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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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-pssst!- Joel. You can stop using Lynx now, too. Someone invented graphical browsers.
(sorry… couldn’t resist it. [grin])
Har de har har.
Though the way my connection’s been for the past two months I should probably look into a text browser.
Have you checked the dish alignment? If your connection is that bad all the time now, the mount might’ve slipped. If it was installed the same way as another I saw, they probably marked the correct setting on the mount with a permanent marker. When you log into the modem, what does it show for signal strength in clear weather?
Bear, I think if I had a way to check signal strength in clear weather, I’d find it low. Probably the dish alignment is FUBAR and always has been, that wouldn’t surprise me. All I know is the attachments are tight and I can find no markings to compare the current position to.
Generally, sat modems let you check signal strength. Try entering “192.168.1.1” into the address bar of your browser. That should get you to the modem, and give you a menu to look at details like up/downlink power levels and your… traffic history. Hmm…
Don’t know about all these sat services, but Hughes used to cut users back to about 24KB/sec (less than normal dialup) when they exceeded bandwidth limits in any rolling 24 hour period. You were busting nthe bandwidth bank were you?
Nope. I’ve got a pretty draconian bandwidth limit, but I keep an eye on that. I’m nowhere near the limit.