From: john maclean Date: 2009-04-10T00:43:02+09:00 Subject: Re: Goodbye Ruby - Hello Earth 2009/4/9 Todd Benson : > On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:35 AM, Phlip wrote: >>>> Am I the only one who, upon reading the subject line, thought that Earth >>>> was a new programming language? >>> >>> At last - a way to bridge the distance between software engineers and >>> activist hippie chicks! >> >> http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3138 > > Reminds me of an old engineering joke (forgive the masculine slant, ladies). > > At the dorms... > > Geek 1: Dude!  You'll never believe what happened to me just now!  I > was walking back from class and this girl biked up to me, jumped off, > stripped naked right there on the sidewalk! > > Geek 2: Wow!  What did you do? > > Geek 1: I jumped on the bike and took off. > > Geek 2: Why did you do that? > > Geek 1: Uh, duh.  The clothes wouldn't fit. > > As long as we pump trillions of dollars back into the economy to prop it up from a recession/depression then it will be business as usual. This __could__ be a chance for a re-think on the production process. - Packaging. If stuff ain't over packaged, we won't buy it. - Waste of water in the developed world. I prolly use more of it to brush my teeth than some of use for food. - General waster. WTF would I do with a needle and thread? Um, buy new jeans! - Transport. Do you have an affordable, reliable service in your town? I'm lucky as I live and work in London and can get around by public transport. But it is crap here. From what I have seen in the UK it is more cost effective to take a taxi or hire a care if you are travelling out of town with a few people. - Electricity. Turn off your dvd, radio, stereo etc and you loose all of the settings. Keeping them on standby preserves those settings. - The economy. Shareholders want growth and that means more. More stuff, sold to more people, buying more stuff. Constant growth is what the economy is built on. = As responsible people, we are supposed to make more and more stuff and buy it as soon as we get paid. That helps the world go around. = Some of us value ourselves on the ability to buy __stuff__. = The more stuff we can buy the "better off" we are. # That's a bit simplistic but you know where I am coming from. Whales, polar bears and butterlies? Who cares? I see them on the TV and not in the city where I live. Heck, what do I know what happens on Polar Bear Avenue? What does that have to do with me doing my job of producing more stuff? My problem with the whole green issue is not that climate change may or may be man-made, but what our response is. I can bet any amount of money you like that it will be the consumer that fits the bill. = Water taxes = Methane taxes = Green taxes = Electricity taxes = Heating efficiency taxes I say this as it's easier for a government to say, "we are doing something about this climate stuff as we are giving the people a stick". That's what I see from my end, over in Merry Olde Englande. __END__ Get back to work and do not hit the send button. who wants to read my rants anyway? -- John Maclean 07739 171 531 MSc (DIC) Timezone: GMT