Out of touch w/the world

[Oldoak]

Lauri Laughlin's daughter of the recent College admissions scandal was a "wannabe" social influencer. This was her aspiration in life. Her mother's aspiration was for her daughters to go to a fancy college. Not some state thing either. She was willing to pay $500,000 for that to happen. Now she is facing jail time.

Couple of differences here: That half a million dollars to us is like 50 bucks to her. And facing jail time and actually doing jail time is yet to be determined and seen.

Back on topic, I prefer not being "out of touch with the world", but being out of sight from most of the world, while still staying well informed.

 

[oosik]

I don't even like being "well informed". It just discourages me..........

 

[denchen]

For the Natural Sharp Cheddar Cheese, I guess the farmers in the Cheddar Gorge have trained the cows to eat only the sharp grass.

 

[Oldoak]

I don't even like being "well informed". It just discourages me..........

Yes, however being "well informed" allows me to be "well prepared".

 

[stuckmotor]

I guess it was in the 80's when my mother took my grandmother shopping at the Winn Dixie. She'd been writing checks there for years with no problem. This time they wanted to see her driver's license. The last car my grandmother had driven was most likely a Model A and she certainly didn't have a driver's license.

I went through something similar with my mother when she wanted to order something and didn't have a credit card. One day my son will probably go through an updated version of the experience with me.

 

[oosik]

Here in WA - there is a state ID card if you don't have a drivers license. I'm sure most states must have something similar. It's rather like trying to purchase something off the internet and you don't have a phone. That's one reason I still keep my cell phone. No land line out here and only sketchy cell phone service.

 

[Jstpssng]

Here in WA - there is a state ID card if you don't have a drivers license. I'm sure most states must have something similar. It's rather like trying to purchase something off the internet and you don't have a phone. That's one reason I still keep my cell phone. No land line out here and only sketchy cell phone service.

I know that we do. I was most familiar with them in college when a lot of kids didn't have a drivers license but needed something to buy alcohol. Now they card everybody, no matter how grey haired you are. It seems like there should be a happy medium.
I have a PO Box, and tried to get my street address put on my driver's licenseso that I could use it for buying firearms. They wouldn't do it, because "A driver's license is not an ID.

 

[Beeenvenue]

The problem isn't so much the ground based computer server systems. It's whatever supplies and connects them. Should we ever get hit with a substantial enough EM Pulse, Solar Flare or Gamma Ray Burst or something we might not even be aware of yet, the satellites may be the first to go. Without those, we lose significant communications capabilities, as well as systems like GPS. Then you have the power distribution systems. I've seen it posted that major components like transformers are built on demand with no back stock. That could mean months, maybe years to rebuild after a significant system disruption. Without power and interconnecting communications systems, the web won't function very well, even if the data itself is protected.

Back in 1987 in my Air Force days I worked on a program to purchase certain radiation-hardened components for the MILSTAR program. If we were working against EMP then, I think the critical military systems will be fine (including GPS which is a military program). Cell phones and the electricity grid for the general public, however, will likely suffer quite a bit.

 

[3930dave]

No land line out here and only sketchy cell phone service.

OK, you are going to be hard to beat, re. thread title. :thumbsup:

Rgds, D.

 

[3930dave]

Cell phones and the electricity grid for the general public, however, will likely suffer quite a bit.

Another difference between now and '87 is general transportation. Back then, there wasn't much more than an ignition module and an AM/FM radio for electronics onboard cars and light trucks...... probably still some point ignition engines on the road too. Today, modern heavy-trucks already have "challenges" going down the road w/o drivetrain fault codes lighting up and derating engine output..... and that's just with normal background EM involved; nothing worse than a nearby cell-tower or mobile transmitter in play.....

Pervasive ground transportation is so much a part of modern society, it's difficult to picture how bad it would be in some areas with only a few military vehicles mobile, esp. for an extended period of time.....

Rgds, D.