tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post6382592391170103423..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: June 8 2010: We’re approaching a dead endIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-44499553745619765012010-06-10T16:55:58.930-04:002010-06-10T16:55:58.930-04:00New post up.
BP, Forrest Gump, Mr. Bean and the...New post up.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://theautomaticearth.blogspot.com/2010/06/june-10-2010-bp-forrest-gump-mr-bean.html" rel="nofollow"><b>BP, Forrest Gump, Mr. Bean and the White House</b></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-41913626955023335602010-06-10T16:21:37.307-04:002010-06-10T16:21:37.307-04:00@ Ilargi.
there's a surprise.
Z.@ Ilargi.<br /><br />there's a surprise.<br /><br />Z.zanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15352619368764868819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-55425604379952538852010-06-10T15:30:00.033-04:002010-06-10T15:30:00.033-04:00"@Ilargi
that was some result by your lot ag...<i>"@Ilargi<br /><br />that was some result by your lot against Hungary at the weekend, friendly or not. You quietly confident?</i><br /><br />No.<br /><br />Eardrumshatteringly so.Ilargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-11078976195476523322010-06-10T15:04:40.248-04:002010-06-10T15:04:40.248-04:00Just back after spell away and catching up so this...Just back after spell away and catching up so this contribution is a little pass'e.<br /><br />@VK and WOLF 7th 6 25pm and 8th 6 54am respectively - great posts <br /><br />I am pursuing an expanding career involving inactivity myself these days, which, with the world cup approaching is about to go stellar. Which brings me to.....<br /><br />@Ilargi<br /><br />that was some result by your zanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15352619368764868819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-82330516746795198822010-06-10T12:31:31.161-04:002010-06-10T12:31:31.161-04:00Re VK's recent post on the virtues of sloth - ...Re VK's recent post on the virtues of sloth - giant, three-toed, or otherwise, may I recommend:<br /><br />http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2010/04/collapse-competitively.html<br /><br />For that matter, Dmitri has been hitting them out of the park this spring and I recommend all his recent blog postings.el gallinazohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00642036843036726232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-80147614375633314902010-06-10T12:14:18.088-04:002010-06-10T12:14:18.088-04:00NZSanctuary said...
Lilli said...
"Unfortunat...NZSanctuary said...<br />Lilli said...<br />"Unfortunately, the current NZ government is more supportive of free enterprise and is unlikely to do anything to restrict the rights of fishing companies."<br /><br />Ah, yes. Keep in mind, though- the political pendulum ALWAYS swings. Getting this concept into the discussions now can build momentum for when that happens.<br /><br />Greenpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17224906349154302210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-48435815695654870292010-06-10T12:01:53.036-04:002010-06-10T12:01:53.036-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02818666639049192595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-54476352427404010252010-06-10T11:06:05.100-04:002010-06-10T11:06:05.100-04:00They call it “VOLATILITY”
I'm waiting to see ...They call it “VOLATILITY”<br /><br />I'm waiting to see the headlines ...<br /><br />“INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS ARE AT THE MERCY OF THE HIGH FREQUENCY TRADING COMPANIES”.<br /><br />“THE STOCK MARKET IS MANIPULATED BY A FEW HFT”<br /><br />jaljalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-51014349424179076932010-06-10T10:53:41.086-04:002010-06-10T10:53:41.086-04:00http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/10282777.stm
...http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/10282777.stm <br /><br />Why is BP important to the UK economy?<br /><br />If you add together the corporation tax and production tax paid by BP, together with the National Insurance and income tax paid by its employees and the VAT and fuel excise duty paid by its customers, you get £5.8bn, which is about enough to fund the entire budget of the Department for jalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-79968079856663321702010-06-10T10:48:03.847-04:002010-06-10T10:48:03.847-04:00I did a search of " BP pension funds"
He...I did a search of " BP pension funds"<br />Here are two reports that came up.<br /><br />http://www.nationalpost.com/Canadian+funds+hurt+Gulf+blowout/3108871/story.html <br /><br />Canadian funds hurt by BP Gulf blowout<br /><br />As of the beginning of May, the CPPIB reported owning 26.1 million shares of BP shares listed on the London Stock Exchange. If it held onto those shares jalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-75552479376031409932010-06-10T10:05:12.585-04:002010-06-10T10:05:12.585-04:00re.: - Richard Florida and the great reset
"...re.: - Richard Florida and the great reset<br /><br />"... just another false prophet"<br /><br />Darn ... you guys/gals are good!<br /><br />Just goes to show ... there has to be more than doing the talk ... He's just another opportunist skimming a buck <br /><br />I guess his "RESET" will only apply in the "green zone"<br /><br />This makes me recall some of jalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16969819389823705458noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-1928811595453167152010-06-10T09:10:43.781-04:002010-06-10T09:10:43.781-04:00jal - Richard Florida imagines a utopia where citi...jal - Richard Florida imagines a utopia where cities are dense with creative intelligent people happily living in fancy condos among coffee shops and art galleries, walking and using public transit and, through their superior intelligence, solving the problems of the world, for profit. No thought to where their food is going to come from or their energy post-peak everything. Meanwhile he and his Dr Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01578932342600399932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-43855034933337005172010-06-10T08:14:07.035-04:002010-06-10T08:14:07.035-04:00As much attention is currently placed on China and...As much attention is currently placed on China and China/West relations I offer this lecture,<br />"When Minds Met:China and the West in the Seventeenth Century" by Jonathan Spence.<br /><br />http://www.neh.gov/whoweare/Spence/lecture.html/<br /><br />The exchange between three great minds is what I call " higher education", an education scorned by a world that reduces scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-72791500546069499382010-06-10T08:06:19.321-04:002010-06-10T08:06:19.321-04:00And for anyone who wants to look into some of the ...And for anyone who wants to look into some of the source information that human health risk assessments for yourself, try<br /><br />http://monographs.iarc.fr/<br /><br />This is where all information is gathered on 'known' carcinogens. Note that there are several ranges, and just because something isn't listed, it doesn't mean it's safe, just that there hasn't been enoughAnt Whispererhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14802532229100235250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-89353440388744605462010-06-10T07:48:56.857-04:002010-06-10T07:48:56.857-04:00@ Gravity and all others who are interested...
If...@ Gravity and all others who are interested...<br /><br />If you have any questions whatsoever regarding the toxicity of relative petroleum hydrocarbon fractions to either the environment (i.e. ecological risk assessment) or human health (i.e. human health risk assessment), I'm more than happy to share my knowledge.<br /><br />I am (currently) employed as a consulting ecological risk assessorAnt Whispererhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14802532229100235250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-11319378654190540182010-06-10T04:51:08.025-04:002010-06-10T04:51:08.025-04:00The government will NOT evacuate to prevent benzen...The government will NOT evacuate to prevent benzene exposure. It's a carcinogen and it accumulates in the liver, but it does not have any acute effects up to pretty high levels. By the time your liver fails and/or you develop brain cancer, there's no "evidence" that the exposure you suffered years earlier in the Gulf is the cause.<br /><br />Hydrogen sulfide is another story. ItNelsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07827295021201195746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-64563649979499511182010-06-10T03:46:45.743-04:002010-06-10T03:46:45.743-04:00jal said...
"Maybe he has been reading TAE.
T...jal said...<br />"Maybe he has been reading TAE.<br />The Great Reset<br />Written by Richard Florida"<br /><br />From the blurb: "...history teaches us that these great crises also represent opportunities to remake our economy and society and to generate whole new eras of economic growth and prosperity."<br /><br />BAU repackaged. If he has been reading TAE he needs to pay NZSanctuaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06676287221558805541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-36541076870934365622010-06-10T03:41:28.461-04:002010-06-10T03:41:28.461-04:00Lilli said...
"Unfortunately, the current NZ ...Lilli said...<br />"Unfortunately, the current NZ government is more supportive of free enterprise and is unlikely to do anything to restrict the rights of fishing companies."<br /><br />Yeah. Given that our PM is an ex-banker (a very wealthy one), it's hardly surprising but it is very sad.NZSanctuaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06676287221558805541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-9461082732181921282010-06-10T02:12:50.766-04:002010-06-10T02:12:50.766-04:00Well, I don't believe gold will work in the en...Well, I don't believe gold will work in the end either -- you have to be able to keep it and not have it confiscated by whatever will approximate "government". That's going to be the trick which should keep you out of gold unless you have a lot of faith a government can be maintained which will not so confiscate.Starcadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09226367306835781483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-2556388782325577182010-06-10T02:10:02.051-04:002010-06-10T02:10:02.051-04:00Karl, if he sees the true outcome, had better be c...Karl, if he sees the true outcome, had better be calling for the purge many of his supporters actually are calling for.<br /><br />We're not headed for a dead end -- we're headed for Mad Max.Starcadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09226367306835781483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-55954999575909502082010-06-09T22:30:20.326-04:002010-06-09T22:30:20.326-04:00My high school chemistry teacher (a man I still re...My high school chemistry teacher (a man I still remember fondly) had nothing nice to say about Benzene decades ago, and to avoid contact with any products that contain it. My understanding from then is that it was nasty stuff. <br /><br />Of course to find out later that we had higher levels in gas and hence the air here in Oregon.<br /><br /> http://www.blueoregon.com/2007/02/epa_buckles_to_/<brPunxsutawneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09462275239011115572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-26846837728425801562010-06-09T21:38:48.821-04:002010-06-09T21:38:48.821-04:00Unfortunately, the current NZ government is more s...Unfortunately, the current NZ government is more supportive of free enterprise and is unlikely to do anything to restrict the rights of fishing companies.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05293662652609818163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-13757496848910141092010-06-09T21:35:56.416-04:002010-06-09T21:35:56.416-04:00Greenpa said...
"for our friends in New Zeala...Greenpa said...<br />"for our friends in New Zealand- a suggestion, non-doom related."<br /><br />Nice. Letting the field lie fallow. We could do with more of this in general in our approach to living resources.NZSanctuaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06676287221558805541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-77306062530585887112010-06-09T19:47:12.536-04:002010-06-09T19:47:12.536-04:00@Ed Gorey
I'll support what Perry said with t...@Ed Gorey<br /><br />I'll support what Perry said with the additional observations:<br /><br />1. Aim for a simpler vehicle if you can find one. The more that you can maintain yourself, the longer you should be able to use it.<br /><br />2. Get a vehicle with good ground clearance. I expect the quality of roads to begin to deteriorate and continue over time. I am told that in some countries Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-75219802506643640202010-06-09T19:02:52.238-04:002010-06-09T19:02:52.238-04:00@ Gravity
Good lord! Evacuation due to air poison...@ Gravity<br /><br />Good lord! Evacuation due to air poisoning. Damn!VKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06843562351166927162noreply@blogger.com