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Every negotiater before Trump was too afraid of losing, to go on the offensive. They always thought the cost of losing was too high, so they never sought to win. But, they failed to realize that by not winning, they, in essence lost.

This is the classic cop show scene, where the bad guy is holding a gun on a hostage, and tells the cop to put his…[Read more]

A little confused:

My idea on the heat was to try and kill all bug eggs my wife kinda freaked out when we opened the oats and a couple of bugs flew out.. I haven’t tried it on pasta yet

Are you saying you did this because a couple bugs flew out? or that a couple of them survived even though you did it? (At 150, there are bugs that can, in t…[Read more]

“I tried something different on storing beans and rice for long term…

I put the beans in the oven on 150 degs for 1 1/2 hrs and then storing them in food grade buckets.

What gave you the idea to put them in the oven, why 150degrees, and how did you monitor the temp?

I agree with what dmwalsh58 said, but the Opening Post referred to some urban legends that show ocean inundation all the way to St. Louis, or even show the Boston Mountains as an island.

I fully expect, sometime in the next dozen to hundred years or so, a major quake that will take out all the bridges and pipelines from Memphis to Hannibal MO,…[Read more]

Close to worse case scenario would be damage for a few hundred miles.
Check out Figure 3 in this PDF File:
Earthquake hazard, New Madrid

Maps which show inundation in areas the size of Arkansas or Mississippi are created for political gain or just to profit off of people’s panic, and rely on the gullibility of the masses to perpetuate their pet…[Read more]

It also isn’t as bad as some would like you to believe.
The economy, according to every measuring device I can find, seems to be slowly getting better. Life always has been, and always will be a struggle.

My stuff is pretty low keyed so it hasn’t come up, but I like your husband’s way of handling it:

Hubby likes to mess with them. …

I know of one guy who says “well, if you knew what I know” but of course, that is at a military base and everybody there knows that war could happen at any minute. They also know not to take what a sergeant says too…[Read more]

A VPN does two things. It hides your traffic from your local provider (everything going into and out of your system is encrypted, including addresses). And it hides your location from most of the web sites you go to.

I leased access to Nord VPN for about $3 a month.

There are “re-webbers” (limited form of VPN) that operate for free, and there…[Read more]

I hope he has been getting it out and firing a few shots every few months since this. Not shooting a favorite old gun is kinda like neglecting a friend.

Every time a rocket or missile flies into Israel,
I am reminded of why I prepare.

I wonder if there is going to be radioactive fallout from wind or rain runoff?

Yes, but nothing like Fukoshima or Chernobyl. When you discuss fallout, you have to keep perspective. We are bombarded by radiation from several sources every day.

that Mountain that collapsed in North Korea

I knew most of what is in that article, from our…[Read more]

I think changing the color of the “sticky” threads would help the navigation problem a lot. I think that once you see the effect, you will understand why I say this.

Anyone who intends war against the U.S. will absolutely go after our various infrastructures, and the electrical grid is the number one target. They will go after it by hacking, and by destructive methods such as the rifle attack that disabled a transformer station in California a few years ago.

Assuming the attack isn’t an EMP, taking down the…[Read more]

What you buy a gas mask for is completely dependent on what you perceive the threat to be. If you perceive the threat to be nuclear fallout, then the next question is how much, and for how long.

Personally, I would not consider buying any of the military surplus masks, since you don’t want to stand out, and they are made for military purposes…[Read more]

Be sure to ask a lot of questions, and don’t be shy about sharing what you have already learned. We lost a lot of older post during a software change, and one way we know what needs to be reposted is by answering your questions.

Not a movie, but a TV series is close.
Jericho (season 1 only)

If anyone has a better idea than the ones that I post, please speak up. While I don’t “suffer fools gladly” I do like an honest intellectual challenge.

Mostly, I am trying to “up the post count” and where we lost a lot of the old corporate knowledge, I am trying to “fill in the blanks.”

These are things that will encourage others to come here to post.

I suspect a restaurant supply store would be a good place to buy bulk sugar and salt.

There are some on line. Couple example pages from one such supplier:
2000 packets of sugar (about 12 pounds)
Various bags of Bulk sugar

And yes, you can use table salt to cure meat. Might not be optimal, but it would work.

I find speed is variable, and seems to slow down when there is a lot of traffic all over the web. It could be that slow times are the result of some bottle neck somewhere out of the administrator’s control.

As for colors, I am hoping for some differentiation between regular posts, stickies, and those ~in case of forum error~ threads that appear…[Read more]

I see two issues here. Keeping the ammo safe from environmental concerns, and keeping it safe from prying eyes. I can address the environmental factors. Keep ammo away from chemicals, and moisture. As for temperature, stability is better than chaos, but if you avoid temps over 130 and below freezing, and avoid any moisture, good quality,…[Read more]

If China and Russia retaliate against us economically, they will be like Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid’s last stand. And because of the way the world economy works, if China and Japan “call in their markers” it will cause their economies to collapse before ours does.

Few people realize the difference in size of our economies. The US economy is…[Read more]