tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post8972599759958947929..comments2024-03-20T10:19:56.838+01:00Comments on the beatroot: Duck goes cheap in supermarketbeatroothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11242716221133886807noreply@blogger.comBlogger54125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-30142823723627929452009-12-19T15:54:06.902+01:002009-12-19T15:54:06.902+01:00Hi !.
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Let`s take our chance together to feel the smell of real moneyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-89628833813998450012008-10-27T07:07:00.000+01:002008-10-27T07:07:00.000+01:00Here's something to think about...how to prevent t...Here's something to think about...how to prevent the likes of Tesco and Wal-Mart doing this to suppliers...Fin Times Oct 24<BR/>"Tesco to change payment terms for suppliers"...terms move from 30 to 60 days for all non-food suppliers"...what a wonderful idea...just like banks moving their interest rates to protect their profits...a small change that tells lots of companies that depend on Tesco for income that you won't get paid this month! The sheer brazenness and cheek matched only by the pathetic impotence of the monopoly board I would say. Is this a trend? Will we see more? Oh yes, indeed!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-88088716125681531032008-02-28T19:52:00.000+01:002008-02-28T19:52:00.000+01:00Well,while I'm not all against fusion research, th...Well,while I'm not all against fusion research, there are a few other problems right now -- and waste still seems to be quite a problem. So we don't really know just yet if fission is the answer.<BR/><BR/>Otherwise, fission would be powering the world right now as shown very simply in the following explanation:<BR/><BR/>http://www.princeton.edu/~chm333/2002/spring/Fusion/tour1/4-problems.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-64296935268008514482008-02-28T15:49:00.000+01:002008-02-28T15:49:00.000+01:00No, I fear you know not what you say. Fusion - unl...No, I fear you know not what you say. Fusion - unlike the fission reactors that have been used up to now, produce very little nuclear waste.beatroothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242716221133886807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-6879027703380059642008-02-28T14:51:00.000+01:002008-02-28T14:51:00.000+01:00Consumers are being "educated" by corporate advert...Consumers are being "educated" by corporate advertising and their phalanx of propagandists now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-44783812903879627932008-02-28T14:00:00.000+01:002008-02-28T14:00:00.000+01:00Beatroot wrote:"Fusion doesn't use up much waste"A...Beatroot wrote:<BR/>"Fusion doesn't use up much waste"<BR/>Alas, no. It creates waste.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-68909291030838401442008-02-28T00:08:00.000+01:002008-02-28T00:08:00.000+01:00I believe that there is no danger in the assumptio...I believe that there is no danger in the assumption that Lech Kaczinski will never be mistaken for a liberal in either the social or economic understanding of the term yet I believe that you have taken liberties, confusing the two. It is not the case that someone who holds liberal economic values must also assert liberal social values, the same being true of conservatism. This can be illustrated particularly well in Britain’s current political party leaders where a Tory Cameron looks far more liberal on social issues then a Labour Brown, who looks about as liberal as Churchill.<BR/><BR/>Also, confusing building regulations with national policy is equally flawed. Although I agree that Poland’s building laws are daunting and cumbersome the notion that this is the barrier to entry for hypermarkets is slightly misguided. In fact, the statement that “unregulated building of hypermarkets and supermarkets is against the social and national interests of Poland” is hardly disputable as hypermarkets do not enjoy unregulated freedoms in any reasonable corner of the world. In the UK, large food suppliers are well regulated, as they also are in France, to ensure fair prices for producers for example. It is not that “supermarkets carry foreign capital” that is the problem; it is that they carry local capital abroad that really hurts the national market. In Britain the Guardian has recently published an article about how Tesco is dodging national taxes by setting up offshore tax shelters; if the national retailers are not willing to contribute the well-being of their own state from profits earned inside of their country then how much less will they consider the interests of Poland. <BR/><BR/>This is aside from the fact that supermarkets destroy the local food supply chain and replace it with an impersonal, self-interested Cyclops of consumerism. Poland also hasn’t helped itself in this capacity. The removal of local bazaars (Such as Sadyba and Sluzew in Warsaw) to be replaced by apartment blocks removes thousands of jobs and isolates local producers. As for a few hours of hypermarket shopping and stopping for McDonalds, perhaps the problem is rather one of educating consumers.Baltic Zephyrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06214507897701116279noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-43827144438094490422008-02-27T01:58:00.000+01:002008-02-27T01:58:00.000+01:00Ah yeah, good old Tesco. No body to imprison, no s...Ah yeah, good old Tesco. No body to imprison, no soul to go to hell.<BR/> http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/feb/27/tesco.supermarketsDamien Moranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15814470741668910052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-16757180927865665652008-02-26T20:43:00.000+01:002008-02-26T20:43:00.000+01:00All human beings fart. So what if we all start fa...All human beings fart. So what if we all start farting at the same time in a public theater?<BR/><BR/><BR/>Magnify this many times over, realizing that farting is not a life and death situation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-5086329917929693382008-02-26T17:31:00.000+01:002008-02-26T17:31:00.000+01:00fusion doesn;t use up much waste. Second all energ...fusion doesn;t use up much waste. <BR/><BR/>Second all energy plants have emissions of some kind. So what?beatroothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242716221133886807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-18404233119606620062008-02-25T23:31:00.000+01:002008-02-25T23:31:00.000+01:00Beatroot wrote: There is no reason for travel to b...Beatroot wrote: There is no reason for travel to be harmful. Electric cars, compressed air driven cars topped up with a little battery powered by electricity stations, which power electricity homes and factories...and all those powered by nuclear power stations. <BR/><BR/>Carbons = zero. <BR/><BR/><BR/>Two tiny points: firstly, those uber-eco-friendly cars will still use a shedload of resources to make and thus produce a fair whack of carbon. Secondly, have you worked out what to do with nuclear waste?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-65072557969019522042008-02-25T22:53:00.000+01:002008-02-25T22:53:00.000+01:00Well fuck the media reports and the Spiked pseudo-...Well fuck the media reports and the Spiked pseudo-science. <BR/><BR/>Go right to the scientists:<BR/><BR/>1.1 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 <BR/>1.2 Joint science academies’ statement 2007 <BR/>1.3 Joint science academies’ statement 2005 <BR/>1.4 Joint science academies’ statement 2001 <BR/>1.5 U.S. National Research Council, 2001 <BR/>1.6 American Meteorological Society <BR/>1.7 American Geophysical Union <BR/>1.8 American Institute of Physics <BR/>1.9 American Astronomical Society <BR/>1.10 American Physical Society <BR/>1.11 Federal Climate Change Science Program, 2006 <BR/>1.12 American Association for the Advancement of Science <BR/>1.13 Stratigraphy Commission of the Geological Society of London <BR/>1.14 Geological Society of America <BR/>1.15 American Chemical Society <BR/>1.16 Engineers Australia (The Institution of Engineers Australia) <BR/>1.17 The Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society <BR/><BR/>... and then some:<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_changeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-2767448298674239242008-02-25T22:21:00.000+01:002008-02-25T22:21:00.000+01:00Geez, the headlines appear every day, many times. ...Geez, the headlines appear every day, many times. The UK Guardian had a headline. ‘Climate change soon could kill thousands in UK’, a story about a new report from two UK health bodies. <BR/>http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/4503/<BR/><BR/>Mobile phone masts will kill your kids; polar bears are becoming instinct – the Al Gore classic – but the biggest danger from polar bears is hunting. There is more of them now than 20 years ago. <BR/>People do think that Iceland is going to melt by the end of the decade. But again, worst case models predict that the size of something like Iceland will take centuries to melt. It’s a lot of bull, Geez, and you have to immediately be sceptical when you read media reports, because they are representing the complexity of the science at all.beatroothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242716221133886807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-44401592759748233202008-02-25T21:12:00.000+01:002008-02-25T21:12:00.000+01:00Nobody claims polar bears will be extinct in three...Nobody claims polar bears will be extinct in three days or that Iceland will melt into your living room this weekend. <BR/><BR/>And it's not the media that says there's global warming but rather a large majority of the world's best scientists. Indeed, a large part of the media is going out of it's way to give credence to global warming deniers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-72081670904603262212008-02-25T19:48:00.000+01:002008-02-25T19:48:00.000+01:00DiggerNot quite. I like my car and air travel You ...Digger<BR/><I>Not quite. I like my car and air travel </I><BR/><BR/>You climate change deniar!!! There will be laws against people like you soon...<BR/><BR/>Don't know about this climate change bit. 'The science' that I have tried ti understand is not so clear as the reports in the media suggest. Polar bears will not be extinct in three and a half minutes and Iceland is not going to melt and flood my miving room any time this century or next. <BR/><BR/>So let's get going and get off carbons. It won;t happen anytime soon in China, but the developed world can get innovating. It's what we are going to have to do. <BR/><BR/>It's that or forced sterilization to cut down birth rate. I bet a few greenies would just love that.beatroothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242716221133886807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-2533339169692314602008-02-25T18:38:00.000+01:002008-02-25T18:38:00.000+01:00If Katyń had had a mentally ill character it would...If Katyń had had a mentally ill character it would have been a sure fire winner. Wajda, Wajda, Wajda - what <I>were</I> you thinking? Tragedy has to be laid on thick for Americans.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-91214335176369619072008-02-25T16:33:00.000+01:002008-02-25T16:33:00.000+01:00Interestingly I assumed the Austrian film would wi...Interestingly I assumed the Austrian film would win (without seeing any of the movies) just because it was holocaust-themed.<BR/><BR/>The academy loves itself some holocaust. (how else could Life is Beautiful win anything?)michael farrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10232229721381140090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-18875319585758926282008-02-25T14:42:00.000+01:002008-02-25T14:42:00.000+01:00I see Katyn didn't get the Oscar.I see Katyn didn't get the Oscar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-16862880850143231902008-02-25T01:53:00.000+01:002008-02-25T01:53:00.000+01:00And how fast are those electric cars gonna go?How ...And how fast are those electric cars gonna go?<BR/><BR/>How big are they?<BR/><BR/>How loud are they?<BR/><BR/>And yer gonna git folks to drive 'em how?<BR/><BR/>-- geez --Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-75210657863530722822008-02-25T00:41:00.000+01:002008-02-25T00:41:00.000+01:00Regarding organic hair shirts--Not quite. I like m...Regarding organic hair shirts--<BR/><BR/>Not quite. I like my car and air travel and while I do prefer the urban lifestyle, I now live in a small city which is more suburban in character, near a bigger western metro area that affords me the best of both worlds, and I like that. But all that I've read over the past two years (sorry, can't give you citations right now), say that apart from the nuclear power which you cite, which is itself politically controversial and therefore subject to those potential constraints, there really is no technology on the horizon that offers near the convenience of carbon fuels without the infamous carbon footprint (lots of hype and hoopla, but nothing apart from the solar concentrator projects in Nevada that offer anything close to that).<BR/><BR/>Let's hope I'm wrong. I'd hate to lose the conveniences we have now. But proper planning also means considering the other possibility, just without the organic hair shirts, wouldn't you say, Mr. BR?<BR/><BR/>;-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-14130424460361292252008-02-24T21:18:00.000+01:002008-02-24T21:18:00.000+01:00Having worked in both a factory, assembling comput...Having worked in both a factory, assembling computers and worked in a grocery store... the grocery store was far more mind-numbing *and* demeaning.<BR/><BR/>Can someone explain to me how one big store consumes more resources than 100 small stores?<BR/><BR/>As far as niches go in Poland: I just don't see them. Every place sells everything, although it's always the same crap. Alma at least has a good selection of imported goods. Carrefour has a great selection of shitty goods. My corner store has a collection of stuff I don't really need but always out of the basics like, oh, bread and Coke light. And it's really great that while they may carry one brand of something today you can be sure that it won't be there again tomorrow. Maybe in two weeks, maybe two months? Hard to say.<BR/><BR/>Of course, I could track down a butcher's, greengrocer's, bakery and so on... but frankly I'm not going to spend that much time shopping for food that I'm going to consume and have to buy all over again in 3-5 days. The only people that have that time are retired or bored. The rest of us just want a good selection of good products at reasonable (not necessarily CHEAP) prices.<BR/><BR/>Just my opinion. Yours may be different and if so, shop wherever. But don't pass a bunch of laws making it impossible to shop on the weekends or after midnight. Let the marketplace decide what's offered (and accepted).Brad Zimmermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14683206528993813876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-46779996834111563812008-02-24T20:27:00.000+01:002008-02-24T20:27:00.000+01:00we will begin to create a tipping point where the ...<I>we will begin to create a tipping point where the ability to have all that you need within walking distance (including quality schools) will be more economical than having it only within driving distance.</I><BR/><BR/>Why will there be a ‘tipping point’? Why do we need things within ‘walking distance.’? Why do you want to go back living like you were some hunter gatherer eking out a living picking berries? <BR/><BR/>There is no reason for travel to be harmful. Electric cars, compressed air driven cars topped up with a little battery powered by electricity stations, which power electricity homes and factories...and all those powered by nuclear power stations. <BR/><BR/>Carbons = zero. <BR/><BR/>All it takes is the will to innovate – not think you can fix something by cutting back on human activity. That will never happen. And neither will Poland and other emerging economies sacrifice their economic growth to the angst of the green lobby. <BR/><BR/>But maybe you don’t actually want to improve the environmental situation or the situation of humans needing economic development (meaning all of us). Maybe what you want is a hair shirt (organic), maybe. <BR/><BR/>:-)beatroothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11242716221133886807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-26569358919644459382008-02-24T20:20:00.000+01:002008-02-24T20:20:00.000+01:00I won't deny it but methinks more than a few folks...I won't deny it but methinks more than a few folks who frequent this blog do and will deny it.<BR/><BR/>I just don't know when the "tipping point" will be reached for folks to realize they have little choice but to change their living and consumption patterns. And by then it may be too late.<BR/><BR/>-- geez<BR/>(the blogger is still screwed up)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-22612513824257776062008-02-24T19:33:00.000+01:002008-02-24T19:33:00.000+01:00Geez, thus far, people have not had to pay for the...Geez, thus far, people have not had to pay for the cost of carbon emissions included in not only the price of energy, but also, the price of manufactured goods which they buy. But we are clearly headed that way, whether it is via a carbon tax or a global "cap and trade" system, and when that happens, we will begin to create a tipping point where the ability to have all that you need within walking distance (including quality schools) will be more economical than having it only within driving distance.<BR/><BR/>How that will play out in terms of percentage moving to higher density areas vs. suburban areas remains to be seen, but you cannot deny that the entire global warming discussion and its cost implications for every day life will provoke such a trend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13112593.post-81983001507500140592008-02-24T18:35:00.000+01:002008-02-24T18:35:00.000+01:00Digger boy, then why do the sales of 4x4s go up ev...Digger boy, then why do the sales of 4x4s go up even when the price of gas has been going up?<BR/><BR/>People don't always do what's sensible.<BR/><BR/>I just don't see folks, once they have families, moving into cities.<BR/><BR/>I live in a city but I send my kids to a suburban Catholic school, and sign them up for sports leagues in the suburbs as well.<BR/> <BR/>There's more to where people live than just shopping considerations.<BR/><BR/>And different strokes for different folks. Tight-knit communities also place premium demands upon conformity and uniformity which make it difficult for anybody to be different.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com