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In my view, this country needs a PROPER civil defence organisation, possibly run as a branch of the armed forces. Such an organisation could hold substantial stocks of emergency supplies, including but not limited to. In Australia there is an emergency organisation called the SES that is supposed t...

Someone will win but with declining birth rates of ethnic Russians and the proximity of China with a huge population and Turkic Central Asian countries with high birth rates it may not be Russia itself. I hear the population of Moscow is already half Muslim. Tatars and Chechens outbreed Russians by ...

Here's a quick guide to the actuarial tables from myself - a failed Actuary. Go to this link and download the National Life Tables spreadsheet at the bottom of the page. (511KB xlsx). Goto 2017-2019 tab on the spreadsheet. It lists Males data and Females data. You can see a list of ages 0 to 100. Ig...

Australia started doing it on 30th Jan 2020, 11 and a half months ago. There is legitimate criticism that the UK never closed down quick enough. In hindsight probably correct. But we had a lot to lose, a major economy, densely populated mostly suburban centres, and an island nation reliant on globa...

The stolen batteries were a couple of 6 volt, 250 AH units, secondhand fortunatly. Not that portable. The thieves drilled a hole in the substantial hardwood door and then cut around the lock with a jigsaw. I'd be concreting the next lot of batteries into the floor if they do not need the electrolyt...

Looks like atmospheric methane is on the way up same as CO2. Link

In Australia the rating is called NABERS . No idea how good it is but I think 6 stars in good and 1 star is presumably a cowshed. Apparently you can build a 10 star house though if you really try hard at eliminating heat loss/gain. I sympathise with your predicament but maybe you should just retire ...

I don't think the rich are getting 'richer' but if more money is being created by money printing, bailouts or handouts then the owners of businesses (who tend to be richer) are capturing most of this extra money and are increasing their proportion of total 'personal' wealth. This trend has been goin...

I watched the video with MBS explaining that people are dying of pollution and spending too much time commuting. Looks like they want it to be split up into smaller 'beads' along the line with everything 5 minutes walking distance from people. I see a cross section with underground 'tubes' carrying ...

I remember a joke from my school days. Why did the Romans build straight roads? So there could be no Indian corner shops. That is a shit joke, given that corner shops are found at the intersections of straight roads. This was Nottinghamshire in the 1970s and 80s. Not PC and not always right. A trul...

"UK to close all travel corridoors from Monday" Various media report. Australia started doing it on 30th Jan 2020, 11 and a half months ago. I suspect that it wont mean ALL travel and that various exemptions and loopholes will exist. I think you are right. People will need to get to Davos...

I remember a joke from my school days. Why did the Romans build straight roads? So there could be no Indian corner shops.

A line would certainly maximise distances between two randomly chosen points in the city compared with a grid layout.

It would not even be a straight line as it is on the surface of the earth which is a sphere. An arc perhaps. Maybe Arc-city or "The Arc" does not sound so good. Perhaps it would remind them of Noah's Ark and that there were other religions going before theirs came along. From what I unders...

I can remember game hanging up at the local butchers in Retford in the 1970s. Wild deer are slowly becoming a problem in Australia too but there is more of a hunting presence here so I think they will get shot if they get too numerous. It looks from this Grauniad article that Bison (more correctly W...

Sorry to hear about the batteries getting nicked but it does happen. I think rural crime and the perpetrators/usual suspects has been discussed in another thread. It would be interesting to see a YouTube video of the bull out-staring the unwanted guest. Perhaps super heavy batteries could be sourced...