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Post by paranoia on Apr 10, 2020 22:48:49 GMT 10
I bought my Yaesu VX-6R handheld from strictlyham and was very happy with the turnaround. Still cant stress enough, do the licence before buying gear... You'll quickly learn what features you want/need in a radio and wont pay for features you'll never use. What advantage does the yaesu VX-6R have over one of the slightly cheaper yaesus - like the FT-270R? VX-6R is a dual band, it does both 70cm and 2m. I think the FT-270R is just a 2m?
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Post by paranoia on Apr 10, 2020 22:03:11 GMT 10
I experience this on MS Edge but not chrome.
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Post by paranoia on Apr 10, 2020 21:59:52 GMT 10
I'll preface this by saying this isn't the TEOTWAWKI that many have in their imagination but in a way I dont feel things will go back to exactly as they were.
I have spoken to many business owners who have already shut down and many that will if things do not change in the coming months. The offset jobs provided by the supermarket giants will not last for many months beyond the panic buying.
Retail - an industry largely still existing due to people habits but one that was already reducing staff before this hit will be changed for good. Many that would never considered shopping online before have now been forced into trying online which was the biggest barrier for recalcitrant consumers.
I also don't believe that keeping the economy on life support through 'employment welfare' will mean this doesn't hurt us long term.
As far as social distancing protocols go, things will be lifted in the coming weeks and months - we do need to let the virus travel through more of the community. If you look at the government models they do go out to 12 months.
One thing many aren't talking about is while we might have a win many countries international are not doing as well. our tourism industry would not last through another season of restrictions and if things aren't handled by the end of the year the effects will be great.
I also feel the global recession that will be the aftershock of this event will have an effect on resource demand and thus our exports. Australia is always affected by international economic pressures and this is world wide.
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Post by paranoia on Apr 22, 2019 15:49:37 GMT 10
I did find it to have closer results to my expectations. What I particularly liked about how2vote is they show their working out. It links you to the divisions it's using to determine that. It's not always clear what a vote one way or the other means as there's always a lot more going on in parliament than the blurb of the bill.
One could agree with the idea behind the bill but feel it had flawed implementation. You either vote for the bad legislation, or be labeled as someone who is opposed to the bills concept. Wedge bills in this past parliament were everywhere and even using actual votes, it's difficult to work out what parties stand for.
Mind you... this is on purpose so you listen to the propaganda.
Always best to pick a few issues and read deeply into that, including things like senate committee reports & dissenting reports.
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Post by paranoia on Apr 22, 2019 11:06:06 GMT 10
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Post by paranoia on Apr 22, 2019 11:02:01 GMT 10
So I'm told that Telstra and Optus have blocked the sites after complying with a request from the AFP!! I cannot access most of the websites using my Telstra Account. This is strange to me that it would only affect two providers. Was it your ISP who told you this?
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Post by paranoia on Apr 21, 2019 21:06:17 GMT 10
During the recent Christchurch incident there were temporary bans on a number of websites either hosting or that could potentially host the streamed material. Good reasons for this are protecting children and reducing the ability for the material to be used to glorify the actions of the perpetrator.
I have no issue with this and have the ability to get around this if I really wanted to view said material.
As was done in the posted video, if you have problems getting to a website contact your ISP and have a chat to them about it. Sometimes we cant load pages for various reasons, best to confirm things before jumping at shadows.
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Post by paranoia on Apr 19, 2019 15:58:14 GMT 10
My wife is obsessively anti-waste/need to reuse things... She went to the cups last year and hasn't looked back.
Has saved us some money too... which is nice.
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Post by paranoia on Apr 18, 2019 22:31:00 GMT 10
Dish soap is good but requires regular application for it to work well... it relies on bugs (particularly aphids) from being unable to stick their eggs to the plants. I used to use it a lot back when I was interested in Hydro stuff.
Nasturtiums, geraniums, not only garlic but any allium... plant as many around your other veggies as possible, you can also use these in your repellent with the soap. Plenty of others but these are my fav.
Once you see them it's a bit late but try to keep flowering apiaceae near your precious babies - carrots, coriander, parsley, queen annes lace to attract lady bugs and other goodies.
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Post by paranoia on Apr 18, 2019 22:00:06 GMT 10
A few quick points on the ABCs vote compass.
The results are not determined by the parties previous actions, policies or votes.
The ABC political people (or whatever media groups are commissioning the survey) generate a list of questions based on what they feel will be relevant to the upcoming election and give this over to Vox Pop Labs.
These lists are passed on to the political parties so that they can provide their answer. These are mostly yes/no questions and there is no opportunity for nuance.
Party strategists/policy leaders sit around and decide their answers to the questions, independent on their previous actions/votes and submit this to Vox Pop Labs.
You then answer the same questions and it gives you how many hits/misses you get.
In short, you're given a match to how the parties want you to see them, not how you see them/how they are. Makes it pretty easy to see in such a divided election you would be surprised at the results.
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Post by paranoia on Mar 15, 2019 0:18:36 GMT 10
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Post by paranoia on Mar 15, 2019 0:02:28 GMT 10
My blueberry plant is going into a large pot - friend of mine has one, and says they go really good. Any pictures? By the way as you're head admin is there any way to upload photos from mobile phones to this forum (it's been long overdue since I showed some pictures of my "garden"). If you cant download the files to a computer you can upload them directly to an image site from your phone. I use imgur.comYou then just take the shareable link from that site and hit the 'add image' button at the top of the post (the little picture symbol). I did a quick explanation a while back here
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Post by paranoia on Mar 14, 2019 23:48:54 GMT 10
I particularly like the idea of dried broccoli powder. It could be added to pasta, dumplings, etc to trick the kids into eating the stuff. We make both mushroom powder (add a bit of salt to the powder and it makes a really nice stock substitute) and tomato powder... both are VERY useful. Broccoli powder seems like it would be equally amazing.
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Post by paranoia on Mar 14, 2019 23:44:51 GMT 10
I cannot understand why you would want to use time and resources bottling a vegetable to have out of season when there will be other vegetable varieties to eat when the time comes. We bottle a lot of fruit during the harvest season only because fruit is, in most cases, not available in our part of the world all year round. In nearly 30 years we have probably have had two or so jars fail which is not a bad record. Fruit is so easy to do and it lasts several years whereas vegetables can be hit and miss and are never the same bottled. As with all prepping, it's a very personal thing to fit ones own situation and what you are preparing for. A big part of why I liked canned vegetables is it's a way of banking your time/energy. While not perfect the fact that they're already cooked can make meal prep use much less energy and be done in a faster time, because you've already banked these while you have excess. I live in a place where we have unreliable power and I have a very strict no opening the fridge/freezer rule when the power is out. This allows my family to have a quick source of vegetables during a blackout situation and some things are better canned than dehydrated. "...there will be other vegetable varieties to eat when the time comes."
Interesting assumption. One which I try not to make. I also do not assume that my power will stay on. None of the food in my fridge/freezer gets counted when I calculate how long I will be able to feed my family for if things went bad. So I hope this sheds some light on my thinking. Canned vegetables will never be a complete solution to food storage but it makes my family a little more comfortable and better prepared having some canned vegetables in the pantry. I don't need much more of a reason than that to have some really...
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Post by paranoia on Mar 8, 2019 12:45:11 GMT 10
Interesting perspective. I understand the need for the food to be light, but why cheap? How many bobs are you building?
I had a lot of chats with my 8 year old when she was initially designing her bag (she calls it her emergency bag) and she really stressed the importance of foods that she loved to be included. She felt she would rather be a little hungry but have somthing she really wanted to eat would be more important because it would keep her happy.
Now we're not all kids... But that discussion in particular made me swap a few items in and out of my own bag because I found it hard to disagree. I reckon by day 3 you'll be wishing you spent the extra $5 on somthing tasty.
Philosophy aside, i really like small vaccum packed bags of trail mix with easy tare slots cut in. You can get some really tasty mixes if you spend a bit extra. Variety is key in my opinion.
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Post by paranoia on Oct 7, 2018 22:53:09 GMT 10
While there are some good points raised in the article... I take huge issue with the sub heading - "FORGET property or shares. If you want to invest in what the rich people are investing in, you should be buying gold. Lots of it."
One should never 'run to buy gold', nor should you ever buy 'lots of it'.
At the risk of repeating myself - Physical gold is not an investment, it's insurance. Just as you wouldn't take all your money out of the bank and take out a huge insurance policy, you shouldn't pull capital from growth assets and put it into insurance assets such as PMs.
I do believe there is going to be a large correction at some point but you can always find someone claiming it will be 'tomorrow' and if you listened to them all you'd have no assets to protect.
Never buy gold in fear and never buy beyond your level of understanding.
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Post by paranoia on Sept 29, 2018 22:22:17 GMT 10
heisenberg you are trying to downplay that you chose the word radicalisation, a word normally only used in reference to terrorists. There are plenty of other words you could have chosen but you chose one that suits your biases. You also say from the outset that survivalists are anti-social and anti-government. Really? I've never seen any anti-government posts on here. All those anti-government rebel survivalists must use a forum only you know about. Unless of course you're referring to the preppers who tend to give media interviews (which 99% of the ones I've seen definitely have some form of autism) Only then you might see some suspicious and untrusting attitudes in relation to everything. Most sane of mind preppers I don't think would be interested in interviews. So you're basing your research on a tiny percentage of the prepper community who are autistic. Why are you using mentally challenged people as evidence for your 'research' ? You give the impression that preppers are radicalised and preparing to launch a coup. P.S Whats the bet you're probably a 'stolen valour' claimer too, claiming to be ex-military. LOL A few quick points. Please understand that words are used very differently in academic papers and latching onto the way the general populace, the media and politicians use a word and claiming this indicates bias is not a fair point to make. SH very clearly in his paper (now I'm only about 1/4 of the way through but I'm sure this point wont change) says he is referring to a small subset of the survivalist community that exhibit these behaviors. You'll also not see the anti-social, anti-government posts on this forum because we delete them. We can't brush it under the rug, there do exist a number of extreme people in the preparedness community and understanding, with an eye to effectively being able to weed these out, is the only way that the mainstream will begin to accept that it isn't just the crazies who prepare. I will also ask you to take back your comments on stolen valor. Is quite a serious accusation and not appropriate without evidence.
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Post by paranoia on Sept 26, 2018 0:34:40 GMT 10
Talk of hacking and jamming devices leads me to think people have cameras for very different reasons to me. Who exactly is going to be hacking/jamming your personal security system? A crim who knows and uses tech tools effectively. Admittedly this is likely more of an issue for someone who lives in a property/location that looks 'wealthy' or, known to/suspected of, contain something 'valuable'. Look fair enough, I'm probably just making assumptions about the cost/benefits that a person who was smart enough to use such technology would be able to make. I just think you'd have to look like a particularly juicy target or would have told the wrong things to the wrong people for it to get to a point where someone was doing a mission impossible on your home security system instead of donning a hoodie and with a stocking over their head. All I can think of is the south park episode where the high tech crims rob a burger king... I think it can be worth putting some money into some cameras but beyond a really basic system I feel you're far better off putting that money into physical barriers such as security screens/shutters. Trying to bullet proof a system that is really only useful for legally getting revenge on a perp (monitored systems are obviously a different ball game but most seem to be talking about recording to hdd for use later) It really does come down to what your intentions are and what value you place on having a home movie of the people who robbed you, so you can relive it after the fact.
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Post by paranoia on Sept 25, 2018 14:17:31 GMT 10
Interesting conversation... Good to see people have different intuitions to myself, makes things worth discussing!
To me the discussion can end up too open ended and we end up talking about different things. Talk of hacking and jamming devices leads me to think people have cameras for very different reasons to me. Who exactly is going to be hacking/jamming your personal security system?
The solution for my situation is a 4 drive NAS (synology ds415 for those interested) which holds 4 hdds in a raid to eliminate loss from hdd failure. The NAS is sold with a licence to cast a feed online which can be accessed with the appropiate login credentials. Further licences up to 20 can be aquired.
This allows me to 'check in' remotely and see what is going on at the camera, can also record when there is movement and save it to the raid. This can also be backed up to a cloud if you were so inclined.
Why do you have a camera and how high of a profile do you have will change many answers to this discussion I feel.
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Post by paranoia on Sept 24, 2018 12:21:11 GMT 10
Yep, a good briefcase is damn expensive, but the cheapies are rubbish. I stopped using leather ones after a few were badly damaged when used on building sites. I now use one like this where a few scratches don’t seem as bad as on a leather briefcase. It depends on if this look is suitable for your situation. www.bunnings.com.au/craftright-aluminium-tool-case_p0014325Love those cases... quite a few years ago bunnings had then on sale for $20 and I bought 4. Together with friends of mine a bulk order for cut foam was made that suited them, 4 sheets and a half sheet for the top fit perfectly and it made for really cheap hardcases for expensive toys... Unfortunately I'm completely out of engineering/construction now and that case would stick out like dogs balls... On the plus side very little chance of destroying a nice leather one if I spend the right money.
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