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You missed the part where it said: Seph says he deliberately avoided making the area look ugly. "Sometimes in the editing process I can be very creative and portray images creatively enough that they could be pretty powerful. In this case though I wanted it to be portrayed very beautifully. So ...

It is not the quick ,easy, or just solution but it is what we will come to if we don't find better more humane solutions. Yes. This is what Biff and 3rd Rock do not appear understand. In the long run, we are not faced with a choice between fences/walls/moats and letting everybody in. We are faced w...

I think the term "migrant" is apt, in the sense that none of them have been awarded legal refugee status until their case has been accepted anyway, and it is not proven that some are not simply economic migrants taking advantage of the crisis to get into Europe easily. Or, worse still, mil...

To suppose that IQ is responsible for poverty seems to me to suggest that the possibility of it being the reverse is not being considered. Could poor diet be leading to lack of brain development? Could lack of education imply the mind is not properly stimulated in order to develope the correct think...

biffvernon wrote:

the_lyniezian wrote:
If some of those banks had been suddenly forced to cease trading,

Oh nobody suggested cease trading. Nationalisation would do the trick.

We already nationalized RBS didn't we? Not exactly a panacea for all the ills of the banking sector.

As mentioned before, I tend to favour a straight-up separation of powers with an elected executive and separate elected legislature using either FPTP or STV. Perhaps with a small House of Lords style body appointed on a purely meritocratic/technocratic basis, not a place for heriditary peers and sem...

The wonder of it is that JPMorgan, Citigroup, Barclays, and RBS are still allowed to trade, and their directors are still allowed to walk the streets. They must have been all in it together, the banks, the governments and the courts. Oh hang on, that's what the Cameron meant when he said 'We're all...

The first past the post system is definitely fit for purpose if we understand how it's designed to work. Basically people are so obsessed by the party system they fail to see it's about voting for the person as well as simply the party. What is really not fit for purpose is that we have no real sepa...

From Yahoo News:

http://news.yahoo.com/radon-levels-incr ... 50135.html

Might be of interest to those concerned with the environmental impacts of fracking.

But s/he's right. Right about what? So's Steve. What, that we are somehow akin to a cancer? Maybe you can draw parallels but unlike simple cells, we are a much more complex arrangement of cells that is able to think about what we are doing. He has a point but is phrasing it in a way which is terrib...

biffvernon wrote:And a very worthwhile blog it is too.

Aye, and I can even appreciate his use of simple web design that minimizes the use of system resources. Needs a more thorough read on my part- especially as regards the whole fracking issue as I really want to be able to understand that better.

'Breaking the law'. :roll: I, for one, don't accept that he did. I might need to be be careful with this if the matter is sub judice, however I'd be inclined to agree- there's not much he's really done other than stand in an awkward place and its doubtful they can actually place a conviction. It do...

Normally I'd not really support actions of this type (that fundamentally involve breaking of the law) however Mobbs has certainly researched his case and the law well and, let's be honest, is being so unusually... nice about it. The video shows him doing nothing worse in practice than talking to cop...

The issue is global environmental collapse, not collapse of localized human society...........Pre-industrial societies might have got destroyed at a few places due to disease or any other reason but it hardly affected the planet.......No pre-industrial society destroyed the entire planet like indus...

But s/he's right. Right about what? Perhaps the scale of which environmental destruction is being wrought by industrial society in its current mode, and he might just have a few points about endless debates to the extent they are in lieu of any real action, but otherwise short on solutions that act...