windshadow
8/21/2016 17:05 EST
For all my acquaintances that have their foil hats hidden from public view the following news is leaking out of Germany.
I will paraphrase: "All citizens of Germany should store at least a minimum of 5 day supply of drinking water and 14 days of food supplies in case of natural disaster or attack."
Let me hear your opinions on this.
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OceanHideaway
8/21/2016 22:44 EST
An ounce of prevention and Merkel is a smart prime minister.
It is a stockpile people put down in advance of a natural disaster if given time (hurricane season, tornado season, ...what you should have at all times in an earthquake or volcano zone)
Post-Brexit Europe is in a transition, and there are increasing numbers of terror attacks in Europe including in Germany. There is no evidence they will not occur again.
The best way to fight against terror is with the defense of preparation. This preparation will give the populace a sense of protection through preparedness, sort of a STAY CALM & Collect your supplies response. It does work.
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nickspm
8/21/2016 23:48 EST
windshadow,
Operation Gladio is back in business, but the more recent contemporary version is referred to loosely as Gladio B.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGHXjO8wHsA
I would imagine that Al-Ciada, ISUSA, and the Mossad Brotherhood have grown bored with doing so many operations in France and are looking for a change.
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kmoriarty45
8/22/2016 10:40 EST
Susan,
You're a transplant from Florida, so you remember that common sense dictates preparedness, Merkel is just telling the people what we've heard for years from the Florida disaster response people,
Having having experienced major weather disasters ( Hurricane Charlie for example ) I am a firm believer in keeping on hand supplies for just such emergencies.
I don't worry about political upheavals or alien invasions but having a week's supply of non-refrigerated food, plenty of drinking water, a good first aide kit, flashlights, candles, plenty of batteries etc. make perfect sense to me - no matter where you live.
Here in Ecuador, where ( at least in my neck of the woods ) we are subject to rather frequent power outages, candles, matches, flashlights, spare batteries are a must.
I never travel without a flashlight and a small first aide kit in my luggage. I can't tell you the number of times that they came in very handy.
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dumluk
8/22/2016 14:56 EST
No doubt about it. Makes perfect sense even at the best of times. But especially now in light of the provacative actions taken by NATO in Eastern Europe and the Ukraine........Better make it a months worth of supplies and extras..........
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OceanHideaway
8/22/2016 15:45 EST
Absolutely Kmor...
In fact here in Ecuador everyone is supposed to have a bug-out Napsack!
"The official authorities continue advising people in the vulnerable provinces to have a home emergency backpack ready, with water, tinned food, disposable face masks,goggles and a first aid kit."
This pack should also have your important papers and a 2 week supply of medications.
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DDR
8/22/2016 18:55 EST
Merkel should be strung up by her thumbs and beaten with a baseball bat.
After inviting the invasion of europe.
She'll be in the ash bin of history within a year. :-)
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dumluk
8/22/2016 19:23 EST
Jaja.....for those ofyou who are slaves to the pharmaceutical industry........otherwise, a months supplyof vitamins and minerals........and maybe a portable water filter.........
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cristos7
8/23/2016 16:15 EST
All the tin foil, canned goods and Evian in the world won't do Europa much good when the Sh*t hits the fan. Same can be said for most of the developed world, but Europe's population densities and long-standing hatreds will make things particularly barbaric in a hurry.
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Grasshopper
8/26/2016 20:08 EST
Hey Dumass,
I replied to your PM
(you know, the one were you called me an
stupid Indian, that you were here to tell me I am not enlightened, that I was a slave for drinking Coke and that you would be happy that I was soon out of the gene pool?) yeah that piece of work.. that's the one,, lol
Well... thanks for that. If your grammar had been any worse I would have pissed my Coke all over my stupid Indian jeans and my lack of enlightenment would have prevented me from knowing I needed to change them... I owe you one.. !!!
"I used to be amazed...
now I'm just amused"
-- Hopper
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OceanHideaway
8/26/2016 23:02 EST
Yes, sorry about those folks...those letters are part of troll droppings. They tend to occurr whenever a troll swings through. Messages to PM explaining the trolls deep need to just help enlighten you...or else.
Remember you can report them to:
contact@expatexchange
It´s the Posters who make this place great and it is up to our Posters to let Administration know if someone is harassing you. That´s how you do it!
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Grasshopper
8/27/2016 06:16 EST
Lol... thanks Susan,
I will keep it in mind - but the day I can't handle that little bitch on my own is the day I hang up my hat and ask for a toe tag....
..and don't forget to close my drawer..jaja
Hopp
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withoutego
8/29/2016 09:15 EST
WS
No specific troll, just trolls in general. Human nature applied to these sites of social interaction.
sinego
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OceanHideaway
8/29/2016 18:15 EST
TIME... How Trolls are Ruining the Internet...
Now that´s funny...especially to anyone who has been on the internet for any length of time...
...why when I was first online... when we first used the term troll... because we were all geeks and nerds... after all...who the heck else was on Compu$erve?
...anyway, trolls have been on the internet for like...ever... and that´s why folks like me have jobs. ANd someday...yes someday... EVEN HAVE A PAYING JOB!
...CAUSE THIS IS A SKILL SET...REALLY IT IS :)
.... and I have been moderating forums since 1999
...have a cookie ;)
*I Toke & I Vote*
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withoutego
8/29/2016 22:38 EST
chico de campo
RE: Time magazine
I read it at the supermarket. The magazine rack is between frozen foods and toilet trees - across from custard and Hagan Das (from New Jersey)
It is thin, emaciated, a shadow of its former self. Back in the day it was a force. Now its pamphlet thick and an anachronism.
Times have changed. Time has managed to hang on, somehow. I didn't buy it because The depth (or the number of pages) on the subject of trolls was more than I need to know. And - the library has a subscription.
Sad but the tide has gone out and Times been left high and dry. The age is for information entered into tiny terminals by thumbs driven by tiny minds.
I worked for computer companies in the 70s and 80s and was using networks early, for work. Got online at home around 1994 or so. Paid zero attention to "social" sites. Look at the trouble mister wiener gets into. Is it true that he is going to be the new Oscar Mayer mascot?
sneego
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OceanHideaway
8/30/2016 15:33 EST
I remember being excited when TIME magazine arrived ... because I would quickly turn to PEOPLE. Of course that is what interested me when I was ...9.
Now they have a whole magazine called... PEOPLE... I´m not so interested anymore.
But the magazines we received growing up ...that sat on the coffee table and got dusted and then stacked as the next issues came in where: Time, Newsweek, Life, New Yorker Magazine and Consumer Reports. We also got the NYT, the local newspaper, and on the weekend the NY Daily News because it had the comics.
We used the newspapers for the puppies and also for starting fires in the fire place.
That was life growing up in a suburb north of Manhattan... in the 60´s
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Grasshopper
8/31/2016 21:58 EST
I always went for the Nat Geos laying around - hoping to see a boob.... lol
I kid.. (I hoped to see two)
But seriously... you guys remember Bulletin Boards? ( ...before incorporated social media?) hell, it was before the internet, actually. Late 80s.. I had a pretty big TV/Electronics shop outside Charlotte... and my computer wasn't even in a damn case.. I had a desk with a plywood back and sides with random circuit boards screwed here and there.. running an IBM 8088 processor at a whopping 4meg speed (with a "boost" button for up to 8Meg... which it never reached)
Most of the boards were just other memory boards with a lot of RAM chips.. (which didn't hold a lot of RAM, by the way) and a couple of I/O circuits, a floppy (when they actually flopped) and a dial -up modem. Windows has yet to come out - we just used DOS (disk operating system) and had to physically type the word RUN to make a program run..
The big deal of the day was when MS put out "Double DOS" yay !! We could now run 2 programs at once!! (or so it was designed to do.. what it really did was crash and lose all your data) But anyway.. yeah, the Bulletin Boards worked but you git hit with some nice long distance phone bills if not careful.. Hey - at least my computer wasn't going to overheat... and it gave a more significant meaning to the word "desktop".
....gooodtimes..
Hopp
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OceanHideaway
9/1/2016 01:17 EST
Oh yes...
some of those boards were famous...like the Mansion in Florida (weg)
And that phone coupler... that sound stays with me to this day!
I started out on a TRS 80 Model 100 in 1985 ... the one with the amber screen (yeah living large)
...good times...good times...
300 baud...went to 1200 and throught we were god!
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Grasshopper
9/1/2016 20:05 EST
Yep.. I had a Trash80 in my shop on the ship in 85 too.. wrote all kinds of games in BASIC and made graphics with asterisks ****
but man - the computer that was our EW console.. that baby had the power. And the "guts" took up a whole adjoining room. We played a Star Trek game on it we wrote,,,, I'm sure the pentegon would have disapproved just tad.. just a smidgen
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