The end of all these type of articles always is a recommendation for more power and control by a centralized global state or NGO. No mention of the solution which actually would work,which is decentralization and resilience.
The surest way to get large scale government investment in space exploration is to have a private company appear to be making progress on establishing off-planet colonies of people that governments cannot credibly exert ownership over.
To that end, I laud what SpaceX is doing as it's seriously freaking out governments and government-pushers like NDT to invest more in space in order to bring star-chasers back under government bootheels.
Governments will of course fail in this effort, but it will push us into space faster.
I remember in the early 2000s hams were tracking stealth aircraft in the Nellis pattern by listening to the multipath bounce off them from local rock stations (rock works better than NPR due to the fact that the carrier is more consistently modulated). The state of there art for passive multistatic radar has improved a lot since then with those little SDR dongles being available. Sync the clocks and fine tracking of stealth aircraft is dead easy.
My ancestors escaped Russia in pre-WWI, because they saw which way the wind was blowing. If they had followed the advice of "survivalists" and "emergency prep gurus", including those in this thread, they would be dead.
The thing that no one (and no one in this thread talks about it either) talks about as a component of emergency preparedness is having infrastructure in another country to sustain you: bank accounts, storage lockers, businesses, and a second passport to get there. A storage locker in a foreign country can run as little as $20 a month, and a foot locker in a friend's garage there often is free. For as little as $500 you can have an entirely separate life to get to in the event your current country goes psychotic - and yet no one does this.
"Bugging in" doesn't work if the local disaster is longer than 3 weeks in length as you become a target after local supplies are exhausted.
"Bugging out" to the countryside doesn't work either, as then you're more isolated and are a target as well.
When my ancestors saw the conscription and farm confiscations, they set up a base of operations in Chicago with distant relatives. They had a trunk pre-packed in the cellar. When the government came to town and started grabbing all the males for the army, they grabbed the trunk, hopped a boat, and were running a successful butcher shop in Chicago three months later. Everyone who stayed died or was enslaved - the "bugged in" ones had their houses burned down around them and the "bugged out" ones were rounded up and shot eventually.
Their successful business also allowed my great-grandfather's family to send money and supplies to anticommunist groups at virtually no risk to himself in the US, and they were proud when the USSR finally fell. Their old bug-out trunk is still in my basement, and I have the first money my family ever made in the US hung in a frame on the wall, it's a 1904 Morgan silver dollar.
In another part of my family, all their eggs were in one basket despite being wealthy. They didn't leave the country when the Nazis took power, and as a result half of them died in death camps.
This is an eBay-like setup for people to sell guns across the internet. Before the anti-gun hyperventilators (like the submitter) start, guns can only be shipped to a Federal Firearms License holder (or a C&R, but that's a special case that I won't go into). You then go to them and have a federal background check performed on you, and you pick up your gun.
Many computer nerds I know often buy rare machineguns this way. (no, not semi-auto Democrat-newspeak "assault weapons", real belt-fed working machineguns like MG-42s and M2HBs as well as full auto assault rifles like the M16)
Occasionally, a 105mm howitzer (includes 20 rounds free!), RPG, or 20mm anti-aircraft cannon will show up on gunbroker as well. Yes, private citizens can easily own WORKING assault rifles, frag grenades, machineguns, howitzers, smart bombs, and anti-aircraft cannons. No legal citizen-owned machinegun, mortar, bomb, howitzer, or grenade has ever been used in any crime. Ever.
It's also interesting to note that there's no explicit regulation prohibiting you from owning, say , a nuclear-armed cruise missile - it's just you can't find anyone willing to sell them to you.
Buy a cheap knife at your destination. You're telling me that you would put your bag that's going to be your life for the next year in the hands of some forgetful gorillas who might route it to Dubai or smash it into oblivion... because you want to take a knife?
Seems silly to me. Also, a lot of Asian carriers have it such that you can buy a ticket 2 hours before the plane takes off. I'd rather not stress out as to whether my bag is following me or not.
I haven't been asked for a bribe to get my luggage back, but that's because I never check luggage. I have a friend who was flying on some African airline that had to pay the clerk to look for his "lost" luggage (which took all of 2 minutes).
Besides, I always laugh at the Aussies that bring a 4 foot tall backpack and check it. Meanwhile, I breeze by them with a small knapsack that I'm able to live out of for months.
Don't ever check luggage. You'll be happier and less stressed.
Not precisely.
On top of Mount Everest, sound of nature: swshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
On top of Mount Everest, listening to... crap, my iPod's HDD had a head crash, because it's only rated to 10,000 feet ASL.
swshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...
Just being pedantic.
Do not, under any circumstances, ever check any luggage.
EVER EVER EVER.
Take one bag that you can carry on, and NEVER let it out of your sight, otherwise you're going to have to pay a fee, tip, or bribe in order to get it back. Local cops are often in league with the local criminals to prey on travelers.
Agreed on getting rid of the iPod, it's useless for doing much of anything without coaxing. Get a media player that supports dumping photos to it like an iRiver. Ditch the laptop and get a PDA with USB and wireless.
If you take a media player, you should not ever be listening to it or have it out in a non-secure area like in a bus station or walking down the street.
If you're *really* going to the backwoods of nowhere, a solar charger may be good.
Mail back any souvenirs, don't carry them with you.
Recently, some scientists gave a group of young boys access to a chest full of dolls and toy cars and balls and pots. In another room, a group of girls got access to an identical chest.
The boys eschewed the dolls and pots in favor of the cars and balls, and vice versa for the girls.
Now, as the feminists screech about "gender bias" and "socialization" and "male patriarchy"......the boys and girls were both young vervet monkeys. Oops.
Sorry feminists. Guess men and women ARE wired differently, after all. Men are drawn to engineering and science, women aren't. Women are drawn to hearth and home. It's in our wiring. Nothing wrong with that, just don't try to say that the lack of women in engineering is because of some "male patriarchy".
Best advice so far. If you own the company outright (ie. no board of directors to oust you), you are outsource-proofed. Most Slashbots don't have the stones to make it with their own company, so they are reduced to whining about outsourcing. Words for these people: Grow up. No one owes you a job. If you're allowed to leave the company at any time, the company is allowed to fire you at any time. It's this attitude of entitlement that is causing the riots in France: "I am leaving work to strike to teach you that you shouldn't be able to fire me!"
Of course, Slashbots are so obsessed with getting more milk, they don't realize that you can own the damn cow.
Fine. Write it out, then encrypt with a 2048 bit key and post it here. Then after the press release, post the key. If they match, then I might have reason to believe you. Otherwise, begone troll.
As women become more and more un-dateable, they accumulate more and more cats, eventually leading to the "another-old-woman-dies-and-is-eaten-by-her-cats" story. Toxoplasma infects the brain of cats and those that are around them, and because it's present in cat saliva, one can get a toxoplasma infection by a cat scratch. I would lay even money that 90% of those infected with toxoplasma (and thus make the world more unstable) are women.
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The end of all these type of articles always is a recommendation for more power and control by a centralized global state or NGO. No mention of the solution which actually would work,which is decentralization and resilience.
The surest way to get large scale government investment in space exploration is to have a private company appear to be making progress on establishing off-planet colonies of people that governments cannot credibly exert ownership over.
To that end, I laud what SpaceX is doing as it's seriously freaking out governments and government-pushers like NDT to invest more in space in order to bring star-chasers back under government bootheels.
Governments will of course fail in this effort, but it will push us into space faster.
I remember in the early 2000s hams were tracking stealth aircraft in the Nellis pattern by listening to the multipath bounce off them from local rock stations (rock works better than NPR due to the fact that the carrier is more consistently modulated). The state of there art for passive multistatic radar has improved a lot since then with those little SDR dongles being available. Sync the clocks and fine tracking of stealth aircraft is dead easy.
Walk out. Don't spend a second of time worrying about hardware, and restore from your already existing remote backup if the fire levels the place.
If you don't have remote backup, you're a moron.
My ancestors escaped Russia in pre-WWI, because they saw which way the wind was blowing. If they had followed the advice of "survivalists" and "emergency prep gurus", including those in this thread, they would be dead.
The thing that no one (and no one in this thread talks about it either) talks about as a component of emergency preparedness is having infrastructure in another country to sustain you: bank accounts, storage lockers, businesses, and a second passport to get there. A storage locker in a foreign country can run as little as $20 a month, and a foot locker in a friend's garage there often is free. For as little as $500 you can have an entirely separate life to get to in the event your current country goes psychotic - and yet no one does this.
"Bugging in" doesn't work if the local disaster is longer than 3 weeks in length as you become a target after local supplies are exhausted.
"Bugging out" to the countryside doesn't work either, as then you're more isolated and are a target as well.
When my ancestors saw the conscription and farm confiscations, they set up a base of operations in Chicago with distant relatives. They had a trunk pre-packed in the cellar. When the government came to town and started grabbing all the males for the army, they grabbed the trunk, hopped a boat, and were running a successful butcher shop in Chicago three months later. Everyone who stayed died or was enslaved - the "bugged in" ones had their houses burned down around them and the "bugged out" ones were rounded up and shot eventually.
Their successful business also allowed my great-grandfather's family to send money and supplies to anticommunist groups at virtually no risk to himself in the US, and they were proud when the USSR finally fell. Their old bug-out trunk is still in my basement, and I have the first money my family ever made in the US hung in a frame on the wall, it's a 1904 Morgan silver dollar.
In another part of my family, all their eggs were in one basket despite being wealthy. They didn't leave the country when the Nazis took power, and as a result half of them died in death camps.
I am also an AI researcher, and have found that the hardest thing to try and code into an AI is sanctimony. It's weird.
gunbroker link
This is an eBay-like setup for people to sell guns across the internet. Before the anti-gun hyperventilators (like the submitter) start, guns can only be shipped to a Federal Firearms License holder (or a C&R, but that's a special case that I won't go into). You then go to them and have a federal background check performed on you, and you pick up your gun.
Many computer nerds I know often buy rare machineguns this way. (no, not semi-auto Democrat-newspeak "assault weapons", real belt-fed working machineguns like MG-42s and M2HBs as well as full auto assault rifles like the M16)
Occasionally, a 105mm howitzer (includes 20 rounds free!), RPG, or 20mm anti-aircraft cannon will show up on gunbroker as well. Yes, private citizens can easily own WORKING assault rifles, frag grenades, machineguns, howitzers, smart bombs, and anti-aircraft cannons. No legal citizen-owned machinegun, mortar, bomb, howitzer, or grenade has ever been used in any crime. Ever.
It's also interesting to note that there's no explicit regulation prohibiting you from owning, say , a nuclear-armed cruise missile - it's just you can't find anyone willing to sell them to you.
Buy a cheap knife at your destination. You're telling me that you would put your bag that's going to be your life for the next year in the hands of some forgetful gorillas who might route it to Dubai or smash it into oblivion... because you want to take a knife? Seems silly to me. Also, a lot of Asian carriers have it such that you can buy a ticket 2 hours before the plane takes off. I'd rather not stress out as to whether my bag is following me or not. I haven't been asked for a bribe to get my luggage back, but that's because I never check luggage. I have a friend who was flying on some African airline that had to pay the clerk to look for his "lost" luggage (which took all of 2 minutes). Besides, I always laugh at the Aussies that bring a 4 foot tall backpack and check it. Meanwhile, I breeze by them with a small knapsack that I'm able to live out of for months. Don't ever check luggage. You'll be happier and less stressed.
Not precisely. On top of Mount Everest, sound of nature: swshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. On top of Mount Everest, listening to... crap, my iPod's HDD had a head crash, because it's only rated to 10,000 feet ASL. swshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... Just being pedantic.
Do not, under any circumstances, ever check any luggage.
EVER EVER EVER.
Take one bag that you can carry on, and NEVER let it out of your sight, otherwise you're going to have to pay a fee, tip, or bribe in order to get it back. Local cops are often in league with the local criminals to prey on travelers.
Agreed on getting rid of the iPod, it's useless for doing much of anything without coaxing. Get a media player that supports dumping photos to it like an iRiver. Ditch the laptop and get a PDA with USB and wireless.
If you take a media player, you should not ever be listening to it or have it out in a non-secure area like in a bus station or walking down the street.
If you're *really* going to the backwoods of nowhere, a solar charger may be good.
Mail back any souvenirs, don't carry them with you.
Recently, some scientists gave a group of young boys access to a chest full of dolls and toy cars and balls and pots. In another room, a group of girls got access to an identical chest.
...the boys and girls were both young vervet monkeys. Oops.
u -tca121002.php
The boys eschewed the dolls and pots in favor of the cars and balls, and vice versa for the girls.
Now, as the feminists screech about "gender bias" and "socialization" and "male patriarchy"...
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-12/ta
Sorry feminists. Guess men and women ARE wired differently, after all. Men are drawn to engineering and science, women aren't. Women are drawn to hearth and home. It's in our wiring. Nothing wrong with that, just don't try to say that the lack of women in engineering is because of some "male patriarchy".
Best advice so far. If you own the company outright (ie. no board of directors to oust you), you are outsource-proofed. Most Slashbots don't have the stones to make it with their own company, so they are reduced to whining about outsourcing. Words for these people: Grow up. No one owes you a job. If you're allowed to leave the company at any time, the company is allowed to fire you at any time. It's this attitude of entitlement that is causing the riots in France: "I am leaving work to strike to teach you that you shouldn't be able to fire me!"
Of course, Slashbots are so obsessed with getting more milk, they don't realize that you can own the damn cow.
Fine. Write it out, then encrypt with a 2048 bit key and post it here. Then after the press release, post the key. If they match, then I might have reason to believe you. Otherwise, begone troll.
You forgot "Hold my beer!" :)
As women become more and more un-dateable, they accumulate more and more cats, eventually leading to the "another-old-woman-dies-and-is-eaten-by-her-cats" story. Toxoplasma infects the brain of cats and those that are around them, and because it's present in cat saliva, one can get a toxoplasma infection by a cat scratch. I would lay even money that 90% of those infected with toxoplasma (and thus make the world more unstable) are women.
I got asked something similar by my girl recently:
:)
"I'm thinking about getting a boob job. How big do you want 'em?"
"C. I think that would suit your height well."
"Cool. Not sure when I'd do it, just thought I'd ask."
Then she decided that having bigger sweater puppies would interfere with her ability to ski Super-G. But I digress.