Re: [luv-talk] Fwd: Global warming and survivalism (fork from Linux != Poltics)
From: "Russell Coker" <russell@coker.com.au>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_dependent_territor...
Quickly scan the above page and you'll notice the correlation between standard of living and birth rate.
What about correlation between consumption of natural resources and birth rate? Maybe we are just rabbits running out of "food" so nature tells us (with the help of the pill) to stop multiplying? Maybe nature is smarter than us, after all;-) China, fuelling our wealth: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/video/2014-04/22/c_133280627.htm Meanwhile, Ministry of Environmental Protection also says around 280 million Chinese people exposed to unsafe drinking water. The ministry reported that over 70 percent of water from lakes, and 60 percent of underground water across the country does not meet the national safety standard. "Brain-jumping" to our "pension crisis": Is it smart to work "harder" (longer) instead of really smarter and less? At the moment our economic system looks a bit like a hamster wheel: we are running faster and faster and when we pause we get mangled by it. I do not believe that this system has a long term future, actually. One day all hamsters will drop dead by exhaustion. Regards Peter
Peter Ross wrote:
"Brain-jumping" to our "pension crisis": Is it smart to work "harder" (longer) instead of really smarter and less?
At the moment our economic system looks a bit like a hamster wheel: we are running faster and faster and when we pause we get mangled by it.
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/04/a-nation-of-slaves.html -- twb, linkspamming stross as usual
On Thu, 24 Apr 2014, Peter Ross wrote:
I do not believe that this system has a long term future, actually. One day all hamsters will drop dead by exhaustion.
Heh. I've just learnt that the top public servants are going to get a 5% payrise on their $800,000 year. Meanwhile, I'm going to have to demonstrate a "real productivity gain, such as working 2.5% more hours" to get a 2.5% payrise. (harder, not smarter!) By my estimates over the past month, I'm now doing 3 times as much work as a few months ago because of a top-down enforced reorganisation, and we have twice as many machines to run as we did 18 months ago, and I get paid $10,000 less in real terms than someone in my position did 11 years ago. The job paperwork that was meant to be my promotion was also just about to be submitted the day our fearless leader announced a public-serf wide job freeze. Fuck them. I'm about ready to quit. Too bad that I'm the only guy from the old linux group that's going into the new linux group. Hope that brown envelope of passwords ended up with the right guy up the chain. -- Tim Connors
Tim Connors wrote:
Fuck them. I'm about ready to quit. Too bad that I'm the only guy from the old linux group that's going into the new linux group. Hope that brown envelope of passwords ended up with the right guy up the chain.
As long as it went to a SIGINT agent and not a Spetssvyaz agent, I'm sure it'll get to where it needs to go.
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