Posted By Russ Emerson on October 12, 2011 at 5:38 pm
On revolution and redistributionism in the age of “Occupy [XYZ]” protests:
There’s something preferable to dealing with good old-fashioned honest thieves. “I’m taking your s**t because you have it and I want it, and I think I can get away with it,” has the virtue of at least being (somewhat) self-limiting. The thief knows he’s doing something wrong, knows he’s taking a risk, and (if he’s a professional) will seek to maximize his reward/risk ratio.
In all those “raiding gangs terrorize the farmers” movies (Seven Samurai, Magnificent Seven, etc.), the bandits rarely took so much food that the farmers starved. The smart parasite doesn’t kill its host; the Chinese and Soviet governments… not so much.
People who steal your s**t because “it’s morally wrong for you to have had it in the first place” aren’t going to be satisfied… well, ever.
Commenter John Bradley, at Protein Wisdom
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Posted By Russ Emerson on October 11, 2011 at 9:00 am
As promised last week, cats notwithstanding, I have here a few details of the Mamoli Mayflower project to date.
Construction of the hull began with me having to shoo away one or another of the cats (usually Kismet, the stinker) while I prepared the 5mm plywood keel and bulkheads for assembly.
The keel was rather significantly warped, so soaking followed by steaming with a clothes iron was the order of the day. No amount of such treatment was sufficient, however, to completely remove all of the bend from the wood, but I managed to get it fairly straight. If I were looking to make a museum-piece, I’d have taken the time to cut a new keel myself.
The bulkheads require beveling for the planking which is to come. I gave each a rough bevel before assembly; I marked one edge of each bulkhead with a pencil to ensure that I didn’t go just a bit too far when removing material.
Fine-tuning the bevel will happen after the frame is assembled.
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