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Love to support my local B&M, but being in FL sucks. This means I get my supplies locally and my tins online.
I've fallen down on my pipe shop visits that weren't that frequent anyway. Nearly all my recreational shopping has gone by the board this past pandemic year. I pick up beer and kitty litter at Walgreens. I too used to shop at Pipes by George, and plan to, but it's been a long time. Cigars are certainly a revenue stream and tend to shoulder over the pipe and pipe tobacco inventory. Many cigar shops don't want you smoking a pipe, since that's not what they carry. But George keeps his pipe supplies and carries cigars too. Once George retires, it would be a drive to another city or out to the J&R outlet to see what they have. One premium cigar costs as much as a tin of premium tobacco that offers about twenty smokes.
This isn't right. Customers killed retail stores when they no longer wanted them. It's literally always the customers.
I miss living in the Raleigh area. Pipes by George is great!
Yup, George is a real pipe guru. He's understated and pleasant, and I think he's gotten grandfathered in on some of the local regs so he can allow people to smoke. The Tinder Box in the mall, now closed, couldn't do that. I like the penciled note in the door that explains that if you enter, you may be exposed to smoke. I think he used to work in the medical field. He has a son who's a teacher who sometimes manages the place on rare occasions when George takes time off. He's in a row of storefronts that include a tattoo parlor and a bicycle shop, but the neighborhood has gentrified with big apartment complexes, which has boosted his business (I think) if it doesn't jack up the rent. The store is one of a kind, a real old-time pipe shop with a hand-built humidor, an old mechanical cash register, a produce scale with balances, and a dart board on the wall. The floor planks are about eight inches wide and unfinished. This is the place.
This is incorrect. At whatever abstraction level you look at there is a subtraction operation - From Logic Gates, to Microprocessor Op Codes to Programming Languages
I was waiting for someone to make that statement. It took a bit longer than I anticipated. What do you think I was alluding to when I made the previous statement?
Yep, people chose price over ALL else. My buddy at the factory would laugh when I told him my jeans were $45 a pair, made in USA using the old heavy/durable denim that was standard years ago. He said he could buy three pairs at Walmart for $45. I asked how long they last (we worked in a soap factory with slurry and caustics that would degrade anything they touched.) he said about a year. Well, eight years in, I still had my original jeans, none the worse for wear, while he’s gone through 24 pairs! ? Call me crazy, but I think my durable more expensive jeans actually turned out CHEAPER in the long run. Eight times cheaper?
I keep meaning to stop by Pipes by George. And grab a Char-Grill. "Let's do it for Johnny!" "Shut up and take my money!!!"
I love a B&M store. However, I have seen two of them near me close. The stores that I have been to don't nearly have the inventory of pipes as the stores from the past. Let's face it, pipe smoking is no where near what it use to be. I would love to continue to support a B&M, but finding one to support is getting harder and harder.
Jef
Jef
The nearest B&M to me that actually cared and serviced pipe smokers is 37 miles away. We used to hold our pipe club meeting there. The two men that ran the shop before April of last year were knowledgeable pipe and cigar smokers and kept a good inventory of both pipes and pipe tobacco. The pipe tobacco was priced from three to five dollars higher than what I could order online, but I bought most of what I smoked from them.
That ended when the pandemic shut everything down. The two old guys were permanently "furloughed" when the shop closed completely for about 45 days. When it re-opened, the brought in two men from another shop which stayed closed. They also raised their prices on pipes and pipe tobacco. Now a tin that I was used to paying $14.95 for is now prices at $18.95.
I would still support them but the new workers are about as friendly as a raccoon's butt.
That ended when the pandemic shut everything down. The two old guys were permanently "furloughed" when the shop closed completely for about 45 days. When it re-opened, the brought in two men from another shop which stayed closed. They also raised their prices on pipes and pipe tobacco. Now a tin that I was used to paying $14.95 for is now prices at $18.95.
I would still support them but the new workers are about as friendly as a raccoon's butt.
I have no clue. I assumed you picked up wrong information from somewhere, and corrected it.
Nope - apples and oranges. I wasn’t speaking of coding.
Binary Arithmetic
At their lowest level, computers cannot subtract, multiply, or divide. Neither can calculators. The world's largest and fastest supercomputer can only add—that's it. It performs the addition at the bit level. Binary arithmetic is the only means by which any electronic digital computing machine can perform arithmetic.
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That is an incorrect statement sir, but you want to believe that power to you.
And I was not talking Only about coding. If you want to learn look up logic circuits (Specially the Full Subtractor) and Microprocessor Theory
Jungle Jim’s....? Do they still have the old KI monorail outside? And what’s BEF?