The rest is planter boxes with vegetables.
I manually, by hand, water my drought tolerant plants maybe twice a week.
I manually, by hand, water my planter box vegetables, herbs, fruit, etc usually daily.
What I have to water isn't huge, but it takes a while.
I actually enjoy watering. I get to see my plants, check how they are doing, etc;
I actually check the soil and how moist it is, see what bugs there are/aren't, the status of my garden in general as I water.
Maybe I'm odd but I actually like doing it.
I would assume if someone had a massive garden/yard then doing some kind of app based control of multiple drip systems, etc would be the way to go, but for me I would rather Keep It Simple Stupid. Plus I don't have to dick around with all of the management that comes with drip systems, sprinklers(nightmare), apps, phone settings, blah, blah, blah.
For me the garden is a way to get away from tech for a while.
I've tried to have a reasonable discussion on this topic with many people who are of the mindset you describe.
It always devolves into a "think of the children" tack, where people that are ok with omnipresent monitoring argue that we can't have a safe society unless everything is tracked, which of course is utter bullshit.
I started using cash for most of my "discretionary" purchases lately.
Things like grocery shopping, clothing, Home Depot, going to the bar, etc...
I initially started doing it because of how porous and UN-trustworthy the whole paradigm of card transactions is.
This article hits home on how using cash helps me in another way, being that my purchases can't be tracked.
You know it really is interesting seeing how (for lack of a better phrase) Orwellian the whole system is getting.
Interesting, as in Hindenburg appointing Hitler Chancellor in 1933...
There was an incredibly depressing book I once read that talked about something very similar, except it was a social contagion that caused hive-mind behavior (the book called it "the meme"), and the only way to "cure" it was to erase every memory the person had formed since being exposed to the meme
In the book, the entire earth is "infected" with it, and the only non-memed people lived on an isolated moon base (which is where the book takes place)
I tried to find the author or the name of the book on Google, but had no luck
There are several books that cause such social contagion "hive-mind" behavior, the most popular being The Bible and The Koran.
I have my LG 42" LCD, my ONKYO Receiver, and my Sony Blu-Ray all plugged into a power strip.
Connected to the them are a digital antennae for OTA, an ethernet connection for NetFlix, and a Linux pc for everything else.
Cable?
Satellite?
Are you kidding me?
Do people still pay for that crap?
Who are these people that stay beholden to the most despicable industry in America?
My linux pc goes to "sleep" when I'm not using it...
When I'm done with the rest of them, I power off the rest, then turn off the power strip.
I've been doing it this way for years...
Never had any issues, except with Sony's bullshit user/login setup on their Blu-Ray players, but that's another story...
When the sleigh is heavy
And the timber wolves are getting bold
You look at you companions
And test the water of their friendship
With your toe
They significantly edge
Closer to the gold
Each man has his price Bob
And yours was pretty low
I can't believe an avalanche of "Yea, but you have to appoint former industry bigwigs as regulators because they're the only ones who really understand industry" replies haven't shown up yet.
It appears the lobbyist apologists are slipping here on slashdot...
How your post was modded insightful is anybodies guess, and I think the answer lies in what you say, about the "mental capacity of neanderthals".
To begin with, did you RTFA?
It doesn't appear that you did.
The surprising findings from the research was that the arctic sea ice is a collector of sorts for the unfathomably large amount of plastic spewed into the oceans by man and his industrial offal. The amount of plastic found was "three orders of magnitude larger than some counts of plastic particles in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch" Maybe that isn't interesting enough for you, but it is for me.
Also from the article:
"Plastic is chemically inert. But the plastic can absorb organic pollutants in high concentrations, says Mark Browne, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Browne has performed laboratory experiments with marine organisms showing not only how the microplastics can be retained in tissues, but also how pollutants might be released upon ingestion."
If any sort of +5 outrage should be generated by the research and its findings, its from the fact that mankind has and is continuing to pollute and degrade it's own biosphere.
Hello? Anybody in there?
"Thinly veiled reference to global warming"?
Wake up yo.
The pipeline has to be heated to keep the "oil" from congealing:
"Uinta’s black wax crude must remain above 95 degrees and yellow wax above 115 degrees or it’s liable to congeal."
The proposed pipeline would cross several of the watersheds where those that live along the Wasatch Front get their drinking water.
So the question is, what is more important, a stable supply of drinking water, or the ability of a small minority to make even more money from refining waxy crude?
It's interesting to read the back and forth arguments anytime fossil fuels are discussed.
For some reason people, especially those benefitting from the carbon extraction industry, often take a very black and white view of the situation. Their view is usually that renewables are a waste of time, and that only our carbon based energy paradigm is practicable.
Whether it is China, Germany or Brazil the leadership in these other countries are taking the steps necessary to insulate themselves from the dependence on carbon based energy(fossil fuels). They are doing what is known in investing as "diversifying".
Right... I know you've heard this before...
Sure, we still need oil and gas. Of course we do. Oil should be used for plastics, etc. Gas for heating, energy, transportation, etc; But it seems to me this whole fracking boom that is going on is just another way to slow the adoption of renewable energy.
But what the US should be doing is throwing itself fully into renewable energy.
What are we waiting for, a "Sign from God"?
That sign from God may not be a pleasant one.
Forget Solar, forget Wind. There is vast Geothermal energy potential in the western US. Now, go ahead and remember Solar, because there is vast solar potential in the southewestern US, via Solar Thermal. Why aren't we moving full speed ahead on this? Wind energy? Sure, the plains, all the way from Montana to Texas have loads of potential?
The US could be a leader in renewable energy.
Obama said as much during his 2008 campaign, yet I haven't seen this switch to renewables.
America, it's time to wake the F up.
To me, when I read things like this, I think about what this really says about our society and the current state of our civilization.
Sure, I guess you could find some advertising going back to the stone age, but really, advertising didn't become the monstrosity it is until the last 60 years or so. And in the last 15, via the internet, it has just exploded.
Ads, ads everywhere and not a thought to think
The pedaling of goods and services, the saturation of commerce and advertising, however you want to analyze this, it is wrong, and it's not what the intelligence and creativity of the human race was meant for.
Looking back on this time, historians and others will cringe...
All that it means is what we've known for the last twenty years or so.
It doesn't matter who is president or who is in congress.
The real power is controlled by the lobbyists for those with the most money and power.
The charade of representative democracy is wearing quite thin indeed.
Republican or Democrat, they both kowtow to the 1% and their aims.
Yeah, I've heard all the crap about my fridge can email me that I am out of milk. Bull. No one really wants that.
A sales guy from upstart home security company knocked at my door a while back.
I was in the middle of dinner...
He wanted to sell me on all the cool new features that a smart home can provide, such as what you describe above.
I told him no thanks, and he wanted to know why.
I told him I've been working in IT for quite a while and I understand all the security risks inherent with such systems, and I don't want to have to worry about all the extra crap I have to secure in my house, besides the usual things I have(servers, pc's, WAP's, routers, etc;). He said something like, "well...(smirk) I can see you wouldn't be a good fit for us."
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The company created a small, slick-looking, controller that costumers can connect instead of their old irrigation controller
I hope that Garden Gnome costume isn't too tight around the waist!
Most of my property is xeriscaped.
The rest is planter boxes with vegetables.
I manually, by hand, water my drought tolerant plants maybe twice a week.
I manually, by hand, water my planter box vegetables, herbs, fruit, etc usually daily.
What I have to water isn't huge, but it takes a while.
I actually enjoy watering. I get to see my plants, check how they are doing, etc;
I actually check the soil and how moist it is, see what bugs there are/aren't, the status of my garden in general as I water.
Maybe I'm odd but I actually like doing it.
I would assume if someone had a massive garden/yard then doing some kind of app based control of multiple drip systems, etc would be the way to go, but for me I would rather Keep It Simple Stupid. Plus I don't have to dick around with all of the management that comes with drip systems, sprinklers(nightmare), apps, phone settings, blah, blah, blah.
For me the garden is a way to get away from tech for a while.
Don't hold your breath....
I've tried to have a reasonable discussion on this topic with many people who are of the mindset you describe.
It always devolves into a "think of the children" tack, where people that are ok with omnipresent monitoring argue that we can't have a safe society unless everything is tracked, which of course is utter bullshit.
I started using cash for most of my "discretionary" purchases lately.
Things like grocery shopping, clothing, Home Depot, going to the bar, etc...
I initially started doing it because of how porous and UN-trustworthy the whole paradigm of card transactions is.
This article hits home on how using cash helps me in another way, being that my purchases can't be tracked.
You know it really is interesting seeing how (for lack of a better phrase) Orwellian the whole system is getting.
Interesting, as in Hindenburg appointing Hitler Chancellor in 1933...
Actually I prefer "Merka", thank you.
you won't find The Jihad Channel on your local cable box.
Really, Fox News is actually on cable, right?
One of the best descriptions of FB I've read.
Bravo!
There was an incredibly depressing book I once read that talked about something very similar, except it was a social contagion that caused hive-mind behavior (the book called it "the meme"), and the only way to "cure" it was to erase every memory the person had formed since being exposed to the meme
In the book, the entire earth is "infected" with it, and the only non-memed people lived on an isolated moon base (which is where the book takes place)
I tried to find the author or the name of the book on Google, but had no luck
There are several books that cause such social contagion "hive-mind" behavior, the most popular being The Bible and The Koran.
It's been really amazing watching what this guy has done and continues to do with his money and energy.
Why?
Compare to other tech billionaires and what they do with theirs...
I have my LG 42" LCD, my ONKYO Receiver, and my Sony Blu-Ray all plugged into a power strip.
Connected to the them are a digital antennae for OTA, an ethernet connection for NetFlix, and a Linux pc for everything else.
Cable?
Satellite?
Are you kidding me?
Do people still pay for that crap?
Who are these people that stay beholden to the most despicable industry in America?
My linux pc goes to "sleep" when I'm not using it...
When I'm done with the rest of them, I power off the rest, then turn off the power strip.
I've been doing it this way for years...
Never had any issues, except with Sony's bullshit user/login setup on their Blu-Ray players, but that's another story...
Brilliant!
When the sleigh is heavy
And the timber wolves are getting bold
You look at you companions
And test the water of their friendship
With your toe
They significantly edge
Closer to the gold
Each man has his price Bob
And yours was pretty low
I can't believe an avalanche of "Yea, but you have to appoint former industry bigwigs as regulators because they're the only ones who really understand industry" replies haven't shown up yet.
It appears the lobbyist apologists are slipping here on slashdot...
How your post was modded insightful is anybodies guess, and I think the answer lies in what you say, about the "mental capacity of neanderthals".
To begin with, did you RTFA?
It doesn't appear that you did.
The surprising findings from the research was that the arctic sea ice is a collector of sorts for the unfathomably large amount of plastic spewed into the oceans by man and his industrial offal. The amount of plastic found was "three orders of magnitude larger than some counts of plastic particles in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch" Maybe that isn't interesting enough for you, but it is for me.
Also from the article:
"Plastic is chemically inert. But the plastic can absorb organic pollutants in high concentrations, says Mark Browne, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Browne has performed laboratory experiments with marine organisms showing not only how the microplastics can be retained in tissues, but also how pollutants might be released upon ingestion. "
If any sort of +5 outrage should be generated by the research and its findings, its from the fact that mankind has and is continuing to pollute and degrade it's own biosphere.
Hello? Anybody in there?
"Thinly veiled reference to global warming"?
Wake up yo.
This is why there is a fight right now about the proposed pipeline from The Basin to Salt Lake to transport the waxy crude.
The pipeline has to be heated to keep the "oil" from congealing:
"Uinta’s black wax crude must remain above 95 degrees and yellow wax above 115 degrees or it’s liable to congeal."
The proposed pipeline would cross several of the watersheds where those that live along the Wasatch Front get their drinking water.
So the question is, what is more important, a stable supply of drinking water, or the ability of a small minority to make even more money from refining waxy crude?
It's interesting to read the back and forth arguments anytime fossil fuels are discussed.
For some reason people, especially those benefitting from the carbon extraction industry, often take a very black and white view of the situation. Their view is usually that renewables are a waste of time, and that only our carbon based energy paradigm is practicable.
The reality is that the rest of the "First World" is moving ahead rapidly with renewable energy.
Whether it is China, Germany or Brazil the leadership in these other countries are taking the steps necessary to insulate themselves from the dependence on carbon based energy(fossil fuels). They are doing what is known in investing as "diversifying".
Right... I know you've heard this before...
Sure, we still need oil and gas. Of course we do. Oil should be used for plastics, etc. Gas for heating, energy, transportation, etc; But it seems to me this whole fracking boom that is going on is just another way to slow the adoption of renewable energy.
But what the US should be doing is throwing itself fully into renewable energy.
What are we waiting for, a "Sign from God"?
That sign from God may not be a pleasant one.
Forget Solar, forget Wind. There is vast Geothermal energy potential in the western US. Now, go ahead and remember Solar, because there is vast solar potential in the southewestern US, via Solar Thermal. Why aren't we moving full speed ahead on this? Wind energy? Sure, the plains, all the way from Montana to Texas have loads of potential?
The US could be a leader in renewable energy.
Obama said as much during his 2008 campaign, yet I haven't seen this switch to renewables.
America, it's time to wake the F up.
I had to install CrapBlock on my toilet...
To me, when I read things like this, I think about what this really says about our society and the current state of our civilization.
Sure, I guess you could find some advertising going back to the stone age, but really, advertising didn't become the monstrosity it is until the last 60 years or so. And in the last 15, via the internet, it has just exploded.
Ads, ads everywhere and not a thought to think
The pedaling of goods and services, the saturation of commerce and advertising, however you want to analyze this, it is wrong, and it's not what the intelligence and creativity of the human race was meant for.
Looking back on this time, historians and others will cringe...
I think you need to stick to flavored wine coolers and leave the thinking to people who know history.
Obviously with a statement like that you don't.
All that it means is what we've known for the last twenty years or so.
It doesn't matter who is president or who is in congress.
The real power is controlled by the lobbyists for those with the most money and power.
The charade of representative democracy is wearing quite thin indeed.
Republican or Democrat, they both kowtow to the 1% and their aims.
Obama sits right where Saint Reagan does
Actually it's St. Reagan
No, Obama isn't Reagan, but Obama isn't even close to being a liberal. The last real liberal president the US had was Carter.
The undercover fomenters in Kiev were Space-X agents!
Yeah, I've heard all the crap about my fridge can email me that I am out of milk. Bull. No one really wants that.
A sales guy from upstart home security company knocked at my door a while back.
I was in the middle of dinner...
He wanted to sell me on all the cool new features that a smart home can provide, such as what you describe above.
I told him no thanks, and he wanted to know why.
I told him I've been working in IT for quite a while and I understand all the security risks inherent with such systems, and I don't want to have to worry about all the extra crap I have to secure in my house, besides the usual things I have(servers, pc's, WAP's, routers, etc;). He said something like, "well...(smirk) I can see you wouldn't be a good fit for us."
or isn't it always good practice to disable the public community string as well as creating an egress filter to block all outgoing snmp?