Re: Mind's Eye Re: Green Issues (might make some 'green')

Thinking of superheroes - the laser route to nuclear fusion is firing
electrons through krypton. And back to the toilet, the manned Mars
vehicle will be lined by human waste to protect against radiation.

On 2 Mar, 11:15, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've taken time out to finish my certificate in assessing.  I held the
> thing years back but didn't keep up the CPD.  I'm half-way through and
> my assignments are being lauded as excellent.  Dreadful cut and paste
> jobs really.  I'd forgotten what it's like to have work assessed and
> just how boring and naff teacher-training is.  I will soon be
> unleashed and fall upon my victims.  The awards are called nation
> vocational qualifications (NVQ) and were dubbed 'not very qualified'
> 30 years back.  Level one equates to sweeping stairs from top to
> bottom and nine would be a PhD.
> Education and training have  long been vaunted as 'the way forward'.
> I'm more inclined to the notion of stringing up a few royals,
> banksters and politicians.  Looking at the content of business school
> programmes I see very little relevance to the workplace or social
> development.  I have rarely found work motivating and yet am currently
> marking (as an external) wads of undergraduate stuff on the Hawthorne
> experiments to Maslow and Herzberg taught be someone without a clue
> who presented them in positive glow.  The two students I've found so
> far who did research the critique have been severely marked down!  One
> of them concludes the work is so poor it shouldn't be taught and
> argues with satirical bite and substantial referencing.  I've found
> the same student in the economics pile advancing a complex argument on
> ethics in the subject only being possible if students went on strike
> insisting realistic material being taught.  Her reward there was t be
> failed - and though this might be good preparation for what happens to
> the dissenting voice in the workplace, I thought education was
> supposed to encourage the kind of sensitive critical thinking the
> young woman demonstrates.  I've given her a first and am going through
> all papers.  Payment is a flat fee, though I took the job to help an
> old friend (at her wit's end).  Neither of us holds much hope in
> dealing with the mediocrity but we will ensure fair play - though this
> comes at substantial costs on our time.  I don't understand how we
> adopted Soviet performance management techniques and corruption across
> our society, but management by objectives, appraisal and strategy do
> resemble the '5 year plan'.  Even our hospitals are killing people!
>
> On Mar 2, 5:27 am, James <ashkas...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Listening to politics is revolting but I do catch a clip of the pres on
> > NPR occasionally, the programs are very interesting, but he sounded a
> > little tired.. I have a policy of keeping low but should at least write
> > the local postmaster general and ask what can be done about the
> > ridiculous 2006 mandate for prefunding retirement.
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> > My fiancee's father is an interesting one, I shouldn't talk about it. I
> > am hoping a purchase order will be on my desk Monday for ten pieces (a
> > minimum limit for something we make), it would help to get paid during
> > the last quarter this year. Form 990 is due soon, then 1120s, and 1040-
> > time to get my head in the game and some serious reading. No backup
> > plan. What I really want to do is make a difference. I cannot imagine
> > how heavy it can be for a president. We are broke because instead of
> > settling on violations of public trust and ethics our willing and
> > capable have been exhausted under an unrelenting stream of cash from big
> > business. So many people have called for help and so many SLAPP suits,
> > people who lose everything, phone calls to attorneys who collect little
> > better than blood money. It is a cold, hard, brutal world full of
> > predators, and poor Obama has had the privilege of watching some nasty
> > things get stamped. It seems almost impossible to identify the sellout,
> > or merely overwhelmed. We need Iron Man, Rocky, AND Chuck Norris!
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> > Best wishes all
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> > On 3/1/2013 7:39 AM, rigs wrote:
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> > > Oh those scrappy Brits- such elites who managed to hold onto their
> > > royals! Never one to admit its negative impact on the Continent and
> > > its empire. Tra-la, tra-la, old chap. It is easier to trade with a
> > > block of partners, isn't it?
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> > > On Mar 1, 1:21 am, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> UKIP (sadly not a party advocating falling asleep at work) came a
> > >> close second in yesterday's by-election here.  This will put the wind
> > >> up our GOP equivalent.  UKIP are non-events who just want the UK out
> > >> of the EU ( as probably 65% of the UK does) and are now recipients of
> > >> the protest vote.  I regard it much more important to deal with our
> > >> toilet offerings properly than bother whether we are chums with the
> > >> French and Germans.  We should all be in the EU and abolish it at the
> > >> same time - a more possible solution than it might appear - we could
> > >> simply create an electronic parliament after abolishing the farces of
> > >> Brussels and Strasbourg.
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> > >> On Feb 28, 7:45 am, Allan H <allanh1...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > >>> Farming practices have greatly improved..the soil loss i was seeing is
> > >>> not the result of erosion.  flowing artisan wells are very rare and I
> > >>> know of only one area in the US where they are common;
> > >>> Now Neil there is a way you could join the super rich in the states..
> > >>> step one.  get your degree in US Tax law passing the bar..  specialize
> > >>> in national tax law and learn all of it ..  required reading will
> > >>> include all of the tax law will be required, skimming will not be good
> > >>> enough..  then you need to become a CPA (certified Public Accountant..
> > >>> then what you do is you offer the rich the service tax evasion..if
> > >>> interested I will explain it to you..  it will require the US not
> > >>> getting the budget in place..
> > >>> was looking at that..  the republicans need to remember that if they
> > >>> don't get a new budget in place  they will lose all of the tax breaks
> > >>> they are trying to protect..  lol  tough it will effect me,,  maybe it
> > >>> is the best thing as it will force the rich to pay the taxes they have
> > >>> been avoiding..  they will never get such a good deal again  as the
> > >>> tax laws were passed by republicans for rich republicans during the
> > >>> time when both the senate and house along with the president were all
> > >>> republican..    that sweet heart deal no longer exist.
> > >>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 5:06 AM, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>> There's so much we could and should be doing.  I fancy a long-term
> > >>>> plan bolted on to current economics, perhaps replacing derivatives and
> > >>>> the like.
> > >>>> On Feb 28, 2:43 am, rigs <rigs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>>> It could also be called Facelift!
> > >>>>> On Feb 27, 4:59 pm, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>>>> It's just not fair Al - I always wanted to cry all the way to the
> > >>>>>> bank!  Maybe we should petition the young jerk running Faceflop and
> > >>>>>> impress him with out credentials - turning silk purses into sows'
> > >>>>>> ears, the negative Kelvin temperature of our customer service and
> > >>>>>> other assets we bring to maximising tax loses whilst simultaneously
> > >>>>>> stacking piles of hard currency offshore?  Given the job we could hire
> > >>>>>> Gabby's friend to do the books on double time (she'd do the bird for
> > >>>>>> both of us later) ...
> > >>>>>> On Feb 27, 8:51 pm, Allan H <allanh1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>>>>> Sorry Neil those tax breaks are for the super rich..  poor people like
> > >>>>>>> you and me have to pay our taxes..
> > >>>>>>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:16 PM, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>> I never settle in long enough to be under-paid Gabs - I move on before
> > >>>>>>>> I could be barely competent to whoever is dumb enough to pay more for
> > >>>>>>>> my next period of incompetence.  Your friend has made the mistake of
> > >>>>>>>> learning how to competently do the job.  Does she not know the
> > >>>>>>>> relationship between productivity and wages is inverse - ergo one
> > >>>>>>>> should not be productive and spend one's time looking for the next
> > >>>>>>>> employer not to be productive with.  That the employers bring this on
> > >>>>>>>> themselves is apparent in your friend's sad tale.  Self-employed these
> > >>>>>>>> days, I no longer fear the sack should I spend enough time in one
> > >>>>>>>> place to be discovered inept (as I am a tolerant employer who realises
> > >>>>>>>> any deficiencies I have are down to a lack of training) and dare to
> > >>>>>>>> visit the same work place twice after reasonable gaps in which they
> > >>>>>>>> have forgotten I was there before.  Does your friend do freelance -
> > >>>>>>>> I'm looking for someone good and cheap!  I'd even pay time and a third
> > >>>>>>>> if she gets me Faceflop's tax concession ($450 million rebate).
> > >>>>>>>> On 27 Feb, 16:08, Allan H <allanh1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>>> I am sure Gabby your friend is highly accurate at her job or employment..
> > >>>>>>>>> I never realized the soil loss until I was driving truck across mid
> > >>>>>>>>> west in the US..   there you can see a 16 cm difference between the
> > >>>>>>>>> fence line and the crop surface,,  thus difference is from the crops
> > >>>>>>>>> removing soil matter from the land.  This loss needs to be replaced.
> > >>>>>>>>> and that can be very difficult to do..  if your friend is saying the
> > >>>>>>>>> soil does not need supplements  she can be right ass it can be quite
> > >>>>>>>>> rich..  believe me if you are farming you have soil loss due to plants
> > >>>>>>>>> using up the resources.  the long you wait the more difficult it
> > >>>>>>>>> becomes..  even in my flower garden I replace approximately 4 cm every
> > >>>>>>>>> year..
> > >>>>>>>>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 8:41 AM, gabbydott <gabbyd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>>>>>>>> First, Allan, my friend is my friend, who happens to be earning her living
> > >>>>>>>>>> by doing her
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