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Post by Pasta Deefa on Aug 25, 2017 14:32:00 GMT 10
Steve1989 is ..... nice...
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Post by Pasta Deefa on Aug 18, 2017 14:58:02 GMT 10
Carpe for diem.....
I'll see myself out....
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Post by Pasta Deefa on Aug 2, 2017 15:44:33 GMT 10
I saw a while ago one of the government agencies were trying to highlight the potential value in feral species that are eaten elsewhere but Aussies turn their noses up at. Carp and feral pig were two of the big ones. The Chinese love their carp while the europeans are importing our wild shot feral pig. It's just a lack of knowledge about how to properly check the animals for disease and parasites when they are harvested and how to prepare them to make them palatable.
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Post by Pasta Deefa on Jul 14, 2017 10:42:34 GMT 10
Personally I keep any online activity linked to my real identity sanitised of any content that could cause opsec or infosec issues. I don't want some mate of a mate breaking into my house when I'm on holidays looking for the gun safe.
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Post by Pasta Deefa on Jul 10, 2017 20:46:04 GMT 10
Putting the little one to bed, so if I miss throwing the MacBook at their head my last resort in arms reach is a 3ft long My Little Pony. I can imagine the look of terror in their eyes now.
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Post by Pasta Deefa on Jul 9, 2017 23:25:25 GMT 10
So yeah, I think its good cold
Smashed it last night. Our midget sized food critic had no truck with it of course, but my wife and I hoovered it up. I think I might be stocking the pantry with a few more dozen of those.
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Post by Pasta Deefa on Jul 6, 2017 11:14:35 GMT 10
Another reasonable density can and my personal favourite, Vanilla creamed rice (aldi brand $1 a piece) 1800kJ for a 430g can.
I just bought a bunch of these cans on a whim. There are heating instructions on the side of the can, but is the stuff any good cold?
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Post by Pasta Deefa on Jun 29, 2017 13:25:28 GMT 10
If you do use a VPN it might be wise to suck up the latency and use one that has an endpoint out of one of the more liberal northern European countries. If you use an Australian or American end point all your metadata may be logged and even if it isn't you are one warrant away from the provider turning over all your details to the police. I work in a datacenter and we have the federal police here on a fairly regular basis with warrants for access to specific clients gear or trying to resolve an IP address to a client. They never tell us specifics and we are legally obligated to remain silent about their activities, but it's fairly easy to put two and two together and figure out that 99% of the people they are investigating are pedo's or white collar thieves.
Personally I try to maintain a seperate online identity as a matter of principle as much as infosec. Just because I have nothing to hide it it still doesn't mean I should let every corporation and government along the way hoover up the particulars of my life.
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Post by Pasta Deefa on Jun 15, 2017 15:02:31 GMT 10
"Ozzie Preppers Season 1 Episode 6: Today we observe as Pasta Deefa cryovac's ten kilo's of white rice, disaster strikes as he realises that he forgot to pickup the oxygen absorbers from the post office box."
ZZZZZZzzzzzzz......
The only prepping tv you will realistically see is the idiots who mistake being overly obsessed shooting enthusiasts for disaster preparedness. "Got no torch or Ibuprofen 'cause I spent all my money on tricking up my Remington 7615 to look like the AR15 I wish I owned. Hey!, Who's seen my balaclava?"
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Post by Pasta Deefa on Jun 13, 2017 14:43:23 GMT 10
I don't know the terrain, but if the cave is on a waterway I would evaluate the flash flood risk.
Talked to a fellow a while back that wanted to take to the storm water system and live like a subterranean. Apparently he hadn't considered what would happen when his new kingdom filled with the stormwater the name implies.
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Post by Pasta Deefa on May 8, 2017 13:35:22 GMT 10
I too bought one of the Aldi garden line chainsaws for $99. I mostly use it for cutting firewood when I'm out west. The old seasoned Mulga is hard as nails and after a couple of days the poor thing is in dire need maintenance. The bar tends to come loose by the end of every tank and the whole unit needs to be stripped and cleaned. It's better than slugging it out with hand tools, but I am looking for an upgrade when finances allow. One thing I have noticed is that it starts much easier with a fresh tank of 98 octane on board. It's a pig to start if it is left to sit or I try feeding it lower octane fuel.
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Post by Pasta Deefa on May 2, 2017 11:52:42 GMT 10
On a whim we bought a dehydrator from Aldi and it has proven to be excellent. Nighty nine percent of what we do is drying fruit as we tend to buy apples and whatnot by the bag so there is always excess. Six hours or so and it's done.
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Post by Pasta Deefa on Apr 27, 2017 11:13:04 GMT 10
That channel produces a lot of great content. Very down to earth and they are doing it all on a largish outer urban block.
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Post by Pasta Deefa on Apr 21, 2017 10:52:23 GMT 10
Tanks have always been hard to deploy effectively in urban areas. Look at the way the Russians were shot to pieces attacking Grozny in the '94 invasion of Chechnya. Tanks are still a highly effective piece of kit, but as someone else pointed out, they absolutely need to be used as properly integrated part of combined operations.
On the topic of relative armour protection it is worth pointing out that the Iraqi's do indeed have the less well protected export model and, more importantly, most of the videos of Abrams being knocked out feature the vehicles being struck from dead behind or a quartering shot from the rear like this one. No tank is going to take a shot up the arse like that. The infantry screen *should* be preventing anti tank units from getting into positions where they can make a shot like that. Having said that the journalist does make a valid point as to why the vehicles aren't fitted with reactive armour. It's cheap and effective. I can't recall seeing any American vehicles fitted with it ever. Maybe it's because it is a danger to the supporting infantry?
Drones have their place, but to hold ground you need boots, and tracks firmly placed on it.
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Post by Pasta Deefa on Apr 19, 2017 12:47:40 GMT 10
2-4 weeks based on my current food supply. I think it is a pretty realistic appraisal. Up until recently I have only stockpiled food, water, fuel, etc based on a 7 day natural disaster with the option to pack up and move to an alternant location.
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Post by Pasta Deefa on Apr 18, 2017 15:50:34 GMT 10
Great channel. That is my dream back yard.
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Post by Pasta Deefa on Apr 16, 2017 7:52:07 GMT 10
That is an interesting theory. I will be very keen to see if that is the direction it does indeed go.
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Post by Pasta Deefa on Apr 14, 2017 17:46:40 GMT 10
Trump has apparently removed a lot of the checks and balances from his military brass so they are taking full advantage. Recently they killed over 200 civilians in air strikes on Mosul supporting the Iraqi operation there.
This sort of thing isn't aimed at rogue nations or anything like that. It is about playing to the hawkish segment of the American population who's support Trump relies upon. It's the same as his policy of cutting social welfare, environmental spending and so forth to further bolster military spending. They already spend pretty much more than the rest of the world combined. There is little tangible point. It's basic populist grandstanding.
The downside is that it makes the peace ever more the harder to win in these countries as turns the civilian population against them. Old mate isn't going to be chanting USA USA USA when they just vaporised his entire village.
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Post by Pasta Deefa on Apr 12, 2017 14:09:17 GMT 10
Interestingly, a lot of analysts believe that 90% of North Korean sabre rattling is actually the government sending a message to internal rivals. These people are more concerned with hanging on to their own little crap pile than being aggressively expansionist as their leadership understands M.A.D as well as they next guy. I agree with Grumble; this more sounds like Iraq'esq hyperbole from the Yanks to justify tidying up unfinished business by raining "democracy" from the skies.
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Post by Pasta Deefa on Apr 12, 2017 11:48:38 GMT 10
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