Posted on 03/23/2013 6:34:00 PM PDT by Kartographer
Imagine if suddenly, and completely without warning, the world experienced a total blackout – no electricity, no mobile phones, no banks, no internet, no TV, no emergency services. Nothing. Highways quickly become jammed with cars that have ground to a halt; an aeroplane falls from the sky; a satellite view of the planet shows it rapidly plunging into darkness. As it becomes apparent that the lights are never coming back on, nations are plunged into chaos, mass riots break out in major cities and, without electricity, governments are toppled. Into the vacuum step ad-hoc militias, armed and ready to enforce their own rule of law. This is the apocalyptic premise of the hit American TV series Revolution, which begins on Sky 1 this week. In the first episode, viewers are pulled through this nightmarish chain of events.
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I'll swipe that bit, modified, and add it to the screed that I'm writing.
Personally, when I cook shrimp, I take the shrimp and toss them into a steel kitchen skillet with about an 1/8th inch of white wine when the skillet is scalding hot and cover it immediately with a lid.
30 seconds later, the shrimp is done, add a bit of butter and your standard chef's mix, and you have a sauce in 10 more seconds.
Plate and send to the front for $14.
/johnny
Another poster is the one describing using a spotlight like flashlight on his property, and he seemed to find it pretty useful.
I think most people understand the concept of holding a flashlight and that people can see where the light is coming from.
Ethnic stores have tons of bargains, some will sell fresh dill in bulk, cheap, like parsley, they sell cheap coffee beans and bulk teas, unusual vegetables, things that are common to their customers yet expensive in mainstream supermarkets.
Your wine way with shrimp is very good too because you eat all the juices. You get all the shrimp essence. I like hitting the skillet with the wine only after the skillet gets nice and hot
You can bake a potato in a pot. Take 1-3 of them. Place them in a covered pot hopefully with a thick bottom. Put the flame on and don’t add any water for about five minutes. Then add a tablespoon of water and watch it go to steam right away. Repeat this a few minutes later. After this just have them on lowest flame for 40 minutes or so. Cooking time can be cut if you use ye old styro box trick
I have come across some amazing ethic stores such as an Armenian owned one that has at least seven imported feta cheeses from France, Bulgaria etc. All in bulk so they would cut off the amount you wanted. The cows milk feta you commonly find here is a distant second to real sheep’s milk feta
If these Asians are so smart then how come they are stuck on eating that garbage known as white rice? I have an answer to this :)
I have seen Cambodian and other SE Asian families selling interesting vegetables at flea markets
/johnny
Ha. We have soup. You want soup?
Don't ask. I had the soup and said "This is sheep's lung". Haggis, without the stomach container, and with more spices.
Yep. I was right.
/johnny
Brown rice is a whole food. More complete compared to white rice. It supplies more nutrition so if brown rice is your central food (rice is central food for Asians) you have less need to eat meats, chicken etc. But people have emotions that make them want to eat more animal flesh (for myriad reasons mostly bad but some good) and in today’s richer world they can afford it. So they intuitively eat the food (white rice) that leaves an empty nutritional space that must be filled ....by animal flesh. This makes them happy not necessarily in a good way or on a high level
We wouldn’t have such scum in the WH.
“We wouldn’t have such scum in the WH.”
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I do not understand your reply, but the reason there is scum in the WH is because the American public has been dumbed down to moron level by Communist “pubic” education and media.
I do not care to live in a society of idiots, and go bankrupt doing it.
I now live on a small fraction of what it cost to live in the USSA....$1000 per month for three of us.
You obviously missed my point...The founding fathers were all expats.
I’ll add for clarification also that when water freezes it put’s out heat.
I bet you could make that out of a bunch of packets of ice pops (before they’re torn into separate pops).
The key to drones is comms and control.
Someone in some room or mobile home has to control them and that is the way you might theoretically , as a work of fiction in an imaginary movie or television program, defeat drones.
The other thing to remember about drones and those that control them, it’s a standoff weapon system. If you bring the drone operators in close proximity of combat, well then it’s a little more level playing field.
Kinda like whoever has the automatic weapon in a firefight seems to get ALL the attention. I think that electronic jamming and software hacking is the real anti drone package however, theoretically speaking for a work of fiction of course.
Lol.
I’d rather use a pair of NVGs via headset mount and an IR spotlight. Why be seen?
Assuming money isn’t an issue, which for me and most, it is, not everything calls for letting people walk around your property at night while you secretly can see them and can’t do anything about it until you confront them, unless you see all situations involving large properties as a sniper situation.
Not all tools need to be the same one.
Read post 121 for an example of the importance of light and creating an uninviting property line and front drive way gate.
Besides, brown rice is totally different from white rice as a dish or food, it is a mistake to compare them as the same thing except with different nutrition.
To me it it is more like comparing mashed potatoes to dried beans, they aren’t anywhere near interchangeable.
What do you mean all the founding fathers were expats?
I thought that they were almost all born and raised here in a part of Britain, that this was their home, with families going back a 100 and 150 years, born British, living on British soil.
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