I like the way you think.
Put a composting toilet on the second floor.
And add a rooftop vegetable garden.
And a cistern to catch rain water.
Life could be sustained indefinitely.
Would one of those transparent plastic tent/ water purifiers that they say to use if you're adrift at sea work on nasty flood waters? Or is it just for getting the salt out of sea water? Anyoone know?
I'd warn against shooting a cop surrounded by other cops (with guns) in the face.
I'd say the camera guy should have kept rolling, braced himself, and seen if he could get the coming assault by an officer caught on film.
Easy.
He had something to fear.
Remember Rodney King? It wasn't a gun that brought the LAPD to its knees. It was a camera. Cameras are better than any other thing at capturing the truth. And when the truth is leaked about police activity, it's often rough for the cops involved.
Witness Amadou Diallo.
41 shots.
If I'm not mistaken, my post was in response to Edwin's post.
I must've missed the point at which you started speaking for him.
Notan
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Some of us a little isolation. Not all of us can stand to live in a beehive, or care to live in densely populated areas. Not slamming people that like that lifestyle, but the times I've had to live in structures like that (ie, college dorms, big-city apartment blocks), I found it highly irritating. I don't wanna hear when the neighbors flush, fight, or f**k, and I don't wanna irritate the neighbors when I turn up the TV loud. I also like sitting quietly on the back porch at dawn, trying to be still enough that the birds will come to the feeder while I am on 'their' side of the glass. Can't do that in a high-rise, or even in most condos. Suburbia has its downsides of course- mowing/raking/snow shoveling being 3 of them. If I didn't have to worry about resale, I'd live in a shack on the edge of the woods. But you have to be well off to live like Thoreau these days.
aem sends...
As I've said before, I can respect the fact that you're opinionated, and stand firmly for the things you think are important.
But, you have this attitude, where anyone that disagrees with you is unitelligent, uneducated, and . You like to portray yourself as holier-than-everyone-else. You have *the* answer, while no one else comes close.
Maybe you've always been this way, but it's only lately that I've begun to see you as nothing more than a non-religious bible thumper.
While I'm sure that you couldn't care less about my opinions (or anyone else's, for that matter), you *don't* have all the answers.
There's lots of stuff you're missing. I'm hoping you'll catch up.
Notan
Spell-checker turned back on... That was "unintelligent."
Notan
No, spell-checker.
And, that's exactly what I'm talking about... You always *think* you know better.
I *misspelled* a word, which a spell-checker would have caught.
A *grammar checker* (By the way, you should've used your *spell checker* on that one! ) would have told me if my sentence was grammatically incorrect.
Notan
Why not? A composting toilet works like a compost pile. Basically it turns waste into nutrient-rich topsoil.
The topsoil is then used to help grow the plants in the vegetable garden.
If you're looking to build a house that can not only withstand a hurricane but can also allow you to live relatively comfortably while the power and water is still out, this sort of adaptive reuse of human waste makes alot of sense.
As long as you understand the limitations.
Look into the NASA research on toilets related to manned flight to Mars.
Cows have that too, its called herd instinct. Today's typical mindset, impression that it qualifiies since the herd is doing it, doesn't involve much higher thinking. Moo.
Some sewage treatment plants are making a compost as a by-product. Maybe it goes through a turd sorter first.
It's a growth industry. Which other essential industry has an escalating supply of materials piped in for free? What could be more essential then boosting food production ?
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They work by evaporating water, which is volatile, and then condensing it on the cool surface. Depends on the other contents, like salt, not being volatile. For the nasty mix along the gulf coast, part of the problem is petroleum components, which are also volatile. So it might actually produce a product water with a higher concentration of some of the impurities. Depends on vapor pressure, condensation temperature, etc.
Steve
In the case of the HA, their primary goal was to slow down, not necessarily stop the cops. The large concrete blocks in front of the concrete wall keep a backhoe at a significant distance too. All in all, the design looks like a typical US embassy or consulate.
Mike
The excuse is that the presence of a camera encourages people play TO the camera, and thus makes them harder to control than otherwise.
The REASON is because cops are control freaks.
Only if you've got a really big freaking roof. What you really want is to replace the attic and roof with a greenhouse, so as to control pests and weather. But the people/sqft ratio is really low, until you start investing in some serious intensive gardening equipment.
--Goedjn
Disagreement: If you're going to this length, you should use a more reasonable figure for time-to-rescue of 7 days. 72 hours is the figure used for people who are trying to do the best they can with what's available. 72 hours is what you should keep in the trunk of your car.
Looks like all of the major concrete buildings in downtown N.O. "survived" Katrina noting the obvious problems with windows being blown out and the roof of the Superdome falling apart.
The dumb decicions would be the placement of critical facilities at the ground (flooding level), for locating emergency generators, electrical rooms, HVAC, etc. It would seem that if these were located at higher floors to begin with, coupled with larger emergency water tanks and fuel supplies, and perhaps a 2 week pre-placed food supply, that these buildings would make nice shelters against future hurricanes (even cat. 5).
Elsewhere in the city, critical cellular and municipal communications towers should have been hardened for maximum strength and have all generators and ground facilities elevated above the flooding level.
Beachcomber
| >The answer will be a storm-proof safe room built on top of this | >concrete structure. It will probably be the size of a large bathroom | >and made of steel or concrete for protection against flying debris or | >tree falls. It should be capable of being buttoned down and float | >upright like a boat should it be dislodged. At that level of storm | >intensity there is no longer any consideration of living in it to | >guard your property. All you want is to survive the perfect storm = and | >get the hell out, a stay of less than 48 hours. |=20 | Disagreement: If you're going to this length, you should use a more | reasonable figure for time-to-rescue of 7 days. 72 hours | is the figure used for people who are trying to do the best=20 | they can with what's available. 72 hours is what you should | keep in the trunk of your car. |=20 |=20 |=20
Seems to me Noah planned for a longer stay. Also seems his structure was a bit bigger too.
--=20 PDQ
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Seems to me Noah planned for a longer stay. Also seems his structure was a bit bigger too.
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