The Evil European

I said I was going to put the blog to sleep for a while, then posted!

However, I have now reached a point in my writing up, and I now longer have time for very much at all.

See you in a month or two.


*Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*

The .eu domain name was launched back in 2005 and in the UK it seems to be having an interesting impact on business

'A large majority of British businesses with a .eu domain name believe it to be an effective business tool in a recent survey, while a separate survey found that half of UK businesses do not even know what the .eu domain stands for.'

When the survey quizzed businesses overall, and not just those with .eu addresses, it found more predictable results, though. In the UK 51 per cent of SMEs were confused over what .eu signified, and fewer than half of them could identify it as signalling that a website was from the European Union, and that that includes the UK.

"Using a .eu domain name can deliver SMEs improved accessibility to Europe and enhance their image, yet many companies remain confused over what .eu represents," says Andreas Gauger, chief executive of 1&1 Internet. "An astonishing number do not know that the domain .eu includes British businesses and are unaware of how much they could gain from flying the European flag.""
The Register, 05/02/07

It seems that half of business in the UK is on the ball, whilst the other half have their heads shoved up their collective arses most likely thinking its 1952…’what what’! It would explain a number of misconceptions about both the EU and this 'internet' thingy. The UK is ranked very highly in terms of the use of ICT, third in the world after Denmark and Finland if I can remember rightly (someone might want to correct me on this). However, it seems as if those that are online are ONLINE whilst other businesses are stuck very much in the Stone Age.

Sums up the UK in general. When we do things right, we do them world-class right...and when we do them wrong, we well and truly fuck up. When it comes to understanding the EU, how it works, what we can get out of it, and what it represents, you have those who comprehend it and take advantage (or even oppose it with well thought out arguments...I have no problem with that!). But then there are the head up arse brigade who spew half-truths and lies and still take advantage of EU membership (house in France, free movement of goods, services, capital and people etc), but not realising that these benefits are of EU membership.

Do you get the impression that I take every single story I find and spin it into same old arguments???

Well, TOUGH SHIT, I am to busy to give anything much thought at the moment....look at the post about how I am meant to be not posting anymore.

BAHHHHHHH, HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

:)

Related to an earlier post about the war on science and ExxonMo-bile.

Scientists offered cash to dispute climate study
"Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world's largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today.

Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)"
The Guardian, 2/02/07

Looks like the flat-earthers are getting desperate. They will get more shrill as they get more and more marginalised, a process that is being sped up by revelations such as these.

....you don't want to know, you REALLY don't want to know.

IPCC report is out today, but info has been leaking out for a while.

I guess the good news is were are royally fucked, and you don't want to know the bad news.....you REALLY don't want to know the bad news when there are claims that the report has been sugar coated, painting a more positive picture than the data suggests.

Timetable is also a bit limited.....with a decade to start to make radical changes.

Maybe I am being a LITTLE pessimistic...if we do manage to destroy civilization, it won't be climate change per se but the dumb fucked up way us stupid hairless apes will respond to it ie. by turning on each other.

As an individual it would be used so easy to say 'fuck it', were doomed, nothing I can do about it....just stop worrying, take as much as I can and to hell with the EVERYTHING. Hey, Im gay, I ain't having kids! No legacy there!

*WARNING, SELF-INDULGENCE AHEAD*

Maybe its because I am British with a soft spot for hopeless causes and the underdog, maybe its because I have nephews (and hopefully, in the future, nieces), maybe because regardless of all the shit in this world there is still so much of beauty and of worth, or maybe its because I feel deep down that we are capable of so much more in the years, decades, centuries, millennia ahead, that if I could contribute one thing in my life, face one challenge and try and make a difference, any difference, it would be to help get through these challenges ahead.....to fight the good fight and all that jazz.

I guess its better to try and fail than to never even try.