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Started by J Route Z, September 15, 2014, 12:56:22 PM

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jakeroot

Quote from: 20160805 on September 16, 2018, 02:56:33 PM
^ I know I'm old  :rolleyes:, but my entire music collection is physical.  All my photos are either physical or stored on my computer directly; Mr Onlinesnoop doesn't need to see my personal pictures.  And what funky stuff are millennials up to where they can have access to the Internet 'virtually all the time'?

Dude, you're 25, and we're both millennials. Stop pretending like your some crotchety old man. My point from earlier remains: the cloud has not made it harder to use physical storage as you prefer. Don't hate what doesn't have any effect on you.

Having internet all the time is important for cloud storage. You can thank the cloud for the carrier race to blanket the US in LTE. I just drove from LA to SEA (1100 miles), and I lost connection once (for about 30 miles total in northern California and Southern Oregon.


adventurernumber1

My entire musical collection is physical as well, but I would think the Cloud does some good things. If I recall correctly, the Cloud helps keep information (i.e. photos and videos) safe and secure in a backup, in case something happens to the original copies on the original source (the phone). I listen to CDs and YouTube for music, but not any Cloud or iTunes stuff on my phone. However, I could probably largely benefit from securing my many road photos and videos on the Cloud so I have extra copies in an extra place. I have a lot of road videos and photos that are still not anywhere else other than my phone, and that is very risky for making sure I don't lose them. Most of them aren't even uploaded to my computer yet, due to problems I have had getting that to work for the past year. I am largely old fashioned, too, when it comes to music and movies (I watch DVDs, I don't have Netflix or online movies really), but I think the Cloud might have a lot of benefits. You don't have to use it, but it can be useful for the people who do use it. I don't really consider CDs and DVDs to be outdated or obsolete at all, but it is just the Cloud and online stuff is newer and much more popular now - but I don't see why CDs and DVDs should no longer be able to function anymore in today's society. I hope CDs and DVDs never die off, at least not completely, but I am fine with the Cloud. Hopefully all of those things can continue to co-exist just fine.
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hotdogPi

Quote from: tckma on October 15, 2018, 08:45:34 AM
Since when does US-7 go through Canada?

Nova Scotia has US route lookalikes, even though they aren't actually US routes.
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formulanone

Quote from: 1 on October 15, 2018, 08:51:43 AM
Quote from: tckma on October 15, 2018, 08:45:34 AM
Since when does US-7 go through Canada?

Nova Scotia has US route lookalikes, even though they aren't actually US routes.

It's Route 7-up.

kphoger

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kphoger

Quote from: formulanone on October 15, 2018, 03:24:20 PM
For now, that's 7-dn.

You lost me.  That went over my head.  At least you didn't say it was "for obvious reasons"....
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hotdogPi

Quote from: webny99 on October 15, 2018, 04:26:06 PM
7-dn = 7-down, maybe?  :hmmm:

That's what I thought, in addition to "dn" looking like "up" upside-down, but it still doesn't make sense.
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Traveled, plus US 13, 44, and 50, and several state routes

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Paulinator66

I have a friend that lives near the corner of Possum Trot and Chicken Bristle.

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pdx-wanderer



From a housing subdivision in Las Vegas.

Max Rockatansky

^^^

Kind of prefer Butterfly Sky Street.

roadfro

Quote from: pdx-wanderer on October 21, 2018, 10:35:42 PM


From a housing subdivision in Las Vegas.

It's actually in North Las Vegas. Blue street blades (and non-lit street name signs at traffic signals) is the surefire way to tell when you're in North Las Vegas instead of Las Vegas/unincorporated Clark County.

On Google Maps, I see these streets are in a neighborhood of (oddly square, flat roof duplex houses) that employs other food/beverage-related street names, such as Barista St, Toasted Almond Ave, Macadamia Nut Ave, etc.
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tckma

Expanding on a previous post of mine...

Phoenixville, PA: Gay Street has an intersection with Purple Pride Parkway.

https://www.waze.com/en-US/editor?env=usa&lon=-75.52011&lat=40.11882&s=1447034879&zoom=8

jakeroot

Quote from: tckma on October 30, 2018, 07:53:55 AM
Expanding on a previous post of mine...

Phoenixville, PA: Gay Street has an intersection with Purple Pride Parkway.

A Waze link doesn't do us any good.

Isn't "Purple" a reference to the school? Purple is only one color of the pride flag; on its own it doesn't mean anything.

inkyatari

Quote from: jakeroot on October 30, 2018, 12:56:31 PM
Quote from: tckma on October 30, 2018, 07:53:55 AM
Expanding on a previous post of mine...

Phoenixville, PA: Gay Street has an intersection with Purple Pride Parkway.

A Waze link doesn't do us any good.

Isn't "Purple" a reference to the school? Purple is only one color of the pride flag; on its own it doesn't mean anything.

Here ya go..

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1189575,-75.5209703,19z

I think that  Purple Pride is indeed connected with the school, given the location of the street.
I'm never wrong, just wildly inaccurate.

paulthemapguy

Quote from: inkyatari on October 30, 2018, 02:14:30 PM
Here ya go..

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.1189575,-75.5209703,19z

I think that  Purple Pride is indeed connected with the school, given the location of the street.

Kind of like how Northwestern University proudly boasts about their school color of purple, which led the CTA line accessing the school to be labeled the Purple Line.
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kphoger

Quote from: paulthemapguy on October 30, 2018, 03:34:11 PM
Northwestern University ... led the CTA line accessing the school to be labeled the Purple Line.

Is that just conjecture, or is there anything to actually support the statement?
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
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Male pronouns, please.

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jakeroot

Quote from: kphoger on October 30, 2018, 03:38:51 PM
Quote from: paulthemapguy on October 30, 2018, 03:34:11 PM
Northwestern University ... led the CTA line accessing the school to be labeled the Purple Line.

Is that just conjecture, or is there anything to actually support the statement?

If there is any supporting evidence, it's likely locked away somewhere in a public library archive these days. But it would make sense.

pderocco

Quote from: pdx-wanderer on October 21, 2018, 10:35:42 PM


From a housing subdivision in Las Vegas.

They misspelled Frappuccino.

kphoger

Quote from: pderocco on December 11, 2018, 07:24:16 PM
They misspelled Frappuccino.

Pure conjecture on my part, but that may have been on purpose, considering that "Frappuccino" is trademarked.
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Male pronouns, please.

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