And that's WHY we carry them...

[laklak]

Supermarkets are the only thing I can't do without. For anything else there's the net and Amazon. Life on Dog forces you to be a bit more organized then I usually am. When it takes 4 or 5 hours for a round trip to the nearest population center with anything resembling a supermarket you make sure you pick up what you need. There's no running to the corner shop for milk or fags or beer. You need a mail drop on the mainland also, because there's no delivery of mail (or anything else) on the island. There is a level of self-sufficiency required that's beyond a lot of people, but I think it's worth it to avoid other ground apes. The mountains are a bit easier, at least where we are. You're only a half hour away from civilization and 45 minutes from Asheville, which has pretty much everything a city dweller would want. You've got to be ready to ride out a few days or even a week or two if you're up there in the winter, but that's not difficult if you're prepared. The place we're trying to buy has a big generator and enough fuel for 4to 6 weeks, 3 natural artesian springs for water and the requisite equipment (tractors, pumps. backhoe etc) to keep things ticking over. It's certainly not everyone's cuppa, but to me it looks like paradise.

[MrJonno]

Had a look at our fridge very rare we have more than 48 hours food worth in it, in fact sometimes empty fridge = take away

[piscator]

Jonno is a virtual machine, living atop an abstraction layer betwixt himself and the hardware.

Speaking for commercial fisherman everywhere:

[MrJonno]

Jonno is a virtual machine, living atop an abstraction layer betwixt himself and the hardware.

Speaking for commercial fisherman everywhere:

Vmware or HyperV

[piscator]

No detail is too small in either of my chosen professions. I sell a high-line professional technical service to sophisticated clients, and a fuck up can not only burn my 30 years of professional reputation, but also put a dozen people, mostly breadwinners, out of work. And in the odd season I take a small boat full of hooks and machinery out in the Gulf of Alaska to collect fish to trade for $$ in the least man-killing way possible, given regulatory constraints.


I not only have to know the correct AutoCad linetype to comply with the Municipality of Anchorage Platting Standards for a AKDOT&PF HAACP Type 4 curb cut (and Leica TPS Descriptor Code and MOA GIS attribute syntax for same) to get paid,
I have to know that #3 seacock seal below the USCG Type II marine macerator toilet is functioning properly, and that the best gap for cool humid rainforesty air for a REM37BY plug in a Continental O-470-L is .018",
else I might have to jettison my vehicle or drown in shit before I intend.


Then again, there's always the odd chance of a mega-earthquake or massive volcanic eruptions generating stupendous tsunamis, 10-foot snowstorms, 100+ knot winds causing land/snowslides, 1200-lb bears, 1200-lb moose, 1200-lb buffalo...so I like to keep on the sunny side!

[Blind groper]

REvolutionist asked why I was so opposed to lack of gun control when I lived in a much more civilised place with strong gun control. Fair question.

It is not guns per se. I have a major character defect. I am allergic to bullshit. I cannot see people spouting bullshit without sticking my oar in and opposing the crap. I know. It is a real weakness of mine.

On living isolated.
I have already achieved that. I am now retired and living on a four acre property (1.8 hectares) in a gated community, overlooking the ocean. Paradise!

Not quite as good as when I arrived. Some bastard bought a piece of land and built a house on it, only 500 metres from my front door. If I crane my head around the corner, I can see it. Grrrr!

[laklak]

That sounds like a nice spread, BG. I've retired but I've got to get rid of at least one property before I can get even more isolated.

[piscator]

I try to be low key about where I live...





And what I do...

[laklak]

If it wasn't so fucking cold you'd live in paradise.

[pErvinalia]

Jonno is a virtual machine, living atop an abstraction layer betwixt himself and the hardware.

Speaking for commercial fisherman everywhere:

[piscator]

If it wasn't so fucking cold you'd live in paradise.

It's probably warmer in the winter in Seward than your place in the hills. The warm ocean makes for a bubble of warm air here on the windward side of the mountains, and it's surprisingly mild. My mother in Mississippi never ceases to be amazed when its cooler there than here in Feburary...

But winter is when shit get real around here...

[laklak]

I've never been to Alaska but I keep promising myself I will go someday. It's fucking majestic. I think my rather rapidly advancing age precludes a permanent move, the more gentle slopes of the Smokies are challenging enough. Then there's that warm Gulf water in my veins and Trinidad beckons ...

[piscator]

I've never been to Alaska but I keep promising myself I will go someday. It's fucking majestic. I think my rather rapidly advancing age precludes a permanent move, the more gentle slopes of the Smokies are challenging enough. Then there's that warm Gulf water in my veins and Trinidad beckons ...

I had a place in Kapalua for years. I sold it and bought a 180 when the kids got gone. Fkn termites ate that house 3 times over. They'd eat the furniture while you were sitting in it.

[Seth]

The point is I get on the bus every day with at least some people who are basically scum, (I hate the underclass every bit as much as any libertarian) that's unavoidable. I would far rather no one had a gun on that bus then we both had one and I'm macho enough to shoot them first.

The underclass are my problem not because I'm a nice person and all caring, but because I share my life them and can't just clear of to some gated community

Once again, for the umpteenth time, the problem with your reasoning is that you can never be certain that no one on that bus has a gun or other deadly weapon because, for the love of Pete, he's going to keep it concealed unless and until he decides to use it.

Are you even capable of understanding this very important point?

It doesn't matter if the armed individual is a good guy or a bad guy, he's got a weapon, maybe a gun, and you don't know it. You won't know if or how many people on that bus are armed until something happens and the weapons are brought out and employed.

The whole point of this incredibly boring exercise in explaining things a child is capable of understanding, but evidently you are not, is that because anyone (other than you) on that bus could be armed, your only hope of survival if one of them is a deranged criminal intent on killing you is if one of the people who happens to be armed is a non-criminal citizen willing to employ his licensed handgun in your defense and the defense of others when the similarly armed criminal decides to pull his gun and use it.

The conclusion should be perfectly obvious to anyone with even a few brain cells: if you disarm everyone except the bad guy, nobody's going to be able to rise to anyone's defense and you're all going to fucking DIE because some idiot thinks banning guns means nobody has a gun.

Sheesh.

[Seth]

No detail is too small in either of my chosen professions. I sell a high-line professional technical service to sophisticated clients, and a fuck up can not only burn my 30 years of professional reputation, but also put a dozen people, mostly breadwinners, out of work. And in the odd season I take a small boat full of hooks and machinery out in the Gulf of Alaska to collect fish to trade for $$ in the least man-killing way possible, given regulatory constraints.


I not only have to know the correct AutoCad linetype to comply with the Municipality of Anchorage Platting Standards for a AKDOT&PF HAACP Type 4 curb cut (and Leica TPS Descriptor Code and MOA GIS attribute syntax for same) to get paid,
I have to know that #3 seacock seal below the USCG Type II marine macerator toilet is functioning properly, and that the best gap for cool humid rainforesty air for a REM37BY plug in a Continental O-470-L is .018",
else I might have to jettison my vehicle or drown in shit before I intend.


Then again, there's always the odd chance of a mega-earthquake or massive volcanic eruptions generating stupendous tsunamis, 10-foot snowstorms, 100+ knot winds causing land/snowslides, 1200-lb bears, 1200-lb moose, 1200-lb buffalo...so I like to keep on the sunny side!

Actually you just have to know there's a linetype specification and a seacock regulation. The rest is an exercise in looking shit up. Which reminds me, I still have my Autocad 12 manuals lurking around somewhere, even though I haven't touched the program in a decade or more.

But hey, Alaskans are the epitome of grizzled outbackers, so you've got my respect.