Two bedrooms, living, kitchen, full bath, three closets. No need for any "space-saving contraptions" because it's just a nice comfy house that holds your ordinary non-swinging furniture. 24 x 26 = 624 sqft outside dimensions, probably about 575 internal.
What in the motherfucking motherfuck is fucking wrong with these fucking avant garde fucking architects? Spoiled from doing 500,000,000,000,000,000 sqft mansions for hedge-fund Jews? Anything less than a square light year is TEENY? Lesus H. Christ.
Susan Meyer with Spokane Transit Authority says, "it's a way to moving more people in a really environmental strong way because it is electrically charged." The don't call it light rail because in fact there are no rails set into the ground. Meyer says it's a way to move people, powered by an overhead electric infraninfrastructurecally a wire. "Looks like the train a modern streetcar they will be 60 feet long or so and be articulated meaning they have the bendy parts in the middle." Meyer says. "In good weather they'll wear wheel skirts so you won't be able to see the tires it has a very looks it looks just like a streetcar."Mmmmmm! It has a very Martian! = = = = = Dealing with the real subject seriously for a moment: Trolley-powered buses are not a good idea. Some Eastern cities used them for a long time because they 'amortized' the existing streetcar electrical system. For a brand-new system, the huge expense gives nothing but new problems. The bus driver loses the ability to steer around unpredictable obstructions and snow-blocked streets. He might as well be on rails.
History as list doesn't invite you to draw any conclusions. It doesn't require you to solve a problem or connect anything to your own activities. It's just there.
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A more complete and proper definition of history treats the discipline as strictly scientific. It's a narrative of the experiments performed by various segments and groups of humanity, along with the results of those experiments.
What happens when you try to invade a country that has a bigger army? What happens when you invade and occupy a country that forcibly resists? What happens when you let business run wild? What happens when you eliminate business entirely? These questions are generally within the purview of "secular" historians, and "secular" historians do a pretty good job of drawing accurate experience-based conclusions from them.
Other questions are equally historical and equally secular, but "secular" historians serve the elite, and the elite doesn't want these other questions to be considered.
Nevertheless these other experiments have been performed thousands of times by various segments of humanity, and their results have led to conclusions. You can find the conclusions in books we generally call "religious" books. In such books the conclusions are sometimes written in a secular way and sometimes as God's commands, but both forms have the same scientific force. Some of these conclusions are simple public health rules (ie kosher, halal) and some pertain to human social behavior. Among the human behavior conclusions, some commands are absolute [Don't do this!] and others are more quantitative or proportional [Don't do too much of this!].
If you choose to disobey the rules, you must consider the experimental data that caused these rules to be adopted. You must understand that you are following a behavior pattern that has repeatedly led to disaster. You must recognize that you are on the wrong side of experimental data, which means the wrong side of history.Labels: Danbo, Experiential education
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Note the area outlined in green. I used to call it the Circle Drive area, because it started from the roundabout called Circle Drive. I think it was properly called the Belmont Addition, but that could be wrong.
This was NOT a poor or black area. It was solid middle class in the '70s. Tree-lined curved streets, neat Cape Cod houses. I wanted to live there but couldn't afford it. The 1940 Census showed it as a new subdivision, not yet completed, and distinctly upper middle. The residents were white-collar Continental employees with titles like engineer, tester, and foreman; their salaries would be in the $60-70K range in today's money.
The east side of Lucas was a business district with corner stores and gas stations, and the blocks to the east were solid working-class residential.
Seen from above on Google today:
WHERE DID IT GO????
You can see 4th St running down the middle, but everything else has been regraded to parkland.
Here's Googlestreet driving down 4th, roughly where I drew the orange arrow on the map. 4th is narrow because it wasn't meant to be an arterial; the main traffic flow was (and still is) along Lucas, the east leg of the triangle.
Emphatically NOT the usual boom-bust ratchet. This was intentional and complete destruction. The whole area has become an Unarea. Its central street was airbrushed to eliminate all indications that people ever lived here. Ha ha ha. You thought this was a pleasant old suburb? Why would you think such heretical Unthoughts? Everyone can see this was always a smooth park with a single unbroken street running through it. Eastasia, Eurasia. Eurasia, Eastasia. Eastasia, Eurasia. Eurasia, Eastasia.
Can't find anything about it online. It wasn't Superfunded or Brownfielded; it was turned into something called Standing Bear Park. There is some info about the park online, but nothing mentions how the land for the park was acquired and cleared. It was just always there. Eurasia. Eastasia.
My old propane rig came through nicely for coffee and soup. Flashlight decided to give up, but candles served well enough.
Had one leftover short candle and no holder for it, so tried putting it in the kitchen sink where it couldn't cause problems. Turned out to be an excellent idea: the sink served as a reflector.
After power returned, the computer gave me a scare. It didn't start up immediately. Thought it might have been fried by a surge. After two minutes the power light came on and it booted cleanly. Must be some kind of delayed breaker in the PS.
Hmm. Looks like I. Rebooted in. Short sentence. Mode.
And we understand this:
Do we understand this?
Strong disclaimer: This was a subtle and dubious observation! But it's an interesting observation.
After cutting a tomato at lunch time, I came back a few hours later to make supper and found that the whole tomatoes had developed wrinkles on the side facing the cut tomato. These tomatoes don't ordinarily wrinkle. They get soft after a few days. Is this their way of mourning? We'll never know.
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Wanna city? We'll build it! Exactly $686,590.
I don't think Aladdin ever got a contract to build a complete city. The WW1 boom disappeared quickly, leaving a giant depression. But Aladdin did fill quite a few neighborhoods with decent low-priced houses for workers, until it faded around 1940.
It took Google $3.2 billion in cash last week to snatch up digital thermostat company Nest. And it took a small startup about 24 hours to hack together a working equivalent of Nest's signature product a few days later. That would be terrible news for Google - if the search giant's chief interest in Nest was hardware. But as is the case with its purchase of robotics heavyweight Boston Dynamics, or even its dabbling in self-driving cars, Google's acquisition of Nest isn't just about creating new revenue opportunities - it's about expanding the nodes and sensors it uses to collect data on our world. After the blockbuster sale, Spark in Minneapolis, a Nest competitor that makes kits so folks can build their own smart devices, managed to put together a similar Internet-connected thermostat that senses when you're in the room.Think about this from the viewpoint of these supposed "left libertarian techies". The "hacker spirit". The "maker spirit". Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog. What should a hacker be doing? He should be developing ways to AVOID the Biggest Brother Of All. Nope, that's not what these "hackers" are doing. They're developing ways to HELP Biggest Brother gather EVEN MORE data, hoping to nibble off a little slice of the massive profits that arise from Knowing Everything. From the Dictatorship of the Proletariat to the Profitariat of Dictatorship in 30 short years. Marvelous. Of course these things don't always end the way they start. Stalin started out the same way as Google. He persecuted uncool people and got all the cool people on his side. But after a certain point there weren't any uncool people left, and it was necessary to start grinding up the cool people. Parkinson's Law as always. A bureaucracy never stops, it always grows, and always repurposes itself when its original target is shot full of holes. = = = = = Later: Someone discussing the NEST takeover on the radio said "Well, just think about how far we've come. Back in the '50s, if you had imagined programming your thermostat to come on at certain times, it would be science fiction!" No. Exactly wrong. Timed thermostats were common in the '50s. One of the houses I rented in Oklahoma had a day/night timed thermostat controlling its floor furnace. The thermostat was probably installed in the late '30s. and it still worked in the '70s when I was there. Obviously it wasn't connected to any sort of net; in fact it wasn't even connected to the AC mains. The thermostat was 'microvolt-powered' from the pilot light, and the clock part was mechanical, something like a little parking meter. The house is still there and looks remarkably well maintained. Wouldn't be surprised if the thermostat still works. Can't find a picture of this thermostat online. Fancier versions with real clocks are well represented on Ebay and elsewhere, but the simple windup timer isn't there.
The European Commission is beginning to shift away from its current climate policy: “For an industrial renaissance”, the needs of the economy should play a key role in setting environmental objectives in the future. The EU Commission has re-discovered the importance of industry for economic development. On Wednesday, it will adopt a message that is entitled:”For an industrial renaissance” and states: “Without a strong industrial base, Europe will not be able to prosper.” Industry is “at the core of European economic revival and competitiveness”, says the text.Still sort of holding my breath on this.... but if it's carried through, it will turn a major part of the world back to sanity, and will open vast horizons of opportunity for ORDINARY FUCKING PEOPLE. Canada and Australia have already abandoned the Gaian Crime. Some parts of the UK government appear to be ready to turn, but waiting for EU orders. If this isn't just a trial balloon, it should allow Britain to flip into the sane column. And it will certainly give relief to those parts of EU that have been trying to restore normal economic activity against the previous Satanic opposition from EU. EU has been the guiding light and a major funding source for the Gaian crime. If the light moves elsewhere and the funding fades, the crime will finally fade and this poor old world will finally have a chance to recover from the terminal Gaian cancer.
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Why are lawyers killing themselves? One by one, state by state, bar associations say the tally is rising: Lawyers are killing themselves. ... Prominent lawyers keep turning up dead. They came one a month in Oklahoma around 2004. South Carolina lost six lawyers within 18 months before July 2008. Kentucky has seen 15 known lawyer suicides since 2010.Ours not to reason why. Ours but to LAUGH AND LAUGH AND LAUGH AND LAUGH AND LAUGH AND LAUGH AND SING PRAISES UNTO THE LORD!
No single month is unprecedented. May through Sept are actually on an uptrend from several low years. But the whole year comes out at a minimum because no month is unusually high. Previous dry-side years had some especially wet months to keep the whole year out of the trough.
Separating by region gets even more complex, but the same general impression holds. The months of this year are low, typical or a little high, but none are abnormally high.
I dare you to find an Evil KKKarbon pattern among these months, i.e. a steady upward or downward trend over the last 30 years. No Evil KKKarbon. Sunspots don't fit either. We're in an especially low sunspot phase, which should let in more cosmic rays, thus more particles to trigger precipitation. Should be wetter than normal if sunspots were the main influence. If there's any long-term pattern at all, it must be merely a converging set of troughs in the various decade-scale oscillations.Labels: Carbon Cult
By most calculations, George Carver was born in January 1864 near Joplin. 150 years this month. He was born in the last year of official slavery, to a mother owned by a German farmer named Moses Carver. Soon after George was born, his family was stolen and held for ransom by outlaws; Moses Carver paid to get them back. After emancipation, George's mother went elsewhere and Moses raised George and brother James as his own kids. From the start George was a man on a mission, and he seemed to have a talent for finding the right people and places to help with his mission, and steering around people who wanted to obstruct his path.
He moved to Kansas, which was more open for ex-slaves; attended Highland College near St Joe, then headed west into Ness County to homestead. He wasn't interested in plain farming; he set up experimental plots on his acreage and began breeding and hybridizing crops.
Later he finished a college degree at Tuskegee and became a teacher there. His mission continued. Experiment, experiment, experiment. Improve the crops that Southerners, and especially black Southerners, could offer to the world. Improve farming methods to make labor more efficient.
Carver was the exact opposite of the Communist who is officially celebrated today. The Communist's mission was to force the world to accept everything his people offered, without any attempt to improve their offerings. When the world has to accept you and reward you for everything, your worst impulses and worst performance quickly come to the surface. An aristocracy always degenerates. It's human nature.
A brief passage from a routine report on a routine experiment in a USDA bulletin shows how Carver's mission informed everything he did:
Beyond his massive opus of valuable work, Carver left us one huge quote (which I've already noted and used in the top icon). The most perfect and complete definition of science.
Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. Talk to them.
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Footnote for clarity: The Carver / Booker T approach was meant to make American blacks more prosperous by using their special talents and training, mainly in agriculture. Prosperity is good in itself, and it would also make blacks indispensable to the overall economy. The agricultural approach might have worked, but it turned out to be unnecessary. Henry Ford unexpectedly came along and opened industrial work to blacks. Model T replaced Booker T. Then in the '60s Comrade King and Comrade LBJ opened a new and false horizon, replacing economic power by political power. Comrade Jackson gave the political power a new flavor derived from the Soviet regimes in post-colonial Africa: political power based on force, corruption and blackmail. And that's where we are now. Since then our industries have been destroyed by the other side of the Gramscian pincer, so there's only a very limited industrial path to prosperity for blacks or whites. Political power and financial power are the only pieces still on the board. At the moment a small Jackson-descended black elite holds the political piece, but the Goldman piece is getting increasingly irritated with their performance.Labels: Carver, Danbo, Experiential education
The current icon shows Polistra using a Personal Equation Machine.