Considering the actions currently being perpetrated against children (and women, elderly and civilians) by the the nation at the zero position, being in the negative range of that scale sounds pretty good.
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Considering the zero, I'm fairly comfortable the average human is pretty well situated in the negative numbers of that scale.
I took it as a good humoured take ad I answered it in the same fashion.
I could, in fact, draw the entire thing on paper. Technical drawing was taugh to me in school and I took quite well to it; I still like to draw today but more as an artistic expression.
Although I wouldn't consider what I make as artistic under any light.
But my original still holds. Yes, I could. But I would have to make everything from scratch every single time we wanted to try an idea.
Not really practical.
I'm going to look into LibreCAD and FreeCAD. Seem to be the most promising solutions.
I could but it would be a hassle to draw from scratch an entire blueprint every time some idea came to us to improve the space. Hence, the digital option.
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So, old but not that old.
They don't. :) First place I asked. The house is so old it still falls under a exemption to have blueprints deposited at the municipality. In fact, it wasn't even built with blueprints.
I understand your concern and advice.
My house was built using a logic that only the outter walls, which are stone on the ground floor and cement block on the top floor, are load bearing.
These will not be touched, besides removing and replacing old mortars.
On the inside, all the walls are for show, made of wood I want to reclaim and a couple that were built in clay bricks but that have no load bearing capability nor structural role.
Drawing the blueprints as the house exists today will serve to have a birds eye view of the house to work on, even with professionals, if the need arises in the future.
This sort of house is not considered interesting for professionals in my area; the structure is too simple and can not accomodate that many changes. And because I'm not rebuilding but just renewing, no projects, licenses or consultancy is required. This makes this kind of job not very appealing.
And thank you for reminding me that electrical and water plants are a thing, aswell.
I don't think the creators of the Sims designed the game with that in mind but if works, it is not stupid.
Unusual solution but I can see it working! Most definetely.
But I do require some degree of accuracy on what I intend to do, so FreeCAD is lining up be the best solution, taking from the answer I'm getting.
The house is old and drawing an as much as humanly possible accurate blueprint would be a plus. And I do have some very weird angles in it.
Not in the mood to pay for a solution that a FOSS program may cover as well, considering it won't be used for professional purposes.
A native GNOME solution. Wasn't expecting that one.
I wasn't going to comment initially but, thinking again, I will.
According to what I was once explained, the scheme runs like this.
a) organization X starts a fund raising campaign
This alone can be deducted as an expense, as any amount of hours can be attributed to planning, preparing, etc, the entire thing.
As this time as no profitable end, it can be deducted.
b) You donate. But now it's their money.
Your money is siphoned to a separate bank account or just tallied and earmarked as for charitable purpouses but this does not mean the entity needs to hand it over immediatly.
That money is held within the company's vaults, figure of expression, and, as such, counts towards the overall financial assets of the company.
It still needs to be handed to the end recipient but until it does it can be used to leverage loans and be invested into short term investment products, like overnight deposits (with hundreds of thousands or even millions it does gain interest overnight).
c) the money gets donated eventually but not by you
Eventually, all that money gets handed over but it is now their money, not yours. And as such, they get the tax deduction. And, again, with hundreds of thousands to millions in donations, the deduction gets very high.
This deduction, on your expense, goes towards clearing more of their profits.
Want to do something good?
Volunteer. Help your neighbour. With your own efforts, actions and work. Don't hand over money.