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Jock Coats, local Lib Dem activist, wants private rubbish collection?

July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Time to open up waste collection to proper competition I’d say.
These people are your servants not your masters.

via jockcoats.me
Jock Coats writes in Refuseniks (http://jockcoats.me/refuseniks), objecting to the council trying to maintain city-wide standards of service for rubbish collection. He says, with some contempt, that “These people are your servants not your masters” and, like a [...]

Jul

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“You+” Can we get smarter? via http://bit.ly/16Xc7T For cyborg babies’ sake I hope not

July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment

the next few decades will pose enormous hurdles that go beyond the climate crisis. The end of the fossil-fuel era, the fragility of the global food web, growing population density, and the spread of pandemics, as well as the emergence of radically transformative bio- and nano­technologies—each of these threatens us with broad disruption or even [...]