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  1. Agreed but the line blurs when delineating between official and "unofficial."  Only true (official) state censorship is guaranteed to be protected against by the constitution.  Nothing good follows censorship, yet corporations and businesses as private entities have been granted unlimited censorship regarding its employees and their conditions of employment.  Concurrently, the same private entities are also allowed to censor anything that is attached to their property (see Klipsch Forum and moderation policy).  But you have experience with that as  I recall.

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  2. 2 hours ago, JL Sargent said:

    And shortly there after they returned from a two month vacation to a 95 degree house? Seriously though, cooking big meals on 240v stove, drying clothes with 240v dryer, hot water heater on 240v and running the air conditioning far exceed what that solar panel system could manage. Just cooling an 8000 sq ft house to 72 degrees F. in the South East USA would keep it FAR from negative.

    I'm not so sure it's that far off.  I toured a house being lived in with good insulation and solar panels in the DFW area and it was comfortable.  I was looking into the builder as a possible builder at the time.  On the other hand, I'm keeping our house this summer at 75 and 72 sounds way too extreme.  Personally, I would go warmer than 75 but the wife, well, you know what swmbo means.

  3. It is a personal thing.  Medium to some is quite hot for others.  If you don't know, then you need more experience.  As a long time chili head, my hot is pretty dang hot.  I order my food at Thai restaurants "Thai hot."  If you know what that means, then you can get an idea.

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  4. 1 hour ago, DoubleJ said:

    Had to look up the scoville for the Yellow 7 Pot Pepper because I haven't heard of it. ;)

     

    I've tried just about every hot sauce creation you have produced, Oldtimer, so based that, how much heat do the new recipes bring compared to your earlier offerings?

     

    Thanks

    JJ

     

    @oldtimer

    They compare around the same.  The yellow I would call a medium hot, and the death spiral and scorpion are in the pretty dang hot range, and the scorpion has that long linger to not let you forget how hot it is.

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  5. I can currently offer some hot sauce for the chili heads on the forum.  There is a scorpion based, a death spiral based, and a small amount of yellow 7 pot based sauces.  Still at the price of $7 per 5oz bottle, or $15 for an 11.2 oz flip top, plus shipping.  They will be ready soon and I am still considering appropriate names for the label.  Pm for transaction details.  Bon apetit.

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  6. The problem as with many places is corruption.  Developers pay off the government.  Gee.  Think about it if you have the skills.  It takes a special kind of idiot to look the other way.

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  7. Headline of honolulu paper today

    Maui emergency chief resigns

    Refreshing right?

    And if there is to be a prosecution for any crimes then the justice system works, right?

    I mean if a prosecutor has tons of evidence then the indicted should be brought to trial.  It is what the country was designed for.  The rule of law.

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  8. Population of Maui?

    165,000 people island wide.  Smallish town usa.  So how much investment would you think would be approved from available funds?

  9. The electricity that would power any sea water pumps was out anyway.  The power lines started the fire from being downed by high winds.

    The lesson is investment in infrastructure given the possible circumstances of the area.  

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  10. 5 hours ago, Marvel said:

    When I lived in Wisconsin, they had a contest to come up with a new slogan for their

    License plate. It's been America's Dairyland for years. One of the entries was 'Come smell our dairy air'

     

    I kinda liked it...

    I was all for "eat cheese or die."

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  11. 21 hours ago, Dave1291 said:

    Yea, they need glue!  You're the go to guy!  lolol  @oldtimer's bottle of nuclear waste definitely took things up a notch!  Even thought about a siesta but the neighbor kids are having batting practice in the back yard.  They just can't seem to understand it when I tell them whiffle balls.  Sooo, about ready to go up a step in the food chain & let their dad know.  lol  Wham and I hear it rolling down the roof.  Grrrrrrr!  lolol  

    Nuclear waste huh?  I think I have a new name for another batch.

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  12. On 11/19/2022 at 7:45 AM, Jeff Matthews said:

    The creators' intent was to decentralize control over the currency (or rather, provide an alternative centralization) to achieve greater stability than the governments' fiat money.  Crypto has proven to be anything other than stable.

     

    Also, what's the deal with FTX?  I understand Sam Bankman-Fried speculated with his depositors' coin and that many depositors are holding empty bags, but why does this result in the value of the coin plummeting?  If the same thing happened with US currency, a dollar would still be worth a dollar, and people would want it just as much.

    You answered your own question.  What is the dollar backed by?  The full faith and credit of the US government, and it is still the reserve currency of the world.  What is crypto backed by?  Anyone? Anyone?  Bueller?

  13. Here's one take, and fairly accurate.

    Coffee popularity has roots back to the Revolutionary War

    As we all know, the US used to be a British Colony. And then there was a giant tea party where we tossed a bunch of tea overboard to protest taxes. But, what most people aren’t too aware of are the events that occurred afterwards. 

    John Adams declared tea a "traitor's drink"

    In a letter from John Adams to his wife, he stated, "Tea must be universally renounced and I must be weaned, and the sooner the better." From this point on there was an unofficial boycott on tea in the (then) British Colonies. People united and vowed to only serve coffee in their homes. Soon this show of solidarity spread throughout the Colonies and people began to associate coffee with the Revolution. It even got to the point where people viewed drinking tea as a betrayal to the Colonies. 

    Why it was such a popular movement

    Back in the late 1700s, tea was quintessentially British. The King and Queen drank it, all the royalty drank it and the entire population was fanatical about tea. On the business side, the East India Company (which was British) ruled the tea trade and the British were in the process of setting up their own tea farms in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) and India. Tea was so closely associated with Britain that to boycott tea was to boycott British culture. 

    Tea was eventually phased out

    The Boston Tea Party occurred in 1773. The end of the Revolutionary War was in 1783. This means that the Colonists (and soon to be Americans) had boycotted tea for roughly 10 years. It was over these 10 years that people developed a taste for coffee and once people started to drink coffee every day, there was no going back.

    Plus, brits destroy their tea with milk and sugar anyway, making it more of a slightly tea flavored milk and sugar drink than anything recognizable as decent...

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  14. 5 hours ago, grasshopper said:

    @Islander

     

    there is a sort of "heat dome" over Texas around this time of year, almost every year. It is what causes the "monsoon" for us.

     

    We're still waiting for the moisture. I checked the weather at 10AM... 95`.... 7%R/H. Not a typo... seven percent relative humidity.  It was cool enough for me to wear a robe this AM... somewhere in the high 50's. House is cool enough to make me usher and Ooomph when I went outside and got a breath of warm.

     

    Wife is going to be gone for another week. She is seeing some weather. She's in Springfield IL. Said half the town is dark... said it would be a few days before  everything is back up. Her sister's was in the part that did have...

     

    I'm enjoying the house stereo.  The little speakers in the doghouse are nice... but, there ain't no replacement for displacement

    No.  This was ridiculous and not normal.  Seems to be getting back to normal now.  

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  15. 1 hour ago, the real Duke Spinner said:

    Bourbon every night

    You will sleep like the Dead. 😀

    Or...sleep when you are dead.  Kudos to Warren Zevon.

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