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All ready to take the big silver bird to New Zealand this Wednesday to attend the Australian Linux Conference and have a few spare days to trek around the South Island. Will be catching up with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
beagl and kimeros albeit briefly. On other Linux related news, went to the annual LUV BBQ at Fairfield this Saturday, which was very enjoyable; hasimir and I signed a significant piece of paper ;-)
Also on Saturday I attended committee meeting for Labor for Refugees, just as we discover DIMIA wrongfully locked up 60 people (malevolent and incompetent). The very good news is that Tony Burke, the Federal Opposition spokesperson for Immigration is coming to our AGM; an impressive change given the antithetical approach of Gillard and Ferguson (interesting that Burke is of the right and Gillard and Ferguson are both supposed to be of the left).
Managed to meet up withozraptor4 this week; an old friend from Murdoch Uni days whom I haven't seen for, ahh, twelve years? He's achieved a life dream - he's a palaeontologist. Showed me some of his recently published artwork on dinsoaurs and other fun stuff. Has the joy (and this is not saracasm) of living in Melbourne, studying at ANU and primarily working in Western Australia. We promised to do some gaming in the near future as well.
The recent attempt by the six nations responsible for half the world's greenhouse gas emissions to bypass the Kyoto Protocol is downright dangerous in its myopic stupidity. The polluters have managed to pledge $445 million over the next five years on emission reduction. Melbourne's Eastlink on the other hand will cost about $1.4 billion. They estimate that there will be a 100% increase in emissions by 2050 if they succeed in their research. What is needed? A 60 percent reduction from 1990 levels. To assist this we must produce a device that absorbs carbon dioxide, separates carbon and oxygen, exhausts oxygen into the atmosphere, is low maintenance, solar powered and is aesthetically pleasing. Can anyone guess a name for such a device?
It's called a tree. Deforestation is one of the main dangers on our planet and substantially reduces our ability to control greenhouse gases - and it's easy to solve; plant more trees.
Abbie Hoffman recently turned 100 (fromjahbulon. He continues to argue that LSD has medical utility. I also agree with the Dr. Timothy Leary (and John Lilly's) claim of its effectiveness as an entheogen.
Also in the news, whilst the American neocons have been paying attention to fighting their kindred Islamicist spirits in the Middle-East, the Latin Americans are leading the way for 21st century Libertarian Socialism and now in Chile too. Time to start studying Spanish again, methinks.
beagl and kimeros albeit briefly. On other Linux related news, went to the annual LUV BBQ at Fairfield this Saturday, which was very enjoyable; hasimir and I signed a significant piece of paper ;-)Also on Saturday I attended committee meeting for Labor for Refugees, just as we discover DIMIA wrongfully locked up 60 people (malevolent and incompetent). The very good news is that Tony Burke, the Federal Opposition spokesperson for Immigration is coming to our AGM; an impressive change given the antithetical approach of Gillard and Ferguson (interesting that Burke is of the right and Gillard and Ferguson are both supposed to be of the left).
Managed to meet up with
ozraptor4 this week; an old friend from Murdoch Uni days whom I haven't seen for, ahh, twelve years? He's achieved a life dream - he's a palaeontologist. Showed me some of his recently published artwork on dinsoaurs and other fun stuff. Has the joy (and this is not saracasm) of living in Melbourne, studying at ANU and primarily working in Western Australia. We promised to do some gaming in the near future as well.The recent attempt by the six nations responsible for half the world's greenhouse gas emissions to bypass the Kyoto Protocol is downright dangerous in its myopic stupidity. The polluters have managed to pledge $445 million over the next five years on emission reduction. Melbourne's Eastlink on the other hand will cost about $1.4 billion. They estimate that there will be a 100% increase in emissions by 2050 if they succeed in their research. What is needed? A 60 percent reduction from 1990 levels. To assist this we must produce a device that absorbs carbon dioxide, separates carbon and oxygen, exhausts oxygen into the atmosphere, is low maintenance, solar powered and is aesthetically pleasing. Can anyone guess a name for such a device?
It's called a tree. Deforestation is one of the main dangers on our planet and substantially reduces our ability to control greenhouse gases - and it's easy to solve; plant more trees.
Abbie Hoffman recently turned 100 (from
jahbulon. He continues to argue that LSD has medical utility. I also agree with the Dr. Timothy Leary (and John Lilly's) claim of its effectiveness as an entheogen.Also in the news, whilst the American neocons have been paying attention to fighting their kindred Islamicist spirits in the Middle-East, the Latin Americans are leading the way for 21st century Libertarian Socialism and now in Chile too. Time to start studying Spanish again, methinks.
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If not, ignore me altogether, heh. ;) If so, it just seemed to me that:
(a) if some countries' emissions are even lower than allowable limits that should be viewed as a success, and not an excuse to allow other countries to emit more
(b) yet another possibility for desperate 3rd world countries (that arguably need more leeway to build up industry) to be exploited by rich 1st world countries (that already leave far too much of an ecological footprint on the world as is)
and (c) the risk for outright fraud with the difficulties of keeping track of it all...
Off the top of my head, anyway. It just seemed wrong to me...
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a) Well that's why they'd get paid for it. The lower your emissions the higher your potential trading bonus.
b) I don't see this occurring; rather I suspect that the reverse would be the case. "Oh dear US, gone over your target again? Here, let us clear up this "debt" you've appeared to have accumulated".
c) Fraud would be less probable imo than most transactions.
Quite a lot of people thought through these issues for quite some time. I remember them being debated hotly (ahh, unintentional pun) in environmental economics classes in the mid-late 80s.
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Hope your day is filled with much fun and cake. :D
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Thanks muchly. It was certainly fun, but instead of cake we had quite a range of alcohols. My poor head.
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