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		<title>Tax &#8211; What is it good for?</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2012/04/14/tax-what-is-it-good-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The solution is a radical design of the tax system. We need a system which is simple, practical and deters only activities which society deems undesirable.

Ah....but there's the rub. What does society deem undesirable? Cigarettes? Alcohol? Marijuana? I suggest that the activity which is most undesirable yet prevalent is the emission of gases causing climate change.

Therefore, our tax system should be adjusted to place the majority burden of taxation on activities which emit CO2.

Commuters will scream: “but I need my car to get to work. How will I manage if my fuel bill is a thousand pounds a month?” - My repost would be: If income tax and National Insurance were abolished then you could afford to pay a thousand pounds for fuel......but you would have huge incentive to DO SOMETHING about climate change rather than talking about it.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=4881&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brooklyn Space Program</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/10/08/brooklyn-space-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 18:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I have started to think that innovative technology is really starting to pick up the pace.  An article in The Economist this week talked about the fact that consumer goods used to be derived from military technology and sited The Internet as an example. Now, it says that consumer goods are leading the way. And some of this technology is giving individuals powers that only large companies or governments would have had in the past.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=4235&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spirit of the age</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/07/29/spirit-of-the-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week Hollywood are, again, engaged in recycling cultural icons from the past. A new movie has been released based on the marvel comic book character Captain America. Perhaps, at this time of conflict and economic uncertainty, America is trying to return to its youth. Trying to revert to those days when most of us had faith in science, democracy and the future.

But what does the future hold? What stories or icons or memes of today will Hollywood recycle in thirty years time? Corporations cannot generate art they can only package and sell it. They can only reproduce existing ideas so where are the ideas? The blind optimism of the 60s and 70s is as outdated as the cynical greed of the 90s and 00s.

It’s time for a new direction but our compass is still spinning.

So why do I feel optimistic? Right now we are on the cusp of change. Right now is when the seeds of the future are being sown. I am maturing in years and rather than thinking about spaceships and time travel I find myself speculating about pensions and politicians. I suspect that the young already have an idea of where we’re going.

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		<title>Helsinki</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/06/02/finland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the flight home I got talking to a girl who was publishing a book to be named “No Fear” on the changing face of business leadership brought about by globalisation and technology. An interesting discussion though difficult, given the incessant announcement over the tannoy. In an effort to cover themselves and sell us more stuff, corporations bombard us with advertisements and inane safety warnings. We get this on aircraft, on the London Underground and in those imbecilic, and legally questionable, online “agreements”. Corporations will claim that they need to communicate with their customers but this is a very one sided form of communication. I don’t care about the ground speed, the height or their selection of duty free items. I especially don’t care to hear it in multiple languages one after the other at full volume from a loudspeaker positioned 12 inches from my left ear. I sometimes feel like taking a megaphone onto an aircraft and retaliating. I recall a friend who tried this in the back of a taxi once and got thrown out at Trafalgar Square….but that’s another story.
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		<title>We need a vision for a sustainable future</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/03/20/we-need-a-vision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So why have a vision at all? We need a vision, not as a goal, but as a guide. If we develop a shared vision of how our civilisation could live in a sustainable way then we can start making intelligent and thoughtful decisions on working our way toward that vision. Without the vision we merely flounder around grasping at anything which is not responsible for the current disaster. Witness governments around the world turning on a sixpence and becoming sceptical about nuclear power.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3838&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web site Terms and Conditions are bollocks</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/01/16/web-site-terms-and-conditions-are-bollocks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick perusal of The Web uncovered a generic web site Terms and Conditions document made available by SEQ LEGAL LLP. The document is intended to for use in in relation to “websites with common kinds of interactive features, such as blogs, bulletin boards, forums and chat rooms”. The document runs to seven pages and the first sentence reads: “These terms and conditions govern your use of our website; by using our website, you accept these terms and conditions in full.”

The process of presenting a person with seven pages of legalistic nonsense just seconds before he engages in an activity has been enabled by modern technology without any thought of whether this is reasonable or even legal. If we accept this sort of bollocks then companies will use it more and more.

It's bad enough that pubs now have bouncers on the doors but pretty soon you will be required to swipe a card or text a number to signify that you agree to the pubs Ts &#38; Cs.

As for the specific condition of Southern Railway that “No break of journey is permitted in either direction” - this is obvious bollocks. What are we passengers or kidnap victims?
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		<title>Wikileaks have opened a Pandora’s box of hypocrisy</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/01/11/wikileaks-have-opened-a-pandora%e2%80%99s-box-of-hypocrisy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All bureaucracies, such as governments, have a tendency toward secrecy. Rather than selecting information to be kept secret they prefer blanket regulations which keeps everything secret. Following pressure to release information the British Government responded with the Freedom Of Information Act 2000 which allows that some information can be released dependant on a public interest test. This is the wrong way around.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3522&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jumping robots, progress? &#8211; Toward what?</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2009/09/15/progress-in-what-way-is-a-jumping-robot-progress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But people being people we continue to improve and tweak the physical world but these days the driver is not curiosity but a drive for greater efficiency but what percentage of our happiness is made up of efficiency?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=1143&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guest Article: A Better Future for the Planet</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2009/06/18/a-better-future-for-the-planet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would like to invite women to play a significant role in helping to orchestrate a better future for the planet and all who occupy it – humankind and animals alike. All of nature, for that matter. If we continue to pursue a path of negativity, an apocalypse could be the outcome. To avoid that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=920&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I’m a banana, I’m a banana</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2009/05/04/dont-ask-what-they-can-do-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 20:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[....people attending the stands are of little practical use to a potential customer. I walked past several stands with team of three young assertive salesmen viewing the exhibition attendees the way a wolf might view sheep. It is seemingly impossible to approach a stand and discuss their product or service. Instead one’s questions are met with vague industry standard platitudes and buzzwords. The salesmen seem to have little grasp of their brief. Instead they continually try to turn the conversation to discovering what your projects are and then pretending to be experts on just that topic.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=685&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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