[silk] Oil prices a bigger short-term threat to business than climate change
In other words, duh. I especially love the bit in the end from the oil industry shill: However Eugene Whyms, Finance Director of oil and gas explorer EnCore Oil (EO.L: Quote, Profile, Research), said he did not think either issue was of much concern. The threat from climate change -- I'm not sure what that is, apart from panic and extra taxes in case we all go under water, Whyms said, adding that the climate has always changed. And the oil price has doubled in the past few years, without any major consequences. Indeed. Udhay http://uk.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUKNOA62509620071026?sp=true Oil bigger threat than climate change in 10 years Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:13am BST By Chris Wills and John Bowker LONDON (Reuters) - Rising oil prices are a bigger threat to the world economy than climate change in the next 10 years - that was the surprising verdict of company executives from carbon trading, fuel cell, oil exploration and solar power firms who attended the Reuters Smaller Companies Forum. But climate change is likely to have a greater effect on the global economy over a 50-year timespan, according to those executives from old and new energy companies. In a short-term scenario it is hard to say climate change is going to be a differentiating factor, said Jack MacDonald, finance director of carbon cutting project developer EcoSecurities (ECO.L: Quote, Profile, Research). If oil prices quadruple it is probably more of a challenge to the economy than climate change, he said. But he added high oil prices would force businesses to tackle climate change earlier, as it is a greater problem in the longer term. Peter Bance, chief executive of fuel cell domestic boiler maker Ceres Power (CWR.L: Quote, Profile, Research), said the world can cope with both pressures in the short term, but there were signs that natural catastrophes were already forcing a radical rethink. Hurricane Katrina woke people in the U.S. up in a very big way, even though it was not necessarily 100 percent linked to climate change, he said. Droughts and flooding are a much bigger long-term driver (of people's behaviour) than the oil price, he added. Dr Peter Finnegan, finance director of solar wafer maker PV Crystalox Solar Plc (PVCS.L: Quote, Profile, Research), said oil was a far more obvious threat to the economy than climate change over the next 10 years. High oil prices have a direct cost implication in terms of industrial output, he said. However Eugene Whyms, Finance Director of oil and gas explorer EnCore Oil (EO.L: Quote, Profile, Research), said he did not think either issue was of much concern. The threat from climate change -- I'm not sure what that is, apart from panic and extra taxes in case we all go under water, Whyms said, adding that the climate has always changed. And the oil price has doubled in the past few years, without any major consequences. The fight to tap oil fields in Alaska, the Arctic and Antarctic will be the key battleground between climate change campaigners and old, fossil-fuel based, energy firms, Whyms thinks. The battle will probably come to a head on something emotive, like spoiling Antarctica, he said. Asked whether those areas should be drilled, he said: It would be very expensive and I don't think there is a big imbalance between oil supply and demand. I think the price has partly been pushed up by a lot of traders and speculators. -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
[silk] How the US house judiciary committee protects whistleblowers
... or doesn't. I don't normally forward /. trash along, but in my defense, I saw this link elsewhere, by which time it appears heavily /.ed. The US House Judiciary Committee recently emailed all of its potential whistleblowers information about how it was restructuring its whistleblower program. Unfortunately for its sources, it emailed them this information with their addresses in the To: field (and not the Bcc: field) It also cc:'d this email to the Vice President. http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004576.php
Re: [silk] How the US house judiciary committee protects whistleblowers
On 10/28/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... or doesn't. I don't normally forward /. trash along, but in my defense, I saw this link elsewhere, by which time it appears heavily /.ed. So you still read /. ? huh... Cheeni P.S. I figured that there'd surely be other comments about the news worthy parts of Suresh's message, but reading /. is well interesting. I thought not too many did that these days.
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 12:23:50AM +0530, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: P.S. I figured that there'd surely be other comments about the news worthy parts of Suresh's message, but reading /. is well interesting. I thought not too many did that these days. I do occasionally (when I ocassionally pass by the browser tab) skim it, though there are only a few worthwhile articles/week. I used to live on reddit, but it's gone all to shit in hyperexponential time. They now even killed my.reddit.com, and recommended is full of crap as ever. I can't believe we still don't have a personal news service in end-2007. I also try StumbleUpon now and then, and am similiarly unconvinced. Server-side clustering can't be that hard, yet it's some 14 years we've been knowning that, and still nothing happens. P.S. Just came across the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_rain_in_Kerala -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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On 10/29/07, Srini Ramakrishnan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/29/07, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I used to live on reddit, but it's gone all to shit in hyperexponential time. They now even killed my.reddit.com, and recommended is full of crap as ever. I can't believe we still don't have a personal news service in end-2007. I stopped reading reddit when they decided they were too grown up for nsfw.reddit.com Ok so on a lark I clicked the link gmail made out my comment on nsfw.reddit.com - it works. I guess they decided sex sells afterall eh? Cheeni
Re: [silk] How the US house judiciary committee protects whistleblowers
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 12:43:32AM +0530, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: I stopped reading reddit when they decided they were too grown up for nsfw.reddit.com I wouldn't really care for a NSFW reddit (both because it's boring, and because I have no problems to view anything I want at my work, but there has been one for a while. But I cannot forgive them to treat server-side clustering as a minor feature. By doing that they set themselves up for a yet another failure. Oh, and has Leopard been good to you, too? -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
Re: [silk] How the US house judiciary committee protects whistleblowers
Hi, Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: On 10/28/07, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... or doesn't. I don't normally forward /. trash along, but in my defense, I saw this link elsewhere, by which time it appears heavily /.ed. So you still read /. ? huh... Still do. Also read comments as well (only +5) .. :) Cheerio, M -- Madhu M Kurup /* Nemo Me Impune Lacessit */ mmk222 at cornell dt edu
[silk] the days the routers died
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_y36fG2Oba0 Har-di-har-har. -- Eugen* Leitl a href=http://leitl.org;leitl/a http://leitl.org __ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
Re: [silk] SNAFU and FUBAR
On 10/27/07, Jeff Bone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 26, 2007, at 8:33 AM, Venkat Mangudi wrote: Didn't know that they were the US Military's contribution to English... A bit OT, but --- mil jargon is fun: I knew that SNAFU and FUBAR came from the military, since I learned them from my dad, who was in the US Navy (atomic submarines.) I also use BOHICA - Bend Over, Here It Comes Again. -- Charles
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I recall reading long ago - when linguistic morals wre different, that the F in SNAFU is not fckued as suggested, but fouled shiv On Monday 29 Oct 2007 5:07 am, Charles Haynes wrote: On 10/27/07, Jeff Bone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 26, 2007, at 8:33 AM, Venkat Mangudi wrote: Didn't know that they were the US Military's contribution to English... A bit OT, but --- mil jargon is fun: I knew that SNAFU and FUBAR came from the military, since I learned them from my dad, who was in the US Navy (atomic submarines.) I also use BOHICA - Bend Over, Here It Comes Again. -- Charles
Re: [silk] SNAFU and FUBAR
On 29/10/2007, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recall reading long ago - when linguistic morals wre different, that the F in SNAFU is not fckued as suggested, but fouled On a tangent, I don't really understand the need to spell fuck fcuk. If you are going to use it, you (a general you...not Shiv in particular you) might as well spell it right. The fcuk thing only reinforces the word taboo. Of course, coming from a guy who used 'eff' and 'effing' in its place, this is the pot and kettle story. C -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages http://www.selectiveamnesia.org/ http://chennai.metblogs.com +91-9884467463
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On 10/29/07, shiv sastry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recall reading long ago - when linguistic morals wre different, that the F in SNAFU is not fckued as suggested, but fouled That what they would tell civilians sometimes, but trust me - they Navy guys did not use fouled. -- Charles
Re: [silk] SNAFU and FUBAR
On 29/10/2007, Madhu M. Kurup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm: I suspect that it is a well intentioned effort to avoid over zealous spam filters from consuming the message[1]. Cheerio, M [1] will this make its way through? :) Not just on email. On blogs, on orkut profiles, on places where spam filters are a not as over-achieving. Perhaps the organisations I worked in had a different standard of what constituted spam, for admin assitants and upwards were liberal in their usage of the word. Or, more likely, the network admin was dozing on the job. More often, this person would be an accounts assistant or such like, with a passing knowledge of Lotus Notes. He'd be drafted in and made IT incharge. (This applies to almost all ad agencies in Chennai) C -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravages http://www.selectiveamnesia.org/ http://chennai.metblogs.com +91-9884467463
