Every year that ends in a number is a greater risk for fire in California.
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Every year that ends in a number is a greater risk for fire in California.
I'd say there is. We are still having yet another drought year. One of the worst on record. We're just coming into our summer months.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delaney
Edit: I'd like to add, what people aren't talking much about is the effect this drought will have on American agriculture. California is a very large state, over 163,000 sq. miles (much larger than Germany, France is 210,00) with a huge amount of agriculture. Our water reservoirs are getting lower every year and it wont be long before there just wont be enough water to support growing these crops. I'm worried that many of our ag based cities going into a death spiral.
The rule of thumb is this: If it's a wet winter, then that will cause a lot of vegetation growth in the spring, which will increase the fire danger later on in the year. If it's a dry winter, then things will dry out more, which will increase the fire danger later on in the year. If it's an average year, it will do both, which will increase the fire danger later on in the year.
The only real difference, of late, is that 'later on in the year' is now beginning in January.
Subsidies help keep agriculture in California when it should be moved elsewhere. Almond subsidies are the worst because the trees require so much water comparatively speaking.
But this is the post race. So free almonds for everyone! Just get your voucher validated by Steve.
Subsidies are probably not quite as big a deal as the water law in the west. It made a lot of sense, at the time, and it's still a pretty good way to approach things...but it does cause some perverse incentives.
Not a great subject for the post race, though.
Neither is this one.
But this one is.
That's true.
But what if....
Peter Parker was your cousin?
I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrzx_CMmTkc
That's some weird stuff, spidey.
We have lost most of our power dams here. They are gradually being removed or bypassed prior to removal because they altered the environment so drastically. Most of the flood-control dams have also been replaced by less destructive alternatives. There are still an awful lot of smaller dams originally built to provide irrigation reservoirs or power sawmills and gristmills for grain. A few bigger cities also "channelized" rivers to control flooding and gain central real estate and future plans aim at trying other alternatives. All very expensive, and so it rolls out slowly.
A more immediate priority here today is improving drainage systems. As rain and snowfall patterns shift, a lot of structures often run over their capacity. A big worry here is when draining excess runoff results in crossflow with "sanitary" (sewer) systems which can lead to untreated water going into bodies of water.
Of course increasing seasonal and annual precipitation volume also impacts agriculture. You have to dry fields out at least a bit before you can begin to plant each season, let alone harvest later on.
So it probably sounds pretty soggy looking in from the outside. But drought periods are still with us and higher winds and temperatures can make those more extreme when they occur as well.
Um... For you guys who spend alot of time on VBForums for some reason, here you go!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWD5gdpt4Dw
This post should not be read.
So why is your name red?
Sheer embarrassment.
You guys better not watch this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fIlMfIQskE
Now my face is red.
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I’m the stoopidist Cajun on VBForums, so I got you beat there.
How many posts does it take the average person to notice that posts in Chit Chat and the Test Area don't count towards post count?
Probably less than nine.
No one has ever thought about the count as game points. Gaouser probably got the idea from mmx88_ValidUser's website.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
They have to be related!
maybe someone will teach him the notion of "Game Over"...
Oh he got banned again?
I've never seen a single person get this many bans anywhere.......
Ah I just discovered that in fact someone taught him the notion of "Game Over" (he is banned)
I am not sure he is single in his head and it may explain the contains of some of his threadsQuote:
Originally Posted by Niya
Well except for Surfer4Life way back in the old Starcraft communities. One of the most entertaining online personalities I have ever seen. Dude's been banned from online spaces more than any human I have ever seen.
I'm not sure he is even human. Could be an AI from a lab somewhere gone awry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delaney
No. A perhaps, but not I.
There are people who have been banned quite a bit, and for longer. People just don't keep track. We've even had people who asked to be banned because they were a bit too literally an 'addicted member'. They wanted to be disallowed from visiting the site while studying for something, if I remember right.
And then there was the guy who I said was figuring out the AUP using the Braille system. He's still around, though infrequently, and much settled down...in every way. He was a bit of a lunatic, when younger, and that spilled over into his posting.
are you sure of that ? :D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale-throated_slothQuote:
Originally Posted by Niya
Sounds like this place used to be fun.
The old internet sure was a lot of fun. Lots of good memories.
But now that politically correct leftists have taken over the internet, it's no longer fun. Amazing online personalities like Surfer4Life could not exist in today's climate. Too many snowflakes would get their precious feelings hurt.
I sure do miss the old internet. It was way better than the dumpster we have today with a bunch of politically correct idiots running around banning all who don't buy into their idiotic ideologies.
lmaoQuote:
Originally Posted by delaney
OMG I managed to find remnants of Surfer4Life's online persona still around today. <Link Removed> is one particularly legendary post still in existence! Of course it's only 0.01% of his glory. The forums he called home no longer exist today so all of his most epic rants can never be enjoyed again. Say what you will about Surfer, that dude was fire. His trash talking was legendary in the Starcraft BGH community and while he received a lot of push back from the community, we all secretly enjoyed seeing him go off on somebody that rubbed him the wrong way. That post is a snapshot of history right there. A taste of what the old internet was like when epic rants like that were common place. Seeing that post again makes me miss the old days so bad!
Even Surfer's most tame posts would be insta-ban on the leftist infesting watering holes of today like Reddit and Twitter.
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Why God.....why did you let leftists ruin everything!!!!!
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This race is posty.
Yeah, and mostly you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Niya
It wasn't different, at least not here, aside from the fact that we were all a whole lot younger. You were, too. Don't be so quick to attribute the changes you see to some kind of policing. It could just as easily be the fact that we are all a whole lot older. I would guess that the demographic profile on this site has seen an average age shift of at least 10 years. The people who were around when I started, tended to also be in their twenties and thirties. If they came back now, they wouldn't be so young. A bunch of them are still around, too.
Also, I remember when somebody started a non-politically correct thread...and everybody jumped on them with both feet until they finally deleted the thread after a couple pages. Back then, the OP could delete a thread by deleting the first post in the thread, and they did. So, if you think it was so different...yeah, right. Sounds like nostalgia, to me.
Niya the snowflake.
This forum did tolerate cruder language, but not cruder ideas. Heck, I got banned for making a pun that was only very slightly blue, but was in no way mean. It just made a play on the different meanings of the word bush.