Ideas thread

[freemason9]

it might be a good time to introduce Soviet Apartments

[sw]

To stop trafficking of assault type rifles etc to Mexico........have mandatory gps devices built in so that weapons don't operate outside the united states. No trafficking if guns will no longer operate south of latitude/ longitude of the borders.

[sw]

rape deterrent: same device like made in Vietnam when soldiers put foot in a hole and when they pulled it out to walk, their leg was ripped off. Same idea but something insert in private area so that in case of rape, would rip the rapist penis off. Female might die, but it would be worth it.

[crikkett]

How about a radio station that plays audiobooks?

Well, BBC Radios 4 and 7 play a fair amount of that. Four has two books serialised over the course of each week, the book of the week and the book at bedtime. And the classic serial, of course. And radio 7 has even more. Of course they also do comedy and news (on 4 at least) and so forth, too.

http://www.audiobookradio.net/internetradio/ Free is a relative term.

Thanks!!

[Stephen Morgan]

An idea first floated by Ramsay MacDonald, before he suggested a mass return to the land and defect to the Tories: a soviet style house of lords, as seen in the inter-revolutionary period between the February and October revolutions in Russia, an upper house consisting of members elected by different lines of work rather than geographical areas, somewhat similar to the original organisation of the Labour party as ruled by member organisations. In a modern bicameral parliament it would have to be representatives of mutual and membership organisations and non-profit organisations, unions, building societies, co-operatives, perhaps certain trusts such as the John Lewis trust, some charities and so forth.

rape deterrent: same device like made in Vietnam when soldiers put foot in a hole and when they pulled it out to walk, their leg was ripped off. Same idea but something insert in private area so that in case of rape, would rip the rapist penis off. Female might die, but it would be worth it.

Such things already exist, wisely not recruiting yourself for the advertising campaign, although the design principle is to grip firmly to the penis in such a way as to prevent removal without some sort of medical expertise, there is no way which would be safe to the woman wearing the device which would alsoo cause serious damage to a rapist, doesn't have enough purchase on the vaginal walls. Don't sell very many, obviously most women don't go out expecting to be raped.

[Nordic]

Female might die, but it would be worth it.

Uh .... okay. I suggest one of your female relatives be the first to try this out.

[sw]

I thought of this idea when I was reading of the mass rapes in the Congo. My thought was that if the rapists even suspected that women began to wear these that the fear might stop them.

I should have added that it would be worth it to me, not anyone else. If I ever get raped again, it will be the last and I'll go down too and take them out either with me or without me. That is what I meant by worth it.

[Nordic]

I should have added that it would be worth it to me, not anyone else. If I ever get raped again, it will be the last and I'll go down too and take them out either with me or without me. That is what I meant by worth it.

Oh, okay. I misunderstood!

[AhabsOtherLeg]

...the design principle is to grip firmly to the penis in such a way as to prevent removal without some sort of medical expertise, there is no way which would be safe to the woman wearing the device which would alsoo cause serious damage to a rapist, doesn't have enough purchase on the vaginal walls. Don't sell very many, obviously most women don't go out expecting to be raped.

They've been aiming the marketting strategy for that device very firmly at South Africa, where there seems to be a certain amount of approval for the idea, even on the governmental level. Understandable, given the statistics.

It has some use as a theoretical deterrent, but also some very obvious practical drawbacks: - a determined and enraged rapist is one step away from being a sex-murderer in the first place, and sticking hooks in his penis won't help. The fact that gang-rape is the most common form of rape in SA also means that it won't really work towards the victim's wellbeing.

Just the idea that these things exist and are in circulation might deter some rapists, though, and that's got to be a good thing.

[Stephen Morgan]

Just the idea that these things exist and are in circulation might deter some rapists, though, and that's got to be a good thing.

I'm not entirely sure how rapists think, how much forethought goes into it and that, but wouldn't it just encourage you to have a bit of a poke around with your finger first? Probing the terrain, like.

[norton ash]

^^^^^ argh.

Okay, enough on the cock-trap rape deterrent idea.

This is why we can't have nice things.

[Stephen Morgan]

All the other non-lethal weapon ideas have already been had.

[Joe Hillshoist]

I had an idea for a near perpetual motion machine involving a large series of magnets. I discussed it with my former-weapons-developer father and he mentioned that this had already been tried, to make (he insinuated) guns. He said you could get a lot of thrust out of such a device, but it wasn't true perpetual motion because the magnets do become demagnitized with use.

I've imagined several basic ways you could store solar power for the night, primitive devices really, that store power the way cuckoo clocks do, by basically using excess daylight during the day to lift weights high into the air, and then after the sun goes down they would be dropped, slowly, on their chain, to run a flywheel that would power a generator.

You could do the same thing with water, obviously.

Tall towers would be needed.

Mechanical power is probably the easiest kind to store.

Seen this?

http://www.hyiq.org/Library/Lester.J.Hendershot.htm

[Nordic]

Solar powered airships.

Saw a blimp today, right in my neighborhood, flying rather erratically, was actually kind of worried it was in some sort of trouble.

Realized the surface area of those things is huge relative to their weight, of course, and it would be quite easy to make them, or cover them, with some of the new light weight films that turn solar energy into power. I would think the surface area is so large that it could easily make enough power to run the motors that propel the thing.

You could have hundreds of these over a big city, as long as (I suppose) it wasn't too windy.

[Nordic]

I had an idea for a near perpetual motion machine involving a large series of magnets. I discussed it with my former-weapons-developer father and he mentioned that this had already been tried, to make (he insinuated) guns. He said you could get a lot of thrust out of such a device, but it wasn't true perpetual motion because the magnets do become demagnitized with use.

I've imagined several basic ways you could store solar power for the night, primitive devices really, that store power the way cuckoo clocks do, by basically using excess daylight during the day to lift weights high into the air, and then after the sun goes down they would be dropped, slowly, on their chain, to run a flywheel that would power a generator.

You could do the same thing with water, obviously.

Tall towers would be needed.

Mechanical power is probably the easiest kind to store.

Seen this?

http://www.hyiq.org/Library/Lester.J.Hendershot.htm

Hard to make heads or tails out of that. Seems like it would use the rotation of the earth to move a magnet in some coils .... ??? But wouldn't the coils move with the earth, too?