Kicked Off the Methownet BB

[Mark58]

Maybe switch services? I left to go to NCIData. Better and cheaper

[pasayten]

If methownet is your internet provider, and you have an older radio... Does your service now seem sluggish? There is a problem of the older radios coming off Studhorse at being capped at arounf 3Mb/sec... We are paying for 7... It was cut in half... Nobody notified us of the issue... I found out when I called in to complain. There are two options to fix... $40 "key" with potential up to 10 or $300 new radio and potential greater than 10. I chose the $40 key and upgraded speed up to 10... Cost $10 more a month but will support HD movies for us. Would have been good customer service to send out a notice to us customers with old radios... Just sayin'...

[PAL]

I noticed that too! Is it a trap? Ha.

[pasayten]

One of methownet's BB rules is no bumping of threads...

They just bumped one... lol...

Forest Service Bright Lights
Post by duncan » Fri Mar 18, 2022 9:54 am

Our Valley at night appears to be quiet and reasonably dark. Most residences and businesses have dimmed their lights EXCEPT FOR USFS. They have three large lights on the office building bright enough for night aircraft landings. The equipment building has one small light. Does anyone know why these bright lights are necessary ? Bronson

Re: Forest Service Bright Lights
Post by AirForcevet » Fri Mar 18, 2022 10:55 am

Security would be my guess. Recently someone stole several catalytic converters from parked Forest Service vehicles overnight.

Re: Forest Service Bright Lights
Post by tomandmonica » Fri Mar 18, 2022 4:03 pm

I have been intending for quite some time to go up and see if there is something that can be done about that. It shines right in our bedroom window. If security is the the concern, motion sensor lights are more likely to disrupt evil doers. Security cams are another option. Shrouding the lights to direct the beams down are another. Blazing lights directed out across multiple neighborhoods are a poor choice for a public agency.
Tom Forker

Re: Forest Service Bright Lights
Post by Reapward » Fri Mar 18, 2022 7:03 pm

Do talk to them. They may not even know the impact(they should) Shrouds pointing the light down is a simple inexpensive solution. There are "dark skies" guidelines and the "Good Neighbor Handbook" talks all about it.
Pearl Cherrington

Re: Forest Service Bright Lights
Post by bobcat » Sat Mar 19, 2022 8:58 am

It is not necessary to illuminate anything outside of the area that is intended to be illuminated. It just requires shades.
Gary Ott

Re: Forest Service Bright Lights
Post by bumper » Sun Mar 20, 2022 6:52 am

I recommend that you talk to the Forest Service folks. You can find some good information on discussing light pollution with your neighbor(s) at the International Dark Sky Association website:

https://www.darksky.org/our-work/lighti ... -lighting/

Dean Kurath

Re: Forest Service Bright Lights
Post by Methownet » Mon Apr 04, 2022 4:38 pm
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[dorankj]

Thank you for proving my point! The ONLY President Putin didn’t expand under was Trump. ‘04- Georgia, Bush; ‘14- Crimea, Obama; ‘22- Ukraine, Biden. Weakness is provocative! And “deluded”? I think it’s pretty clear who’s deluded.

[Fun CH]

‘None are so blind who WILL (themselves to) not see!’ Enjoy your echo chamber.

"The most deluded people are those who choose to ignore what they already know.”

[pasayten]

Let's give Trump a cheer! Go Putin!

[PAL]

OK. Well, when I invoked your name, you posted! Trump is still breathing and does he still support Putin? Probably because he is a "strong" man. A man's man, you might say. A great example of governing, don't you think? (referring to Putin)
This should go on the other post about the GOP. I digressed.

[dorankj]

Nope! World is going swimmingly (except Trump is still breathing). Carry on

[PAL]

Ah, Ken, I see you might have been reading our echo chamber.
Can you add something besides an unoriginal quote that is not clear?
Can you tell us what we are blind to that we cannot see? I mean it.
Are you learning anything from the discussions?
Pearl
Now you can say I am hateful or whatever, but I am wanting you to be specific and add something.

[dorankj]

‘None are so blind who WILL (themselves to) not see!’ Enjoy your echo chamber.

[PAL]

The Methownet BB was indeed really nasty. Mean and hateful comments. We get them on here but they don't last long; they go away like Chitta, who visits, to rile us/me up. And Ken gave up on us, I guess. Italian Helicopter, another one to stir it up.
This BB rarely has the hate the other one did have. So I see why they put a stop to all that.
Chris, you were not one of the means ones, at all. You were talking the facts and some people don't like to know they are...well, wrong!

[Fun CH]

Well, of course, they gotta have thick skin to be on here.

for sure. That's true all over the internet.

It seems to me that this place now has generally less of a troll element than MNBB had. The one that showed up here for a few posts was, as you pointed out, actually very funny.

People who long quit the MN BB before I got there said it used to get real nasty.

I saw some of that for the brief time I was there before I was kicked off for telling the truth about NCH corp that was breaking the law and violating their special use permit in our mountains.

If you remember, one of the owners confronted me at the Twisp Community Center, harnessed and boarderline threatened me to 'stay out of Mazama', 'because we don't like narcs' , presumably because of my involvement in reporting the issue. That incident necessitated me filing a police report and I was given advice by the Forest Service law enforcement officer to seek a restraining order as one option to stop the ongoing harassment.

And it wasn't just me. I witnessed this individual, Paul Butler, verbally tearing into a friend of mine at the hwy20 trailhead. My friend had recently posted a thread on Turns All Year about why you shouldn't park your snowmobile in an avalanche path run out Zone. That was a common practice for that corporation's guided trips back then along with holding their avalanche courses in Avalanche paths.

Many of us seasoned mountain Travelers thought that that behavior was modeling poor safety protocols to people new to the sport.

The idea is to spend as little time as possible in avalanche terrain and not to 'camp out' in it.

[PAL]

Thread was pulled as far as I could tell. Couldn't find it. I wonder if people know about this site? Seems like not.
They could have some good discussions here. Why should they be afraid? Well, of course, they gotta have thick skin to be on here.

[Fun CH]

Unless I missed it, looks like their discussion thread on the Ukraine attack was pulled. When will they learn?

Makes me wonder why they don't join here and post. Are they afraid of what others may post in rebuttal to their opinions? Afraid to venture away from a left leaning website?

[pasayten]

From methownet bb: "An accident occurred while transferring the bulletin board between servers resulting in the loss of some posts between 2/14 and 2/16. We apologize for the inconvenience."

Amateurs... Anybody hear of daily backups??? Maybe a transition plan???

[PAL]

Yes, and thank you for the instructions.

[Fun CH]

Are you asking how to place a quote from someone in your post?

If so, sign in and click on the " icon at the top right of the post that you want to quote. That will automatically pull up the post reply box with that quote in it. Just type your reply below and out side of the quote.

If you want to only quote one part of a persons text, then do a cut like you would do a cut and paste running your finger over the part you want to cut out of the quote, but be sure not to cut the [ ] brackets at the beginning and end of the quote. Those brackets are instructions to the program that inserts the quote.

If you put the word quote inside those brackets you get this;

[quote]

[PAL]

"aggressive testosterone influenced nature of post". Could she/he be a woman disguising herself a man?
Ha Ha Ha. "Besides, I'm never wrong." Just like a man.
Ok, one more time, tell where to put those quotation marks. And I do mean, where does it go in the sentence?
Thanks.
Pearl

[Fun CH]

How do you know Chitta is a he? Chitta is Cosmic intelligence, so Chitta could be both he or she. Please Google Chitta and there are definitions there.
Still trying to do the quotes but don't put them in the right place, so I just put the quotation marks on my own.

I assumed it was a He because of the aggressive testosterone influenced nature of post. Most of the internet posts I've read written by ladies don't convey the same tone.

Besides, I'm never wrong.

[PAL]

Chitta was looking in the mirror when he/she said that, you know. No need for us to get too upset, as we know it is not true what he/she says. There are some really good articles, opinions and discussions on this BB. And there is indeed misinformation which causes us to think analytically and decide for ourselves what to believe.
What an abuse of Cosmic intelligence.
And here's the thing I can't help but keep saying in my mind, with an English accent, mind you, "Chitta, Chitta, bang, bang.
Is that from a song? What is Chitty, chitty, bang, bang from? Google, here I come.
Pearl
It's the film and it is British!

[Gonzo'57]

"The REAL community is rather chuffed to see the most vociferous, ill informed hypocrites relegated to a private safe space for their incessant ego begging. Please continue."

I can only assume that Chitta, the all knowing and powerful cosmic intelligence, means by its above statement that anyone that disagrees with its held opinions are all of the those things it referred to us as. I wish to apologize to it for offending it with my vociferous, ill informed, hypocritical opinions. I suggest the rest of you do so also before Chitta reaches out across the cosmos and smites the lot of us with another stinging indictment. I'm very afraid!

Really though, if I could use foul language on this board, I would tell Chitta exactly what I thought of it and where it could deposit its opinions. What a smug, condescending piece of .........

[PAL]

"however, he has been checking in, guessing to see how last years award winning top internet troll of the year played out."

How do you know Chitta is a he? Chitta is Cosmic intelligence, so Chitta could be both he or she. Please Google Chitta and there are definitions there.
Still trying to do the quotes but don't put them in the right place, so I just put the quotation marks on my own.

[Fun CH]

I used to get away with stuff until I went to the dark side and produced a competitive BB...

Just for fun I put on my 1950's east German Stasi hat and just reported those posts for Politcal opinion rules violation.

They both should be banned for rules violations just as we were for doing that very same thing. Both posts were also way off topic.

The bottom line is that its clear that the staff no longer wants its members to post political opinion.

At this point perhaps its disrepectful to the "real community" to post that stuff especially when all the people who would be willing to post political counterpoint are now banned from doing so.

Katie and Jim, You are welcome to join here if you really desire a discussion on more "welfare for the weathly" programs.

[pasayten]

I used to get away with stuff until I went to the dark side and produced a competitive BB...