As I've told others... This is about FRACKING not drilling, so be sure to carefully consider what you read from that Google search. There is inherent risks in drilling a well, Fracking that well does not add to the risks. We've drilled wells for 100+ years now and they are considered safe. Why do we now blame fracking? It's DRILLING you need to blame, it's just that is not as powerful PR tool when you couch it the correct way eh?

Yea, so where is a study that proves the link between fracking and polluting ground water? I have one where they specifically looked for it over a year and found nothing.

Here's a hint... I'll be surprised if you can find anything that proves that fracking does anything to ground water... There are a whole lot of theories and a whole lot of people looking, but nobody has found the proof.

Oh, and here's another hint so you can avoid getting tripped up. I'm discussing FRACKING, not drilling, here. Don't get confused by the two operations. Drilling, which we have safely done for 100+ years now, DOES have various risks. Fracking, does nothing to add to the existing risks when drilling a well, it just adds to the cost and possibly what we can extract from the well...

Which agrees with my point that FRACKING does not add to the danger of drilling a well. Read what I said carefully because I'm not saying that drilling is 100% without environmental impact, we've been doing that for more than 100 years and although considered safe, there are risks with drilling, even a water well. What I AM saying is that fracking does not ADD to the risks of drilling and should not be touted as some huge risk to ground water when it's not.

But that 1-2% number of yours is basically the risk of drilling, not fracking. Now if you wan to argue that drilling carries risk, that you can prove easily and I'm not arguing that. I'm saying FRACKING is not causing any increase in risk for an already drilled well. It's a fine point I know, but it's important to make the distinction, because the public doesn't feel that drilling is a huge dangerous health hazard because we've been doing it for more than 100 years and it's not all that dangerous. Fracking doesn't add to the enviromental danger of drilling, it just increases the recoverable supplies from the wells that we drill....

Did they loos OPEC market share or just market share of the world supply? It's important because the USA has now developed a LOT of domestic energy production. If what you say is the reason, then OPEC is done and we are facing a long, long time frame for Oil being really low cost (baring any disruption in supply). One can hope, but I seriously doubt the other members of OPEC have the stomach for $50/bbl oil to last very long.

Here's a tip....

Post an example of where Fracking has destroyed a water supply...

I recognize that it is impossible to prove a negative, but the scientific evidence is all pointing the other way here. Not to mention common sense if you understand how this process works..... Fracking takes place thousands of feet down, below impermeable rock, well below any water supply. What gets pumped down there is not coming back up except though the well head it went down. Anybody telling you otherwise has no proof, that I know of anyway.

Do YOU have any evidence for your position beyond the wild claims of the environmentalists who started this lie?

Did you read the link? Look, there is ZERO connection with Fracking and contamination of ground water.... They've looked for it, and haven't found it. But it's hard to prove a negative...

So, do you have an example to show us?

The story was factual.... I don't usually go with their opinion pieces...

I don't believe the tunnels where fully finished and as another poster pointed out, it's about 10X what he is looking for in size.

As a resident of Texas, I'd be more than wiling to let him have it though...

That and I don't' believe the tunnels where completed all the way around... Anybody know?

I wondered when Saudi Arabia decided not to cut production, dooming OPEC to low prices and ticking off the likes of Russia and other producers with marginal economies, if they where not actually working a long term strategy here. Why are they not cutting production?

First, they repress many of the world's trouble makers by dropping prices to 1/3rd their original. Yes, they hurt some emerging producers who are good guys, but these are pretty small. Russia's economy is in free fall due to this and this will greatly diminish their military and economic ability world wide. Other "bad guys" are getting hurt too.

Second, The will succeed in jumpstarting their largest consumer's economy. The USA has suffered under the burden of higher taxes and higher fuel prices (which amounts to a tax on just about everything.) Yea, there will be segments that suffer, energy production companies and those who own the production facilities will be hurt, but over all your average consumer will have more to spend and moving goods will be cheaper as fuel prices drop.

Third, energy production companies who where looking at $100+ oil for as far as the eye could see just 6 months ago, are now looking at $45 or less. Much of their production is now netting below production costs so NOBODY will be drilling new wells and a whole bunch of companies will be hurting. For the most speculative of them they will go bankrupt in fairly short time. This will greatly depress the USA's ability to develop these resources and reduce future supplies and take years to rebuild the industry.

I'm not saying this is what the Saudi's are up to, but the theory does fit the pieces I'm seeing fall together..

I hope this is an attempt at a joke...

There is zero proof that fracking does anything bad to water supplies beyond using some of it (about 40,000 Gal/well). Fracking takes place well below domestic water supplies and is no more of a hazard than the drilling was in the first place. People who think otherwise are mis-informed or lying.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/19/pennsylvania-fracking-study_n_3622512.html

Blame the dead bank....

If this is the best he can do, I'm going out on a limb here and predicting he will be convicted on all counts....

BTC is just a cauldron of crime and deceit, it's basically used to launder money, hide assets and pay for illegal goods... Oh yea, now and then somebody does something perfectly legal using it...

Why on EARTH are you trying to roll your own router? AT HOME, none the less... Who needs that kind of trouble? And NEVER put your network firewall on the same hardware as a network server... It's a recipe for disaster.

Just go buy some compatible hardware and run OpenWRT or something. I have a Netgear WNDR4300 as a border router/firewall with OpenWRT loaded on it. They are routinely sold on E-bay for $40 or less each, I think I paid $35. Where I wouldn't recommend this exact model because you will end up building your own firmware, this device works just fine for my purposes. Configuration wasn't exactly straight forward enough for your average consumer product, but I managed to get my router running, with wireless, within a few hours.

OpenWRT comes with many optional packages you can load. I cannot vouch for any of them, but the base install is rock stable on my hardware. There is a file server package, where you can serve up USB based storage or share a USB printer, but I don't use either because I have a separate purpose built server for that kind of thing that runs OpenMediaVault NAS with a software raid array, though I think I'd recommend FreeNAS if you want a BSD based system to play with. Both are free for the price of the hardware.

Keep it simple, cheap and reliable.... Buy good hardware and all of the solutions I'm using will be very reliable and about as cheap as you can get.

OR...

Just go buy some industry standard router thingy (Cisco comes to mind) and learn how to use that. Skip all this other stuff.. I used to run a Cisco router as a border firewall, but I'll warn you that stuff gets pretty complex unless you already know how it works...

Radio Shack carries CRAP for components and has continued to carry less and less stuff I need and more and more over-priced items for the "I need it now!" crowd. I'm not surprised that they are going belly up when you can get the same thing in 2 days from Amazon and sometimes at a cheaper price.