Because the shit that goes into the construction of a modular mass-produced home is nasty.
When they burn or catch fire the least bit, they produce toxic smokes and serious greenhouse gases.
It's much simpler, cheaper and more environmental to use the by-products of farming as a building material or to use natural substances when you can.
Like Strawbales or adobe.
"Straw as a building material excels in the areas of cost-effectiveness and energy efficiency. If used to replace the more traditional wall-building system of brick and block, it can present savings of around £10,000 on a normal 3 bedroomed house. Of interest to the home owner is the huge reduction in heating costs once the house is occupied, due to the super insulation of the walls. Here the potential savings are up to 75% compared to a conventional modern house. Building regulations are changing next year (2002), bringing the allowable U-value of domestic external walls down to either 0.35 or 0.25 (the European Union would like to see 0.25) which is challenging the whole industry to meet these requirements. A typical bale of straw has a U-value of 0.13 - significantly better thermal performance than will be required."
"Over 50% of all greenhouse gases are produced by the construction industry and the transportation associated with it. If the 4 million tonnes of surplus straw in the UK was baled and used for local building, we could build at least 450,000 houses of 150m2 per year.That's almost half a million super-insulated homes, made with a material that takes carbon dioxide and makes it into oxygen during its life cycle. Coupled with vastly reduced heating requirements, thereby further reducing carbon dioxide emission (greenhouse gas) from the burning of fossil fuels."
Linux and the GNU and Porche drivers and everthing else with a "following" has mindless zealots.
I know damned well what's going on under the hood of my Macs, I know the limitations and the disadvantages to my hardware and my OS. All the Mac "zealots" I know are pretty up to speed as well.
In "other human rights-abusing regimes whose courts and government agencies routinely condemn their own attrocities" there are not TWO political parties sharing control of the courts and TWO parties sharing control of Sub-States or Provinces within the nation.
In the US Supreme Court you have Judges for Life appointed by a number of Presidents who also have to be approved by the Senate (3 Parties). In the Federal Appeals Court you have Judges for Life appointed by a greater number of Presidents and have been approved by the Senate.
In state Courts, where the vast majority of Captial Cases are, it's even a wilder mix of ideologies and political sub-parties.
The establishment of the Courts and the Judges in the United States is unlike that of all the "human rights-abusing regimes" you speak of, it's transparent.
Really? For Capital Felonies in secret State or Local courts?
Or are we talking about Terrorists/Spies/Armed Combatants?
Because it's two totally different things.
The United States Supreme Court, Federal Appeals Court and Congress have all decided that these Secret Intellegence Courts and Military Courts are Constituational.
And note that in the United States, those on Death Row aren't there for things like Blasphemy or Protesting against the state or having a peaceful assembly in a Square.
To make it on Death Row you have to kill one or more people violently and without remorse or reason or do some serious raping and assulting.
Yes the US still uses Captial Punishment, in a way it is more humane than leaving someone in prison for life or establishing labor camps, or harvesting prisoners for organs or establishing mental health camps for re-educating people.
One who is on Death Row in the US has had thier case through at least one trial and 2 or more appeals and usually get the case to the State or Federal Supreme Courts.
The US doesn't place military units in Hawaii or an Indian Reservation to keep the place under control like France and the UK have done in the past in Northern Ireland or Corsica. The US doesn't cut the hands off of thieves like Saudi Arabia or the Sudan does. The US doesn't run armored units and crack infantry units through demonstrations and kill thousands of people like China has.
As for Captial Punishment, in the US, the people think it is needed. That view may change in the future, but unlike the rest of the world where Capital Punishment is either imposed or banned by the Government without debate, the US has banned it, debated it and brought it back.
After seeing the shenanigans the Teachers Union pull I'll never join a Union.
Look at the crap the Unions are pulling with United. UAL has been in serious finacial shape since before the attacks, and now that it's in worse shape, the unions are asking for more and more money.
From what I've seen, all Unions pull dirty tricks. Have you seen a co-worker cry because she's scared to vote against the Union line?
Oh the Teacher Union wants more money, lets park in the spots the poor IT people park in and make them walk a half mile to and from thier cars, that'll make a point.
In a factory with noise levels you are given earprotection. In a server room full of dozens of whirring fans for years at a time you aren't given hearing protection.
I've worked IT in some nasty places, basements with terrible molds that caused terrible lung problems, basements with Brown Recluse spiders that hop on the face when you are under a desk and bite you.
Right or Wrong - much of the forcasting for the 4th quarter's end output is based on holiday shopping this weekend.
Retail sales are an important part of the whole economy in the winter.
If sales are soft, the Stock Market will play off the initial sales numbers. For people in a Public Employee Retirement System a soft market is the last thing those systems need.
While I understand the BND idea and I've followed in the past, this year I'm going to try and get my walk-in retail shopping done this weekend.
When you use an LGB someone, either the plane dropping, a second plane/helo, or soldier is dazzling the target with a laser and the LGB is homing in on that reflected light at a set wavelength.
Apache and Hellfire worked the same way, but the Apaches are being upgraded to use a millimeter wave radar and the Hellfires are as well.
Mavericks from fighters or A-10s can be laser guided, but are often FLIR.
I reckoned that DARPA wants something a solder can use to replace a sat phone.
Heck with the right wavelength and gear it's possible to get a laser to a nuclear sub...at least that's a rumor.
"It seams that the Department of Defense has given a grant to the University of California to develop optical cellphones that are faster and more secure. This sounds a little strange to me since you would need a line of site with no obsticals in the way to use this. The article doesn't explain how this might work."
What about from a soldier/spy/diplomat straight to a comm sat?
"Moral and ethical development is a fundamental element of all aspects of the Naval Academy experience. As future officers in the Navy or Marine Corps, midshipmen will someday be responsible for the priceless lives of many men and women and multi-million dollar equipment. From Plebe Summer through graduation, the Naval Academy's Character Development Program is a four-year integrated continuum that focuses on the attributes of integrity, honor, and mutual respect. One of the goals of this program is to develop midshipmen who possess a clearer sense of their own moral beliefs and the ability to articulate them. Honor is emphasized through the Honor Concept of the Brigade of Midshipmen-a system which was originally formulated in 1951 and states "Midshipmen are persons of integrity, they stand for that which is right." These Naval Academy "words to live by" are based on the moral values of respect for human dignity, respect for honesty and respect for the property of others. Brigade Honor Committees composed of elected upperclass midshipmen are responsible for education and training in the Honor Concept. Midshipmen found in violation of the Honor Concept by their peers may be separated from the Naval Academy."
http://www.usna.edu/CharacterDevelopment/other/p ri nciples.html
I bought a 233MHz G3 with a 4GB drive in April of 1998 - so it was already a 7 month old model when I got it.
Upgraded the RAM, put in a 20GB drive later on, added Firewire/USB card, faster CPU, threw in a new video card twice (damned 3Dfx and Nvidia) and used it until late in August of this year.
When I turned it off, it'd been used every day since April of 1998, it had a 466 G3, Firewire, 20 GB HD, 768 RAM, Radeon.
Since it's beyond most counter-battery systems to track mortar shells under 81mm and there are no systems that can track weapons fire from muzzle flash or bullet path yet, I'll hazard a guess that it's going to be a while before anything can do this.
I mean, you have a drone that can track as something small as a bullet, what about a dragon fly? What about leafs blowing in the wind?
So it's going to filter anything below a set meters/sec - fine then gyrojet rounds will come back in. What about directed energy weapons?
If the United States, China and Israel can't come up with a way to block people entering or leaving thier respective nations, whats the chance of an all encompassing bullet detection grid?
A guided missile is pretty easy to spoof, that's how military aircraft avoid IR/Radar/UV and Laser guided weapons.
What if I snipe from cover of tree or building? What if I'm in the sensor shadow of the drone?'
What if I drop a popbottle full of burning gas and styrofoam peanuts on a command vehicle?
The moment something as invasive as radar coverage drones of a city started, you can be assured that the anti-government wacko with the Stingers and LAWs buried in his backyard will break them out and things will start getting wild fast.
"The guns they give you the right to use are irrelevant in today's conflicts."
Really?
Single shot and semi-auto 50 calibers are relevant. http://www.armalite.com/sales/catalog/r ifles/ar50. htm
A well scoped deer or elk rifle will be more than capable of sniping at a military target like an officer or vehicle driver.
The.50 can defeat armored vehicles. A well placed shot from a.308 can halt a column and some helpers can firebomb the living crap out of armored vehicles.
With some gas, concentrated orange juice and styrofoam one can be very relevant.
No, one can't shoot down a Global Hawk with a rifle, but you can shoot the guys on the ground and as Vietnam, and Afghanistan in the 1980s showed, if you don't control the ground you don't win the war in the end.
Owning a gun is in the Constitution and it's been protected by US Code for a while now.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Ah ha, but that is the Army and the National Guard, We the People don't have squat for rights!!!
"The Militia Act of 1792, adopted the year after the Second Amendment was ratified, declared that the Militia of the United States (members of the militia obligated to serve if called upon by the government) included all able-bodied males of age. As the U.S. Supreme Court observed in U.S. v. Miller (1939), "The signification attributed to the term Militia appears from the debates in the [Constitutional] Convention, the history and legislation of Colonies and States, and the writings of approved commentators. These show plainly enough that the Militia comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense . . . bearing arms supplied by themselves and of the kind in common use at the time."
So there it establishes that I, a male physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense has a right to own and use firearms.
"The National Guard was not established until 1903. In 1920 it was designated one part of the "Militia of the United States," the other part remaining all other able-bodied males of age, plus some other males and females."
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If you think strawbale "simply burn" down, then you've not done too much research on it.
Typically, you stucco or adobe the walls, which make them quite fire-resistant.
My apartment building has pretty unique units.
Yep, I say screw a modular/manufactured home.
1 &q =strawbaleguide.pdf&btnG=Google+Search
Why?
Because the shit that goes into the construction of a modular mass-produced home is nasty.
When they burn or catch fire the least bit, they produce toxic smokes and serious greenhouse gases.
It's much simpler, cheaper and more environmental to use the by-products of farming as a building material or to use natural substances when you can.
Like Strawbales or adobe.
"Straw as a building material excels in the areas of
cost-effectiveness and energy efficiency. If used to replace the more traditional wall-building system of brick and block, it can present savings of around £10,000 on a normal 3 bedroomed house. Of interest to the home owner is the huge reduction in heating costs once the house is occupied, due to the super insulation of the walls. Here the potential savings are up to 75%
compared to a conventional modern house. Building
regulations are changing next year (2002), bringing the allowable U-value of domestic external walls down to either 0.35 or 0.25 (the European Union would like to see 0.25) which is challenging the whole industry to meet these requirements. A typical bale of straw has a U-value of 0.13 - significantly better thermal performance than will be required."
"Over 50% of all greenhouse gases are produced by the construction industry and the transportation associated with it. If the 4 million tonnes of surplus straw in the UK was baled and used for local building, we could build at least 450,000 houses of 150m2 per year.That's almost half a million super-insulated homes, made with a material that takes carbon dioxide and makes it into oxygen during its life cycle. Coupled with vastly reduced heating requirements, thereby further reducing carbon dioxide emission (greenhouse gas) from the burning of fossil fuels."
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-
I'm building strawbale in 2003 or 2004.
I've kicked the shit out of my G3 Tower when it acted up.
I've beat on my desk with a Firewire cable.
No, actually I've not seen any BDSM Mac users, maybe I'm in the wrong circles.
Linux and the GNU and Porche drivers and everthing else with a "following" has mindless zealots.
I know damned well what's going on under the hood of my Macs, I know the limitations and the disadvantages to my hardware and my OS. All the Mac "zealots" I know are pretty up to speed as well.
In "other human rights-abusing regimes whose courts and government agencies routinely condemn their own attrocities" there are not TWO political parties sharing control of the courts and TWO parties sharing control of Sub-States or Provinces within the nation.
In the US Supreme Court you have Judges for Life appointed by a number of Presidents who also have to be approved by the Senate (3 Parties). In the Federal Appeals Court you have Judges for Life appointed by a greater number of Presidents and have been approved by the Senate.
In state Courts, where the vast majority of Captial Cases are, it's even a wilder mix of ideologies and political sub-parties.
The establishment of the Courts and the Judges in the United States is unlike that of all the "human rights-abusing regimes" you speak of, it's transparent.
Really? For Capital Felonies in secret State or Local courts?
Or are we talking about Terrorists/Spies/Armed Combatants?
Because it's two totally different things.
The United States Supreme Court, Federal Appeals Court and Congress have all decided that these Secret Intellegence Courts and Military Courts are Constituational.
Show evidence of the "quasi-judicial" death row.
And note that in the United States, those on Death Row aren't there for things like Blasphemy or Protesting against the state or having a peaceful assembly in a Square.
To make it on Death Row you have to kill one or more people violently and without remorse or reason or do some serious raping and assulting.
Yes the US still uses Captial Punishment, in a way it is more humane than leaving someone in prison for life or establishing labor camps, or harvesting prisoners for organs or establishing mental health camps for re-educating people.
One who is on Death Row in the US has had thier case through at least one trial and 2 or more appeals and usually get the case to the State or Federal Supreme Courts.
The US doesn't place military units in Hawaii or an Indian Reservation to keep the place under control like France and the UK have done in the past in Northern Ireland or Corsica. The US doesn't cut the hands off of thieves like Saudi Arabia or the Sudan does. The US doesn't run armored units and crack infantry units through demonstrations and kill thousands of people like China has.
As for Captial Punishment, in the US, the people think it is needed. That view may change in the future, but unlike the rest of the world where Capital Punishment is either imposed or banned by the Government without debate, the US has banned it, debated it and brought it back.
Yea, I wrote a letter.
"It's your office. Be glad you have an office. Thats where you have to work."
Spider poison? Work is on 70+ wooded acres in the Pacific NW, all that will do is breed some Super Spiders.
Bitten once. Photoed and killed 8 other Brown Recluses from March to October of 2002.
Missed 3 days of work, spent 2 days in ER from the bite to the face.
I'm going back to college, going to do something less dangerous, like putting out Oil Well fires or something.
If you wear earplugs in the server room, how the hell do I hear the phone ring?
No it didn't have a light on it.
When you are doing servers and desktop support, you have to answer that phone.
When the job requirement says you are stuck there, you are stuck there.
I'm leaving said job because I refuse to go into Brown Recluse Spiderland any more.
Thanks to Bush's Estate Tax Cut, I'm going to college.
After seeing the shenanigans the Teachers Union pull I'll never join a Union.
Look at the crap the Unions are pulling with United. UAL has been in serious finacial shape since before the attacks, and now that it's in worse shape, the unions are asking for more and more money.
From what I've seen, all Unions pull dirty tricks. Have you seen a co-worker cry because she's scared to vote against the Union line?
Oh the Teacher Union wants more money, lets park in the spots the poor IT people park in and make them walk a half mile to and from thier cars, that'll make a point.
Screw Unions.
Not true everywhere.
In a factory with noise levels you are given earprotection. In a server room full of dozens of whirring fans for years at a time you aren't given hearing protection.
I've worked IT in some nasty places, basements with terrible molds that caused terrible lung problems, basements with Brown Recluse spiders that hop on the face when you are under a desk and bite you.
It's not all cubes and offices for IT/IS workers.
Sorry to burst the bubble, but Halo is coming for PC and Mac.
As for the OSX ports, there's quite a few. Some of them ain't brand new games, but there's a number out there.
Right or Wrong - much of the forcasting for the 4th quarter's end output is based on holiday shopping this weekend.
Retail sales are an important part of the whole economy in the winter.
If sales are soft, the Stock Market will play off the initial sales numbers. For people in a Public Employee Retirement System a soft market is the last thing those systems need.
While I understand the BND idea and I've followed in the past, this year I'm going to try and get my walk-in retail shopping done this weekend.
There was one docked in Seattle this summer.
Amazing how much similarity there was between it and a WW2 US Fleet Boat like the one in SF and Mobile.
Maybe the trends exsist because that is what the people expect and want?
"Basically, it's a throwback to TV of maybe 40 years ago, with a deliberately slower pacing."
http://www.tvhistory.tv/1962_TV_Programs.JPG
Jetsons?
Ed Sullivan?
Marshall Dillon?
Rawhide?
Wagon Train?
Perhaps the last three, but the problem is, viewership and tastes change.
That's why International Showtime isn't on NBC this friday.
Thats why programs where the husband and wife have seperate beds arn't on anymore.
Is Lawrence Welk* style Champaigne Music still on primtime MTV or VH1?
Nope, tastes change in music and TV.
* I like Lawrence Welk, no hit on him or the fine people in Strassburg North Dakota.
Ron Glass is the only thing that kept me watching Firefly.
Too many characters to keep track of.
Gunbunny.
Pilot.
Captain.
Engineer.
Whore.
Gunbunny.
Doctor.
Nutcase.
Priest.
In say Enterprise you have a few core characters, but like Farscape did, Firefly wants all the characters to be core characters.
But there were too many in Firefly.
Difference.
When you use an LGB someone, either the plane dropping, a second plane/helo, or soldier is dazzling the target with a laser and the LGB is homing in on that reflected light at a set wavelength.
Apache and Hellfire worked the same way, but the Apaches are being upgraded to use a millimeter wave radar and the Hellfires are as well.
Mavericks from fighters or A-10s can be laser guided, but are often FLIR.
I reckoned that DARPA wants something a solder can use to replace a sat phone.
Heck with the right wavelength and gear it's possible to get a laser to a nuclear sub...at least that's a rumor.
"It seams that the Department of Defense has given a grant to the University of California to develop optical cellphones that are faster and more secure. This sounds a little strange to me since you would need a line of site with no obsticals in the way to use this. The article doesn't explain how this might work."
What about from a soldier/spy/diplomat straight to a comm sat?
It's easier to get line of sight to orbit.
Would violate the Code of Conduct for the Cadets.
p ri nciples.html
"Moral and ethical development is a fundamental element of all aspects of the Naval Academy experience. As future officers in the Navy or Marine Corps, midshipmen will someday be responsible for the priceless lives of many men and women and multi-million dollar equipment. From Plebe Summer through graduation, the Naval Academy's Character Development Program is a four-year integrated continuum that focuses on the attributes of integrity, honor, and mutual respect. One of the goals of this program is to develop midshipmen who possess a clearer sense of their own moral beliefs and the ability to articulate them. Honor is emphasized through the Honor Concept of the Brigade of Midshipmen-a system which was originally formulated in 1951 and states "Midshipmen are persons of integrity, they stand for that which is right." These Naval Academy "words to live by" are based on the moral values of respect for human dignity, respect for honesty and respect for the property of others. Brigade Honor Committees composed of elected upperclass midshipmen are responsible for education and training in the Honor Concept. Midshipmen found in violation of the Honor Concept by their peers may be separated from the Naval Academy."
http://www.usna.edu/CharacterDevelopment/other/
I bought a 233MHz G3 with a 4GB drive in April of 1998 - so it was already a 7 month old model when I got it.
Upgraded the RAM, put in a 20GB drive later on, added Firewire/USB card, faster CPU, threw in a new video card twice (damned 3Dfx and Nvidia) and used it until late in August of this year.
When I turned it off, it'd been used every day since April of 1998, it had a 466 G3, Firewire, 20 GB HD, 768 RAM, Radeon.
It'll become a webserver soon.
Since it's beyond most counter-battery systems to track mortar shells under 81mm and there are no systems that can track weapons fire from muzzle flash or bullet path yet, I'll hazard a guess that it's going to be a while before anything can do this.
I mean, you have a drone that can track as something small as a bullet, what about a dragon fly? What about leafs blowing in the wind?
So it's going to filter anything below a set meters/sec - fine then gyrojet rounds will come back in. What about directed energy weapons?
If the United States, China and Israel can't come up with a way to block people entering or leaving thier respective nations, whats the chance of an all encompassing bullet detection grid?
A guided missile is pretty easy to spoof, that's how military aircraft avoid IR/Radar/UV and Laser guided weapons.
What if I snipe from cover of tree or building? What if I'm in the sensor shadow of the drone?'
What if I drop a popbottle full of burning gas and styrofoam peanuts on a command vehicle?
The moment something as invasive as radar coverage drones of a city started, you can be assured that the anti-government wacko with the Stingers and LAWs buried in his backyard will break them out and things will start getting wild fast.
Small arms protect a citizen's rights.
"The guns they give you the right to use are irrelevant in today's conflicts."
r ifles/ar50. htm
.50 can defeat armored vehicles. A well placed shot from a .308 can halt a column and some helpers can firebomb the living crap out of armored vehicles.
Really?
Single shot and semi-auto 50 calibers are relevant.
http://www.armalite.com/sales/catalog/
A well scoped deer or elk rifle will be more than capable of sniping at a military target like an officer or vehicle driver.
The
With some gas, concentrated orange juice and styrofoam one can be very relevant.
No, one can't shoot down a Global Hawk with a rifle, but you can shoot the guys on the ground and as Vietnam, and Afghanistan in the 1980s showed, if you don't control the ground you don't win the war in the end.
Owning a gun is in the Constitution and it's been protected by US Code for a while now.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Ah ha, but that is the Army and the National Guard, We the People don't have squat for rights!!!
"The Militia Act of 1792, adopted the year after the Second Amendment was ratified, declared that the Militia of the United States (members of the militia obligated to serve if called upon by the government) included all able-bodied males of age. As the U.S. Supreme Court observed in U.S. v. Miller (1939), "The signification attributed to the term Militia appears from the debates in the [Constitutional] Convention, the history and legislation of Colonies and States, and the writings of approved commentators. These show plainly enough that the Militia comprised all males physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense . . . bearing arms supplied by themselves and of the kind in common use at the time."
So there it establishes that I, a male physically capable of acting in concert for the common defense has a right to own and use firearms.
"The National Guard was not established until 1903. In 1920 it was designated one part of the "Militia of the United States," the other part remaining all other able-bodied males of age, plus some other males and females."
http://www.nraila.org/