A female friend from college has five kids on a single $62k/year income (hers) with a stay at home husband. They are doing very well and own a couple of income properties.
I saw a prediction in a 2007 money magazine saying that housing was a bubble and it as going to be very bad when it popped (contrary to what almost all other people were saying at the time). I even read (on slashdot I believe) that it was the new normal and also, thanks to advertising, that plane rides would be free in the future.
All 7+ billion inhabitants of earth would easily fit into Texas, California and Montana with the population density of Seattle. Not running out of room. Also it has been estimated that there arable land in Africa alone could feed all 7+ billion people, so not running out of food either.
Whatever even has to be very abrupt to clog roads. Most people wouldn't drive in some random direction for 3 hours without an idea of a specific destination. And I don't know much about the eastern US, but I've been to or lived in most of the western states (w of texas) and it's all mostly vacant. From what I recall from a trip to Virginia, it is nonstop city after city. The entire state of wyoming only has 90% pf the population of the city of Boston. The capitol of WY has a population not much larger than my university.
My car has a range of about 350miles on a tank of gas That's enough to cross the entire state of New Mexico. If I live in ABQ, I could make it anywhere in the state....and there are many many places to hide out in NM. CO, WY, AZ too. TX is probably better, but also much more crowded, but someplace like WY is so desolate I doubt a lot of people would have the idea to go there. Or Montana.
Hardly need have to be rich. A large percentage of people I know have second homes in rural areas. If you live out west around a lot of vacant land, you can get one for a fraction the price of a new car.
In 1965, the Russian CELSS experiment BIOS-3 determined that 8 m2 of exposed Chlorella could remove carbon dioxide and replace oxygen within the sealed environment for a single human. The algae were grown in vats underneath artificial light.
Exactly Where would the world be without nuclear power, satellites, microcomputers. It would probably look something like the 1950's with many of today's problems and no tools for solving them.
The science historian James Burke once remarked something like historically, the only good things science is for is making money and making war. Even the internet came directly out of war related projects.
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I have about 2 dozen of these in my house. http://www.outerzone.co.uk/
So were refrigerators.
I incorporated a few times. Cost $35 for the filing fee.
Razor strap :)
A female friend from college has five kids on a single $62k/year income (hers) with a stay at home husband. They are doing very well and own a couple of income properties.
Pray they don't alter it any further.
Maybe they can use big data to find a meaning in life.
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Cows certainly do roam over my land.
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No, this guy: http://science.slashdot.org/st...
I saw a prediction in a 2007 money magazine saying that housing was a bubble and it as going to be very bad when it popped (contrary to what almost all other people were saying at the time). I even read (on slashdot I believe) that it was the new normal and also, thanks to advertising, that plane rides would be free in the future.
you'd think it'd be a lot faster.
All 7+ billion inhabitants of earth would easily fit into Texas, California and Montana with the population density of Seattle. Not running out of room. Also it has been estimated that there arable land in Africa alone could feed all 7+ billion people, so not running out of food either.
Likewise, deciding what 536 people do with their money is not worth discussing.
What's wrong with farming? I grew a sizeable portion of my food this year with not much work.
Whatever even has to be very abrupt to clog roads. Most people wouldn't drive in some random direction for 3 hours without an idea of a specific destination. And I don't know much about the eastern US, but I've been to or lived in most of the western states (w of texas) and it's all mostly vacant. From what I recall from a trip to Virginia, it is nonstop city after city. The entire state of wyoming only has 90% pf the population of the city of Boston. The capitol of WY has a population not much larger than my university.
Isn't that the way it works in Switzerland with most taxes being collected and spent at the canton level?
My car has a range of about 350miles on a tank of gas That's enough to cross the entire state of New Mexico. If I live in ABQ, I could make it anywhere in the state....and there are many many places to hide out in NM. CO, WY, AZ too. TX is probably better, but also much more crowded, but someplace like WY is so desolate I doubt a lot of people would have the idea to go there. Or Montana.
Hardly need have to be rich. A large percentage of people I know have second homes in rural areas. If you live out west around a lot of vacant land, you can get one for a fraction the price of a new car.
In 1965, the Russian CELSS experiment BIOS-3 determined that 8 m2 of exposed Chlorella could remove carbon dioxide and replace oxygen within the sealed environment for a single human. The algae were grown in vats underneath artificial light.
Exactly Where would the world be without nuclear power, satellites, microcomputers. It would probably look something like the 1950's with many of today's problems and no tools for solving them.
The science historian James Burke once remarked something like historically, the only good things science is for is making money and making war. Even the internet came directly out of war related projects.
Shaved guinea pigs