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Reply to Why Kyoto failed in Politics JoeUser Forums

solitaire is entirely right. Because you are talking of a rate. Double GDP and double CO2 emission will give the same rate. This index is a pretty good tool for comparing countries efficiency toward CO2 emissions not for showing the variation of emission. There is also another bias in your argument that is related in the definition of GDP. A definition of GDP I obtain from http://economics.about.com/library/glossary/bldef-gdp.htm said: "The GDP is the market value of all the g

Reply to To Blog or Not to Blog in Blogging JoeUser Forums

I totaly agree with you. I am a new user but I start to these flaws. It seems to me that more of the articles are forgotten the day after their publication. May be that people are trying to increase artificially their score by vampirised controversial articles. May be a good upgrade would be to a track watch list for article and user (includind articles and replies) so you could follow the people you find interresting. May be it's too much of a big brother kind of thing. I don

Reply to Music from Africa in Music JoeUser Forums

Nice article, but would have gain considerably by putting some space between paragraphes. Is this your or an edited version from an on-line enccyclopedia ?

Reply to Insensitive things...(3) in Misc JoeUser Forums

The truth always come out of children's mouth, that's part of the reason of having a dog... Nice list of insensitive things (1,2,..) I'm sure there's a big future for it.

Reply to Hmmm...interesting in Misc JoeUser Forums

Nice quote. I don't know where you read it from, but this concept has been extensively used in the Hyperion cycle. If I remember the thing, Teilhard claimed that ultimately men could become their own god. If you haven't read it and you should give a go to Hyperion. It's very nice and quiet clever. Sincerly

Reply to From curvaceous women to numerate students in 21 steps in Politics JoeUser Forums

This is just the transcript of an article published in the guardian (UK). It is publish as I copied it. These are just number and fact. You have to connect the point on your own and that's the purpose of it. As UK is following in various area, they choose UK and US statistical as a good illustration. I'm not making any judgement, either to UK or US. A lot of this trend could be applied to europe as well. Thanks for your comments.

From curvaceous women to numerate students in 21 steps in Politics JoeUser Forums

Ideal measurement of women's waist to hip measurement (calculated by dividing waist measurement by hip measurement from the point of view of men according to UCL psychology professor John Manning. 0.7 Years since the average British woman had such a ratio which equate to the waist being just under a third smaller than the hips 23 </

Yesterday party in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

I am not a party man. Even if I enjoy socialising, share fun with my friends and getting pissed, I am not really this kind of person going from one party to another, always on the beat and stuff. I like alcohols, I' m a big fan of Belgian beer but the spirit are driving me weird and destroy my memories. Usually I do not remember what's happened. The black blank. I need my friend to tell me what I did. <font face="Eras Light

Reply to Don't Be Hatin in Politics JoeUser Forums

We have a sentence that said (translated) "Who want to kill his dog, accuse it first of being sick". I find it sometime quiet relevant.

Reply to Don't Be Hatin in Politics JoeUser Forums

Nice post Adam, I guess people prefer standing for a flag instead of standing for their own idea. As an european, my view of USA is quiet far, nevertheless I agree with the increasing right leaner of USA for the past 20 years. One thing that's strike me is using an artificial division of the world resulting in a crude manicheism. They're easy process often used to solve difficult problems. I just see that as a manipulative mean. In addition, I have the feeling that right wing politician work b

Moving out in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

Yesterday, I have moved out of my accommodation. I was living there for one year and a half. I used to quiet like this house, but recently I couldn't stand it anymore. I was doing anything to delay coming back home. Actually, I wasn't feeling home anymore and sometimes was even feeling physically ill about it. The main reason come from sharing the house with the landlord. I cannot say that I think he was a bad, the opposite would probably true considering him as an individual. But he was a

Let's start in Welcome JoeUser Forums

The title is already quiet self explicit, I feel netherless that I should elaborate a little bit more. I have been in Leicester (UK) for already 2 years. I come from a city of the french riviera. I don't really know why I'm starting this blog. One good reason is probably because I think that writing a blog is gonna help to practice my writing skill, the real reason is probably because like a lot of blogger, I need to explain and tell myself. I don't think that my writing style will be

Reply to Rich people and their tax bitching in Politics JoeUser Forums

That is fair point, wealth doesn't come by itself. A working force is required in order to make it grow. Sustaining economic growth would probably require an environment that provide basics to its population. Health, eduction, and social protection in general are extremely important to be sure that people work properly. As personnal wealth comes necessarly from a combination of personal work, work of other people and infrastructure. You protect your investissement on the long term by provid

Reply to NO TERRORIST ATTACKS IN IRAN in Current Events JoeUser Forums

OK I try to answer your different point one after the other. It seems that the emergence of Islamic fundamentalism driven terrorists involved in the latest attack were using suicide attack. I'm wondering if bombing toward these kind of people constitute a deterrent or a stimulation. You are totally right about the long suffering of people in Irak. There was definitevely a moral case for removing Sadam. There is also one for not doing it. Please have a look to this a

Reply to European vs. American views on capitalism, free speech in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Sorry to be provocative Draginol, but you have forget an european cliche for american. It is the american tourist, big, fat, T-shirt and short troussers, unable to speak a foreign language, unable to walk away more than 5 minutes from a McDonald. As an european living in a tourist city, I have met a lot like that. By no mean I would pretend that this description covers all american. I have also met very nice american people that were anything except that. A big difference between europe

Reply to George W. Bush in Current Events JoeUser Forums

Saying that Bush is a retard is a little bit easy. The man succeed becoming president. Saying that he is spoiled children with limited comprehension over most of everyday problems would be more fair. You also have to reckon his sense of friendship, he never forget to be generous with a generous friend. Even if it means not following basic rules of policy making. The main problem with Bush is that he is the best man to use one of the main right wing strategy: scared people to stupidity.

Reply to NO TERRORIST ATTACKS IN IRAN in Current Events JoeUser Forums

What about saudi ? They have created Ben Laden and pour great of money for spreading the Whallabit Islam (intolerant and violent). What about CIA that have been giving huge amount of money to the taliban ? However, the bottom line is do you think that bombing a country breeding terrorism is the solution to fight it. I guess this approach in Afganistan and Irak haven't really proven its efficiency yet. Except if you consider every citizen of this country as a terrorist and decide to jai

Reply to VASECTOMIES in Politics JoeUser Forums

What about overcoming this control by doing male vasectomy after sampling some sperm and keeping into liquid nitrogen. You could have total control of your reproduction activity and still enjoy quite a lot... At least it will show male willing to do so and act with responsibility.

Reply to NO TERRORIST ATTACKS IN IRAN in Current Events JoeUser Forums

There hasn't any terror attack in England land yet, and the greatest concentration of fundamentalist muslims is found in London, because other european countries with less respect to freedom of speech regards violent incitations for any purpose as illegal. May be W. has had a word with the queen for that. "Bring them on" probably. Why not bombing London so. Your argument about bombing the country without any attack on their ground seems fair to the 68 milllion of people living there (and to all