Grab an asteroid, use solar furnaces to make aluminum, nickle and iron and silicon from the asteroid, drop it to earth as cheap raw materials, and use the mass to attenuate energy incident on earth. Food production should not be a problem unless we can't get rid of all of these little warlords that are killing their people so they can get the newest ak47 shipment from Russia or China. The raw materials can be directly converted to energy--aluminum--or used to make new solar cells cheaper with higher purity silicon. Also, get as much of humanity off of the planet as we can--preferably working in mining, production, or other activities offworld.
...politics. Evangelical christianity is famous for incorporating many of the psychological programming techniques that we often see in a cult--not necessarily to the extent that a cult would apply them--to encourage membership and facilitate control by priviledged members. To allow a contradictory theory to confuse the members--such as evolution, or proper theological studies--would open the door for questioning of the authority of the controlling members. This is a common occurrence in almost all groups, even in the scientific and educational community. To allow or accept the possibility of other realities in conflict with the 'fundamental interpretation' of the bible would be a bad political mistake. I would chalk this up to attempts to maintain control of the political base in order to facilitate growth and dominance, rather than a quest for the truth. It may be that the common member might actually believe the story, but it should be hard to believe that the more 'superior' members of the more radical evangelical groups believe the statements. Although, it is possible that the mechanisms that enforce the rigid fundamental interpretation that were set in place in the late 19th and during the 20th century might have been bought in to by the current leadership, it is hard to believe that it is more than simple political control actions.
I see your point. But if an NGO can hand out these laptops with enough resources to get them through, perhaps they will be able to solve their own problems. The issue here is access to information, ceterus parabus. If they live in areas that don't provide enough raw resources, then I must hark back to the late reverend Sam Kinison: "Move to where the food is!".
over it, this produces hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Now, as to how to remove the CO, i have no clue, but i am sure someone has figured it out. Obviously passing it over a catalyst will also affect the hydrogen produced.
Indoctrination. School is not designed to generate intelligent, critical thinking adults. It is designed to indoctrinate them to operate in a 20th century manufacturing environment. It makes sense to include as many as possible in an indoctrination regime, as the net effect is well behaving workers.
a total pain in the neck, but necessary, since most of my coworkers use vi and i use emacs, so i have to use vi on their machine. also vi is better for admin. Is there a diy dvorak keyboard? That would be cool.
to act politically when you are working 1 job at walmart to pay for child care, and another job at the 7-11 to pay for gas, rent, and medicine for your kid who is sick from being in daycare? Most of the people for whom this is a problem work so hard they don't have any time for political action.
actually, they were saying that since it affected supply and demand of marijuana being sold from outside the state, it had an interstate effect, and thus fell under federal jurisdiction.
...that(by reading this you agree to hold me blameless and without liability. By the way, i do not suggest anyone try this at home ever. it is dangerous and requires great care. so don't do it) >>Although the seed cost of 25k (pounds? what is >>that, about 40k usd?) not hardly! See www.abymc.com or www.backyardmetalcasting.com. I have a furnace that cranks out about 6lb of molten aluminum in about 1/2 hour. It uses perlite and furnace cement cast inside of a popcorn tin with a pipe hole in the bottom for air blast. I use kingsford charcoal and a pipe crucible for fuel and melting area. The patterns can be made out of EPS--all of that polystyrene that you get when you unpack your monitors and such, using a hot wire cnc device as a cutter. This is rapid prototyping on the cheap. All together i have spent >$100 for the working furnace and the hot wire cutter. The cnc stuff will be more costly, but not much more than $500 for the driver and motors, unless i convert my sherline mill which would require me to include it's cost $800. so: $100 for cheap furnace and blower $500 for driver and stepper motors $800 for sherline, taig, or hf mini mill $300 for cheap computer running linux and the free cnc driver package--i am not sure what it is yet. $1700 dollars, if you are willing to work on the cheap and forgo alot of tools including grinders, drill presses--the sherline is just too slow--etc. You may also need a good welder if you want to make your own crucible and sturdy crucible tongs as well as safety gear. Again, you can make a cheap welder out of microwave oven transformers and cheap harbor freight holders. Again, this stuff is all dangerous and I am not a professional, so do not attempt anything that I have just described here.
come on guys, if we forced everyone to have a firewall and at least make an effort to secure their system through the use of 'fines' we could reduce things like spam and worms. On the other hand, the speed limit doesn't seem to be too effective at increasing safety, just increasing the revenue streams of municipalities and states.
my i730 only outputs gps data on serial, this sucks. I wish i could use the usb datacable i have, as my laptop only has usb ports. I guess I'll have to write a midlet to output gps data and dummy up gpsd for that purpose.
oh come on. I was billing out at an obscene rate to validate 21cfr part 11 requirements. No documentation except perhaps invoices.
You also need about 10-20 months labor for gingery
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they take forever to make. making the castings is not as hard as making the patterns and scraping the parts, in addition, 1800 degree aluminum radiates alot of heat T^4 and burns most anything organic. If you want to try this, find someone who already has,and see if you can borrow some of the patterns.
the limiting factor of cost is basically the cost of methanol since that is a 20%bv reagent in the biodiesel trans-esterification reaction. non-industrial quantities can be quite expensive. Racing fuel is like $40/5 gal i think.
are you crazy? don't you know that your whole brain requires activation, not just your left brain. I got a liberal arts physics degree from Saint Joes--yes the guys you see on espn--and value my liberal arts classes as much as my calc, math phys, etc. Besides, if you have any kind of job, you are going to need to know how to write both technically and critically. most liberal arts classes require copious writing and critical thinking.
is that we provided for them an apparatus that they could abuse to achieve their means. Some patriot act powers may be necessary, but for god's sake, do not let someone walk into this country and 'discover' an apparatus by which to control the populace maliciously. I was in Manhattan on the day, and still remember everything. I, however, do not want the heroes of that day, of all generations of americans, to have wasted their lives because a panicked public demands prophylaxis. All I can do, however, is vote.
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who will low ball you so hard, that 5 chipped cars don't make up for the profit difference that they make on the lowball---but look, I gave you 10 grand for your car(wink), and I had to add 9 grand to the value of the new vehicle so that the(wink) credit company will accept the deal...
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Grab an asteroid, use solar furnaces to make aluminum, nickle and iron and silicon from the asteroid, drop it to earth as cheap raw materials, and use the mass to attenuate energy incident on earth. Food production should not be a problem unless we can't get rid of all of these little warlords that are killing their people so they can get the newest ak47 shipment from Russia or China. The raw materials can be directly converted to energy--aluminum--or used to make new solar cells cheaper with higher purity silicon. Also, get as much of humanity off of the planet as we can--preferably working in mining, production, or other activities offworld.
...politics. Evangelical christianity is famous for incorporating many of the psychological programming techniques that we often see in a cult--not necessarily to the extent that a cult would apply them--to encourage membership and facilitate control by priviledged members. To allow a contradictory theory to confuse the members--such as evolution, or proper theological studies--would open the door for questioning of the authority of the controlling members. This is a common occurrence in almost all groups, even in the scientific and educational community. To allow or accept the possibility of other realities in conflict with the 'fundamental interpretation' of the bible would be a bad political mistake. I would chalk this up to attempts to maintain control of the political base in order to facilitate growth and dominance, rather than a quest for the truth. It may be that the common member might actually believe the story, but it should be hard to believe that the more 'superior' members of the more radical evangelical groups believe the statements. Although, it is possible that the mechanisms that enforce the rigid fundamental interpretation that were set in place in the late 19th and during the 20th century might have been bought in to by the current leadership, it is hard to believe that it is more than simple political control actions.
...how helpful that knife, spoon, and even maybe the chopsticks will be when they confiscate them.
Sam Kinison has a whole rant that the slashdot nazis wouln't let me post here cuz its in caps: http://www.comedyontap.com/jokes/kinison/skjokes.h tml, see the one about hunger.
I see your point. But if an NGO can hand out these laptops with enough resources to get them through, perhaps they will be able to solve their own problems. The issue here is access to information, ceterus parabus. If they live in areas that don't provide enough raw resources, then I must hark back to the late reverend Sam Kinison: "Move to where the food is!".
to go online and find plans to make water purifiers http://www.makezine.com/02/makeshift/ and solar ice makers http://www.thesustainablevillage.com/servlet/displ ay/microenterprise/display/14. Also, they can use wikipedia to gain extra education over what they currently have, and howstuffworks to gain basic mechanical knowledge. They will have the knowledge resources to overcome their(sic?) situation.
Us companies do not pay taxes on offshored labor, therefore its at least 7.65% cheaper--no payroll tax.
over it, this produces hydrogen and carbon monoxide. Now, as to how to remove the CO, i have no clue, but i am sure someone has figured it out. Obviously passing it over a catalyst will also affect the hydrogen produced.
Indoctrination. School is not designed to generate intelligent, critical thinking adults. It is designed to indoctrinate them to operate in a 20th century manufacturing environment. It makes sense to include as many as possible in an indoctrination regime, as the net effect is well behaving workers.
a total pain in the neck, but necessary, since most of my coworkers use vi and i use emacs, so i have to use vi on their machine. also vi is better for admin. Is there a diy dvorak keyboard? That would be cool.
to act politically when you are working 1 job at walmart to pay for child care, and another job at the 7-11 to pay for gas, rent, and medicine for your kid who is sick from being in daycare? Most of the people for whom this is a problem work so hard they don't have any time for political action.
actually, they were saying that since it affected supply and demand of marijuana being sold from outside the state, it had an interstate effect, and thus fell under federal jurisdiction.
...that(by reading this you agree to hold me blameless and without liability. By the way, i do not suggest anyone try this at home ever. it is dangerous and requires great care. so don't do it)
>>Although the seed cost of 25k (pounds? what is >>that, about 40k usd?)
not hardly!
See www.abymc.com or www.backyardmetalcasting.com. I have a furnace that cranks out about 6lb of molten aluminum in about 1/2 hour. It uses perlite and furnace cement cast inside of a popcorn tin with a pipe hole in the bottom for air blast. I use kingsford charcoal and a pipe crucible for fuel and melting area. The patterns can be made out of EPS--all of that polystyrene that you get when you unpack your monitors and such, using a hot wire cnc device as a cutter. This is rapid prototyping on the cheap. All together i have spent >$100 for the working furnace and the hot wire cutter. The cnc stuff will be more costly, but not much more than $500 for the driver and motors, unless i convert my sherline mill which would require me to include it's cost $800.
so:
$100 for cheap furnace and blower
$500 for driver and stepper motors
$800 for sherline, taig, or hf mini mill
$300 for cheap computer running linux and the free cnc driver package--i am not sure what it is yet.
$1700 dollars, if you are willing to work on the cheap and forgo alot of tools including grinders, drill presses--the sherline is just too slow--etc.
You may also need a good welder if you want to make your own crucible and sturdy crucible tongs as well as safety gear. Again, you can make a cheap welder out of microwave oven transformers and cheap harbor freight holders. Again, this stuff is all dangerous and I am not a professional, so do not attempt anything that I have just described here.
come on guys, if we forced everyone to have a firewall and at least make an effort to secure their system through the use of 'fines' we could reduce things like spam and worms. On the other hand, the speed limit doesn't seem to be too effective at increasing safety, just increasing the revenue streams of municipalities and states.
after all, they can be used by terrorists too!
my i730 only outputs gps data on serial, this sucks. I wish i could use the usb datacable i have, as my laptop only has usb ports. I guess I'll have to write a midlet to output gps data and dummy up gpsd for that purpose.
us remember that a vote for a third party is a thrown away vote. at least that's what the tv says.
oh come on. I was billing out at an obscene rate to validate 21cfr part 11 requirements. No documentation except perhaps invoices.
they take forever to make. making the castings is not as hard as making the patterns and scraping the parts, in addition, 1800 degree aluminum radiates alot of heat T^4 and burns most anything organic. If you want to try this, find someone who already has,and see if you can borrow some of the patterns.
something! Spacedev does the rubber engines for the spacecraft.
the limiting factor of cost is basically the cost of methanol since that is a 20%bv reagent in the biodiesel trans-esterification reaction. non-industrial quantities can be quite expensive. Racing fuel is like $40/5 gal i think.
and they will be performing human trials with real tooth implants--stem cells differentiated into dental cell tissue that grows into a real tooth.
are you crazy? don't you know that your whole brain requires activation, not just your left brain. I got a liberal arts physics degree from Saint Joes--yes the guys you see on espn--and value my liberal arts classes as much as my calc, math phys, etc. Besides, if you have any kind of job, you are going to need to know how to write both technically and critically. most liberal arts classes require copious writing and critical thinking.
is that we provided for them an apparatus that they could abuse to achieve their means. Some patriot act powers may be necessary, but for god's sake, do not let someone walk into this country and 'discover' an apparatus by which to control the populace maliciously.
I was in Manhattan on the day, and still remember everything. I, however, do not want the heroes of that day, of all generations of americans, to have wasted their lives because a panicked public demands prophylaxis.
All I can do, however, is vote.
who will low ball you so hard, that 5 chipped cars don't make up for the profit difference that they make on the lowball---but look, I gave you 10 grand for your car(wink), and I had to add 9 grand to the value of the new vehicle so that the(wink) credit company will accept the deal...