Really?
This is likely the WORST place to ask for advice I can think of. I would go to http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?showforum=22 and http://www.panbo.com/ to start with.
Here is your list, starting with what you absolutely need:
0. The ability to navigate with traditional paper and pencil level tech. Stay home if you can't do this.
1. VHF with DSC
2. GPS fixed mount wired to VHF and whatever else needs the info.
3. Handheld VHF
3. EPIRB and/or PLB - 406 MHz versions with built-in GPS
4. Handheld GPS
5. Depthfinder
OPTIONS
5. Laptop with charting programs (OpenCPN and Seaclear to start with)
6. Substitute chart plotter/GPS combo for #2.
7. Substitute chart plotter/fishfinder/GPS for #2 and #6.
8. AIS receiver
9. AIS transceiver instead of #8.
10. RADAR
11. SSB radio
12. Irridium sat phone.
13. NAVTEX (kind of old tech now)
14. SCS pactor modem for SSB - for email and GRIBS (http://www.scs-ptc.com/shop/categories/modems-en)
15. Autopilot
16. HID flashlights, LED flashlights, FLIR scopes, Night-Vision scopes, DVD players, blenders, ipods, , and any other toy you can cram on your boat.
Capitalism is like fire, E=MC^2, a 12 gauge shotgun, or gravity.
Any of them can be used to great benefit or great harm. They have no intrinsic morality or intelligence to guide them independent of the user.;)
AFAIK the world's premier builder of space craft - or near space craft - at the time very much WAS into "raining death down on another country ". We let him slide on that, seeing as how we needed our own rockets built and all.
When I was a kid hardly anyone I knew had a working mother. Summer was an absolute wonderland of swimming, climbing, bike riding, building forts, and vacation trips.
Now..........not so much. Summer is just a huge hassle for 2 working parents and a lot of kids end up parked in front of a TV:( For my own son, we did a lot to make sure that did not happen, but not everyone has those resources.
AFAIK 19th century New England had a higher literacy rate then than they do now. As for the South..........well they started pretty far behind, can't expect too much
Even today.....Right here in Maryland!
A 22 year old man was convicted of statutory rape for having sex with a 12 year old. He was given a choice by the judge of jail or marriage. The wedding took place when the girl was 13. This ended up with enough bad publicity the state now requires people to be over 16 to be married.
*in a sad footnote, they had a baby that dies from SIDS:(
I actually did get the very nice Indian girl to set me up and she used her caller ID to call me back when the call dropped. No worse than Verizon IMHO.
I have Straight Talk for my son and so far - so good. I am thinking of switching my own phones over to it. On the torture test in my rural area, we drove to where the Verizon signal sucks and Straight Talk (AT&T) was about as good (or as bad). I love the cancel anytime system:)
Wow - remind me never to move there!
OTOH I live on an island on the Other Side of the USA - The Good Side;)
We have readily available excellent locally raised vegetables. We have crap food too if you want it.
Since some houses date back to the 1600s, insulation is variable. You will hear a lot of gunfire at certain times of the year and if you make friends with the people firing you may get a duck, goose, or deer for your table.
Move on over to our side.
Sort of. Machiavelli's work wasn't the ode to sociopaths many think it was. He was worried that the princes of his day, by either incompetence or misplaced compassion, were causing endless conflict and instability. His guide was intended to have ONE winner firmly in control to generate peace and prosperity instead of more war.
Lincoln settled on Grant because he was willing to pay the butcher's bill to grind the South into dust however long it took.
I am not saying we want psychopathic war leaders, but if you're going to win you're going to be making hard choices to do terrible things and the quicker you win the better for all involved in the end.
Totally wrong. You are confusing PHOBIA (phobic) with PATH(ology). Plenty of very nice moral upstanding people don't socialize well. That is called being shy last time I checked.
A sociopath is basically like a psychopath that hasn't done anything illegal yet. They are the ones that do leveraged buyouts, lay everyone off, pay themselves a fat bonus, and ride off into the sunset. Or on a smaller scale, they guy one cube over who blames all his failures on you and takes credit for all your work. Or a used car dealer selling flood title cars to little old ladies with 25% interest loans. They see other people as tools to be used or obstacles to be moved. Far from being anti-social, they are frequently quite charming. They tend to rise to the top in most organizations because they'll go the extra step that you couldn't do and still sleep at night.
You had a SHOEBOX! You were rich! I dreamed one day I would have such luxury and I had to work 48 hours a day UNDER the mill and pay them for the privilege.
The biggest problem I see is that a good A&P can make WAY more as a car mechanic combined with the ever-falling number of aircraft owners with any money left over to pay them. This is NOT a career with much of a future IMHO. Meanwhile the airlines have discovered the joys of outsourcing/off-shoring all the work they can.
I quit X and told them I loved the work but the months behind travel payments were too much, just like the last 4 to quit before me did. I wonder if they ever got a clue?
At a small enough company, pretty much EVERYONE but the janitor might here from the "C" level and when you get one that is like your wife PMS-ing where whatever you did was wrong even if they JUST TOLD YOU TO DO IT, like becomes un-fun.
In a first world country in 2012, do you REALLY want to see people living in shacks made from trash begging for food and dying in ditches?
I have been to places that had this charming ambiance and I am HAPPY that we have made poverty not so life-shortening as that.
You can't possibly be serious!
A wealthy person in 1960 would have a nice house in a nice area, a high end car, their own airplane, yacht, horses, vacation house, or something similar. Retirement, college tuition, and health care would not be daily worries. Vacations to nice places would be the norm and the Mrs. would NOT be working unless she wanted to.
Here in 2012:
Housing is *STILL* more expensive in areas with an actual functioning economy relative to incomes than in 1960.
Poor people are not buying a Lexus or BMW new. Just like 1960, they might scrape up enough cash for an old beater car that had once been a high end car many years and miles previously. One thing the 2012 and 1960 poor share in most places is a lack of good public transportation.
Poor people are not really represented among the yacht and airplane owning crowd any more so now than decades past. Being involved in both, what we see as a negative trend is the middle class getting out, not the poor people getting in. Poor people are not buying vacation houses now, then, or ever.
College tuition and health care worries have headed UP the income ladder, NOT DOWN.
TWO people working is now the norm. Poor people might not work at all, but move up a little bit and a middle-class lifestyle costs 80 hours/wk of labor, not 40 as it did in 1960.
Oh wait a minute - consumer electronics are cheap enough for everyone. At one time electricity, radios, TV, electric lights, central heat, air conditioning, cell phones, computers, aluminum (yes it once was fantastically expensive), antibiotics, indoor plumbing, and calculators were all toys of the upper crust and WAY too expensive for the rest of us. At one time an LED flashlight or digitial watch would have been drop-jaw amazing. So..........poor people have a lot of bullshit made in China crap to take their minds off all their jobs going to China.
I call bullshit on this. First off, poverty level income would not allow you to pay your property taxes, eat, and keep a BMW running ( I had one, I should know). I can well see having CORPORATE income of 0 or less after expenses. Those expenses would include YOUR SALARY and likely the car too if your accountant is on the ball.
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Really? This is likely the WORST place to ask for advice I can think of. I would go to http://forums.sailinganarchy.com/index.php?showforum=22 and http://www.panbo.com/ to start with. Here is your list, starting with what you absolutely need: 0. The ability to navigate with traditional paper and pencil level tech. Stay home if you can't do this. 1. VHF with DSC 2. GPS fixed mount wired to VHF and whatever else needs the info. 3. Handheld VHF 3. EPIRB and/or PLB - 406 MHz versions with built-in GPS 4. Handheld GPS 5. Depthfinder OPTIONS 5. Laptop with charting programs (OpenCPN and Seaclear to start with) 6. Substitute chart plotter/GPS combo for #2. 7. Substitute chart plotter/fishfinder/GPS for #2 and #6. 8. AIS receiver 9. AIS transceiver instead of #8. 10. RADAR 11. SSB radio 12. Irridium sat phone. 13. NAVTEX (kind of old tech now) 14. SCS pactor modem for SSB - for email and GRIBS (http://www.scs-ptc.com/shop/categories/modems-en) 15. Autopilot 16. HID flashlights, LED flashlights, FLIR scopes, Night-Vision scopes, DVD players, blenders, ipods, , and any other toy you can cram on your boat.
Capitalism is like fire, E=MC^2, a 12 gauge shotgun, or gravity. Any of them can be used to great benefit or great harm. They have no intrinsic morality or intelligence to guide them independent of the user. ;)
AFAIK the world's premier builder of space craft - or near space craft - at the time very much WAS into "raining death down on another country ". We let him slide on that, seeing as how we needed our own rockets built and all.
In 1912 we had primitive versions of everything needed to go to the moon. For a star ship, not so much...................
My sailboat *can* get around the world in under a year and visit pretty much every significant port and land mass in about 5 years.
When I was a kid hardly anyone I knew had a working mother. Summer was an absolute wonderland of swimming, climbing, bike riding, building forts, and vacation trips. Now..........not so much. Summer is just a huge hassle for 2 working parents and a lot of kids end up parked in front of a TV :( For my own son, we did a lot to make sure that did not happen, but not everyone has those resources.
AFAIK 19th century New England had a higher literacy rate then than they do now. As for the South..........well they started pretty far behind, can't expect too much
Even today.....Right here in Maryland! A 22 year old man was convicted of statutory rape for having sex with a 12 year old. He was given a choice by the judge of jail or marriage. The wedding took place when the girl was 13. This ended up with enough bad publicity the state now requires people to be over 16 to be married. *in a sad footnote, they had a baby that dies from SIDS :(
This just isn't true. See Straight Talk ;)
I actually did get the very nice Indian girl to set me up and she used her caller ID to call me back when the call dropped. No worse than Verizon IMHO.
I have Straight Talk for my son and so far - so good. I am thinking of switching my own phones over to it. On the torture test in my rural area, we drove to where the Verizon signal sucks and Straight Talk (AT&T) was about as good (or as bad). I love the cancel anytime system :)
When I was working on a boat in Florida in August, I could drink a gallon of water and not even have to pee all day!
Wow - remind me never to move there! OTOH I live on an island on the Other Side of the USA - The Good Side ;)
We have readily available excellent locally raised vegetables. We have crap food too if you want it.
Since some houses date back to the 1600s, insulation is variable. You will hear a lot of gunfire at certain times of the year and if you make friends with the people firing you may get a duck, goose, or deer for your table.
Move on over to our side.
Sort of. Machiavelli's work wasn't the ode to sociopaths many think it was. He was worried that the princes of his day, by either incompetence or misplaced compassion, were causing endless conflict and instability. His guide was intended to have ONE winner firmly in control to generate peace and prosperity instead of more war. Lincoln settled on Grant because he was willing to pay the butcher's bill to grind the South into dust however long it took. I am not saying we want psychopathic war leaders, but if you're going to win you're going to be making hard choices to do terrible things and the quicker you win the better for all involved in the end.
Totally wrong. You are confusing PHOBIA (phobic) with PATH(ology). Plenty of very nice moral upstanding people don't socialize well. That is called being shy last time I checked. A sociopath is basically like a psychopath that hasn't done anything illegal yet. They are the ones that do leveraged buyouts, lay everyone off, pay themselves a fat bonus, and ride off into the sunset. Or on a smaller scale, they guy one cube over who blames all his failures on you and takes credit for all your work. Or a used car dealer selling flood title cars to little old ladies with 25% interest loans. They see other people as tools to be used or obstacles to be moved. Far from being anti-social, they are frequently quite charming. They tend to rise to the top in most organizations because they'll go the extra step that you couldn't do and still sleep at night.
You had a SHOEBOX! You were rich! I dreamed one day I would have such luxury and I had to work 48 hours a day UNDER the mill and pay them for the privilege.
The biggest problem I see is that a good A&P can make WAY more as a car mechanic combined with the ever-falling number of aircraft owners with any money left over to pay them. This is NOT a career with much of a future IMHO. Meanwhile the airlines have discovered the joys of outsourcing/off-shoring all the work they can.
I quit X and told them I loved the work but the months behind travel payments were too much, just like the last 4 to quit before me did. I wonder if they ever got a clue?
They ARE my friends. Marry into a cop family and the world works VERY differently ;)
At a small enough company, pretty much EVERYONE but the janitor might here from the "C" level and when you get one that is like your wife PMS-ing where whatever you did was wrong even if they JUST TOLD YOU TO DO IT, like becomes un-fun.
In a first world country in 2012, do you REALLY want to see people living in shacks made from trash begging for food and dying in ditches? I have been to places that had this charming ambiance and I am HAPPY that we have made poverty not so life-shortening as that.
The 1960s home I grew up in, while nothing special, was worth about $600K a few years ago and $400K now.
You can't possibly be serious! A wealthy person in 1960 would have a nice house in a nice area, a high end car, their own airplane, yacht, horses, vacation house, or something similar. Retirement, college tuition, and health care would not be daily worries. Vacations to nice places would be the norm and the Mrs. would NOT be working unless she wanted to. Here in 2012: Housing is *STILL* more expensive in areas with an actual functioning economy relative to incomes than in 1960. Poor people are not buying a Lexus or BMW new. Just like 1960, they might scrape up enough cash for an old beater car that had once been a high end car many years and miles previously. One thing the 2012 and 1960 poor share in most places is a lack of good public transportation. Poor people are not really represented among the yacht and airplane owning crowd any more so now than decades past. Being involved in both, what we see as a negative trend is the middle class getting out, not the poor people getting in. Poor people are not buying vacation houses now, then, or ever. College tuition and health care worries have headed UP the income ladder, NOT DOWN. TWO people working is now the norm. Poor people might not work at all, but move up a little bit and a middle-class lifestyle costs 80 hours/wk of labor, not 40 as it did in 1960. Oh wait a minute - consumer electronics are cheap enough for everyone. At one time electricity, radios, TV, electric lights, central heat, air conditioning, cell phones, computers, aluminum (yes it once was fantastically expensive), antibiotics, indoor plumbing, and calculators were all toys of the upper crust and WAY too expensive for the rest of us. At one time an LED flashlight or digitial watch would have been drop-jaw amazing. So..........poor people have a lot of bullshit made in China crap to take their minds off all their jobs going to China.
King Richard ??????
I call bullshit on this. First off, poverty level income would not allow you to pay your property taxes, eat, and keep a BMW running ( I had one, I should know). I can well see having CORPORATE income of 0 or less after expenses. Those expenses would include YOUR SALARY and likely the car too if your accountant is on the ball.