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Build a House Out of Recycled Cardboard
Uosdwis writes "Well for a better environmental option to a new house that is affordable, "low cost". Australia architects Stutchbury and Pape have created a house out of recycled cardboard, Velcro, nylon wing nuts and tape. Also , most of the house is recyclable too. It can be built in six hours by two people and can be transportable in a light commercial vehicle. Viva homeownership!" We had a story a few years about a school built out of cardboard.
Gee, this story seems so familiar...
Of course the elite would not accept this. They'll live in palaces. Duh.
This is for the neo-serf.
The media, government, and corporations are up to something, but you've got this all backwards. They want this. They can't publically want this, or want it too much, so expect them to downplay it a bit. But if say, for instance, some uber-rich european banker wants to have all of us literally living in cardboard boxes, while he swims in vaults full of gold that have more money than any orthodox economist would admit exists in the total economy of planet earth, well, who are corporations or government bureaucrats to say otherwise?
Yes, we're pack animals. That's no longer ideal, they want soul-less little robots, with just enough of a shred of dignity to still be humiliated by what they've been turned into. Why do you think a wife at home with children is the exception, and not the rule anymore? So, yes, you can live in one of these, if you like, the wife will be gone in 5 years anyway.
Besides, you sound ambitious enough, maybe clever enough, that you can secure a minor position in the Inner Party. I mean, you seem to want to get rid of our "hard-wired social status competition" personalities...
"Corrugated cardboard" is the proper term for the thick, stiff box material. "Corrugated" is an adjective. "Cardboard" is the noun.
Just because you say it so much that you're sick of saying the "cardboard", doesn't make it acceptable to do so outside of your little group of industry buddies.
However, it's perfectly acceptable to call corrugated cardboard just "cardboard." In standard English, that is an inclusive term.
Industry workers don't get to mangle the whole English language and then snobbishly "correct" the rest of the world, they just get to make up their own embarassing little variant they can get away among their own.
I thought geeks were, like, in a higher-payed part of the population. Why is it that bum housing interesting to slashdot readers? I mean, this one's not the first article about cardboard and the like houses on slashdot... Are we, like, anticipating post-post-post-y2k depression any time soon? I thought there were no more .com bubbles left to burst, at least for a good while...