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I'm afraid it's much more so.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/...ul-hugging.html I laughed seriously over this. Especially after meeting an old ex at the weekend. Grow the hell up, you crucidoofus.

So THAT's why I'm confused. I dated a couple of Canuck ladies. One of them had lobster at thanksgiving. Sounds much better than bloody turkey.

Everyone is getting caught up in the hooha liberal conservative balls, and not liking my plug for GMF.

I'd go easy on them. The simple fact is that a good copper, or bodyguard has an instinct for people who are dangerous. Just because someone is on the list doesn't mean they don't intend murder, and vice versa. Smacked wrists etc, but no big deal.

I'm nervous about posting. I don't have a coherent standpoint. I do have a couple of strongly held thoughts on the matter: 1: Terrorism by anyone on anyone is wrong. It's a tactic based on application of random violence with the aim of provoking such a f***ed up state of affairs that reason and thought goes out the window to be replaced by some other agenda. I don't see how that can ever be good. 2. As crap a time as the Palestinians have had, I am a student of history. Countries are carved out by military winners. My own country was carved out by military winners. Name me one country which wasn't. The Zionists won militarily.... 3. Yes, Zionist control seems destined to involve bloodshed, but Lare's GTFO plan would also involve bloodshed, surely?* I guess if I had a solution it would be to let nature takes its course and have the two sides compete as they are to see who chooses. *Is Lare a Hades alt? I can't keep track.

True. Still, good art is always inspiring.

Oy vey.

I'm temperamentally against anyone who claims the environment can't be modelled. Maybe we can't do it perfectly, but can and should bloody well try. I call it lazy. Only being partly flippant, I reckon a lot of the problem has come about because of the last twenty years when business kept harassing academics. Now every academic is obliged to write mission statements and project plans, and attend HR meetings. It's no wonder they're trying to hit business one in the balls as payback.

See if you can get a hold of any books by George MacDonald Fraser. I can think of no better companion to disreputable bachelorhood. In particular I think you'd enjoy Quartered Safe Out Here. But failing that some Flashman.

James Corbett sculptures. I really thought they hit the right note, although obviously not directly applicable as entities or anything.

I agree with zoraptor and fail to grasp what Alan's saying. I suggest that what we are witnessing is the difference between scientific truth, and real life decision making. We had a LOT of this helping my mum choose cancer treatments. Test data was almost invariably patchy at best. usually we weighed up the costs of folowing a course against the probability of it being false. In this case we're talking about reorienting the entire human race on a specific and expensive goal. Having said that I think it would be pretty awesome if we were able to heat up the planet. Because then the next ice-age can f*** off.

Seems pretty sensible to me.

Nah. Just the one on the program I'm on.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/vide...-sex-scene.html I have to say I couldn't stomach watching the whole thing, but immense kudos to Bioware for daring to put the thing in there in the first place. I'm buying a copy first thing tomorrow. Personally I find the whole latent homophobia in the gaming community (witnessed in online chat) at best laughable and at worst offensive. Apart from anything else, since when were nerds paragons of masculine virtue?

Do you really see those factors as capable of overturning industrial civilization itself. Honestly they are nothing compared to the tests of modernity, Dickensian squalor, Marxists revolutions and war attrition it has already absorbed. Besides, we don't know any other way to be. Yes I do. To use my favourite quotation from the much missed 11xhooah "Freedom, Peace, and Security are not crapped out of a rainbow". Of course we know other ways to be. Give us one week without power, water, or prepacked ready meals and there would be rioting. Give us three weeks and you'd need martial law. Give us three months and we'd be back to warlords, cavorting druids, and the foreign policy of Judge Hades. Western civilisation is predicating on a bewilderingly complex balancing act, between multiple high energy interdependent systems. To an extent it is self-righting due to the tremendous speed it works at, but you wouldn't need much to make people panic. A fact which LoF won't have missed, hence - I suspect - his user name.

OK. Firstly, it's not easy if you push yourself hard enough in the fast sections. Sadly I wasn't precisely sprinting but I tried to kep a rapid rhythm for those sections. I'm nt sure if it qualifies as proof of effort, but I made it to the mile mark almost precisely by nine minutes. Things are looking up for the trial timed run this saturday. Tomorrow is a rest day, and Friday is a brisk 40 minute walk.

Don't get me wrong. I'm in favour of sensible emissions reductions just on general principle - not to mention neregy security. But I do think that some fanatical drive to destroy polluting is misguided on a purely practical level. One thing which I think gets not nearly enough press is solar-cookers. A solar cooker is like a normal slow cooker. It doesn't use any tech like solar panels. It just uses simple metal reflectors or a focussing lense, plus insulated utensil pot thing. Slow energy in, but very little out. Cheap to make, free to run. Almost removes the need for deforestation in many areas, and also alleviates the poverty induced by fuel shortages. Plus you can use them for boiling water. Obviously it only works in hot countries, but coincidentally that's where they need them most. My uncle had one in Africa and it was great. He used to make bread in it.

Or very shortly before.

Mooso, if we survive long enough as an industrialised civilisation to use up all the oil we're doing better than I currently predict. We're simply too fragile as we are. Our eceonomic and industrial systems are capable of enacting change at a pace which far outstrips our political and social mechanisms. And that's before you consider all the organisations intent on wrecking the status quo communists, jifascists, radical greens, foreign powers etc etc. They're all like people fighting on the flight deck of an airliner. IMO the best we can hope for is to spread to other global systems so at least their is a degree of redundancy.

How's your unelected, rich-as-**** monarch doing? The only thing better than being sworn to protect a monarch chosen by accident of birth is knowing I dont have to swear allegiance to a politician. That and knowing it must annoy the hell out of you, peasant.

Got invited to dinner. Had gnocchi then plaeyd Left 4 Dead 2. I still suck at it to an unreasonable extent and got very frustrated. I'm going off the idea of a director who punishes you for doing well. Walked home through the first proper weather I can recall since leaving the North of England. Soaking rain, high winds. I went stumping off to find a good hill and rocked on my heels as stinging droplets battered my nose and eyes. Back home now in the warm with a whisky and you chaps. Incidentally, a thought occurred to me this weekend. If one truly appreciates one's girlfriends, learns from them ,and enjoys their unique qualities, is it really wrong to look forward to the next one?

Today ( Wednesday) really pretty easy 10 minute warm up 5 x 1 minute fast run, 1 minute slow run, back to back 10 minute warm down At least that sounds easy. Have to see, I suppose.

If you don't beleive in global warming your ignorant. EoD. Or you might have yet to see a comprehensive and intelligible case put to you. Is this your fault given the thousands of people who are paid to put that case forward?

I think a lot of it depends on their aims, as some have already suggested. However, o an extent ANY individual capable of large scale unilateral change to the environment will be viewed - correctly in my opinion - as a potential hazard. One of the remarkable things about our species is that we can enact huge changes, but largely only in concert. This puts a degree of inertia into change. Rapid unregulated change of any kind is inherently toxic to living organisms. By chance such a being would also pose a threat to vested interests, so I think you could be fairly sure that while bat-eared boy would be fine, atom man would be quietly poisoned.