Posts by chris 125 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Mar 2008
With one month to go before a massive protest outside a power station, the concentration of anti-environment stories on the Register reaches saturation of the upper-atmosphere (above the line).
So, cause or effect: is it masses of corporate PR agencies publishing reports aimed at shifting the blame away from their preferred industry, or is the register actually looking for this this stuff to publish?
"if more people downloaded legally maybe the price would come down a bit more."
Hoho. Scarcity economics / economies of scale don't apply here. More likely that the opposite is true: if more people download illegally the price will be forced down, as they'd rather sell something than nothing.
"Indeed, when I read of the rise in yob-crime, loss of civility, and the institution of a police state in England, the thought that invariably comes to mind is rats in an overcrowded cage fighting ferociously with one another for survival."
And when I read of someone blaming environmental degradation on over-population rather than over-consumption and exploitation, the thought that invariably comes to mind is nihilistic loners viewing the world through a screen and scared of a freindly chat and co-operation with their neighbours.
Funny that.
...His conclusions fit the existing prejudices of a chunk of Register readers! *And* he has equations!
As if environmentalists haven't been doing sums on energy consumption for a while. No-one read Mayer Hoffman's book then? Steven Pacala's work on the relationship between wealth and pollution creation that shows that it's the rich that are the problem?
The message I get from this is: we can't live current energy-inefficient lifestyles forever, but most of the energy use is taking place on a societal not individual level.
Therefore, society has to change. A las barricadas! Less tat, no bosses, longer holidays. What's not to like?
"Why does everyone pick on the DUP when there were 306 other scumbags "
... cos it's a Northern Irish Unionist party voting for Internment? Love to be a fly on the wall at the next NI assembly cabinet meeting.
"Hey, Gerry, guess what? Wait'll you see we we're getting for xmas"
"More money for schools?"
"Yeah, that too...."
(truck with large gold statue of Ian Paisley pulls up to door of Stormont...)
Love the quote about the "specific, limited purpose"; i.e. "keeping track of anyone who we think we might want to arrest in the future". (Or "doing our bit to make arms dealers happy in hopes of getting tasers on discount").
http://fitwatch.blogspot.com
Get used to it folks, this same lot are now stalking schoolkids on estates.
...the 2 most useful words in the legal vocabulary.
They have to *prove* you did something wrong. The less they know about what you did, the harder it is for them to find something illegal in what you did.
Quick example:
"tell us your password"
"I can't remember the password"
"Aha! So this IS your account and not that other guy's..."
" :( "
What I have learned about what (a high proportion of) people think:
* we're OK with the idea of books being banned
* people with non-English names should know not to download certain things
* everyone from the Middle East is a terrorist
* Algeria is in the Middle East
* if your employer hands you over to the state for doing your job, it's YOUR fault
* we think people who've lived here 13 years are foreigners
* we'll let the government do whatever it likes as long as they say that there's an immigration issue.
I don't know whether I'm more sickened by the Government or by the reaction of some of my fellow citizens.
WTO 1999 is the more apposite Seattle connection here.
Riseup.net:
SSL-only access, a "just don't tell us your personal details" privacy policy and sound politics.
Or Google. "We'll read your messages, but we're not evil, really (TM)".
Who're you going to trust with with your email?
Riseup FTW!
Or has "Data Portability" become a really shit idea?
All this flannel about "control". I bet we aren't talking about the ability for Bob Punter to deny advertisers access to their information. It's the ability for companies to combine the data they have on you and then sell it on for £$£.
"Data Staticness" NOW!
The reason carbon capture gets talked about so much is that companies want to pump the CO2 into oil fields.
1. burn oil
2. capture CO2
3. use CO2 to force more oil out of old wells
4. collect money for "sequestration"
4.5 profit
5. burn previously unobtainable oil
6. release CO2 sequestrated by dinosaurs
7. profit again
8. planet's living systems fucked
It's not the plastic, it's the fact that it's permanently stuck to a metallic coating. That makes it as recyclable as a TetraWak carton (recyclable cardboard + recyclable plastic = landfill).
You could replace the polycarbonate with polylactic acid from fairly traded organicly grown butterfly-attracting flowers and this would still be an irredeemably shit idea.
....calls for a ban on short skirts in areas known to have been visited by rapists.
Scuse the tasteless analogy but all this Malthusian bollocks from car drivers is obscuring the twisted blame-the-victim mentality behind this proposal.
You're driving more than a ton of metal at high (or moderate) speeds then there's a power imbalance and responsibility there that demands you pay more attention than Mr Random Hungover-Guy out for a pint of milk.
Has no-one taken a driving test recently? Hazard Perception is part of it now. Drive assuming everyone is about to walk / pull out in front of you and everyone's a lot safer, no need for stupid laws that assume drivers own a city's streets.
So you flame someone for contributing links to credible primary sources as if he was just spewing self-aggrandising crap then tell us "Myself? No papers, no peer review, but at least the humility to acknowledge that." Away and polish your halo.
Congratulations on trying to keep science, data and sense out of a discussion on global warming. No place for that on the register
"Global warming is a scam, cars that clean the air as they drive, Ken Livingstone is a Communist, driving is more environmentally friendly than running, trains are environmentally unfriendly too, a Porsche should pay less than a bus because it's smaller"
You Porsche owners are a funny lot. I bet you think people envy you as you sit in traffic listening to The Best Power Ballads in the World...Ever! as well.
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