Snags post=343832 wrote: Did anyone watch landline on Sunday?
There was fruit fly story and how back yard trees were the problem.
Thats how this prohibition starts.

Correct! These laws aren’t to protect ‘consumers’ from unsafe foodstuffs. They’re designed to force small (read local) producers out of the market and render efforts to build resilient…[Read more]

My apologies for my knee-jerk reaction Steve. :blush:

I make it a point to defend what I regard as a legitimate recreational activity from any (perceived) attack.

The ‘anti-gun’ propaganda machine would have people believe that restricting or banning private ownership of firearms will prevent ‘needless’ homocides. If this were the case, one…[Read more]

Scary, isn’t it. 🙁 But, the ‘silver lining’ in this is that a prohibition on home-grown produce will give rise to a ‘black market’ and this will make production of home-grown produce very profitable – just like Cannibas, Heroin, Cocaine and amphetamines. 👿

Steve post=343657 wrote: Well I’m the opposite. I support the gun laws. While your argument about criminals being able to source guns anyway is probably valid, I wonder how many killings have been prevented in moments of anger when a firearm isn’t available.

And honestly (other than on a farm) when is a firearm really required?

I also don’t buy…

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Along the same lines, John Robb appears to be swinging away from military theory, towards resilient communities – http://www.resilientcommunities.com/

An island of sufficiency in a sea of abject poverty is going to be a tempting target for predators. There is a need for bullets ‘n Band-Aids.

I think that Industrial civilisation is about forty years into a crash that will take another fifty years to play out.

When observing the decline and fall of big, complex systems you don’t see a steady decline; As the rescource-base declines the complex, rescource-hungry systems and institutions that depend on them collapse suddenly, but not…[Read more]

Lucky bugger, RW.

If personal circumstances didn’t tie me to Sydney, I’d move to Tassie, to. I like Sheffield and surrounds. Nice, rolling country. Convenient driving distance to Devonport and Launceston (for the weekly / monthly shopping excursion).

And, they have a rifle range!

The true constituency of big government, is big business. You can rest assured that no big business interests were harmed, in the making of the Carbon Tax. However, economics as currently practiced, is a ‘zero-sum game’. If someone wins, someone else loses.

I wonder who loses?

I’ve just finished three books by John Michael Greer (The Archdruid Report) – The Long Descent, The Echotechnic Future and The Wealth of Nature. Unlike many other PO activists, Greer advocates ‘grassroots, ‘bottom-up’ responses to the dilema that a civilisation addicted to growth faces when it runs into the hard natural limits to infinite growth…[Read more]

Agreed, DB346.

Australia isn’t well endowed with navigable rivers and since settlement occurred at the dawn of the Steam Age, the settlers ‘leapfroged’ a canal network and went straight to railways and roads. This leaves us with no ‘legacy’ of older bulk-transport infrastructure to fall back on, unlike North America, the U.K. and Europe.

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Since nobody’s mentioned it yet, I’ll weigh in with water transport. Before railways, waterways were used extensively to move goods and people around the landscape. In a post-Oil future, costal cities and inland towns on navigable rivers might come back into (economic) prominence. Dmitry Orlov has a good essay on this: The New Age of Sail

Humbug post=313127 wrote: Thanks Bryan,

I think I will need to find a Mac friendly client. I will look into this a bit later.

Thanks for doing this 🙂

Hi Humbug,

For use with a Mac, you could try Colloquy. Here’s a link:

Colloquy Chat Client

I’m at Marsfield, just across Terrys Creek from Epping.

I thought that might be the case Wazza. FWIW, I think that most game in the ‘burbs would be hunted to extinction in short order, once people got hungry enough. It’s not something that I would rely on long term. I think of it more as a short-term emergency measure. Hunting in the ‘burbs is illegal anyway, so that option’s off the table in any…[Read more]

Wazza post=309190 wrote:

Bootstrapper wrote: Hunting is a quick, effective way to put protein on the table.

Mate, I see you live in Sydney. What do you shoot there? Having recently stayed with a mate in North Narrabeen, it’s hard to imagine stalking the tree lined streets at night with a loaded firearm hunting for possums. But we did get some nice…

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Solutions won’t be forthcoming from those who are fully invested in the status-quo. Fossil fuel is the most concentrated energy source ever discovered. It gives all who use it decisive economic and military advantage over those who don’t. No grubbyment will abandon fossil energy, until all countries have done so – in other words, not until the…[Read more]

Hunting is a quick, effective way to put protein on the table. Particularly if the regular supply chain is interrupted. It’s worthwhile to know how to safely handle and effectively use a firearm.

Remaining undetected can also mean hiding, in plain sight – appearing to have nothing worth stealing, of being in the ‘same boat’ as everyone else,…[Read more]

I agree with Porgey.

It would be a good thing if Humanity could stop emiting CO2 tomorrow but if we did, it’d take twenty years to see the result. Such is the inertia of the global climate system. The best we can do, is learn to live with the climate change and use what rescources we have left, to construct the infrastructure we’ll need to live…[Read more]

I stand corrected, about volcanoes. 🙁

In my defence, I got that information from an otherwise completely reliable source.

I hope you’ll forgive me for my attitude that I regard everything a government does as suspect; Every initiative ultimately works out as a scheme in which a minority benefits at someone else’s (or many someone else’s)…[Read more]

A better alternative to any proposed CT I’ve heard of: Cap and Share

In any event, I think the proposed CT is just a smokescreen, to disguise the true cause of the inflation being exported globally by the U.S. thanks to their abysmal monetary policy and management.

The whole CO2 emissions debate may itself be a smokescreen to divert attention…[Read more]