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TexasHooch

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  1. I don't have any knowledge of GPS programmable perimeters. I think you're kidding with what the post above infers but for others, if not you, I want to encourage  to have reasonable, and humane, expectations about training, effectiveness, and how it's supposed to work.  

    There are two categories of eCollar- I use both.  They are both good training aids but have slightly different purposes. However, the goal in both is to not have to zap.

    1) Active monitoring (you have the remote and utilize the collar to reinforce verbal commands).  This is like an invisible leash. It took about two weeks until the vibrate-only feature and command were enough, and another month until the command itself was reliable.

    2) Passive Monitoring (you set a perimeter that the dog learns- though training not pain- not to cross).  This is your invisible fence, and what you appear to be asking about.  It took two weeks of consistent daily training for each of my dogs on our electric fence (buried line).  Assuming you have the ability to physically flag the boundaries at the lake and work daily on it up to Memorial, I don't think the GPS version would be any different.

    Please don't just set a parameter and leave it to the ZAP to tell them they've gone too far.  It will only terrorize and confuse your dog.

     

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  2. I'm not giving up yet, but I'm getting serious "Silo" Season 2 vibes here, in that we're introduced to and force fed a bunch of new characters that are just flat out non-compelling- either because they're poorly written, or played by shitty, miscast actors. 

    Obviously, in both Silo and (and especially) Last of Us, the source material is pretty rigid.  However, there are creative and casting decisions that I think are going to hurt them this season.

    And all that's to say nothing about Bella, who I actually still like in her role, though it remains to be seen (for me at least), whether she can evolve the character in season 2.

     

  3. 28 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    I can't tell how this is gonna affect tariff movement

    Oldie but goodie.  I thought the one in 2018 was better though:

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    "It’s called the bowling ball test. You know what that is? That’s where they take a bowling ball from 20 feet up in the air and drop it on the hood of the car. And if the hood dents, the car doesn’t qualify,” Trump said at a Missouri fundraiser, an audio recording of which was obtained by NBC News. “It’s horrible, the way we’re treated.”

    Reporters scrambled to find factual footing. Was it this Japanese pedestrian safety test, which employs a head-shaped object roughly the size of a bowling ball? Or maybe Trump was thinking of a Nissan ad, The Washington Post suggested.

    "I have no idea what he was talking about," said Kristin Dziczek, a director at the independent research firm Center for Automotive Research.

     

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-was-only-joking-about-japanese-bowling-ball-test-cars-n857111

     

    The truth is, regulatory hurdles are actually real (the bowling ball test is not).  The article cites an example of one with Japan and how the disparity was addressed under the Obama administration (by, you know, talking).  One problem though....

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    ...the Trans-Pacific Partnership eased the regulatory hurdles American automakers face selling cars in Japan, by allowing signatories to use the same expedited review processes domestic Japanese carmakers enjoyed with their vehicles. But Trump withdrew from the TPP shortly after his inauguration, sending the U.S. back to Square 1 when it comes to regulatory obstacles in the auto market.

     

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  4. 3 minutes ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

    Keep crying bros. This is fucking hilarious. Is this what you all do in the CR?

    I hope your 401ks go to zero. Fuckin' boomers and gen X-ers, man.

    I'm all cash, baby.  But I'm willing to put it aside to hear your financial analysis of the situation (because you haven't actually given any yet).

    Nevermind, no I won't.

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  5. Yeah, I think the unpredictability of it all is the thing.  Usually when something really bad happens it can't be undone, and there's a formula that follows.  This, at least partially, can be undone so there's a variable in the calculus that's not usually there.

  6. The market further collapsed today (but don't mention why).  The market at one point surged (but don't mention the report that Trump was considering a 90 day pause). The market then tanked again (but don't mention the White House calling the report fake news).

    This thread is much, much more reserved than the thread In Cloak (that's why I'm here), but come on.  We don't have to pretend it's not a the thing.

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  7. 15 minutes ago, Wilcox Cummingtonite said:

    This thread 

    The Usual Suspects Movie Trivia GIF by Movie Trivia Schmoedown

    This is a situation that was completely and wholly driven by a political catalyst from the President of The United States.  Why, and honestly how, can it be discussed without inclusion or animus related to the cause?

    Jesus, it'd be like discussing someone's chlamydia without including the $20 sexual encounter with the meth-head prostitute on the corner.  I mean, it could be done, I suppose.  But why if only for the sake of the prostitute and her prostitute friends.

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  8. 2 hours ago, swraith said:

    based on the SP500 this morning, the market doesn't seem to care about the new auto tariffs.  I don't understand anything anymore.

    He's backtracked enough times now, that much of the market simply doesn't believe him.  

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