Scratches to Sketches
Saturday, 25 January 2014
Thursday, 23 January 2014
India's illegal telecom towers raise cancer concerns - Channel NewsAsia
Not the sort of stuff you want to read for breakfast, but very real....
Tuesday, 21 January 2014
Monday, 20 January 2014
Energy Storage in Miniaturized Capacitors May Boost Green Energy Technology .... Towards an Internet of energy?
My hunch seems right.
Capacitors are the key to the next generation of energy smoothing devices. Perhaps, they can be scaled up as well to reduce energy waste and allow all firms and households of energy production to enter the grid. Democratic access to the grid to sell excess production could allow for cheap energy beyond present thinking and greatly reduce demands on fossil fuel sources .....
Crowd sourcing of energy by allowing household access to supply energy along the lines of an Internet is the key to ending a drift towards domination by a few greedy companies and investors.
It's important to free people from the dominance of the large energy monopolies and to create a new style of energy Internet that people can use to share information as well as supply others with energy. By combining energy with data flow we can solve many many problems.
The philosophy of scaling up can be defeated by democratic technologies based on the same principles that created the Internet of data.
Sunday, 19 January 2014
Demonising wi-fi is dangerous to your child’s health | The National Business Review
I wonder how the party poopers that said smoking can kill you felt. Spreading EMF radiation can kill you or anyone or life in general. Sorry to be a party pooper ....
Cellphones, wi-fi and electromagnetic radiation | The National Business Review
Reading this link you would think that there was no danger whatsoever with radiation. Life traps uses radiation to perform its many functions. Microwave ovens without metal inside do one thing and with metal inside do another. Metals are key to life processes and mitigate the physics environment that seemingly harmless radiation travels into. The scientific medical and biophysical discussion really needs to be opened up otherwise we could all die from cancer threshold from ultraviolet light or as the case may well be from the effects on unfortunate people from man made and distributed willy nilly electronic stuff we don't even begin to understand.
To say a technology is safe when you disregard the complete evidence is criminal! Do we let people live shorter uncomfortable lives because the majority feel its safe and ok. Mankind has made this mistake many times before as commercial demands outweigh prudence.
Saturday, 18 January 2014
Banks embracing a housing-bubble favorite: interest-only loans - latimes.com
More of this gambling mentality remains! Should the public shoulder such banks going bust? No no non no ....
Friday, 17 January 2014
Labour's reforms 'will ensure new banks flourish to challenge big five' | Business | The Guardian
Oh dear. They should ask me first?
Silly reforms that are way off what is needed to deal with lack of competition.
Labour / Soc Dem do not understand either the economic problem nor the dynamic nature of banking competition.
Thursday, 16 January 2014
Krugman urges State to ease austerity | Irish Examiner
Deflation risks exposing investment depression worse than economic depression....
Interest rates alone WILL NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT work to increase employment because ..... You tell me!
UK defeats European bid for fracking regulations | Environment | theguardian.com
How will this affect the price of water and medical costs arising from the tracking pollution? Alberta is stunned from pollution there.
Operators add antennae to cell towers - The Times of India
Yes, under 200 meters is a very uncomfortable feeling especially at night and in the winter. So what's the future liability of government and irresponsible firms like Bell and the SPPA going to be.
Arthur
14 Movies In 2014 That Aren't Sequels, Prequels, Reboots, Or Adaptations
Compare these to the trailers now appearing in CinemaX. Is February 2014 going to be as slow as February 2013?
RT
Tuesday, 14 January 2014
Monday, 13 January 2014
Fwd: Please write to Industry Canada before Tuesday, January 14th.
Hi everyone,
This auction is extremely important. The Canadian Government is selling this block of wireless airspace to Telecom starting tomorrow for billions of dollars. Unfortunately this lower frequency penetrates through much more and is absorbed by people even more too. They are using it because it goes farther; goes through brick, concrete, metal; and will penetrate into basements, underground garages and elevators.
It will be used on towers in the country and lamp-posts in the city. Yes, they are installing cell antennas on lamp-posts now in Toronto, right in front of your house.
Please take the time to fill out this letter and send to our Industry Minister and your own MP/MPP as well.
The government just announced this week as well that they are going to be selling the 2500 MHz spectrum next year. They won't stop and it will never be enough.
Thanks,
Hi
The Federal Government will be auctioning off the 700MHz and the 24-2500 MHz ranges. These are frequencies are ones that are very harmful and we must make efforts to stop this. Please write to Industry Canada before Tuesday, January 14th.
Sorry for the short notice but I have included a formatted letter that can be filled in and sent.
Addresses for Ind. Can. offices in your area can be found at http://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/smt-gst.nsf/eng/sf01742.html
Thanks
Sunday, 12 January 2014
The Queen now really really wants Prince Harry to shave off his beard .. What next?
Hi!
Hope you are well this new year week ... keeping to intentions ...
What is it like to have the Queen as your grandmother?
Not the Queen's English man, but nevertheless a really nice guy and great royal!
With my best wishes to you personally for each and every moment of the new year. Hope to see you sometime in relaxed circumstances ...
RTL
Friday, 10 January 2014
Thursday, 9 January 2014
IMF paper warns of 'savings tax' and mass write-offs as West's debt hits 200-year high - Telegraph
Ian,
Thank you for pointing out this piece which escaped my reading net. I know Carmen and have been at the receiving end of many of her lectures. Krugman has had a field day arguing with her and with the deflation potential aspects of debt being repaid in the so-called advanced economies.
What matters is the maturity of the debt and who owns the assets that will need to deflate in value.
Maturity mismatch is obvious and has been exaggerated by low interest short term funding for long term exaggerated value assets. At some point the long term bank assets are bad debt because the saleable real value of the assets is much less than the real value of amortisation. Consumers / property developers default on bank loans because the value of their properties is less in nominal terms than apparent nominal debt, rental income and amortisation to be serviced. They have both variable interest rates and property prices to contend with. Who could live in a world where the collective fall in property values and real interest rates work against completing debt amortisation to maturity.
So another crisis is indeed imminent. We have in fact a need to continue to inflate the economy so as to continue to keep property values up, but we are in a cost / value trap. When one looks at a property one needs to have a clear idea of total costs compared with total saleable value plus accumulated rent and interest on that rent and interest, etc.
Plug all these variables into a system of equations where real incomes are stationary or falling?
Yes, gold has value, but perhaps not so much as a store of value because deflation hits everyone and commodities in particular. Bit coin as a hedge?
It's possible to achieve what economists call a soft landing, but part of the process would be to totally delink banks from housing finance, insurance, and stock markets where they are pretty hopeless. Right now there is insurance on change, on the change in the change and on the change in the change in the change? It's a Las Vegas economy coming from American banks that have acquired huge amounts of second and first generation bubble money to play games with.
Interestingly, were the rich to be taxed to pay for all the debt, the world would see productivity and employment rise rather rapidly, because rather than being the gateway to employment the incomes and assets of the rich are a black hole for employment. Traditional capitalism does not and did not produce the goods promised politically.
Arthur
Tuesday, 7 January 2014
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