My father worked as a prison guard, and often stated that a common refrain amongst prisoners was that one had to carefully case a home so as to assure its being empty so as to reduce the likelihood of being shot.
Interesting, but why does it need to be money-based at all?
Turn it around --- what would 21st century homesteading look like and what would be the minimum technological footprint to provide food, water, shelter, security and energy to a family of four?
Consider a small, pre-fab concrete shelter core (around / over which a house could be built) which could be trucked in to disaster areas. Fill it with:
- greenhouse windows tanks filled w/ plants, algae and shrimp --- how large do they need to be to provide food each day? Surely technology could be fitted so as to make such self-regulating / sustaining (w/ a bit of fertilizer / compost, see below)
- small refrigerator
- sink and small kitchen area w/ solar stove
- a rain-barrel system w/ water filter connected to a well or city water supply (all-too many areas won't have sufficient rainfall)
- composting toilet
- solar panels and a generator wired into a bicycle (which can be used for transportation when not being pedaled to provided additional energy
- heating / cooling system and air circulation / filtration
- sleeping and dining areas
What would it cost to assemble such a thing and deliver it where needed? If it were possible to mostly bury it (the greenhouse areas could be the roof), the energy needs for heating and cooling would be pretty low. You could place it buried in a central courtyard and build a house around it if more luxurious living areas were desired.
It also afforded a flat surface to stamp, which apparently was the other reason Colt chose the lower.
Traditionally, it was a part which handled high pressures / forces (so the frame of a revolver, &c.) --- the AR-15 is unusual in the serial-numbered lower receiver not being a part subjected to extreme forces and hence suitable to fabrication w/ inexpensive materials.
Hopefully this won't get us to the point of more parts being serial-numbered as is sometimes seen in other countries.
The problem w/ the Mac is that one is limited to the form factors which Apple is willing to manufacture --- I'd love to replace my Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4121, but the closest thing to it now is a Microsoft Surface Pro --- Apple's iPad would require me to make do w/ software sourced from the Appstore and I can't find equivalents there for some of the special-purpose software I need.
but they had the example of France which was paying a small fortune for people to enlist in the French Foreign Legion at the height of their involvement in Indochina.
Reminds me of the MacSnobs who used to complain of my pointing out the advantages of using NeXTstep instead of Mac OS 9 and earlier. It kills me that Mac OS X was so watered down to accommodate such ignorance. I'd give my interest in hell for:
- vertical menu
- pop-up main menu set to the right mouse button
- top-level print, hide, quit and services
- not having to load Carbon
- to have Display PostScript (I never had an eps file which would display and not print --- it's wearying the number of times.pdfs will fail to print, or fail when being refined / pre-flighted)
- to have PANTONE colours at the system level (I'm really tired of having to deal w/ RGB from MS Office products)
My biggest problem when trying to puzzle out how to do some bit of scripting is that there will be a huge wall-of-text, but no working minimal example of code.
Given things like scripting rounded rectangles in a certain Adobe application being broken 'cause of a trailing space, one wonders if the developers could even create such.
The interesting thing will be when we can act on a genome as we can any other set of plans or diagrams. Hal Clement's short story ``The Mechanic'' takes an interesting look at this, the protagonist is a genetic engineer able to create new life forms, or to re-grow / repair parts of existing life forms (incl. people).
The scary part will be when insurance companies will be able to use such information to determine who is unprofitable to insure --- for that see the movie _Gattaca_.
What sort of current is in-flowing through those cables?
Will that chassis support batteries which will make the thing function? If so, for how long? What's the recharge time?
Until the robots are running on some sort of power which allows dynamic recharge and sustained off-grid operations, all one has to do is outrun them until their batteries run down.
w/ the CNC milling machine I've just gotten together ( http://www.shapeoko.com/ ) and added a drive shaft upgrade to --- still need to finish documenting that on the wiki.
The Twike ( http://www.twike.com/ ) is essentially an enclosed electric three-wheeled cycle, I think I'll be able to bring it in a bit under the ~$20,000 it'd cost to import one.
Adding 3D printing functionality to the ShapeOko would certainly make the manufacture a bit more flexible.
- scans for the unencrypted video feed on the frequencies drones use
- sounds an audio alarm when it finds one
- displays the video feed on a local screen
- immediately begins streaming the video off-site (for record-keeping)
Anyone have an idea on how affordable / expensive / reliable such a thing could / would be?
They constantly turn up in search results, but I never find anything useful there save for links, w/o any meaningful context --- the web would be a better place if the effort used for these sites would instead be funneled into better search results.
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My father worked as a prison guard, and often stated that a common refrain amongst prisoners was that one had to carefully case a home so as to assure its being empty so as to reduce the likelihood of being shot.
Interesting, but why does it need to be money-based at all?
Turn it around --- what would 21st century homesteading look like and what would be the minimum technological footprint to provide food, water, shelter, security and energy to a family of four?
Consider a small, pre-fab concrete shelter core (around / over which a house could be built) which could be trucked in to disaster areas. Fill it with:
- greenhouse windows tanks filled w/ plants, algae and shrimp --- how large do they need to be to provide food each day? Surely technology could be fitted so as to make such self-regulating / sustaining (w/ a bit of fertilizer / compost, see below)
- small refrigerator
- sink and small kitchen area w/ solar stove
- a rain-barrel system w/ water filter connected to a well or city water supply (all-too many areas won't have sufficient rainfall)
- composting toilet
- solar panels and a generator wired into a bicycle (which can be used for transportation when not being pedaled to provided additional energy
- heating / cooling system and air circulation / filtration
- sleeping and dining areas
What would it cost to assemble such a thing and deliver it where needed? If it were possible to mostly bury it (the greenhouse areas could be the roof), the energy needs for heating and cooling would be pretty low. You could place it buried in a central courtyard and build a house around it if more luxurious living areas were desired.
w/ a nice development environment.
Wish it were further along.
shutdown -p now wrote:
>In US, 13% of all burglaries occur while the owner is at home. In UK, it's 45%.
I've been arguing that that would be the case, but haven't been able to find a way to cite that --- do you have a handy citation?
nabsltd wrote:
>Rifling a barrel has been done for 200 years.
Actually, the first barrel rifling machines date back to the 15th Century or so.
It also afforded a flat surface to stamp, which apparently was the other reason Colt chose the lower.
Traditionally, it was a part which handled high pressures / forces (so the frame of a revolver, &c.) --- the AR-15 is unusual in the serial-numbered lower receiver not being a part subjected to extreme forces and hence suitable to fabrication w/ inexpensive materials.
Hopefully this won't get us to the point of more parts being serial-numbered as is sometimes seen in other countries.
The problem w/ the Mac is that one is limited to the form factors which Apple is willing to manufacture --- I'd love to replace my Fujitsu Stylistic ST-4121, but the closest thing to it now is a Microsoft Surface Pro --- Apple's iPad would require me to make do w/ software sourced from the Appstore and I can't find equivalents there for some of the special-purpose software I need.
but they had the example of France which was paying a small fortune for people to enlist in the French Foreign Legion at the height of their involvement in Indochina.
Yep.
Examples of his attitude:
http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/msg/a11ebc20417db2c2
http://iamleeg.blogspot.com/2007/02/apres-ca-le-fosdem.html
but now he's moving to Mac OS X?
Why didn't he just work in Objective-C from the get go?
http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.gnustep.discuss/msg/a11ebc20417db2c2
Reminds me of the MacSnobs who used to complain of my pointing out the advantages of using NeXTstep instead of Mac OS 9 and earlier. It kills me that Mac OS X was so watered down to accommodate such ignorance. I'd give my interest in hell for:
- vertical menu .pdfs will fail to print, or fail when being refined / pre-flighted)
- pop-up main menu set to the right mouse button
- top-level print, hide, quit and services
- not having to load Carbon
- to have Display PostScript (I never had an eps file which would display and not print --- it's wearying the number of times
- to have PANTONE colours at the system level (I'm really tired of having to deal w/ RGB from MS Office products)
William
My biggest problem when trying to puzzle out how to do some bit of scripting is that there will be a huge wall-of-text, but no working minimal example of code.
Given things like scripting rounded rectangles in a certain Adobe application being broken 'cause of a trailing space, one wonders if the developers could even create such.
w/ an ever-increasing number of people just pulling out their cell phones as a latter-day pocketwatch.
Not sure what functionality Apple can come up w/ to reverse this --- I really can't see people doing the Dick Tracy thing....
A preferred source of material for rifle barrels is used truck axles, since it's stress relieved. http://books.google.com/books?id=_ykDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA18#v=onepage&q&f=false
Rifling tools are pretty straight-foward --- cutter style tools for this were developed in the 15th century.
and a lawsuit for all the toxins which will get spewed into the air:
- leaded glass in the CRTs (not to mention the voltage danger)
- lead in the solder
- cadmium in the PCBs
&c.
Please recycle it responsibly.
The interesting thing will be when we can act on a genome as we can any other set of plans or diagrams. Hal Clement's short story ``The Mechanic'' takes an interesting look at this, the protagonist is a genetic engineer able to create new life forms, or to re-grow / repair parts of existing life forms (incl. people).
The scary part will be when insurance companies will be able to use such information to determine who is unprofitable to insure --- for that see the movie _Gattaca_.
There has been some pushback on this:
http://www.ammoland.com/2013/02/firearms-equality-movement/#axzz2MIsTvqYJ
but no coverage on the mainstream news yet.
Robot Apocalypse
What if there was a robot apocalypse? How long would humanity last?
http://what-if.xkcd.com/5/
Even got a mention on Forbes.
William
What sort of current is in-flowing through those cables?
Will that chassis support batteries which will make the thing function? If so, for how long? What's the recharge time?
Until the robots are running on some sort of power which allows dynamic recharge and sustained off-grid operations, all one has to do is outrun them until their batteries run down.
Apparently there was actual work done on this, and it was close to being a shipping product --- anyone have any details?
William
See the science fiction novel, _Lady El_ by Jim Starlin and Dana Graziunas.
w/ the CNC milling machine I've just gotten together ( http://www.shapeoko.com/ ) and added a drive shaft upgrade to --- still need to finish documenting that on the wiki.
The Twike ( http://www.twike.com/ ) is essentially an enclosed electric three-wheeled cycle, I think I'll be able to bring it in a bit under the ~$20,000 it'd cost to import one.
Adding 3D printing functionality to the ShapeOko would certainly make the manufacture a bit more flexible.
William
Great to see a reference to one of my favourite author's writings, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry --- though I much preferred his _Wind, Sand and Stars_.
William
I want to see an electronics box which:
- scans for the unencrypted video feed on the frequencies drones use
- sounds an audio alarm when it finds one
- displays the video feed on a local screen
- immediately begins streaming the video off-site (for record-keeping)
Anyone have an idea on how affordable / expensive / reliable such a thing could / would be?
And that's what Marshall Brain's novella _Manna_ examines:
http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
They constantly turn up in search results, but I never find anything useful there save for links, w/o any meaningful context --- the web would be a better place if the effort used for these sites would instead be funneled into better search results.
William