This is why I archive my email into separate bins every 60mb or so (which means about twice a year) -- anything larger becomes unwieldy. It's a nuisance, but not nearly the nuisance of trying to search the file with an external tool because it got munged and won't open in the mail client.
[This is with SeaMonkey, which still keeps mail as plaintext, thank ghod, so any good text editor can root about in the file at need.]
The problem with the whole backup tape thing is that the total solution tends to exceed the cost of just buying more hard disks, and is often so much slower.:( And in 20 years, will you still have an interface that can handle the hardware??
Dunno about now, but back in the days of QIC-80, the only tapes that were worth a shit were Sony. Number of bad blocks when first formatted (don't forget to format your tapes!) and likelihood that the tape would be bad later on correlated pretty well, in my experience. Sony consistently had no more than four bad blocks per tape (the only one I ever saw with more, I returned as defective), vs 20 to 300 for other brands.
And all I could find for my Travan drive were TDK, tho they seemed to be okay.
Ya know, you're assuming all water used in ag is pumped out of the ground. True in some areas, not in others. And that it's not replenished fast enough -- true in some areas, not in others.
I find it rather telling that the most resistance to building dams to store the winter melt comes from areas with the most hue and cry against ag water use. (Did you know that some parts of the Sierra Nevada can achieve a snowpack in excess of 50 FEET?? Where do you think all the water goes in the spring?)
There are parts of Calif that are now desert, but were not before Los Angeles siphoned off all the surface water. Think on that.
And you are right, grass evolved to be grazed (and it doesn't really matter if it's bison or cattle). If it's not grazed, eventually it's overtaken by invasive weeds.
Initially the 'family farm' size was restricted to 40ac (btw not so much restricted, as what you could homestead) but that quickly proved nonviable, hence the expansion. In a great deal of the American West during the time of expansion, even 160 acres wouldn't feed your family, let alone produce enough surplus to sell a crop.
And see my post above on why many CA farmers (especially in marginal water areas) now grow alfalfa in preference to other crops. It was either that, or go out of business entirely. (Which many did as well.) I watched the change while I lived there. You'd be shocked at how much formerly-productive Calif cropland is now a wasteland of invasive weeds. (Tho where sheep are still pastured, the native grass has recovered.)
At what it costs to pump water nowadays (what with the high price of diesel and electric in CA), you can't make money with row crops anymore. Where I used to live in SoCal was once all onions and carrots and occasionally other vegetable crops. As the cost of water went up, those crops gradually went away (the last onion crop near my place, ca. 2005, was left to rot in the field because the cost of diesel to harvest it exceeded the value of the crop).
That land either went either to weeds or to alfalfa, because alfalfa is the last crop you can make money on. You don't have to plow or plant it every year, you don't need to hire a labor gang to harvest it, and you get multiple crops per year (some fields in SoCal are cut every couple of months year-round), and it doesn't need as much water per ton of product as most row crops do.
As of 2011, alfalfa in SoCal retailed for up to $450/ton (vs. as low as $75/ton for midwestern hay), and since CA restricts hay imports, and since there's little other hay grown in CA, alfalfa had a captive market and growers could sell every bale they could cut.
So, after this water falls elsewhere in the world, does that mean there will be no more evaporation off the Pacific? Because it sounds like you're assuming California will get no more rain in the future.
What most people here are not aware of is that much of the northern CA Central Valley was swampland before it was drained for ag use. (Some of it still is, which is why there's a levee system.)
Don't you love the logic here? Any water used is gone forever, since obviously there is no evaporation and no subsequent rainfall. California water is used up and magically fails to be replenished by water/rain that evaporated off the Pacific.
If any of what they claim was true, agriculture would have ground to a dusty halt after the first season, rather than having continued for thousands of years. Even if one takes it forward to just include modern agriculture... explain to me how it continues to operate from one year to the next if their theory s true.
Most of these concepts start life as animal rights propaganda, which has no problem with delegating facts to the dustbin if that furthers their cause.
California's problem isn't agriculture. It's that too much of what used to be local water now gets shipped off to the cities for domestic use. Did you know the Owens Valley wasn't a desert til after Los Angeles took most of its water?
Years ago, one of the first times this topic came up here, someone from Denmark posted a cautionary tale:
According to him, pre-WW2 Denmark had universal gun registration at the local level. When the Nazis came to town, guess where they looked to discover who might be armed/inclined to resist.
Am I thinking of John Lott? the fellow who set out with a study to prove more guns == more crime, and found it was actually the opposite -- and was big enough to change his tune.
Or might William the Conqueror be the major entry point for that line? Come to think of it, was he related to Charlemagne?
My ancestors on the Brit side were largely Welsh. So chances are I go back to some prince named Owain or Llewellyn as well.:)
[I'm actually an heir to a Welsh castle, should I cough up the million pounds or so in back taxes... of course, I've got competition from 6 or 7 generations of shirttail relations... Perhaps we should pool our funds.:D ]
What was that case where some underage girl sent naked pics of herself to her boyfriend, and they wound up in dutch for kiddie porn? I think there's a parallel here.
I would guess the reason it went through so fast is because some legislator was themselves a 'victim'.
I'm reminded of a dangerous intersection where I used to live... it stayed that way for decades despite numerous accidents, until the mayor's wife got broadsided there. The intersection was altered within weeks (not really for the better -- now instead of a dangerous crossing, you had to go half a mile down and make a U-turn to get to it. But, hey, no more broadsides!)
Compare this to the legal perception of kiddie porn, which has been expanded to include drawings where no actual children are involved, and you can see why the other poster voiced this concern.
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Hmm. I use Google's DNS, and eztv.it resolves for me as of two seconds ago (and has the couple of times I've been to eztv.it in the past month, too).
What DNS did you add?
[goes to look] I'm not seeing any complete, working drives at that kind of price. Those start at around $300. :(
Otherwise.... tell me more, and what to look for in such a drive used?
Last I heard, BluRay-R discs have a shelf life of about 6 months before they start losing data. Has this problem been solved??
This is why I archive my email into separate bins every 60mb or so (which means about twice a year) -- anything larger becomes unwieldy. It's a nuisance, but not nearly the nuisance of trying to search the file with an external tool because it got munged and won't open in the mail client.
[This is with SeaMonkey, which still keeps mail as plaintext, thank ghod, so any good text editor can root about in the file at need.]
Their server doesn't support resuming?? or is it specific to their client software, if any??
Regardless, that sucks. :(
The problem with the whole backup tape thing is that the total solution tends to exceed the cost of just buying more hard disks, and is often so much slower. :( And in 20 years, will you still have an interface that can handle the hardware??
Dunno about now, but back in the days of QIC-80, the only tapes that were worth a shit were Sony. Number of bad blocks when first formatted (don't forget to format your tapes!) and likelihood that the tape would be bad later on correlated pretty well, in my experience. Sony consistently had no more than four bad blocks per tape (the only one I ever saw with more, I returned as defective), vs 20 to 300 for other brands.
And all I could find for my Travan drive were TDK, tho they seemed to be okay.
Great, now I've got kids on my lawn again...
As someone pointed out in a previous story, the real problem is that the Constitution has no teeth. :(
Ya know, you're assuming all water used in ag is pumped out of the ground. True in some areas, not in others. And that it's not replenished fast enough -- true in some areas, not in others.
I find it rather telling that the most resistance to building dams to store the winter melt comes from areas with the most hue and cry against ag water use. (Did you know that some parts of the Sierra Nevada can achieve a snowpack in excess of 50 FEET?? Where do you think all the water goes in the spring?)
There are parts of Calif that are now desert, but were not before Los Angeles siphoned off all the surface water. Think on that.
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And you are right, grass evolved to be grazed (and it doesn't really matter if it's bison or cattle). If it's not grazed, eventually it's overtaken by invasive weeds.
Initially the 'family farm' size was restricted to 40ac (btw not so much restricted, as what you could homestead) but that quickly proved nonviable, hence the expansion. In a great deal of the American West during the time of expansion, even 160 acres wouldn't feed your family, let alone produce enough surplus to sell a crop.
And see my post above on why many CA farmers (especially in marginal water areas) now grow alfalfa in preference to other crops. It was either that, or go out of business entirely. (Which many did as well.) I watched the change while I lived there. You'd be shocked at how much formerly-productive Calif cropland is now a wasteland of invasive weeds. (Tho where sheep are still pastured, the native grass has recovered.)
And also to protect some river-spawning salmon -- which to my understanding, isn't native in the first place, but rather is an invasive species.
Indeed, the standard rotation for farms around here is one year of potatoes, two years of wheat, and three years of alfalfa.
At what it costs to pump water nowadays (what with the high price of diesel and electric in CA), you can't make money with row crops anymore. Where I used to live in SoCal was once all onions and carrots and occasionally other vegetable crops. As the cost of water went up, those crops gradually went away (the last onion crop near my place, ca. 2005, was left to rot in the field because the cost of diesel to harvest it exceeded the value of the crop).
That land either went either to weeds or to alfalfa, because alfalfa is the last crop you can make money on. You don't have to plow or plant it every year, you don't need to hire a labor gang to harvest it, and you get multiple crops per year (some fields in SoCal are cut every couple of months year-round), and it doesn't need as much water per ton of product as most row crops do.
As of 2011, alfalfa in SoCal retailed for up to $450/ton (vs. as low as $75/ton for midwestern hay), and since CA restricts hay imports, and since there's little other hay grown in CA, alfalfa had a captive market and growers could sell every bale they could cut.
So, after this water falls elsewhere in the world, does that mean there will be no more evaporation off the Pacific? Because it sounds like you're assuming California will get no more rain in the future.
What most people here are not aware of is that much of the northern CA Central Valley was swampland before it was drained for ag use. (Some of it still is, which is why there's a levee system.)
Don't you love the logic here? Any water used is gone forever, since obviously there is no evaporation and no subsequent rainfall. California water is used up and magically fails to be replenished by water/rain that evaporated off the Pacific.
If any of what they claim was true, agriculture would have ground to a dusty halt after the first season, rather than having continued for thousands of years. Even if one takes it forward to just include modern agriculture... explain to me how it continues to operate from one year to the next if their theory s true.
Most of these concepts start life as animal rights propaganda, which has no problem with delegating facts to the dustbin if that furthers their cause.
California's problem isn't agriculture. It's that too much of what used to be local water now gets shipped off to the cities for domestic use. Did you know the Owens Valley wasn't a desert til after Los Angeles took most of its water?
This forgets that as a rule, the tracks came first, then the towns grew up around them. This is also frequently the case with refining operations.
So now who is personally responsible??
Years ago, one of the first times this topic came up here, someone from Denmark posted a cautionary tale:
According to him, pre-WW2 Denmark had universal gun registration at the local level. When the Nazis came to town, guess where they looked to discover who might be armed/inclined to resist.
Am I thinking of John Lott? the fellow who set out with a study to prove more guns == more crime, and found it was actually the opposite -- and was big enough to change his tune.
As I've been saying for years, there's a Stupid Gene that turns on when people become parents, which makes them forget what it was like to be a kid.
Being childless, I'm immune. ;)
Or might William the Conqueror be the major entry point for that line? Come to think of it, was he related to Charlemagne?
My ancestors on the Brit side were largely Welsh. So chances are I go back to some prince named Owain or Llewellyn as well. :)
[I'm actually an heir to a Welsh castle, should I cough up the million pounds or so in back taxes... of course, I've got competition from 6 or 7 generations of shirttail relations... Perhaps we should pool our funds. :D ]
So if I walk around with bright red clacking cameras on the tips of my shoes, I'm in the clear?
I'd bet not, wording of the law or not.
What was that case where some underage girl sent naked pics of herself to her boyfriend, and they wound up in dutch for kiddie porn? I think there's a parallel here.
I would guess the reason it went through so fast is because some legislator was themselves a 'victim'.
I'm reminded of a dangerous intersection where I used to live... it stayed that way for decades despite numerous accidents, until the mayor's wife got broadsided there. The intersection was altered within weeks (not really for the better -- now instead of a dangerous crossing, you had to go half a mile down and make a U-turn to get to it. But, hey, no more broadsides!)
Compare this to the legal perception of kiddie porn, which has been expanded to include drawings where no actual children are involved, and you can see why the other poster voiced this concern.
This is kinda like how ALL Norwegians go back to Harald the Great. (I've forgotten the details but that's the gist of it.)