Gee! $1,600,000, and they let people get that close to it!

Every year at the Auto Show at the State Fair of Texas, there are several super-luxury cars on the floor, with fine velvet ropes (or even fencing) around them, so that one can look but not touch.

Such luxury cars include Bugatti, Aston-Martin, Lamborghini, Bentley, and more...most all such have price tags typically > $1 Million.

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Nice ... except it looks like she has cold sores on her lips.

When you say that "Skype never turns off," does that mean that if after a system startup, you never OPEN Skype, then it is not running, and the "never turns off" is not an issue?

Or does Skype start running automatically when you start the cell phone?

I researched further, and found that using the Settings of the cell phone, not anything in the Skype app, one can find Skype among the myriad of applications, and disable notifications for just that app. I did that...will monitor to see if I get anymore such notifications from Skype.

Perhaps an update to Skype (of which I am unaware) altered the notifications from OFF to ON. That's the only thing I can think of that perhaps caused this scenario.

Does any UHHer have Skype? and are now getting unwanted notifications?

I have Skype app installed on my Android cell phone. I thought that Skype was only to do calls, voice or video, to others with Skype also. But recently, I am getting notifications from Skype much like text msg notifications, and these notifications are of the news type. For example, Skype today sent a notification about the death of O.J. Simpson.

I looked at the Skype app, and didn't see any way to turn off such notifications. Anyone else experience this type of behavior? And does anyone have a solution to stop Skype from sending these notifications?

I thought that the Cone of Silence was a technology of Spy Organizations...

Gee, and here I thought that the Buffalo curse had to do with the Buffalo Bills football team.

The other thing that amazes me is how the astronomers can plot the course of the moon and the exact times for cities in the path of the eclipse, the beginning of eclipse, the exact time of totality, and the exact end of totality. And this is not only for the eclipse of April 8, 2024, but they can give the same exact info for the next one 300 years into the future!

We live in a cul-de-sac. I should have been more descriptive.

For yesterday's eclipse, 4/8/2024, we didn't take any pictures, as the wise recommendation was to just enjoy the event, and not worry about camera settings. So, wife and I, with eclipse glasses, lay down in the middle of our street to watch. At totality, we took off the glasses.

What amazed me was the extent to which even a sliver of the sun (just before and just after totality) gave what was daylight, albeit much like dusk. So, long as the sliver was there, one could, if desired take a landscape picture. But as soon as totality came, BINGO, it went from day to night in an instant. WOW!

The Title ... was that intended as click-bate?

Jerry, if you are also using McAfee as your anti-virus, and have recently done a McAfee update...that is the problem. If you have any other anti-virus program, perhaps there are similar scenarios. I had such and got with Macrium support. The problem is that Macrium update removes 2 Excludes from McAfee, and thus Macrium goes bonkers and scans everything over and over...thus 10 hours. They provided a fix, which has to be done EVERYTIME you do a Macrium update:

Macrium Reflect – Problem:

Doing FULL backup to external HD taking 10 hours instead of approx. 2 hours.
Exclude 2 files from scan in McAfee:
Follow the instructions in the link below to exclude from Real-Time Scanning, 2 exe files in McAfee
https://www.mcafee.com/support/?articleId=TS102056&page=shell&shell=article-view

The files to exclude:
C:\Program Files\Macrium\Reflect\reflect.exe
C:\Program Files\Macrium\Reflect\reflectbin.exe

Jerry, is the 1st picture a generic picture of any non-specific runners?
Or, is that you in the middle in your younger days?

A little town in New Hampshire got $20 Million recently to install "heated sidewalks." Huh???

Jerry, try Karate for Ear Wax ON...Ear Wax OFF...