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Dec 11
2009

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Apparently, the Copenhagen meeting that has been going on about the climate this week has come to a point where the EU has agreed to spend £6.5Bn to help developing nations fight climate change.

Wow. £6.5Bn, that’s an amazing amount. We can spend hundreds of billions of pounds fighting two wars (and I’m just talking about the UK here), we can spend £1.5 -Trillion- pounds on bailing out the banks, but the UK has managed to find a whopping £1.5Bn to fight climate change. The other European countries managed to find £5Bn.

Stunning.

It’s made it perfectly clear where our priorities are, don’t you think?

What makes me chuckle is this though – the western nations, and increasingly China too, fight wars over oil, to preserve the status quo; but if we didn’t fight those wars, and channeled money into developing eco-technologies like solar, wave, wind etc., and really make an effort, those businesses would be worth as much as oil is now, and would be renewable rather than finite…

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Oct 2
2009

Posted by richard

This is one of those posts that market something. I’ll be upfront about it, I might get paid. Well, I hope so anyway. I’m not doing this solely to get paid though, I got an email from a website I use, and they had a good idea and I thought I’d lend a hand, so to speak.

The service, Small Rivers, lets people of the same mind talk about the same subject, and link to one another. It’s not quite like a search engine because search engines are blind and bombard you with generalised information. It’s more like a library index where you can look at ideas, subjects, conversations, and decide which one is of interest to you or more like your own areas of interest.

Anyway, I’ve added the little image below to prove I’ve posted about it. In the future I’m going to keep on trying it out, get more into my own blogging.

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    LOL! Right on! In your FACE FOX! Fox news is like a rag mag IMO. It's only good for a laugh, ...
 

Sep 19
2009

Posted by richard

I thought that this was beautiful. Having lived in the US, and having watched Fox News, I know firsthand how biased it is, and often, how wrong it is.

I ran across this on LiveLeak and thought it was worth reposting. It’s about Amsterdam, Fox News (Bill O’Reilly to be precise) blasted the city as a cesspool of corruption, a bad place to bring up kids, etc., A film-maker made this short movie, thought you should see it.

God Bless the freedom of speech.

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    Apparently yes. The deep south, fundamentalist christians etc.,
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    Really? There are still religious people here?
 

Sep 14
2009

Posted by richard

Yes, you’ve heard right. Darwin, that staunch rock upon which all of our biological sciences are based, is too controversial for American audiences. Apparently they’re all too religious and will be offended by Darwin‘s ideas (as though they didn’t already know them), especially in a movie. Surely if they’re offended by them, then they wouldn’t go to see the movie? Anyway, moving on.

So this nation of nearly 300 million people, which houses the dominant pornography industry, can’t stomach a film with major actors in it (and no porn!), that explains how one species might give rise to another. This, despite the fact that it has been proven in many species and you can even see it in action in some instances (butterflies in the UK, finches in the Galapagos).

God help us. Oops, did I just say God? That’s right, Darwin doesn’t say God doesn’t exist. He merely says that God didn’t design and create humans, but rather that He was the impetus for life, and life spawned more life and so on. That seems to be too difficult a concept to imagine for many Americans though.

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May 10
2009

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About a year ago I really started to use the BBC iPlayer a lot, it was a good tool at the right time (and if they’re not stupid, they’ll keep it free and expand it).

I tried out Channel 4′s 4oD service at the same time and all they had was this download that made me sign all these digital rights certificates, and basically I thought that it was not for me and I stopped installing it.

I went there yesterday and found they’d changed it. Now you can view their programs on their website for free, and only require the software for programs older than 30 days. Good idea, well done Channel 4. You understand where digital media is going, and you’re on the forefront of the expansion.

I wonder though, is this just for the UK? When I was in the US three years ago, the BBC iPlayer wasn’t available for non-UK people, and I always thought that that was a mistake. I know that for example, NBC programming isn’t available for me, but always thought it a shame. Charging people outside a host nation a minute amount for an episode of a program seems fair, and would probably push that media outlet to the top.

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    And, for Sweden to say they're criminal too. That's harsh. Does that mean car manufacturers should be sued or held criminally ...
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    It's surprising they didn't win the case due to them exact grounds. Why should they be imprisoned for other peoples actions? ...
 

Apr 17
2009

Posted by richard

So the Pirate Bay boys got convicted and get to spend a year in a Swedish prison. I bet that’ll be a doddle.

Interestingly the judge said that while they insisted they don’t host the pirated files, they -do- facilitate a crime.

Does that mean that that opens a door to people suing gun manufacturers? Or even the telephone company if someone commits fraud over the phone? What about car manufacturers when a bank gets robbed and they speed away in a car?

Oh what devious minds can come up with. I just don’t think that this has ended anything, in fact I think quite the opposite.

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    Harry, thank you for those facts, it's good to see someone putting out more than the media does. A few ...
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    By the way, seems like there are some formatting problems with Safari - my post above has a thick bar ...
 

Dec 31
2008

Posted by richard

After seeing the images on the TV, the shelling, the planes overhead, and hearing how many have died on the Palestinian side, I have to ask – is Israel really threatened that much that they must completely destroy the Palestinian’s government and kill so many people?

It does seem very one-sided, rather like, say, the Nazis attacking Holland. One or two rockets thrown over from Gaza doesn’t balance the books in terms of military threat, or of people killed (4 Israelis killed, 385 Palestinians as of Dec. 31st). And, no signs of any halt yet.

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    He heh. I live in bear country now.
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    No. Very timid. they'll run away from you when they see or hear you. BUT, will attack you if you corner ...
 

Oct 3
2008

Posted by richard

Thank God I live in the UK and we’re all bloodythirsty enough to have killed off all our indigenous animal life, read: bears.

Why?

Take a look at this video that Mac posted.

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Oct 1
2008

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We have had day after day, week after week, of political party conferences. The news programs seem to cover little else, and frankly it gets a bit nauseating. But of course given our current set of circumstances with finances, I do take note because it’s rather important when you know an election is around the corner.

Gordon Brown, our idiotic esteemed leader, tells us experience is what is needed right now. David Cameron suggests that people who say that don’t want to embrace change. I admit I favour the latter’s argument.

The reason? This:

The £4 billion of gold reserves – 415 tonnes – will be converted into euros, dollars and yen over the next few years. The sale will see the proportion of reserves held in gold falling from 17 per cent to 7 per cent. The Chancellor’s announcement triggered a fall in the price of gold and provoked Tories and Euro-sceptic businessmen to claim the decision was politically motivated to prepare Britain’s entry into the euro.

He sold gold at $340/ounce, in 1999. It now sells at $873/ounce (and that’s just dropped some) and is expected to increase in the coming year. People in similar positions around the world thought he was mad. Gold is one of the few things you should really keep hold of, and if you need to sell, sell high, and buy low.

Remember, at the time he was Chancellor. The mad man in charge of the money. Our money. This is the “experience” he so readily touts.

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Sep 26
2008

Posted by richard

I found this through popurls earlier today and I watched it all the way through (47 minutes). Like parts of it say, we’re never taught about money at school, and most of us have absolutely no clue about it. Sure we put a few hundred in the bank, we spend money all the time because it buys us the things we need, but let’s be honest, none of us really know anything about it.

Watch this, you’ll be stunned.

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