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Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 2:35 pm
Post subject: Saving our future or just repeating the cycle
I'd like to get environmental for a moment with a bit of sci-fi mumbo jumbo.
I can remember my parents telling me after man landed on the moon how they all assumed in 2000 we'd be living there in colonies. They didn't know why they would live there; they just thought it would be cool.
After watching an episode of Ted Talks about the moon Europa (Jupiter's moon). I discovered that moons could also be a place for resources. Our own moon contains what is called Helium-3; which is a safe and environmentally friendly fuel that could revolutionize the planet and our dependent on oil.
So living on our own moon is starting to sound like a pretty good idea. Not because a colony can be set up there as a "second home" but because we can drill into this moon for resources and use it to help out our own planet. There was a pretty cool movie called Moon where they were doing this exact idea. The more I learned about it, the more it actually makes sense.
If the US were to be the first to supply this H3 to Earth (being the first men on the moon). It would be a bigger economic boost than the end of World War 2.
If we can successfully harvest this fuel from our moon, what's to stop us from traveling to Europa and bringing back its ice to refill our oceans and clean out our own H20? Well first of all, Jupiter is one light hour away so we just can't get there yet. But it can be done, we don't have to achieve light travel to get there, we just need to be able to travel fast enough that it would feel like taking a plane from NYC to Sydney Australia.
It kind of sounds a bit hopeful, like we've got a back up plan if things get too terrible here on Earth. But it asks the question is this the right thing to do? If we're the only living things in our solar system then we should see moons as resources we were given to help restore our planet. However, is hollowing out our moons just our destructive nature, the same destructive nature that is killing our planet?
What do you think
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One o these days Rakon! One o these days! POW Right to the moon.
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The more i look at how the world's working, the more worried i get.
Basically, humanity is screwed. And i don't mean that in a funny way - i mean we had a golden opportunity between 1970 and 1990 to explore our local space and start establishing structures on other bodies.
It's now the 2010s and the population continues to grow. By the 2020s we'll be at 10bil+ humans, by 2030 we'll be reaching our population cap/carrying capacity and the climate be ready to start it's next cycle - the ice caps will have melted further and the ocean currents we're used to will have changed.
This means that from 2020 onward, all our technology and money will be going towards resources to keep us alive. This is a pointless task because population caps find a way of dropping the size of the population. For humans, it will probably be huge wars killing billions. Even if there's no huge wars, there won't be any space exploration happening because nobody will want to spend money on seeing if there's titanium on mars when a family in socal has 2 cans of baked bans between them for dinner.
Unless we see a dramatic shift in how things work, humanity stands a good chance of declining right at this point and never making it out of the solar system.
What we need is nuclear power, better batteries, lab grown meat and superior desalination technology. We need these things right now if we want to avoid BIG fucking problems in the next 20 years.
But it won't happen. People are retards and are opposed to nuclear power and won't want to eat meat that hasn't been on a (very resource expensive) animal. Electric cars won't work until batteries have been improved and nobody cares about how much drinkable water we'll have in the future, preferring to drink a coke now.
So, my predictions?
Australia gets taken over (through war or politics) before 2030 for our delicious natural resources, the US decides to go after some more small countries between now and then, steps on some toes and starts a full scale war with somebody. The UK doesn't bother with any of that - it just dies from the inside, while japans young continue to not have children causing them to go into a very bad economic downturn. South Korea takes over the role japan had as the tech center of the planet when Samsung and Hyundai continue to grow, north korea will keep talking shit until somebody offers to buy them out or they die from the inside.
As this happens, natural disasters are more common as the planet starts to switch itself over to track B.
Nuclear plants would continue to fail as they get built too cheaply and rushed in 2020+
End result: Human population drops below 5bil by 2050, the population cap/carrying capacity having done it's job. The future of humanity depends largely on if the Magnetosphere continues to have our back.
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Basically, humanity is screwed.
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keep a cool head, consider the consequences of your actions, and treat others the way you want them to treat you.
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Go check out scishow and crachcourse if you're not already subscribed to them on youtube. Awesome channels and you can form your own opinion on how screwed you think humanity is.
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I don't think that utilizing the resources of the moon signifies any type of harmful traits humanity has other than the fact we live life like parasites as opposed to mammals. What's never discussed on the subject however, at least not to my knowledge, is if there was some type of large scale mining operation on the moon, if it would affect the gravitational pull it has, and therefor disrupt how the tides work here on earth.
Also in regards to the topic, the difficulty isn't so much mining the material, it's already plausible (at least on the moon anyways), the difficulty lies in having an effective and economical way of transporting it from the moons surface, as a craft that can launch from earth, land on the moon, and then launch from the moons surface to earth again would require so much fuel that the payload brought back would barely cover the cost of resources to get there. There's an excellent TED talk regarding that matter, and they're currently trying to drum up funding, for floating helium balloons to pull it off of the surface where it is then collected by a orbiting space craft, which would require the first ever colony on the moon for permanent residence so workers can continually operate.
As for reaching the moons of Jupiter (and Saturn, lots and lots of potential there) they're discussing the possibility of using nuclear pulse propulsion, all theories show it appears to be possible with todays technology, but it still is an extended flight time. there's been multiple discussions on how to bring back the payload, but most seem absurd so far, with the exception being to build a massive magnetic rail to propel large crates of mined materials back to earth, the issue being not only the construction of the rail, but the path it would take as the asteroid field isn't really something that sits still, and a crate hurdling into an asteroid at super sonic speed (probably not the right term given there is no sound barrier to break in space) would be catastrophic.
None the less interesting stuff to look into, things that you think are purely sci-fi are being discussed frequently and openly, and seem to be within reach in the next couple of decades, things like asteroid harvesting even, there's belief that a single large asteroid could hold more iron in it than the earth itself, along with other rare minerals
As for one country completing this and rocketing to the top of the world wide economy, perhaps for the moon but it would take a larger effort to reach Europa than one nation alone could muster
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I'm just asking if it's ok to milk moons for all they're worth.
If we were capable of traveling to other planets and discovered resources beneficial to our survival, is it right to use those resources for our own planet? Afterall, Earth is special, we need it because of how perfectly we are revolving around our star. Then again, the moral dilemma is we screwed up Earth, now we're going to destroy the moon and whatever else we find besides H20 on Europa. What happens when we use up everything around us to keep Earth a habitable planet?
For one thing we can't just abandon Earth, well we could but we'd all wind up like those fat fucks in Wall-E. I suppose by then we could travel at light speed and reach a planet within a safe zone around its star. But other solar systems are light YEARS away.
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Well humanities best work comes from necessity, so as Earth becomes fucked up, we'd develop tech to utilize other planets, and as they get drained, we'd develop tech to go further and milk that area, but to be honest, before we get to that point I think we'll be able to comfortably live outside of the Earth, in space colonies (to resolve population issues as opposed to resource draining) and I'm pretty sure we'll have developed renewable energy (or fission)
that in itself would dramatically reduce the requirement for natural resources and leave only construction draining the resources, which would slow it's effect and avoid a scenario where we're left with nothing to use
why can't we move beyond earth? artificial gravity would prevent us from becoming the fat fucks in wall-e
I'm high as fuck so if my points not clear that's perfectly understandable, the tl;dr version is we need to push ourselves into a crisis situation to force the development of new technologies that will remove, or drastically reduce the need for such resources
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Helium 3 does sound like a miracle cure, but the real obstacle is getting enough back to Earth to matter. While H3 is more abundant on the Moon, it's still at low concentrations, like only a few dozen parts per billion. We'd have to clear an entire acre of regolith to get any amount of significance.
In our current technological state, we just aren't capable of getting to the Moon, stripping huge swaths of its surface, and then getting the H3 back to Earth. All that being said though, the key words are 'current technological state'.
I think that by time we get there though, we will have already developed more easily obtainable methods of energy reliance than what H3 would give us. H3 will likely better serve any potential Lunar colonies or other such operations.
And then there's the asthetic factor. Are we prepared to ruin the beauty of the Moon's surface as seen from Earth? Sure, such a concern is trivial if we are absolutely out of alternative options, but processing the surface for H3 will leave us with a dimmer, darker and ultimately, a more featureless orb in our sky.
As I pointed out earlier though, we'll develop something else before H3 mining becomes a nessecary resort. Increased nuclear reliance, fission, even zero-point energy are likely to arrive before we are to go prospecting in the Sea of Tranquility.
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De-Ting wrote:
madster111 wrote:
Basically, humanity is screwed.
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Yeah Wicked, you gotta stop.
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I have Night Blind-ness, it's a serious condition guys!
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The real question is should we save Wicked's future or let him repeat his cycle of ambiguously stoner threads?
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|i know this is old thread.after reading this why has all your betta died in this tank.i was planning to buy for my betta.
Hi I was just reading your post from start to finish. I hope your bf is doing OK.
I may have a little insight into the snails issue. I recently purchased 3 sparkling gouramis and i swear I saw an almost immediate drop of snails in the tank. I think they eat the small ones. I can't prove it but i think that's what happend. I have some ghost shrimp there and they'll even go and bite those even though they were bigger than them.
Well the bad news is that my large gourami (i had 3 sizes as well) bullied the other two and eventually they died after about 1 week or so. He ( i call him he) is still alive and thriving apparently. not shy at all. anyway... just my two cents.
|Just did a full rescape/trim job on the tank. New pictures coming in a few day once it clears up and the fish settle back in.
Thanks! The fish sure seem to like it. I'm really hoping the younger of the two ends up being a male for me. Perhaps I'll get eggs. They've settled in really nicely in the last few months. Really active and curious.
He's getting there. Probably 6 more months before everything internal is back to where it should be, and another 2 years for the scars to heal, but other then that, he's doing MUCH better.
Originally Posted by golfer_d View Post
The tank looks great! And cool shots of the fish....a nice mature tank like that must be a lot of fun for the fish.
PS: I hope your b/f is on the full road to recovery if not 100% already!
The tank looks great! And cool shots of the fish....a nice mature tank like that must be a lot of fun for the fish.
PS: I hope your b/f is on the full road to recovery if not 100% already!
So, 1 week after I posted my last update, my boyfriend got hit by a truck (pulling a trailer, carrying a racecar). Awesome times. Anywho, he spent 11 days in the hospital, and an addition 4 weeks at home, on morphine and ridiculous levels of anti-inflammatories. It was some pretty sock rocking good times, and serious aquarium neglect times. Plus side, my aquariums like neglect, I've discovered. My fish grew, my plants grew, everything continued to stay happy and healthy.
Well. Almost everything. In that 6ish weeks barely remembering to top off and drop some worms in the tank, my snails started melting. Well. Their shells started melting. Nothing else in the tank is affected, but my snail population is declining. I, actually have no problems with this, but have never had this happen before. If anyone has any input on it, I'd love to hear it!
In other news, over the last month or so, after every weekly water change, my sparkling gourami's have started croaking. According to my brief search on youtube for such things, it sounds as if at least one of them is female. I'm not sure if they both are, or if the smaller of the two is just to immature to be sexually active or not yet. Either way, someone's happy. I did a water change 8 hours ago, and I can still hear them clicking away when I'm in the room. Sounds a bit like breaking thick glass. If my tank weren't acrylic, I would be worried. As it stand, I have to assume I'm doing something right!
The crypts in the tank, are really, really getting overwhelmingly tall now. On the one hand, I want to rip them out and replace them with something shorter. On the other hand, I'm broke. Also, I'm not sure what I'd put there. And, it's a dirted tank, and they've started spreading. Getting them out MIGHT not be possible. I'm tossing around the idea of trying it anyway, and seeing if I can coerce some java moss to make a carpet around the front of the tank, like I've got going on in the 25 in places, or if I should just leave it, and let it mature and be happy. The bolbitus continues to thrive. When I was doing a water changed today, I looked. The back 5 inches are all thick, lush bolbitus, to the point that for the most part, you can't even see the back wall of the tank. On the one hand, gorgeous! On the other, it really MIGHT be time to thin it out now. I keep saying I'm going to, I keep not doing it. It's just so pretty! But, since I'm rethinking mild rescape, perhaps it's time. It's an idea I'll have to toss around for a bit more, I think, before I make any decisions.
In the mean time, pictures!
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Finally an update! I picked up 3 sparkling gourami's on the 27th of July. The largest one, the smallest one, and the darkest one, purely so I could tell which was which. They had just arrived from the distributor, hadn't even hit the store tanks yet. They settled in ok, but about a week after I brought them home, I moved the tank 18 inches to the left, and I haven't found the largest one since. The other two are growing up nicely. They're still VERY juvenile, so their coloration leaves a bit to the imagination. The large MIA one, however, was quite lovely. I'm hoping they take after him.
The last week and a half I've been exclusively feeding live foods. I haven't quite worked out how many microworms are required to feed 2 itty bitty gouramis (not many!), so I have a bit of algae growing in the bolbitus that I pick out every week or so, when I do water changes. Otherwise, all is well.
With just the stock lighting on:
For picture taking purposes, I put a 27 watt PC bulb over it.
FINALLY got an updated picture tonight. My light turns off at about 9:40, so it was hard getting one after the sunset, but before the lights clicked off, but, finally, I HAVE SUCCEEDED!
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Right, in other news, the local petstore is doing an order of sparkling gouramis for me this week. They SHOULD be here on Friday, hopefully I can grab a few more pictures of them next week after they've settled in.
Also, the left back corner is looking slightly sparse, as that's where I ganked out a bunch of plants to go into my 25 gallon. I'm thinking in a month or two it should fill in nicely and you won't even notice. That, or I'll go through and pull out quite a bit from the rest of the tank, as it's gotten pretty thick back there.
Anyway, it's a pretty easy going tank. Could probably use an oto at the moment, there's a very, VERY fine dusting of brown algae on the glass, but mostly it's algae free and happy.
|UPS dropped off the light today. Took about a week transit time, but it's making a HUGE difference on the tank. I really will try and get updated pictures tonight, now that I have enough light to actually photograph the tank. I never realized how much of a difference 6 little LED's made.
Little, pictureless update on this thread.
My lighting is going out. 6 LED's are officially fried, with another few on their way out. I emailed Aqueon, and they were really excellent about it. Got back to me quickly, I emailed them a copy of my receipt, and they put a new light fixture in the mail for me. I haven't received it yet, but this all happened within the last week.
None the less, I'll try and get some updated pictures this week. I just ripped out about a quarter of my bolbitus for another project and you can hardly even tell. It needs a serious trimming soon, maybe next week I do more thinning.
Little late getting back to this thread, not sure if it will be terribly helpful. As for me, I bought a pair of sponges for a Fluval canister filter, I think (it's written in this thread somewhere) and stuck them standing on the long end at the front casing of the filter, one on top of the other. That was pretty much high enough to cover all the intake holes, to keep shrimp from getting in. I never had a problem, but I've heard of others who did. I filled behind that with filter floss, and when I can get my hands on some bioballs, I'll probably put them at the bottom. So, my set up would be, medium sponges against the wall that divides the tank from the filter, bioballs on the bottom half, and filter floss on the top half.
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I was wondering if I can ask a few questions. I have the evolve 8
I has dwarf hairgrass and HC in emersed right now. I plan on flooding it in the next few weeks and putting some moss in with it and eventually add some cherry shrimp.
My main question is how do I set up the filter?
This is my first planked tank and I don't want to use the carbon filter it came with
I'm thinking ceramic bio in the bottom
Followed by fine filter and on top a course filter.
Is this right?
Do I need to block the intake with anything to stop shrimp from getting in?
Please help.
Photos and more info on the rank are under my tank section
I was wondering if I can ask a few questions. I have the evolve 8
I has dwarf hairgrass and HC in emersed right now. I plan on flooding it in the next few weeks and putting some moss in with it and eventually add some cherry shrimp.
My main question is how do I set up the filter?
This is my first planked tank and I don't want to use the carbon filter it came with
I'm thinking ceramic bio in the bottom
Followed by fine filter and on top a course filter.
Is this right?
Do I need to block the intake with anything to stop shrimp from getting in?
Please help.
Photos and more info on the rank are under my tank section
Hi Pook,
Just wanted to update you on my two evolve 4g's.
Both had bettas to begin with but both passed away oddly at the same day... Considering they were completely independant tanks, i wonder if there wasnt something in the water... anywho
fast forward today. Both of them are now shrimp tanks and heavily planted.
my first 5 cherrys that i ever bought are still in there and have since had 5 babies in the tank. My missing babies in the past were likely attributed to the sump intake being unprotected, hence my post earlier to you regarding the fluval sponge stuff'd in for protection.
my other tank, is stocked with higher grade sakura shrimp which have more of a full red body, and less transparency of the cherries. there was a lapse where i would lose a shrimp a day. On day 3, i did a major 80% water change and actually cleaned the gravel particularly where i used to concentrate all my feeding. It was very dirty there, and only there for obvious reasons.
Since then i also started adding mineral additives, namely Calcium Montmorillonite. Mosura and these other companies market it as Old sea mud but it adds the calcium and other stuff that the shrimp need in their environment. ive only added about a pinch or so a week for the past two weeks. I have 1 sakura that was berried and now nearly bursting to give birth in the tank so i am excited. i hope the eggs hatch and not drop.
Ive also upgraded the food from the fluval, hikari pellets and algae wafers to some of the borneo wild products. It has certainly increased the survival rate and my peace of mind that they are more comfortable. Anyway, i should start a journal for my evolves too but happy to keep up with your progress with equal enthusiasm!
All the best!
Originally Posted by acitydweller View Post
Hey Pooky,
You are making great progress with your Evolve. I added cherry shrimp and had to add a fluval foam filter to the sump intake to prevent any accidental deaths. i do see 2 or 3 shrimplets so there had to have been a birth in the tank. The malaysian trumpet snails and pond snails also have kids around. The best thing i've added to the tank (for the shrimp) was java moss. they graze on it all day. will probably attach it to the driftwood one of these free weekends...
It's hard to tell in the pictures, but there actually is a bit of java moss attached to the larger of the pieces of driftwood. It came in as a hitch hiker and I haven't gotten around to doing anything about it. There's also a clump of what I think is willow moss floating around in the front left corner. Again, it's hard to see. They don't seem to spend much time on it though. They're much more fascinated by the bolbitus and the IAL leaves I drop in regularly.
Hey Pooky,
You are making great progress with your Evolve. I added cherry shrimp and had to add a fluval foam filter to the sump intake to prevent any accidental deaths. i do see 2 or 3 shrimplets so there had to have been a birth in the tank. The malaysian trumpet snails and pond snails also have kids around. The best thing i've added to the tank (for the shrimp) was java moss. they graze on it all day. will probably attach it to the driftwood one of these free weekends...
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COLUMBIA, Mo. - Burglary alarms in homes and businesses can help police catch the bad guy when they work properly, but Columbia police said the alarms create more problems than solutions because 98 percent of them are false.
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Two officers is the minimum. If the alarm is for a bigger property or an industrial area, even more officers could be sent, which means fewer cops patrolling the streets.
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PUEBLO WEST, Colo. - Two men are facing a laundry list of charges after Pueblo County Deputies linked them to a series of car break-ins in Pueblo West.
20-year-old Zachary Schworer and 25-year-old Tyler Baker were arrested.
The Sheriff's Office says the investigation began in September when Schworer and Baker were arrested on unrelated charges.
During the original investigation, Baker's home was searched and stolen property was recovered according to the Pueblo County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies say they also searched pawn records associated with the two men and found more stolen items.
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Some of the returned items include GPS units, cameras, radios, gaming devices, digital music players, and other electronics.
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Planning on just adding mediums with frames and strips below the deeps, until all deeps full of honey, harvested and then gone. Sound like a good plan?
Planning on just adding mediums with frames and strips below the deeps, until all deeps full of honey, harvested and then gone. Sound like a good plan?
Let me guess... You are wanting to convert from deeps to mediums only?
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Actually a friend of mine asked about it. I have too many deeps at this point to convert all of them even if I wanted to. (well not really, but I am too lazy to do it). He is wanting to convert his two hives.
You can do that, or you can go the opposite way -- do splits by boxes if you have two deeps, use mediums on top of it. In the spring when they are in the top boxes, just remove the bottom deep and extract any honey in it. Replace it with mediums on top. Might take a couple years if you have two deeps and don't want to make walkaway splits by the box, only getting rid of one at a time, but it will work.
My preference would depend on the time of year. Come spring you will probably have an entire empty deep box you can pull then. If you put the mediums on the bottom, then yes, you may have an entire full deep you can harvest in the fall...
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In my case I wanted the honey gone out of the deep frames because my extractor will not handle deeps so I pulled out the empty box on the bottom in the spring. The next year I did the same thing but then ran out of equipment when making splits and had to use the deeps again. Next spring I will put the bottom box out again and use the other deep for someone else's hive if it survives.
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VENTURA, Calif. - Members of the Ventura County Air Pollution Control Board met Tuesday to discuss a rule-making proposal regarding hydraulic fracturing. During a public comment, environmentalists favored regulations. They were concerned the chemicals used will harm air and water quality. Chamber of Commerce disagreed and said fracking has been occurring in California for years without problems.
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A moment of epiphany from Morning Joe today, and from an unlikely source. Chris Matthews, who's known for feeling thrills rather than chills about Barack Obama, acknowledged today what has become the consensus view everywhere but on certain segments of his own network (via Newsbusters):
JOE SCARBOROUGH, HOST: Let me ask you losers, political losers of the year?
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Terrible year for the president. I mean, it's terrible, this…
SCARBOROUGH: Can you go back a year? One year ago, the president was getting ready for his second inauguration. So much hope. This has been a terrible year.
MATTHEWS: There's another piece of it which you're subtly getting at. It's not just that it's a bad year in terms of the rollout. There's an erosion in interest. It feels like a very long presidency now. It feels like the seventh or eighth year of a presidency. It doesn't feel like the fifth. There wasn't that rejuvenation that comes with re-election. There wasn't any, certainly he was never going to get a honeymoon from the other side, but there was no sense of wow. And I think that's hurt him a lot.
Well, no, it's not just the rollout, if that's defined as a faulty website and some unintended consequences of a badly-written law. That would be enough, of course, to dent the momentum of any President, but it's not the whole story — by a long shot. The biggest problem for Obama and his administration is the exposure of its serially dishonest nature — from the IRS scandal, to the Benghazi coverup, and especially on NSA surveillance and ObamaCare. In just the last 24 hours, we've found out that James Clapper and the White House lied about the number of attacks the 215 surveillance has prevented (claim: 50, reality: zero), that HHS lied about not being told to stop the rollout of the Healthcare.gov website because of profound security concerns, and that everyone lied about having plenty of time to get enrolled for insurance after getting "unexpectedly" kicked out of the plans they already had. That's quite a trifecta.
Charles Krauthammer hits the nail on the head (if you'll pardon the pun) in this context by naming the collapse of the "if you like your plan you can keep your plan" lie the Story of the Year:
That was a fraud from the very beginning. The law was designed to throw people off their private plans and into government-run exchanges where they would be made to overpay — forced to purchase government-mandated services they don't need — as a way to subsidize others. (That's how you get to the ostensible free lunch.)
It wasn't until the first cancellation notices went out in late 2013 that the deception began to be understood. And felt. Six million Americans with private insurance have just lost it. And that's just the beginning. By the Department of Health and Human Services' own estimates, about 75 million Americans would have plans that their employers would have the right to cancel. And millions of middle-class workers who will migrate to the exchanges and don't qualify for government subsidies will see their premiums, deductibles and co-pays go up.
It gets worse. The dislocation extends to losing one's doctor and drug coverage, as insurance companies narrow availability to compensate for the huge costs imposed on them by the extended coverage and "free" services the new law mandates.
It's the exposure of that fraud, not the rollout or even ObamaCare by itself, that makes Obama the loser of the year. It's why no one's looking forward to three more years of dealing with an administration whose officials lie to Congress and to Americans and suffer no consequences for those lies.
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Funny how Chrissy seems almost coherent at 7 in the morning, but by 7 in the evening he is a drooling mess.
Hmmm, had a relative like that? You know what the problem was? Rhymes with "frolic", I believe.
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Installing and Using PuTTY
PuTTY is a telnet/rsh/ssh client authored and maintained by Simon Tatham. PuTTY can be used on a Windows system to log in remotely to ARSC systems and to run commands on them. This software is free to download and is easy to configure through a graphical interface.
Downloading and Installing PuTTY
The following steps cover downloading and installing PuTTY 0.63, released 08/06/2013. We tested these steps on a 64-bit Windows 7 installation.
1. Download PuTTY from the official site. We chose to download the PuTTY Installer for Windows.
2. Run putty-0.63-installer.exe, and select "Next".
3. By default, the installer will install in C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY (C:\Program Files\PuTTY for 32-bit systems). Select "Next".
4. The installer will prompt you for a Start Menu folder in which to create shortcuts. Select "Next".
5. Select "Create a desktop icon for PuTTY", and select "Next".
6. The installer will allow you to review your choices. Select "Install" after you have done so.
7. The installer will require only a few seconds to install PuTTY on your computer. Select "Finish". As it closes, the installer will by default open PuTTY's Readme file, which contains additional information useful if you want to use PuTTY tools other than PuTTY itself. These tools are outside the scope of this article, which covers only SSH connections with PuTTY.
Establishing SSH Connections
The following steps describe how to connect via SSH to ARSC systems by using PuTTY beta 0.63.
1. Open PuTTY using the icon placed on your desktop by the PuTTY installer.
2. At first glance, PuTTY appears to have many options needing configuration, but the defaults should suffice for most. To connect to an ARSC system, enter in the host name of the remote system, in the format "hostname.arsc.edu". Optionally, you may prefix the remote hostname with your ARSC username, with the format becoming "email@example.com". As shown below, to connect to a system named "lemming" with username "jsmith", you would type either "lemming.arsc.edu" or "firstname.lastname@example.com". (This will save you the trouble of providing it later.)
3. Select "Open".
4. You may receive a popup alert similar to this one. This is a warning displayed the first time your SSH client connects to any computer to which it has never connected before, for security purposes. If you have never connected to this remote computer using this PuTTY installation, select "Yes". PuTTY will now remember the remote computer's fingerprint and suppress this message on recognition.
5. A terminal will open. If you did not enter your user name in step 2, you will be prompted for it now. Otherwise, skip to the next step.
6. You will be prompted for your password. Enter your UA password. (Public key authentication is available for PuTTY via the Pageant tool, but this is outside the scope of this article.)
7. If you have successfully connected, a prompt will appear allowing you to enter commands on the remote system.
ARSC| Running a Program from the Shell Prompt
Saving Connection Settings
PuTTY allows connection settings may be saved for future use. The following steps describe how to accomplish this.
1. After configuring any settings you wish to alter, navigate back to the "Session" navigation category, which is the first entry under "Category".
2. Enter a name for your session in the "Saved Sessions" input box, and select "Save". Your session should now appear as a new line in the text box to the left of "Save".
3. To load saved settings, select the session you want to load and then select "Load".
4. Optionally, PuTTY allows you to load connection settings with a -load flag. To do this, copy your PuTTY shortcut, right click on it, and select "Properties". Add the -load flag followed by the connection name in quotation marks to the shortcut target, and select "Apply". Rename the shortcut to an appropriate name as you see fit. See the image below for an example.
Adding X11 Forwarding
Some programs on our remote systems have Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). It is possible to view these over an SSH connection, using X11 forwarding, which is supported by PuTTY. The following steps describe how to accomplish this.
1. Neither PuTTY nor Windows ship with an X Window Server, which is required to use remote X11 GUIs. If you do not have an X Window Server installed on your local computer, a free option available to you is XMing. Follow our instructions on how to install XMing, noting that in the "Select Components" screen, you may opt not to install an SSH client or the XLaunch utility.
2. In PuTTY, load or define a connection and navigate to Connection-SSH-X11. Check the box labeled "Enable X11 forwarding".
3. Select "Open" to connect to the ARSC system you specified in the previous step.
4. Ensure that your local X Server is running. You can open an X11-forwarded SSH connection just fine without the local server, but your session will fail to open any X11 applications.
5. Before opening any large X Window applications, verify that you can open a small one. Run "xlogo". For information on running programs from a shell prompt, please see read our introductory article.
If you see a window containing the X Window System logo (a black X on a white background), your connection has established X11 forwarding correctly.
6. You may now open X Window applications of your choice that are installed on the system to which you are connected.
When I try to connect, PuTTY opens an alert box that says "Disconnected: No supported authentication methods available".
This message means that authentication by username failed. This is most likely caused by a typo in your username, or because you do not have access to the system to which you tried to connect.
My application returns the error "X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)" (or similar).
This is an indication that your local X server is not running. Check the icons on the right-hand side of your task bar for the X Server icon. If it is not present, ensure that you have installed an X Server locally and that it is running. Once the icon is present, try opening your program again.
I received the "Unknown Host Key" popup, followed by another popup stating: "Server unexpectedly closed network connection".
This indicates that the server's SSH timeout was triggered. ARSC SSH servers are configured to kill incoming connections that do not send data for a while before finally trying to authenticate. While you were responding to the "Unknown Host Key" popup, the ARSC machine thought you were idle and disconnected you. You should be able to reconnect without a problem.


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Alice Cooper's Idaho Falls concert canceled
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Alice Cooper's Idaho Falls concert has been canceled.
Pinnacle Entertainment canceled the rocker's scheduled appearance at the Idaho Falls Civic Auditorium, the talent agency said Monday.
Pinnacle blamed the cancellation of the Nov. 6 concert on the promoter's failure to meet basic contractual obligations. The talent agency said ticket holders can return their tickets to where they bought them for a refund.
In Idaho Falls, CD World manager James Larsen said he has sold a large number of tickets for the event. He identified the promoter as 78 Productions, owned by Ryan Thueson.
Larsen was told Thueson had an illness that affected his ability to promote the concert.
He said money for the tickets CD World sold has been refunded by 78 Productions and is now refunding tickets to those who bought from them.
Cooper was born Vincent Damon Furnier. He describes himself on his Facebook page as a "rock 'n' roll legend, hall of famer and all-around scary guy."


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Mortgage Bonds Responsible For Treasuries' Skittish Reaction to Fed
If you're looking to explain the Treasury market's skittish reaction to the Federal Reserve's mixed messages this week, you should have a look at mortgage-backed securities, according to David Ader of CRT Capital:
The real culprit to the Treasury selloff was MBS which have been on hyper-sensitive alert to the notion of tapering since the start of the year. And well they should be given current valuations on the back of the Fed buying pretty much the entire market. Alas, the Fed has pledged that any tapering would be vague in terms of predictability or reliability, could reverse if data softened, and wouldn't come in either form or fashion that would be recognizable enough to trade.
In short to make a market bet in response to a question which was not addressed in Bernanke's testimony strikes us as an overdone reaction. Still, it reveals a lot about the sensitivity of the market(s) to even a nuanced tweak in the Fed's policy and positions behind that sensitivity. And not just MBS, but stocks, yields overseas (notably JGBs which have issues of their own…in abundance) and the impact of all that on foreign risk markets.
Ader says this shouldn't translate into a bear market in Treasuries, but he's inclined to raise his yield target range for the 10-year Treasury note to between 1.75% and 2.25%. That yield stood at 2.012% Friday afternoon.


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Glad you are following along. Thought of you today -- our tour director has a 2010 South Africa world cup tee shirt on!
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Our wake-up call came at 5:15. We had a buffet breakfast at the hotel and departed at dawn (about 7 am) for the day's adventure. Our travel mates were Barcy and Anne, of course, along with Mike and Mary Ann Schuermann, from – get this – St. Louis. Our guide/driver was Omari.
We headed down 2000 feet into the Ngorongoro Crater (a caldera similar to Santorini, Greece, except not filled with water). The rim of the imploded volcano is readily apparent as you descend. The crater is an eco-system unto itself and the animals here have food and water throughout the year because of the lakes
1. Our initial encounter was a pack of baboons who greeted us at the first pit stop.
2. Next were gazelles … the little Thompson gazelles (they call them Tommy's) and slightly larger Grant gazelles.
3. Then came the hyenas … ugly, mangy things, almost exactly as Whoopi and the other characters in the Disney movie "The Lion King" portrayed them.
4. The highlight of my day came when we ran across a pride of lions basking in the sun. Several lionesses and several cubs. There was a very cute male I'll call Simba, who was a show off. He just can't wait to be king.
5. His mom went off stalking a zebra herd and we tracked her. That was an adventure, where she used our vehicles to hide herself. But in the end, she decided in favor of a nap.
7. Next came Pumbaa and the other warthogs. Man, are they ugly. I don't need to see them again.
8. We then traveled to a lovely oasis, filled with pretty blue water and bright green watercress. Many animals congregated there … hippos, Cape buffalo, white pelicans and many other species of birds. It was fun to see them all together at this gorgeous gathering place. There was a mother hippo with a small (ok, not really small, but small for a hippopotamus) infant. Fun to watch her protect her young.
9. We then headed for box lunches (or at least we were told that), but our guides took us to a lovely shaded parklike setting where Tauck and the Serena hotel staff had set up a full hot lunch, complete with covered chairs and tables, china service and cocktails. Quite a surprise to have such an elegant set-up in the bush.
10. Following lunch we found two elephants … one who was coming out of the wetlands, tossing dust and dirt on himself with his trunk, to dry off and keep the bugs away. Another was an elder whom we were told was retired by his herd.
11. We then ran across herds of wildebeests and zebra, cohabitating in the open grasslands. The wildebeests, which migrate over much of the continent if they live outside the crater, are some hairy beasts. Makes you realize how closely they resemble primitive animals.
12. We finished our day with a highlight … spotting a reluctant black rhino, which brought us 4 of the Big 5 animals that hunters come to find in Africa. Only one missing now is the cheetah.
13. We returned to the lodge with very little time to relax. I went and bought items from the Maasai people in the lobby area … a colorful shuka (red tribal cloth) which I intend to use as a table cloth in Florida, a necklace and a beaded Christmas ornament.
Early evening, Rachel did a briefing on Olduvai Gorge, the cradle of mankind, which we will visit tomorrow. It is a steep-sided ravine in the Great Rift Valley, and is one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world in furthering understanding of early human evolution. Excavation work there was pioneered by Louis and Mary Leakey beginning in 1931 and continuing for 5 decades.
Following the briefing, some acrobats performed and then we had dinner. Chefs in the Serena Hotels continue to disappoint. The properties are elegant but the food doesn't live up to the reputation. It matches the comfort of the beds.
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Bless you for your sense of humor and delightful way of putting things - really gives one a feel for what to really and truly expect - great big thanks!
Love this blog.. I feel like I know far better what to expect. I will admit I am a bit apprehensive.. A Million Thanks for such great information and your commentery is delightful


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I missed this so much last month!
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
I missed this so much last month!
Mischief Managed.
I am in again too! twist my arm... will send PM Shortly!
WOHOO....I am In for DEC. PM off tomorrow!!!!! SEW FUN....
Well.......for the sake of international relations I suppose I'll have to join in.........lol.
Lang may yer lum reek. (I'm a knitter - hence - 'Knit-ette'. Confuses a lot of people!)
I missed out last month was on vacation, but I've PM Lori already .... I'm in MRSAJ11
Signed up yesterday and already starting the box,am mailing earlier this time,before the Christmas rush. both are handmade items.
Patience comes to him who waits providing he knows what he is waiting for.
I'm in again sending PM. Love these, package is always such a surprise!!
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Just sent my PM to Lori
Mama H~ we missed you too!!
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving...got everything from fall/Thanksgiving cleaned up and put away yesterday and the Christmas decorating has begun haha...oh, and youngest DS came home with a new addition to the family...a chihuahua...his name is Jeter....Miss Daisy (my avatar and queen of the house) is not thrilled. Jeter is naughty is and definitely cannot be trusted
Glad you are back MamaH and welcome new person from Texas (my home state). Brenda I hate to be the one to break the news but Jeter will never be trustworthy if he is anything like the one we had many years ago. Pogo was a pill for his entire life! Good Luck! I am already starting my package and just waiting for the name and seeing what special wants my SP has. Thanksgiving was great .. all put away now...china is clean and put away...decorated for Christmas yesterday and again today...I am ready to go sit down and relax but think I will head out to Joann's sale.
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do"....E. Roosevelt
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Im in this month. Box is almost full already.
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Re: Important to PUSH the Northstar once a week?
^^ Okay, just wondering. Thanks!
Re: Important to PUSH the Northstar once a week?
Before ANYONE does the WOT thing, make sure you do not have any bottom end problems. There was a member here(sorry can't remember his name)that was having the "knock" noise. Many told him to do the WOT thinking it was carbon....it wasn't. He threw a rod. Instantly toasted engine. While I admit it is rare for the N*, it can happen. Make sure the car is in good mechanical condition before mashing the gas.
I myself use Seafoam before every oil change. I SLOWLY pour it through the PCV hose while at 100-1200 RPMs(just enough to prevent stalling). I let it sit for 30 min, then run it moderately hard for a few miles. I immediately change the oil. This seems to work very well.
Everyone has their own opinions on what to do with the carbon issue. I like the Seafoam way, but I still do the WOT thing, however its not because of the carbon.
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^^ Point well taken. I also remember that thread, and many said the WOTs only sped up the problem that was already there. The rods would have been thrown later. Maybe not, but I think as long as you warm the engine up enough, WOTs shouldn't be too much of a problem.
You seem to know how to use seafoam, but for most people, WOTs are safer because if you pour it in too fast, you hydrolock the engine up. The spray is supposed to be very safe though since it can't go in too fast.
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- 12-31-06 09:13 PM #64Cadillac Owners Member
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Re: Important to PUSH the Northstar once a week?
I just bought a dts with high milage... it's got over 130k on it, & was owned by someone who musta never pushed the thing.... when I got it, the first thing I noticed was that it had a shake/stutter/stumble at idle... so on my way home with it I punched it hard for a bit..... clouds of black smoke out the tailpipe...... did it again for a few seconds longer... still black smoke....
the ride home was 2 hours & at speed on the NJ tpke, & I wot'd it many times before there was no black clouds.... by the time I got home, the engine stumbled about half as much as it did..... I have since ran a fuel injector flush machine on it, & added some injector cleaner to the fuel.... I'm still punching her daily & still clearing out all the carbon built up over the 5 years of *****footing this thing around.... BUT...
there is a flipside.... because the car was never abused or pushed hard, it is extremely tight... the tranny & all the suspension bushings & axles are all the better for it... so now, after I clear out the carbon, it'll be in better shape than if it was driven by someone like me to begin with
beating a car alot does loosen up & wear suspension & drive axles, & transmission, so the best way to "clean it out" is on the highway at higher speeds... the car will not suffer nearly as much as if you were to go around punching it from a rolling start at a light.... that causes stress & wear... I'll admit that I do punch it & accelerate hard with it too, but I've never been one to baby a car.... I go by the philosophy of, if it breaks it wasn't strong enough to begin with & needed to be replaced or upgraded anyway... I say beat the hell out of it to let it show you what's not good enough... if nothing breaks, then every things fine
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Re: Important to PUSH the Northstar once a week?
OK as a tech I do like to see a person periodicly take a spirited trip down the road ,let the tranny do its upshift at full throttle, etc.
As for blowing the carbon out of the engine itdoes work. I know of 2 identical last year Camaros one lady driven (ie putting around the town) and her hubby ran the pee diddling crap out of it.
Well his had around 140k on it and hers around 100k and both got sugared and when we tore them down and went through both. did a great build up and hers had MASSIVE amounts of crud around the valves and severe carbon in the engine. The slime inside the intake and the engine was pretty bad. Then we pulled his down and it looked great carbon wise. Both got rebuilt and now she does do some spirited driving now and again and sine we put the Air Ride on her car she loves on/off ramps as she will slam a lower gear and floor it on them.
They are building a street rod and I am trying to getthem to try an Aurora 4.0 (basicly a Northstar)but i am not sure what the bell housing shape is yet.
I dont recommend it to go foot to the floor for miles and lay rubber all the time but a little hard running lets the engine develope some better numbers on long term fuel too.
Heck a Ford with a MAF will forget its BARO setting if you dont give it a boot some times.
Besdies if your Cadillac is so whimpy you cant hump it once in while they should restart Olds and kill Caddy.
Just use some common sense.
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MonzaRacer I see you got the link. I just wanted you to read a good thread that had alot of Bbob's info.
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A motorcycle crash hospitalized a Vacaville man Thursday afternoon after a semi truck and trailer making a left turn pulled into his path on Nut Tree Road, police said.
The 36-year-old motorcyclist was riding southbound in the left lane of Nut Tree Road around 12:27 p.m. when 58-year-old Rickie Williams of Sacramento, the driver of the semi, attempted to make a left turn into a parking lot near the intersection of Fairview Drive, said Vacaville police Sgt. Mark Donaldson.
Judging from a long locked-wheel skid mark, Donaldson said it appeared the victim tried to stop his motorcycle but was unsuccessful. His Harley-Davidson Electra Glide plowed into the rig's front-right fender, cracking it, while portions of the motorcycle were scattered across the roadway.
The rider suffered major head injuries and was taken by ambulance to Kaiser Permanente in Vacaville, said Vacaville Fire Department Battalion Chief Steve Bowman. He was later flown to Kaiser Permanente's South Sacramento Medical Center, a level II trauma center, for further treatment.
His cracked skull-cap helmet remained at the scene, mixed in with the wreckage and saddle bags that had been thrown from the motorcycle.
Nut Tree Road was shut down in both directions between Alamo and Bel Air drives as firefighters and police officers responded to the scene. Donaldson estimated that the roadway would remain closed for two to three hours as officers reconstructed the scene using Total Station Diagramming.
Donaldson said it did not appear that alcohol or drugs were involved in the crash.
The victim was rushed into surgery and, as of press time, was listed in critical condition, Donaldson said.
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