Meanwhile, tomorrow is also the last day my model railroad club can be in its building. After 51 years, they're kicking us out to tear down the building. The boxing club is moving into a brand new building next door. We're SOL.
I hope you find a new home ASAP!!
It's now 6:49am here on the East Coast of the US and it's still in the mid 50's, it feels very nice! I am getting fewer and fewer tomatoes due to the cooler weather and will tear them all out next week. The dirt and plants will go to my recycle bins in my backyard for use elsewhere after they break down to just dirt. I will also drain my rain water barrel and get it ready for the upcoming Winter too. The barrel sits on my deck so I can water the tomatoes and peppers with it.
TL04 you have mail.
Thank you very much for the mail. I have responded. :-)
Thank you very much for the mail. I have responded. :-)
Your mail has been intercepted and placed in our holographic
storage facility.
Thank You
The NSA.
Oh they will be SOOOO interested in it!! I should have written more so they could buy more storage space and keep more people employed. I wonder if they 'buy American' or if they just buy whatever they like.
Thank you very much for the mail. I have responded. :-)
Your mail has been intercepted and placed in our holographic
storage facility.
Thank You
The NSA.
Oh they will be SOOOO interested in it!! I should have written more so they could buy more storage space and keep more people employed. I wonder if they 'buy American' or if they just buy whatever they like.
TL04 I too have responded.
Have no fear!! The NSA quakes at the mere thought of my Illudium Pu-36 Explosive Space Modulator. I've got your back.
The NSA cannot collect my e-Mail without a warrant. I use Hushmail services via Canada. Further; when sending from one Hushmail account to another, the mail gets encrypted. I can also choose to send a non-hushmail customer encrypted mail; however, I would need to give them a password to access it. It would then be viewed on the Hushmail website, NOT the other user's e-Mail Inbox. Hushmail services are quite secure.
The NSA cannot collect my e-Mail without a warrant. I use Hushmail services via Canada. Further; when sending from one Hushmail account to another, the mail gets encrypted. I can also choose to send a non-hushmail customer encrypted mail; however, I would need to give them a password to access it. It would then be viewed on the Hushmail website, NOT the other user's e-Mail Inbox. Hushmail services are quite secure.
I think that could be a bit under thinking there, they CAN collect it but reading it could be another matter. Although I am guessing they too have some very good hackers and are 'working on it' to break the encryption, assuming they already haven't.
I have done Boinc projects that broke encryption codes and there are even some standalone projects doing the same thing, with brute force you can hack just about any code in time. And it's not like the US Government doesn't have alot of that! They buy mainframes by the ship load and harddrives by the Country load! Have you seen the pictures of the sire in Utah yet? This is the data storage site in June 2014, and they are expanding it at the rate of OVER a football field a year! http://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/udc-photo.html
They say they are 'open' but being The Government I would question that, as they STILL have problems admitting Area 51 is real and actively being used! This despite the satellite images showing it IS being used. In short I'm guessing that like the Pentagon ALOT of what is there is below ground and not visible thru photos.
@Phil said "Have no fear!! The NSA quakes at the mere thought of my Illudium Pu-36 Explosive Space Modulator. I've got your back."
I don't think it's a question of whether Area 51 actually exists or not. Come on Uncle Sam, we're not stupid. It's a matter of what actually goes on there, and if they need a place to test classified up and coming technology, I'm ok with that.
Like many things that need to be kept hush hush in the interest of national security, the old "I can neither confirm nor deny" routine might be a legitimate reply here. I'm ok with that too, having said it many many times during my military career.
We all know the US gov has gone way too far with some of this stuff since 9/11. That does NOT mean that everything they are doing should be laid bare. Some things are best kept under wraps, for obvious reasons. Deciding where to put that line in the sand is the hard part.
The model RR club has at least another week. The park district is probably still looking for a demo contractor and trying to settle on contract terms. I for one will be rather upset if this turns into another six months we can use the building and we no longer have a functioning layout to run trains on. It's pretty well torn apart now, most of the salvageable parts taken.
A friend of mine showed up at the museum on Saturday, so in between runs of the L train I took him for a ride on the streetcar. The guy who hands out the keys (to the cars, the barn, etc.) didn't have my keys handy to give me, but he said if I came back Sunday he'd have them, so I went when I really should have stayed home and rested my poor aching feet. I ended up working a 1902 Chicago Aurora & Elgin car, just one trip for members of the Central Electric Railfans Association. Then the guy who was running the streetcar asked me to take over late in the day, so I ran it for about an hour and a half. Or didn't run it, since they were doing switching that interfered with my movement. But that was the first time I got to run it with no one else keeping an eye on me (it's not like flying, where you have to solo to get your license), and the first time I put it away all by myself. I did finally get my keys, which turned out to be useful when I realized I'd forgotten to drain the air tank and had to go back into the barn to do that.
I also watched from a distance as they ran a pair of L cars out from under the wire and into the diesel shop, where they will spend the winter (don't ask me why). They had a diesel with an adapter coupler ready to shove them to a final spot, but it wasn't necessary. The motorman braked them to a perfect spot without power. I'd like to be that good someday.
But even though I skipped the safety shoes on Sunday, my feet are still killing me.
Winning!
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
But that was the first time I got to run it with no one else keeping an eye on me (it's not like flying, where you have to solo to get your license), and the first time I put it away all by myself. I did finally get my keys, which turned out to be useful when I realized I'd forgotten to drain the air tank and had to go back into the barn to do that.
As a flying student I had to dial in to the maintenance aspect of things. It's not like you just put the keys back on the peg and go home. Indeed there is an audit trail created for all tasks to be described here.
If mine was the last flight of the day then the fuel tanks were to be topped off. The main reason for this was to reduce the free air space above the fuel within. Typically colder night air encourages some water condensation on the inside upper fuel tank surface. This liquid water - denser than the fuel - will make it's way to the bottom of the tank overnite. And that is where the fuel lines to the engine emerge. So to avoid the circumstance where the immediate fuel supply is water contaminated one leaves the craft's tanks topped up.
Mind you if you are prepping a plane for flight, especially the first of the day, then you will be going around the tank drain spigots to test the fuel. The transparent container used to drain a sample into is of a special type : it has an especially hydrophobic lining so that any water will tend to form easily seen globules. At the level of expertise I had that would trigger me reporting to the duty instructor for the flight school, and it would be his to fix.
Most of the time that fix involved merely continuing to drain samples until clear. If that turned out to be more than say five samples that then triggers the duty Licensed Aircraft Mechanical Engineer ( LAME ) involvement. He would inspect and possibly do a more complete procedure ie. assumed the fuel lines distal to the tank take-off were contaminated. I never saw a case of that though, but I think that involved pushing the craft to the works hangar ( don't start the engine here, it will only suck more stuff through and make it worse ! ) and so was considered a real pain in the ****.
Now the entire reason for this muck-about is simple : the engine stops if water goes in. The plugs typically short as well so even a brief water load inside a cylinder will make it un-startable for a while even when good fuel is restored. And because the bottom of the tank is the first fuel for the day then it will ( as per Mr Murphy ) happen on or just after take off ie. when you absolutely don't have any moments to spare and tragedy awaits.
Now there was guy recently who died under such circumstances. It was an 'ultra-light' which in Australia means effectively home built. The base problem here is that there is no validation or certification of any aspect of the design or enactment of the design. The chap simply hadn't understood the water condensation problem to any useful degree.
Ultralight is known as the category where "you build, you fly, you die". There are clubs and whatnot for this but they are populated by apparently smart people who think they know how to build and fly planes safely, as opposed to really knowing how to build and fly planes safely. These clever people are oblivious to that crucial difference and can't be told either. Rationalising displaces accurate domain knowledge, groupthink abounds. So you wind up with that old, old equation :
proud + smart = dumb + dead
in these instances enforced by Newton and Darwin as a co-production.
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) The ultralight category has approximately 200 times the incident rates of general aviation. I say approx. as there is no reporting requirement, so that would be a lower bound. The numbers derived are from reporting outside those involved, there is almost zero alerts generated from within - incident notification is seen as treasonous by participants. Most external reports are from ordinary neighbourhood residents who have good concerns about the proximity of these craft. The relevant category bodies are yet to even address the question of the disparity in the reporting rates ie. because there are no incidents !
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
RE: RE: RE: Meanwhile,
Thank you very much for the mail. I have responded. :-)
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join SETI Refugees
RE: TL04 you have
Your mail has been intercepted and placed in our holographic
storage facility.
Thank You
The NSA.
RE: RE: TL04 you have
Oh they will be SOOOO interested in it!! I should have written more so they could buy more storage space and keep more people employed. I wonder if they 'buy American' or if they just buy whatever they like.
TL04 I too have responded.
RE: RE: RE: TL04 you
Have no fear!! The NSA quakes at the mere thought of my Illudium Pu-36 Explosive Space Modulator. I've got your back.
Phil
I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.
( edit ) Martians Rule. Phil
( edit ) Martians Rule. Phil is an agent. Can I be on the protected list for after the conquest ? :-)
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Good evening everyone.
Good evening everyone. :-)
@ Bill,
The NSA cannot collect my e-Mail without a warrant. I use Hushmail services via Canada. Further; when sending from one Hushmail account to another, the mail gets encrypted. I can also choose to send a non-hushmail customer encrypted mail; however, I would need to give them a password to access it. It would then be viewed on the Hushmail website, NOT the other user's e-Mail Inbox. Hushmail services are quite secure.
TimeLord04
Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join SETI Refugees
RE: Good evening everyone.
I think that could be a bit under thinking there, they CAN collect it but reading it could be another matter. Although I am guessing they too have some very good hackers and are 'working on it' to break the encryption, assuming they already haven't.
I have done Boinc projects that broke encryption codes and there are even some standalone projects doing the same thing, with brute force you can hack just about any code in time. And it's not like the US Government doesn't have alot of that! They buy mainframes by the ship load and harddrives by the Country load! Have you seen the pictures of the sire in Utah yet? This is the data storage site in June 2014, and they are expanding it at the rate of OVER a football field a year!
http://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/udc-photo.html
Sorry that's a bit big, here is the website it came from, with a smaller picture embedded in it:
http://nsa.gov1.info/utah-data-center/
They say they are 'open' but being The Government I would question that, as they STILL have problems admitting Area 51 is real and actively being used! This despite the satellite images showing it IS being used. In short I'm guessing that like the Pentagon ALOT of what is there is below ground and not visible thru photos.
@Phil said "Have no fear!! The NSA quakes at the mere thought of my Illudium Pu-36 Explosive Space Modulator. I've got your back."
Thanks I feel better now!!
I don't think it's a question
I don't think it's a question of whether Area 51 actually exists or not. Come on Uncle Sam, we're not stupid. It's a matter of what actually goes on there, and if they need a place to test classified up and coming technology, I'm ok with that.
Like many things that need to be kept hush hush in the interest of national security, the old "I can neither confirm nor deny" routine might be a legitimate reply here. I'm ok with that too, having said it many many times during my military career.
We all know the US gov has gone way too far with some of this stuff since 9/11. That does NOT mean that everything they are doing should be laid bare. Some things are best kept under wraps, for obvious reasons. Deciding where to put that line in the sand is the hard part.
Big smile for the satellite cameras!
Phil
I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.
The model RR club has at
The model RR club has at least another week. The park district is probably still looking for a demo contractor and trying to settle on contract terms. I for one will be rather upset if this turns into another six months we can use the building and we no longer have a functioning layout to run trains on. It's pretty well torn apart now, most of the salvageable parts taken.
A friend of mine showed up at the museum on Saturday, so in between runs of the L train I took him for a ride on the streetcar. The guy who hands out the keys (to the cars, the barn, etc.) didn't have my keys handy to give me, but he said if I came back Sunday he'd have them, so I went when I really should have stayed home and rested my poor aching feet. I ended up working a 1902 Chicago Aurora & Elgin car, just one trip for members of the Central Electric Railfans Association. Then the guy who was running the streetcar asked me to take over late in the day, so I ran it for about an hour and a half. Or didn't run it, since they were doing switching that interfered with my movement. But that was the first time I got to run it with no one else keeping an eye on me (it's not like flying, where you have to solo to get your license), and the first time I put it away all by myself. I did finally get my keys, which turned out to be useful when I realized I'd forgotten to drain the air tank and had to go back into the barn to do that.
I also watched from a distance as they ran a pair of L cars out from under the wire and into the diesel shop, where they will spend the winter (don't ask me why). They had a diesel with an adapter coupler ready to shove them to a final spot, but it wasn't necessary. The motorman braked them to a perfect spot without power. I'd like to be that good someday.
But even though I skipped the safety shoes on Sunday, my feet are still killing me.
Winning!
David
Miserable old git
Patiently waiting for the asteroid with my name on it.
RE: But that was the first
As a flying student I had to dial in to the maintenance aspect of things. It's not like you just put the keys back on the peg and go home. Indeed there is an audit trail created for all tasks to be described here.
If mine was the last flight of the day then the fuel tanks were to be topped off. The main reason for this was to reduce the free air space above the fuel within. Typically colder night air encourages some water condensation on the inside upper fuel tank surface. This liquid water - denser than the fuel - will make it's way to the bottom of the tank overnite. And that is where the fuel lines to the engine emerge. So to avoid the circumstance where the immediate fuel supply is water contaminated one leaves the craft's tanks topped up.
Mind you if you are prepping a plane for flight, especially the first of the day, then you will be going around the tank drain spigots to test the fuel. The transparent container used to drain a sample into is of a special type : it has an especially hydrophobic lining so that any water will tend to form easily seen globules. At the level of expertise I had that would trigger me reporting to the duty instructor for the flight school, and it would be his to fix.
Most of the time that fix involved merely continuing to drain samples until clear. If that turned out to be more than say five samples that then triggers the duty Licensed Aircraft Mechanical Engineer ( LAME ) involvement. He would inspect and possibly do a more complete procedure ie. assumed the fuel lines distal to the tank take-off were contaminated. I never saw a case of that though, but I think that involved pushing the craft to the works hangar ( don't start the engine here, it will only suck more stuff through and make it worse ! ) and so was considered a real pain in the ****.
Now the entire reason for this muck-about is simple : the engine stops if water goes in. The plugs typically short as well so even a brief water load inside a cylinder will make it un-startable for a while even when good fuel is restored. And because the bottom of the tank is the first fuel for the day then it will ( as per Mr Murphy ) happen on or just after take off ie. when you absolutely don't have any moments to spare and tragedy awaits.
Now there was guy recently who died under such circumstances. It was an 'ultra-light' which in Australia means effectively home built. The base problem here is that there is no validation or certification of any aspect of the design or enactment of the design. The chap simply hadn't understood the water condensation problem to any useful degree.
Ultralight is known as the category where "you build, you fly, you die". There are clubs and whatnot for this but they are populated by apparently smart people who think they know how to build and fly planes safely, as opposed to really knowing how to build and fly planes safely. These clever people are oblivious to that crucial difference and can't be told either. Rationalising displaces accurate domain knowledge, groupthink abounds. So you wind up with that old, old equation :
proud + smart = dumb + dead
in these instances enforced by Newton and Darwin as a co-production.
Cheers, Mike.
( edit ) The ultralight category has approximately 200 times the incident rates of general aviation. I say approx. as there is no reporting requirement, so that would be a lower bound. The numbers derived are from reporting outside those involved, there is almost zero alerts generated from within - incident notification is seen as treasonous by participants. Most external reports are from ordinary neighbourhood residents who have good concerns about the proximity of these craft. The relevant category bodies are yet to even address the question of the disparity in the reporting rates ie. because there are no incidents !
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal