What’s your age range for this AWESOME elderly cohort?
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From what I read the bond is attached to the pending tariffs. I asked the question about bonds in a sincere way since my experience of importing a horse did not align with the new information related to potential tariffs.
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Some of us “oldies” have been using computers and the internet from their inception and are quite good at research. Why you have chosen this smug, insulting attitude is a mystery. You certainly won’t make friends on this board with your odd posts. However, I doubt you care.
How many horses have you imported?
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IME, the “elderly” are significantly more adept at performing internet searches that return useful results than the average college student.
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Yes! My jobs have always entailed intense research. I have a science degree that required a great deal of research before the internet was available. If I could write a research paper from one obscure Russian notation on the rate of evolution of oysters, I can navigate the internet. 
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I’m sorry, what?
I’d ask for more clarification, but it takes FOREVER to start my Model T, and I have to get to the mercantile afore dark.
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Yes, I’ve got it now. The confusion came from another poster who insisted I paid a bond and didn’t know it. That was not true.
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Model T’s can be tricky to start 
but once they get going you can drive them 'bout anywhere.
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I’ve never imported a horse but my Canadian friends have crossed the border with horses a lot for shows and clinics in the past, and there was no charge for that previously.
Obviously we will not be doing that for the foreseeable future, it’s just too risky. So far I have heard of three (white) tourist women, a Canadian, a British and a German, who are in ICE detention. Used to be you just got turned back at the border if the US border agent didn’t like your documents or face. They always had a lot of discretion. Now you can go to detention indefinitely with no lawyer. This is not a political comment it is just a common sense warning on the topic of crossing borders.
Speaking from the Canadian side, the tariffs situation fluctuates from day to day because it is being done by decree on both sides and at provincial as well as federal level. I cannot imagine that the border staff are necessarily up to date on every shift.
I would not want to be importing a horse that could get impounded while the border guards try to figure out what to do. I could totally see that happening, impounded or confiscated.
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My dad has a Model A. It still has the crank start system. It’s an absolute bugger to get going!
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Yes, you’re right. The bond is for the amount of the tariff. I fixed that.in my first comment.
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I was chatting with one of the women at the track this afternoon and she knows a Canadian woman who has a visa to work in the US, who went on vacation in Mexico and was detained by ICE on her return to the US. She’s sharing a cell with about 5 other people. The only light is florescent type, no windows, no place to lie down (beds).
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More places than a Tesla.
At one point in my childhood, the family’s “second car” was a Model A Ford pickup truck.
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“More places than a Tesla” Brilliant!
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That’s a pretty insulting post. I supported major companies’ computer systems for a long, long time. I can still write SQL queries and Unix scripts when I’m half asleep, as I frequently had to do when the companies I worked for had system problems during the night, and it was my responsibility to trouble shoot by myself and deal with the problem. I may be older, but I’m another who has been using computers from the punch card era to modern state of the art.
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I was shocked someone could post something so silly. I hope that person has the good manners to be embarrassed.
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At one point say about 30 or 40 years ago, you could assume that an “older person” who retired out of the work force before computers were a thing might have fewer skills.
But this is 2025. Count on your fingers. The hotshot programmers that got into Microsoft on the ground floor in the 1980s and reaped the stock options are well into their 60s now. I’ve met some, friends of friends.
The children entering college today on average are not that good at finding information or even navigating a web site with drop box menus. They have grown up on apps, games, chat programs. Actual programming skills remain a niche thing.
At one point yes about 30 years ago we thought we were raising a computer literate generation faster than their parents, but it certainly isn’t the current one that uses the phone for everything.
Meanwhile 'older" adults who have used computers for 40 years and through many operating systems and websites are much more likely to be able to find stuff online. Because they’ve used them at work their entire lives
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This^^^^💗
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What is your searching advice to the elderly using a Mac?
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Control + F only allows you to search in this COTH topic. There is no need to use a shortcut on a MAC, just use a search engine.
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