There's a difference between doing it properly and improperly.
Obviously you're some one with no vision. Bamboo an insidious weed? It's an excellent wind break, creates nice white noise to block out bad sounds, and you keep it in control by harvesting it for construction or eating it. You can Ake extremely comfortable textiles with it, weave it for shade or make flooring out of it. You can wven carbonize it to make light filaments that last longer than some cheap light bulbs.
You might think better of it if you take it out of your ass.
oh, and it makes great expensive fishing rods and chopsticks.
perhaps i should have finished the whole sentence for those who couldn't see it coming. Justwaiting for a nook colour comment where the poster points out that the nook color isn't eInk and euns android and can be hacked. Of course the person who who would post that would also miss the fact that governments aren't going to hack a device to do that.
Unfortunately no computer to read it...though now that i think of it, the person I sold my apple clone to over 20 years ago is a hoarder so maybe he still has it. I was aware of the program but/forgot the name so thanks for saving me some searching.
It's to recover my dad's life work, so hopefully it works out.
Check out garage sales or swapmeets to pick up a vhs. That or repair your machines, even hi end ones are pretty simple to repair. I was poor growing up so every single vcr I had was someone else's trash, if a 10 year old can repair one I'm sure you can figure it out once you pop it open. Craigslist even has machines as low as $10.
There's additional problems where building codes aren't as strict. I'm here in Mexico and people in the city don't really care about getting anything that isn't like western style housing. The ones outside of the city aren't to interested in putting in more work in the beginning for a more comfortable lifestyle and tradition fights you every step of the way. Thosethat are ready to give up tradition just move to the cities. It's a little bit sad because there's so much possibilities here but the people don't just care for it. It's the reason why I'm moving back to canada at the end of the week. The irony being that it's rich countries that are more accepting of sustainable holistic development and are able to comprehend a greater investment of time, labour, and money at the beginning to achieve a comfortable carefree lifeatyle in the long run.
Check out Gaviotas, seesaw water pumps powered by children, cheap to build and can pump water from deeper depths than normal. Throw in moisture capture. Urine filtration through reed beds with solar powered distillation to purify for drinking, making sure to up nutrients. Deserts can be changed they just need time and good design, gaviotas being a good example of what can be done with poor land. Of course this would depend on the US not poisoning any possibilities by continuing with their stupid food donations so the farmers can get back to work to create an environment where geoundwater is a possibility/
Nah, just getting lazy. ereaders still suck for pdf's or fast display, no way i'd want to look up legislation or court decisions on one of those.
As for android sure, not like I like programming in Objective C anyways. I just hink everybody here is smart enough to replace ipad with any tablet. Maybe they don't know about government tender processes? The reason ipads are getting picked is because nobody else is offering to supply, simple as that. Let's face it Apple knows how to push their product and no android manufacturer has really shown any ability or know-how in that department. I'm almost 100% sure the idea never even occured to the android camp. Just like it never occurs to most linux distributors. I remember berating my supervisors as to why we're spending millions on microsoft licences when we could just go opensource, the answer, nobody but in a bid to supply support except for microsoft.
science trusts it, why don't you? We're talking compost not night soil. If you're queasy you can still use it to fertilize your bamboo or shade trees.
Bonus points if you buld it so it automatically empties into a biodigester. Though if you go that route might as well get some pigs and build a seperate chute with a grate over it that you can teach the pigs to use for defecating to provide the buik of material for the digester and then you'll get usable energy out of it as well.
People really need to start thinking about holistic system design. It's horrible to think how many seperate motors one has in the house, or heat sources, or cold sources, or transformers, etc...
I missed a by and large that's how most are made, if you want anything over one story. If not your replacing wooden beams with steel for compression. Still not cheap. It's still not really that much cheaper, yes I've thought of building one myself. And in developing countries justtrying to get a baler that compresses enough to prevent mold and rat/insect infestation is nigh impossible. Most developing countries don't even bale their straw.
and can you hold any of those like paper? Does nobody read around here anymore? Have you ever worked in a government office? Do you have any clue how much paper, toner, printers, maintenance, shredders, shredding services, disposal services, physical space, all of that costs?
Well of course! Instead of mindlessly shuffling papers to look like their busy they can flick at the screen to appear as if shuffling papers while secretly playing angry birds!
Btw, I think it's a good idea. When I worked for the government I would have loved to have gotten rid of the bookcase of legislation, precedence, meeting minutes, errata, training documents, etc... that took up not only most of my workspace but for every single person working there as well. Having to pay for less office space and always having the latest legislation as well as operating procedures on hand would easily pay for itself regardless of the printers. As long as it's easily searchable and annotable it'd be fine.
um, aren't ipads $500? And way easier to hold like paper than a laptop?
Oh sorry, there goes your excuse for a raving lunatic rant. But feel free to follow up with more foaming at the mouth...because you know you can't resist.
Best soution is just an external battery charger and an extra battery, lots of their phones use the same battery. Then storage card or wireless for file transfer. Only if you want to keep using the phone that is.
Composting toilets. way cheaper than a sewage hookup and you get free compost for your fields. Reed bed to filter grey water and you get material for furniture and basket construction. Rain catchement with artificial pond for overflow. Way cheaper that a water hookup, and with bamboo sand bio-filters you get clean drinking water all year round as well as a place to farm fish. Solar ovens and driers and rocket stoves built out of compressed earth. Bamboo perimeter gives you privacy, construction materials and even food,mmm, pickled bamboo shoots. Lime instead of concrete 1/3 the price, fortified rammed earth foundations which are water/flood resistant.
Really you don't need much else but a basic understanding of permaculture for your region. That is living a life of leisure and luxury for more than half the population of the world. Throw in expensive solar pa.les and you'll even make the westerners happy.
You just have to stop thinking like a western sheep where economics are driven by consumption.
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Obviously you're some one with no vision. Bamboo an insidious weed? It's an excellent wind break, creates nice white noise to block out bad sounds, and you keep it in control by harvesting it for construction or eating it. You can Ake extremely comfortable textiles with it, weave it for shade or make flooring out of it. You can wven carbonize it to make light filaments that last longer than some cheap light bulbs.
You might think better of it if you take it out of your ass.
oh, and it makes great expensive fishing rods and chopsticks.
@that's a hack. Gov'ts pay for supported systems.
I wonder if you're trying to be ironic.
How's it feel coming to school naked?
It's to recover my dad's life work, so hopefully it works out.
Check out garage sales or swapmeets to pick up a vhs. That or repair your machines, even hi end ones are pretty simple to repair. I was poor growing up so every single vcr I had was someone else's trash, if a 10 year old can repair one I'm sure you can figure it out once you pop it open. Craigslist even has machines as low as $10.
Image the disk and use a zip repair tool. seriously wha's on/these that are so important? Abandonware sites for software that old.
This seems more of a yahoo question, how does stuff get accepted nowadays?
Now if somebody can tell me how to modify an appleII drive to connect to a pc ... that's a slashdot question.
There's additional problems where building codes aren't as strict. I'm here in Mexico and people in the city don't really care about getting anything that isn't like western style housing. The ones outside of the city aren't to interested in putting in more work in the beginning for a more comfortable lifestyle and tradition fights you every step of the way. Thosethat are ready to give up tradition just move to the cities. It's a little bit sad because there's so much possibilities here but the people don't just care for it. It's the reason why I'm moving back to canada at the end of the week. The irony being that it's rich countries that are more accepting of sustainable holistic development and are able to comprehend a greater investment of time, labour, and money at the beginning to achieve a comfortable carefree lifeatyle in the long run.
Never been to a developing country eh? Even in Mexico you have larger families living less square footage. Beds?
Check out Gaviotas, seesaw water pumps powered by children, cheap to build and can pump water from deeper depths than normal. Throw in moisture capture. Urine filtration through reed beds with solar powered distillation to purify for drinking, making sure to up nutrients. Deserts can be changed they just need time and good design, gaviotas being a good example of what can be done with poor land. Of course this would depend on the US not poisoning any possibilities by continuing with their stupid food donations so the farmers can get back to work to create an environment where geoundwater is a possibility/
Just waiting for a nook color comment....
So really i guess US'ians don't really have anything to complain about then?
As for android sure, not like I like programming in Objective C anyways. I just hink everybody here is smart enough to replace ipad with any tablet. Maybe they don't know about government tender processes? The reason ipads are getting picked is because nobody else is offering to supply, simple as that. Let's face it Apple knows how to push their product and no android manufacturer has really shown any ability or know-how in that department. I'm almost 100% sure the idea never even occured to the android camp. Just like it never occurs to most linux distributors. I remember berating my supervisors as to why we're spending millions on microsoft licences when we could just go opensource, the answer, nobody but in a bid to supply support except for microsoft.
Bonus points if you buld it so it automatically empties into a biodigester. Though if you go that route might as well get some pigs and build a seperate chute with a grate over it that you can teach the pigs to use for defecating to provide the buik of material for the digester and then you'll get usable energy out of it as well.
People really need to start thinking about holistic system design. It's horrible to think how many seperate motors one has in the house, or heat sources, or cold sources, or transformers, etc...
I missed a by and large that's how most are made, if you want anything over one story. If not your replacing wooden beams with steel for compression. Still not cheap. It's still not really that much cheaper, yes I've thought of building one myself. And in developing countries justtrying to get a baler that compresses enough to prevent mold and rat/insect infestation is nigh impossible. Most developing countries don't even bale their straw.
and can you hold any of those like paper? Does nobody read around here anymore? Have you ever worked in a government office? Do you have any clue how much paper, toner, printers, maintenance, shredders, shredding services, disposal services, physical space, all of that costs?
froth froth froth
Well, it was posted by timothy. What did you expect?
Btw, I think it's a good idea. When I worked for the government I would have loved to have gotten rid of the bookcase of legislation, precedence, meeting minutes, errata, training documents, etc... that took up not only most of my workspace but for every single person working there as well. Having to pay for less office space and always having the latest legislation as well as operating procedures on hand would easily pay for itself regardless of the printers. As long as it's easily searchable and annotable it'd be fine.
Oh sorry, there goes your excuse for a raving lunatic rant. But feel free to follow up with more foaming at the mouth...because you know you can't resist.
Best soution is just an external battery charger and an extra battery, lots of their phones use the same battery. Then storage card or wireless for file transfer. Only if you want to keep using the phone that is.
Already broken once. Filed down my cables (what the hell was Nokia thinking?) but still seriously concerned that things going to pop off anyday.
Why do you even care? Seriously?
Composting toilets. way cheaper than a sewage hookup and you get free compost for your fields. Reed bed to filter grey water and you get material for furniture and basket construction. Rain catchement with artificial pond for overflow. Way cheaper that a water hookup, and with bamboo sand bio-filters you get clean drinking water all year round as well as a place to farm fish. Solar ovens and driers and rocket stoves built out of compressed earth. Bamboo perimeter gives you privacy, construction materials and even food,mmm, pickled bamboo shoots. Lime instead of concrete 1/3 the price, fortified rammed earth foundations which are water/flood resistant.
Really you don't need much else but a basic understanding of permaculture for your region. That is living a life of leisure and luxury for more than half the population of the world. Throw in expensive solar pa.les and you'll even make the westerners happy.
You just have to stop thinking like a western sheep where economics are driven by consumption.
How many houses for the developing world have you designed and published for the world.
Forget it, you have to be a troll, can somebody so ignorant exist otherwise?