Should be cool and clear again today. Other than the crazy wind, yesterday was very nice, staying in the 70s most of the day. The sun was very hot, but the wind kept me cool. Today is supposed to be a little warmer, and without the wind.
I slept in,but not as late as some times when we’re up here. I was up and productive anyway. Although daytime reading is like daytime drinking… once you start, you won’t get much else done.
I got the speakers hooked up on the dock, did more of the electrical work, and started on finishing closing up the walls in the dockhouse. Then I ran out of daylight.
Had a nice fire and chat on the patio instead of my usual time alone on the dock with my radio and tiny fire.
Today I’ll keep working on getting the dockhouse back together from the flood damage. After that we’ll see about some networking or some other stuff on the list. There’s plenty on the list, but if it’s nice out, I might shift stuff around a bit to take advantage of the weather.
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The turkey is defrosting in the fridge, and we’re debating whether to brine it and bake, or brine and smoke… or maybe some other technique will jump out at us. Dunno, brining seems to be a common denominator, so maybe I’ll start with that. I generally cook at home, and my wife does most of the cooking when we’re up here. Thanksgiving will take both of us though. And maybe the kids will get involved with something other than just the baking. Maybe.
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Meanwhile the world continues to race headlong towards global conflict. Make your preparations. Learn what you need to know. Meet the people around you. Stack.
nick
In better economic circumstances and a different profession, maybe, but, right now, 80+ hours/week in tech has no point, particularly for a white or “white adjacent” (a term I’ve seen used for Asian) male working in software in the US.
Even when the economic circumstances are better, Americans were unique in the view that 80+ hours a week and heavy domestic or international travel for the lifestyle equivalent of less than $100k per year pre-Biden Bux was “building towards something”.
The F-35 is a prime example of where the USAF was already going wrong when I worked in acquisition 40 years ago. The USAF is politically dominated by fighter pilots. They want their fighters to fulfill all possible roles. So each new aircraft gets designed by committee, with everyone’s ideas integrated. After all, leaving out someone’s idea means either insulting them or – worse – not having a subcontract in a critical Congressional district.
I am beyond annoyed that Switzerland decided to buy these hanger queens. Readiness levels suck. Their avionics are vulnerable to lightning strikes, with a fix still years away. The engines already need to be replaced, at our expense, even though we haven’t even taken delivery yet. And now we find out that they cannot even keep their avionics cooled? Note: those are only the problems that have been made public – I am sure far more are being carefully hidden.
A couple of years ago, the USAF even admitted that the F-35 is a Ferarri, and “you don’t drive your Ferrari to work every day, you only drive it on Sundays.” In other words, they don’t want to risk it in ordinary combat, because it’s too expensive to lose.
What a boondoggle.
Air superiority is not bombing is not close-air support. What the USAF needs are simple, reliable, expendable planes optimized for specific roles. That last word may be the biggest problem: fighter pilots don’t want to see themselves as expendable.
Can the F-35 be repaired in the field during a conflict? I’m curious if the body got hit?
I’m not familiar with the F-35, but most likely it is similar to the fighters I do know. Which is to say: parts don’t get repaired, they get replaced. If you have a bullet through the radar dome, that’s easy to replace. If you have a bullet through the body, any internal components hit will have to be replaced. Maybe that’s just some wiring, maybe it’s a computer, maybe it’s a fuel tank, maybe it’s an engine. There are only a certain number of spares in the field, and when they are used up, that’s it until the next delivery. Components like engines or internal fuel tanks are more difficult to replace than boxes of electronics, and will leave a plane sidelined for a lot longer. When spares for a part run out, they can scavenged off of other damaged planes, but that takes longer.
The logistics tail of a complex aircraft is huge. That’s another reason that combat aircraft need to be kept as simple as possible.
PSA: FWIW, I am not a black friday shopper, but a friend sent me a text with some apps that track prices, so that one can check to see if prices have been “bumped” up before the BF “discount”.
“Keepa, I got it as a Firefox extension. People also like camelcamelcamel.”
My MS at AFIT had one summer where I had to be hyper-organized to get everything done. Every day was organized into three 4-hour blocks of study/work, with short breaks between. Except Sunday, where there were only two blocks. It was intense. Definitely not sustainable more than those few months, with an end in sight.
Do that for a job? Long term?There is either going to be a lot of water cooler time, or an increasing number of mistakes. Either way, that’s no way to live.
66F and sunny. Lot of moisture in the air.
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Remember the adage that we always start off fighting the last war? Fighter jets and multirole aircraft platforms are ‘last war’. Drones, autonomous and semi-autonomous small platforms are ‘this war’. There will likely be a propaganda/disinformation campaign that will call reality into question too.
There will be a component of ‘technically savvy guerrilla fighting’ like nothing we’ve ever seen.
And the wild card is control of space for offensive and defensive uses. As JerryP has postulated, you could build systems that make aircraft obsolete on the battlefield. Anything that pokes it’s head up gets hammered.
We already have anti-radiation missiles that can home in on a single cell phone and take out personnel. Throw a couple hundred of those in the air near any base…
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@Bob Sprowl:
Go to the App store icon and search for Contacts. You should find the Contacts App, make sure the maker is Apple, and install the app. That will bring back the icon. If you had data that was NOT removed, the data should be back.
Once your contact app is reloaded, go into the contacts for yourself. If there is not one for yourself, add it. Make certain to put in the cell phone number of your phone, as an iPhone, and that should make you the default. In the list of contacts, it should show “Me” on the right side of the list. That should restore your address in the Maps app.
Yes, much too complex to be really effective in battle, and be able to return. The ruggedness of the B-29 was legendary. Many of those planes suffered significant damage and were able to return with their crew intact, or at least most of them. The planes were not packed with technology and required 5 computer systems just to fly.
The fighter jets of today are good for show, that is about it. A mosquito strike could almost disable the aircraft and require hundreds of thousands of dollars in repairs that would take over a year to accomplish.
re: cancer treatments
If I had a diagnosis I would consider doctor recommended radiation and chemo.
But I would unhesitatingly adopt the Tippens protocol combined with strict zero carb and fasting. Which is complementary to the more standard treatments, not an opposition to it.
I have a dear friend with metastacizing cancer, and his family has circled the wagons around traditional oncology treatments. As such, I know I will definitly lose him in a year or less. It makes me sad. My sadness is tempered by the fact that he’s 90 and surrounded by people who love him.
Part of that sadness is knowing how difficult it’s going to be to get decent studies of alternative treatments funded, since Big Pharma controls all medical research and activiely torpedoes things it doesn’t profit from. When the studies are finally funded and complete, we may be able to look back and say “If only we had known then what we know now.” That sentiment will not bring back lost friends and family.
re: combat aircraft
The F-15 is still in production, and there are people working on upgrades to it and the existing F-18 fleet worldwide.
Expensive and fragile it may be, but the F-35 was used successfully to raid Iran just last month, and all aircraft returned successfully, in spite of state-of-the-art Russian antiaircraft systems.
Roles are refined and redefined, and doctrine adapts to new threats, and the measure/counter-measure dance continues. Drones are an element in this. Significant, but not determinative.
“F-35’s Cooling Crisis: Design Flaws Fuel $2 Trillion Dilemma For Pentagon”
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/f-35s-cooling-crisis-design-flaws-fuel-2-trillion-dilemma-pentagon
“The Pentagon is facing a difficult decision regarding the F-35’s chronic, crippling problems with overheating brought on by its insufficient cooling capacity.”
“Various types of liquid cooling are necessary, especially for power-hungry radars. This is particularly true of the F-35, which is advertised as a flying supercomputer crammed full of heat-producing computers, communications, and avionics equipment. When it comes to heat production, its powerful AN/APG-81 AESA radar leads the way.”
“The underlying issue powering the cooling crisis is that the F-35 design team only designed the F-35 with 14 kilowatts (kW) of cooling power. Yet the F-35 was not declared fully operational until Block 3F capabilities were incorporated—capabilities that required roughly 32 kW of cooling and have only recently been rolled out, some 30 years after development began on the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The Block 3F upgrade necessitated modifying the F-35’s cooling system. It negatively impacted the longevity and reliability of the F-35’s F135 engine, which was already struggling with reliability issues.”
That is a lot of cooling. 32 kW is 109,189 btu/hr. That is 9.1 tons of air conditioning. That is more air conditioning than I have on my 5,300 ft2 office building, 7.5 tons.
This is a serious problem. Of course, at speed above 10,000 feet altitude, one can open a large vent and let cool air flow through the various heat generating systems. But when flying slow at low altitudes, heating is going to be a serious issue.
BTW, I suspect that the big power usage is the radar in the nose of the F-35. If the F-35 is running stealthy, that radar is not on. I suspect most F-35s run stealthy, especially in places where any radar will get a HARM missile flying your way. HARM = High speed Anti Radiation Missile coming in at mach 2.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-88_HARM
Expensive and fragile it may be, but the F-35 was used successfully to raid Iran just last month, and all aircraft returned successfully, in spite of state-of-the-art Russian antiaircraft systems.
And the Israeli F-35s were also used to bomb strategic targets in Yemen on a separate trip. That is a major hike from Israel to Yemen and they are dirty with a belly tank (or two ???) all the way there.
Pilots know about the shortcomings of their planes. And they fly them anyway.
“Nazis versus Communists”
https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh_g3b9LBenwDms_alo9oFTBOVcvsFIuSMMsfYFxl8EWM5fgFuT3krzdVe4vzgOE4XXwV7neMVrMsVsK7F8mGb_hThkot2pqXm1g8xuAeSBSwkomJaa8SzBgEEs9fECRIxkpE7rI4XEx5pgYlGECuxZx0BiJ_OQagPIvWqpLzuFFqWlrIlrS8dBC0Y6IQ/s604/Meme%20-%20Nazis%20vs%20Communists.png
From:
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/11/memes-that-made-me-laugh-237.html
“Texas A&M-Texas game ticket prices hit historic high ahead of rivalry game”
https://www.chron.com/sports/college/article/texas-am-ticket-prices-19941021.php
“The Lone Star Showdown is now a play-in to the Southeastern Conference championship, so tickets won’t get any cheaper.”
If my Aggies beat Texas next Saturday night then they go to the SEC championship game versus Georgia.
My middle brother and I are taking our 86 year old father to this game via a limo he rented. And he bought the tickets. I am going to sneak the wheelchair out of his car trunk that he has for Mom as he has trouble walking more than 1,000 feet.
“Tesla Excluded From EV Buyer Credits in California Proposal”
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/california-pledges-ev-buyer-rebate-152405490.html
That there is called discrimination and is actionable. California sucks and Nuisance …
“BREAKING: Elon Musk, X Come to Alex Jones’ Aid Against Democrat Attempts to Steal Jones’ X Identity”
https://www.infowars.com/posts/breaking-elon-musk-x-come-to-alex-jones-aid-against-democrat-attempts-to-steal-jones-x-identity/
“X accounts belonging to Alex Jones and Infowars may not be sold or transferred as part of bankruptcy proceedings, attorneys representing X Corp. declared Monday.”
“In a motion filed in Jones’ bankruptcy case, the X Corp. objected to sales of the @realAlexJones account as well as the Infowars, Banned.video and War Room accounts which were included as part of a recent auction, noting X is the “sole owner” of account licenses and that such licenses are “non-assignable.””
Interesting.
Hat tip to:
https://thelibertydaily.com/
“Jack Smith Drops His Case Against Trump”
https://thelibertydaily.com/jack-smith-drops-his-case-against-trump/
Jack Smith and his enablers at the DOJ need to be prosecuted for false prosecution.
“Credit card debt hits record $1.17 trillion, New York Fed research shows”
https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-11-25-credit-card-debt-hits-1t-ny-fed.html
People are living off their credit cards. Not good.
Poorly written software, particularly crypto, is a potential source of excess heat in an embedded system as the CPU wastes cycles.
“F-35’s Cooling Crisis: Design Flaws Fuel $2 Trillion Dilemma For Pentagon”
A while back I recall that F-22’s had cooling issues, on the ground they taxied with the avionics hatches opened, which involved ground crew trucks with personnel out in the aprons and taxiways, not sure what the current fleet does.
I am not sure why it (cooling) would affect engine life, possibly it is using bleed air which is already in short supply on modern aircraft, and that causes the engine to run in a less than ideal ideal mode to get enough?
But wrt damage, modern fighter aircraft are odd creatures: they are just jampacked full of equipment so that any shrapnel or shell strike is likely to hit something important, on the other hand most functions are backed up, and everything is built hell for leather strong to resist g-forces and crazy aerodynamic loadings.
I wonder how much of our tax dollars was wasted on this action? And, how much tRump had to spend.
EdH: I worked on validating sufficiency of cabin temps and pressures on commercial airliners about 45 years ago. We’ll have that on the schedule for meeting at Five Fingers Pub next spring.
Interesting article over on althouse
https://althouse.blogspot.com/2024/11/ai-will-be-incredible-tweets-elon-musk.html
lots of comments but worth reading
Our Village Idiot at the Death Star got fed into a layoff, and he eventually ended up at GE as an architect on their smart power meter program after cribbing my resume and getting my partner to sign off as a reference regarding his crypto expertise.
Within a year, the smart meters started bursting into flame on the sides of houses in California where they were first deployed. I don’t think it is a coincidence.
Village Idiot moved on to Siemens shortly after the fires started. No word on what happened there.
Thanks Ray.
I called Apple Support this morinng and we found the Contact App in the Productivity Library. When I opens it still goes to Lists and does not give me the option to add a new contact.
I was able to put a copy of the icon in the bottom of the home screen. It too opens to Lists. Yesterday I deleted all references to my son and then to myself (we have the same first name). I cannot get the Contact listing to allow middle initial or middle names. In Maps I cleared the home location icon. I then went to Settings and added myself with my first name and full middle name, email address, street, address and birthday.
I had placed a call to my son so I used that to let me create new contact for him with his data and placed his middle initial in his first name.
I tried to reinstall the Contact app several times yesterday. I couldn’t do that; it defaults to stating that the app is already installed and is located in Utilities. It is not in Utilities; it is in Productivity and reduced in size so I didn’t see it.
Just before I started this post I opened Contacts in the Productivity Library and was able to get it to let me add a new contact and followed your instructions to create a contact for me. However the resulting contact did not show “Me” anywhere.
I just moved a copy of Contacts to the second page of the home screen.
And whenever I try to open the contacts to view them, I still default to the List Screen and cannot see the full list of contacts. Nothing I do opens the full list of contacts. EDIT: I can long tap the Contact icon and it lets me create a new contact. Sometimes when I cancel it takes me to the full list of contacts. I was able to view my entry and at the bottom was the opition to make it My Card. I did that and then it closed and and briefly displayed “ME” at the right edge of my entry and then “ME” winked out. ???
The good news is that I sem to be able to install apps without problems. I added Facebook, GasBuddy, Home Depot, and SimplySafe . Only twenty or so more to do. I can’t do this unless I have my eight page list of passwords … so this will be a slow process.
I got the case for the phone to day. After installation the phone is still smaller than my Motorola which I really like.
Long press on the app icon until the icons start shaking and drag it to a new location on the screen. That will remove it from the productivity folder to being on the desktop.
Tap on the list that says “All iCloud”. That should give you the full list. I can get the list of lists like you state and can easily get the list of all contacts by just clicking on the list. At the top of the list of contacts should be your name and below says “My Card”. This link may help: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2021/11/29/how-to-add-fix-wrong-my-card-info-iphone-contacts-app
An app has to be removed before it can be installed again.
@Bob Sprowl:
You should have an iCloud account as that is created when you set up the phone. You can go to iCloud.com in any browser, sign in with your Apple credentials. There will be an icon for Contacts. You can click that icon and the page will show your contact lists, along with a list of all your contacts. There is a location to click for “All Contacts” that will show your entire list of contacts. If the lists do not show there is a little blue square in the upper left that will expand or contract the contact lists.
@Bob Sprowl:
To set up your contact as yourself (“ME”):
Settings → Apps → Contacts → scroll down to “My Info” and select, then scroll to your name and click your contact name. That should set up “ME” in the contact list. It will also set up “My Card” at the top of the contacts list.
If you have not done so, update to the latest version of IOS which is 18.1.1. You can update IOS by going to
Settings -> General -> Software Update.
I read the GSA report on the F-35 problems. Most of the problems are contractor related. Failure to deliver necessary support to include tech data, test equipment and maintenance training is the cause of the F-35 problems.
I was a contract monitor at SAC HQ for Command and Control Communications systems and the failure to require delivery of tech data, test data and training as part of the initial delivery is just stupid. I was negotiating a contract for some upgrades in a face-to-face meeting with IT&T to replace the main core memory with solid state devices and they quoted of a price of around $770,000. I wrote that number on the room’s white board as I told them that was absolutely unacceptable, I wrote below that number “Plus Tech data”, “Training”, “Test Equipment”, and “Spares for one year” . Then I crossed their number out and and wrote $1,050,000 below it and said if that doesn’t work for them I’ll find another solution. No coming back for more money, that’s the delivered total price. It worked for them.
@CowboyStu: Looking forward to it!
No “My card” and No “Me”
I’ll on 18.0.1
Settings opened and let me go to Apps, Contacts, and I got scrollable list. As I was scrolling it jumped to the List screen with the name of the lists I created but with iClound at the top. Selecting iCould lets me get to my Apple Account Data.
And there is no Contacts entry now. There is a Contect Key Verification entry. I tried various options and got to the Contact listing and there is no My card entry at the top. As I was scrolling down it, the list slid sideways and then changed to a settings options screen. Damn.
Explored various locations and found a Contacts listing: screeen header line is “<Apps Contacts”. There is an “My Info” entry at the bottom with my sons name and selecting it takes me to a complete contacts list. The Heading line reads: “<Lists iCloud Cancel”. There is no My Card at the top. The first line is “Search”; the second line is “New Contact”; the third line begins the list with “A”. The entry for my sons name has “Me” at the right margin. Double damn.
Selecting any entry takes me to an options screen such as “Allow contacts to to access”, “Allow Name and Photo”, “Providers”, …
THIS IS UNREAL: I just repeated the above process and now I’m in the My Info entry and when I selected that it took me to a contact listing which again has the same heading line with no My card at the top but when I scrolled down has my name with the “Me” at the right margin. WTF!!!
(When I stop to type an entry here, the phone shuts down and and I have to start over which usually makes me start over. Is there a timer setting for this that I can change? Typing with one hand while the other shakes the phone is annoying.)
I think you are moving your finger sideways as much as you are moving up and down. That is causing the screens to change. My MIL had the same issue. If you are certain you are moving your finger up and down with no sideways motion, it is possible that the screen sensor is not working properly. If you got a 2nd hand phone, that may be why it was cheap.
Trump announces Day One tariffs:
Mexico 25%
Canada 25%
China +10% addition to existing
ALL PRODUCTS.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/11/trump-vows-25-tariffs-on-goods-from-mexico-canada-over-border-crisis/
Lots of stuff coming in from Mexico is actually sourced somewhere else and comes through Mexico to get zero tariffs after getting new paperwork. Lots of stuff coming from Vietnam actually comes from China.
Isn’t NAFTA a bit of an obstacle to this?
I used to think international free trade was a good thing.
Thinking now that it might be a suicide pact. Not done thinking it through.
“Willie Robertson: The Unlikely Origin of Duck Dynasty, Willie’s New Show, & Why Trump Won”
https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-willie-robertson
“The great Willie Robertson.”
With the gray hair, he’s starting to look like a mix of Uncle Si and Phil.
“Isn’t NAFTA a bit of an obstacle to this?”
NAFTA may be reinterpreted through the fact of our southern “neighbor” aiding and abetting the wholesale invasion of our country and the murder of 100,000 of our citizens each year by fentanyl.
Our satellite sensing capability is second to none. It is likely that we can detect the manufacture of fentanyl from chemical signatures from orbit. It’s also likely that we can identify who is in the near geographic area by several methods, track them to and fro, and get a pretty good handle on who ultimately benefits, from drug lords to corrupt politicians.
And if we aren’t already tracking the flow of the chemical feedstocks coming into Mexico from China to be made into fentanyl, that would be sufficient cause to clean the domestic political game players out of our “intelligence” agencies and concentrate what remains on missions consistent with their charters.
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2024/11/25/mexicos-problems-arent-americas-fault-n1226985
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/11/25/study-dei-training-created-perceptions-of-prejudice-where-none-was-present-n3797362
Hypocrite in Chief, Sunny Hostin, Finds Out Her Ancestors Are Everything She Despises
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2024/11/25/sunny-hostin-relatives-slave-owners-n2404263
Her ancestors owned slaves. Should we parse her past statements and render a judgement, or give her a pass?
That’s easy: She judged herself into her own corner. Cancel the fool.
Illegal Immigrant Accused of Rape in Fairfax County Days After Being Released for Another Crime
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/11/25/illegal-immigrant-accused-of-rape-in-fairfax-county-days-after-being-released-for-another-crime-n3797363
That’s only part of the story. This piece of filth has a history of violence, a history of getting breaks not available to mere U.S. Citizens, and a history of living in a country where not enough people are sick and disgusted with the false virtue of coddling illegal alien criminals (but I repeat myself).
Seven Wins Steve will be back on the sauce if UT loses.
The transfer portal losses will be brutal.
Isn’t that a “sanctuary” county?
Harris won the county by a 70-30 margin.
Gotta keep those DoD contract soup bowls filled.
You know, if I were Trump’s border czar, I’d consider a two-pronged approach.
Begin deporting the violent illegals, but have a PR campaign letting the others know that there are these sanctuary cities and counties that will fight to keep them here.
Even give them maps. Maybe even bus tickets.
In fairly short order, you could clean up the red states and close the border.
Let the PLTs stew while you take care of the urgent business.
When you get around to theh blue zones, you should get a lot more cooperation from the locals. And you will have concentrated them all in one place.
Begin deporting the violent illegals, but have a PR campaign letting the others know that there are these sanctuary cities and counties that will fight to keep them here.
Even give them maps. Maybe even bus tickets.
Give them plane tickets ! ! !!
If they self deport, the cost is so much less.
Just came up from my fire and relaxing time on the dock. Wife and D2 joined me tonight, so no radio. Nice clear black sky with lots of stars. I could almost see the Milky Way. It’s been months since I saw it. There was a little haze, but it was the clearest night since spring.
It’s CHILLY over the water though. I used the electric radiant heater for my back while the fire was going, and for my everything while the fire died out. Thermometer at the house says 61F, but the dock is colder. And the wind is biting.
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Played quiddler with the whole family tonight. It was animated. I found out that my apocalypse library doesn’t have a printed dictionary. I’ll have to remedy that as the online Websters has too many words from other sources, and the phones make it too easy to surf looking for words to use. Technically legal in the game, but violates the spirit.
quiddler is a fun game for a wide range of ages and interests.
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Time for a shower and bed. I’m chilled to the bone.
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Florida and Texas already charter buses.
DeSantis even flew a group into the Martha’s Vineyard airport.
That was hilarious. Somehow, the local residents failed to open their doors to the newcomers. But seriously: lots of bus tickets, but all heading South.
Meanwhile, what’s up with the tariffs? I understand tariffs against Mexico, but Canada? That seems odd.
DeSantis don’t surf.
We went out to Martha’s Vineyard two weeks ago for “Jaws” and Dead Kennedy tourism. We drove past the airport twice.
The airport is very remote so a group of refugees landed there would immediately become a problem for the NGOs and local government.
Pressure on Wee Pierre.
Plus Canada is a conduit for human smuggling from China on the West Coast.