If you are doing any kind of planning then step 1 is to learn advanced first aid. IF you are planning for 72 hours or 20 years you need to know how to do things to keep yourself and others with you alive. Wound cleaning basics, and do you know how to splint a broken finger correctly? how about set a broken bone? how to sew stitches? etc.... Most survivalists think a camping 1st aid box is enough and it's not, you need knowledge as well.
Food is great, but the guys that are stocked up on jerky will die of dehydration first. Protein requires water to process in your body. learn about nutrition and what is needed to survive well, just buying boxes of MRE's is not the answer. Water filtration and purification. learn how to do it and why, amoebic dysentery is a miserable way to die. Education is more important than a special survival packet of food.
Also be realistic, are you going to flee the zombies across fields and valleys so you need a Hummer H1 with gun turret and climbing gear? or will a honda civic work because you will be on roads and can make it 400 miles on 10 gallons of gas. 2 jerry cans holding 5 gallons each will get that civic 800 miles without having to find more fuel. the guy in the hummer will not be 100 miles out without having to go searching. and yes a civic with a small trailer will carry more than the hummer a lot farther. middle of the road choice if you really thing a 4X4 is needed (unless the zombies eat the roads it will not be) then a small one that is common is the best choice.
I wont get into guns, most of the nuts think they need to go crazy and hold off an army.. then I hope you, your spouse and children all go to the shooting range monthly and also learn to field strip and clean your guns. The ones that go to this part of it are the ones that are over the edge and already sociopaths. I can see at least 2 rifles for hunting both identical for parts and using the most common ammo on the planet.
A lot of this is simple, not much "special" anything is needed. what IS needed is knowledge and experience. know how to tie knots, know how to identify edible plants, know first aid, know how to fix things, etc.... knowledge is the MOST IMPORTANT part of it all. learn how to gut a deer, learn how to gut a duck, learn how to cook it over a campfire. Learn how to completely repair your vehicle, your guns, your supplies, (you know how to sew right?) etc.....
education is it. Buy books on the subject, books on homesteading from the 50's, books on backwoods camping first aid, books on first aid, take classes, etc...
And that is the problem the TSA hires idiots that are nothing more than rent-a-cops that do what they are told without thought.
Instead they need to hire people that sit and think, if I wanted to do X what would I do....... and then follow up on that. things can be done to solve a lot of the issues without violating the constitution like they are now.
Which makes me believe that security is NOT the point of all this. They don't want to do things in a way that preserves freedom. They want to get people used to being fondled, searched, required to show your papers, explain why you are here, be used to intimidation.
Air marshals are the right way, drop the sucker with a shot from that AR-15. in fact if you have ONE highly visible air marshal on every flight and one that is plain clothes, just the presence of the visible one will stop 99% of the problems. Nutjob #897 will think twice about taking a person hostage or take over the plane if he knows that the next step is a couple of rounds through his head, and the marshal has no hesitation of making those rounds travel through the hostage. This solves the problem on the planes, no need to be fondling everyone and it preserves the rights and dignity of everyone on that aircraft. Will it stop a bomber who sets off his tampon bomb that he shoved up his ass? no. but nothing they are doing right now will stop that either.
Only a retarded terrorist will try another plane bombing. It's ineffective.
A smart one would strap a few hundred pounds on themselves and go to the airport, when they hit the scanner, "for ALLAH!" and BOOM! take out more people, cause far more panic plus you make people afraid of the security checkpoints so you will cripple air travel overnight. Far easier to get to your target with no security at all because you are blowing up the security checkpoint. Side benefit you will also destroy the terminal building so that airport is out of commission for a while. Do this at LAX or Ohare and you will effectively cripple the entire network.
Honestly, TSA is worthless and only there for another reason, to foster complacency in the populace of invasive searches. Or are we banking on that terrorists are really, really stupid and will try the same thing over and over and over again?
Heck you dont even have to enter the building. 99% of all airports let buses pull up to the gate building. a stolen greyhound full of explosives would level nearly all the airport buildings.. Yet they are not checking every vehicle that pulls in. there is ZERO security at airports that is there for the sake of security.
I though up this stuff in 10 minutes and I'm not even clever about tactics. Honeslty, what gives?
You and I might be ok with simply selecting tools, wifi, settings, enable wifi, select the access point, and pressing connect. the general public is so stupid that if it does not automagically connect or produce a pop up of "hey wifi here! want to connect to it?" they will never figure it out. The vast majority of the population are stupid as rocks, apple is making things accessible for them.
98% of them utterly suck. I download the "xbox indie" demos on a regular basis and 9 times out of 10 I delete the thing within 30 seconds of trying it because it is complete and utter crap.
In fact I have bought only ONE of them, and honestly it did not have enough re playability or memorability because I cant remember what it's name is.
The good ones are impossible to find because Microsoft does not want to put in a working rating system nor any decent showcase system.
Honestly, this has been in development for decades. Prof Steve Mann and Prof Thad Starner are the ones that started this.
Problem is everyone has been claiming that the VR glasses are "not that far off" for 20 years now. and they are no closer now than they were in 1998. we don't have light emitting optically transparent emitters that can emulate a focal distance so the eye does not have to focus on them. the closest was a set of glasses that THad Starner made with a small Prism in them that would reflect a tiny image into the field of view but it caused optical aberration around the location and major blind spot when not displaying anything.
This stuff is still 100 years away, they dont even have lab prototypes to even research that comes close to what is needed.
Near blind being blasted by LED's because they cant see anyways is easy. something that even someone that needs corrective lenses will not be driven nuts by the optical distortion is 100% impossible for a very long time.
Most survival nuts will be dead in 90 to 120 days. I have not met ONE survival nut that has any clue at all about survival beyond a 90 day window. None have any clue about farming, animal husbandry, animal processing, engineering, building, Finding water or digging a well, hell only 2 I have talked to out of the 200 I chatted with about a research project even had a clue how to build a outhouse correctly.
99% of all "survivalists" are just complete ravenous idiots looking for an excuse to have more guns and a big pickup truck that looks like mad max would own it.
Plus they are so stupid they buy their MRE's yet there are plenty of foodstuffs you can package right at home that can have a 10+ year shelf life if done right. Technology from the pioneer days for food and grain preservation... whole oats in todays' vac sealed bags and then put into a 5 gallon pail flooded with nitrogen (easy to get as most idiots buy into the nitrogen in tires gag) will last in a cool corner of the basement for well over 20 years for just ONE example.
Most Survivalists are simply redneck enthusiasts. there are only a handful of REAL survivalists out there, and those guys don't have a bug out cabin... they have a bug out farm, already planted with fruit trees and other edibles already mature and producing fruit. (3-7 years for a fruit tree to grow from planting to producing, you need them planted and producing NOW) as well as a good large root cellar and other important things. Smartest guys have chickens already on the property and are practicing the art of animal processing and care. Let alone how to grow hedgerows to hide your farm and act as a natural defense border. Or things like ammunition reloading or even bullet forming.
Nope, it's more fun to polish your AR-50 in the garage and talk BS to your buddies than it is to run a working far every weekend for you to escape to and actually have a chance of survival.... THAT is what the American survivalist is.
Yes I did a 3 year research project for a gaming company about survivalists, read everything out there, talked to a lot of them one on one about their "plan" and what skills they think are the most important. the biggest thing that stood out, most have not planned past 30 days let alone 120-360 days. only the rare one has planned for 5+ years. What really get's me is many actually think they will find gasoline for a long time afterwards easily for their 5mpg truck. and most don't have reloading supplies even accounted for, they also think the ammo they have is enough for the rest of their lives.
"You wouldn't plug your computer straight into the wall, "
actually I do, and in fact most people do. I have 10 computers and every one of them plug straight into the wall. Every single corporations also do this., well some plug into the cubicle that then plugs into the power pole that plugs into the wall.
Home theater and cable in the wall back to the rack. Some of us have a REAL theater instead of a tiny tv in the room that they try and pass off as a theater. From the projector in the ceiling to the equipment rack in the equipment closet is close to 50 feet. amps and kaladiascape are there crestron control procesor as well. my wireless two way panel gives me full control.
Wrong. I have a 100 foot cable install that will do 1080i and 720p fine. 1080p fails.
It's a fault of the signal strength of the Crap Sony Bluray player sending the signal at a lower voltage than is the HDMI specification. but you can have a "lower quality" signal because the display will fall back to a lower resolution and tell the player to do so as well.
Typically that is a fault of HDCP handshake failure first and a lack of signal based on signal strength second. Just had to troubleshoot this at an install, all my extron signal generators worked perfectly. the craptastic Dell laptops were putting out 50% HDMI Spec voltage levels for their HDMI out. I had to add signal regeneration at the first switcher to solve it. Many consumer devices are out of Spec when it comes to HDMI.
and unless your source is junk (like most laptops) and sending signal out of spec, cable quality means nothing to HDMI until you hit a 100 foot mark. So unless people are running 100 foot HDMI cables, they are utterly stupid to buy anything but the cheapest cable possible.
Yes I do know more about this than the minimum wage idiot at best buy. I make 20X his pay designing and installing HDMI based corporate video systems. MY longest run is 500 feet for HDMI. and YES you can do it, and YES it is out of "spec" HDMI signal re-generators and cat 6 UTP transmitter and receivers are involved.
The biggest pain in the ass is the completely useless HDCP signal. it has no use at all other than to make life hell, so switchers and scalers have to lie to the source to make it happy.
"No, you're not as bad as China. You still have free political speech, which is the most basic thing - thanks to it"
You know I can't protest in front of the RNC or any political gathering.. I have to be carted into "free speech zones" that are far away and hidden from view.
It's not as bad as people getting killed for speaking out, but the United States IS taking steps to get there. Why we don't have riots in the streets over this stuff I will never understand. The American people like the oppression I guess.
I also don't understand how cowardly cops will enforce such things. It looks like the transformation of police from "Serve and protect" to the enemy that is there to "oppress and control".
Give it time, I fully expect to be telling stories to my grandkids on how we used to be able to go out at night without a permit, and people were allowed to gather and protest unjust actions without being gassed and killed along with the outlandish notion that we were once allowed to own firearms.
This is why many American companies outsource manufacturing to china. lax regulations, and those regulations are ignored. It's far cheaper to make your phone in a location where waste can be dumped into the stream behind the building or just thrown into the trash stream and bury those heavy metals in the landfill.
But as long as we ignore that and enjoy low priced products it will all be ok.
It's "gasp" flexible and "gasp" writes on paper all the stuff from 20-40 years ago is the same thing. I turned in an EE project completely on paper in the 80's by using those pens. in fact mine was two sided.
You did not read anything about what was being talked about did you?
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you get a +1 Shadowrun reference!
Actually yes.
If you are doing any kind of planning then step 1 is to learn advanced first aid. IF you are planning for 72 hours or 20 years you need to know how to do things to keep yourself and others with you alive. Wound cleaning basics, and do you know how to splint a broken finger correctly? how about set a broken bone? how to sew stitches? etc.... Most survivalists think a camping 1st aid box is enough and it's not, you need knowledge as well.
Food is great, but the guys that are stocked up on jerky will die of dehydration first. Protein requires water to process in your body. learn about nutrition and what is needed to survive well, just buying boxes of MRE's is not the answer. Water filtration and purification. learn how to do it and why, amoebic dysentery is a miserable way to die. Education is more important than a special survival packet of food.
Also be realistic, are you going to flee the zombies across fields and valleys so you need a Hummer H1 with gun turret and climbing gear? or will a honda civic work because you will be on roads and can make it 400 miles on 10 gallons of gas. 2 jerry cans holding 5 gallons each will get that civic 800 miles without having to find more fuel. the guy in the hummer will not be 100 miles out without having to go searching. and yes a civic with a small trailer will carry more than the hummer a lot farther. middle of the road choice if you really thing a 4X4 is needed (unless the zombies eat the roads it will not be) then a small one that is common is the best choice.
I wont get into guns, most of the nuts think they need to go crazy and hold off an army.. then I hope you, your spouse and children all go to the shooting range monthly and also learn to field strip and clean your guns. The ones that go to this part of it are the ones that are over the edge and already sociopaths. I can see at least 2 rifles for hunting both identical for parts and using the most common ammo on the planet.
A lot of this is simple, not much "special" anything is needed. what IS needed is knowledge and experience. know how to tie knots, know how to identify edible plants, know first aid, know how to fix things, etc.... knowledge is the MOST IMPORTANT part of it all. learn how to gut a deer, learn how to gut a duck, learn how to cook it over a campfire. Learn how to completely repair your vehicle, your guns, your supplies, (you know how to sew right?) etc.....
education is it. Buy books on the subject, books on homesteading from the 50's, books on backwoods camping first aid, books on first aid, take classes, etc...
And that is the problem the TSA hires idiots that are nothing more than rent-a-cops that do what they are told without thought.
Instead they need to hire people that sit and think, if I wanted to do X what would I do....... and then follow up on that. things can be done to solve a lot of the issues without violating the constitution like they are now.
Which makes me believe that security is NOT the point of all this. They don't want to do things in a way that preserves freedom. They want to get people used to being fondled, searched, required to show your papers, explain why you are here, be used to intimidation.
Air marshals are the right way, drop the sucker with a shot from that AR-15. in fact if you have ONE highly visible air marshal on every flight and one that is plain clothes, just the presence of the visible one will stop 99% of the problems. Nutjob #897 will think twice about taking a person hostage or take over the plane if he knows that the next step is a couple of rounds through his head, and the marshal has no hesitation of making those rounds travel through the hostage. This solves the problem on the planes, no need to be fondling everyone and it preserves the rights and dignity of everyone on that aircraft. Will it stop a bomber who sets off his tampon bomb that he shoved up his ass? no. but nothing they are doing right now will stop that either.
"And really stupid people still bitch and moan about how much NASA is spending."
Fixed that for you.
Only a retarded terrorist will try another plane bombing. It's ineffective.
A smart one would strap a few hundred pounds on themselves and go to the airport, when they hit the scanner, "for ALLAH!" and BOOM! take out more people, cause far more panic plus you make people afraid of the security checkpoints so you will cripple air travel overnight. Far easier to get to your target with no security at all because you are blowing up the security checkpoint. Side benefit you will also destroy the terminal building so that airport is out of commission for a while. Do this at LAX or Ohare and you will effectively cripple the entire network.
Honestly, TSA is worthless and only there for another reason, to foster complacency in the populace of invasive searches. Or are we banking on that terrorists are really, really stupid and will try the same thing over and over and over again?
Heck you dont even have to enter the building. 99% of all airports let buses pull up to the gate building. a stolen greyhound full of explosives would level nearly all the airport buildings.. Yet they are not checking every vehicle that pulls in. there is ZERO security at airports that is there for the sake of security.
I though up this stuff in 10 minutes and I'm not even clever about tactics. Honeslty, what gives?
Or made it easier to use for dimwits.
Case in point tablets and pocket mp3 devices.
You and I might be ok with simply selecting tools, wifi, settings, enable wifi, select the access point, and pressing connect.
the general public is so stupid that if it does not automagically connect or produce a pop up of "hey wifi here! want to connect to it?" they will never figure it out.
The vast majority of the population are stupid as rocks, apple is making things accessible for them.
Name one product made by ANYONE that is "groundbreaking and impossible to duplicate"
and no the evil "we patented it to hell and back" is not a reason to make it impossible to duplicate.
98% of them utterly suck. I download the "xbox indie" demos on a regular basis and 9 times out of 10 I delete the thing within 30 seconds of trying it because it is complete and utter crap.
In fact I have bought only ONE of them, and honestly it did not have enough re playability or memorability because I cant remember what it's name is.
The good ones are impossible to find because Microsoft does not want to put in a working rating system nor any decent showcase system.
Honestly, this has been in development for decades. Prof Steve Mann and Prof Thad Starner are the ones that started this.
Problem is everyone has been claiming that the VR glasses are "not that far off" for 20 years now. and they are no closer now than they were in 1998. we don't have light emitting optically transparent emitters that can emulate a focal distance so the eye does not have to focus on them. the closest was a set of glasses that THad Starner made with a small Prism in them that would reflect a tiny image into the field of view but it caused optical aberration around the location and major blind spot when not displaying anything.
This stuff is still 100 years away, they dont even have lab prototypes to even research that comes close to what is needed.
Near blind being blasted by LED's because they cant see anyways is easy. something that even someone that needs corrective lenses will not be driven nuts by the optical distortion is 100% impossible for a very long time.
Most survival nuts will be dead in 90 to 120 days. I have not met ONE survival nut that has any clue at all about survival beyond a 90 day window. None have any clue about farming, animal husbandry, animal processing, engineering, building, Finding water or digging a well, hell only 2 I have talked to out of the 200 I chatted with about a research project even had a clue how to build a outhouse correctly.
99% of all "survivalists" are just complete ravenous idiots looking for an excuse to have more guns and a big pickup truck that looks like mad max would own it.
Plus they are so stupid they buy their MRE's yet there are plenty of foodstuffs you can package right at home that can have a 10+ year shelf life if done right. Technology from the pioneer days for food and grain preservation... whole oats in todays' vac sealed bags and then put into a 5 gallon pail flooded with nitrogen (easy to get as most idiots buy into the nitrogen in tires gag) will last in a cool corner of the basement for well over 20 years for just ONE example.
Most Survivalists are simply redneck enthusiasts. there are only a handful of REAL survivalists out there, and those guys don't have a bug out cabin... they have a bug out farm, already planted with fruit trees and other edibles already mature and producing fruit. (3-7 years for a fruit tree to grow from planting to producing, you need them planted and producing NOW) as well as a good large root cellar and other important things. Smartest guys have chickens already on the property and are practicing the art of animal processing and care. Let alone how to grow hedgerows to hide your farm and act as a natural defense border. Or things like ammunition reloading or even bullet forming.
Nope, it's more fun to polish your AR-50 in the garage and talk BS to your buddies than it is to run a working far every weekend for you to escape to and actually have a chance of survival.... THAT is what the American survivalist is.
Yes I did a 3 year research project for a gaming company about survivalists, read everything out there, talked to a lot of them one on one about their "plan" and what skills they think are the most important. the biggest thing that stood out, most have not planned past 30 days let alone 120-360 days. only the rare one has planned for 5+ years. What really get's me is many actually think they will find gasoline for a long time afterwards easily for their 5mpg truck. and most don't have reloading supplies even accounted for, they also think the ammo they have is enough for the rest of their lives.
Make it 3 wheeled and it's a motorcycle and does not have to obey ANY DOT automobile laws.
You got it. Republicans HATE free speech. The RNC demanded it.
and Cops that enforce it are nothing but scumbags. Complete and utter scumbags.
at least without his mouth open..
All best buy employees around here are moth breathers that seem to drool.
"You wouldn't plug your computer straight into the wall, "
actually I do, and in fact most people do. I have 10 computers and every one of them plug straight into the wall. Every single corporations also do this., well some plug into the cubicle that then plugs into the power pole that plugs into the wall.
No not very good. ANTHEM is very good. Denon is low end home gear.
Home theater and cable in the wall back to the rack. Some of us have a REAL theater instead of a tiny tv in the room that they try and pass off as a theater.
From the projector in the ceiling to the equipment rack in the equipment closet is close to 50 feet. amps and kaladiascape are there crestron control procesor as well. my wireless two way panel gives me full control.
Wrong. I have a 100 foot cable install that will do 1080i and 720p fine. 1080p fails.
It's a fault of the signal strength of the Crap Sony Bluray player sending the signal at a lower voltage than is the HDMI specification. but you can have a "lower quality" signal because the display will fall back to a lower resolution and tell the player to do so as well.
Typically that is a fault of HDCP handshake failure first and a lack of signal based on signal strength second. Just had to troubleshoot this at an install, all my extron signal generators worked perfectly. the craptastic Dell laptops were putting out 50% HDMI Spec voltage levels for their HDMI out. I had to add signal regeneration at the first switcher to solve it. Many consumer devices are out of Spec when it comes to HDMI.
and unless your source is junk (like most laptops) and sending signal out of spec, cable quality means nothing to HDMI until you hit a 100 foot mark. So unless people are running 100 foot HDMI cables, they are utterly stupid to buy anything but the cheapest cable possible.
Yes I do know more about this than the minimum wage idiot at best buy. I make 20X his pay designing and installing HDMI based corporate video systems. MY longest run is 500 feet for HDMI. and YES you can do it, and YES it is out of "spec" HDMI signal re-generators and cat 6 UTP transmitter and receivers are involved.
The biggest pain in the ass is the completely useless HDCP signal. it has no use at all other than to make life hell, so switchers and scalers have to lie to the source to make it happy.
Yup all it costs is hookers and blow.
"No, you're not as bad as China. You still have free political speech, which is the most basic thing - thanks to it"
You know I can't protest in front of the RNC or any political gathering.. I have to be carted into "free speech zones" that are far away and hidden from view.
It's not as bad as people getting killed for speaking out, but the United States IS taking steps to get there. Why we don't have riots in the streets over this stuff I will never understand. The American people like the oppression I guess.
I also don't understand how cowardly cops will enforce such things. It looks like the transformation of police from "Serve and protect" to the enemy that is there to "oppress and control".
Give it time, I fully expect to be telling stories to my grandkids on how we used to be able to go out at night without a permit, and people were allowed to gather and protest unjust actions without being gassed and killed along with the outlandish notion that we were once allowed to own firearms.
In the end, we all will love Big Brother.... For he knows best.
This is why many American companies outsource manufacturing to china. lax regulations, and those regulations are ignored. It's far cheaper to make your phone in a location where waste can be dumped into the stream behind the building or just thrown into the trash stream and bury those heavy metals in the landfill.
But as long as we ignore that and enjoy low priced products it will all be ok.
The pen is not flexible.
the ink has always been flexible and has always worked on paper.
So they invented an old product why? oh to use a inferior ink delivery method.... the roller ball.
http://www.acekard3.com/
Did you even look?
It's "gasp" flexible and "gasp" writes on paper all the stuff from 20-40 years ago is the same thing. I turned in an EE project completely on paper in the 80's by using those pens. in fact mine was two sided.
You did not read anything about what was being talked about did you?