“Duckduckgo” is just one source for a search engine and if you are using it, then your primary concern is remaining anonymous so no one can track your search history… Good for you, and I bet if I ask you for your choice for a search engine, you would probably go for the Duck… Ask me, I would say go for Google, ask one of the other members and they might say, Bing or Yahoo…
Get my point, if you want to hide behind the Duck, then you will get whatever the Duck wants to show you, but if you stop hiding behind the duck, you might find the answer you are looking from another source…
Sort of a definition issue. Again I was behind a person that chose to drive 35 MPH to merge with 70 MPH traffic on an interstate, resulting in drivers on the interstate to brake sharply.
For oldnotdeadyet: CCR
But when the taxman come to the door
Lord, the house lookin’ like a rummage sale, yeah
It ain’t me, it ain’t me
I ain’t no millionaire’s son, no, no
It ain’t me, it ain’t me
I ain’t no fortunate one, no
I turned 18 in 1970, my draft number was 92 and DoD drafted up to 106. I did have the only surviving son deferment because my father’s death was from service incurred injuries. I talked to my mother about joining up anyway, and she talked me out of it since another benefit from my father was that I got $2000 per year for college. The benefit was only available if I went directly to college from high school without any time off. By 1974 when I graduated from college, no new soldiers were going to Vietnam. I doubt that in late 1970 new recruits were going either.
Yupers, I am a Google Chrome for everything but this forum kinda guy, I use the DDG search at times, but I like the Google search much better, if just looking to confirm my thoughts or refresh my memory so to speak I can/will use either depending on what site I am on, but when I really need a good answer, I will use both…
Bonus, google has a mic button (“search by voice”) so I can speak what I am looking for, cause when you can’t spell for ■■■■, using the mic is VERY useful…
My Dad was in an accident because a guy ran a stop-sign. He decided to play dumb with the cop claiming that he had bad brakes and couldn’t stop in time. Cop asked him how long the brakes were bad and he admitted (or lied) that they were bad for about a month. Cop gave him a ticket for Negligence - not sure of the exact crime, but it was a misdemeanor instead of a simple traffic ticket of failing to yield.
Not the several I’ve been on. On the last one several jurors said, basically, “I always assume the cops are lying”. I had to show them how the accused confirmed what the cops said.
You underestimate your ability to influence the results.
I don’t feel that that’s my job to. Like I said: The butcher, the baker, and the website maker have no business determining guilt or innocence in a court of law.
There’s someone sitting at the head of the court room who should be doing that.
That was the “passive restraint system”. I drove a 1980 Chevette with belts attached to the door! When you opened the door the lap and shoulder belt came out with it. You slid onto the seat. When you closed the door the belt was ready to go!
… until it no longer functioned. In 2005, when I was working for my state’s child protective agency, several of the cars in our local motor pool were Ford Tempos from 1990-91, with those motorized seatbelts. By 2005, none of those motorized seatbelts were working any longer, and we were told that no parts were available.
Whether the parts were actually available or not, the bottom line is that I really hated to ride in one of those cars, and the other employees felt the same way. Every other car in the pool would be checked-out, and people would only drive those old Tempos if nothing else was available. A year or so later, the state finally retired those cars.
I do not know if you are in the the US but the US Constitution, Sixth Amendment (Criminal Cases) and the and the Seventh Amendment for certain federal civil cases; guarantees the right to a trial by an impartial jury in the district where the crime occurred, along with rights to counsel, confrontation, and to be informed of charges. So, what would you replace this systems with?
This guarantees the right to a trial by an impartial jury, and it would appear the your first bias is the system…
Yah, my Chevette didn’t use the motorized system, but I do remember them. A lot of the GM systems just attached the lap and shoulder belt to the door. The other end of the lap belt was attached to where our modern latch is, between the seat and console.You opened the door, sat down, closed the door and were ready to drive. No motors whirring.
I think Bing is going the same was as Duck as far as ignoring keywords. Duck is based off of Bing. Duckduckgo is hosted at Microsoft. Yahoo search removed the exclude keyword operator some time ago along with the other logical operations for searches, so it’s junk. Google is better as far as that goes, but their privacy and security problems are huge.
Someone can always choose to have a trial by judge. You’re only there to give them the other option.
I suspect they were. Active American military involvement in Vietnam officially ceased on March 29, 1973. I left SEA in Feb of 1972, yes we had people fresh out of training still coming in.
To get back to cars, I could have ordered a new Cadillac through the Exchange for $5000.
Back to the draft, one of the few truthful things a now deceased commentator said, when asked how he avoided the draft, he explained, took the college deferment, when that ended and was replaced with the lottery he dropped out of college and his number was not drawn.
Oh, I can make another car related post. A folk singer lives less than an hour south of me. I saw his movie in early 1970, involved dumping trash from his VW bus. Convicted of littering kept him from being drafted.
My posting was to say that if you use only one source for a search, you may get only one answer or no answer at all… I use different search engines when I am really serious about a search… I had written in another posting about when I was young, I learned to use the thesaurus in school to find the correct spelling of a word I did not know how to spell by looking “indirectly” for it as a synonyms of a word I knew how to spell, so Google “search by voice” is great replacement for us spelling challenged individuals…
Yeah me too I think but I just post and forget so can’t b3 sure. Someone seems to be in favor of preventing young people from buying starter homes.
I will add though that I don’t see much difference between google and bing but I haven’t used bing much. I do know that google will (let m3 find the right word) Hide, distort, promote, etc a particular view. You either hav3 to do a deep dive into the multiple pages or use other sources to actually fugure out the unbiased view. Especially now where AI just spouts off what has been written somewhere.
As an example I was just checking the weather in a particular city and saw the add on questions with AI responses. In one people were moving there and in another people were leaving. Crime, taxes, cost of living, etc. both can be true at th3 same time but if you want understanding you have to dig deep.
I think they began troop drawdown in 1969. I guessed that if troops were returning home, they would not be replaced with raw recruits. I could be wrong.
Hit the wrong key and everything disappeared. I was in from 70 to 76 and we had orders cut to send us to nam. We had spent more time at places like fort hood and Bragg in preparation to merge us with the regular army. Then around 73 or 74 Nixon canceled the orders as everything wound diwn.
