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Re: Hot enough for you in the UK?

jjmac — Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:39 pm

Author: jjmac

Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:39 pm

nordle wrote:
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A political party needs to win votes to obtain power and retain power, its all about the power and very little substance.
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Yes, unfortunately. I would really like to see party donations made totally visible for one ... Even when they do get the boot, if they have been able to hang on long enough, they will just go into business as advisors/consultants and take on lobbying roles. Make very good money in the process.

Back on the mossy thing ...
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read up on ones enemies
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, very good... yes, mossies can be dealt with though, after having set up a reasonable ground to air defencive system.

What can be really tricky, ... trying to escape from a maurading heard of very hungry leaches, that charge while a person is trying to have a bucket bath in the forest, first thing in the morning. The type of thing that can be hard to explain to a ranger if one gets spied running around like that, at that time, as such (grin). There really silent too, no warnings.

jm

Re: Hot enough for you in the UK?

GMorgan — Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:57 pm

Author: GMorgan

Posted: Fri Jul 21, 2006 5:57 pm

It has been suggested that a machine could run earth but that has its obvious problems. What about a robot that hunts down and removes politicians that under perform. May not be an effective form of rule but it would be far more interesting than the current system.

Re: Hot enough for you in the UK?

nordle — Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:15 pm

Author: nordle

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 11:15 pm

nelz wrote:

nordle wrote:

Time to go commit genocide.

Mosquitoes or cyclists?

Some people are picky aren't they, I mean, I have to decide?

Its amazing the info we can gleam from this site, I soacked my cuffs a few times today, it certainly works! But you do look like you have a basic inability to wash your hands properly, or some very weird sweat pore location

I also put a large mug of ice cold water behind the office fan we've managed to nick.

The CO2 thing on mozzies is good to know, I guess its always best to read up on ones enemies If this goes on I will look at how much a LARGE standing low rpm fan is, added bonus of airflow.
Im not sure I would trust myself with burning propane, not to mention the whole monoxide poisoning thing

For the moment I shall stick to the mass eradication programme. I used to use a spare magazine, but found the impact left print on the walls, so now I use a magazine still in its film wrapper, works a treat.
(no, not on cyclists.....although..)

I've found their natural reaction is to always fly up off of a surface where possible, so by angling the face of the weapon to be broought down top first, there's a much higher success rate.

jjmac wrote:

We've had a really brain dead gov policy on all levels of R & D for decades now. The mind really boggles sometimes in that respect.

Are you sure you don't live in Britain?

I think that maybe in 300 years, if the planet is still here, they may look back and laugh at the early tech peasants (us) who believed in democracy.

If you think about it, you vote in a bunch of people without them actually having a job, ie they sort out who does what after they have been elected.
So right away, the system is bizarre.

And then, essentially, they try to retain power. So most of what they do is not radical, its short term and populist. ie no governement is going to admit there is a mahor problem and cut how much fuel we can use by 50%, only use electric 4 days per week, only allowed 1 car per family, 1 plane journey every 2 years etc
These are not vote winners, even if they are the _right_ thing that needs to be done.

A political party needs to win votes to obtain power and retain power, its all about the power and very little substance.

PS. no I don't have any better ideas :than democracy

Re: Hot enough for you in the UK?

Hello — Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:57 pm

Author: Hello

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:57 pm

What a time to be off work. It too lazy to do anything though other than go to the beach and for a drink

Re: Hot enough for you in the UK?

alloydog — Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:37 am

Author: alloydog

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:37 am

We're having temps in the mid to high 20's here in Finland as well.
Though partly coz most we've got nigh 24hr daylight... But it's still hot!
Role on Febraury and -30�C!

Re: Hot enough for you in the UK?

jjmac — Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:21 am

Author: jjmac

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 10:21 am

Nothing that isn't known, i'm sure. But unfortunately, by the time the evidence is at a clinically acceptable level, by that i mean ... the resolutions are obvious enough that they can't be ignored ... it's to late. And 50 years isn't a long time.

A bit like a hot-air balloon descending towards the ocean in a way. The course adjustment needs to be anticipated before hand for it to adequately move through the system in time.

Aus is a really big offender/contributer to fossil emissions as well, unfortunately. We've had a really brain dead gov policy on all levels of R & D for decades now. The mind really boggles sometimes in that respect.

jm

Re: Hot enough for you in the UK?

TheDoctor — Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:55 am

Author: TheDoctor

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:55 am

jjmac wrote:

Over this way we get shocking temperature/humidity combinations in summer at times. Heaps of people end up croaking as a result.

Tell me about high humidity. It rained overnight in London, and now the humidity has shot up. I was enjoying the heat, but now it's starting to get uncomfortable.

jjmac wrote:

On a more cheery(sic) note (grin) -=- If you guys lose your ocean current. The one that comes up from the Atlantic, up through the west and swings around to the east, south of Iceland, then swings south and heads through the channel. It will be couitens for you guys

You're right. And if anyone wants to know what it may be like without the Gulf Stream, Waskaganish is at more or less the same lattitude as London.

Re: Hot enough for you in the UK?

donoreo — Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:27 am

Author: donoreo

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 2:27 am

Being Canadian, I know a bit about mosquitos. It is true, they follow the CO2 that you breath out. They have mosquito traps over here that produce by burning propane at low rates and then...uh, not sure how they work. If you are really curious, go to http://www.canadiantire.ca and search for mosquito and you will find one I am sure. Where our cottage (or cabin or whatever you want to call it) is in an area of central Ontario called Muskoka and we get some mosquitos!

Re: Hot enough for you in the UK?

jjmac — Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:15 am

Author: jjmac

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:15 am

Ahrrrr mossies. Iv'e done some reseach into mossies. They can be out smarted !

They can't really see you, but notice how they like to fly in formation. All seemingly peeling off towards a target in the same formation type way. They pick up on your CO2 trail from your breath. If you have a very low powered fan, that is, no noise so you can actually sleep as well ... and you direct its' stream so that your breath trace is disapated. Then the buggers can't figure out where you actually are. As the body breaths as well, it works better if the dispersal stream takes the whole cadarva (sic) into account as well.

jm

Re: Hot enough for you in the UK?

jjmac — Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:01 am

Author: jjmac

Posted: Thu Jul 20, 2006 12:01 am

It's cold as over this way, antarctic winds from the south, ouch ...

Some thoughts:

If you get a bowl of water and place it in front of a fan, it will absorb extra heat from the air as it evaporates.

Also, drinking water can dilute your ion balance, as your losing things like potassium ions when you perspire. That dilution can weaken your system. Effecting the muscles and heart. It can lead to keeling over along with things like heart attacks. Something to watch for if your doing hard work in the sun, or other wise, as the instinct is to just drink.

A trick we used to use in building was to get a small slice of lemon peal and place it in the water bottle. Not so it is tasted. You only need a small slice. It would change the PH of the water in a way that helped you not to lose so much ion.

Result -- It prevented that tired sluggish feeling that comes with drinking to much water on a hot day, or when your working in the sun, i think they call it "water toxicity".

Another trick is to have a long sleave on your lower arm, moistened

Over this way we get shocking temperature/humidity combinations in summer at times. Heaps of people end up croaking as a result.

"Green house effects" -=- your not wrong. The next 50 years are going to be real interesting as i can remember a radio article that estimated that we will see definite signs within that period, ones that unforunately not easily reversable due to the system momentum/dynamics involved.

On a more cheery(sic) note (grin) -=- If you guys lose your ocean current. The one that comes up from the Atlantic, up through the west and swings around to the east, south of Iceland, then swings south and heads through the channel. It will be couitens for you guys

jm

Re: Hot enough for you in the UK?

nelz — Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:54 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:54 pm

nordle wrote:

Time to go commit genocide.

Mosquitoes or cyclists?

Re: Hot enough for you in the UK?

nordle — Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:32 pm

Author: nordle

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:32 pm

Not coping with heat at all, spent all day doing something which should take 1.5 hours. Stuck in office on 3rd floor, with 5ft high windows ALL the way round the building and NO air-con = 37c in office today. Luckily it cooled down to a chilly 33c by 17:30.

Must wear long sleeved shirt and trousers, NO shorts!

Drunk 6ltrs of water through day, went to loo once. (I know you didn't really want to know that, but you can now at least measure the perspiration )

Drove home, 70min journey, in car with no air-con, possibly ran over a few cyclists but wasn't really with it to be able to tell for sure

Im English! I DONT do heat!!!

Not to mention the 6-10 mosquitoes I'm now going to have to kill before I can sleep without the constant high pitch bbbzzzzzzzzzz, then the stab.... A bit like wasps, they are frickin pointless creations.

Time to go commit genocide.

Re: Hot enough for you in the UK?

TheDoctor — Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:57 pm

Author: TheDoctor

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:57 pm

donoreo wrote:

Cut emissions, deal with waste later seems to be our motto!

That's the ticket. Dump the problem on the future generations. Bit like the Sykes-Picot agreement, really.

Re: Hot enough for you in the UK?

donoreo — Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:27 pm

Author: donoreo

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:27 pm

Actually, 51% of Ontario's electricity is nuclear, they are closing all the coal plants in a few years. Cut emissions, deal with waste later seems to be our motto!

Re: Hot enough for you in the UK?

towy71 — Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:24 pm

Author: towy71

Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:24 pm

thats why the emissions of green house gases are so high