I can't speak for the other airports in your list having never flown through them but MSP is one giant cluster fuck of an airport. Why they went from 6 security check points down to 2 is beyond me. The TSA claims that they have the same number of security lanes open just fewer check points. I can only assume that this is to make us less secure as instead of having 6 spread out checkpoints with fewer people in each they have 2 with a giant pile of waiting targets, I mean people, in them. For a long while there they had TSA agents who would walk around outside the security line explaining that if you wanted to get through the line faster you should put your liquids less than 3 oz in a ziplock bag of if larger pitch them in the trash. Being the smart ass I am I responded that if they really wanted to get us through the line faster they would instead go and open that other lane that was closed.
Well that depends. I have property that is way the hell out in the middle of no where. I would have to pay for a run and transformer which is in the $15,000-$20,000 range just to get hooked up and then there is the monthly hookup cost plus usage. That makes grid power competitive with an off grid renewable install (low generating capacity with a larger reserve), or a generator. With a generator one would have to deal with fuel purchase and maintenance and then there is the choice between getting a cheap but noisy (construction site style generator) or a quiet but substantially more expensive generator. Considering that there isn't a structure on the property now I can put one up and design in the power source if I want. $15,000-$20,000 would get me more generating capacity and reserve capacity than I would need and then I wouldn't have to fuck around with maintaining a generator and dealing with fuel, or paying for a hookup that I don't use some months. Picking the right kind of batteries also goes a long way towards making the renewables more maintenance free so instead of lead acid batteries go with something like nickel iron ones as they can take much more abuse and neglect.
That would be like me bitching about snow covering my solar panels here in Minnesota for 6 months of the year without going out to remove the snow covering them like I currently have to do anyway on the roof.
Since when is not taxing something subsidizing it?
Last I checked the companies the produce fossil fuels don't really release CO2 it is people like you and me (motor vehicle fuel, home heating) as well as power companies running generators, shipping companies running ships, trains, and trucks. Yes I understand that they do release some CO2 but it is a very small amount compared to the rest of the economy. Tax the end user for fouling up the planet and see how quickly things change but it will have to be every end user who is consuming fossil fuels in the proportion to the amount they consume.
Which is why I support keeping guns out of the hands of children. Seriously if you have firearms in your house and have kids keep them locked up and unloaded. I do even though my kids aren't toddlers anymore and I have worked to remove the curiosity about firearms from them so that they don't see them as neat or toys. I have also taught them the basic safety of handling guns in case they ever do come across one. Also as the oldest is getting to the age where he can start to learn how to shoot I have begun that instruction with a BB gun. Then again people like myself are the ones you never hear about as we aren't out trying to be activists on the firearm issue or the ones who get reported on in the news for being dumb shits with our firearms.
Well there are some places where carrying a firearm is just a good idea but then most of these aren't where most people are carrying a firearm. For example I have a carry permit in my state but I only exercise that when I am out in the woods. I have property up in northern Minnesota and there are large predators out there (bear, wolves, cougars, bobcats, coyotes) that I have had close run ins with in the past. To be legal when walking down a road with a loaded handgun you need to have permit to carry so I got one to be legal. Then again my handgun isn't a concealable one and is really meant to put a big hole in a bear and I don't take it to the grocery store because to me it does seem silly.
It is easy to light, just stuff a kid's sparkler in it and light that, or a magnesium ribbon and light it with a propane torch. Just don't look at it as it is really bright and puts out a lot of UV radiation.
I'd be far more suspicious of the individuals with truck nuts.
Well we have been known to do that at deer camp of course it is usually to screw with someone and what the hell else are you going to do with deer testicles and dick. Even my car ended up with them once hanging from the hitch.
But will they allow people in the US to subscribe? I would love to pay the BBC to have access to all of their entire back catalogue of TV and Radio content. There are very few companies that are willing to produce something like "Planet Earth" but I am willing to pay for quality content.
You do realize that there are systems that are not connected to the internet as a whole that exist in secure buildings and while they rely on external data that data is brought in on direct connections that do not go over the public internet. Modern society depends on such systems and some operators of such systems are better at resisting the temptation to just connect everything to the internet directly or indirectly. If following a proper defense in depth strategy these isolated systems still have lots of security on top of them even though they are not connected to the public internet. If you are interested in what the going state of the art in security for these types of systems is you can read the Cybersecurity Procurement Language for Energy Delivery Systems document and go read the NERC CIP v5 standard. These set the minimum level of security that exist on the systems.
And yes this is how secure systems operate. You have a box that you load an ISO image onto that goes and checks that image with a battery of AV and other security products and then produces a CD or DVD that you then go and bring with you into your secure server room to load onto the servers. The disk then lives in that room until it gets fed to a shredder. Any electronic gadgets that enter the room remain in the room until they also get fed to a shredder.
Yes I have been in such facilities and even got to see one of my co-workers lose his new iPhone to the shredder because he didn't heed the warnings.
Fortunately the generation and market side of the companies has to be treated separately. In that area of the country PJM handles the the bulk electrical market and transmission and even there the network people are kept separate from the market people. The network side is concerned with ensuring reliability of the grid market people be damned while the markets side is concerned with meeting the network demand at the lowest price. Across the country there are other large companies like CA ISO, ERCOT, MidWest ISO, TVA, etc that all fill a similar role to the one PJM does.
Except that out there they still have to deal with PJM. Both PEPCO and various Exelon/Constellation owned utilities all go through them so I don't think there are really any economies of scale that can be gained at this point.
And if anyone is wondering what are some good uses for used glass jars I have done the following with them:
1. Store wooden strike anywhere matches in them up at my recreational property
2. A containers to put parts like carburetors in so they can soak in cleaner
3. Containers to hold vinegar with steel wool dissolved in it (used for ebonizing woods)
4. Containers to hold solvents for cleaning paint brushes
5. Containers to store rice
6. Containers to store pasta
7. Containers to store bulk spices
8. Containers to store honey
9. Containers to store maple syrup
10. Containers for tea staining wood before ebonizing
Lies. You should see my pantry I have a bunch of glass jars stacked in it, granted they are mason jars filled with delicious jams, stews, sauces, honey, maple syrup, and veggies so they have a pretty rectangular profile unlike most glass containers in stores that instead have long necks or disproportionately small openings to the main volume of the container.
That said I do prefer to buy things in a glass container especially if it will take a mason jar lid (regular or wide mouth) and will reuse those for storing other things I want to keep moisture or pests out of.
There is the peak oil monkeys you see on TV that keep saying every 10 years we ~10 years out from peak oil since the 70s and then there are the people who work in the oil industry. One of my wife's uncles worked as a geologist in the oil industry and I heard similar numbers from him in the late 90s or early 2000s (I forget when I asked him). Also according to him we have gone though about 1/2 the cheap oil and about 1/3 of the recoverable oil. Or to put numbers on it the earth probably contains about 6 trillion barrels of oil, we had consumed about 1 trillion of it, another trillion would be easy to get and one trillion beyond that would be physically possible to get, the remaining 3 trillion barrels would remain in the ground. I don't know if this includes other exotic oil like things like tar sands or oil shale but it wouldn't surprise me if it included a fair amount of them since it seems likely they would have been investigating them just before his retirement.
Well it is always a good idea to avoid certain areas if violence is likely. Hell when I was in Israel a few years back Yom Kippur and The Feast of the Cross fell on the same day. I was told to avoid some areas of town as there likely would be riots where the Orthodox Christian neighborhoods abutted the Orthodox Jew neighborhoods. Instead of trying to figure that out I watched movies at the hotel pool and got piss drunk. This doesn't mean that the advisor I had had insider knowledge, just reasonable insight that 2 diametrically opposed celebrations with people who are very devout would be something to avoid. I bet a similar thing happened in your daughter's case with the switch to going to Amsterdam instead. The Paris fear is something that sounds like a typical thing parents would do even if it is just stupid on the face of it. Having lived in Paris there were some neighborhoods that I did feel very unwelcome when I wandered into them and that was something like 12 years ago. It sounds like some of those areas have gotten worse and seeing some of the reports on those areas it didn't surprise me.
Red -> Well fuck we just got bombed and didn't see it coming. It won't happen again so why not
Orange -> We need to affect an election or sell some more duct tape
Yellow -> Doesn't mean fuck all as it is always here but it sounds kind of scary
Green -> There is probably a 1:300 chance there might be a terror attack somewhere in the US, most likely outcome is the terrorist sets his shorts on fire.
Blue -> What the actual thread level is but you will never officially see this in your lifetime.
Most of the 4th amendment or were not aware that the PATRIOT ACT and USA FREEDOM act were meant to deal with terrorism but are increasingly being used domestically. Also I would argue that that the TSA is a blatant violation of the 4th amendment as their searches are not conducted with probable cause or warrant and do seem unreasonable considering that they don't actually make you any safer and in all actuality make you less safe. Also we use to make fun of the old Soviet Union for demanding to see people's papers, yet now we we do it all the time. Also there was the whole internal passport that the Soviets had for internal travel that we also made fun of and we don't have that, well fuck. You may say well you accept that when you want to fly, but here's the thing they have expanded their reach and pull this shit all over the place.
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Hey I heard that the last time they did a check they had improved 20% so now they are catching like 6% of the banned items.
I can't speak for the other airports in your list having never flown through them but MSP is one giant cluster fuck of an airport. Why they went from 6 security check points down to 2 is beyond me. The TSA claims that they have the same number of security lanes open just fewer check points. I can only assume that this is to make us less secure as instead of having 6 spread out checkpoints with fewer people in each they have 2 with a giant pile of waiting targets, I mean people, in them. For a long while there they had TSA agents who would walk around outside the security line explaining that if you wanted to get through the line faster you should put your liquids less than 3 oz in a ziplock bag of if larger pitch them in the trash. Being the smart ass I am I responded that if they really wanted to get us through the line faster they would instead go and open that other lane that was closed.
Well that depends. I have property that is way the hell out in the middle of no where. I would have to pay for a run and transformer which is in the $15,000-$20,000 range just to get hooked up and then there is the monthly hookup cost plus usage. That makes grid power competitive with an off grid renewable install (low generating capacity with a larger reserve), or a generator. With a generator one would have to deal with fuel purchase and maintenance and then there is the choice between getting a cheap but noisy (construction site style generator) or a quiet but substantially more expensive generator. Considering that there isn't a structure on the property now I can put one up and design in the power source if I want. $15,000-$20,000 would get me more generating capacity and reserve capacity than I would need and then I wouldn't have to fuck around with maintaining a generator and dealing with fuel, or paying for a hookup that I don't use some months. Picking the right kind of batteries also goes a long way towards making the renewables more maintenance free so instead of lead acid batteries go with something like nickel iron ones as they can take much more abuse and neglect.
That would be like me bitching about snow covering my solar panels here in Minnesota for 6 months of the year without going out to remove the snow covering them like I currently have to do anyway on the roof.
Since when is not taxing something subsidizing it?
Last I checked the companies the produce fossil fuels don't really release CO2 it is people like you and me (motor vehicle fuel, home heating) as well as power companies running generators, shipping companies running ships, trains, and trucks. Yes I understand that they do release some CO2 but it is a very small amount compared to the rest of the economy. Tax the end user for fouling up the planet and see how quickly things change but it will have to be every end user who is consuming fossil fuels in the proportion to the amount they consume.
Which is why I support keeping guns out of the hands of children. Seriously if you have firearms in your house and have kids keep them locked up and unloaded. I do even though my kids aren't toddlers anymore and I have worked to remove the curiosity about firearms from them so that they don't see them as neat or toys. I have also taught them the basic safety of handling guns in case they ever do come across one. Also as the oldest is getting to the age where he can start to learn how to shoot I have begun that instruction with a BB gun. Then again people like myself are the ones you never hear about as we aren't out trying to be activists on the firearm issue or the ones who get reported on in the news for being dumb shits with our firearms.
Well there are some places where carrying a firearm is just a good idea but then most of these aren't where most people are carrying a firearm. For example I have a carry permit in my state but I only exercise that when I am out in the woods. I have property up in northern Minnesota and there are large predators out there (bear, wolves, cougars, bobcats, coyotes) that I have had close run ins with in the past. To be legal when walking down a road with a loaded handgun you need to have permit to carry so I got one to be legal. Then again my handgun isn't a concealable one and is really meant to put a big hole in a bear and I don't take it to the grocery store because to me it does seem silly.
So you are saying I shouldn't wear this shirt when I fly?
It is easy to light, just stuff a kid's sparkler in it and light that, or a magnesium ribbon and light it with a propane torch. Just don't look at it as it is really bright and puts out a lot of UV radiation.
Yes Tommy, before ze Germans get here
But he was rude to Rosie O'Donnell
Sounds like a reason to maybe support him.
I'd be far more suspicious of the individuals with truck nuts.
Well we have been known to do that at deer camp of course it is usually to screw with someone and what the hell else are you going to do with deer testicles and dick. Even my car ended up with them once hanging from the hitch.
But will they allow people in the US to subscribe? I would love to pay the BBC to have access to all of their entire back catalogue of TV and Radio content. There are very few companies that are willing to produce something like "Planet Earth" but I am willing to pay for quality content.
You do realize that there are systems that are not connected to the internet as a whole that exist in secure buildings and while they rely on external data that data is brought in on direct connections that do not go over the public internet. Modern society depends on such systems and some operators of such systems are better at resisting the temptation to just connect everything to the internet directly or indirectly. If following a proper defense in depth strategy these isolated systems still have lots of security on top of them even though they are not connected to the public internet. If you are interested in what the going state of the art in security for these types of systems is you can read the Cybersecurity Procurement Language for Energy Delivery Systems document and go read the NERC CIP v5 standard. These set the minimum level of security that exist on the systems.
And yes this is how secure systems operate. You have a box that you load an ISO image onto that goes and checks that image with a battery of AV and other security products and then produces a CD or DVD that you then go and bring with you into your secure server room to load onto the servers. The disk then lives in that room until it gets fed to a shredder. Any electronic gadgets that enter the room remain in the room until they also get fed to a shredder.
Yes I have been in such facilities and even got to see one of my co-workers lose his new iPhone to the shredder because he didn't heed the warnings.
Fortunately the generation and market side of the companies has to be treated separately. In that area of the country PJM handles the the bulk electrical market and transmission and even there the network people are kept separate from the market people. The network side is concerned with ensuring reliability of the grid market people be damned while the markets side is concerned with meeting the network demand at the lowest price. Across the country there are other large companies like CA ISO, ERCOT, MidWest ISO, TVA, etc that all fill a similar role to the one PJM does.
Except that out there they still have to deal with PJM. Both PEPCO and various Exelon/Constellation owned utilities all go through them so I don't think there are really any economies of scale that can be gained at this point.
And if anyone is wondering what are some good uses for used glass jars I have done the following with them:
1. Store wooden strike anywhere matches in them up at my recreational property
2. A containers to put parts like carburetors in so they can soak in cleaner
3. Containers to hold vinegar with steel wool dissolved in it (used for ebonizing woods)
4. Containers to hold solvents for cleaning paint brushes
5. Containers to store rice
6. Containers to store pasta
7. Containers to store bulk spices
8. Containers to store honey
9. Containers to store maple syrup
10. Containers for tea staining wood before ebonizing
So what if you can't stack glass jars.
Lies. You should see my pantry I have a bunch of glass jars stacked in it, granted they are mason jars filled with delicious jams, stews, sauces, honey, maple syrup, and veggies so they have a pretty rectangular profile unlike most glass containers in stores that instead have long necks or disproportionately small openings to the main volume of the container.
That said I do prefer to buy things in a glass container especially if it will take a mason jar lid (regular or wide mouth) and will reuse those for storing other things I want to keep moisture or pests out of.
Sounds like a halting problem to me.
There is the peak oil monkeys you see on TV that keep saying every 10 years we ~10 years out from peak oil since the 70s and then there are the people who work in the oil industry. One of my wife's uncles worked as a geologist in the oil industry and I heard similar numbers from him in the late 90s or early 2000s (I forget when I asked him). Also according to him we have gone though about 1/2 the cheap oil and about 1/3 of the recoverable oil. Or to put numbers on it the earth probably contains about 6 trillion barrels of oil, we had consumed about 1 trillion of it, another trillion would be easy to get and one trillion beyond that would be physically possible to get, the remaining 3 trillion barrels would remain in the ground. I don't know if this includes other exotic oil like things like tar sands or oil shale but it wouldn't surprise me if it included a fair amount of them since it seems likely they would have been investigating them just before his retirement.
Well it is always a good idea to avoid certain areas if violence is likely. Hell when I was in Israel a few years back Yom Kippur and The Feast of the Cross fell on the same day. I was told to avoid some areas of town as there likely would be riots where the Orthodox Christian neighborhoods abutted the Orthodox Jew neighborhoods. Instead of trying to figure that out I watched movies at the hotel pool and got piss drunk. This doesn't mean that the advisor I had had insider knowledge, just reasonable insight that 2 diametrically opposed celebrations with people who are very devout would be something to avoid. I bet a similar thing happened in your daughter's case with the switch to going to Amsterdam instead. The Paris fear is something that sounds like a typical thing parents would do even if it is just stupid on the face of it. Having lived in Paris there were some neighborhoods that I did feel very unwelcome when I wandered into them and that was something like 12 years ago. It sounds like some of those areas have gotten worse and seeing some of the reports on those areas it didn't surprise me.
Red -> Well fuck we just got bombed and didn't see it coming. It won't happen again so why not
Orange -> We need to affect an election or sell some more duct tape
Yellow -> Doesn't mean fuck all as it is always here but it sounds kind of scary
Green -> There is probably a 1:300 chance there might be a terror attack somewhere in the US, most likely outcome is the terrorist sets his shorts on fire.
Blue -> What the actual thread level is but you will never officially see this in your lifetime.
Most of the 4th amendment or were not aware that the PATRIOT ACT and USA FREEDOM act were meant to deal with terrorism but are increasingly being used domestically. Also I would argue that that the TSA is a blatant violation of the 4th amendment as their searches are not conducted with probable cause or warrant and do seem unreasonable considering that they don't actually make you any safer and in all actuality make you less safe. Also we use to make fun of the old Soviet Union for demanding to see people's papers, yet now we we do it all the time. Also there was the whole internal passport that the Soviets had for internal travel that we also made fun of and we don't have that, well fuck. You may say well you accept that when you want to fly, but here's the thing they have expanded their reach and pull this shit all over the place.
Dude where's the Mt Dew.
Also I cast magic missiles