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  1. Re:Pin more shiny awards on my chest! on The Royal Society Proposes First Framework For Climate Engineering Experiments · · Score: 1

    It should be row 8, plot 31. Unless it can take more than one person, and then on the 2nd person they fake the name of the first person, and the titles on the tombstones will be correct, except the order, of who's on top, will be mixed up.

    And by the way, what happened to the idea of cremation and recycling of the bone phosphate as fertilizer into the living world, as opposed to letting it sit and waste down below forever before it fully becomes recycled - bones and skulls last forever underground, holding up precious phosphate in them? Even if there is a reducing environment during the cremation and the phosphorous ends up as elemental gas and evaporates, as soon as it's out of the chimney it turns back to phosphoric acid - same thing as the sour stuff in cola - and fertilizes the grass nearby the crematory, and lets the earthworms pick it up from the grass, then the birds from the worms, and carry it all over the place.

    As far as the main topic goes, all the Brits gotta do is set up a rocket launching base on one of their colonies near the equator - Tristan da Cunha is not too far - then set up a base on the Moon, from which to shoot materials up into space orbit, and put up a giant flippable shade at the Lagrange point between the Earth and Sun, and also mirrors around the perimeter, so you have the option to increase the solar input if we're getting an iceage, or decrease it, if there is global warming. But once you got them shades up and ready, humans can invade the deserts, like Sahara, and grow food there and live there, with greenhouses. You don't really need to cover up the whole Earth with the shades, something like 1% or 3% probably goes a long way, with huge effects, for starters, but the Sahara does have a huge reflectivity, to where if you turn it dark green, you get instant global warming from that. In the meantime, if people are tight on global food supply, and need more places to grow food, irrigation in the desert is probably not the best idea, but instead moving into the oceans, and growing seaweed or kelp, for starters, that something else is willing to eat, like cows would be. All you need in the ocean is a huge plastic bag, with phosphate detergent fertilizer, with salicyl chelated iron fertilizer, and iodine, as kelp is really high on iodine. Make your own little ecosystem floating on top of the ocean. Extra food, or extra carbon-neutral biofuel, extra carbon dioxide extracted from the atmosphere. The Brits may be sane enough to pull it off, but even they are under racial issues and tensions back at home. Like last year, right near the Boston Marathon bombings, some black muslim dudes butchered another white guy in broad daylight in the streets, shouting it's payback for all the murdered muslims. And a decade or so ago, I saw on PBS a program about South Africa, where there used to be apartheid beaches, segregated ones, for white only, and the mixes and blacks would have to go other places. So there was this black guy who murdered two white women on the beach, and when asked why he did it, it was to make the white man suffer, because he hates the white man. There are all kinds of issues around the world, a lot of them racial or tribal, for instance Iraq, people that look exactly alike, blow each other up over tribal rivalry. What Iraq needs is a strong dictator like Saddam, to reign in the crazy people with terror. Or if the Brits take over the world again, like 100 years ago the British Empire ran the business in much of the world, they'd have to be strong armed without fighting feuding battles against other similar monarchies or empires, along the lines of the Battle of Jutland, because in the nuclear age there are no winners to rivalries between empires. People need to figure out how to coexist, while maintaining respect for the genetic variability their peers represent. For instance one could agree to deport the white people from South Africa back to Europe, deport black people from Europe back to Africa, deport non-native Americans out of the reservations in the US, other then t

  2. Re:Just red tape? on Delays For SC Nuclear Plant Put Pressure On the Industry · · Score: 1

    After which the drowned vegetation stops existing, so it stops releasing methane. So it's not a big issue long run. It's like saying oceans and the Great Lakes emit a lot of methane because they are lakes. Though true that mini lakes do emit more swamp-gas bubbles than huge lakes or the ocean, which have limited vegetation beneath the surface. Plus all the leaves that fall into a lake, are turned into methane, but big lakes get relatively less leaves, than lots of mini lakes.

  3. Re:Just red tape? on Delays For SC Nuclear Plant Put Pressure On the Industry · · Score: 1

    You sent me to a "New Process Promises Ammonia From Air, Water, and Sunlight".
    The trick is the "promises" part. It's not a tangible fact, it's a future promise, a big fucking maybe.
    They could have said "New Process tries to get Ammonia From Air, Water, and Sunlight"

  4. Re:Bioaccumulation Ahoy on Fighting Invasive Fish With Forks and Knives · · Score: 1

    Some islands with native birds and animals get devastated by feral cats getting out of hand, and sometimes people round them all up with bait, to restore how it was before cats. On the other hand some islands, like the Cat-island in Japan, deliberately let cats proliferate out of control. And so do some old cat-ladies or cat-men. My aunt had a neighbor who lived well past 100, but by the time he died, there were probably 300 cats in his house, and you could barely step around in the cat poop. He kept feeding them, but was too weak and sick to clean up after them. And he did not get them neutered, he licked having a lot of cats, and the cats were like as long as there is extra food, we're gonna keep reproducing.

  5. Re:Expert?? on Is Storage Necessary For Renewable Energy? · · Score: 1

    Also, besides geothermal, there may be chemical storage, as in make tons of iron from rust, that you can turn back to rust when you need heat (or electric) in the winter. The mass energy density of iron sucks, but its volume energy density is pretty good, near that of coal. Besides iron, Zn is an option, but you have to keep a huge inventory of expensive metal, compared to plain old cheap iron, and also Aluminum may be an option, which is both cheap and extremely energy dense, you can almost burn it in a stove to make heat (it's easier to burn it if you grind it to dust, then mix it with iron rust, or copper oxide - thermite), if one only developed a low temperature way to make aluminum, other than the high temperature Hall Heroult process, There's just gotta be a way to make aluminum at lower temperature, and even if it's 70% the energy efficiency of the Hall Heroult process, so it would not be used industrially on a massive scale, it might make economic sense in a small scale distributed environment where everyone has excess windmill power to burn, the 20 tote batteries are all fully charged, and then it'd be nice to make aluminum even at 50% energy efficiency, compared to dumping it to a heat load resistor that sends it back into the atmosphere as heat. Of course there are your shenanigans of lithium, boron, borohydride, magnesium, even calcium or sodium might be on the table, as long term excess electric energy fuel storage reserve, that can pack quite a punch in relatively small space, compared to a battery. It's like power from the windmill direct is 98% due to friction and copper conductor losses, and whatchamacall them electric power inverters that take the random voltage random frequency random amp that your windmill generates and convert them to 110V household or grid voltage, so directly from the windmill you get 98% efficiency, the quick but temporary storage tote battery gets you 80% efficiency kwh output per kwh input, and the aluminum or iron long term storage gets you 50%. Geothermal usually is independent from wind power, as it just gets the average summer temperature, and sends it down, huge quantity of low temperature heat, I don't think you can really do boiling water with the windmill, then send it underground, in low quantity, and expect the high temperature heat not to dissipate and get it back at that same boiling temperature by the winter. Geothermal works better if you can pump down a lot of 80F/25C water, and in the winter when temperatures are near freezing, get back 10F/20C water, because when it's that cold, the heat does not dissipate away so fast. So geothermal is independent of wind power or solar electric, because it take abundant solar heat at LOW temperature so LOW quality heat as far as a Carnot process is concerned, and uses that, for heating only, and it has no efficiency storing high quality high temperature things that could be efficiently used in a Carnot cycle type device to regain electric energy from it. I should have said something about this aluminum iron magnesium calcium high density long term chemical storage thing yesterday, I don't know where my mind was. Must have been too late and sleepy. Some people have this idea of a flow battery, making a liquid pool of energy reserve, and vanadium is an example, but it's very low on energy density, very few and exotic things work, and they are toxic and environmentally not friendly compared to your usual geologically abundant things - silicon, aluminum, calcium, magnesium, iron, sodium, potassium, sulfure, chlorine and titanium. I left carbon out, and even nitrogen, but there could also be the option to take low energy carbohydrate biomass, such as cellulose, and hydrogenate it, not all the way to methane, which carries a lot of hydrogen but it's difficult to store, nor propane, or butane, with similar issues, but pentanes and up which are liquid at room temperature in a bucket, with octanes being the preferred one for gasoline-like use. It would be value-added energy to energy already contained in biomass, such as hay or str

  6. Re:Expert?? on Is Storage Necessary For Renewable Energy? · · Score: 1

    Aha. Now it makes sense.

  7. Re:Expert?? on Is Storage Necessary For Renewable Energy? · · Score: 0

    There is no such thing as negative energy price, unless you're retarded? Why would you pay someone to take your excess energy, when you can just dump it into the atmosphere through a resistor heating element? They are not that expensive, even if you have to finance one. Of course you might be benevolent and give it away for free, or even exert some effort out of love to they neighbor, and pay some for him to take it, but in a selfish capitalist view you can get rid of energy very easily, it's not like trash that is costly to get rid of.

    Also, on the main topic, yes, when you have excess electric from wind, you need somewhere to stick it. This mean tote batteries, 300 gallon (1100 Liter) plastic boxes half buried into the ground, or stacked on top of each other, a couple dozen of them, so when you wanna use your electric clothes drier, or washing machine, you have plenty of juice available. Unfortunately it cannot be used for long term storage, such as collect wind power in the summer and use it as electric heat in the winter, because there isn't enough storage capacity for that, but a geothermal hole can help with summer to winter temperature storage for a heat pump on top of which you can burn the extra electric you collect during the winter days. Of course there is always reverse grid pumping, such as the utility cuts you a deal, and shuts its own coal power plants down when there is excess in the spring and fall, but turns them back on in the summer when everyone is air conditioning, or in the winter when everyone is electric heating.

    For tote storage, or even plastic lined cement ditch storage, you need a lot of iron or zinc for the negative, and nickel hydroxide or manganese dioxide for the positive, all of which are decently environmental and cost friendly compared to lead acid, cadmium anything, lithium ion, etc., and work at low temperature as opposed to sodium sulfur that needs to be maintained molten. The Edison battery, nickel iron, is very low power density, but retarded hillbilly friendly because it's near impossible to fuck up with it, even environmentally, other than a relatively environmental friendly caustic soda or potash spill. The nickel is not very soluble at high pH so it doesn't go very far, and the iron and rust are nonpolluting materials. Nickel is more expensive than manganese, and zinc is more efficient than iron, even if more expensive, so the conventional alkaline battery of Zn/MnO2 might be most economical. Nickel metal hydride manganese metal hydride is in the same ballpark, where instead of iron or zn, you have funky hydride negative cathodes, like titanium alloys, but the replacement cost on those is high compared to plain easily castable zn, or difficult to cast or work or recycle, but abundant and cheap to buy iron plate. Actually, in a sense, you can recycle iron too, by making sulfate out of it, and plating it out, without having to "work it" at high temperature. You might have to plate it for 2 weeks, to a plating thickness that gives you 1.5 week capacity, the rest being current efficiency loss. Zn might be easier to charcoal reduce in retorts and cast, than plate, but that's up in the air too. Metal hydride is too high tech, cadmium and lead are toxic. Carpenter ants don't wanna crawl around and dig into cadmium or lead. They actually appeared in my dream and told me one day: "No Lead." That was all. Hmm. There are still many uses for lead, it is a precious metal, such as car jumping batteries, chemical equipment, etc, etc.

  8. Re:It's true... on Researchers Discover New Plant "Language" · · Score: 1

    Also, a parasite, which may be symbiotic for some people, even if reluctantly so, may be a deadly killer for others.
    It all depends on how much you love animals. Or how much ego you have. Or it's just plain up in the air, as in, your immune system may not be as good at the person that lives in symbiotic happiness with the parasite. Whichever way you wanna look at it.

  9. Re:Or just, y'know... on Bezos-Owned Washington Post Embeds Amazon Buy-It-Now Buttons Mid-sentence · · Score: 1

    You're dead wrong that a UBI would eliminate the incentive of illegal immigration? Are you kidding me? The US already can't keep the floodgates closed, they keep leaking all over the place, life really sucks in the rest of the world, because they make you work for peanuts there, but a lot of immigrants come here, and can't find a job, and have to pay huge cost of living, and say it was better back where they came from, like Mexico, or Bangladesh, where doctors were cheaper, housing was affordable, and even if they made little, they did have a job, and could work with their financial math.

  10. Re:It's not going to work on Bezos-Owned Washington Post Embeds Amazon Buy-It-Now Buttons Mid-sentence · · Score: 1

    So in your opinion we should stop sending out welfare checks - and unemployment checks, which are like welfare checks for white people, that don't carry the same level of "shame" as straight welfare, after all, you did pay into the unemployment insurance fund and now it's payback time - and let people starve if they can't find a job, or a way to do favors for others?

  11. Re:It's not going to work on Bezos-Owned Washington Post Embeds Amazon Buy-It-Now Buttons Mid-sentence · · Score: 1

    Rent is an exterminator of human life. Rent is supposed to be temporary, not permanent, but some people's idea is that it's supposed to be permanent. And even if they had rent to own as a general trend, I'd be absolutely not interested in rent to owning my present place, because it's in a huge property tax area. Even for free I would not want to assume the property taxes on the house, let alone pay money for it.

  12. Re:It's not going to work on Bezos-Owned Washington Post Embeds Amazon Buy-It-Now Buttons Mid-sentence · · Score: 1

    I would need a basement to try things out, start selling them on Ebay, craigslist, west side market, and similar open markets, and only if it grows, could I afford to move out of the basement and lease a space, and hire employees, only once I have something tangible and direct on paper. You can't start a business living in an apartment where you can't tap into the gas line to feed a lab Bunsen burner for instance, because the landlord does not want that, it's in the contract. Or you can't tap into the plumbing, to take hot water from the boiler to the washer, because it's not your house, you're renting. In fact I don't care what kind of junk house I'd get, as long as it had a basement, or similar lots of extra room where you can make a mess on the floor and hose it down with water, but I'm not willing to jump into say $20,000 debt to start up a business, with some pie in the sky ideas that I have no clue whether they'd work at all, and that's what's wrong with the world today, because that's what banks expect, let's start a business, under such risky assumptions, as opposed to having an already tangible flow of revenue from your basement business in a house that cost $600/year property tax after it's paid off. That's how banks are bleeding money, by forcing everyone into rent and huge housing costs, and hosing the creativity of people to do whatever they want inside their own homes, because they don't have an inside their own homes, so where the fuck are you gonna play around and tinker around, in the middle of the street, or a mall parking lot, or rent some industrial building when you can't even afford your own rent? You have to be able to acquire a basement or similar mini industrial-water-hose-rinsable contraption on minimum wage first, before you can start your own business.

  13. Re:Honorary Degree on Researchers Discover New Plant "Language" · · Score: 1

    There is a series on Youtube, called "We eat the weeds." Though the very first thing is the warning of "do not eat anything you don't know what it is", and it's there so that if you do anyway, as humans have inevitably done in the past - how else would they have found out about it - don't sue the guy who posted the videos. That should go without saying though.

  14. Re:It's true... on Researchers Discover New Plant "Language" · · Score: 1

    Btw, I am blood with all Imago, except the mosquitos, fleas, lice and ticks, etc. Out of those the ticks are the most friendly, as long as you know how to extract one and let it go on its way - you have to pull on it, and hold it like that for a long time, until it decides to let go, and you see these little legs move. If you pull too hard on the abdomen, it rips and the tick dies, the head and thorax remaining in your skin, and you get a big red infection spot and puss. But these imagoes are the sacred vehicles of the parasites, vehicles that I or anybody else kinda hates, but besides malaria, that's deadly, they can also spread parasites that are not so bad. There are also other means, such as air inhalation, skin contact, drinking river water, other higher parasites, eating vegetables, eating meat, eating fruit, etc. I still slap any mosquito I catch sucking. Apropo sucking, how about a dumb blond joke? What's the difference between a blond and a mosquito?
    And the reason why the parasites love other animals than humans, or humans that love other animals, is that they took up residence in them long before humans existed, and they'd take up residence in them again if humans no longer existed. But according to them, nothing they've come across so far really compares to the human brain, so they'd hate to see it perish. Human nature has issues though. For when in difficulty, humans seek out God, but when their fortune turns for the better, inevitably they turn their back on God. Or Zen, or Tao, or the Great Spirit..

  15. Re:It's true... on Researchers Discover New Plant "Language" · · Score: 1

    I have at least 4, or more like 5 of these parasites in me, that mind control me through mRNA exchange and direct synaptic nerve contact and what not. One I was born with, and never could completely identify, but it's the one that feels like electricity is running up and down my skin every time I have goose bumps, like experiencing beauty in music. It really loves good music. Then the Black Forest one, of the land of Imago, that back when I was 14, and went off fishing by myself, really went ecstatic when I put down the fishing rod, and just enjoyed looking at the fish swimming, that did not notice me sneaking up. Mountain river fish are very playful. It then mind controlled me and took me across the asphalt road, to where bush grew neck high, and made me look at a butterfly sucking nectar, and I liked it, and it was really happy that I liked it. It was the same one that made me prior read the book on Weaver and Alien, and read my reactions to it, which were gut stirring. I actually never saw that movie, but I know what it's about. Then I picked up one from Maghreb, at a chemical place I worked at, then I picked up the parasite of the Great Spirit, which I might have had earlier but it was not active, just watching, then the parasites of East Asia, right before another nasty one hit. And these guys loved talking to each other, but then I got infected with the really rogue one, from Nigeria, that wants to kill any human by eating their brains out, and it takes a lot of effort from the other guys to subdue it, and convince it to chill out. But it's very temperamental, and flies off the handle like when I masturbate, or do something not totally right, like I accidentally crushed a spider the other day after I got it scared and it ran under me, it was still alive, but obviously hurting, I put it in a corner, hoping the best for it, but.. These are the guys that made me not feel my head hurt when I smashed the driver's side window in a car accident spinning 70 mph on the highway, but instead made my pinky hurt. What a great sense of humor. And they made me stay absolutely calm throughout the whole thing, and after it. And they protect me from cancer, no matter how many cancerous assaults I get. It's like I'm not myself, but I don't mind. Neither is anyone else in the world themselves, they just don't know it. They say I'm mentally ill, and I say I'm blessed, with symbiotic organisms. And so is everyone else in the world. These are the guys that manage genetic variability and not let any single species dominate the rest, on Earth. It takes active effort, because without it, the strong get stronger the weak get weaker, and natural equilibriums would settle like in the business world, one giant monopoly driving everyone else out of existence, without some intelligent oversight to manage variety and equilibrium. For instance it's a miracle that a single photosynthetic plus predatory single celled organism has not taken over the whole world and digested all other life forms up. I can thank these guys that it has not, and the last thing I want to do is attack them with drugs and chemicals and radiation and such. These are the guys that made the prophets talk back in the day, then they gave up on that idea. These are the guys the created Yhvh, Allah, Zeus, Zoroaster, Apollo, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, Buddha, Tao, Zen, The Great Spirit, etc, etc, etc. These are the guys that made Christopher Smart write Jubilate Agno. Or a rogue one of them who could not chill out. These are the guys that created zero in the minds of Indian mathematicians, after they themselves decided not to eat the cows. Without them, without the flora and fauna in me, I'd be dead, and so would be anyone else. Which is why the world economy is going to collapse if people don't stop lawn mowing and spraying pesticides all over the place. These guys will make sure of that. They are not geniuses, they don't know the future exactly, they don't want to lose the good life, such as winter heat in cold climates, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do, you have to des

  16. Re: It's not going to work on Bezos-Owned Washington Post Embeds Amazon Buy-It-Now Buttons Mid-sentence · · Score: 1

    Does it really matter?

    P.S. Substance abuse is for retards. I never been drunk in my entire life, let alone high. I don't smoke either.

  17. Re:It's not going to work on Bezos-Owned Washington Post Embeds Amazon Buy-It-Now Buttons Mid-sentence · · Score: 2

    Emusic charges 48 cents a song, and the supply is so immense, that the pressure on that huge, 48 cents downward is tremendous, as I could buy, instead of 24 songs on $12/mo, I don't know, 1000 songs? The sellers eager to get a piece of the pie, any tiny bit of piece, instead of all of nothing for one of them, like in a raffle ticket, are many. Such is the situation with intellectual property where the creativity of the public is let loose by opening the floodgates. Prices go to zero. I mean I see gorgeous free graffiti riding public transport trains, and it's much better, and subtle and creative, on the East Side that's almost fully black, than on the West Side that's more mixed with white, hispanic and black. Asians don't do graffiti, as far as I know, but they get good paying jobs after getting a college degree. So anyway, the intellectual creativity of people is bursting at the seams, even for free, let alone getting paid for it. That's why cents are not fine enough granularity, when you're talking a price of 0.00000023 cents for an item, and that's where bitcoin comes in. Of course in a world where they can lock down creativity better, and erect all kinds of cock blocks - such as creating music on the cloud that you hope to sell on emusic, when in fact somebody else will sell it, under their name, if it's any good, and yours gets listed too, but not presented to buyers much -, so when they take away even that, the ability to create something at all offline and sell it to your buddies in the neighborhood without it going through the network, or authorship being questioned, then they can reinstate previous intellectual property prices. Mind control, flow of information control, has always been the biggest game in town. And the powers that be may not find bitcoins tasty after all, compared to blocking everyone off from access to sell intellectual property, such as organic chemistry book authors from india selling ebooks in the US, or music artists from Brazil selling mp3's in the US, etc, etc. It's a different world these days, everybody stressed to the breaking point over that extra cent.

  18. Re:Or just, y'know... on Bezos-Owned Washington Post Embeds Amazon Buy-It-Now Buttons Mid-sentence · · Score: 1

    Of course everyone dreaming about becoming a millionaire, and the prevalence of hookers or hooker like people, is also what's wrong with America, that invites things like 9-11. There is two sides to every story, to Norway, and to America: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. That's both of them.

  19. Re:Or just, y'know... on Bezos-Owned Washington Post Embeds Amazon Buy-It-Now Buttons Mid-sentence · · Score: 1

    - $5500 x 330,000,000 people = 1,815,000,000,000, or 1815 billion, not 181 billion like you say. That's $1.8 trillion dollars, quite a bit of dough these days. But in places like NYC $5500 does not cover your rent for a single month, let alone a full year.
    - I'm not a big fan of sterilization. Or offering to anyone to relocate from the US, which is the "great melting pot." As in good luck trying to keep your identity here, we'll blend you down and dissolve you. I could understand relocating somebody away from a place like Zimbabwe if they are not negro, or Norway if they are not white (there was a recent shooting of anybody off color in Norway (including Indian, Arab, African), to protect genetic purity of the race, and the guy barely got slapped on the hand, meaning that's how most people feel over there, they don't like forced breeding), or Mongolia if they are not mongoloid, or even a Native American reservation in the US, if they come up too low on score for being Native American.
    - I'm assuming you're from Norway living in the US. You sound like a communist instigator. People come to the US to become millionaires, not to spread the word about the benefits of socialism and communism. That's for Norway and Sweden, where people like to cooperate and be friendly with each other, not for the US. People come here to dig gold in a gold rush with a bucket and a shovel, and fuck all the hookers, while hoping they'll hit that big rock of gold that'll make them instant millionaires. Or before that, to become free farmers after their indentured servitude term of 30 years is up, as opposed to serfs in their old land. Socialism and collective interest starved the first settlers to the point of somebody killing his own wife, because socialism, lack of private property, creates a bunch of lazy fucks that die in the misery of not giving a fuck. One of my favorite commentaries describing America is http://www.cato.org/publicatio... Private Property Saved Jamestown, And With It, America By David Boaz. Even if it may not be true or historically accurate, who cares. But that was private property with 3 acres for everybody, where they could give a fuck, not universal rent for everybody, where the landlord walks in and out without a warrant, because it's not your house, or you have to bucket the hot water, because you can't make a connection yourself to the washer (btw, lucky you, most people need to go to laundromats), and if you try to escape rent, we knock your house down with an excavator, shoot your tires on the highway to make you late from work to get a taxi to miss payments, or sell you a cheap car with a loose, fluid coupling steering, and a remote in it to spin you into the side rail at 60 mph on the highway. But the powers that be made only my pinky hurt.

  20. Re:It's not going to work on Bezos-Owned Washington Post Embeds Amazon Buy-It-Now Buttons Mid-sentence · · Score: 1

    I could live on 450/mo right now, in my present setup, if I did not have to drive anywhere. But I'd have to drop Internet service, maybe even natural gas, and keep rent, electric, and food. Oh and no insurance of any kind, of course. But that's like that already. I would also not have to pay taxes other than sales. I'd have to be eating a lot of rice though, but it would be doable.
    And on an income like that, in a different housing situation, I'd be a millionaire in the sticks, where, if you can get CAUV, property tax is like $20/year, which comes to $2/month. That's what I'd call cheap housing, and $450/$2=225x, which means each month you earn 224 months worth of housing cost surplus. Actually with such low housing cost food becomes the dominant item, and you still have to spend like $50/mo on that, unless you grow it yourself, and make the pottery from clay, clothing from flax, blacksmith stuff from ore, etc, yourself, and then you don't even have to pay sales tax, if you can be that self sufficient. But you still gotta pony up the $20/yr for property tax, else they sell your parcel on sheriff sale.

  21. Re:I don't know what they're talking about on Involuntary Eye Movement May Provide Definitive Diagnosis of ADHD · · Score: 1

    Exactly. But I'd even go as far as ADHD is a rich person's disease, created by the doctors out of thin air to get some badly needed money. As in they'll tell ya anything if it means dough in the pocket, like some fancy abrakadabra "diagnosis." I even dislike the word diagnosis and put it in the same category as statistics. As in there are lies, damned lies, and statistics is the superlative of them all. But, compared to "statistics", "diagnosis" is so far off the chart that it gets its own category in degrees of lying. Like they have any fucking clue what's wrong with you, unless they took something themselves and infected you with it on purpose. But otherwise, the give you a "diagnosis" is a similar situation to the Mad TV Alien Abduction Therapist gig, that you can probably find on youtube. Here, I found it for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

  22. Re:Zillow has walk ability score for every home on Figuring Out Where To Live Using Math · · Score: 1

    I don't like to walk, or even ride the unmotorized bicycle, but I do it if I have to.

  23. Re:you must not have done well in math class on Figuring Out Where To Live Using Math · · Score: 1

    The only good thing about cities is public transportation, but if you don't have to go anywhere, because your living costs are low and you can afford not to have a job and live off the savings, then you don't really need public transportation that much, and can even rent a car or call a taxi once every blue Moon. Transportation cost is huge, 2nd to housing cost, and food is waaaay lower than either, which is the only thing you really need if you can find a way to live in the sticks, far from everybody else.

  24. Re:you must not have done well in math class on Figuring Out Where To Live Using Math · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's more like where the retards live have the highest violent crime rates, and that's why you wanna take away their guns, not the other way around, that because you take away their guns, they become retarded, and their crime rate goes up. Only retards get upset over being called names, or get upset over being told anything, to where they want hurt each other over what was said.

    PS. I did get upset too at a job, but not over what was told to me, but over collecting a lot of income and not being able to do diddly squat for it, even though the boss was like are you done yet, are you done yet. My advice was to take the friggin computer with java/oracle/citrix and put it straight into the dumpster, because it was holding up work too much, and make me not really earn my daily bread by wasting time, and that's what really pissed me off, not whatever they told me personally. There is like nothing you can tell me that upsets me, unless of course you're my supervisor or superior, and order me to do things like killing somebody, or lying or cheating, and such. And if we can't agree on what we do, and how we do it, I'm out of there. Which is why I hate working in teams. Or with stupid mandatory safety rules like metatarsal clown gear for safety equipment, but I would also not work in a place that's not flexible enough to allow for safety, such as bringing your own gloves, or duct tape for gloves that wear too fast, if you want to. But I'm willing to put up with the clown gear if that's what they see fit, as long as the place is productive, in a common sense way, and profitable.

  25. Re:Check your arithmatic on Figuring Out Where To Live Using Math · · Score: 0

    I live the same way but I hate it because I cannot afford friends. I'd be a lot happier in the sticks, as I could get a huge income to basic expense ratio, where I could, in one month, make 10 months worth of housing cost surplus, as opposed to 1 to 2 presently, and being ushered with x-rays and gases into a 1/2 to 1/4 housing surplus per month, as others deem appropriate for me. Dude, I hate living in a way where it takes 4 months to save up 1 months rent, and then as soon as I'm out of a job, I'm fucked, I don't have a time frame to work with. If you can cut your monthly housing cost to something like $20, and you can grow some of your food, $1000 saved could last you 2 years, and $5000 for 10 years, as opposed to 2 months and 1 year in most present situations. If you don't have to work for 10 years, you don't have to buy gas either for the daily commute, just sit home, and jerk off, or devote your time to stuff like Isaac Newton did, being a yeoman farmer, with a comfortable income, and low expenses. In fighting the income to basic expense ratio, I could easily go to $20/mo from $200/mo (which is not my housing cost, but let's suppose for sake of argument), a 10x change, compared to getting $100/hr instead of $10/hr. The denominator approaching zero is the true way to fight the cost of living vs. income war, because you can get infinite luxury almost, but as far as income goes, you already don't deserve what you make compared to the global average of the Made in China and Made in Bangladesh stuff that you see for everything at Walmart.