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  1. Looking for contact information to arrange a driver / ride to the airport leaving from San Luis Soyatlan going to airport, this Monday or Tuesday Basic English skills preferred. Thanks
  2. Yes. Thus my reason for inquiring. I don't know of any, guess you don't know of any. A simple throw of the dice to see if someone knows something you/I don't. Not so strange at all, specially in the context of other questions that get asked here.
  3. Lexy Yesterday at 10:45 AM Lexy, What's so confusing? Are you unfamiliar with the term "sous chef"?
  4. Thanks. I'll see check it out.
  5. Or perhaps if there is a restaurant in the area that is known for having excellant soups? T.I.A.
  6. Are there any known sous chefs at an of the local restaurants? If yes, please restaurant and sous chef's name if you happen to know it. Thanks.
  7. Such sales take place all the time. Yes, it is illegal, and like so many other things illegal here that happen all the time. I know of many such sales and I have never heard of anyone getting 'caught' or in trouble. Separately, last I heard, through Spencer's law office, you can arrange a sale of your car to someone who will take it north and resell it, having all the proper paperwork. Further, many motor homes and travel trailers that come here end up getting sold here. Some are still used on the road today even driven back up north, many others end up permanently parked at either Roca Azul or on both Mexicans and Gringos land. There are possible issues, does it have a current TIP? Will the buyer keep the car here or plan to go north? Will you have liability remaining liability? PM me if you'd like to discuss it further without the manslayer's pearls of wisdom.
  8. I went to a local shop that sells phones. Nothing, nowhere special. Have done this twice, last time spent about 1,100p if I remember correctly. You could get a used one, new one, gift from friend, knock over some old timer and steal there's (lots of those around :-), anything is most likely to work.
  9. I used Etafeta's Houston location for years with 98% satifaction. As mentioned above, they will receive and forward immediately, or hold multiple packages to combine (if desired). My last contact info for Houston, info may not be current: Houston Office contact: Mariana Tejeda 713 777 6206 (direct) 1 866 518 6600 (General) Mariana.tejeda@estafetausa.com www.estafeta.com After introducing yourself, you may send boxes to: Estafeta Usa Marianna Tejeda / (your name) 5802 bob bullock loop unit c1 Laredo Tx 78041 You can also skip the Houston office (packages received in Houston are prepared and then travel on to/through a Laredo office) and send directly to the Laredo location, where you may find different pricing. If you know in advance the dimentions, weight and purchase price you can call either/both locations for an estimate. Estafeta Laredo 5802 Bob Bullock Loop # C1 Laredo, TX, 78041-8813 956 717 3435 And, if you're shopping eBay, there's a variation called estafetamembers (eBay items only). You set up and account on line, receive a "box" number unique to you, and then send your eBay purchases there. eBay purchases cannot be combined. You'll receive an email from estafetamembers when they receive a package for you. If there's no purchase/price/invoice info inside you'll be required to send them a copy. There are a few steps involved (via email) to finally get your package on it's way here, but for smaller and lower priced items it may be the least-cost option. www.estafetamembers.com
  10. You are not required to rent a box at iShop in order to recelive your mail through them or use their service(s). You get their address in Laredo and the specific ID number for the either of the local offices, and then use it like your own. When the mail/packages come they won't go into a specific mail box, you just ask at the counter (mail from Laredo) and pay a relatively small fee, which I don't remember specifically, but certainly less than $10 for a letter. I've found them to be quite reliable, friendly and helpful. If you want to send or receive packages, perhaps you can have that done cheaper at one of the other services?
  11. I bought a separate phone here, cheap phone as it really has only one specific purpose for me, receiving these text messages. Don't use it for anything else, but use it often. Sits on my desk always on and plugged in. Each user probably has slightly different needs and will/should set up accordingly. No reason it can't be in a two SIM phone that I know of. If experiencing issues I suggest you contact the eBay seller and ask. I nrrdrd to do that and gt the help I needed.
  12. Thanks for the efforts/info. A nice example of a posting that asked a question, got good answers without unnecessary addons!
  13. Thanks for the replies. Can you say, is it legal to import then? Would it also get through using DHL FedEx and such? Do you have any specific item recommendation for pain control? I have no person experience with these yet...
  14. If any one has current information about the availability locally, or on-line ( or ordering from the USA?) of CBD oil, quality, pricing, I'd appreciate you sharing that information. Thanks.
  15. Didn't ask and don't need your rude reply, regardless if you are possibly having a bad day or just feeling testy. Old age doesn't give you a licence.
  16. This quote frfom each of the emails I receive from the Guad office... of course, each person gets to choose: " For us to give you the best possible attention, please make sure you write your social security number in the body of the email and not on the attachments."
  17. Does anybody know what amount of markup on prices these great stores are charging for bringing the products so close? Is the mark up same on everything or higher on certain products? Are the different locations competing with their prices?
  18. Depending on your sense of urgency, you might send an email to: fbu.guadalajara@ssa.gov Include your full name, social security number perhaps your phone number and a short discription of the facts and your concerns.
  19. https://ipostal1.com/ iPostal is a national network of what appears to be hundreds of the smaller, local mail box services in cities all over the USA. Had previously used Mail Boxes Etc. for 15plus years for both personal and business, about 8 or 10 years ago after winding down the business I sought out a less expensive solution and selected an iPostal member location near my old neighborhood up north. I knew exactly what I wanted, called that location and discussed my needs to see if he felt us a fit, and then signed up via the national site, choosing that preferred location. To some degree, the quality of service is likely to vary a little depending on the specific location, but in my case, I've been quite happy with both the local site, as well as the national customer support the couple of times I needed help. I can recommend this company.
  20. I've found their customer service people to quite helpful. This page may answer your question: https://www.t-mobile.com/support/account/transfer-your-phone-number
  21. I've been using for more than a year the T-Mobile program that MostlyLost is reffering to and I find it to be a great option. Set up one for a friend as well. Bought a separate 1,000p phone to put it in and use it exclusively for receiving text messages from multiple banks up north. I keep it plugged into power and turned on 24/7 sitting on my desk. Note: This program T-Mobile is NOT available directly from T-Mobile anymore, buying the SIM via eBay and following the instructions makes this a great option. I also have Ooma and using it without a VPN, the phone number was originally issued by a land line company in the USA. I continue to use it for my "home" (USA) phone and it works with all my banks, including CapitalOne, but it is not set up for text messaging. Using the Ooma cheap plan costs about $7 USD per month, initial equipment purchase is required and available from multiple sources.
  22. Good question, and by the way, it really has nothing in particular to do with a BTC mining machine, any more or less than it does the light bulb in your ceiling fixture. Before I go further, don't let my attempt to answer your question be an inference that I know very much about electricity, as, I know a little, and quite often use the wrong term or symbol myself. So far, I haven't electrocuted myself though, during the many and seemingly countless wiring projects I've worked on. There are several people who may post here that are quite knowledgeable on the topic, likely to include those working with the solar panel sales locally. First, "A" mining machine is rather unlikely to use 3MW, though a mining Farm might. The "M" means Mega and refers to 1,000,000 watts. The Antminer S19 XP (140Th) lists it's power consumption as 3010W, which might more often been written as 3,010w or 3kw (Kilo Watts). Three digits less. A watt is just a unit used for measuring power consumption, and this, usually "per hour", in a similar way that your water bill, which if on a meter, measures liters consumed, though not per hour rather in total. But a water pump will rate it's capacity in several ways, and might be liters per hour, gallons per hour and so on. Electricity just happens to watts per hour (Kw/hr, Mw/hr, or Joules if you're talking about a large hydro or Nuclear power system). Every one of us (old folks) here will recall that we used to buy 60 or 100 watt incandescent light bulbs, which measured not the actual amount of light be generated, but the amount of electricity they would "consume" per hour. Now we have multiple other options, each with their corresponding short comings, some LEDs (light emitting diodes) produce more actual "light" as seen by our eyes, with perhaps 1/10 of the electrical consumption or, 10watts. If the project you refer to is going to (hope to?) generate 5MW, that's 5,000,000watts, per hour, under the best conditions including ideal sunlight, angle of sun to the solar panels, temperature, and any atmospheric conditions such as clouds, rain, etc. If you have a common household hair blower/dryer or a microwave, it might be rated at 1,000w / 1Kw (per hour) or 1,500w / 1.5Kw. As this relates to Bitcoin mining, the Bitcoin system was designed without great thought about how much electricity it would consume in order to support it's system, not unlike say, a Nuclear powered Warship, meaning, the warship's power supply is designed to a great extend, to meet whatever the needs of the ship might be, under the most power hungry circumstances, and not with much thought to saving the planet. The Bitcoin system was designed in a similar way, and there have been many discussions within the BTC community about ways that might be altered, ways to reduce the power requirements, one of which I can't recall the name right now, has been offered that could do just that. BTC mining is really just the BTC support system, and that requires massive computational power in order to support it. And massive computers generally need massive amounts of electricity for both powering the computations as well as cooling the the computers themselves. Many people don't stop to think how much power is used for instance to support everything that's "in the cloud", the data and systems that allow us to sit quitely in our own homes and switch not between ABC, NBC or CBS as broadcast from a single big town on the tallest hill in town, but rather Amazon Prime, Netflix, et al. Or Spotify, any music streaming, or uploading all our photos, records, etc., etc., etc.. Amazon Cloud services, which are used nearly all across the planet, also consume massive amount of electrical power and the newish AI Artifical Intelligence appears to headed for the same level of massive elecrtical consumption. If your neighbor "Joe" happens to have an Antminer S19 XP (140Th) Bitdoin mining machine (techically an ASIC computer) running 24 hours a day, that's 3,000w / 3Kwatts of power per hour times 24 hours which might total something like 72,000w or 72Kw per day. If you compare to the 100w light bulb, he'd be able to light up the sky, with (i think) 720 of those old bulbs using the same nuber or watts! Talk about setting up a Christmas lights show! So look at your CFE bill and find the little bit of information where it indicates you price per Kw, in pesos of course, and multiply that time 72 and that's what it would cost Joe to run his single, modest, already approaching out-dated mining machine, if it were poewred from CFE today. 5MW? 5,000,000watts per hour production? 5,000,000 / 3,101 per machine, my brain is coughing to calculate, 1,661 Antminer S19 XP (140Th) machines, per hour of full production power, which might be unlikely to exceed more than 8 to 10 hours a day. Whoops, that's not what you asked, you asked how long it would take to power that one machine? I think that number is 0.0006 hours. Perhaps one of the math minds available here will correct me. And, for the person who will kindly correct my math (or anything else) thanks in advance.
  23. Way off? Perhaps you might reread what I actually wrote before you make an attempt at proving me wrong. "..might be reasonable that somebody along the way realized they have enough 'free' surplus electricity to be able to run a (perhaps) small mining system." I did not say nor imply anything about a bunch of computers. You posted outdated and currently incorrect information about pricing of a specific product as if it is a current fact, reframed the conversation to "building a (big) solar array", tossed in your opinion about what "most" miners are spending without any supporting evidence, put words into my mouth and are making "guesses" about somebody you know nothing about. Why not give it rest. You're clearly not the person I'm looking for in this post. If you want to piss on the BTC mining, start your own thread.
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