El Pibe

Azerbaijan, I can see why you'd want to invade, I'd nagorno her karabakh any day!

Obviously sans x factor there is a huge void in my life, filled for one night only.... Soo, Ukraine, I can see why you'd want to invade, ahumna humna etc.

Why'd the silicon chip? Because the bus was SCSI!!!! ooooh I kill me (and hopefully the thread)

It was set up during a particularly difficult time of trolls and wankers, so just meant to be a place where you could moderate the idiots in a discussion, but as PGC points out, things have calmed down in there, so you can talk proper like again.

When we moved, we discovered we had a feral dog padding around our land. She went and had six puppies and increasing amounts of poop meant we got the local SPCA to catch them all and get them proper homes. Now we have rats, so I guess I know why the pups looked so well fed. Aaaanyway, long story short, to reiterate civilservant's question, given that the lack of urban waste, toxins etc, are clean rats still disease bearing or are they no more troublesome than squirrels (rats with good PR)?

Yeah, it has rather died a complete death.

not quite east dulwichy enough for the events section, but i rather like the sound of this river effra walk http://londonist.com/2014/05/the-buried-river-effra-the-musical.php https://www.facebook.com/events/1401020103510874/?ref=22

Nice thing about working from home is you can turn muisc up REALLY loud!!!!!

my god, someone has a website to mask 2 lines of code. humanity is doomed.

I'd have gone with: 1101111 1101000 100000 1111001 1100101 1110011 100000 1101001 1110100 100000 1101001 1110011

I'm so sad [pre] for b in str.split(" "): print unichr(int(b,2)) [/pre] v e r y g o o d

or taking a wage for attemptnig to up clients' seo ranking, which could backfire nastily.

StraferJack Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've compiled the EDF but now when I look at it > it's just a string of binary (opinions) bravo! *insert obligatory pun about silicon chips on shoulders*

...but then I'm no political philosopher, and i reckon there's tons of room in this society of ours for the state to allow for certain things to happen oraganically at a much more local level. If, for instance, micro generation and storage of energy is the most likley route (eveeentualllyyyy) to cutting carbon emissions, then why can't other problems be solved in a micro fashion?

And as for the scale thing, you simply can't have lots of people and equitable decision making can you? Just contraints on time and organisation alone. Look how long something as simple as a general election takes in India! Once you get into numbers surely delegation and hierachy is the only practicable means. And if the idea is that no unit gets big enough for this to kick in aren't you setting yourself up for lots of tragedy of the commons type issues?

But it has been attempted a huge number of times, usually intentionally, but admittedly rarely on any great scale (probably the biggest being some of the anarchist collectives in the north east during the spanish civil war), most often during the counterculture experiments (for want of a better word) of the seventies and beyond. Generally the most charismatic/psycopathic/bloody minded became dictatorial or sat atop informal hierarchical means of control, or rarely a sort of functional inertia took hold of course anarchism is a pretty loose term as these things go i'll grant you. But there is archaeological evidence of proto urban societies who managed to function pretty well for hundreds of years without any [remaining visible] means of contorl, a la government or religion, so perhaps it's not intrinsic to human nature just the general models of society we keep taking....

does it have to be a moral framework? one of the things i liked about Banks' culture novels was there was no moral framework* in that utopia. absolutely anything went as long as someone's life wasn't ended (but even there it was no great shakes). Post scarcity there is no concept of property, ownership or moeny so pretty much everything we call a crime ceases to be relevant. Now, if we can just sort out cold fusion, AIs and nanotechnology, we're all set..... *of course not strictly true otherwise it gets hard to identify with a novel, and he did like to satirise muscular liberalism, oh yes!!

> I know the guy who does this blog. He moved from > London about four or five years ago to up near > Colchester. excellent, let him know ihs regular crap match reports at champion hill are missed won't you.

I'll see if i can set aside a few hours for something basic then

for the record: or

I would have thought that the standard etiquette of the greater than > quoted stuff should suffice. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Quoted_line_prefix i've been reading sue's posts for ages and i still get confused thinking she's being very affectionate

maybe this summer I'll get around to doing the simple version i was mulling over doing last year.

sorry

Doesn't the idea of distribution (re or otherwise) still have to be underpinned by the concept of ownership? So redistribution can't be anarchy. Anarchy is marvellous in theory but in practice it just means that the shoutiest and oudest get their way. And as seabag points out, in a society entirely dependent upon long supply chains and huge public infrastructure to allow the basics of life to function, how that stuff is paid for and maintained becomes somewhat crucial if you don't want the nastier sort of anarchy (along with it's bedfellows, famine, and plague)to emerge. If we didn't have government we'd be forced to invent it. It's be nice if it wasn't entirely led by arsehole public shcool boys of course.

Seat belt on john