Posts by 81stcolumn
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Some thoughts in no particular order.
Lurkers - Is there a connection between guardian lurkers, pedants and those waiting with a “weapon” loaded with expertise (sniper ?). I don’t post often these days but at times I catch myself dying for a chance to show how smart I am (second sentence and its already about me- I could so easily be a troll).
In defence of those that appear to be trying to side track a thread, sometimes they just see a connection between things that seems obvious to them but not others (and then they read it later; often with a sense of regret).
Shouldn’t speak for others but I always thought a “glad” of gays would be cool.
PAS has made me relentlessly self conscious about my language and I’m an academic.
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I probably haven’t put this very well but speculating as a would be telco monopoly…
When would this regulatory holiday start if proposed completion is in 2014 ?
With the threat of repeal coming after a change in government, what length of regulatory holiday would I realistically be betting on ?
Spelling corrected.
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Am I right in thinking that the risky lose-lose is:
Business - "I would like to use that shiny new fibre, it might make me money, but I can't afford it right now.."
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My apologies, forget bullying league tables I'm quite sure there is a PPP opportunity in there somewhere
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Tolley's recent attempts to make education "better" appear to have revolved around more assessment.
I await with interest her response to bullying - reports in school tables anyone ?
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Sheep had to be tested before being moved or slaughtered. I'm not aware of any locations in the UK being unable to produce food. The vast majority of restrictions were lifted by the end of 1986.
I think it worth clarifying that sheep continue to fail the test to this day and that farmers are compensated to the tune of 1:30 GBP; the same sum offered in 1986. Many livestock farmers cannot afford to graze animals on the high hills in Wales. This renders land effectively unproductive.
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Would I be right in surmising that power (electricity ?) generation should not be in commercial hands ?
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.............the reactors in Japan were built 40 years ago and no-one would compare the safety of a car built 40 years ago with one built now so why should they compare reactors.
Which to my mind raises the greater part of my own concerns. 40 years is an awfully long time to be employing and using same design; I'm sure this wasn't at the insistence of the safety authorities. My point being that there is a genuine conflict between operators and safety authories agrguing about how reasonable are certain safety measures. I have great faith in science and engineering a good deal less in operators who have over time contributed to a culture of mistrust. The recent debate in the UK over this has been ineteresting.
P.S. For a while I lived down the road from Culham Labs - Run by the UKAEA, the site wasn't always devoted to fusion research. Something that they unsurprisingly fail to advertise or discuss openly. That said I still don't glow in the dark.
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to BenWilson,
Scotland is not uninhabitable. It produces a lot of food. You have massively overprojected the destruction that the Chernobyl accident wreaked.
As a small counterpoint it is only in the last four or five years that lamb reared in certain areas of Snowdonia were declared fit for cosumption. This is a problem entirely due to Chernoblyl. In North Wales it accelerated the decline of the local livestock industry forcing a significant number of local families into poverty. Perhaps becasue it was local to me I tend to take these events quite seriously.
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Hard News: The Thread, It Is Open, in reply to Kracklite,
That's why it is a spectrum disorder ;-)