Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Ebert80]

No one at Port has mates at Glenelg.

Who knows, but I have a reasonably good source that he was mates with a few Bay players, anyway fortunately he stayed at Port and didn't follow Woite's lead.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Who knows, but I have a reasonably good source that he was mates with a few Bay players, anyway fortunately he stayed at Port and didn't follow Woite's lead.

Woite was a cop he never fit in at the Port

 

[Ford Fairlane]

As I recall, a threat of a move to Glenelg was standard during contract negotiations at Port. Worked the other way too.

Woitey basically made some money for him and Port when he left, his knees were stuffed when he was cleared.

 

[portfan36]

What is it with you Port Adelaide supporters and buses?

We just like to see how the other half live.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

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I watched this lecture on YouTube a few months ago by Professor Emeritus Al Bartlett of the University of Colorado-Boulder about the exponential function, and he uses it to show how the overpopulation of Earth is perhaps the most serious issue that we as humans are facing. The advances we are making in health science, such as the little chips that go in our blood stream to detect heart attacks two weeks in advance as Paul Jacobs suggested, and similar technologies, while an extraordinary feat of the human mind and its capabilities, perhaps will contribute to this overpopulation.

When I was your age EC or maybe a year or two younger I used to listen to a finance expert - Bruce Bond - who was on ABC radio throughout Oz as well as on commercial stations. I knew about exponential growth and how it worked but he used to say - it was his mantra - that compound interest is the 8th wonder of the world. It made practical commonsense when he explained it and used it. It's why/how banks get rich and have so since the Rothschilds and why the wealthy stayed wealthy. Compound interest is IMO one of the reasons why the Jews became a despised race because like the Rothschilds ( who were Jewish) Jews used to charge interest when other money lenders didn't, eg Muslim financing.

Anyway, allowing people to live longer is part of the overpopulation challenge. Dr Karl a few years ago said we are the last generation to die or the first to live forever. But lets face it, whats the point of extending you life from 80 to 120 when that extra 40 years is spent incapacitated and having to depend on others to feed you, clean you and wipe your arse.

I reckon the fact such a large chunk of Japan's population is over 65, 80 and 100 compared to the demographics of the rest of the world and in particular western OECD nations, is part of why their economy has been flat or in a relative steady state since 1990.

 

[Macca19]

I really ****ing hate summer

 

[Asgardian]

As I recall, a threat of a move to Glenelg was standard during contract negotiations at Port. Worked the other way too.

Woitey basically made some money for him and Port when he left, his knees were stuffed when he was cleared.

Geoff Blethyn also moved to the Bays, for all the good it did either of them.

During the contract wrangle with Bucky he made plenty of noises about going to the Bays.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

I really ******* hate summer

You hate the heat or having no footy?

 

[BIG MATTY T]

When I was your age EC or maybe a year or two younger I used to listen to a finance expert - Bruce Bond - who was on ABC radio throughout Oz as well as on commercial stations. I knew about exponential growth and how it worked but he used to say - it was his mantra - that compound interest is the 8th wonder of the world. It made practical commonsense when he explained it and used it. It's why/how banks get rich and have so since the Rothschilds and why the wealthy stayed wealthy. Compound interest is IMO one of the reasons why the Jews became a despised race because like the Rothschilds ( who were Jewish) Jews used to charge interest when other money lenders didn't, eg Muslim financing.

Anyway, allowing people to live longer is part of the overpopulation challenge. Dr Karl a few years ago said we are the last generation to die or the first to live forever. But lets face it, whats the point of extending you life from 80 to 120 when that extra 40 years is spent incapacitated and having to depend on others to feed you, clean you and wipe your arse.

I reckon the fact such a large chunk of Japan's population is over 65, 80 and 100 compared to the demographics of the rest of the world and in particular western OECD nations, is part of why their economy has been flat or in a relative steady state since 1990.

Your borderline illuminati theories here...interesting read reh

And plans to cull the worlds population ...the worlds population is the greatest threat to human extinction

 

[Macca19]

You hate the heat or having no footy?

Both, but mainly I hate the heat.

 

[Schulzenfest]

You'd hate summer more if you had a casual job delivering junk mail, trust me.

 

[TheFVK]

I just watched the whole thing. It's quite scary but also very amazing at how technology is moving and changing so rapidly, such to the extent that we may even have a "digital sixth sense" in the very near future.



I watched this lecture on YouTube a few months ago by Professor Emeritus Al Bartlett of the University of Colorado-Boulder about the exponential function, and he uses it to show how the overpopulation of Earth is perhaps the most serious issue that we as humans are facing. The advances we are making in health science, such as the little chips that go in our blood stream to detect heart attacks two weeks in advance as Paul Jacobs suggested, and similar technologies, while an extraordinary feat of the human mind and its capabilities, perhaps will contribute to this overpopulation.

Overpopulation will not conform to the exponential function- it may have increased manyfold over the past century or so due to some extraordinary circumstances (i.e. the Industrial Revolution and improved farming practises) but long-term it will be constrained by things like food supply, land and Westernisation.

Most Western countries' birth rates are actually very low and far below the population replacement rate of 2.1. Most of Europe is between 1.2 and 1.6, countries like Australia and the USA are at record lows, populations of countries like Japan, Russia and China are declining at rapid rates, and as peripheral countries become increasingly urbanised and developed a sharp decline in population growth rates is traditionally seen (i.e. South America and South-East Asia). By far the bulk of the growth is occurring in sub-Saharan Africa, and in particular regions where education of women is minimal, however as countries become increasingly Westernised, less dependance on family for farming purposes and improved education and careers for women mean a natural delay in starting a family, if at all. At this rate some models predict a plateau in World population of about 9 billion, followed by a steady decrease- all reliant on a number of assumptions and so to be taken with a pinch of salt, of course.

The exponential function is powerful, but so too is the knowledge that past trends do not necessarily govern future direction.

 

[Oliver King]

You'd hate summer more if you had a casual job delivering junk mail, trust me.

Stop filling my letterbox with carp!

 

[sog35]

Stop filling my letterbox with carp!

Yeah, I'm floundering in it all.

 

[pastmyprimus]

Just flicking through the junk mail at the moment. Virginia ham is on special at the local Coles. Might go and buy me 250 grams.

 

[PatientMental]

Yeah, I'm floundering in it all.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

I smell fish?

Portia.........

 

[Noobz0r]

You'd hate summer more if you had a casual job delivering junk mail, trust me.

Saving for that push bike you always wanted?

 

[Ford Fairlane]

Just flicking through the junk mail at the moment. Virginia ham is on special at the local Coles. Might go and buy me 250 grams.

I'm hanging out for a kilo of Soylent Green.

 

[Portia]

I smell fish?

Portia.........

 

[Eddie Dingle]

Can you please change your user name to Ariel?

It'll make our cybersex so much more stimulating.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

I just ate my bodyweight in Toobs.

If thats not an extreme sport the X Games can get ****ed.

 

[Portia]

I just ate my bodyweight in Toobs.

That'd be about a container load, wouldn't it?

By which I mean, Toobs are light, not any other inference that may or may not be deserved.

 

[Eddie Dingle]

That'd be about a container load, wouldn't it?

By which I mean, Toobs are light, not any other inference that may or may not be deserved.

Does a tonne of Toobs weigh more or less than a tonne of Twisties? (Chicken not Cheese)

 

[Portia]

Definitely less. Or more. Not the same though.