The General Chat Thread (2016-2022)

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Here it’s getting more and more dryer every year. The temperatures aren't getting higher, but the rain is getting lesser and lesser. Climate change is like the bubonic plague, we've to win.
 
HOT! 101F/38C today. We are in the triple digits all week, peaking at 105F/40.5C next weekend. :heat:

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PabloLerntKochen said:
Here it’s getting more and more dryer every year. The temperatures aren't getting higher, but the rain is getting lesser and lesser. Climate change is like the bubonic plague, we've to win.
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Ironically it is getting drier here and warmer as well. The problem is that extreme weather events are also getting more frequent. 30cm or 12 inches of rain in 24hrs has oddly been common this year, but so has drier than normal months. Last month we had almost no rain where I live, by which I mean less than 30mm in the entire month. It was the first month of winter. It was also the coldest start to winter in 60 odd years with snow falling at the very end of May which no one locally can recall in living memory. Friday saw 1½ times the entire month of June's rainfall in less than 24 hours. Saturated ground struggled to cope with the rain.

Some 85% of the population of Australia live within an easy drive (I think it's 1hr but I'm not 100% certain on this distance) of the coast in Australia and usually centered around estuaries often of pretty major river systems, so flooding should be something they are familiar with and accustomed to but this year's floods have been on a level not seen before.

3 years ago we were just a couple of months away from the start of the worst bush fires in history and in the middle of the worst drought. Even with all of this rain, the fresh water lake we drive alongside every time we need to go anywhere isn't yet even close to full. You can trace the fence lines across the entire lake which tells you that the depth has yet to exceed 1m. This lake is the largest fresh water lake in Australia (presumably that statistic only counts when it actually has water in it? ) and for much of my time in Australia (6 years) it has been dry or almost empty.
 
FoodFighter said:
I think that helmet saved your life!

I don't like the assumption of husband guilt that both the hospital staff and cops put on. That's not right at all.

I encountered a similar situation when my little girl, 5 at the time, came off her scooter in the morning, which was bad enough, then fell off a 3-foot high wall the same evening while playing with the boys in the adjacent house. The wife and I took her to the kids' hospital and child abuse guilt was assumed. That's not right at all, at all. And that's a fact.
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In this particular instance it was the helmet that caused the injuries. My head would never have been involved in the accident (my glasses which I'm totally dependent on were totally undamaged and remained on my face the entire time, go figure), a rear end slide on snow & ice at low speed on a corner. I was actually almost stationary when it happened having landed a jump, held the landing and then relaxed my concentration as I stopped. Even the instructor who saw it all said that it was the helmet visor that caught the ground and the helmet that caused the head injuries. (The broken rib and sore thumb were handlebar related nothing more. ) it was nothing more that a moment's lapse in concentration at the end of a tiring 3 day mountain bike skills weekend.

But I am a very big advocat of helmets having worn them since I went to university back in 1991. I've had one save my life after being hit and knocked into railings and left unconscious when some idiot ran the first set of lights in the right hand lane of 2 lanes (a right turn only though he went straight on) and then still in the right hand lane which was straight on only at the second set of lights (about 100m apart, options here were left it straight on only) turned left across my path.
I got lucky that day. An emergency doctor was on his way to work and witnessed everything. Apparently he saw me most mornings when he was on that shift rotation. Other than extensive bruising matching the railings, concussion and a destroyed cycle helmet, I walked away from the hospital the following day with just bruises and a headache.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
In this particular instance it was the helmet that caused the injuries. My head would never have been involved in the accident (my glasses which I'm totally dependent on were totally undamaged and remained on my face the entire time, go figure), a rear end slide on snow & ice at low speed on a corner. I was actually almost stationary when it happened having landed a jump, held the landing and then relaxed my concentration as I stopped. Even the instructor who saw it all said that it was the helmet visor that caught the ground and the helmet that caused the head injuries. (The broken rib and sore thumb were handlebar related nothing more. ) it was nothing more that a moment's lapse in concentration at the end of a tiring 3 day mountain bike skills weekend.

But I am a very big advocat of helmets having worn them since I went to university back in 1991. I've had one save my life after being hit and knocked into railings and left unconscious when some idiot ran the first set of lights in the right hand lane of 2 lanes (a right turn only though he went straight on) and then still in the right hand lane which was straight on only at the second set of lights (about 100m apart, options here were left it straight on only) turned left across my path.
I got lucky that day. An emergency doctor was on his way to work and witnessed everything. Apparently he saw me most mornings when he was on that shift rotation. Other than extensive bruising matching the railings, concussion and a destroyed cycle helmet, I walked away from the hospital the following day with just bruises and a headache.
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Bike helmets are supposed to break, to dissipate kinetic energy. It is the same theory as crumple zones on cars -- the front and/or back of the car crumple up to dissipate energy before it gets to the people in the car.

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caseydog said:
Bike helmets are supposed to break, to dissipate kinetic energy.
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Yep, I know. The point was that the black eye and concussion were only because I was wearing the helmet. Had I not have been wearing one, there actually would not have been any head injuries in that minor accident.

Specialised operate a policy if your helmet is less than 2 years old (they have dates on them inside) and damaged in an accident, they'll replace your helmet at cost price if you contact them, return your damaged one and buy the replacement through them. I used the opportunity to upgrade mine at that point in time as all.
 
Lullabelle said:
Yesterday was the 1st day back from holiday-didn't get chance to look at my emails..today I have 263 to get through :o_o:
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I always hate the first day back (and all the days that follow :laugh:). For a start, I always forget my passwords.
 
TastyReuben said:
I always hate the first day back (and all the days that follow :laugh:). For a start, I always forget my passwords.
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I have a notebook where I write down all my passwords (our IT security team would kill me if they find out). But I can't possibly remember all my passwords. And our IT team requires us to change them every X days and we can't reuse old passwords and I struggle big time to come up with new ones. Last time I used the name of the band I was listening to, and I think I'll keep doing that. Just hope it never catches me listening to Meshuggah because that's one band I can never spell correctly :laugh:
 
LissaC said:
I have a notebook where I write down all my passwords (our IT security team would kill me if they find out). But I can't possibly remember all my passwords. And our IT team requires us to change them every X days and we can't reuse old passwords and I struggle big time to come up with new ones. Last time I used the name of the band I was listening to, and I think I'll keep doing that. Just hope it never catches me listening to Meshuggah because that's one band I can never spell correctly :laugh:
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In the days of cyber security being the one of the biggest issues, passwords written down and stored safely are actually fairly safe from a hacking point of view (obviously from a worker or cleaner point of view juts different but...)

All of my passwords are written down in a notebook at home. Pen and paper isn't hackable. You actually have to be there in person and with the places I've lived in, just finding the place is usually your biggest hurdle.

Even when I was the senior engineer on site, all the domain level passwords (so the really important ones that give full access to everything on every server including the ability to reset almost any password anywhere), were written down in a sealed envelope and kept in the safe along with the backup tapes and so on... If the envelope had been opened we would have known the password had been breached. Mind you all of my passwords at be time were in Scots Gaelic and I could actually look anyone of them up on a map provided I could remember what the additions and changes were.

The only thing I would say is that you shouldn't write down what each password is for. Just record the password, nothing more. You'll find you will actually have a surprisingly good recollection of what each password is for once you look at your list of password. Very few of my password have any record of what they are for alongside them, yet i rarely if ever actually have to reset any of them. Another little trick i employ is to start or end with a space. I don't need to record that there is one, and obviously it doesn't show. I just look at that password and know that there is a space at a certain location.
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
In the days of cyber security being the one of the biggest issues, passwords written down and stored safely are actually fairly safe from a hacking point of view (obviously from a worker or cleaner point of view juts different but...)

All of my passwords are written down in a notebook at home. Pen and paper isn't hackable. You actually have to be there in person and with the places I've lived in, just finding the place is usually your biggest hurdle.

Even when I was the senior engineer on site, all the domain level passwords (so the really important ones that give full access to everything on every server including the ability to reset almost any password anywhere), were written down in a sealed envelope and kept in the safe along with the backup tapes and so on... If the envelope had been opened we would have known the password had been breached. Mind you all of my passwords at be time were in Scots Gaelic and I could actually look anyone of them up on a map provided I could remember what the additions and changes were.

The only thing I would say is that you shouldn't write down what each password is for. Just record the password, nothing more. You'll find you will actually have a surprisingly good recollection of what each password is for once you look at your list of password. Very few of my password have any record of what they are for alongside them, yet i rarely if ever actually have to reset any of them. Another little trick i employ is to start or end with a space. I don't need to record that there is one, and obviously it doesn't show. I just look at that password and know that there is a space at a certain location.
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That's a good point that I hadn't considered, my password notebook is at home and the only way someone would ever find it is they visit me at home or robbed the house (the later is more likely, I rarely receive people here!) I do write down what each password is for,otherwise I couldn't remember them as I have different passwords for a lot of different websites /applications. BTW when it comes to work, our IT team also implemented 2 factor authentication, every now and then I need an app on my phone to generate a code to allow me to login on all my work systems and applications.
 
LissaC said:
That's a good point that I hadn't considered, my password notebook is at home and the only way someone would ever find it is they visit me at home or robbed the house (the later is more likely, I rarely receive people here!) I do write down what each password is for,otherwise I couldn't remember them as I have different passwords for a lot of different websites /applications. BTW when it comes to work, our IT team also implemented 2 factor authentication, every now and then I need an app on my phone to generate a code to allow me to login on all my work systems and applications.
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I have 50 or so password and I can and do recognize the password needed from the list without any record of what it is for. You'll find it pretty easy if you try.
 
I saw a news report a couple of years ago which suggested that writing down your passwords was a good idea, the thrust was:

Have different and complicated passwords for every account, and obviously never tell anyone your password no matter who asks.

Write them down and keep them in a fire resistant box like you keep your passports and other important documents. Don't worry about them being stolen because anyone who breaks into your house wants your tv, cash and jewelry to sell to buy drugs, slightly cryptic notes are well beyond their mental capacity and they really don't know the bad guys who might want to post adverts for viagra on your Facebook page, or pay your electricity bill for you.
 
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