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Robs Place is a blog about how to live ethically for people who don’t really consider themselves to “activists”? You really don’t have to live in a tree or go to demonstrations to be an activist - the small choices we make every single day can and do

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Ford using New Foam Containing Soybeans in 2008 Mustang Seats
2007-07-20 17:44:00
Ford Motor Co. will put a new foam that is 40% soybean-based / 60% petroleum-based in the seats of its new 2008 Must ang . The automaker may expand usage of the new foam to more '08 model year cars as well. » original news Share This
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Open Source Food, Drink, and Globalisation
2007-07-20 15:02:00
Normally applied to software, you can extend the Open Source ethos to food and drink. So, how do no-brand, no-logo cola, chicken curry, and beer affect globalization? What Is Open Source and Why Is It Important? We live in an era where image is nearly everything; the proliferation of brand-name culture has created consumer wants as opposed to needs. However, Open Source is different. As Richard Stallman says: Every decision a person makes stems from the person’s values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun, and freedom, are just some of the goals that a good person might have. When the goal is to help others as well as oneself, we call that idealism. My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better. But while Open Source built a software rev...
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10 Easy Steps to Save Thousands of $$$
2007-07-17 13:14:00
Everyone has a - it’s your own personal measure of how much carbon dioxide you create and how much you contribute to climate change. But you don’t need to build a zero-carbon home to make an impact or even feed some cows of garlic to have a reduce this and save thousands of dollars too. Here’s 10 easy steps that make a real difference: Use the web to switch to a green energy supplier Effectiveness Rating: Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Currently UK suppliers are only required by law to buy green energy as 3% of their total spend but, of course, you can always buy more: Check which tariff suits you best at Green Electricity Marketplace Find out how you can make the change and still save money with uSwitch.com Use the Yahoo energy calculator to calculate your current electricity spend and find out the cost of switching to a green plan: Compare green electricity prices with Yahoo Change your lightbulbs to Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs (CFLs) Effectiv...
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10 Signs You?re a Fundamentalist Christian
2007-07-14 08:20:00
10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours. 9 - You feel insulted and “dehumanized” when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with ...
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10 Signs You’re a Fundamentalist Christian
2007-07-14 08:20:00
10 - You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours. 9 - You feel insulted and “dehumanized” when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt. 8 - You laugh at polytheists, but you have no problem believing in a Triune God. 7 - Your face turns purple when you hear of the “atrocities” attributed to Allah, but you don’t even flinch when hearing about how God/Jehovah slaughtered all the babies of Egypt in “Exodus” and ordered the elimination of entire ethnic groups in “Joshua” including women, children, and trees! 6 - You laugh at Hindu beliefs that deify humans, and Greek claims about gods sleeping with women, but you have no problem believing that the Holy Spirit impregnated Mary, who then gave birth to a man-god who got killed, came back to li...
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A $67.3m pair of trousers
2007-07-13 09:53:00
Roy Pearson has made a laughing stock of America’s legal system. He is the Washington judge who sued his dry cleaners for $54m (down from an original $67.3m) over a missing pair of trousers. Representing himself in court, Pearson went so far as to proclaim that “never before in recorded history have a group of defendants engaged in such misleading and unfair business practices”. As he recounted the moment the dry cleaner handed him what he says were the wrong trousers, he broke down in tears and had to ask for a recess. The lawsuit sounds like a send-up, but it was no joke to the Korean owners of the dry cleaning shop who, despite winning the case this week, have been put through two years of hell. Three times they offered Pearson a settlement, most recently for $12,000; each time he refused. Alas, this case is just an exaggerated example of the I’ll see you in court mindset that’s endemic in the US, making it ever more difficult to rely on custom and c...
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What?s the #1 terror tactic?
2007-07-12 13:13:00
Swivel has thrown-up an interesting graph: The most recent acts of terrorism in headlining news have included suicide bombers in Pakistan, car bombs in London and a flaming SUV that crashed through the doors of the international airport in Glasgow, Scotland. This graph shows that bombing has ...
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What’s the #1 terror tactic?
2007-07-12 13:13:00
Swivel has thrown-up an interesting graph: The most recent acts of terrorism in headlining news have included suicide bombers in Pakistan, car bombs in London and a flaming SUV that crashed through the doors of the international airport in Glasgow, Scotland. This graph shows that bombing has been the most common tactic used in terrorist incidents from 1968 through 2007; bombings are also responsible for over 50% of fatalities in terrorist incidents. Armed attacks account for about 25% of fatalities. The most common target of terrorist groups are private citizens and property, government, and police. Since 1968, over 13,000 people have been killed in attacks targeted towards private citizens and property. Despite the recent attention placed on terrorism in Western Europe, most terrorist incidents occur in the Middle East region. In individual countries, the highest number of terrorist incidents occur in Iraq. Also high on the list are West Bank/Gaza, Colombia, and Israel. S...
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What does the Royal Mail do?
2007-07-11 08:53:00
What business model does the Royal Mail actually fit into? Is it one of the last great public services, or a commercial company competing with other private firms and losing market share rapidly? Unfortunately, it is actually both of these things and it canâ€™t square the two parts together, hence the strike action. The battle isnâ€™t about jobs and pay itâ€™s about a company that is neither one thing or another. Senior management is faced with the impossible task of meeting public obligations while watching the most profitable parts of their business fall to private competitors. Change is essential, and the focus now should be on finding ways to protect the Royal Mail ’s public service role, while easing the transition to full competition. The union has a point about the aggressive way change is being managed and about the large bonuses paid to bosses. But strike action can only make the cuts, when they come, even worse. Subscribe in a reader strike action, the royal mail, r...

Jesus! vs Darwin!
2007-07-10 23:27:00
Jesus Christ Positives: Impressive stamina. Historically know for taking a beating, staying on his feet. Has history of miraculous resurrection. Negatives: Invented Pacifism. Dangerous habit of turning the other cheek. Charles Darwin Positives: Invented Natural Selection. Understands what’s at stake with “Survival of the Fittest”. Negatives: Theology student, nearly became an Anglican parson. Mixed feelings punching his Lord’s Only Son and Savior in the face. Inspired by Fun at the Creation Museum!!!! Subscribe in a reader religion, jesus, darwin, creationism, natural selection, atheism Share This
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Britian: sleepwalking into class war
2007-07-10 09:53:00
Can you hear the distant rumble of discontent? I can from the British middle classes. Dutifully paying their taxes and struggling to pay the mortgage, they find it hard to restrain their fury at the behaviour of the super-rich - that “micro-class” of private equity buccaneers, hedge fund managers and non-domiciles who spend vast sums on whatever they fancy yet hardly pay any tax at all. The number of people earning in excess of Â£500,000 a year has swelled by nearly 60% in four years. According to the Financial Times, the buying power of London’s richest citizens compared with the average earner is greater than at any time since the Thirties. Even more enraging to the professional classes are the tax breaks enjoyed by private equity bosses. Thanks to a loophole in the law allowing them to treat profits (or “carried interest”) as capital rather than income, these plutocrats can take advantage of the relief on capital gains tax intended for small sca...
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Multiculturalism is dead
2007-07-09 09:52:00
Since Mahmod Mahmod arrived from Kurdish Iraq as an asylum seeker ten years ago, his integration into British society seems to have been slight. The Old Bailey recently found him guilty of ordering the murder of his 20-year-old daughter Banaz. His family’s honour was more important to him than her life; and by leaving a violent arranged marriage and falling in love with a member of another Kurdish tribe, she had effectively signed her own death warrant. On her father’s wishes, Banaz was strangled with a bootlace, stuffed into a suitcase, and then buried 10ft deep in a garden. It seems unthinkable that such things can happen in Britain yet minority groups are very effective at isolating themselves from mainstream society. The problem lies with the promotion of multiculturalism which assumes that people raised in a rural society based around the inviolability of the clan, male authority and control of women will suddenly flip over to our way of doing things the moment they...
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The Steorn perpetual motion machine
2007-07-09 09:48:00
Steorn Ltd. is a small privately held technology development company based in Dublin, Ireland. The company drew the attention of the mainstream media in August 2006 by placing a full-page advertisement in The Economist, claiming to have developed a technology that produces “free, clean, and constant energy” and challenging the scientific community to review its claim. This is, in essence, a claim that the company has developed free energy technology, or a perpetual motion machine. Such technology would violate the fundamental laws of thermodynamics and the first law of thermodynamics in particular. Orbo produces free, clean and constant energy - that is our claim. By free we mean that the energy produced is done so without recourse to external source. By clean we mean that during operation the technology produces no emissions. By constant we mean that with the exception of mechanical failure the technology will continue to operate indefinitely. Check out this exclusive v...
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How Nintendo train their employees
2007-07-08 17:37:00
You need to score more than 200 points to get a job at Nintendo ! Subscribe in a reader politics, socialism, philosophy, environment, climate-change, life, news, opinion, comment Share This
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Britains ?nothing? economy
2007-07-08 09:08:00
Britain’s economy is built on blah, blah, blah. The Germans export motor vehicles trailers and semi-trailers, electrical machinery, chemicals and chemicals products The French specialise in machinery and transport equipment, agricultural products, including wine The Italians send electric goods (especially home appliances), food, fashion and clothing. And the Brits? While we ...
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Unhappiness is an iPhone
2007-07-07 09:04:00
The rise of modern economies, Marx argued, relied on convincing consumers that they needed gadget after gadget, luxury after luxury. Capitalism led people to regard objects newly available for purchase as magical and strange, investing them with a value they did not inherently have. This argument, from ...
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Karl Marx gets even
2007-07-06 10:18:00
I’m going to dub the changing balance of power in the corporate world as “Karl Marx gets even”. The means of production, in the form of computers, are now in the hands of the workers, leading some to conclude that talented people need organisations less than organisations ...

Lewis ?Scooter? Libby fuels anti-americanism
2007-07-05 16:18:00
All hail King Dubya - the biggest failure and least great president of them all! In a superlative demonstration to our Iraqi friends how to perform in a true democracy Bush has intervened to prevent Lewis Libby , a convicted former vice-presidential aide, from serving a prison term. Bush ...
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You want another war ? are you crazy?
2007-07-04 10:15:00
The Government still hasn’t learned the lessons of Iraq as it’s stuck in a backward-looking debate with the media about whether the invasion was legally justified, when what it should be talking about is why the war went so wrong and the danger that the US is ...
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Harry Potter - a capitalist pagan!
2007-07-03 21:11:00
Can more than 35 million book buyers, and their offspring, be wrong? Yes, they have been, and will continue to be for as long as they persevere with Potter . First things first Harry Potter isn’t my thing, it was Bagpuss that did it for me as a kid. ...
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This is why I?ll miss old two Jags
2007-07-03 09:42:00
Spare a thought for John Prescott! His record as a minister running a department was shite, but he made an excellent deputy leader. Two Jags was not afraid of aspiration: he even boasted of rising above his working-class roots. Without his bluff common sense and mediation, Blair ...
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