A barnyard metaphor from my maternal grandpa that I remember him applying to bankers... "Pigs never look up until the trough is empty". Remember you can pay your doctor or lawyer to be your advocate, I would never advise trying that with a banker, for that matter I would be also cautious with financial advisors...

Yea, yet another effort to apply broad, and likely skewed, numbers recursively. The demographics of specific groups will required corrections to specific factors used in the meta level model. The South Florida Gold Coast will have quite different modeling requirements from a rural Ohio country. Dealing with the purveyors of this FUD is what keeps getting me suspended from Twitter. I have stuff to do, I reckon I need to be doing that. Arguing with fools is like wrestling with pigs, just nasty & at best you annoy the pig, more likely the pig enjoys it... Have fun...ðYâoeOEðY--

The obsession with tamping down the morbidity rates is political hackery. The simple truth is we are gonna lose the most vulnerable at obscene rates. We don't have sufficient testing in quality or quantity to have really accurate numbers to efficantly model the larger picture. Without an accurate testing & contact tracing program we won't be able to take efficant action. The best most of us can do right now is to try & stay unexposed for our own sake & to not add to the problems. The problem with that is a substantial percentage live in a cult like magical fantasy world, don't have a basic grasp on logmathic growth, don't understand the concepts of infection or transmission, including asymptomatic carrier issues. Add to that many of the same are self absorbed narcissists that just don't give a rats ass about others. We are going to lose a huge chunk of the elderly, immuno compromised like cancer patients, the impoverished & especially the working poor like immigrant workers who harvest & process the food for even those who dont give a rats ass...

Yes the democratization of propaganda, just want we need. Can't believe anything because it's all a lie. Add ready sources of unbelievably stupid things being done in plain view & nothings too crazy to believe either. Not a country for old men....

Classic, what is your wish young sir a dingbat pin or a bozo button ?

Vertical gardening is a tool I have used for years to grow space hogging plants in a smaller footprint. For instance I have grown Cantaloupe, small Watermelons and Winter Squash or Pumpkins on 6ft X 6ft X 6-8ft tall frames. They consist of 4 rough cedar, popular or dogwood posts wired to a driven steel fence post, and three or four open slat shipping pallets suspended horizontally with rope ties at the corners. I have grown Sweet Potatoes and Tomatoes om these frames as well. Planting Summer Squash or Pole Beans on an X-Brace frame works well also. Of course most of my Tomatoes are grown on 7ft 2" dia. poles, when they reach the top I usually grow them horizontally on rope attached to the posts.

A really neat way to grow most climbing plants is to use heavy stock fence panels bent 180 deg. into a quonset shape structure tall enough to walk through. Over the years I have come to the decision that, at least in my area, I really need to build a larger structure like a greenhouse over the whole plot in order to get better control of the weather/light levels.

Another nice trick for rural or urban gardeners is to make scattered small plot plantings as landscape features. This works really well for perennial plants like berries or asparagus, but it works well for many annuals too.

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The original SuSE Linux distribution was a German translation of Slackware. Slackware was initially based mostly on SLS. Over the years SuSE Linux incorporated many aspects of other Linux base distros. SuSE incorporated some Red Hat Linux feature and tools , such as its RPM Package Manager and its file structure. wabi sabi Matthew

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." Benjamin Franklin

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All the whys aside, global temperatures are rising. Higher temperatures directly correlate with increased evaporation rates. Increased evaporation rates result in increased volumes of water vapor in the atmosphere. The latent heat energy in the water vapor means more available energy in the atmosphere. Why would anyone be surprised by larger releases of this energy in weather events, its not like it is going to be destroyed you know. wabi-sabi matthew

"We say we can't expect transparency from corporations because "corporations are persons and they have the rights of persons"."

I like your argument. And regardless of what our "Supreme Legislature" says, I'll consider accepting corporations as persons when Texas executes a couple.

matthew

You could possibly build a micro turbine or and array of such for power generation, it would be a pretty expensive undertaking so the payback ratio would suck. A better use might be for heating and cooking purposes. The advantages of using a "salt" storage solution are mostly temperature -MAX DEG- and size-BTU/FT3-related. Another material that works well in such a storage application is a liquid metal such as tin/antimony solder. I would think that the best heat transfer medium between collector and storage would be a high temperature silicon oil or maybe paraffin. It would be nice I think to be able to use such to power cooking devices such as ovens and ranges where the ideal temperature requirements could exceed most practical air or water based solar systems. The temperatures here are so far above most home heating needs -except steam based- that the only real advantage would be storage size advantages. It might work very well for adsorption process chillers or refrigerators, these could be fun to build but last I knew used dangerous unstable and/or toxic mediums such ammonia or lithium bromide, maybe some safer compounds are available today.

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Hey admin can I sell my nick? And naw I am NOT going to dig thru the TOS for an answer.. sheesh!

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matthew

As someone who has had many dogs in his life I can tell you that there is a very wide differential in the intelligence of dogs. I have found that there are three primary factors in how smart a dog is. Genetics, nutrition, and social interactions with humans and other dogs. Genetically it seems to me that the smartest are hybrids, AKA mutts I guess, of herding dogs. All the smartest dogs I have known were crosses with Border Collies or Australian Shepherds. The smartest I have owned were 3way crosses between these two breeds and Blue Heelers or German Shepherds. Nutrition is very important especially while they are still pups. I train my dogs using real high quality protein like beef, pork, fish or later on preferably vermin, varmint or snake trimmings as the reward. I start training at whelping one at a time on individual pups as you need their focus on you. Later if at all possible I bring litter mates or other pups together in sessions to establish orderly behavior in this mixed social environment. If possible the pups sire and dame can be useful but only after you establish the human/pup relationship. Early on I have involved other family members in the the process, especially kids, but the play time must be separated from the training or at least be last. Of course all I am training them for is general obedience to humans, watch/warn/alert and varmint/vermin eradication and of course a few fun games like good old fetch and hide and seek. There is of course a structure of teaching from the simple to the complex, but basically all that is necessary is to be consistent, persistent, patient, kind, but always be the boss.

matthew

There are in our system for instance, inter zone pipes and rotary mechanical transfer units that act as multi mode staging units or switches, these systems are also capable of using zoning and inter/intra zone processes to allow for parallel operations. Priority management is controlled by several factors/settings for system wide and individual device/object/transaction level control.

I have had daily experience with a 30 something station, two zone and about two dozen transfer unit system for twenty something years. Our system is a SWISSLOGIC mid 90's tech with a low power PC running a DOS application on a RS-422 network. The DOS app runs under an OS/2 VDM or DOS, the newer versions are of course Windows applications. Even so uptime for the system is very good (99%+), but not perfect, occasional sensor or mechanical routing/delivery components can cause hard to resolve failures. Most problems (80%+) however are user related, non latched or inappropriately or overfilled carriers being the most common. Still the system processes about a million transactions a year 24/7/365 mostly unattended. If it fails it gets the attention of the staff before anything else except maybe HVAC, which is my primary area of responsibility of course.

matthew

Hello "I am Jack"

I are Matt, I think we have worked together on these things before.

wilec

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