OH well. Britain, then US, now Aussie?

[Ratty]

Certifiable?

Australia Closes Coal-Fired Power Plants: Hospitals Forced to Cut Power Use & Power Prices Rocket

... and we pay industry to shut down during periods of high demand.

[missouriboy]

Jan 23, 2018 5:48:34 GMT Ratty said:

Certifiable?

Australia Closes Coal-Fired Power Plants: Hospitals Forced to Cut Power Use & Power Prices Rocket

... and we pay industry to shut down during periods of high demand.

It's all explained right here.  www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vze0utkYypI

[nautonnier]

Jan 23, 2018 5:48:34 GMT Ratty said:

Certifiable?

Australia Closes Coal-Fired Power Plants: Hospitals Forced to Cut Power Use & Power Prices Rocket

... and we pay industry to shut down during periods of high demand.

This will inexorably result in industry 'voting with its feet' and decamping to cheaper reliable power. It has happened already in UK.

[Ratty]

Jan 23, 2018 12:02:12 GMT nautonnier said:

Jan 23, 2018 5:48:34 GMT Ratty said:

Certifiable?

Australia Closes Coal-Fired Power Plants: Hospitals Forced to Cut Power Use & Power Prices Rocket

... and we pay industry to shut down during periods of high demand.

This will inexorably result in industry 'voting with its feet' and decamping to cheaper reliable power. It has happened already in UK.

Yes, agree. But the government will have done 'the right thing' wrt saving the planet .... and I understand the sacrifices we are making in their name. Really. I do.

[sigurdur]

www.theglobeandmail.com/amp/news/politics/trudeau-sends-strong-signal-canada-wont-follow-us-on-tax-cuts-at-davos/article37707544/?utm_medium=Referrer%3A%2BSocial%2BNetwork%2B%2F%2BMedia&utm_campaign=Shared%2BWeb%2BArticle%2BLinks&__twitter_impression=true

[missouriboy]

Jan 23, 2018 12:54:27 GMT Ratty said:

Jan 23, 2018 12:02:12 GMT nautonnier said:

This will inexorably result in industry 'voting with its feet' and decamping to cheaper reliable power. It has happened already in UK.

Yes, agree. But the government will have done 'the right thing' wrt saving the planet .... and I understand the sacrifices we are making in their name. Really. I do.

The Planet is laughing with at you.     Good place for the George Carlin video.

[Ratty]

THE RESEARCHER SITS ON A SMALL CHAIR



Probably paywalled for some so here is the gist .....

Most people accept that small children require small chairs. Sure, this may disturb us from time to time. Some may even reject the concept and fight against it. But eventually everyone simply concedes: small children need small chairs. It’s just easier that way.

Melbourne academic Dr Jane Bone, however, isn’t one to dodge a controversial issue or yield to the complacent majority view. Rather than surrender to small chair pressure, the Monash University senior lecturer now challenges entrenched diminutive furniture beliefs in a landmark research article:

This philosophically driven work is intended to trouble the position of the small chair in early childhood settings. It is theoretically driven by an aspect of sociological and cultural theory called hauntology, and by the theories of new feminist materialism.

The work of Sara Ahmed influences the direction taken here.

An assemblage of personal narratives, memories, works of fiction, history, conversations and media reports, along with the documentation of a performative act, is produced.

The methodological approach is intra-active and diffractive. The article argues that the small chair is a contentious and ambiguous artefact, which is taken for granted in early childhood settings, but also problematic when considered from different perspectives – an apparatus that both supports and betrays the body/ies that are in contact with it.

Chairs, as objects that furnish human lives, can also haunt those lives and give contradictory messages of power, comfort and suffering. Now and to come, the chair is a trace, a symbol, an instrument of torture and object of desire.

At this point, because it is difficult to proceed when one’s entire understanding of the physical universe is shattered, I’ll hand over to David Thompson. Please keep reading right up until Dr Bone’s concluding “documentation of a performative act”.

It involves her, an Ikea store and … a small chair.

One of the comments:

Many years ago when i received my business degree about 2 people received doctorates at the ceremony. One related to physics & the other chemistry. At my wife's ceremony nobody received a doctorate. Fast forward to 2017 when my daughter received her degree and their where 10 doctorates and they were for research that would make Dr Bone's article seem like a work of genius.

Universities have devalued doctorates to the point of irrelevancy.

[missouriboy]

Jan 25, 2018 4:38:41 GMT Ratty said:

THE RESEARCHER SITS ON A SMALL CHAIR

One of the comments:

Many years ago when i received my business degree about 2 people received doctorates at the ceremony. One related to physics & the other chemistry. At my wife's ceremony nobody received a doctorate. Fast forward to 2017 when my daughter received her degree and their where 10 doctorates and they were for research that would make Dr Bone's article seem like a work of genius.

Universities have devalued doctorates to the point of irrelevancy.

Ahhh! The fabled DI.  

[Ratty]

Jan 25, 2018 8:00:01 GMT missouriboy said:

Jan 25, 2018 4:38:41 GMT Ratty said:

THE RESEARCHER SITS ON A SMALL CHAIR


One of the comments:

Ahhh! The fabled DI.  

Dr Jane Bone, DI, PhD ..... has a ring to it.

[missouriboy]

Jan 25, 2018 12:23:39 GMT Ratty said:

Jan 25, 2018 8:00:01 GMT missouriboy said:

Ahhh! The fabled DI.  

Dr Jane Bone, DI, PhD ..... has a ring to it.

Rearrange to IrD ... and you get a degree that won't penetrate water.

[Ratty]

Back on topic (well, the now Aussie part): It's Australia Day here today, 26th January, celebrating the arrival of Captain Arthur Phillip, some soldiers and some convicts to start what we have here today.

Some local aborigines refer to it as Invasion Day.

[sigurdur]

Congratulations!!!

[missouriboy]

Jan 25, 2018 23:22:24 GMT Ratty said:

Back on topic (well, the now Aussie part): It's Australia Day here today, 26th January, celebrating the arrival of Captain Arthur Phillip, some soldiers and some convicts to start what we have here today.

Some local aborigines refer to it as Invasion Day.

[Ratty]

Jan 26, 2018 3:00:54 GMT sigurdur said:

Congratulations!!!

There will be rioting, confrontation, flag burning and I expect a few statues to be defaced or torn down .....

Invasion Day protests: human rights observers to monitor Melbourne rally

Amnesty delegation to check the way police and protesters interact complies with standards

That's something new: Protesters with standards?

[sigurdur]

That one made me laugh.