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That ticking is coming off of you, BK. It's coming off of Skype. I don't know how we can fix that. I have no idea how that's happening. I know it's a high speed. Yeah. If I reboot my machine, I'm gone for 10 minutes. It's well, yeah. Okay, we'll see. I think we can survive with it. It usually. It's not easy to disappear. No, hold on. Well, now my mic is open. And it's back. You know what it sounds like? It sounds like a record that's reached the end of its... The record player that's reached the end of a record and is just skipping back onto the record over and over again. Yeah, that's what it sounds like. I came up with that. Number 2008 and it is Friday evening. It is the last hour of the day. the intelligence report and that makes this corner masters corner and we are in the high twenties here you know noticeably below freezing but not an enormous amount I complain about the weather when it's hot and I reserve the right to complain about it when it's cold and I don't like it when it's cold it's easier to cope with because I can just wear you know 14 different sweatshirts and stuff and and you know the marshmallow men kind of tatters around you know trying to work that the legs and stuff but you know it's harder to do something about it in the summer but cold will kill you and he usually won't because you know if you've got enough sense to sit down and sweat for a little while it usually won't so you know I guess I kind of I can't figure out which one I like better or worse as the case may be but I reserve the right to gripe about it regardless of which season we're in so that's the way that goes right now we are clearly into winter but then again we are just what three weeks from Christmas so I guess we can forgive the world for that There was a topic I had planned to discuss this evening since we have a Hopefully a new audience courtesy of shortwave I have Thought that we should touch on some of the traditional topics that regular listeners have heard many times and may roll their eyes at a little bit This week. I thought we would discuss the butter nice spreadsheet I ran into a little snag recently though. We used to use an archive site called IndianaFreedomTalkRadio.com. This was maintained by one of our friends who did all of the show archives and everything and kept various other files as well, including but a nice spreadsheet. Our friend passed away and we are in the process of moving to other sites. The current archives can be found linked from Liberty tree radio dot 4 mg dot com that's for mike gulf dot com However, I don't think the spreadsheet is on there just yet I mentioned it should you know add it But I just checked the one on Indiana freedom talk radio dot com and even though spike is gone the site is still up and But my copy of the spreadsheet on that site somehow is corrupted. I don't know how that happened It's a RAR file containing a zip file containing an ODS, but somewhere along the line it got corrupted So I'm on a hunt for a copy of that file. I've gone through some system rebuilds and Crash of array array and so on and so forth since the last time I fiddled intensively with that file, so I'm hunting for a copy. However Some of our friends, someone out there must have a good live copy of that. I don't know, maybe BC's played with it, maybe Ed's played with it. Somebody out there has a good copy of that. So if you want to squirt a copy to Ed or Mark or something and we can test it and I can examine it, make sure that it's clean. That might be the shortest way to get that back up and running. I sure don't want to redo the work involved because it was you know many scores of hours building that thing but I think it is a useful facility and let us talk about what it does on the assumption that we will be able to find a copy of it somewhere and post it for everybody to grab. The motivation of the spreadsheet was very simple. I did this way back in the 09-10 period. What do you recall, Mark? Do you have any recollection of when this came out? About 10. I think about 10. I've been doing this program about Oh man, like four years already. Has it really been 12 years here? You know, dang, you know. I've never stuck with anything but breathing for such a long period without being paid for it, but oh well. At any rate, so the rationale of that was that, in my opinion, many people have put up food against future emergency, which is of course a very, very good thing. but they will fill up a little hallway closet or they'll have a couple of pallets of something they got or whatever the case is they'll they'll they'll keep up a bunch of stuff they'll look at that pile of stuff and say man what a big pile of stuff I'm good for a long while It is my opinion that a lot of those people have less than they think they do. So I worked up the spreadsheet to help them with that, to cast some light on whatever it is they're doing so that they can do so in a more informed method. So what I wrote was At first it's a very ordinary garden variety spreadsheet, anybody can do it. You know, page one is item name and weight and location, you know, all the usual stuff. But, this became more elaborate and became a multi-tab spreadsheet. Bear in mind this is written in open office version 3. And I believe I've exercised it in version 4 and it works just fine there as well. The virtue of open offices, of course, is not only open source, but it's also free software, and therefore it is not restricted by Microsoft. It is not going to run on a small slice of the machines out there, like something written for Mac. It will run on Windows, Mac, or Linux. or probably multiple other operating systems, anything for which there is a version of OpenOffice, which is free and you can download it from openoffice.org. And you can have copies of it around to install on some machine. You don't own yet and so on and so forth This spreadsheet does use macros. So when you fire it up, you have to tell it it's allowed to use macros I would suggest you say use you know, ask each time sort of thing out of common sense if you do not use the macros, it'll still work but in a very crippled form and the special stuff that it does will not work and because that's all written in open office basic but rest assured that if you get it from a clean source that somebody trusts or they there are not any funky viruses in there feel free to scan it all you want or examine the source code nothing is obscured I'm starting to get a burn the throat and we are only a third I'm good for the moment. So here we go. Okay at any rate So the what the spreadsheet does that is special beyond a normal inventory sheet? Is that it knows some things about the materials that you might enter in you do have to use the names Exactly as occur in tab 3 or 4 or something like that But if you do that it knows some things that knows how much fats proteins and calories are in a can of spam It knows how much is in a pound of wheat, so on and so forth like that. Not every food known to man, but most of the common ones in the Western world. It also knows a few other things that are kind of interesting. It can convert back and forth automatically among some of the units of measure. And it knows some densities. So, not only can you enter wheat one pound if you want, or one kilogram, or ten grams, or whatever it is that you want to do, and it will convert internally for its own calculation purposes. But also, it knows a few things about the density of these things. So, if you say, I have stored wheat 55 gallons, It will know how to convert that to mass and then proceed to do its calculation. The first sheet, as delivered, is full of all sorts of nonsense items I just made up. Don't think that's but a nice pantry you're looking at. It's just stuff I made up to demonstrate what units it can use and cope with. A second sheet in there allows you to adjust its assumptions about metabolic requirements. There is a field in there saying how many calories you think a person should use in a day. There are other fields that let you adjust the assumptions that it has about what percentage of fats, proteins, and carbs are desirable in a person's diet. If you want to set it up to higher or lower fats, higher or lower carbs, whatever, you can just type values in there to change what is in there by default. Please try to make all three of those add up to 100 or you're going to get screwy results. Another tab in there is effectively a database of lots of foods, various branded canned goods, so on and so forth. Stuff that I have added along the way, things that seem sensible, things that I had, things that other people had, that sort of stuff. Again, we are not going to cover every food stuff known to man, but we've covered a lot of the really common ones. Then we get to the special stuff. We get down to the final tab on this spreadsheet and it does a really, really neat thing. It took me days to figure out a cluge, a long way around the barn to figure out how to get it to hide or unhide rows based on the data. That was kind of weird. That was not built into OpenOffice and I had to kind of find a side effect of another function in order to implement that plus one that involves searching. So the last tab is not very fast. You may on a slow machine have to wait a minute for it to come up and display if you've been switching around. But the wait is worth it because what it does is it scans through your list of inventory whatever you've typed in there. It sorts and filters and adds all this stuff. It converts all the units of measure and comes up with subtotals. So if you have an entry for one gallon of wheat and another entry of 10 pounds of wheat and another entry in some other unit of measure, it converts all of those things to an internal mass value, performs its calculations, and displays the summary. Then it adds all of these things, breaks them all down by protein, fats and carbs in each line and does a subtotal and a display and then way down at the bottom it's got some stuff along the lines that you have stored X many man days, man months and man years of protein, X many carbs and X many fats. So you can kind of see what the total composition of your stores is. It does not try to do any sort of menu planning. It does not assume recipes. The only exception to that is it does kind of nudge you and say we really do want a two to one ratio of rice to beans. However, aside, you know, it just sort of mentions that you're out of out of spec if whatever that ratio might be. However, In general, what it does is it says, okay, you know, you now have 1.2 man years of carbs, but only 0.3 man years of fats and 0.7 man years of proteins or whatever it might be. And you can look at man days, man months, man years. But those are useful total metrics that you can apply to your food storage program to figure out where you are and what you need to plump up and so on. It does not do anything particularly fancy to help you with the rotation. You probably just want to devise a system of that for your own purposes. Maybe there's a field in there that you want to use for take, you know, put the year in. Or maybe You add to the right side of the shelf and remove from the left side of the shelf and then shove things over once in a while Whatever it is that you want to do you can decide what you want to do And it has no external communications of course you can surely run this on a non-internet connected PC for privacy purposes, but That spreadsheet has long been available to everybody on Spike's site and we will figure out how to get it back up and available for everybody in Duke course. Somebody's listening to this later than 7 December. Take a look around and check the 4mg site. Check the archives link from there. See if something's appeared in there. We'll get that one up and running. It is my error that I did not hunt down a copy of this thing in all of my various backups and so forth. I'm gonna have to be looking for one of these as well. Sooner or later we'll come up. We will come up with one. But in due course, think about this. Open Office is freely available to everybody. And this spreadsheet is available for butter nice favorite price for everything. That is $0.00 and 0 cents. So here is a tool available to you for nothing and hopefully more valuable to you than that. So Mark, you want to rescue me here? One of the most important when we've talked about also Cinco DMO day. emphasize a point. You computers but don't rely on what I mean by that. If you fill up a spreadsheet like this with a bunch of data don't count on being able to access the data electronically from a computer in an emergency. There may be no power, something may have happened to your PAP, there's any number of possible things that go wrong. What I recommend is that you gather all your data in a spreadsheet like this Any time you have made significant changes, print a copy. Put it in a clipboard. and that clipboard is quick and easy to scribble annotations on if you pull something from storage and you don't want to run over the computer and mess with the spreadsheet. There's a good chance that your inventory will start to drift out of sync with your records. If you just scribble a notation on a clipboard that's hanging right there in one of your storage locations or wherever you grab something from, then At some point when you do want to do updates you can go there and make 10 updates whatever is written on the clipboard What's more if the powers out the computer? You know get stolen or destroyed or fails or whatever the case may be You still got that clipboard with that that listing and you can draw lines through things and and still have an idea of where you are that's That's that's a resilient design. That's providing a fallback operation for your system. You do not want to have a high performance brittle system that snaps and breaks and fails 100% on you. You would be better off with something less effective and more durable. This gives you both facilities. If you have filled up this spreadsheet with a whole bunch of data and made a bunch of edits and so on, Go ahead and bite the bullet and print it all off Get a laser printer if you need to if it's a if it's a you know foot tall stack of stuff if it's a foot tall stack of stuff congratulations, but It won't be because you there aren't that many different foods that Count it for in the spreadsheet, but you know what I mean so at any rate just you know go ahead and spend the ink cartridge or the laser toner or whatever it is that you need to do and and get that onto paper in a nice simple form and I recommend putting it in a clipboard or punching it in a notebook so that it's handy and keep that near the food not near your desk or whatever the case may be. And in that fashion if Something happens with the computer. Somebody scribbles around. You know, any of a hundred things can happen to the computer. You still got the record. It did the sorting and organization for you that it is its job and you're good. So, you know, use the machines but don't rely on the machines. That could probably be generalized to lots of other things as well, but you know, same deal. It's like having all your guns in one place or having all of your medical supplies in one place or all of your investments in one place, whatever the case may be. Be more failure resistant than just the simple approach. But any step that people make, if they haven't made any, is forward progress. And we encourage you to do whatever it is your level of expertise and preparation allows. So, you know, wherever you are, take a step farther in the direction of failure resistance and you will have improved your lot. Now, there are a number of other topics I have queued up. For some future use, but I don't think I'm gonna be able to do them justice with a burn my throat today Sometimes I have this and sometimes I don't know where it comes from but you know darn it It's annoying I would hate to get into an important topic and and run out of steam halfway through So I'm just gonna touch some things very lightly here and we will do them better in some future week one of those is that there are Tremendous gyrations going on right now Out there in the cryptocurrency market now You haven't been hearing a whole lot about this recently because there was a mad rush about a year ago December 17 2017 in January 2018 When the whole market just peaked out tremendously and then starting in January it was a ski slope down from the highs of you know touch Bitcoin touched 20,000 and it has skidded down and stabilized around 6,000 and just recently has started to some very very interesting lurches and drops After all of these really big moves, some weeks or a couple of months afterwards, so far, each time we have learned stuff about what happened in the market. And what we found is evidence of manipulations. It looks like the people behind a coin called Tether pumped the market up. considerably in November and December of 2017 by releasing all sorts of funds into the market that really didn't exist. I think these people are going to prison in due course for various reasons, not just their manipulations. They're bad guys in other respects. And then after January, The leftover coins from a bankruptcy called Mt. Gox were slammed into the market three different times in enormous huge chunks designed to knock the market down and it did. So we've seen a lot of manipulations both up and down be aware that The cryptocurrency market is a little bit less manipulable Than the traditional markets, but it is just as manipulable as markets were in the 19th and early 20th centuries before the computers that is somebody who's big enough can buy things on the slide and slam them out into the open market or buy them in the open market and sell them on the slide and so on and manipulate the prices up and down to a degree. If cryptos get bigger it will become harder for them to do it but they are small on planetary scale at this point. Nonetheless It is my opinion that the cryptocurrencies are really the wave of the future that we are going to be using these things You know five ten twenty years from now and scraps of paper will be largely out of fashion Probably usable bit out of fashion just like if you find a silver quarter in your pocket from 1963 it'll still spend but you know how often does that happen? So I have in the past Expressed my opinion remember this is not financial advice. I'm not a financial advisor blah blah blah back in October I started talking about this stuff October of 2017 and I was hammering this and I was telling people look you know big cranes at 4400 and like cleanse at 40 If you buy 50 or 100 bucks of money in there that you don't need right now sit on it for a year come back in a year I'm pretty sure you'll be very happy camper now How did that work out? Well, a few weeks ago it worked out great. Litecoin was up 30 or 40 percent, I guess, from, you know, when I first started hammering this stuff, the Bitcoin was up 50 percent. Compare that to bank interest. Now, we are below even when it was in October. Who would have thought that that would happen? So right now, Bitcoin's about $3,500 and Litecoin's about $26. Holy moly! You know, I mean, we were recommending light coin at 40 and now it's at 26. Does that mean that, uh, no, because, uh, thoughts and opinions are of no value? Well, maybe. But I think what that means is that this is a massive roller coaster and the prices are so far down in the basement right now that most people are not interested in the cryptos. When most people are not interested in something, that's usually the time to buy it. So if you have not seen two basics like food and spare clothing and the ability to heat your house one season without you know Supplies coming in and so on take care that first But if you have something to spare, if you can put 500 or 1000 or whatever into the market, it is my opinion that doing so now, even if it drops another 50% a little bit for a while, would be a very, very smart move. The simplest one to grab into is Bitcoin, slightly more aggressive one is Litecoin. Stick to those two is my opinion. There are literally two or three thousand coins out there. Almost two or three thousand of them are worthless junk. The top couple of hundred are the ones that you're most likely to see some action in. The top ten are the ones that the big players focus on and I would call a big fan and Litecoin the top two for regular people so We will return to this topic another week, but as things are developing right now I'm gonna grab people's attention Yank on that little cord and ring the bell and say, look, I am not in any way infallible, I don't have insight information, I am not the world's best trader or timer or any of these things, I'm probably at the 25th percentile, not the 90th, so on and so forth. I think this is a pivotal time. in the development and curve of this particular technology which I'm quite certain will be widely used in a few years, maybe sooner than that. In the heck of a way of digging individuals finances off ground level and bumping them up into in flight mode, If you can spare a little bit put it away and keep your fingers out of it The temptation is when it drops throw your hands in the air Say ah I got burned I'm out of here and to sell and to lock in your loss and walk away and never touch it again That's what the market is hoping for you to do They want to fleece you by getting you to buy in and then dropping in a little bit and then you run for the exits If you buy in for a little bit they drop it a little bit and you don't run they're gonna scratch your heads and say darn And then at some point in the future, I don't know if it's tomorrow or six months from now They're gonna let that market run because that's how they exploit it. So, you know if if You like the idea of the market gains people saw last time around, there are people that saw 50 to 1 gains if they got in early enough. That's entirely possible again. Use expendable money. Use money that you're not going to absolutely need. If you lose it, you may be disheartened, but you're not hurt. If you can do that, it is my opinion that people sticking their toe in this particular pod will be doing themselves an enormous favor. Mark your thoughts. We're still on air, right? We're still on air. Mark your thoughts. Well no, one of the things, one of the things we're probably still gonna be, unlike the rest of the world, the rest of the world, the woman won't have probably pulled for one really big currency argument and I agree with it. Um, there are... Within the cryptos there are lots of coins within the metals there are a few metals of value Even in the deep space 9 world there will still be some bartering even though that's not the normal way of doing things. It's really hard to convert one spaceship into enough eggs to balance it. And the eggs kind of brought it a little after a while and so on. So, Barter has its limitations, but the virtue that it has is that there's no infrastructure required at all. That's the lowest you can go in terms of a market. I will make the argument in future episodes why I think the cryptos are so very important. But one of the issues involved, one of the virtues they have is that they are very fluid. They can flip across national boundaries with no difficulty. Politicians can pass any laws they want, but they are constrained by the physical reality. The physical reality in cryptos is they can flip around the planet in seconds. Wait a minute. Are you saying that George Soros is using this? I'm sure he is. No, I think he's going to... The old system depends on trust. depends on a reliable, trustworthy bank. And I don't think there are very many on the planet, at least not any of the big ones. There are small regional banks that I trust and consider honest. I don't know whether they will survive the next financial crisis. The usual pattern is to allow the big guys to crush and consume the little guys to keep themselves staggering along another few days. that's probably what will happen next time around but we can come up with all sorts of different discussions and theories on that stuff but you know this is this is uh... you know another leg another outlet another branch uh... more options people have the more free they become of the constraints because you know the the politicians and the bureaucrats and the vampires can put up all these walls and rules and laws and stuff and they can hem us into a large degree but we keep chewing these little holes in the walls and making rat holes and it's really really hard to get rid of the last of them because you know You know, we move faster than they do now There are people that are you know firmly entrenched in interested only in the metals. They won't deal with the cryptos There are people that are interested only in stocks. Well, you know, I think there's a really good time to be getting out of stocks They're gonna crash that but I think the metals will have their day So if you're a gold bug or a silver bug or whatnot, you know, that's fine I think that that will have its day, too I personally like silver a whole lot more than gold not just the divisibility type stuff, but also the technology stuff Silver has some extremely important uses and by the Manipulation of the vampires. That's what I call the shadow governments around the planet We are wasting enormous amounts of silver. I think that setting us up for a financial event. How are we wasting silver? They passed a law in Europe You know the EU which is just a little gang of bureaucrats passing decrees and for some reason all the Europeans obey them that Lead-free solder must be used in all sorts of electronics and consumer goods and so on because lead such a big deal Well insider, it's not a big deal. It's you know lead in the in the environment generally. It's not a big problem But they have decreed lead-free solder and the best lead-free solder formulas we know now in the current technology consume 2 to 3 percent of that solder is silver and that's used in such small quantities in cell phones and televisions and stuff that it's not worth recovering. So it's thousands of tons every year of silver is being pitied away, wasted, destroyed because a bunch of, you know, fat behind bureaucrats in EU Decreed that this shall be wasted in in consumer goods in the form of lead-free solder They claim that they're all eco-conscious and politically correct and all that sort of stuff I think they're getting their orders from far more serious and evil individuals than that I think they're deliberately destroying the planet's supply of silver as they go Which is one reason for you to get some I think that cryptos have more upside than silver does but they'll go off at different times if your timing is good that you can magnify both of them and But whatever it is, if you've got an ounce of silver and it's sitting on the dresser drawer or sock drawer or whatnot, it doesn't matter if the power goes out. It doesn't matter if a tornado comes through town and you still beat that. 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