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Post by paulshiroma on Oct 15, 2016 0:59:03 GMT -5
These are outstanding, Roger. Excellent effort.
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Post by paulshiroma on Oct 11, 2016 21:11:03 GMT -5
Looks way to pretty to use!! x2 on that comment. Very impressed with your setup. Nicely done! I think you should remove "Trying" from the title of your post. More like "Building".
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Post by paulshiroma on Oct 11, 2016 8:11:38 GMT -5
Beautiful stuff, Paul! I love the colors in the DoBell material! It's almost all fractured in some fashion, but beautiful just the same. I did learn that the material closer to the surface will be more fractured than the deeper stuff. Some of it due to earth movement and some due to traffic from their tractors. Hey, Jeremy! Good to see you, sir! That was an awesome trip you took through AZ. Thanks for checking out the thread. That makes total sense about the fracturing. I'd love to go back one day, with some tools for a change. LOL Paul
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Post by paulshiroma on Oct 11, 2016 8:09:24 GMT -5
Nice job Paul. I had mixed results with cerium in an old Lortone lap but never did the 1000 grit prepolish. Most serious vibe lap people swear by tin oxide. Thanks for the tip, John. I had seen tin oxide but had never tried it. Will have to give it a try when the cerium oxide runs out. Hope the trip is going well!
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Post by paulshiroma on Oct 10, 2016 21:34:25 GMT -5
I get to visit with Sean at Denver show. Both his parents have serious health problems. He is a very nice person and I send anyone looking for lortone or thumlers his way. Now I'm jealous ... it would be great to meet Sean in person. In all seriousness, he's always done right by me.
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Post by paulshiroma on Oct 10, 2016 21:30:50 GMT -5
x2 on Tim's comments and congratulations on getting the photos into the text!
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Post by paulshiroma on Oct 10, 2016 21:29:50 GMT -5
Your typical great work, Amy!
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Post by paulshiroma on Oct 10, 2016 21:28:39 GMT -5
These are beautiful! Nicely done. The cathedral agate and condor agate stand out a lot!
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Post by paulshiroma on Oct 10, 2016 21:27:07 GMT -5
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Post by paulshiroma on Oct 10, 2016 21:24:22 GMT -5
When someone at my rock business asks if I give discounts, I ask them if they are government workers. If they say yes, I say no. Hey mikeinsjc, I find that a bit egregious for someone to be asking for discounts, particularly if they're a new customer/first timer to your (or anyone's) shop. That is just not cool. This is your livelihood and a good customer will earn the respect of the shop owner/small business owner who, at their discretion, may reward the loyalty with a small discount. I have never asked for a discount, particularly of the local small business owners who's shops I frequent. Big chain stores, on the other hand ... LOL
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Post by paulshiroma on Oct 10, 2016 20:05:25 GMT -5
A declining economy fuels the government too. The people are too busy struggling to make ends meet. Less time to concern themselves with government activity. There are a good many people that are retired or have learned to have time to pay attention and educate themselves of government activities participating in this political category of the RTH. Some country's governments would censor such discussions. Thankfully we have freedom of speech and can be cavalier about criticizing and analyzing government behavior. The government still manages it criminal activity very wisely in light of freedom of speech. Making them a force to be reckoned with as they increase in power and monetary resources. Leaning toward socialism = higher taxes = more power, more resources, more intelligence, more undeserved control over the people. Shocked at new communities in a fast growing area. Government spending on the finest of everything. Who writes their budget ? Tell me they are not pursuing tax money in every imaginable tax category. They hire and purchase the finest. Not a lot of government workers defending themselves on this forum LOL. Where are you guys ? May they live under a blanket of insecurity and disrespect if they are acting inappropriately. Okay, jamesp. You asked where the government workers are/were on this forum. I'll come of the of the closet and tell the gang that back in the middle 1980's I was a civil servant working for a small city in Southern California. It was my first crack at what I hoped would be a career helping citizens and communities improve their city. As part of that idealism, I picked up a bachelor's and a master's degree in Public Administration. After four years of doing 65 hour work weeks, my doctor informed me that I'm might be developing an ulcer and that I had developed TMJ. He recommended a career change, which I did and never looked back. My time with the city government, though taught me a lot about what works well and what doesn't with local governments. It also gives me a much more rounded opinion on what I see as both right and wrong with our bureaucracy. Bureaucracy isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's the bureaucracy that allows the US Military its incredible power-projection capabilities. However, it's also the bureaucracy that makes rules without oversight from elected officials or citizens so there is a good and bad side to this. While I'll never go back to public service, I am glad I did serve. I'm cooking dinner right now so I have to end this. More later!
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Post by paulshiroma on Oct 10, 2016 19:58:37 GMT -5
I agreed right down the line with what you had going there, Scott, until you said: "To embrace existence is to reject all notions of the supernatural and the mystical, including God." Sounds like utter nonsense to me. God is neither supernatural nor mystical. He is the creator of all that we see, touch, feel, and experience. Logically speaking, the universe cannot be explained away as a matter of happenstance. The odds against the earth existing as it does, are monumentally (impossibly) huge. Besides which, any contemplation of life having any meaning whatsoever without God's existence is irrational. God is vastly greater in knowledge and understanding than we. Just as ignorant savages proclaim great mystical powers to those using a higher technology to their own, we humans strive to understand a universe through the lens of ignorance...and come up wanting. That said, bravo for the sentence you shared: "Reality - that which exists - has no alternatives, no competitors, nothing "transcending" it." Indeed. God is the greatest single component of that reality. Well said, megalotis.
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Post by paulshiroma on Oct 10, 2016 19:58:16 GMT -5
The first chapter of Ludwig Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico-PhilosophicusIt’s a very short chapter Proposition 11 The world is all that is the case. 1.1 The world is the totality of facts, not of things. 1.11 The world is determined by the facts, and by their being all the facts. 1.12 For the totality of facts determines what is the case, and also whatever is not the case. 1.13 The facts in logical space are the world. 1.2 The world divides into facts. 1.21 Each item can be the case or not the case while everything else remains the same. Hope this clears up any previous confusion m` it clears things up COMPLETELY. LOL I love it.
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Post by paulshiroma on Oct 10, 2016 19:54:26 GMT -5
Thanks, paulshiroma, for the vibe lap info, I'm saving that for later. I'll get a chance to play around with mine someday. It sounds like I need to be watching the slurry the whole time, so I MAY get to run it one day a week. My weekend schedule is often crazier than the work week. Actually Garage Rocker, that's how it works out with me. I run it when I have time. The total time only comes out to several days. I never have the time to just be in the garage every hour or so, either. So, it ends up being a few hours here, a few hours there. In between those times, I put enough water in to keep the pan from drying out and then powering the motor down. By the time, I'm ready to give it some attention, the water has gone down enough to restart things. I generally, do not leave the rocks in there - I brush them off with a toothbrush and store them in a bucket of water. meviva: Post photos of your new toy. By the way, I think john from JSGems (a Forum member) sells these as well. I buy my saw blades from him regularly as I tend to warp them regularly. you might check with him as well. He's always got great service. Paul EDITED: Cause I can't read or spell today...LOL
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Post by paulshiroma on Oct 10, 2016 8:03:16 GMT -5
That as good MrMike! And before we get too far off topic, again, those rocks are coming out great. Post photos after each stage so we can live vicariously thru you!
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Post by paulshiroma on Oct 10, 2016 8:02:19 GMT -5
"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world's greatest civilisations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years. During those 200 years, these nations always progressed through the following sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage." Attribution unknown although variously attributed to Alexander Tytler or Alexis de Tocqueville. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fraser_Tytler,_Lord_Woodhouselee And yes, @shotgunner, I totally agree about the social security program. Unfortunate And this is a great comment, jamesp, "... Not a lot of government workers defending themselves on this forum LOL. Where are you guys ? May they live under a blanket of insecurity and disrespect if they are acting inappropriately. "
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Post by paulshiroma on Oct 10, 2016 7:54:18 GMT -5
meviva, awesome! I forgot to mention one item - get the largest diameter one you can afford. You'll find that you'll wish you had more space later if you bought the smaller ones. Post photos of your new purchase!
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Post by paulshiroma on Oct 9, 2016 22:24:03 GMT -5
Nice cuts for sure!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks buddy. Not enough time for the hobby, though. Just make a couple of cuts when I have a few minutes in between work and life!
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Post by paulshiroma on Oct 9, 2016 22:23:16 GMT -5
LOL
He signed Executive order 9066 so yeah, I'm with you on that one.
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Post by paulshiroma on Oct 9, 2016 21:29:16 GMT -5
"What country ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, Paris, 13 Nov. 1787
You've been reading TJ, haven't you, @shotgunner...
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