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Why, can they be used in place of cement blocks in retaining walls?

Actually with Watson having an ACL and thus likely not back until next December, at the earliest, and with Doubs having expressed some dissatisfaction with his role the Packers may need to consider a reciever in one of thier picks in the first two rounds. Packers have been undisciplined all year. Stupid penalties, communication lapses, lack of attention to fundamentals. They have a lot of maturing to do.

Packers in danger of being charged with some Philadelphia Municipal Ordinance violations for altering or befouling municipal property with the giant dump they took on the field.

I was just curious if there was a particular reason, or if it was just a general, global type of disdain.

Packers are their own worse enemy.

Did he black your eye and kick your dog sometime in the past?

Damn sorta burst open there. Still, a season which exceeded expectation and which generates real optimism for the future. Well done Broncos.

It seems to me that we have the technology to have feedback monitors on fire hydrants. it seems to me we could know the conditions around those hydrants instantaneously at a central command. If so it seems we could fight fires remotely, at least until the Departments could arrive on scene, if hydrants were equiped with remotely activated and targeted nozzles (what the fire fighters call monitors). Imagine a fire breaks out in the Hollywood Hills somewhere. Remote sensors detect it. Central dispatch sends all of the fire fighting assets to the scene. While they are in route Dispatch determines there are three fire hydrants within 400 feet of the fire. One can put water directly on the blaze through the remote controlled monitor and the other two can wet down the area into which the fire might move. Activating those hydrants could keep the fire suppressed until boots on the ground could arrive to assess the situation and take further appropriate action. Get on this Elon, or some other entrepreneur with some innovative spirit. It is a 100 million dollar idea and the tech is already invented, it just needs to be combined into one system and hydrants retrofitted and supplied power.

I am out to rejoin the game, already in progress.

Nice fake punt. Nice drive to end the half before the doink. They are playing competitively, which is more than many "experts" had them doing.

In my neighborhood there is a hydrant on every block. Blocks are 600 feet by 600 feet. That is fairly tyopical. If the hydrants did not sit idlily by waiting for firefighters to respond when there is a fire, a response time in my neighborhood of 3 to 6 minutes, but instead could be remotely accessed and a nozzle could be turned on and aimed at a fire until such time as the firefighters could arrive to assess the situation that would go a long way to keep wildfire in brushy areas from getting out of control. We (I) am not talking about opening the hydrant to set water flow down the street like in the famous scene from do the right thing. I am talking about remotely aimable nozzles just like the kind firefighters use when they get to the scene. Without increasing the frequency of installation of hydrants you could get coverage exceeding 90%. I don't think it would be a panacea, but I do think it would be very effective in hilly, brushy country, especially in country where the access is limited, where only brush trucks and specialty all wheel drive fire trucks can go. I am talking about some response within seconds, even if not the most effective response, rather than letting something burn for several minutes, unchecked in the least. You should read the link I supplied. You probably believe in in-building sprinklers, why would this outside-building suppression system be less valuable, particualrly it you look at the costs.

See the previous link where monitors, essentially nozzles, can be remotely rotated and targeted. Not that expensive either for the monitors, though obviously there would be expense to have power for them at each hydrant. Power lines would have to be trenched in.

You might have noticed the link I posted to remote control monitors capable of being airmed and targeted, and adjusted, remotely. Also, as I have said such systems do not make sense in concrete jungles with high buildings being barriers to the nozzles being effectively pointed 3, 4, and 500 feet away, but they make great sense in hilly areas with dense undergrowth, difficult access for fire trucks, and low buildings which will not impede the pray patterns from extending out to 5 or 600 feet. I amnot saying it would be a panacea, but along with goats to clear the underbrush, and with building standards which prevent wooden decks and fences it would have gone a long way. 01_MO_15_HD.pdf The link, again, for those who missed it. Brush Goats: 8 Best Tips - Brush Control & Land Clearing

I am not advocating for federal dollars to go into this. If rich folks want to live in dangerous places they can opay for their own pleasure as far as i am concerned. I also am not advocating for advanced hydrants everywhere. Just in remote, hilly, brushy areas. In many areas the expense would not be justified by the risk being mitigated. For instance in a falt, concrete jungle with tall buildings which would block the spray directions this would make no sense. in hilly, brushy areas far from fire stations and with three story or less homes over which the monitors could easily spray to teh far side and up to 500 and 600 feet down hill it would make a ton of sense, seemingly.

Amazing range on some of these monitors.

Apparently this tech is already for sale. Makes one wonder why it was not invested in for thenhigh density and frankly risch area which just went up in smoke. 01_MO_15_HD.pdf

Akron StreamMaster II 2000 GPM Electric Monitor Combine these withhydrants and put them on a remote control turret to target them.

A bit of recombination of already available tech could go a long ways here. Combine that with the lowest tech remediation there is, allowing goats to graze freely with no regard to property lines, with no fences, thereby clearing out substantial amounts of undergrowth and fires like this current outbreak could be a thing of the past, well if we did this and demanded reasonable building codes.

Yes, yes she does. Exactly like a grass carp which was killed and then left unrefrigerated for a day and a half in the hot sun of a southern California August.

I am not bragging about how smart I am. I am simply noting that I am much smarter than you. I could be a barely functional idiot and still accurately make that claim.

I participated in a Habitat for Humanity build. I took a week's vacation and put in 50 hours on a house. Nothing fancy, but nicer than say the townhouse I lived in when I first started out after law school. It was a three bedroom place and had a signle car garage. The person who got the house was featured on the news. It was a nice little presentation. The news walked her through the new home. When she got to the garage she wanted to know why she was not being given a car in addition to the house, after all there was a garage and did we really expect her to have to walk the two blocks over to the nearest bus top. That was the last time I gave time to Habitat. Instead I spend my efforts building and rehabbing trails and planting trees.

There were not. The thing is, for those few that were available this was a place much closer to the fires where they might have been able to access water. Imagine if it cut down the round trip to get water by 20 minutes. The drops might have occured substantially more frequently. would that have magically put out the entire fire, no. would it have saved some homes, very likely. If it were your home which might have been saved this would seem significant. Same thing with water pressure in the system. Would it have been a total solution, no. Would it have saved some homes, yes.

All you need to know is that I am a guy who is much, much smarter than you, but then statistically speaking so are the vast majority of folks.

Set a fish down near a blind man and watch him say, Oh, Hello Kamala!

I don't know about such things. I do suspect that your brain is smaller than average and with far less convolutions than average.