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Postby Burgerman » 03 Jun 2017, 10:36

As I said though. Theres no capitalist or socialist only country. Everywhere is a mix. The difference is the amount of each. But compared to the UK or USA you are an extremely socialist country. Democratic means you get to vote and theres real choice. Is that correct? And a democratic country may be mostly socialist or capitalist.

Eg china was super poor as a socialist country for a very long time, with little medical care clean water, etc. Many starved, or died very early. No infrastructure because no money. And then they spent 40 years as a free capitalist country and now they all get to eat and drive cars and live twice as long! The rise of china is another capitalist win. Now theres huge equality. But the poor are also better off. But still communist government...

Capitalist means no or very few state owned business and free trade/wages etc. People get to run businesses, keep profit, buy houses and jet planes... Huge equality DRIVES this, and everyone ends up richer.

Socialist means government lots of gov owned business and rented housing. Everyone has the same level, no point trying to improve your wealth. And inevitable poverty and / or eventual bankruptcy..

Where are you on this today?

Read this: http://www.culture-war.info/Socialism.html
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Re: Broken...

Postby hobie1dog » 03 Jun 2017, 17:06

Meanwhile, after a major thread Hijack.
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Re: Broken...

Postby Burgerman » 03 Jun 2017, 17:11

Quite! But you started it! :D
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Re: Broken...

Postby Burgerman » 03 Jun 2017, 23:40

Down for good by the look of it.
His redirect is a 301.

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Re: Broken...

Postby rustyjames » 04 Jun 2017, 00:04

One would think that a heads up to the faithful forum members would have been the proper thing to do. Thank you.
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Re: Broken...

Postby Burgerman » 04 Jun 2017, 00:06

I think they were all him! At least 2 were. And thats about all that were left? But seriously yes. You would think that might have been polite. Especially considering all the striving to serve and other stuff he repeated.
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Re: Broken...

Postby steves1977uk » 04 Jun 2017, 00:28

rustyjames wrote:One would think that a heads up to the faithful forum members would have been the proper thing to do. Thank you.


I agree, his few members must be wondering what happened to his forum. There wasn't any announcement as such that he was shutting it down. There was one lady from Aus (Judi?) asking for advice on which chair to pick and Mark never replied to her thread when I last looked before it went offline.

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Re: Broken...

Postby Gnomatic » 04 Jun 2017, 01:41

rustyjames wrote:One would think that a heads up to the faithful forum members would have been the proper thing to do. Thank you.


LOL Rusty that "Thank you" was most appropriate.

If you read his latest post on his powerchairdiares blog titled "In the Weeds of Life," it seems he's doing some self introspection. So, out with the old "Jeff," in with the new "Jeff" I presume?
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Re: Broken...

Postby steves1977uk » 04 Jun 2017, 11:51

All his articles bang on about the same thing though, just worded differently. :?

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Re: Broken...

Postby Sully » 04 Jun 2017, 15:31

Mark Smith, has simply proven what I wrote and got me booted off his site was correct. He is not a disabled person's advocate but a very selfish, and opinionated person.
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Re: Broken...

Postby Sully » 04 Jun 2017, 16:33

Now back to a sidetracked, hijack.
Quote of part of a former post; "In reality each country is a mix of these two. But all the primarily socialist/communist ones gradually went broke, since it doesn't work and keeps people poor and they mostly admitted defeat and all went over to the capitalist way of doing things, or are in the process of doing so. You want shops packed full of cheap food/cars/other? You want to own a big house, car, pool? Capitalism. You want to be able to run a business, get rich, employ others to help you do so? Capitalism. You want heat? Roof? Car? Job? That's capitalism. But clean water systems, sanitation, a safety net for the sick, emergency services, military and good roads? That's often socialism, but the MONEY for this comes from the capitalism! Without which you cannot pay for it".
I think this is a perverted view of both Capitalism and socialism! Neither correct. I do not believe Public Works things like a safe, water system, and Waste Water treatment, Streets and highways, are simply socialistic governmental responsibilities, or a corrupted form of Capitalistic government. These are services which are mutually provided tp the entire populace equally through assessed fee's. However, these services CAN be corrupted in many specialized ways. This is not the creation of the system, but a fault of phoney Capitalists!

Anytime Government invests in private industry, in any way: "THAT" is corruption of the capitalistic ideal ! One of the in your face perversions of the Capitalistic system (and usually self perpetrated) is Sports stadiums! Do Not Get Me Wrong, I myself do love spectator sports. BUT, Sports are a private industry, oblivious to ANTI TRUST laws, and many tax laws that other business and individual income tax, and businesses endure. This is an out and out violation of the Capitalistic system as y'all and I see it.

Republics seem to come in many forms. The one thing they supposedly have in common the Government of that Nation is operated and rules made by a representative form of Legislature. Representative form: ostensibly by some Democratic process. Voter election ! However, having a choice of Candidate of differing individuals with very different ideals is an assumed assurance. ONE Party, and an omnipotent leadership removes this so called Republic to nothing more than a word in the dictionary.

You require the absolute rule of law not simply some individuals hair brained ideas to have corruption. Laws are codified ! The word corruption is much misused. Corruption is the unmistakable multiple violation of the word and intentions of whatever laws are involved.
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Re: Broken...

Postby Rollin Positive » 04 Jun 2017, 17:41

steves1977uk wrote:
rustyjames wrote:One would think that a heads up to the faithful forum members would have been the proper thing to do. Thank you.


I agree, his few members must be wondering what happened to his forum. There wasn't any announcement as such that he was shutting it down. There was one lady from Aus (Judi?) asking for advice on which chair to pick and Mark never replied to her thread when I last looked before it went offline.

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I got Judi a while ago when I noticed Mark was not helping her...Perfect example of Marks BS that he is here to help...She had a Pride chair that was breaking down and looking for a new Edge feedback vs Frontier V6.

I put here in contact with Frontier and she is working on getting a new chair.

One less person in an Edge is a win for those potential customers!
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Re: Broken...

Postby Burgerman » 04 Jun 2017, 17:55

An edge, edge2 or any 6, 600 type chair with narrow base/smaller batteries is ok for indoors, shopping, etc. Smooth surfaces, low speeds, and short distances. As long as you can cope with no way to ever program it to steer properly.

But for distance, outdoor use, busy users, heavy users that eat burgers, uneven or off road uses, or hills its hopelessly out of its depth.

Esp when you consider that this was 7k delivered. Brushless, so 37 miles range, 59km. And is silent. And has 4 wheel extremely good suspension, 8mph, lights, and works great outdoors once you make some free adjustments! (programming, seat position, *tyres etc)

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You would need to be crazy to get an edge mid drive no suspension slow shopping chair.

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Re: Broken...

Postby steves1977uk » 04 Jun 2017, 18:28

RollPositive wrote:
steves1977uk wrote:
rustyjames wrote:One would think that a heads up to the faithful forum members would have been the proper thing to do. Thank you.


I agree, his few members must be wondering what happened to his forum. There wasn't any announcement as such that he was shutting it down. There was one lady from Aus (Judi?) asking for advice on which chair to pick and Mark never replied to her thread when I last looked before it went offline.

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I got Judi a while ago when I noticed Mark was not helping her...Perfect example of Marks BS that he is here to help...She had a Pride chair that was breaking down and looking for a new Edge feedback vs Frontier V6.

I put here in contact with Frontier and she is working on getting a new chair.

One less person in an Edge is a win for those potential customers!


I would suggest getting Judi to join this forum Timm, where people will advise and answer any questions she has.

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Re: Broken...

Postby Gnomatic » 04 Jun 2017, 18:40

RollPositive wrote:
I got Judi a while ago when I noticed Mark was not helping her...Perfect example of Marks BS that he is here to help...She had a Pride chair that was breaking down and looking for a new Edge feedback vs Frontier V6.

I put here in contact with Frontier and she is working on getting a new chair.

One less person in an Edge is a win for those potential customers!
Holy hell, an Edge vs a V6??? That's like comparing a mini gocart to a monster truck. Yes, the V6 is larger but 1000X more capable and durable. Its no contest.

Glad you steered Judy straight.
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Re: Broken...

Postby steves1977uk » 04 Jun 2017, 19:00

That's like comparing a Morris Minor to a Ferrari! :lol:

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Re: Broken...

Postby Rollin Positive » 05 Jun 2017, 21:01

Maybe thats one of the reason Mark didn't answer her because he didn't have anything that would match her needs.

Even Burgerman questioned the big difference why she was comparing one chair to the other and I think in talking to her Pride was one of her 1st chairs but its a pile of junk and not dependable. She is in a very rural city in Au and needs at times to roll on rough streets or dirt.

She liked the demo she did too.

She is going with the V6
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Re: Broken...

Postby steves1977uk » 05 Jun 2017, 21:42

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wheelchairjun ... ine&ia=web First result in that search suggests Mark was going offline for a while, was this a recent post as I never saw it :?

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Re: Broken...

Postby MenCallMeGimpy » 05 Jun 2017, 22:15

Now I wonder if all the people asking for help with batteries and replacement parts weren't actually just Mark's sock puppets. Maybe he needed all the free gear himself to keep his garbage Pride chair working.
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Re: Broken...

Postby Burgerman » 06 Jun 2017, 00:00

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=wheelchairjun ... ine&ia=web First result in that search suggests Mark was going offline for a while, was this a recent post as I never saw it :?

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No its meant to be for good. He used a "301" redirect. That is specifically to tell search engines that the site is moved permanently. Why? Because then google follows all the thousands of links pointing at wheelchair-junkie (theres hundreds on here alone) and their "confidence vote" (Page Rank) is then "passed on" to his other site/blog instead. On how poetry makes us stronger or suffering/addiction makes us more tolerant/stronger/or similar other quackery whatever it is. All those are the same thing to me.

Thats why there is a http://www.xxxxx and a non xxxxx.com too. To catch link juice from anyone linking to wheelchairjunki.com rather than http://www.wheelchairxx.xxx

That will get him a lot of direct traffic directly, but the real purpose is to push that page up the search engine rankings. So anyone searching for all his "suffering makes us better" or drowning helps us serve others" type garbage will find it higher on google.

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However, he now did one on gardening. Dont really understand any of it. But I do get weeds. But not for long. A boiling kettle, petrol, or weed killer soon nukes most of them. Some I cant reach. So I get my carers to pull them out while they are having a cigarette... (Addiction) makes my garden stronger! https://powerchairdiaries.com/2017/06/0 ... s-of-life/

And another, he likes gardening. Reads exactly the same? https://powerchairdiaries.com/2017/04/1 ... s-of-life/

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Re: Broken...

Postby Gnomatic » 06 Jun 2017, 01:20

Yeah a 301, he doesn't intend to use the wheelchairjunkie domain for the board anymore it appears.

All this stuff about dealing with weeds makes me think a new "Jeff" might be on he way.
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Re: Broken...

Postby ex-Gooserider » 06 Jun 2017, 01:21

New (im)Mobility is the magazine put out by the United Spinal Association... It tends to be rather formulaic in that it has a pretty consistent set of articles, with a lot of 'travel to interesting places in a chair' and 'doing challenging things with an SCI', plus reports on local United Spinal chapters and other assorted stuff... They have various report on available technology, often looking like it was written by or with lots of help from the corporate marketing departments... Mark is a pretty regular contributor of 'technical' articles (which says how technical they are...)

However it is FREE to sign up, and they send the paper copy to US residents at no charge. They also have an electronic edition, and I think anyone in the world can get that. (No surprise, you will get regularly hit up for donations, but...)

I'd say that it is marginally worth more than I pay for it, as they do give announcements of new products, news on medical research non-progress, and so on. They are also at least claiming to be one of the major lobbying groups for those of us with SCI related disabilities, and do stuff like sponsoring an annual "Roll on Capitol Hill" trip to annoy members of the DC crime collective....

Overall, it seems like worth while to sign up with them if you have an SCI or MS, especially if you live in the US...

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Re: Broken...

Postby MenCallMeGimpy » 06 Jun 2017, 01:56

I read one of his regular "innovation" articles on NM, which was basically a puff piece about iLevel, the Whill Chair, and some other guff. It prompted me to post on WCJ, asking Mark why meaningful innovation in the power chair industry was so glacially slow. That prompted him to go into full-on schoolmaster-condescension-mode, complete with personal remarks about my "cynicism" and unfounded observations about my view of the world. It seemed a very strange response to a pretty simple question about the obvious shortcomings in the tools available for the disabled, and indicated to me that he may be a couple of Pimm's short of a regatta.

At a later date, I advised (I presume) another forum member about the differences in programming levels available for chair controllers. This sent Mark into virtual apoplexy, full of ad hominem attacks, rants against "hobbyists meddling where they don't belong," the non-existence of OEM dongles (like the one plugged into the PC from which I composed the original post), and the damage such uninformed advice did to other forum members. I realized then I was dealing with a full-bore loony, so I stopped visiting WCJ.
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Re: Broken...

Postby hobie1dog » 06 Jun 2017, 02:04

Side note/partial hijack( I am good at that)...when my new Quickie 636 got delivered Friday, the shop mechanic said it was the first one he had seen. I told him that they tried talking to me about getting a Quantum, he said" I work on those every day, great job security for me."
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Re: Broken...

Postby Gnomatic » 06 Jun 2017, 02:28

MenCallMeGimpy wrote:I read one of his regular "innovation" articles on NM, which was basically a puff piece about iLevel, the Whill Chair, and some other guff. It prompted me to post on WCJ, asking Mark why meaningful innovation in the power chair industry was so glacially slow. That prompted him to go into full-on schoolmaster-condescension-mode, complete with personal remarks about my "cynicism" and unfounded observations about my view of the world. It seemed a very strange response to a pretty simple question about the obvious shortcomings in the tools available for the disabled, and indicated to me that he may be a couple of Pimm's short of a regatta.

At a later date, I advised (I presume) another forum member about the differences in programming levels available for chair controllers. This sent Mark into virtual apoplexy, full of ad hominem attacks, rants against "hobbyists meddling where they don't belong," the non-existence of OEM dongles (like the one plugged into the PC from which I composed the original post), and the damage such uninformed advice did to other forum members.


This is exactly the type of crap that he spouted to anyone who didn't treat him as the High Priest of mobility. He used to claim WCJ was "The world's largest site for wheelchair user reviews, essays, editorials, and message boards." Now it's gone. This place is flourishing.

Damn the "hobbyists" who placed their mobility in front of his ego.
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Re: Broken...

Postby Burgerman » 06 Jun 2017, 10:09

I read one of his regular "innovation" articles on NM, which was basically a puff piece about iLevel, the Whill Chair, and some other guff. It prompted me to post on WCJ, asking Mark why meaningful innovation in the power chair industry was so glacially slow. That prompted him to go into full-on schoolmaster-condescension-mode, complete with personal remarks about my "cynicism" and unfounded observations about my view of the world. It seemed a very strange response to a pretty simple question about the obvious shortcomings in the tools available for the disabled, and indicated to me that he may be a couple of Pimm's short of a regatta.

At a later date, I advised (I presume) another forum member about the differences in programming levels available for chair controllers. This sent Mark into virtual apoplexy, full of ad hominem attacks, rants against "hobbyists meddling where they don't belong," the non-existence of OEM dongles (like the one plugged into the PC from which I composed the original post), and the damage such uninformed advice did to other forum members.


Very funny!
Esp as the most uninformed advice on his forum was his own.

This is beyond OEM that he as a manufacturer uses on their curtis made stuff. And us mere "hobbyists"... Its real low level setup for use by the controller manufacturer. Its misnamed "service". It might actually cause him to detonate like an delusional Muslim!
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Re: Broken...

Postby CPguy » 06 Jun 2017, 11:56

@ Burgerman: I like this "Service" dongle! Note: "battery guess" and the gauge decreases at 0,1 Volt intervals, etc., - Just too funny!
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Re: Broken...

Postby Burgerman » 06 Jun 2017, 12:17

It actually refers to the battery voltage recovery if you turn the programmer off. Then later back on again. The guess is "how much it will recover over time without a charge" In an effort to determine if it has really been charged, or if it has recovered voltage without being charged. Because one adds capacity to the battery. The other only appears to have done that. So the gauge reads differently if its higher, but not been charged...

Its a fudge to get the meter to look more logical... Reads higher for a bit after a real charge, and doesn't read higher if you turn off to watch TV. Even though the volts recover a little. Doesn't work of course, and just adds more confusion to the meter.
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Re: Broken...

Postby steves1977uk » 06 Jun 2017, 12:50

MenCallMeGimpy wrote:I read one of his regular "innovation" articles on NM, which was basically a puff piece about iLevel, the Whill Chair, and some other guff. It prompted me to post on WCJ, asking Mark why meaningful innovation in the power chair industry was so glacially slow. That prompted him to go into full-on schoolmaster-condescension-mode, complete with personal remarks about my "cynicism" and unfounded observations about my view of the world. It seemed a very strange response to a pretty simple question about the obvious shortcomings in the tools available for the disabled, and indicated to me that he may be a couple of Pimm's short of a regatta.

At a later date, I advised (I presume) another forum member about the differences in programming levels available for chair controllers. This sent Mark into virtual apoplexy, full of ad hominem attacks, rants against "hobbyists meddling where they don't belong," the non-existence of OEM dongles (like the one plugged into the PC from which I composed the original post), and the damage such uninformed advice did to other forum members. I realized then I was dealing with a full-bore loony, so I stopped visiting WCJ.


LOL, I remember reading that thread! Mark does remind me of my schooldays where teachers could be very strict on what's right and wrong. It seems to me he doesn't like being corrected on stuff (even when he's plainly wrong!) and won't listen to people who are CORRECT with their answers. That's why he likes writing on blogs and the likes, because no-one can question his "authority". :roll:

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Re: Broken...

Postby Burgerman » 06 Jun 2017, 18:57

Well those are all about gardening or something lately I think.
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