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This guy should sue the frel out of the responsible parties. He just wants an apology and a new door. He will get nothing.
Get with the times, man. That 4th amendment was written, like, over 100 years ago.
And of course they’re practicing. In Utopia they make omeletes without breaking eggs, but on the way there ya gotta crack a few. Not bad unless you’re the egg.
Sounds like the SWAT team and the OIG “acted stupidly”.
BEER SUMMIT!!!
Hurricane proof windows and unkickable doors (open out, steel doorframe).
The 4th amendment? Please. Besides, why would anyone object to having their house searched unless they are guilty of some crime?
I’ve heard supposed “conservatives” utter words like that. I always want to smack them.
If I win the lottery, my first act will be to build a bunker. Recommendations for the machine-gun nests and small nuclear power plants accepted.
Wait till they start enforcing Obamacare!
Radley has a link on it too. http://www.theagitator.com/2011/06/08/swat-team-sent-to-collect-student-loans/
Gov’t bureaucrat: “You can’t break a few eggs without making an omelet. Ha, ha, ha.”
Don’t worry I’m sure Eric Holder will get right on this.
Oh, wait, no relation to Jeremiah? Never mind…
But let’s not even broach the possibility of abolishing the U.S. Department of Education.
Because that wouldn’t be helpful.
Get me the Department of Justice,
entertainmenteducation division.At least we know the Department of Education will only be executing paramilitary pre-dawn raids for the children.
How Orwellian it would be to see guys in stormtrooper gear busting in doors, wielding full-auto assault weapons with “Dept. of Education” on the back of their flak jackets.
Toshiba developed a small nuclear power plant that generates at a cost of about 5 cents per kilowatt hour. I couldn’t find a price for it, though. It needs no maintenance or monitoring and uses lithium to control the reaction. It’s supposed to last for 40 years.
For the machine guns, your problem will more likely be ammunition than anything else. Do not get an M60. They jam a lot. Ditto for the Dillon Minigun, which is awesome when it’s working but it often isn’t working. You might want to look at something Russian; Kalishnikov had the right idea for post-apocalyptic gun design. Make sure it always fires no matter what, and worry less about the accuracy. Besides, machine guns are really about keeping others from shooting at you.
I would suggest standardizing calibers, though, so that your light arms could use the same ammo. Something in a 7.62×51 or perhaps the classic 30-06 would be good. You may want to look into a custom gun that is fed by a hopper rather than belt-fed, unless you are willing to stock a lot of ammo belts. I would also consider something in .223/5.56×45, both light arms and fully automatic.
You should also get an automated ammo loader for your machine gun caliber(s). I think they are cheap enough, in the $10K range (if memory serves) for the smaller models. As a lottery winner, that’s peanuts.
I would consider a few long-range rifles as well, in either 50 BMG or Barret’s slightly smaller caliber. You can use a regular ammo press for these because you won’t be shooting it that often.
.05/kWh is better than most can get from the utility company.
More like .07-.12/kWh.
I’m just repeating what a blurb on the internet said.
Also, the small nuke plant doesn’t need to pay people to monitor it or to go out and fix power lines and pay their pensions and whatnot.
cranky, I will send you a consulting contract as soon as Da Man forks over my (pending) lottery winnings.
Maybe I should file suit. It’s like TOtally unfair that I have to like literally BUY a ticket to like WIN the freakin’ LOTTERY. Free money from the government is a RIGHT and I WANT MINE NOW.
But no – doing all that shit is only going to make you more likely to get raided. The only hope is to keep your head down, security through obscurity. Live quietly.
Cuz once feds or LEO come knocking you really can’t fight them off. If you resist, they’ll kill you. If you don’t resist, they might still kill you. But only might. So there’s that.
Killjoy.
Nah, Entropy. The plan is to go off the grid. The machine-gun nests and other defenses will be to provide cover and distraction while me and mine take the tunnels out to the designated escape point (preferably 10 miles or more from the known bunker entrance).
I want the Bond super-villian amenities without the ostentation or, you know, evil.
Also, the small nuke plant doesn’t need to pay people to monitor it or to go out and fix power lines and pay their pensions and whatnot.
Like I said, utilities in my experience run more like .07-.12 range.
So .05 would cut your electric bill about in half.
Although, if it’s a self-contained and lasts 40 years, I don’t understand why it costs anything to operate.
If it lasts 40 years and has a cost of $.05/kWh over it’s lifetime, and it generates 1 kW max supply, then it would cost $17,520.00.
Probably needs to generate more like 5-12kW to be useful to power a home. In which case, $87,600+
5kW for 40 years for $20k would be pretty cool, and probably find a market.
Oh, I forgot to mention that I have to able to set the small nuclear reactor to overload in the event of hostile intrusion. Once I’ve escaped, of course, and with a nifty little countdown timer and a minion speaking “3 minutes and COUUUUNNT-ing” into a loudspeaker.
For the Bond super-villainous aspect.
But with a “1-2-3 Continuity – Abort Destruct Sequence” override, for the not-evilness.
No nukes. Too hard to get fuel if you’re not a government. I’d look at micro-turbine generators – about the size of a refrigerator, burns anything flammable, and produces about 30 kW…
The Toshiba unit was supposedly designed to power, say, apartment buildings. The blurb said it would last “up to 40 years.” Your figures demonstrate that it isn’t likely to generate that much power for that long. See here to know what I know.
I didn’t find a lot about it out there. It may have never come to fruition. Their site doesn’t appear to list it as a product. Too bad, because I like the idea.
Sorry, Darth, the small reactors are specifically designed to not go critical. We could do the rest, however. There would be no kaboom at the end.
a nifty little countdown timer
Remember Rule 15 from Peter’s Evil Overlord list:
i think it would be better to put your bunker in a shale gas region. one well and your energy needs are met for many years.
When it all goes down, I will gladly pay one of you guys a couple months of beer to install a power generator in my place.
I guess a reactor that can overload isn’t crucial to the bunker. I still would like some plan to Howard Roark the place if the feds ever come calling, however. After it’s built, if I can’t have it, neither can they.
If that door was his uterus there’d be a war.
Well, that’s with me making the totally unwarrented assumption that the “.05/kwh” figgure is the initial cost, ammoritized out over the life span.
It’s probably not. It may have operating expenses not related to the fuel.
It does say it’s a 200kW generator, which is pretty damn large. WAY WAY more than a house.
40 * 365 * 24 = 350,400 (that is, hours in 40 years).
350400 * 200 = 70080000; 70080000 * $.10 (typical ComEd residential rate) = $7,008,000 worth of electricity.
Try this, maybe more realistic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_gas
I’m sitting here trying to wrap my head around the idea that the Department of freaking Education has a freaking SWAT team.
I guess a reactor that can overload isn’t crucial to the bunker. I still would like some plan to Howard Roark the place if the feds ever come calling, however. After it’s built, if I can’t have it, neither can they.
Absurd amounts of thermite.
Stable, difficult to ignite, ingredients are plentiful and easily acquired, but when you do light that stuff there ain’t nothing it can’t melt. 4530 degrees farenheit.
Not only will that fire melt steel, it’s actually made of burning steel.
Well that’s not really true. It’s actually made of unburning steel, maybe deburning steel, since the oxidized steel will be unoxidized/unburnt/unrusted when it’s over.
Great sure-fire way to remove rust from steel. If you don’t mind the steel being liquid for a while….
I’m sure the guy was teaching evolution or something and like, the Republicans totally went after him.
They didn’t used to, as I understand it, Jim – you can thank the Homeland Security Act for that particular bit off surrealism.
ANOTHER good reason to defund and dismantle the entire useless department.
Maybe we should supplant the Evil Overlord list with a “Caught in a scandal list”:
1. I will not assume Breitbart is bluffing.
Funny comment from The Agitator:
Turns out Kirsten Powers, journolist, used to date Weiner. The part that particularly struck me
It sure is nice to know people. I wonder if you would feel beholden to someone who got your parents out of a tumultuous revolution?
Missed this – Huma is pregnant. Is he trying to knock John Edwards off his perch as the most personally disgusting progressive?
“It sure is nice to know people.”
yea journolisters mixing up with demonrat pols
Agreed! Iron oxide is not steel, nor is iron. Thermite is equal (in a molar sense) quantities of iron oxide powder and aluminum powder, plus some kind of activating reaction.
Mojo, that just creates another WTFF? moment.
1. Someone commits student loan fraud.
2. ?????
3. The terrorists win.
And I don’t like deadbeats my own self, but I suspect Ben Bernanke and Tim Geithner are much bigger threats to our financial stability than unpaid student loan debt.
Evil rules, mi amigos. I am begining to think that the bible is right about “Satan” ruling this world.
How did the USA EVER come to this place of pro-Nazi sentiment?
Just look at the hack below the fold.
10,000 virses just waiting for you to “click” on Aretha Franklin’s naked butt. Some useless, inhuman piece of shit actually spent their precious time on Earth to do this infantile crap, knowing that the weak would have to “click” on it, if only for curiosity. What a piece of absolute shit that person is.
How impressive to be an active part of a communist loon’s cartoon world. “I will stick anything I have up your butt, but God forbid I should have to do ANYTHING that would make me proud of myself.
Unfortunately, “We, the people” has been replaced with: “Me – the people”.
Yeah, I was scratching my head pretty good. I still am – a “swoop&search” for a student loan? Were they expecting the financial instrument to open fire on them? Did they expect to find a pile of cash under a mattress? Didn’t ANYBODY in the US Marshall’s (I assume) office or Stockton PD go “Hey, y’know, maybe this isn’t a real great idea”?
Expect a lawsuit. A big one.
Agreed! Iron oxide is not steel, nor is iron.
Ah, but a thermite reaction does not need to have Fe2O3 to be a thermite reaction, it is just the common component (along with Al). Any kind of metal oxide can be used. It just has to be rusty steel.
In fact, Ni, Cr, C, and W (common components of steel alloys) are all below Al in the reactivity series and, if oxidized, would all work with Al to produce a thermite reaction.
So… n’yah! N’yah I say!
In fact, Al need not even be the reactive metal. It just makes sense because it’s best suited to it and cheap and plentiful and safe.
If you want to get really wild and crazy, you could make Manganese oxide/Potassium thermite.
That is, MnO2 + 2 K -> Mn + K2O2 (probably don’t even need to apply heat for that one!)
Suffice it to say that Manganese oxide/Potassium thermite would NOT be stable, difficult to ignite, cheap, or easily acquired.
Nor would it neccessarily burn any hotter or longer. Though it would probably be more explosive… which is not the point or goal of thermite.
They are just practicing up for when they become the Department of Re-Education.
For Earth Day you can make HgO + Pb -> Hg + PbO just to have the most toxic fire ever.
That is, Mercury oxide/lead thermite.
From March 2010:
So that’s why the government took over the student loan program. It is all starting to make sense now…
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Apparently Gatling-style guns are NOT subject to the automatic weapon regulations. Don’t quote me on that — just going off the commentary from about a guy who built one out of a couple of .22s. Apparently the ATF considers the manual action of turning the crank to be enough human intervention to avoid the “automatic” tag.
As for power — find a region that has natural gas deposits, make sure your land comes with the mineral rights, and Bob’s your uncle.
Build a Gatling-style gun with, say, 7 barrels and a hand crank, and see what happens if you take it to the range and a Fed sees it. You’ll never see it again.
Whether it’s illegal or not, they won’t like it, and they have the big guns to back it up.
Eh, what do I know? I’m old and cranky. A .22 Gatling would be awesome to play with, and the ammo is cheap enough you could actually shoot the darn thing.
cranky, that Gatling framework is built to accommodate 2 Ruger 10/22 rifles. But someone with a little bit of know-how could probably adapt it to any magazine fed semi-auto rifle, like say a pair of Ruger Mini-30s. At which point you have ~100 rounds per minute of 7.62 x 39 goodness, which will take the starch out of just about any mob of SEIU goons….
Not exactly man-portable, though, and you’ll need at least one partner to swap mags. I’ve seen a guy at my outdoor range with the .22 model, and it’s awkward to move. OTOH, they actually make 50-round drums for the 10/22…
And Crawford, an actual Gatling, with multiple rotating barrels, would be illegal. The way this works is a crank turning gears which rotates a pair of offset cams that fit inside the trigger guards and pull the trigger just like your finger does. That’s what makes it legal; the rifles themselves aren’t modified in any way; they can be pulled and used as individual weapons. You can’t do that with one of the barrels of a real Gatling.
A different Wow!
I guess they dressed as zombies so you could tell which was which?
Just for shits and giggles.
What branch of the federal government DOESN’T have their own jack booted thugs?
#58
Au contrare mon ami.
A gatling gun is perfectly legal to own as long as it has a crank to operate it and it is no bigger than .22 cal or uses a black powder era catridge.
As soon as I get some plans Ima gonna build one in 45-70 govmt.
The story goes that when GE got the idea to make the minigun they wet to the Smithsonian to borrow a Gatling gun. They removed the crank and added a pulley for an electric motor. When they turned on the motor they found they could not feed the ammunition fast enough and ran out in less than a minute. 45-70 being hard to come by in those days.
Mueller, my point is that this isn’t a Gatling, and would be legal no matter what small-arms caliber you made it in, because you haven’t actually done anything but take an off the shelf weapon and put it in a frame so you can pull the trigger on two rifles at once.
I suppose Entropy rules us all, but I never expected to be pwned by Entropy.
One of these days, we need Entropy to write The OUTLAW’s Cookbook for us.
Yeah SDN, but it a freakin GATLING GUN!!! As many barrels as you want! Like yer own personal, freakin, Aegis System, with a crank!
OK
I’m back now.
More of a DIY mini-CWIS than an Aegis, I think, Mueller. If I remember correctly, the Aegis is the ugly-ass frigate that has all the acquisition and targeting systems built into it, capable of directing a carrier group to kill pretty much everything within a thousand miles or so that doesn’t identify itself as friendly.