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Post by Danny on Nov 8, 2024 9:29:32 GMT
he's already made it obvious he's a climate change denier. China was long attacked as a climate change denier for continuing to build fossil power stations to match the demands of its growing economy. But what they really did was make sure they always had cheap electricity so as to maximise competitiveness, while also investing as hard as they could in renewables, because fundamentally they are cheaper. They now generate more renewables power than anyone else, and its growing steadily, and they are dominating the renewables industry worlwide. Whereas the west to a large extent set dates to ban fossil fuels but left it to market forces...which did little. So having noted how the private sector utterly failed the west in this respect, is Trump really so daft? He wants to ensure there continues to be ample ff supply for now, but he is also trying to re-shore industries, which will include the exploding renewables energy sector. Where Trump may run into trouble is having promised tax cuts. Thats more a traditional republican policy, but its somewhat incompatible with wealth redistribution to the rustbelt which just elected him. |
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Post by Danny on Nov 8, 2024 9:30:30 GMT
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Post by steve on Nov 8, 2024 10:09:32 GMT
colin The democrats didn't lose in California they won by 20 points.(There are still over 40% of votes to count) They also overwhelmingly won the down ballot races in a state with more still in play. Not only is California than most populace and wealthiest state in the U.S. It has a population larger than Canada. There are tens of millions of working people in California that don't seem to suffer the same stupidity syndrome as elsewhere. No one just voted his government out so how's he " an idiot" he didn't choose the presidential candidate or conduct their campaign. As a surrogate in California he was reasonably effective.
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Post by Danny on Nov 8, 2024 10:32:56 GMT
- private schools have their own version of the eleven plus - the common entrance exam - taken aged 13 normally, which determines which private schools you can get into. The bottom line however is that private schools are businesses. Their USP is that anyone with the money can get a place there, and they will deliver better results than the state sector. Too much is being made of entrance exams, which are also used to allocate scholarships. Also of course simply to make an assessment of the capability of each kid for future reference as they are taught. The entrance exam well predates the state having formal annual assessment of each kid. The London Challenge in the 2000s led and funded by the Blair government proved this with spectacular improvements in performance. But it cost a lot of money and expertise. But in general inequalities built into everyday lives and society are replicated in the academic performance of svhools and pupils and in their future finances and quality of life. The answer lies much earlier and much wider than superficial fiddling about with schools and exams. The bottom line is that schools provide 6% of UK kids a better education than they would have got in state schools (or at least as good as the best). If you abolish those shchools, what has to happen is those kids enter the state system, and their parents will ensure they get places in the best of the state schools. Its simple to do, you just have to live in the right place. That means 6% of state kids will be displaced down the ladder to poorer schools than they would otherwise have attended. Abolishing good schools is never a solution to kids going to bad schools, its utterly the opposite of a solution. Moreover, the way this is being done, it will impact most aspirant poorer families who can only just afford private fees. It will keep down and in their place poor people. |
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Post by colin on Nov 8, 2024 10:38:08 GMT
colin The democrats didn't lose in California they won by 20 points. Do Ursidae defecate en el bosque ? |
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Post by steve on Nov 8, 2024 10:50:09 GMT
Colin
It's Osas
¿Los viejos conservadores divagan en Internet?
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Post by c-a-r-f-r-e-w on Nov 8, 2024 11:01:04 GMT
- private schools have their own version of the eleven plus - the common entrance exam - taken aged 13 normally, which determines which private schools you can get into. The bottom line however is that private schools are businesses. Their USP is that anyone with the money can get a place there, and they will deliver better results than the state sector. Too much is being made of entrance exams, which are also used to allocate scholarships. Also of course simply to make an assessment of the capability of each kid for future reference as they are taught. The entrance exam well predates the state having formal annual assessment of each kid. It isn’t necessarily the case that anyone with money can get a place, at least at the better schools. It’s a bit like A levels with universities: how well you do at A-levels tends to determine which university you can go to. Similarly, if you do better at common entrance, you can go to the better performing private schools. Most pupils at prep schools doing common entrance exams would not have been accepted at the public school I went to, which was a top 10 school nationally. There are exceptions: if you have a LOT of money, then, yeah maybe you can buy a place. Sometimes they might make allowances if you have a family tradition of going to the school, but then this may lower the results average. So to keep results up, they need to ensure others are of a higher standard to compensate. If they think you have enough potential, they might pay your fees for you - it can be worth it to keep the results up. Sure, with lesser results at Common Entrance, you can go to a lesser private school, where the performance is less good, and you are likely to do less well. The ability to attract more feepaying parents, and higher fees, and also attract the pupils likely to do better, depends in part on the exam results. (But obviously there are other things that can attract, like sporting performance, links with the military and so on…) |
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Post by colin on Nov 8, 2024 11:14:23 GMT
Colin It's Osas ¿Los viejos conservadores divagan en Internet? Nope-its Ursidae The scientific classification for the Family-Bears en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear"Osas" is spanish for bears |
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Post by steve on Nov 8, 2024 11:34:01 GMT
Our garden is something of a woodland grove but new today among the normal mass of small birds, squirrels, ringed doves and magpies was a pair of ringed parakeets, the U.K.'s only wild parrot and here they are.  |
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Post by steve on Nov 8, 2024 11:49:02 GMT
Look out for the riveting excitement of bi elections. There was a bit of a falling out on Dacorum council and one of the councillors is standing down while another has sadly died so it's bi election fever with two occurring in 21st November.
I'm sure you can't wait for updates from the campaign.
One is likely to be a lib dem hold.
The other is anyone's guess as the popular independent councillor died in August it's probably going to be between Labour and the Tories but refuk have overturned a stone and found a candidate underneath.
It's not particularly fertile ground for lib dems but my mates standing so Best of luck Lloyd
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Post by Rafwan on Nov 8, 2024 12:10:51 GMT
Oh well, if you are going to make a fuss about it …! Anyway, I was only trying to do you a favour. A few days ago you said you wanted to find something else to piss me off. Thought I would help you out and that you would be happy!! No pleasing some people!! Fair enough. Truce?  Never!!! Well, perhaps until the next time then. Looking back through our exchange, there were some matters still outstanding, so I make the following points (non-vituperatively). You asked if the BBC was an acceptable source for me. Much as I love the beeb, it is not of itself an acceptable source of verification. It is a news and entertainment medium whose task is to get people listening to it. And people love stories about the good old days and how everything has gone downhill. So this study was good headline stuff. But their link only goes to the abstract, there are no full details of methodology and analysis. That is all behind a paywall and I don’t think either of us are sufficiently committed to fork out another fifty quid for this. The abstract does make clear that the comparisons were not made on the basis of hard objective data, but on the opinions of ‘experts’ (i.e. latter day assessors). That is why I felt justified in saying it was unsubstantiated and opinionated. Experts are important, but not always right, especially in circumstances like these. Wider social context may be very important here. I would be more convinced by evidence that A level maths holders of the nineties were less able to do their jobs than those of the sixties. (I should say that I do get very impatient with modern writers; some of them don’t even know how to use a nibbed pen and ink properly!) |
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Post by leftieliberal on Nov 8, 2024 13:16:01 GMT
Our garden is something of a woodland grove but new today among the normal mass of small birds, squirrels, ringed doves and magpies was a pair of ringed parakeets, the U.K.'s only wild parrot and here they are. View AttachmentWe have flocks of them here in Stanmore. The Wikipedia article about them says: Concerns have been raised by Hazel Jackson, an expert in invasive species and conservation at the University of Kent, over the impact of the growing numbers of rose-ringed parakeets in south-east England.[13] Scientific research programmes have analysed the behaviour of parakeets and found that they compete with native bird species and bats for food and nesting sites.[citation needed] Although not aggressive, parakeets have been shown to deter smaller birds due to their behaviour and noise; their large size means that they often crowd small bird feeders, further increasing competition for resources and disrupting local ecosystems.I have a couple of bird-feeders attached to my windows and they don't visit these. but they certainly do dominate the feeders down the garden when they appear. |
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Post by Danny on Nov 8, 2024 13:30:34 GMT
HS2 is bats.
The bill for HS2 includes £100 million for 1km of barriers to protect bats from disruption by the trains. The story seems to be they re-used an old railway line which had become overgrown, so then they had to safeguard the wildlife which had moved in to the abandoned infrastructure.
Wonder what they spent on protecting pigeons?
Also apparently some 8,000 different consents had to be obtained for the project (presumaby including abut those bats)
Defending this, whoever spokesman said to look at in perspective. £20bn has been spent on behalf of passengers in renting back railway rolling stock essentially given away at privatisation.
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Post by c-a-r-f-r-e-w on Nov 8, 2024 14:02:05 GMT
HS2 is bats. The bill for HS2 includes £100 million for 1km of barriers to protect bats from disruption by the trains. The story seems to be they re-used an old railway line which had become overgrown, so then they had to safeguard the wildlife which had moved in to the abandoned infrastructure. Wonder what they spent on protecting pigeons? Also apparently some 8,000 different consents had to be obtained for the project (presumaby including abut those bats) Defending this, whoever spokesman said to look at in perspective. £20bn has been spent on behalf of passengers in renting back railway rolling stock essentially given away at privatisation. We could invest more in reducing the costs of tunnelling?… |
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Post by pete on Nov 8, 2024 14:21:37 GMT
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Post by pete on Nov 8, 2024 14:26:06 GMT
Trump winning was the worst thing that could've happened to the world and America. The World will have to cope with it. " America" just decided that Harris was the worst thing that could happen to it. How does 'the world cope with it' though? that's the question. You make it sound easy. |
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Post by shevii on Nov 8, 2024 14:35:31 GMT
New Techne which hopefully gets the new thread started:
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LAB: 29% (-1)
CON: 25% (+1)
RFM: 18% (=)
LDM: 14% (-1)
GRN: 7% (=)
SNP: 2% (=)
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Post by colin on Nov 8, 2024 14:37:17 GMT
The World will have to cope with it. " America" just decided that Harris was the worst thing that could happen to it. How does 'the world cope with it' though? that's the question. You make it sound easy. It wont be easy ! |
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Post by shevii on Nov 8, 2024 14:38:54 GMT
Also final by elections in- SNP held one but I think they lost their others to Con (three?), although Scotland difficult to judge like with like. Lab held one and Green held one.
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Post by Danny on Nov 8, 2024 14:40:47 GMT
We could invest more in reducing the costs of tunnelling?… By not tunneling? |
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Post by shevii on Nov 8, 2024 14:41:03 GMT
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Aggregate Result of the 121 Council By-Elections (for 123 Seats) Since the 2024 General Election:
LAB: 41 (-20)
CON: 39 (+16)
LDM: 19 (+1)
GRN: 8 (+3)
IND: 6 (-2)
SNP: 4 (-1)
RFM: 3 (+3)
PLC: 2 (=)
LOC: 1 (=)
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Aggregate Vote Share:
CON: 25.2% (+1.2)
LAB: 24.0% (-8.7)
LDM: 17.5% (+3.1)
GRN: 10.6% (+1.0)
SNP: 6.5% (-1.6)
RFM: 6.1% (+5.8)
PLC: 1.0% (+0.0)
Others: 9.0% (-0.8)
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Post by Danny on Nov 8, 2024 14:42:03 GMT
The whole idea of clickbait is to make some sort of brief enticement to follow a link. as you just did. But whats it about? |
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Post by Danny on Nov 8, 2024 14:43:36 GMT
How does 'the world cope with it' though? that's the question. You make it sound easy. Obvious answer is for the European states to form some sort of unified government akin to the US federal structure, so they have the numbers and resources to negotiate on equal terms. Any suggestions how we might take part in that? |
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Post by c-a-r-f-r-e-w on Nov 8, 2024 14:45:10 GMT
We could invest more in reducing the costs of tunnelling?… By not tunneling? Well we could not build rail lines at all to reduce costs. But if tunnelling was cheap enough, not only could you save the bats and other wildlife and associated costs, but you can save a lot of planning costs and all of that. Also with tunnels you can go several layers deep, have multiple lines, criss-crossing, et cetera… |
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Post by c-a-r-f-r-e-w on Nov 8, 2024 14:47:31 GMT
How does 'the world cope with it' though? that's the question. You make it sound easy. It wont be easy ! Question is: will there be more Trumps? Which depends in part on whether Democrats learn the lessons… |
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Post by colin on Nov 8, 2024 15:03:20 GMT
Question is: will there be more Trumps? Which depends in part on whether Democrats learn the lessons… Have you seen the size of his family ? |
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Post by c-a-r-f-r-e-w on Nov 8, 2024 15:09:34 GMT
Question is: will there be more Trumps? Which depends in part on whether Democrats learn the lessons… Have you seen the size of his family ? Ah yes, between his and Musk’s offspring, the Republicans are sorted for decades hence… (unless all of Musk’s brood decamp to Mars or summat…) |
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Post by pjw1961 on Nov 8, 2024 15:50:23 GMT
Look out for the riveting excitement of bi elections. There was a bit of a falling out on Dacorum council and one of the councillors is standing down while another has sadly died so it's bi election fever with two occurring in 21st November. I'm sure you can't wait for updates from the campaign. One is likely to be a lib dem hold. The other is anyone's guess as the popular independent councillor died in August it's probably going to be between Labour and the Tories but refuk have overturned a stone and found a candidate underneath. It's not particularly fertile ground for lib dems but my mates standing so Best of luck Lloyd Bi elections? - they swing both ways presumably |
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Post by pete on Nov 8, 2024 16:14:08 GMT
The whole idea of clickbait is to make some sort of brief enticement to follow a link. as you just did. But whats it about? Have a look, ffs. You'll know within 5 mins if the 2 hours was worth it. |
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Post by pjw1961 on Nov 8, 2024 16:15:46 GMT
Talking about by-elections, now the Scottish ones have counted there was indeed a big loser and this time it wasn't Labour:
Con 4 (+2)
Lab 3 (+1)
Green 1 (=)
RefUK 1 (+1)
SNP 0 (-4)
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