Mon. Sept. 2, 2024 – Labor Day

By on September 2nd, 2024 in culture, decline and fall, lakehouse, march to war

Forecast is for cloudy, cooler, and 60% chance of rain. I’m guessing we won’t get much though. Yesterday was overcast with occasional showers most of the day, but sunny later. It got cool for a while at night, but the breeze died and it was warm again. Texas.

Didn’t actually get much done. I took an ‘off’ day and mostly read and hung around the house. Best laid plans and all that.

So today we’ll see what we can do. One thing I did check was the moisture level in the walls that got flooded. They are back to ambient and match the studs that didn’t flood, so I can plan to close those walls back in. That should give me some projects. 😛

I took yesterday off so I’ll labor today.

Always be working. And stacking.

Enjoy the day.

nick

58 Comments and discussion on "Mon. Sept. 2, 2024 – Labor Day"

  1. Denis says:

    Well that was a combination of painless and painful. The telco’s technician was here at 08.00, tested their DSL modem, pronounced it dead (and rattling),and swapped it out for a new unit, which he connected, tested and pronounced good. I could connect to it with Wi-Fi on my smartypants phone, and thence to the internet. All painless, and finished by 09.00.

    Unfortunately, the new modem unit is not the same as the old one, so it did not just swap-in to the rest of the house network, with its ASUS router and Wi-Fi Mesh nodes. Did it ever not…

    It has taken me from 09.00 to just now, 14.45, to figure out the cable positions and software settings to make the new DSL modem visible to my home router and passing connectivity through it. In short, I had to move the cable plug connecting the modem to the router to the “bridge” position on the modem, then log on to the telco’s website to find advanced setting for the modem, enabling “bridge” mode and disabling Wi-Fi on the modem.

    Of course, the telco doesn’t want folks using their own routers, under their own control, so the information about how to setup the new modem for my configuration was not readily available, and they left out one key point of information: the old modem spoke PPoE to the router, but the new one needs the router to speak DHCP to it. Of course, the router cannot detect that requirement automagically, so if you don’t figure it out and change the appropriate setting, you’re buggered. It took me some hours to figure that out.

    As usual, Pournelle’s law applied. To fix N non-working internet connections, one requires N+1 or N+2 working internet connections.

  2. EdH says:

    @Paul: I use  magnets to hang lights in my old shipping container:

    “Grtard Magnetic Hooks with Swivel Carabiner Hook, 110LBS” from Amazon.

    Ridiculously strong.  More than adequate for a freezer lid I would say, if iron.

  3. Ray Thompson says:

    I have had my internet speed at 150 meg for almost a month now. I have not noticed any issues with getting things done on the internet. Some big downloads take a few seconds longer than before. No big deal. At a savings of over $400.00 a year I am OK with that.

  4. Greg Norton says:

    After spending untold billions to provide rural internet, with zero customers actually getting service, they tentatively awarded a contract to SpaceX. Cost under one billion. The FCC has now cancelled the contract, because SpaceX cannot prove that it can delivery connectivity to remote locations.

    That can only be politics, because Musk has come out in support of Trump.

    The enormity of the technical challenge of Starlink service cannot be overstated.

    I’ve spent most of my career watching lives and capital get destroyed chasing the Pizza Box Dream.

    Starlink has satellites and what I imagine to be a clever piece of routing software, but the physics remain. The realities are masked in urban and semi urban environments my the MVNO agreements with the 5G carriers.

    Of course, The Real Life Tony Stark also has a percentage of the population who want to believe that anything he does is off limits from criticism, especially now that he pays lip service to supporting conservative ideals.

  5. brad says:

    the telco doesn’t want folks using their own routers, under their own control

    Absolutely. On the positive side, it *is* possible, even if painful.

    The enormity of the technical challenge of Starlink service cannot be overstated.

    Absolutely. Rapidly moving satellites trying to provide a stable connection to fixed points on the earth. Satellite-to-satellite communication. Thousands of satellites. It’s amazing that it works at all.

    But it does work, as even people here have confirmed.

    The only remaining question is how effectively Starlink can scale. How many connections can the satellites actually support in any given geographical area?

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  6. paul says:

    Magnets?  I now have a four pack in my Wishlist. Thanks for the tip.

  7. Greg Norton says:

    It has taken me from 09.00 to just now, 14.45, to figure out the cable positions and software settings to make the new DSL modem visible to my home router and passing connectivity through it. In short, I had to move the cable plug connecting the modem to the router to the “bridge” position on the modem, then log on to the telco’s website to find advanced setting for the modem, enabling “bridge” mode and disabling Wi-Fi on the modem.

    I wouldn’t connect to the open Internet without at least one layer of NAT.

    You should consider going to grc.com and using their Shields Up service to probe your systems.

  8. drwilliams says:

    @paul

    I found the State Fair corn dogs.  I’m sure they are bad for me but they are easy to nuke just to eat something.  A can of vienna sausage is probably better but, variety! 

    The mini corn dogs are easier to heat up in the microwave or the air fryer. 

    My freezer doesn’t have a handle.  It has a pocket in the lid as a handle.  So the “hang a rope from the wall to hold it up” ideas won’t work.  Great ideas.  

    Most hardware and home imp stores have a display in the shelving dept with 3M Command hangers. That’s the three-part system with an adhesive tab you put on the base, put the base on the surface, then slide the hanger on the base. clean the mounting surface with isopropyl alcohol and they stick forever but still remove cleanly when you pull the bottom of the tab. 

  9. brad says:

    I wouldn’t connect to the open Internet without at least one layer of NAT.

    I hear you, and I feel much the same way. On the other hand, NAT isn’t really meant as a security measure. Your router should block incoming connection, unless you explicitly allow them. IPv6 explicitly does not want you to use NAT, because you control your own /64, and that ought to be enough addresses for every molecule in your house.

    I’m going to try converting our home network to IPv6 “real soon now”. Been saying that for a few years…

  10. Geoff Powell says:

    @greg:

    I wouldn’t connect to the open Internet without at least one layer of NAT.

    You should consider going to grc.com and using their Shields Up service to probe your systems.

    +1 to both suggestions, although I haven’t patronised grc.com for years. Haven’t needed to, my Draytek router is years old, and the configuration is set in stone.

    My new-ish FTTH broadband gives me an external IP address in the 100.64.0.0/ netblock, which is reserved for CGNAT clients, and behind that is the Draytek’s NAT. I don’t have IPv6, by provider fiat, although all my kit is IPv6 capable. The external, pre-CGNAT, IP address geolocates to Southall or Greenford, in West London, several miles from me.

    Incidentally, that FTTH costs me ÂŁ25 per month, for 400Mbit symmetric service, even though none of my devices can go that fast.This compares well with the 60/20 Mbit FTTC I used to have, at twice the price, although I did get POTS service then. Which is not a blessing, given that every call, for at least a year, was from a call centre, mostly pushing timeshare scams, and despite the fact that my number was TPS-registered (think Do Not Call)

    G.

  11. Greg Norton says:

    I hear you, and I feel much the same way. On the other hand, NAT isn’t really meant as a security measure. Your router should block incoming connection, unless you explicitly allow them. IPv6 explicitly does not want you to use NAT, because you control your own /64, and that ought to be enough addresses for every molecule in your house.

    I’m going to try converting our home network to IPv6 “real soon now”. Been saying that for a few years…

    The three letter agencies in the US were reluctant to adopt IPv6 for a reason.

    IIRC, the NSA was working on NATv6, but I haven’t kept up with that tech since I left the Death Star.

    My last brush with the three letter agencies was working for the company with Clapper on the board … until he wasn’t.

    The same agencies keep the x32 API alive in the Linux kernel every time the subject of deprecation comes up.

  12. Geoff Powell says:

    @brad:

    I’m going to try converting our home network to IPv6 “real soon now”. Been saying that for a few years…

    I used to have IPv6 back in the day, 2 broadband providers ago. It didnt seem to convey much, if anything, in the way of extra functionality when I had it. Home networks, unless yours is very large (more than 256 devices), don’t need it, in my experience. There are enough 6→4 and 4→6 gateways around.

    In my case, if my provider eventually deigns to provide IPv6, I’ll be able to use it immediately, since all my kit is known to be IPv6 capable.

    G.

  13. Geoff Powell says:

    Grrr.

    external IP address in the 100.64.0.0/ 

    That should read 100.64.0.0/16

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  14. Greg Norton says:

    The poor grieving family.

    Who owns Fortune now?

    https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hp-confirms-pursue-mike-lynch-100740331.html

  15. Greg Norton says:

    Who owns Fortune now?

    A Thai billionare, Chatchaval Jiaravanon.

  16. drwilliams says:

    January 2025

    When the Trump White House is asked why CNN is not on the list of news organizations with credentials to press briefings, the reply is that they are a public relations organization, not news:

    https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/09/so_what_really_was_witheld_from_cnn_s_41_minute_interview_with_kamala_harris.html

  17. Nick Flandrey says:

    80F and sunny this fine day.

    ——

    Bacon and eggs, and 8oz coffee (so far) are in ma belly.

    —–

    I have ATT FTTH with 750 down, and 4-500 up.   ATT REALLY wants to harvest data from you and has no way to change the router’s DNS from their own.   They also have a redirect on error page that they mine and sell placement on.  You can shut that off, along with some other data collection stuff on their account page.   Other providers have similar.

    I have all the devices that can be set to use a particular DNS server set to google or 1.1.1.1   but there are streaming devices that don’t have a setting other then DHCP.   For those I need to separate my wifi from the ATT router and set DHCP in the APs.   I’m thinking of implementing a VLAN for the kids’ devices to increase security for my parts of the LAN.  I’ll have to put the media server on the VLAN though, which complicates things, if I want them to stream locally.  Haven’t looked at it in detail, because I have projects stacked up.

    Who knew my local network would end  up being so complicated?

    ——

    My client’s network, with an ATT business fiber connection and a fixed addy has a ubiquiti security gateway and a network management appliance.  My business partner spec’d and implemented that.    The ATT installer was impressed by the rack.

    ——

    Starlink works and works well from my rural location.   To say they can’t “prove” it will work is politics.   The other alternative is “proven” NON-working, despite the money spent, and to prove starlink works, you just need to set one up.   It does need a clear view of the sky.

    I doubt very much that ANY rural provider could (or would even) specify a SLA of more than 99.9    There are too many things that can go wrong out in the sticks.

    Y’all know my views about what I think starlink really is anyway.   Rural internet is a bonus. . . or fig leaf.

    n

  18. Nick Flandrey says:

    they are a public relations organization, not news: 

    — it’s worse than that.  Since Gulf War I, they have been a propaganda outlet for our enemies.   Exhibit A is Wolf B and the brown talking head admitting they knew about Saddam’s “excesses” and they chose not to report it because they “felt” that “maintaining access” was more important than reporting “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”

    Exhibit B is Christiana Ammmaanpour on video stating that she considered it her job to take down Bush.

    n

  19. MrAtoz says:

    January 2025

    When the Trump White House is asked why CNN is not on the list of news organizations with credentials to press briefings, the reply is that they are a public relations organization, not news:

    This is why you can’t hate the LSM enough. The Dumbo’s and Redumbo’s have the same problem: candidates whose personalities suck dead bunnies. But, do you really want higher taxes, more goobermint control, and trashing the Constitution?

    Also, Dumbo’s, stop trying to make plugs some kind of hero.

  20. Greg Norton says:

    When the Trump White House is asked why CNN is not on the list of news organizations with credentials to press briefings, the reply is that they are a public relations organization, not news:

    All of Warner Discovery operating out of Atlanta Techwood, essentially the former Ted Turner media empire, will have new ownership within a year, as soon as the lawsuits concerning the NBA TV deals are either settled or thrown out of court.

    WBD already wrote down the value of all of the linear TV networks to zero, including CNN.

    This weekend’s lesson on the current state of basic cable was endless reruns on FX of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”.

    Disney must be so proud.

  21. Greg Norton says:

    Starlink works and works well from my rural location.   To say they can’t “prove” it will work is politics.   The other alternative is “proven” NON-working, despite the money spent, and to prove starlink works, you just need to set one up.   It does need a clear view of the sky.

    I wouldn’t consider anyplace in Texas east of I-35 to be truly “rural” in terms of communications anymore. “Profitable” is a separate issue.

    AT&T gets to pick and choose locations for installing high speed access because the state government in Austin sold their collective souls for fiber to their houses in the metro area.

  22. Denis says:

    I wouldn’t connect to the open Internet without at least one layer of NAT.

    You should consider going to grc.com and using their Shields Up service to probe your systems.

    Thanks for the pointer, Greg. I have been using ShieldsUP! since it was new, which feels like a long time ago. I probably have some Gibson HDD checking software on floppy discs somewhere, if only I had a machine able to read them…

    I have the house router, which is doing the NAT, locked down pretty tight, and GRC shows stealth throughout.

  23. Greg Norton says:

    CNN didn’t use Techwood for the interview with Kamala Harris.

    At first, the network openly reported the location, but now they are hiding the venue. I wonder what changed.

    Kim’s Cafe. Savannah.

    Maybe everyone headed out for the Hypocrisy Blue Plate at the Lady And Sons afterwards.

  24. Ray Thompson says:

    CNN is not on the list of news organization s with credentials to press briefings, the reply is that they are a public relations organization an opinionated tabloid, not news

    Fixed it for you.

    Gibson HDD checking software on floppy discs somewhere

    I think you are talking about Spinrite. I used it with the MFM/RLL disk drives in the early ‘90’s. When SATA arrived, there was no longer a need to run the software. The product is no longer useful, or needed. SSDs work quite well on their own and there is nothing to optimize. If a person is not running a SSD, they should, immediately. If anyone desires a copy of Spinrite 6.1 I can provide a copy for “evaluation” purposes.

    I have the house router, which is doing the NAT, locked down pretty tight, and GRC shows stealth throughout.

    I have my own modem, a Netgear CM3050V (has voice), a product that is not available via retail. I have had the modem for almost two years as I was a beta tester. Nothing ever happened with the product as the testers, myself included, thought the price was too high. The CM3000 (no voice) is available. Surprisingly the CM3050V is supported by Xfinity as I guess it is really similar to other Netgear modems.

    My old CM2050V is sitting on the shelf and was working quite well before the beta unit arrived.

    The modem does the first NAT for me and I get an IP4 and IP6 address. Beyond the modem is my ASUS mesh router system. That also NATs my addresses and everything on my side of the router is IP4.

    GRC ShieldsUP shows my system is invisible to the outside world. I don’t think Steve has upgraded that site in 10 years or more.

  25. Nick Flandrey says:

    It’s pretty rural.    Lowes is 45 minutes away.  â€œTown” is  20.   Nearest dollar store is 45, nearest DQ is 1 hr.

    The primary industry is logging and cattle.  There are THREE ag equipment dealers in town.

    Too far from central station for DSL.  Ag diesel at the pump.   One cell carrier unless you use a booster/repeater.

    Fire department is volunteer and is 3 able bodies and a retired female.

    Electric is a Co-op.  Water is a co-op, and only available because the lake is a drinking water reservoir… everyone else is on wells.

    TV is Dallas, Houston, or Lufkin.   45 to 150 or more miles…

    Any serious medical issue, burns, cardiac, or trauma is Lifeflight to Houston… which reminds me I have to look at the insurance.

    So it’s pretty rural…

    n

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  26. Gavin says:

    A little sanity breaks out. The pendulum is starting to swing back.

  27. paul says:

    It’s the American Constitution.  For Americans.  

    Illegal Aliens have no rights. 

  28. paul says:
    The mini corn dogs are easier to heat up in the microwave or the air fryer. 

    I spotted those.  I bought the box of 24 individually wrapped dogs.  Cut the end off the bag on the stick end, Cut a corner off of the other end.  Venting.  In the nuker for two minutes.  

    It’s just a 600 watt output  (1000 watts in) machine with a mechanical timer.   Made in Korea by Emerson.   I guess it’s more than 20 years old.  Works fine.  It’s not very big but a dinner plate fits.  We would take it camping. Then it spent a few years on the SeaRay.  The last ten+ years on a shelf in the EDC.   I might as well use it until it breaks.  I’m not going camping alone and the SeaRay is 10+ years gone.

    When the previous machine died, I wanted one with a Baked Potato button. Oh, I don’t need that, this little machine says how many minutes for a medium potato. Printed right next to the timer knob. That’s all I wanted the programmed button for.

  29. MrAtoz says:

    It’s the American Constitution.  For Americans.  

    Illegal Aliens have no rights. 

    There should have been no question or court involved. The same with “anchor babies”, a SCOTUS footnote, or “Dreamers”.

  30. drwilliams says:

    Venezuelan President Maduro’s plane seized by U.S. officials, transported to Florida

    https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/venezuelan-president-maduros-plane-seized-by-u-s-officials-transported-to-florida/

    Should have seized it in the air with him onboard. 

    Or better yet, started by confiscating the engines in flight.

  31. Nick Flandrey says:

    93F in mixed sun, and about 90%RH.

    Still knocking down small tasks.  Nothing critical, but it gets the project material off of whatever it’s sitting on, and installed.   

    Soaked with sweat.  Just pounded a gatorade.

    Time to poison the fireants and get packing.   I think I’ll head home early today.

    n

  32. paul says:

    Karl at the Market Ticker had an article several days ago about IPv6.  I may have misunderstood parts but…

    IPv6 has enough addresses for everything on the Web on the entire planet to have a unique address. I’ve heard that before.  

    But think, if each of your PCs and Kindles and whatever device has a unique address, who cares about blocking cookies anymore?  

    Anyway.  I easily passed the MS Networking Essentials test on my first try.  That was a tough test.   Sub-netting confuses me.  I’m not the expert here to fix the cable.  

    But…. you can run your internal LAN on 10.x.x.x addresses and have more than 256 addresses like with a 192.168.x.x. 

    My router has 23.155.x.x to the wISP.  Supposedly I now can run a web server, mail server, whatever.  The ports are closed on my router.   The wISP said, sure, go for it, “just be legal”.  

    That 23.x.x.x number is going through the wISP’s provider’s router and I’d guess several more routers after that.

    I think IPv6 is unneeded.  Because of routers.  The folks that want to track everything right down to the individual machine want it.   To me that’s a good reason to turn it off and block it.

    By the way.  When I did the Networking Essentials class, NetBEUI was rated for a workgroup of 50 PCs and printers. 

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  33. paul says:
    Time to poison the fireants 

    Gasoline.  Glug a couple or few more cups on an undisturbed mound.  The fumes sink and kill all.  Yeah, it kills the grass for a few months…. like you had grass there with the ant bed?

    Drink more Gatoraid.  Drink water.  Iced tea.  Keep drinking until you pee clear.  Seriously.  Do it.   

  34. Greg Norton says:

    Should have seized it in the air with him onboard. 

    That would be an act of war. Everyone in Venezuela has been waiting for the US to invade and restore the old order for 25 years, including Chavez and Maduro.

    The professional class has been content to cool their heels in their Collins Avenue flats in Miami Beach for a couple of decades, but Florida has some new laws regarding condominium building maintenance which could be considered excessive and require fine tuning. In the mean time, marginal buildings may be condemned starting after the first of the year.

    Things are going to start heating up soon.

    Venezuelans are not Cubans.

  35. Ray Thompson says:

    I bought the entire series of EMERGENCY, you know, Station 51, Squad 51. It is interesting to see the cars and interior decorations of the homes. More appalling is the level of smog in the exterior scenes of the area. Seems like sometimes the visibility in the LA basin was less 4,000 yards. Living in that filth was terrible.

  36. Lynn says:

    After spending untold billions to provide rural internet, with zero customers actually getting service, they tentatively awarded a contract to SpaceX. Cost under one billion. The FCC has now cancelled the contract, because SpaceX cannot prove that it can delivery connectivity to remote locations.

    That can only be politics, because Musk has come out in support of Trump.

    The enormity of the technical challenge of Starlink service cannot be overstated.

    I’ve spent most of my career watching lives and capital get destroyed chasing the Pizza Box Dream.

    Starlink has satellites and what I imagine to be a clever piece of routing software, but the physics remain. The realities are masked in urban and semi urban environments my the MVNO agreements with the 5G carriers.

    Everyone I know in rural areas is dumping their Hughes Satellite for Starlink.  That cannot be understated.  

    At this point, it seems that 90% of the federal work force is violating the Hatch Act.

       https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act

    Fire them all and start over.

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  37. Greg Norton says:

    I bought the entire series of EMERGENCY, you know, Station 51, Squad 51. It is interesting to see the cars and interior decorations of the homes. More appalling is the level of smog in the exterior scenes of the area. Seems like sometimes the visibility in the LA basin was less 4,000 yards. Living in that filth was terrible.

    Cozi TV runs the series every morning and put together a 50th anniversary special a couple of years ago which aired on the same weekend as a Q&A event in LA with the surviving cast.

    Does the DVD set include the TV movies wrapping the series featuring a very young pre-soap opera/”Star Trek” fame John Delancie as one of the doctors?

  38. Lynn says:

    Absolutely. Rapidly moving satellites trying to provide a stable connection to fixed points on the earth. Satellite-to-satellite communication. Thousands of satellites. It’s amazing that it works at all.

    But it does work, as even people here have confirmed.

    The only remaining question is how effectively Starlink can scale. How many connections can the satellites actually support in any given geographical area?

    There are roughly a million and a half people using Starlink in the USA now.   The peak bandwidth that I am getting is roughly 150 / 50 mbps here in Fort Bend County which is oversubscribed to Starlink since over half of the county is still rural.  I find that amazing.  The cost is only $120/month plus the $600 antenna.  Amazing.

    AT&T wants $600/month for a 10/10 mbps fiber line with a five year non-cancelable contract to my office.  $800/month for an upgrade to 100/100 mbps.  I am not willing to pay that much nor am I willing to sign a long term contract for these tumultuous times.

    Apparently the version 2 Starlink satellites can handle many more connections than the version 1 or the version 1.5 satellites. They are physically double the size of the V1 satellites and have a much greater energy requirement. They also handle cell phones from the surface.

  39. Lynn says:

    “”Not The Type Of Character You Want” In High Office – Tim Walz’s Brother Slams VP Candidate”

       https://www.zerohedge.com/political/not-type-character-you-want-high-office-tim-walzs-brother-slams-vp-candidate

    “Unless and until Jeff Walz gets specific about where he differs with Kamala Harris’ running mate, we can only speculate. There’s lots of hard-left nuttiness and tyranny on Tim’s record, including:
    1. Putting tampons in boys’ school bathrooms
    2. Keeping the National Guard in the sidelines while Minneapolis burned during the 2020 George Floyd riots
    3. Seizing emergency powers during the Covid-19 pandemic and going all-out with business closures, mask mandates and declaring church worship “non-essential”
    4. Funding free college for illegal immigrants
    5. Declaring Minnesota a “trans refuge””

    Sounds like Tampon Tim is a real scumbag.

  40. Ray Thompson says:

    Does the DVD set include the TV movies wrapping the series featuring a very young pre-soap opera/”Star Trek” fame John Delancie as one of the doctors?

    Not in what I purchased. I bought on Apple TV.

  41. Lynn says:

    I wouldn’t connect to the open Internet without at least one layer of NAT.

    You should consider going to grc.com and using their Shields Up service to probe your systems.

    I prefer a double NAT.  Kinda like wearing two condoms for absolute guarantee of non-failure.

  42. Lynn says:

    “Discarding the Constitution”

       https://areaocho.com/15637-2/

    “Now that the left is, in their minds, on the cusp of taking over, they are calling for the elimination of the Constitution. Mostly, they are angry that the nation isn’t a pure Democracy where the 49% minority who live in between the coasts is ruled over by the people who live on the east and west coasts.”

    “They want a return to slavery. In this way, the city dwellers in Los Angeles and New York can vote to declare that housing, food, and medical care are basic human rights that must be provided to them free of charge.”

    “Nothing that requires the labor of others is a basic human right.”

    “The NY Times article that spawned this post mentions something that I think is the only way to avoid the civil war that is coming: A National divorce. The country breaking up into different, distinct nations is the only way that this bloodshed could conceivably be avoided. I also don’t think it will happen, because the left can’t force people to provide them with free stuff unless they have people to do the work.”

    National divorce or civil war, there must be a third option.  But half of the country making the other half of the country into slaves is not acceptable.

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  43. Greg Norton says:

    “They want a return to slavery. In this way, the city dwellers in Los Angeles and New York can vote to declare that housing, food, and medical care are basic human rights that must be provided to them free of charge.”

    After the hurricane struck Houston recently, I remember one of the Colonist manager types in a hotdesk cube near me complaining to someone on a phone call that his daughter, a resident at MD Anderson, had to go to work and wait in line for cafeteria food because “she couldn’t even get Uber delivery at home.”

  44. Greg Norton says:

    I prefer a double NAT.  Kinda like wearing two condoms for absolute guarantee of non-failure.

    One is enough and lessens the chances that you will have problems due to a poor implementation.

    Linksys used to have a terrible implementation in the BEFSR41, their most popular pre-WiFi home/small office router.

    What finally made Linksys shape up was Microsoft threatening to pull the “Certified for X-Box” logo from all of the manufacturer’s routers.

  45. Ray Thompson says:

    CNN Headline: “World’s best-connected airport operates an impressive 309 non-stop flights”.

    Hmm, I personally hope that all flights from any airport are non-stop to the intended destination. Any other outcome is probably considered a crash. Idiots.

  46. Gavin says:

    wearing two condoms for absolute guarantee of non-failure.

    As far as I know, the failure rate of 2 condoms worn together is higher than wearing one, as they will chafe against each other, and may produce tiny tears in the condoms.

  47. Greg Norton says:

    Does the DVD set include the TV movies wrapping the series featuring a very young pre-soap opera/”Star Trek” fame John Delancie as one of the doctors?

    Not in what I purchased. I bought on Apple TV.

    See if you have Cozi on one of your HDTV side channels.

    The TV movies got chopped into hour long programs for the Weigel networks, and I think Cozi retained the format.

    Even though it is mostly two hours of clips, Roy and Johnny get promoted to Captain as part of the plotline of the last TV movie, requiring them to surrender their paramedic certification.

    If you are a fan, the LA County Fire Museum has both fire engines and the paramedic vehicle which Universal built to spec in their fab shop. The hospital (Harborview Medical Center) and the firehouse still stand.

  48. Ray Thompson says:

    LA County Fire Museum has both fire engines

    I will never visit. I have zero desire to ever set foot in California again and contribute any money to the state’s economy. 

  49. drwilliams says:

     Kinda like wearing two condoms for absolute guarantee of non-failure.

    That’s like cooking your pork to 180 just to be sure. You’re not going to catch anything and you won’t enjoy it, either.

  50. nick flandrey says:

    Seems like sometimes the visibility in the LA basin was less 4,000 yards. Living in that filth was terrible. 

    – I lived in LA for a few years.   Early 90s.   The smog was pretty bad.   It’s noticeably better now.   As much as I hate the over regulated nanny state, the South Coast Air Quality Management Board seems to have been effective at improving the air in the LA basin.

    And it is a basin.   You can go up Route 2, the Angeles Crest Highway and when you get high enough you’ll come out above the smog layer.  You can see the smog filling the whole basin when you are above it.

    I worked near Dodgers Stadium for part of those years, and one day I was shocked to discover that there was a mountain in the near distance.   It was the first time the air was clear enough to see a couple of miles…

    Blue sky days were rare and everyone had lung or sinus issues.

    n

  51. nick flandrey says:

    Wrapped up at the BOL and headed home.   Got here no problems.  Only a few idiots racing on the freeway tonight.  

    Nice night here in Houston.  Not oven hot…

    n

  52. Nick Flandrey says:

    And an excellent night to try for an early bedtime. 

    n

  53. Alan says:

    >> Most hardware and home imp stores have a display in the shelving dept with 3M Command hangers. That’s the three-part system with an adhesive tab you put on the base, put the base on the surface, then slide the hanger on the base. clean the mounting surface with isopropyl alcohol and they stick forever but still remove cleanly when you pull the bottom of the tab.

    Requisite “hammer” video…

    https://youtu.be/vdajW49FyaI

  54. Alan says:

    >> And an excellent night to try for an early bedtime. 

    n

    “try” being the operative word.

    Lately you’re fine until you pick up a book…

  55. Lynn says:

    “Junkyard War” by Faith Hunter
       https://www.amazon.com/Junkyard-War-Faith-Hunter/dp/1622681789?tag=ttgnet-20/

    Book number three of a four book novella science fiction series. I read the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback published by Lore Seekers Press in 2023 that I bought on Amazon. I have the other book in the series. I am hoping for more books in the series but I kinda doubt it.

    The book is set in the not so distant future, probably 2060 or so. In 2043, thousands of Chinese Mamabots advanced into Seattle from the ocean, creating and deploying Warbots to kill the population. The Mama bots self replicated and spread across the USA and then the world, killing off most of the population with their warbots, starting “The Final War”. The Mamabots and the warbots have been mostly taken out, mostly, using antitank weapons and blasters, but there are many still in hiding.

    2060 is highly different from our time. There has been a severe population crash due to the bots and the lack of water. There were dark matter WIMP engines for the space ships that the Bug aliens shot down. There are the Bug aliens that forced The Final War to stop. And Shining has a crashed Bug space ship that the Bugs are looking for.

    Shining’s helper, the former captain of the crashed USSS starship that Shining also had hidden in her junkyard, had a executive officer who had been captured by an outlaw motorcycle gang. Shining and her fellow warriors are going to free the captive but her captors are in an old military bunker. Luckily, Shining has a bunch of sneaky telepathic cats.

    Shining is one of the few known survivors of a bicolor ant swarm, who infected her with their nanobots. And she is a survivor of The Final War that started when she was 12. There is video of her killing a Mamabot in Seattle by dragging a bomb into it when she was 12.

    BTW, the nanobots are freaking me out. The fact that Shining Smith is infected and shedding nanobots all over the place is a horrifying concept. And she has infected her junkyard cats who use the nanobots to communicate to each other and her. And she has infected the people who work with her but none of them shed nanobots like her since she is a “nanobot queen”.

    BTW, the junkyard cats are motivated by protein. In 2060, protein is short as much of the world has turned into deserts due to WIMP bombs ripping away the stratosphere. Dead humans are protein according to cat rules. Don’t get jumped by five cats, you will end up as protein.

    The author has a website at:
       https://www.faithhunter.net

    My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    Amazon rating: 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,340 reviews)

    Lynn

  56. Lynn says:

    “U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Agency Approves First Generation IV Nuclear Reactor”

        https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/09/02/u-s-nuclear-regulatory-agency-approves-first-generation-iv-nuclear-reactor/

    “The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved construction of the first fourth-generation nuclear reactor in the country.”

    Just build it.

  57. Lynn says:

    “Berkeley Law School Dean: Constitution “Outdated”, “Threatens The United States””

        https://www.zerohedge.com/political/berkeley-law-school-dean-constitution-outdated-threatens-united-states

    Sounds like treason to me.

  58. Lynn says:

    “A good emergency planning summary for the pre-election period”

         https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/09/a-good-emergency-planning-summary-for.html

    “Nobody knows how the November 2024 elections will turn out.  Frankly, I’m expecting major social problems before then, as left-wing and progressive pressure groups ramp up their activities and try to intimidate their political opposition.  How serious those problems will be is anybody’s guess.”

    “I hope that by now, most of my readers have put their emergency preparations in order, and are ready to hunker down and stay away from trouble spots – or, if trouble comes in their direction, to defend themselves against it.  However, some might like a reminder checklist.  For those who do, see this very informative article dating from 2021, and harking back to an even earlier version.  It’s concise and condensed, packing a lot of information into a relatively short summary.”

    Just like the end of the first Terminator movie, there is a major storm on the horizon.  Be prepared.

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