ha ha, that's great. In so many ways the US is more progressive on things than Australia is. We have massive fossil fuel companies here too, so I don't understand how it is politically (that is how i read 'process') more difficult for the US.

In Australia we have 1/10th the population but 3.5million solar installs covering 1/3 of houses. https://solarcalculator.com.au...

Dollar Cost Averaging. Farg don't complain - this is how markets work and it is a good thing in many ways (for many people). Talk about a first world wingey attitude problem. "Oh no, I must always see my investments go up, forever."

I organised climate change marches 20 years ago. Back then the effects of CC were a 100 years off. The talk was NEVER about decommissioning existing plants but that for all the reasons discussed, we should not build any new ones. It looks like activists have pushed the agenda to the extreme to force closures.

I keep thinking about such groups and individuals who fund climate change denial. And that they are obviously shrewd and smart, and once 'converted' could help the world in endless ways. But they don't stop. I think it is time to single them out and start litigation from the World Court (if that is a thing - if not then it should be).

"take over his npm packages". What a silly mistake to make in these times. It should be "take over their npm packages"

That is so funny. I wonder how long the Chinese communist party will continue to exist. Cracks surely must be forming at the seams.

Here in Australia, two of the most popular national radio stations are Triple-J and Double-J (available online at abc.net.au). The former caters to young people and promotes indie bands. Attached to it are lots of live music events (for example the Big Day Out). The latter is for those who used to listen to JJJ :). That's me now. It is still heavily influenced by the music coming out of JJJ. They are government stations and are commercial and vested-interest free. There is also a third station called "JJJ Unearthed" that is for indy amateur bands and helps them be discovered. The conservative governments here always try to defund and shut them down because these stations are about being un-conservative. Generally they fail as I think we are all seeing the problems with conservative politics. They are also trying to shut them down since that would help Rupert Murdoch further dominate the media landscape. The governments, and most notably the conservative ones, are in the pocket of Murdoch, I understand that this is fairly rare in the world. And that even the college-radios in the USA are heavily dominated by advertising and vested interests. The answer then is to enable an open and government (people) funded music scene. And get rid of the conservatives :)

I used to use Del.icio.us, but when Yahoo shut it down I moved to Diigo since it was able to import the delicious bookmarks. I use a bookmark manager because I use multiple browsers. I'm pretty happy with Diigo.

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My comment was generally aimed at censorship of nudity and sex. Hard core porn is akin to drinking every day verses once a week and I don't support either (although for those who like to go there that is fine as long as it doesn't affect anyone else). I am amazed that most of the world condones violence yet shuns nudity and sex. And that I believe it is the shaming of sex that drives people to yearn for porn (something to m@sturbat8 to) and possibly leads to problems later in life. We need to make more love in this world (emotionally and physically). I was also saying that I don't think we really understand child sexuality. But the prevailing opinions of society prevent us from ever being able to learn more about this topic.

I cannot understand Conservative politics. It seems to be aligned with violence and control. Surely violence, the viewing of violence and death are far worse than viewing nudity and sex? After all by default we all have bodies and we all instinctively want to reproduce. Studies reveal that children are largely sexually curious also. What happens when we prevent them expressing or learning more about these instinctual desires (and tell them it is a sin / work of the devil / dirty and disgusting / ...)? I suggest that as adults they have repressed sexual feelings and suffer effects including sexual deviancy, sexual violence, sexual fantasy and possibly kill themselves or others. Depression is probably the most likely outcome. Further to this I suggest that the need and penetration of pr0n is directly related to this also. If sex and nudity was more open and free then there would be less need for people to turn to other ways to obtain it. Evidence to support this is not easy to come by since it is suppressed by the same forces that put forward such tripe as this proposed legislation.