Switch off at the socket?

In article ,
Bill Wright wrote:

Next time anyone complains about my habit of throwing apple cores
out of the van window into the ditch I will be able to claim green
immunity from the litter laws.

Has anyone actually complained about that?

Yes, I was parked near the water tower that supports the York TV Tx, on the
outskirts of that city. The pear core went right into the ditch.

Ah, but now you're comparing apples and oranges. Err pears.

-- Richard
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If the Chinese did increase their energy use by 275% they would still
be using less than us.

Rubbish. In terms of CO2 production, which is what we care about in this
thread, Britain CO2-per-head is only about 1.55 times that of China.

So, increasing their energy use by only 100% per head would put them well
ahead of us, never mind 275%.

http://www.solcomhouse.com/toptenco2.htm

SteveT

According to Mackay's book, UK's pc emissions are more than double
China's:

http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/w.../page_13.shtml

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:02:22 +0100, "Steve Thackery"
wrote:

In terms of CO2 production, which is what we care about in this
thread, Britain CO2-per-head is only about 1.55 times that of China.

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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
charles wrote:

an interesting concept. When BBC RD were experimenting with video delay
lines in the late '60s, the prototype was an open mercury bath - with a
moveable dam at one end to alter the path length. I don't know of anyone
there who suffered ill effects. I'm certainly still alive - 40 years
later.

The thing is, no one really has the data.

We know that long term mercury exposure at level X does things that
don't happen when there is no mercury exposure.

Short of subjecting people to low dosage and seeing if e.g. their hair
falls out, no one knows what happens in between.

snip

Actually we have pretty good data on mercury exposure. Neurological
damage appears pretty high up the list.

"Twinkle Twinkle little bat, how I wonder what you're at".

Andy

In message o.uk, Dave
Liquorice writes:
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:23:48 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

Actually, lending to people who can't pay back is not as financially
daft as it sounds - AS LONG AS you are fairly certain that the price of
what they're borrowing to buy (in this case property) is going to
continue to rise, or at least not fall. Because: when they default, you
get what they _have_ managed to pay, plus the property back to sell.
Cruel and cynical, but lending to those who can't pay is not of itself
financially unsound: it's only lending on something that suddenly
_falls_ in value that is.

Or as happened in the sub-prime mortgage market in the US lending
more than the asset was ever going to be worth. That was the root
cause of the problem and the house of cards has collapsed when these,
effectively unsecured, loans became bad what 2, 3 years ago.

More than it was ever going to be worth - in how long?
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On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:27:49 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

Or as happened in the sub-prime mortgage market in the US lending
more than the asset was ever going to be worth. That was the root
cause of the problem and the house of cards has collapsed when
these,
effectively unsecured, loans became bad what 2, 3 years ago.

More than it was ever going to be worth - in how long?

The time period isn't particularly relevant, the fact the loan is for
more than the asset value is bad and nothing more than a gamble. You
can't know if some one is going to default in 1 month, 1 year, 10
years or never.

And remember this was the sub-prime market, loaning money to people
who didn't have much income and/or poor credit histories. A much
higher risk of default from the outset.

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"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 03:35:50 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

More likely to be eaten by some other wild creature of a species that we
don't hate, like feral cats ...

Presumably, therefore, the cat that you killed was a domestic cat.
Yes it was. We have a long tradition of killing cats. Hence my dad's
expression, 'There's more ways to kill a cat than choking it with lard."


or octopusses

I did not know that there was a species native to the ditches of
North Yorkshire? Do they lie in wait for passing strangers late
at night, then extend their tentacles, and drag them down into
the ditch and strangle them?
Yes they do. This is why so many people who are walking home from the pub or
a party end up in the ditch, with sucker marks all over their face.

Bill

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:54:25 +0100, "Bill Wright"
wrote:


Yes they do. This is why so many people who are walking home from the pub or
a party end up in the ditch, with sucker marks all over their face.


And I blamed the barmaid.

Derek

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:54:25 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

This is why so many people who are walking home from the pub or a party end
up in the ditch, with sucker marks all over their face.

This story has got definite potential as a movie.

What is needed is a hero who will go out and fight to the death with the
mother of all North Yorkshire ditch octopuses in the final climactic scene.

The question is though, what caused the octopuses to mutate?

Was it the radiation from the US listening base or the leak from a nearby
nuclear power station?

"J G Miller" wrote in message
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On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:54:25 +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

This is why so many people who are walking home from the pub or a party
end
up in the ditch, with sucker marks all over their face.

This story has got definite potential as a movie.

What is needed is a hero who will go out and fight to the death with the
mother of all North Yorkshire ditch octopuses in the final climactic
scene.

The question is though, what caused the octopuses to mutate?

Was it the radiation from the US listening base or the leak from a nearby
nuclear power station?

It was the waste from York Brewery.

Bill