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Black and Asian people to Join the BNP

The Equality and Humans Rights Commision who have lots of government money and lawyers looks like they have forced the BNP to allow in more people of different ethnic backgrounds. The original case is based on  “The BNP’s policy of admitting only “indigenous Caucasians” is a breach of the Race Relations Act”. Looks like the BNP may not contest it due to the legal costs involved to fight a case they will probably loose.

So assuming this happens, will lots of blacks/asians/chinese etc etc etc all be signing up. Obviously if they did then they could use there voting power to make the party collapse.

Here is the new symbol of the BNP:)

Just a thought

Doug

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Behavioural Targetting is just scary

I have been paranoid about this for ages….hey I know how much analysis of data we do. We have nothing in comparison to Google, Facebook, MySpace and Tesco’s with those loyalty cards and codes

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7936625.stm

Hopefully they will sort out some laws.

I have no loyalty cards am not a member of any socal site and do not join linkedin etc. But people always try to link me so these big sites have got me any way.

Once day I will run off into the sunset with a bag of used notes, no mobile, no internet……just a bye bye

Doug is paranoid

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An awesome day

The American public at the end of today will have a moved on leaps and bounds, they have elected:

a black bloke

a bloke with a muslim name

a bloke who spent his first years living in Indonesia

a bloke from no money

a bloke with a funny face

Watch it live here

Wow a truely awesome day

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Problems with Gaza

Israel have been drinking lots with Gazza and have had a disagreement with him over the recent face he made at them and the program he has been involed with.

I think they got it wrong and did not mean to bomb Gaza. Or maybe they think by killing 400 people they will make friends of their families.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind….Gandhi

Doug

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Dr Keeling who was he????

The guy who started the tracking of the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere…….

The next problem was to figure out why the carbon dioxide varied the way it did during the year (i.e. the little squiggles). Was it processes on land, having to do with plant growth? Or did it come from the ocean? There are ways to distinguish between the two possibilities, and the answer is that the little squiggles in the Keeling curve are actually due to land plants. Since most of the land is in the northern hemisphere, the fluctuations are greatest there. (If the ocean were to blame, we should see a larger effect in the southern hemisphere.) Every spring, when trees leaf out and grasslands and farmlands green, the carbon dioxide in the air decreases, reflecting the uptake from photosynthesis. Conversely, in fall, when leaves and wilted plants are returned to the soil and decay, the carbon dioxide rises again. Thus, one can envision the Earth “breathing” on an annual cycle, and we can measure how deeply.

Another little fact:

The average life-time of a molecule of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, before it is captured by vegetation and afterwards released, is about twelve years. This fact, that the exchange of carbon between atmosphere and vegetation is rapid, is of fundamental importance to the long-range future of global warming.

Therefore, if we can control what the trees do with the carbon, the fate of the carbon in the atmosphere is in our hands. How a bout genetically modified trees that eat Carbon Dioxide aggresively……..

Doug still concerned

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HE went and won……..

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Vote for the black bloke with the funny name

He just makes it easier for the rest of the world to see the US as a free and nice country with opportunities for all.

  • A black bloke in power who does not kill or rob
  • A bloke with a Muslim sounding name who runs a country who is at war with Muslim countries, but not over religion
  • A bloke who is less than 50 and gained power without a gun
  • An originally poor bloke who came from more or less nothing to be the most powerful man in the world.

That is a story to preach to the world of what can be achieved by a country.

Doug hopes he wins

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Shame the Oil Price has dropped

When the prices go up everyone worries about how they will fill up their big white car with petrol.

People whinge and whine

Governments try to work out how they will get the prices down or find alternatives.

Then some wonderful people realise what is going on and make sure the price of oil drops again

Everybody stops being concerned….

Doug wonders what we do when we have no choice

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Is Privacy a Thing of the Past?

Is Privacy a Thing of the Past?

I’ll track you down…………………..

Personal privacy is definitely a thing of the past, no question about it and to some extent we are all masters of our own decline. But before we look at current attitudes towards privacy, we need to look back and complete a little history lesson.

In the ‘olden days’ people lived quite isolated lives, they knew people in their locality, they did not have phones, TV or internet connections. Even travel was difficult because people had to walk to where they wanted to go or save enough to catch a train.

Then with the arrival of the 20th Century we all embrace technology and the conveniences it offered. Now we have entertainment at home, we can telephone anyone we want to and by the end of the Century, email throughout the world instantly!

Then more and more information became available on the internet. Now instead of having to think ‘I wonder what happened to Johnny Jones?’ and wondering how his life had shaped up, we can simply type Johnny Jones into Yahoo or Google and, while it may take some sifting through, we can actually find out what happened to the said Mr Jones. And if he and also has a site in Facebook or MySpace, we may be able to find out a lot about him (and he about you).

But there is a sense that many of the things that people write in Facebook or MySpace, Bebo etc will actually come back to haunt them. As recently as 2007, a survey of employers revealed that many look in social networking sites and assess the suitability of a candidate against their entries on the sites. So if you have entered your hobbies as decapitating worms or getting hideously drunk every night: beware, this may well come back to haunt you.

You may be able to change your Facebook entries, but what about entries that you have made with regard to other people’s entries, since you have little control over them, can they come back to haunt you?

People seem to have embraced the technological advances of the internet and ‘ease of communication’ without thinking about the implications. Before if we wanted to track someone down, a private detective had to be hired, or at least some really hard work, on our part, to find them. Now it can be done in three clicks of a mouse (sometimes more sometimes less).

Add in to this scenario the fact that the UK now has more surveillance cameras than any other country, along with powers that have been vested in local authorities as part of the ‘war on terror’ and you can see that we no longer have any privacy and many people who felt that they wanted to share their intimate details with the world when they were 20, may live to regret it when they are 40, trying for senior management posts and have children to consider. Yes, privacy may no longer be around, but we really have to accept much of the responsibility for this situation ourselves.

Doug will run off and hide:)

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Watch which sites you hack

Obviously that does not effect any body who reads this….but if you are dirty and stuff your links onto peoples sites, that may be viewed as hacking websites, just make sure they aren’t owned by the US government or you will be on your way to America…oh sorry Cuba….dam it I dont know which country that camp is in:

the full story is here

Doug

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