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    Plane down in DC

    I continue to be aghast at what they do at DCA. Even if everybody is following the flight paths exactly, there's only about 200' of vertical separation between the helo route and the runway 33 short final. To me, an obvious accident waiting to happen. The press likes to call separations that...
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    Plane crash in Philly

    These things often come in threes. I hope this time it's an exception.
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    Plane down in DC

    Less than 8 minute video than answers a lot of the questions. He explains how flying this approach correctly requires total concentration by the jet's crew, and and how the helo pilot was 100% responsible to avoid the jet. On the CA, I'm guessing they see those regularly with all of the helos...
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    Plane down in DC

    This is exactly the sort of thing that TCAS avoids 100% of the time. Even if the controllers are asleep. There must be a lot of gross negligence on multiple parties here.
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    Money & Economics

    It's certainly not new. When I was in that age group in the last century (literally), there was a generous one-time bonus where I worked. I put in in the bank. Most others spent it right away, some on new cars they didn't need. Same with the employee stock purchase plan, that let one buy a...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    You and just about everybody else! My family took it totally seriously until contradictions started leaking out, things like certain businesses could be open but others not. Then when there were jab mandates for the common people but not the elites, it became obvious that it was all about...
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    I made a split PVC sleeve to cover the gap between the pipes, and made sure the cracks between the sleeve halves were well filled with PVC cement. Dirt flowed into the pipe only a few inches and I was able to get most of it out. I dug because of a break in the white irrigation pipe, finding...
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    Can an Axis camera send a .wav file from Blue Iris on an Alert?

    Answering a different but related question, with the 4k-x you can download an audio file which the camera will play through its speaker when an IVS rule is triggered.
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    Pandemic threat? Anyone else concerned?

    My house, new construction when I bought it, has a 100 amp buried line to a shop (in PVC conduit). The top of the conduit is about 6" deep, a code violation I believe, and I found by accident a ~1" open gap between pipe sections. The conduit is also full of tiller gouges from when the grass...
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    Can an Axis camera send a .wav file from Blue Iris on an Alert?

    I don't know what sending a .wav file means, so maybe answering the wrong question. I can hear the audio from my Dahua cameras connected to BI using ONVIF . Some models are 5442 fixed focal, and 541R fixed focal.
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Agreed! The scan, ultrasound, and pathology reports list so many bad things that it's a wonder I'm still breathing. Turns out that most of these things are perfectly normal, or at least common, at my age. It is a bit of an initial ego hit to read that things about me are unremarkable :).
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    Wildlife Observation - Latest Recommendations?

    When the S3 with animal detection came out I thought it was the start of a trend for Dahua. Now I'm having doubts, thinking it might be a one-time special just for Andy. I have no inside information, just spouting off.
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    How to wire 2 cameras on 1 cat6 without any extra devices?

    I've done this many times with homebuilt and purchased devices similar to what's linked in the above post. The cameras use the green and orange pairs. When you build your own cable or adapter, just use the blue and brown pairs in the green and orange connector positions, on both ends, for the...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Dang. Cancer seems to be popping up everywhere these days. We have a friend who is currently dying from pancreatic cancer. My dentist just barely made it through kidney cancer. As I did, you will be learning a lot about cancer that you never wanted to know. Mine is very different from...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    "Larry Ellison Suggests mRNA Vaccines can be developed for every Individual Person to cure things like Cancer" Speaking as someone who is carrying a cancer that statistically will have me dead within 2 years, I would strongly support this, only if it really works of course. As a random...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I have an additional point of view about this. When I was working in my high tech job I worked with a lot of engineers from India. Just like other ethnic groups, there was a distribution of talent from not-so-bright to brilliant. The way it affected me was that they were mostly unattached...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    This phrase is unfortunately subject to interpretation, and I expect it to end up in the supreme court. An honest process would be to discover why the amendment was adopted and what its intent was, then base the decision on that. In practice it will be decided by political leanings of the...
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    NVR problem

    Don't you have to tell SADP what the NVR's address is? (Coming from another Dahua user)
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    Oregon mandates training for state workers to not cooperate with Trump deportation plans
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    I took mine down the day the phony indictment came in. My leftie neighbor took his down the day after the election.
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    The official "WTF" thread

    I started researching and quit after the reading got to a higher level of grossness than I can handle.
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    NVR16CH-16P-2AI Questions

    Sounds like you owe me :). If I had to give up one of them today I'd keep the NVR. Since I can keep both, I'll use each one as it benefits me the most.
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    Funny / Satire

    Putting these two observations together can be taken as saying that honesty in advertising doesn't exit. Sounds about right.
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    NVR16CH-16P-2AI Questions

    I agree with at least some of those review comments. I use smartPss for viewing and think it's much easier to use than either the native or web interface of the NVR. One glaring example is the event color bars are not visible on the NVR interface unless you stretch out the timeline. In...
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    US Elections (& Politics) :)

    About that flamethrower. It was a propane or MAPP torch, but blowtorch must make a better clickbait headline. Then since ONE person called it a flamethrower, that makes for an even better clickbait headline. Damn press.
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    IPC-Color4K-T180 troubleshooting

    Another thing for the list of suspects is the possibility of the switch cutting off power to the port. I've had this happen when the load on the port exceeded the port limit. It could also happen if the total switch limit is exceeded.
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    Money & Economics

    I've been saying that for the last 30 years. I'm flabbergasted by how long they have kept all the balls in the air. The only way out IMO is huge inflation, otherwise known as stealing from everybody who was honest and prudent, while rewarding the fraudsters and the careless (both of which...
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    bidens incredible transition to electric cars

    Daimler Will Resume Selling Diesel Trucks in Oregon “Acceptance of ICE orders was paused due to a misunderstanding in how zero-emission vehicles credits would be recognized in the state’s implementation of the Advanced Clean Truck rule,” the statement continued. “It has been clarified with the...
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    Blue Iris Constantly Crashing

    I worked in an organization that designed and built PC cards and peripherals. This was back in the 286/386 days. We had all the latest equipment like fancy 100+ channel logic analyzers. I was always in disbelief when in this environment, the solution to a problem was to attack the contacts on...
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    BI Finding Amcrest Cams, but not EmpireTech

    Mine too! Besides providing the easiest way to get new cameras initialized and set to the correct IP, I've found it to be a lifesaver for some camera settings. For reasons I am not able to explain, none of my browsers (brave, pale moon, IE, firefox) can change the video encoding settings on a...
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