Scratches to Sketches
Saturday, 9 November 2013
Mortgages: landlords face interest rate rise - Telegraph
Everything, even housing being funded at the short end plays into the hands of gamblers who bet on variability. While investors gamble with short money the next major economic crisis gets built into this new system. It's like an addiction that has captivated governments and private concerns alike. Woe is us!
New polymer bank notes released | CityNews
Greener? They don't look very green.
Do they somehow deteriorate over time?
Rich Tea
The nature of EMF
The problem as I see it is that as long as you think that you can excuse EMF radiation nearby, you will do little to participate in the wider discussion about whether, like in the case of smoking, those who are damaged most can be just present where the smoke wafts around. Likewise, those who might be damaged by radiation might have nothing to do with wireless devices and antennas.
'Methinks he doth protest too much' becomes recognisable on both sides of the debate with little being done to remove / understand the new element in our environment, that of overwhelming EMF radiation, ubiquitous, everywhere almost.
This is not a marginal issue. It may be the issue that defines the next fifty years.
War on the poor is defining issue
Crazy as it may seem, the poor are not fitting into the conservative idea of how society works. Rather than correct the issues that are at the root of the problem, the conservatives are blond to the issues of poverty that their own actions promote!
Friday, 8 November 2013
Does Your Professor Have a Wikipedia Entry? Congrats! It Means Nothing - Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic
Hum?
Perhaps, the use of other systems such as Linked in and Facebook would mitigate the overall results, after all, Wikipedia is free! What could one expect for nothing? Nothing!
Well, not exactly. Who really knows where academic reviews are going and how much the consumer student reads Wikipedia. Maybe there is a hidden price effect of Wikipedia benefiting the non-peer review process.
Peer reviews will be mired in tradition!
The Myths Of Falling Solar Costs - Forbes
Lynch assumes the market is correctly judging the risks of not moving away from fossil fuels. He is very mistaken....
Taxing waste and pollution
There is little doubt that combustion systems lead to pollution, noise and effluent, disease, waste and macro changes in weather and migration.
Such pollution needs to be properly taxed. America's fling with free capitalism is rapidly coming to an end as ordinary people want great say in policy and more than vacuous promises and debt magnification. Witness the election in New York.
Battery technologies need to be implemented and public policies need to usher in new tax systems to enable clean, quiet, safe systems of transport.
We are still living in the dark ages of potential energy technologies and it is daily killing the weak. They are better informed and are generally disgusted at waste and unnecessary pollution. Such revulsion could lead to Pareto style 1790's events with demands for saviours of the Robespierre variety. America is rapidly evolving politically and not to see that leads to very dangerous economics.
MIT Battery Startup Ambri Finds Early Customer and Christens Factory : Greentech Media
This is only the tip of a wide stream of new technologies that will overwhelm us all with possibilities, what with BMW committed to electric driven vehicles, etc.
It would seem appropriate to alert consumers and manufacturers to the real as well as financial costs of not switching away from all fossil fuels, especially on the early adoption of non polluting technologies.
We continue to drive combustion / gas / petrol vehicles when seeing everything around us that this has macro economic effects. Late adoption will ultimately mean jobs lost when new taxes and prohibitions of polluting energy sources are demanded by ordinary people.
Out for a penny, out for a pound, means that time for action really is being wasted in Canada while the Federal boys get things wrong big time.
Electric charge: BMW is betting on the EV market - The Globe and Mail
Of course, an appropriate tax on all forms of pollution by fossil fuel use might help. It's time the costs were assumed at the consumer level to accelerate the necessary switch to electric only.
Typhoon Haiyan batters Philippines with winds of 195mph, | World news | theguardian.com
I think it is important to be frequently optimistic and thoughtful!
RT
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Thursday, 7 November 2013
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Sketches from scratches is a provocative blogspot that has grown out of the Wuh Lax experience. It is eclectic, which means that it might consider just about anything from the simple to the extremely difficult. A scratch can be something that is troubling me or a short line on paper. From a scratch comes a verbal sketch or image sketch of the issue or subject. Other sites have other stuff that should really be of interest to the broad reader. I try to develop themes, but variety often comes before depth.
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