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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 12, 2017 18:45:32 GMT 10
My Foundation just moved $21 million out of Australian Equities today.
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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 11, 2017 8:28:20 GMT 10
The zeer pot is an interesting idea - there are people in Australia who use it to keep their fruits and vegetables (claiming they will keep fresh for up to 20 days): ditchyourfridge.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/zeer-pot-is-secret-ditching-fridge-in.htmlThe basement of my house in New Hampshire is cool in the middle of summer and stays above freezing in winter. Still, I too would like to have a root cellar - especially if I ever get around to planting some apple trees. With care, you can keep apples and potatoes for 6-12 months in a root cellar - but be careful, because one bruised apple or moldy potato can ruin the lot.
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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 11, 2017 8:20:24 GMT 10
I love the idea of canning ground beef and my homemade spaghetti sauce, but the fear of botulism keeps me from trying it. www.cdc.gov/features/homecanning/index.htmlThat is what led me to stock up on freeze dried ground beef and tinned tomato paste. I think I need to overcome my fears...
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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 11, 2017 8:07:55 GMT 10
Much like painting all overweight people with a broad brush stroke, I would encourage you to think differently about the ultra-rich (i.e. Silicon Valley types). You can't begrudge them for seeing a future that few others could have imagined and sacrificing for decades to achieve that - even if their reward is billions of dollars.
I've known lots of these types - founders of Silicon Valley - and some of them are amazingly grounded (the co-founder of Intel told me a story about how once cracked safes for the sheriff's department using nitroglycerin).
Intel cofounder Gordon Moore set off his first boom in Silicon Valley two decades before pioneering the design of the integrated circuit. One afternoon in 1940, near the spot where Interstate 280 intersects Sand Hill Road today, the future father of the semiconductor industry knelt beside a cache of homemade dynamite and lit the fuse. He was 11 years old.
Moore’s pyrotechnic adventures grew out of his experiments with a neighbor’s chemistry set. He turned a shed beside the family house into a lab, stocking it with chemicals mail-ordered from San Francisco and filling an old dresser with beakers and funnels. Now retired, the 77-year-old Moore looks back on his days and nights in the shed as a time when he learned to think and work like a scientist. “The things I made, like nitroglycerin, took a fair amount of lab technique,” he recalls. “I specialized in explosives because they were fun, and I liked doing things that got results in a hurry.”
Moore is currently worth over $7.6 billion, but he is just a guy who likes playing with explosives and fishing as much as possible. I wouldn't mind holing up with him in a missile silo.
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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 11, 2017 7:33:39 GMT 10
Thanks for that link ZD, I just caught the last few minutes last night and was pissed off I didn't see the lot. PS. why do ALL the apocalypse graphics have people in bloody gas masks?...because they look cool? You have to see the TV appeal of a gas mask with a $3,000 suit
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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 10, 2017 14:29:32 GMT 10
Link for anyone curious
Note that they have a number of up-armored trucks and offer pick-up within a 600 mile radius in the event of SHTF event.
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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 10, 2017 14:28:08 GMT 10
Never underestimate an overweight person, whether male or female, its a massive mistake and i can prove this in multiple examples. ... My point, i have learned not to judge, because early years taught me fat doesn't mean lazy, weak, lack of stamina or strength, and much more. Some would argue that adipose tissue is nature's 'prep' against famine.
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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 10, 2017 14:12:56 GMT 10
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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 10, 2017 13:12:47 GMT 10
That is part of the reason I started the 'what have you done to improve your physical fitness' thread last year.
My weight fluctuates hugely (I've lost 33 kg in the fast 2 1/2 months), but I exercise every day and would be one of the most physically fit 130 kg men you'll ever meet.
That said, I know from past experience, that my optimum weight is 110-115 kg - this was what I weighed at the peak of my shot put/hammer career when I was an Olympic hopeful.
I got down to 88 kg after I retired from throwing and I was skin and bones.
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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 8, 2017 18:49:46 GMT 10
130kgs of big angry beard. I've got a 40kg dog on one side and a 30kg dog on the other...and then there is me - like ml8300 I'm just over 130kgs (but no beard)
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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 8, 2017 8:21:29 GMT 10
Grew up fishing freshwater lakes, streams and ponds, and ocean from shore and boat.
Have done some survival camping on islands in the Atlantic, but it was usually fish, clams, scallops and wild fruits and vegetables that sustained us.
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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 7, 2017 11:14:25 GMT 10
I'm a big guy, but have actively been losing weight, alternating between water fasting and 2,000-3,000 kj per day with the blessing and support of my doctor. I could continue to eat 2,500 kj per day for a year and be fine (in combination with a multivitamin and calcium supplement). Staying in this range ensures I remain in a state of mild ketosis, which suppresses appetite, yet I am able to walk 8-10 km a day, bicycle and play basketball to my heart's content.
Thus, right now I calculate that my family of three requires approximately 15,000 kj per day: 2,500 kj for me, 5,000 kj (1200 cals) for Ziggy's Mum and 6,000 kj (1,400 cals) for my daughter and 1,500 kj of flex
A 5kg bag of medium grain white rice has 18,000 cal or 75,600 kj. 2kg of black turtle beans has ~6,800 cal or 28,500 kj. This will feed my family for a week.
Most of my food buckets have 5kg of rice, 2kg of black turtle beans, and 2kg of corn meal or 2kg of pasta. Each bucket can sustain my family for 8-10 days or a week if I need extra calories.
I try to keep 3+ months of buckets and 3-9 months of other (canned, etc.) food.
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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 7, 2017 10:47:24 GMT 10
At work (making a show of working). Would grab my office BoB and head for home.
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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 7, 2017 10:42:52 GMT 10
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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 7, 2017 10:42:21 GMT 10
A town in vic was without phones and intetnet, eftpos and credit card facilities for around 1 month. Nobody died or rioted or anything. The banks held more cash, ATMs a couole hours away got refilled more often and centrelink took a van down there to do cash payments for the dole bludgers. Bid difference when it is one town versus the entire country - all of their support came from outside the town.
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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 7, 2017 10:08:03 GMT 10
Part 1
Mid-afternoon - You go to pay for your lunch at a local restaurant and they inform you that the EFTPOS terminal has gone offline. A minor inconvenience, but you have cash, so you settle the bill and depart. On your way back to the office you stop at an ATM only to find that it too appears to be offline. After a 2pm meeting you check your phone and comment - half to yourself - how odd it is that you haven't had a single email in the past couple hours. The CFO fills you in on the fact that the company's finance system went down a little before 1pm and email and internet services blinked out soon thereafter. How did you miss that?
The landline phones are still operational and your mobile phone appears to be fine (less internet/data) as you SMS your partner. S/he confirm that the internet is down at your house and that FOXTEL is out - but that could just be because you use an IQ box.
With no emails and no internet (all your files are in the cloud) you decide to call it a day. On your way home you call your sister to check in and she advises that her husband (ICU Intensivist) might be stuck at the hospital. Apparently they've cancelled all elective procedures and warned the medical and nursing staff that there is 'a situation' unfolding that may require them to remain at or close to the hospital for the foreseeable future. Sounds like the administration is worried about the ability of staff to get to work. Your sister says that she and the kids have been invited to join her husband at the hospital, but that she thinks that is overkill and will remain at the house - plus, they've got two dogs to care for.
Despite the fact that there is no EFTPOS, it appears that the supermarkets are operating judging by the full parking lot at Woolworths. They must be cash and carry.
You've got $25 in your wallet and $200 at home. The shops should be open for another few hours.
No EFTPOS, Banks are offline and the internet is down.
What, if anything, do you do?
Further details will be revealed in the coming days...
Part 2
Most of us (the prepared) chose to top up on fuel and add a bit of extra food and water to our storage - do nothing - or sit back and grumble some combination of 'sheep', 'sheeple' and 'baa' at the unprepared.
The evening passes uneventfully, though most of the population is quite disturbed by the fact that they've lost access to Facebook/Twitter/Instagram, etc.
For those with little to no food in the house and no cash - most 20-30 year-old people I meet these days (you know, the ones who go out for two $5 coffees a day, pay $15-20 for smashed avocado for breakfast, $10-15 for their sushi lunch and usually eat/drink dinner out as well) there is some definite grumbling and people might be going to bed and waking up hungry for the first time in their lives.
You wake up and confirm that the power is still on. Internet is still down as is the television, but everything else in your home environment seems normal.
Out of curiosity, you try an ATM on your way to work, but they remain down. The bank appears open, but there are signs in the doors advising that all banking has been suspended. You pop your head in the door, noting two armed guards standing just within, and make your way over to the customer service desk. Before you even say hello the person behind the desk preempts any questions by saying that without internet access all banking has been suspended and that withdrawals in any form are currently impossible. Interestingly, she adds that cash deposits can still be taken.
You continue on to your office and find most of your colleagues milling around discussing the events. The COO confirms that the organisation's data is backed-up offsite, but with the internet down, your IT supplier won't be in a position to re-image the system until the following morning (all of their clients are in the same position). The CEO gathers the team together and advises that the office will be closed at mid-day and that people should take this opportunity to catch-up on any filing and shredding and/or general office clean-up. He also notes that there may be a delay in payroll, which is due to be paid tomorrow, but there is currently no way to upload the payroll files to PaysOnline and even if there were, there is no banking. Several employees begin to speak at once that they have no money and that the restaurants and shops are only accepting cash. The CEO offers up the limited petty-cash, but notes that ~$400 will not go far. Those that complain the most each receive $20 and promptly head out to buy a coffee and or get something to eat. The rest of the staff mill about and slowly start to drift out of the office. By 10 am there are only a handful of staff left in the office and everyone agrees to call it a day. You SMS your partner and start your walk (or drive) home.
There are a surprising number of people wandering around the city streets, seemingly without direction or purpose. Many more have piled in their cars to head home, only to find that the parking garage will not raise the gates without cash payment. Tempers flare and the police are called by several irate individuals, but the cars at the front of the line are trapped and appear unwilling to ram the gate despite the encouragement from the individuals behind them. You continue on your way, glad that you aren’t dealing with that bullshit.
You arrive home and find your daughter is delighted to see you – “daddy’s home and it’s still light out” – and a surprised but pleased partner. Turns out she never received your SMS and you never received hers asking you to pick-up a few items from the store. You check your phone – no missed messages. You try to call your partner and determine that the mobile network is down.
No Mobile Network, No Internet, No Television and No Banking.
You grab lunch and decide to putter around the garden and then take a much-deserved nap.
That evening you turn on the radio and are surprised to hear that the city is in near-riot with reports that people are only being permitted entry into shops if they can demonstrate that they have cash up front – and several instances of people forcing their way into shops and/or stealing sacks of groceries directly out of people’s carts as they make their way from the shops to their cars. More frequent are reports that grocery stores have locked their doors and retail shops have locked their doors due to a combination of absenteeism and in an attempt to avoid those members of the public that are increasingly outraged. Other reports speak about long line-ups at petrol pumps, cars being abandoned where they are when they run out of fuel and a few automobile accidents that have not been cleared (perhaps not even officially reported due to the loss of mobile phone network and/or wreckers choosing not to work without cash payment). Police presence within the city appears to be quite elevated and there is a report noting unprecedented levels of absenteeism in the workplace, but there is no mention of anything that might require medical staff to be sequestered at the city’s hospitals.
Hard to believe that things could deteriorate so quickly within 36 hours. That said, you still have power and water.
The next morning you wake up to discover that the power is out.
What, if anything, do you do?
Further details will be revealed in the coming days...
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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 5, 2017 14:47:48 GMT 10
The United States asserted Tuesday that North Korea’s latest missile launch was indeed an intercontinental ballistic missile, as the North had boasted and the U.S. and South Korea had feared. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called it a ‘‘new escalation of the threat’’ to the U.S.
In a show of force directly responding to North Korea’s provocation, U.S. and South Korean soldiers fired ‘‘deep strike’’ precision missiles into South Korean territorial waters on Tuesday, U.S. military officials in Seoul said. The missile firings demonstrated U.S.-South Korean solidarity, the U.S. Eighth Army said in a statement.
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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 4, 2017 23:28:19 GMT 10
Dog food does not have a long shelf life, so not much stored. Every time the 1.2 kg cans of dog food are on sale I grab 6-10. Cut it with rice and I can make it last quite a while for my two dogs - combined weight 65-70 kg.
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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 3, 2017 21:59:25 GMT 10
Mid-afternoon - You go to pay for your lunch at a local restaurant and they inform you that the EFTPOS terminal has gone offline. A minor inconvenience, but you have cash, so you settle the bill and depart. On your way back to the office you stop at an ATM only to find that it too appears to be offline. After a 2pm meeting you check your phone and comment - half to yourself - how odd it is that you haven't had a single email in the past couple hours. The CFO fills you in on the fact that the company's finance system went down a little before 1pm and email and internet services blinked out soon thereafter. How did you miss that?
The landline phones are still operational and your mobile phone appears to be fine (less internet/data) as you SMS your partner. S/he confirm that the internet is down at your house and that FOXTEL is out - but that could just be because you use an IQ box.
With no emails and no internet (all your files are in the cloud) you decide to call it a day. On your way home you call your sister to check in and she advises that her husband (ICU Intensivist) might be stuck at the hospital. Apparently they've cancelled all elective procedures and warned the medical and nursing staff that there is 'a situation' unfolding that may require them to remain at or close to the hospital for the foreseeable future. Sounds like the administration is worried about the ability of staff to get to work. Your sister says that she and the kids have been invited to join her husband at the hospital, but that she thinks that is overkill and will remain at the house - plus, they've got two dogs to care for.
Despite the fact that there is no EFTPOS, it appears that the supermarkets are operating judging by the full parking lot at Woolworths. They must be cash and carry.
You've got $25 in your wallet and $200 at home. The shops should be open for another few hours. No EFTPOS, Banks are offline and the internet is down.
What, if anything, do you do?
Further details will be revealed in the coming days...
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Post by ziggysdad on Jul 2, 2017 15:23:25 GMT 10
Felt really pathetic posting that I've got nothing growing but herbs, so planted an Avocado tree and transplanted four lots of kale.
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