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I actually joined in 99 but got kicked out long ago. After this admission I may get kicked out again, later gang.
 
Already leaving? Why? It's a different forum now than back then for sure. :eatpopcorn:
 
Can you remember why you got kicked out and when ?
I'm kinda nosey !
 
grimtraveller said:
Can you remember why you got kicked out and when ?
I'm kinda nosey !
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I can't remember when but it was when they had the Dragon Cave and if you were ever posting in it you would know why which I won't go into lol.
 
jimmys69 said:
Already leaving? Why? It's a different forum now than back then for sure. :eatpopcorn:
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Not really, I just figured, once banned, banned for life. After posting this I expect to be banned again lol.
 
In that case I guess it's hi and goodbye :P (y) (y). I do hope you're around long enough to tell us why you got booted though.
 
dogooder said:
I can't remember when but it was when they had the Dragon Cave and if you were ever posting in it you would know why which I won't go into lol.
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I think we were typing at the same time. sorry.
 
Hey dogooder, I just watched a video you did... the have at it one. I liked it a lot 8-)(y)
 
dogooder said:
No I am not a dick, just a wiseass and not very wise.
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I think we will get along. I have no clue about protools and your gear, so sorry if I haven't been any help. Seems I am here as a support animal lately anyway unless you use Cubase so...

Again, welcome back! 8-)
 
dogooder said:
I actually joined in 99 but got kicked out long ago. After this admission I may get kicked out again, later gang.
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Only a handful of people still around from wayback. Your old account and banned IP are also probably long gone. Fresh start?
 
dogooder said:
I can't remember when but it was when they had the Dragon Cave and if you were ever posting in it you would know why which I won't go into lol.
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The more things change, the more they stay the same. Despite many coming and going, and forum upgrades and revisions, the cave is still dark and dreary. You'd think by now with energy efficient LED lighting they'd be able to brighten up the place, but alas the trolls that live there prefer to be in the dark about the outside world and those around them.
 
Pinky said:
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Despite many coming and going, and forum upgrades and revisions, the cave is still dark and dreary. You'd think by now with energy efficient LED lighting they'd be able to brighten up the place, but alas the trolls that live there prefer to be in the dark about the outside world and those around them.
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Before LEDs were the big thing, I once read an article that stated if the country switched to all LED, which it has basically by now, the energy that would be saved would be the equivalent to the energy consumed by California, Oregon and Washington combined, yearly. If that was true. it tells me we have been consuming a lot more energy since that article was written. When it comes to the cave some of us were dedicated jokesters and some of it may have gotten out of hand by certain standards.
 
dogooder said:
Before LEDs were the big thing, I once read an article that stated if the country switched to all LED, which it has basically by now, the energy that would be saved would be the equivalent to the energy consumed by California, Oregon and Washington combined, yearly. If that was true. it tells me we have been consuming a lot more energy since that article was written.
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Efficiency has afforded us the luxury of ignoring our aging electric grid/infrastructure. We have more homes (and people) now than decades past. Without efficiency advances we would have crashed the grid a long time ago. As it is, places like Texas are finally coming to a reckoning with power consumption and their inadequate infrastructure. Texas is just a cautionary tale, the rest of the country is only a few steps ahead in terms of resiliency.

Electric vehicles aren't going to help matters moving forward either, and with green energy still languishing as only 20% of our electric source (less in some places) we're just burning fossil fuels at the power plants versus our cars.
 
I am a retired CNC programmer/machinist. At one time in the early 2000s I took a job with a company that was making all the parts and guts for the transformers you see
on the telephone poles for residential hookups. All the blueprints were from 1919 to 1929. Nothing has changed lol. Green energy is not only languishing, it is not all that
it is cranked up to be. We need the new, smaller nuclear reactors to start being considered once again.
 
dogooder said:
Green energy is not only languishing, it is not all that it is cranked up to be. We need the new, smaller nuclear reactors to start being considered once again.
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There's been some momentum recently to have nuclear regain some of its status as a green source, because ... well, it is. It just has some potentially dangerous implications if corners are cut/disasters happen.

My only issue is that even with expansion of nuclear power, we'd still never replace all of our needs with it due to the limits of time, cost to deploy nuclear reactors, and the nimby movements that spring up every time a new nuclear plant is suggested someplace.

If we want to be realistic, on a long enough timeline our current standard of living comes to an end. I don't see a smooth exit from our current reality into something sustainable.
 
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