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Aerial video of the Shard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbPAOGN1IBI

nashoi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Plenty of speed checking sites on the net like > http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/ Here's mine: http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/bimages/34473757.jpg

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The survivors (one in six) will be those who are > fully prepared in advance, in my view. > > What, exactly, should I be doing to be fully > prepared. Move to the countryside. Buy a house with solar panels and good insulation. Grow your own food, stock up on seeds, etc.

Townleygreen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've been worried about this for years. > > The Oil Drum website is very scary in places. > Indeed... http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6924 Long article, but well worth reading.

Well, it's official. Even the International Energy Agency (IEA) - which has been notoriously optimistic in the past - now admits that Peak Oil is a reality. Furthermore, they actually go as far as saying that Peak Oil has already happened - in 2006: Oil demand (excluding biofuels) continues to grow steadily in the New Policies Scenario, reaching about 99 million barrels per day by 2035 ? 15 mb/d up on 2009. All of the net growth comes from non-OECD countries, almost half from China alone; demand in the OECD falls by over 6 mb/d. Global oil production reaches 96 mb/d, the balance of 3 mb/d coming from processing gains. Crude oil output reaches an undulating plateau of around 68-69 mb/d by 2020, but never regains its all time peak of 70 mb/d reached in 2006. Their latest report can be found here and includes possibly the scariest graph I've ever seen. Just look how rapidly oil production is going to decline. We're already on the downslope. Where do they expect to find all this new oil? Canada's tar sands won't save us. Neither will the Arctic, which has an estimated 90bn barrels (only about 3 years' worth of global oil demand). Nuclear, solar and wind are unlikely to save us. Fusion power is decades away. There's the added issue of population growth, and the huge increase in demand from China and India, which are becoming industrialised at a phenomenal rate. Our whole society, all the technology and everything we take for granted - cars, planes, computers, heating, lighting and electrical equipment, food and clean water - depends on a cheap and abundant supply of oil... a resource that's now in terminal decline. More analysis of the coming catastrophe here: http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7102 http://www.futuretimeline.net/subject/images/peak-oil-timeline.jpg Another point to bear in mind: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/dec/15/oil-peak-energy-iea In the report on peak oil commissioned by the US department of energy, the oil analyst Robert L Hirsch concluded that "without timely mitigation, the economic, social and political costs" of world oil supplies peaking "will be unprecedented". He went on to explain what "timely mitigation" meant. Even a worldwide emergency response "10 years before world oil peaking", he wrote, would leave "a liquid-fuels shortfall roughly a decade after the time that oil would have peaked". To avoid global economic collapse, we need to begin "a mitigation crash programme 20 years before peaking". If Hirsch is right, and if oil supplies peak before 2028, we're in deep doodah.

In my experience, the 176 is extremely unreliable. Frequently overcrowded, and delayed. Often, it won't even stop for those waiting in Lordship Lane because the overcrowding is so bad.

It's getting really big now... concrete core has reached level 56. Here's a recent video I took: Incredible to think that it still has nearly 120 metres to go!

DJKillaQueen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That will be welcome news for those residents that opposed Indeed. Great to see democracy in action! :)

"... Having heard from the applicant and Mr Blissett, the LSC was satisfied that the applicant had taken satisfactory steps to address the licensing objective of the prevention of nuisance by reason of the escape of music from the premises. Having considered the written representations of local residents and having heard from those residents present, the LSC was not satisfied that the applicant had adequately addressed the licensing objective of the prevention of nuisance in so far as it related to anti-social behaviour as aggravated by the excessive consumption of alcohol. "The LSC noted that two sixteen year old girls had recently been admitted to the premises and had been served alcoholic cocktails. The LSC was not satisfied that the bar staff and door staff were taking adequate steps to refuse entry and service to those under the influence of alcohol. The LSC noted that the premises had no outdoor space and that many complaints related to the consequences of drunken behaviour outside the premises and in nearby streets, in particular, fighting, shouting, slamming of card doors, public urination and vomiting. The LSC noted that Mr Jackson (the DPS) visited the premises once or twice a week and appeared to be unaware of these problems which residents stated had been exacerbated since the licence was varied on 20 April 2009. The LSC noted that resident A20 (page 62 of the agenda) complained of nuisance on three occasions when a Temporary Event Notice (TEN) had been granted in July 2010. "Accordingly the LSC considered it was both necessary and proportionate, having regard to the licensing objective of the prevention of nuisance to refuse the application in so far is it related to the extension of hours for licensable activities..."

- delete - Just realised there's already a thread on this! Sorry. *blushes*

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That's the sound I keep hearing every 5 minutes from these idiots cruising past - car stereos blaring out at maximum volume :X Sometimes it's loud enough to rattle my window frames. Oh, the joys of living on Lordship Lane... /rant

A well-deserved win by Spain. (tu) Ludicrous number of fouls by the Dutch. ::o How on earth wasn't this a red card? - http://img594.imageshack.us/i/1278875206378.gif/

WickedStepmother Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Actually, here's a thought: What about a "shame" > section on the site - it's not hard to whip out > your mobile and take a quick snap of someone > behaving in an anti-social way. Then post it here > with the date and time. Over time it might help to > give the safer neighbourhood team more information > about repeat offenders, local pains-in-the-ass and > patterns of behaviour. Excellent idea.

John Lennon.

'Psychic' octopus predicts Spain to win World Cup http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/10566287.stm

Total, fcuk and UPS in joint sponsorship deal with England football team http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2010/07/06/total-fcuk-and-ups-in-joint-sponsorship-deal-with-england-football-team/ http://www.newsbiscuit.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/capello-sponsors.jpg

An international team of paleontologists has uncovered the earliest known multicellular fossils, pushing back the fossil record for such lifeforms to 2.1 billion years ago and suggesting that they lived 200 million years earlier than scientists had thought. http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-fossil-20100701,0,2900726.story http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2010-06/54680753.jpg

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Awful, just awful... Our defense was a joke. As for Rooney, he did bugger-all this whole tournament.

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I can't believe what I'm seeing here... that was so OBVIOUSLY a goal. How the hell can that be disallowed?????

England will lose on penalties - just as they always have done, and always will do.