On the subject of 'fact checking', do see Peter Wilby in The Guardian, Monday March 17 2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/mar/17/pressandpublishing2 ('Errors in omissions') for an old-fashioned, well-argued reflection on what is happening to professional standards of both literacy and accuracy in all journalism as proprietors and editors wilt under the multiple challenges posed by rolling online deadlines and digital competition. Or the business model perpetrated by Gawker Media, for example, where 'journalists' are 'paid per click'.
And yes, dear reader, I am a sub-editor.
I really, really wanted to suggest to this innocent abroad to trust authority a whole lot less and common sense a whole lot more, but then I worked out it was the bloody Illuminati again and started laughing all the way to the APEC summit. . .
Try these:
No military / industrial interest in solar technology, so no defence budget to drain to subsidise development of 'peaceful' uses;
Massive free investment in military nuclear science and technology hugely reducing research and development costs for nuke;
No incentive for calculating true cost to planet because waste storage and plant decommissioning are so much further away than the political cycle allows people to contemplate that there is no downside for our representatives as they swallow the bollocks and funds fed them by nuke merchants;
No need for vast centralised complex construction of operational plants because solar is best deployed as a genuine distributed technology with very little in the way of revenue streams to operators other than installation;
Inappropriateness of output to nationally networked distribution systems;
Failure by all nations to invest long term in reducing our load on the environment;
Failure by all populations to accept that higher generation costs now (costs that comprise virtually all the life-time impacts of the process rather than just the cost of plant, fuel and distribution) means much less cost for future generations.
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On the subject of 'fact checking', do see Peter Wilby in The Guardian, Monday March 17 2008 http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/mar/17/pressandpublishing2 ('Errors in omissions') for an old-fashioned, well-argued reflection on what is happening to professional standards of both literacy and accuracy in all journalism as proprietors and editors wilt under the multiple challenges posed by rolling online deadlines and digital competition. Or the business model perpetrated by Gawker Media, for example, where 'journalists' are 'paid per click'. And yes, dear reader, I am a sub-editor.
I really, really wanted to suggest to this innocent abroad to trust authority a whole lot less and common sense a whole lot more, but then I worked out it was the bloody Illuminati again and started laughing all the way to the APEC summit. . .
"Keister" please . . .
Massive free investment in military nuclear science and technology hugely reducing research and development costs for nuke;
No incentive for calculating true cost to planet because waste storage and plant decommissioning are so much further away than the political cycle allows people to contemplate that there is no downside for our representatives as they swallow the bollocks and funds fed them by nuke merchants;
No need for vast centralised complex construction of operational plants because solar is best deployed as a genuine distributed technology with very little in the way of revenue streams to operators other than installation;
Inappropriateness of output to nationally networked distribution systems;
Failure by all nations to invest long term in reducing our load on the environment;
Failure by all populations to accept that higher generation costs now (costs that comprise virtually all the life-time impacts of the process rather than just the cost of plant, fuel and distribution) means much less cost for future generations.