El Pibe

interesting stuff, investment manager Lelsie GRantham on bubbles and climate change. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2013/apr/15/jeremy-grantham-population-china-climate

I figured he already has like a dozen of them!! as it goes he's more this

one for the otta

the intrinsic aesthetic value rather than the associated one about class, privilege etc huh? "Just because the best tailoring you've ever seen is above your fucking appendix!"

Does a war require a declararion, if so I don't think any of his...four? wars count.

you need to tell the treasury this, software is about number 3 on our balance of trade positives. I suppose if we produce real bubble wrap and now we sell less because of the bubble wrap popping app, then we have a net negative outcome true. I'm not sure what angry birds is making more convenient mind...

I loved a quote from Neal Stephensons patchy 'Anathem' I probably paraphrase "money is in theory infinite, in practice most of it goes on sugary water and pornography". I guess that was written back when people paid for porn.

The question was, to quote Charlie Brooker, 'A Cunt's trick'. You prefigure the debate by framing it a certain way, one beloved of the american right who manage to make any idea of redistribution positively unamerican. By keeping the focus on whether people are 'moaning at the rich' or whether 'a successful person is a rich bitch sucking the nation dry' noone asks any useful questions. Well done all, pat yourselves on the back for rising to it. DNFtT. but 10/10 H, you even sucked snorky in.

"Just don't stand next to anyone on the train who's got a decent suit on" Are you suggesting tht it will actually improve a shiny Next suit?

I have to say in London in 20 years I've hardly seen any casual violence at all as oppose to it being part of the fabric of life in Stevenage & Hitchin. Possibly it's more dispersed, probably there's simply more to do and certainly that small town 'townie' mentality is much less. Of course ther's alot more of the nasty kind, but given the weird segregation of coexistent realities in London, all I ever get to see is the odd forensics tent.

ignoring the use of emotive language to load the question and implicitly beg it; setting aside the straw man of addressing the wide question of redistribution of wealth with a tailored hypothetical scenario, the real issue is that she's highly unlikely to become rich given appstore's operating model. The model is such that people expect updates for free, meaning the fifa 2000/fifa2001/fifa2002 school of income stream isn't viable, but people expect further investment in the product lest they ditch it for a rival which has surpassed it in quality, something very commonly seen in app world, especially as some geeky bedroom programmer can probably achieve that living at home with their mum rather than hiring premises and expensive development teams. So they have to come up with a new idea, but as Burbage points out, it's incredibly difficult to stand out in a saturated market, so some ideas will fail before others succeed. In reality her margins will be slim enough that if she's luckily she's making a decent enough wage for herself to compensate her for the hard work in keeping a company going. In reality she'll find herself one of the squeezed middle classes, probably expecting her children to have the same educational opportunities, which given the state of affairs is looking increasingly unlikely. The middle classes are losing their share of wealth as it concentrates on those that really are sucking the nation dry, the corporations playing with cards stacked in their favour, as they pay ever less tax whilst demanding ever more subsidies and incentives to build their factory in this constituency or their call centre in that constituency lest they outsource to India. And in the meantime the textbooks fall apart, schools become unable to stem the flow of quality staff to the private sector, old buildings become a drain on resources, and there's less money to pay for it all. Good luck next generation.

What a marvellous thought, in times of great stress the ultra rational H indulges every Internet whim led fantasy!! Talking of which I gather the CTs are already accusing the FBI of this one. Way to prefigure the 'official' narrative by inventing your own before anybody has *any* information at all.

Hmm, begging the straw man. Has new nexus been hacking huguenot's account?

Ha yes, I saw this too. I love the fact that it's so unstable it has no practical uses whatsoever. It's actually too destructive to be a weapon, delightful irony.

Oh well RD, it was an exciting cup run, looks like my bubbles have faded and died. Now *ahem* to concentrate on the league :( can we be relegated or is there just a wooden spoon up for grabs?

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Good grief apparently new rules will prevent us spending money we haven't got buying players we can't afford http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/22160271 Cheers BFS. in other news pope shits in woods etc.

best kids bed ever

...or perhaps they have to drop off their kids at nursery before needing to jog to the train to catch it in order to get to work on time.

The real WTF is that he had the elbow room to do sketching. On my commute I'd be hardpressed to move my phone camera enough to do a decent upskirt picture!!

Mind you, turfing out time at Lords witnesses quite a few people who have been drinking for about 7 hours, some looking decidedly unsteady, and much booze consumed at seats. I've yet to see any violence though.

nice little wealth distribution visualisation http://flowingdata.com/2013/04/16/wealth-distribution-in-america/ Makes you glad you live in a nice country with a narrow wealth gap and a government dedicated to maintaining it. doh!!

err yes, that's my point. Sorry perhaps I wasn't clearly enough, getting drunk and punching each other is casual. Despite the apparently casual manner in which these kids perpetrated this horror I would definitely file it under brutal violence. The latter comes from neglect, abuse blah blah and is, 'more closely associated with inner city..social deprivation'. Of course there's nothing to prevent it happening elsewhere.

I grew up in sleepy hertfordshire, as a sixth former went out in Hitchin where the general order of things was Go out, have a few pint Chat up girls have more pints watch a fight or two have more pint get kebab watch another three or fights wait in cab rank watch at least two more fights go home. Casual violence comes from boredom, youth and/or a drinking to oblivion culture and is endemic. The bruter kind comes from being fucked up in one form or another, hence why it's more commonly associated with a generational cycle of poor parenting fostered by the usual social deprivational suspects, and is closely associated with troubled inner city areas, be they in Birkenhead, Peckham, Chapeltown etc etc etc. You're all grown up enough to know this. North, South, East, West, Scotland, England, South Wales, North Wales, yaaaaaawn, it's silly to even pursue this argument. And of course nothing is black and white, I don't doubt Birkenhead is more dangerous than Hitchin, but as stated, it produced Half Man Half Biscuit and is worthy of veneration for that alone.

Is, are, meh.