70's and 80's got to learn at a level seldom achieved today. We many of which were non-degreed and self-taught were patching operating systems and designing hardware. It was this hobbyist stage which built what turned out to be a very rewarding career.

Today I think that the same opportunities exist to explore a blend of software and hardware developement with the Atmel and Arduino If we can teach our children that computers is more than about games but is about washing machines, TV remotes and microwave too.