Brexit, for once some facts.

[OxygenJames]

Except a high level GDP absorbs excessive resources.

BUT - it also generates more GDP and with that you find more resources! Sheesh. Come on people. Resources are limited by the money it takes to get them out of the ground (or elsewhere) - not by their actual amounts. Economics 101.

The 'amount' of all sorts of precious materials has gone UP in the last 50 years - because we are now better able (and have the money) to find it. It's counter intuitive but that's how it works.

 

[OxygenJames]

BUT - it also generates more GDP and with that you find more resources! Sheesh. Come on people. Resources are limited by the money it takes to get them out of the ground (or elsewhere) - not by their actual amounts. Economics 101.

The 'amount' of all sorts of precious materials has gone UP in the last 50 years - because we are now better able (and have the money) to find it. It's counter intuitive but that's how it works.

Just look at how much world poverty has dropped in the last 40 years - all while the population has accelerated.

 

[Barry Shittpeas]

Why is that footballer’s wives liable case thing in the news? It’s nothing more than two cheap slappers having an expensive cat-fight in a courtroom.

There is a big enough court backlog with these two chavs taking up valuable time.

 

[oyster]

Why is that footballer’s wives liable case thing in the news? It’s nothing more than two cheap slappers having an expensive cat-fight in a courtroom.

There is a big enough court backlog with these two chavs taking up valuable time.

Put them in a cell together and see how they sort it out?

 

[Danidl]

BUT - it also generates more GDP and with that you find more resources! Sheesh. Come on people. Resources are limited by the money it takes to get them out of the ground (or elsewhere) - not by their actual amounts. Economics 101.

The 'amount' of all sorts of precious materials has gone UP in the last 50 years - because we are now better able (and have the money) to find it. It's counter intuitive but that's how it works.

Our skills at extracting them have, but the amounts dwindle. Very little new copper is found,and in fact the decision to go to polypropylene pipes and optical fibre comms , and now Aluminium HV cable has to do with conservation of copper.

 

[oyster]

optical fibre comms

I think optical fibre has so many advantages over copper, even if copper was stacked up in megatonnes and free, optical would be used.

 

[oyster]

Remember the UK's GPS?

OneWeb satellite internet company is officially reborn
The OneWeb satellite operator has formally emerged from bankruptcy.
Ownership has transferred to a new company with its principal shareholders now being the UK government and the Indian conglomerate Bharti Global Ltd.
The new holding takes possession of all the operator's assets, including the 74 satellites it has in orbit and all the ground infrastructure to support them.
It means the London-headquartered business can now crack on with building its broadband megaconstellation.
Sunil Bharti Mittal, the founder and chair of Bharti Global, said it was most gratifying to see the months of hard work put into the purchase come to a conclusion.
"It's a very good deal. If one had to roll the dice, this is the best one," he told BBC News.
"I come from the world of telecommunications. For me, this is now the next frontier."
OneWeb's plan is to take 648 spacecraft aloft to deliver internet connectivity to nearly all land and seas surfaces around the globe.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-55016402

Only another two to two and a half billion required. Any guesses where that money will come from?

And is there the remotest possibility of my iPhone being able to use GPS-like signals from OneWeb? And even if it can, what will OneWeb add to all the other signals it can already use?

 

[oyster]

At last! Hope this the right Georgia? I don't see any mention of Tbilisi...

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1329892080462729216

 

[oyster]

One Trump campaign adviser got something right!

Rudy Giuliani and other key members of President Trump's outside legal team won't be attending today's meeting with two Michigan lawmakers because they've been exposed to the coronavirus, two sources familiar with the internal discussions tell Axios.

Why it matters: This added turmoil inside the president's legal operation comes at a time when the president is urging Republican state lawmakers to interfere with the electoral process and reverse Joe Biden's victory to a Trump win.

• "It's just a shitshow, it's a joke," said a Trump campaign adviser.

https://www.axios.com/trump-giuliani-white-house-michigan-covid-abbbbcf3-e415-4d9d-8911-427be7b645b1.html

 

[Woosh]

Love that woman. So she pisses some snowflakes off. So be it.

Imagine you work in a big firm and head office parachuted your new boss who is not very bright nor very academic like PP, but has the right connections.
It's easy to see how she can give back as much as she thinks she knows what you think.

 

[RossG]

Donald Trump Jnr tests positive for covid, just to keep it in the family so to speak.

 

[RossG]

Guiliani also self isolating, anyone left I wonder ?

 

[Wicky]

Donald Trump Jnr tests positive for covid, just to keep it in the family so to speak.

Hope the Covid makes a full recovery after catching Donnie Jr....

 

[RossG]

It's like a Most Unwanted poster.

 

[OxygenJames]

It's easy to see how she can give back as much as she thinks she knows what you think.

????

 

[oyster]

????

I thought it was my brain struggling. Glad to see I'm not the only one.

 

[OxygenJames]

Our skills at extracting them have, but the amounts dwindle. Very little new copper is found,and in fact the decision to go to polypropylene pipes and optical fibre comms , and now Aluminium HV cable has to do with conservation of copper.

Since 2011 the price of copper has dropped around 30% ($4.50/lb to $3.20/lb).

It's obviously not in demand like it was.

This whole idea is totally counterintuitive - but the fact is as the price of something goes up - we tend to be able to find more of the stuff - not just extract it better.

Copper though is an example of this in the other direction - the price is dropping - which indicates it is not so scarce right now.

 

[OxygenJames]

Imagine you work in a big firm and head office parachuted your new boss who is not very bright nor very academic like PP, but has the right connections.
It's easy to see how she can give back as much as she thinks she knows what you think.

I've worked in plenty of big firms - and found most of the managers who were called 'bullies' were called bullies by people who were weak and largely incompetent.

 

[OxygenJames]

I thought it was my brain struggling. Glad to see I'm not the only one.

Woosh has a bit of a victim mentality going on - ie the victim is always right and whoever they blame for their woes (the bad guy) is always wrong.

Rather than seeing that a vast number of so-called 'victims' bring it upon themselves by their own behaviour and attitude.

Where I worked I had a manager who was a brilliant guy - but he would not tolerate fools - it was always the fools who claimed to have been bullied by him.

 

[OxygenJames]

Where's vfr? - I haven't had my daily dose of conspiracy theories.

I need to know I am being manipulated by forces beyond my control.