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Completed the poll.

Quite thought provoking questions with a reasonable coverage of the salient issues.

Interpretation will be a statisticians wet dream!

happychicken wrote:I was a little surprised to see this headline just now when I switched my computer on - oil prices don't seem to be "soaring" - they've gone up a little bit. What's going on?

Well they've gone up 25ish% since rock bottom of $30something. What's going on?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8004975.stm US President doesn't make an incredibly ignorant decision. Obama makes me realise how cynical I've become over the last 8 years. His ability to deliver remains unproved but the guy gives me hope and shows how inured we've become to stupid fuckers runn...

This year I'm detectng good signs about our local slug/snail population i.e. it's mainly dead. This 'normal' winter might reduce my nocturnal mollusc hunt - bowl of salty water & 'slugging spoon' in hand (I won't waste good beer on slugs) but it doesnt seem to have set back the perennial plants ...

Oh if we're talking wild food I love the autumn crop of blackberries and sloes round here - and my favourite being crab apples. But I also meant that one should find out what grows well on your soil by trial & error and grow to your strengths. However that is tricky because you may just have a g...

So far the seeds that I planted (including broad beans, ages ago) have done absolutely nowt. Outdoor temps are about 4 (night) - 10 (day). I wonder if they're still just waiting. Our broad beans have just come up - planted 7 weeks ago (just before we had all the snow) seeds like that have their own...

I am a complete dunce about all this stuff but I must recommend this blog http://cynicuseconomicus.blogspot.com/ I don't know what credentials Cynicus Economicus has, but his examples are clear and he does his best to explain the consequences of money printing on the domestic economy and on the stat...

If losing 90% of the creatures that appear in the fossil record is your idea of incredibly resistant I'd rather not be part of it. Absolutely. My point was that we are precipitating a mass extinction (I'm not sure of the exact definition of such an event e.g. percentage of species made extinct over...

Agreed, good points Billhook, no reason for complacency. However it does confirm something I've often suspected, and that is that nature is maybe more resilient than she is sometimes given credit for, and will take any opportunity which is presented to her when it comes to adaptation and survival. ...

Well; strolling round the mall at Cribbs Causeway I see about 60% of the shops are almost identical clothes emporiums selling poorly made crap from China. There's one bookshop (Waterstones), one music shop (HMV) and virtually nothing of use for sale. I know I'm looking in the wrong place for useful ...

Last years resolution was to change my job - I failed to fulfill that one
This years is to keep it
Apart from that; to learn the lessons from this years gardening and apply with vigour in the new new year.

Elm wood!

The loss of Elms from our landscape happened before I had an interest in trees - how I would love to see them back!

Billhook wrote:Pablo -

As an ideology of subjugation and exhaustion, I'm afraid I doubt that one can measure the health of the 'doctrine' economic growth.

Regards,

Billhook

Well, one can pronounce it dead or at least in its death throes!

Ludwig wrote:As an aside, it sickens me that people who didn't even know where Iceland was 2 weeks ago have suddenly raised Icelanders to first position in their hate list.

Quite, I don't suppose anyone asked the electorate "do you mind if we leverage our banks positions to 10 x GDP?"

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