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» 19/03/2012 8:32:52 AM The ability for a person, or anyone they authorise, to access their own health records is .....
» 31/10/2011 10:39:21 PM The purpose of banking as Julia states is to "Fundamentally, the role of the finance.....
» 4/09/2011 11:19:54 AM Forrest his general observation is incorrect. Renewable energy does produce commercially c.....
» 8/08/2011 12:22:51 PM Shadow Minister salt heat storage is NOT four times the cost of nuclear and is NOT 10 time.....
» 8/08/2011 9:37:12 AM I do wish people would do some sums before they write such articles. There are plenty of p.....
» 13/05/2011 11:50:07 AM A 4kw solar panel can be installed for a total cost without rebates of $19,000 in NSW and .....
» 5/05/2011 9:19:08 AM So called free money markets are neither free nor are they markets. A market is a system .....
» 5/05/2011 8:55:03 AM Mark Diesendorf makes sense. The situation is even better than he explains as he has left .....
» 4/04/2011 6:38:24 PM Amicus, I am pointing out the obvious. If a loan is made where the income generated from .....
» 4/04/2011 10:39:37 AM This is an excellent analysis of the problem. Negative gearing means people expect to get .....
» 14/03/2011 9:25:12 AM Coles and Woolworth gives everyone who wants it a discount on each litre of petrol purchas.....
» 9/02/2011 7:37:57 AM Peter, This is getting nowhere. You have your opinions which seem to be pretty well fixed.....
» 8/02/2011 3:13:45 AM 1. You are correct. The reasoning does apply to any area of society and that is what makes.....
» 7/02/2011 8:42:58 AM 1. The definition of R&D that I will use that can be used to disprove the idea is that if .....
» 6/02/2011 4:36:04 AM Peter The method I am suggesting is called "the scientific method". In the scie.....
» 5/02/2011 3:29:27 PM Peter, You haven't understood what I am proposing. If you look through you will find that.....
» 31/01/2011 3:10:34 PM Peter, Find me a person who does not agree with doing more with less. This is different f.....
» 31/01/2011 1:45:18 PM We can fund innovation and R&D by using the scientific approach of experimentation. We dec.....
» 31/01/2011 1:09:13 PM Peter I am making the assumption that you agree that increasing productivity - which is d.....
» 31/01/2011 8:01:56 AM @Peter Hume Just what questions do you want answered? That government policy shouldn't en.....
» 26/01/2011 8:53:37 AM Sharan, Visit http://cscoxk.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/funds-for-queensland-flood-relief/ t.....
» 24/01/2011 9:50:04 AM Peter, You are right. Governments should not increase the money supply. Governments shoul.....
» 24/01/2011 7:33:54 AM Governments have been conned in the greatest shell game of all time into allowing banks to.....
» 10/01/2011 4:21:56 PM Arjay you are correct. The NSW government can fund new power plants with credit. The pric.....
» 29/12/2010 4:16:33 PM I wish people would do some elementary sums. An investment in renewables (wind, tide, sola.....
» 6/12/2010 10:30:53 AM Arjay, Could you expand on the tax credit. I would be most interested to hear how it work.....
» 23/09/2010 6:07:17 AM Wireless will be used where it is lower cost to deliver a high speed connection. Unfortuna.....
» 20/09/2010 5:31:52 PM Efficiency is doing more with less. The fact that we do more with the same amount does not.....
» 20/09/2010 5:11:44 PM It is difficult for people to imagine the future and to understand how the Internet change.....
» 6/09/2010 11:41:31 AM John You state "Cap and Trade is undoubtedly the most cost effective way of reducing.....
» 31/08/2010 2:14:42 AM The National Broadband Network is only one of the necessary drivers for decentralisation. .....
» 26/08/2010 10:51:46 AM James the moral point - unless I am mistaken - is that the author maintains that it is goi.....
» 24/08/2010 11:41:44 AM Peter, I am in the process of working on the details for such a system with a major Austr.....
» 23/08/2010 9:16:53 PM Curmudgeon depreciation is the book-keeping name for repayments. That is the main cost of .....
» 23/08/2010 4:59:29 PM Curmudgeon, Raycom, Peter Hume 90%+ of your costs of renewable energy are in finance charg.....
» 23/08/2010 11:32:11 AM The assumption made in this article, and by most people, is that it will cost a lot of mon.....
» 21/06/2010 2:11:34 PM Jeremy you are going to have to read the book because Mees shows cities with lower densiti.....
» 21/06/2010 11:16:24 AM I do wish planners would stop talking about increasing density as the way to encourage pub.....
» 29/05/2010 6:08:31 PM Going out in public means that you are identifiable. If you are identifiable then there is.....
» 17/05/2010 2:55:22 PM Kellie you make some very good points and keep up the good work. Sea Level may rise 30 cm.....
» 22/03/2010 3:59:43 PM Geoff, Whereabouts in the draft submission http://stableproductivemoney.wordpress.com/201.....
» 20/03/2010 2:12:20 AM Arjay, In my wanderings over the internet I came across "The Capitalist Manifesto&qu.....
» 19/03/2010 8:29:02 PM All, I have put up a draft of a submission I wish to make to the Senate Committee looking.....
» 19/03/2010 3:35:35 PM Geoff, I don't disagree with you in the abstract about money not being a store of value B.....
» 19/03/2010 9:59:40 AM Peter, Money is a measure of value. It can also be a store of value. When it is a store o.....
» 19/03/2010 1:08:32 AM Pericles and David, Interest is useful if it is used appropriately. In the changes sugges.....
» 18/03/2010 2:19:03 PM Peter, That is a good question. Yes I believe we should use interest free credit to finan.....
» 18/03/2010 1:37:34 PM Pericles, You did not understand my responses last time. Hopefully I can do a better job .....
» 18/03/2010 3:59:16 AM Yabby, Banks ONLY increase the money supply by collateralising existing assets. Banks ena.....
» 17/03/2010 8:28:40 AM Banks do increase the money supply. The mechanism that the text books teach and commentato.....
» 29/12/2009 5:49:59 PM fedupnortherner, The terms of the loan will indicate whether the landholder can use their.....
» 29/12/2009 11:32:22 AM There is a simple way out of this. The way is to give the land owners the rights to zero.....
» 18/11/2009 4:30:13 AM Shadow Minister I am not proposing less tests but more. I am however proposing that the em.....
» 17/11/2009 1:34:26 PM Shadowminister you say "To test innate ablity, apart from being incredibly difficult.....
» 16/11/2009 7:32:59 PM Pericles here is one way. A person shows their ability early in life. One way to check i.....
» 16/11/2009 9:36:50 AM Testing and measurement is important so we can know if we are learning. The problem arises.....
» 2/11/2009 10:25:41 AM There are many possibilities at removing ghg from the atmosphere - both "artificial&q.....
» 7/10/2009 8:54:09 AM Blue Cross What I should have said was the top 20 schools in terms of amount spent per ch.....
» 7/10/2009 7:21:52 AM Blue Cross We have the same objectives. I propose a mechanism to achieve them. The mechan.....
» 6/10/2009 6:33:21 AM Blue Cross, I am fully aware of the funding arrangements of private schools. Start with t.....
» 5/10/2009 4:16:37 PM You are right Julia Gillard and you stick to you ideas and ideals. It is wrong that people.....
» 22/09/2009 9:42:59 AM rpg Snide remarks about the character and motives of others does you no service and I wou.....
» 22/09/2009 6:40:54 AM There is no good reason to have inflation. Economic monetary policy should be zero inflati.....
» 22/09/2009 6:07:25 AM Stick to your guns tonykevin1 what you say makes sense. Leigh Ewbank article is a positi.....
» 22/09/2009 5:41:46 AM Of course we tend to stick together and of course we form "congregations" of lik.....
» 14/09/2009 11:11:21 AM This is a good article with the sensible idea of having other ways of adjusting the money .....
» 1/09/2009 7:10:51 AM Martin, You are correct when you say there is no "magical solution". However, l.....
» 29/08/2009 5:53:36 AM Pericles, Yes we can build an airline reservation system and we can do it for a fraction .....
» 27/08/2009 5:41:02 PM Pericles I tried to explain in 350 words but failed miserably. Here is an explanation tha.....
» 27/08/2009 9:41:12 AM Pericles, The only difference between the current system and my proposal is that there is.....
» 26/08/2009 5:28:53 PM Pericles, I am not saying that all investment and all loans are going to be zero interest.....
» 26/08/2009 5:36:17 AM Another way of tackling the problem is to think of income support as a whole of life syste.....
» 25/08/2009 5:46:36 PM Pericles, I think we both agree on what money is so I will not address your concerns abou.....
» 25/08/2009 4:47:52 PM Curmudgeon, Loans backed by existing assets are at least 1/10th the cost of equity backed.....
» 20/08/2009 3:46:34 AM It is cheap to get finance to buy an existing asset. It is expensive to fund the construct.....
» 8/08/2009 5:09:18 AM Yabby, One of the things I learnt many years ago is not care that others think I am ".....
» 7/08/2009 2:41:19 PM Pericles, You have hit on all the big issues and I had thought of possible solutions befo.....
» 6/08/2009 10:26:21 AM Pericles, Yes we have a problem with matching our world views (or economic views). I know.....
» 6/08/2009 8:39:58 AM Pericles, Please read and try to understand what I am saying. I am saying that the ideal .....
» 5/08/2009 3:53:39 AM This "debate" has gone off the tracks. The title of the article was "Money .....
» 29/07/2009 5:11:08 PM Grim, You cannot convince Pericles as he (and others) have a different definition of mone.....
» 29/07/2009 4:31:38 AM Daggett, I believe 100% of money in Australia originates as loans. Even bank notes are &q.....
» 27/07/2009 11:35:40 AM Let me see if I have this right. The total assets controlled by the Financial Sector is .....
» 27/07/2009 10:17:13 AM Pericles No one has said that we should not have debt. What we are talking about is the s.....
» 27/07/2009 7:27:43 AM Daggett, You are correct. The current method of increasing the money supply through the u.....
» 26/07/2009 7:21:30 PM Pericles, I said I deposit the money in the same bank with the same conditions.I am not d.....
» 26/07/2009 10:31:33 AM Pericles, I understand what you are saying and I agree 100% and the scheme I am proposing.....
» 25/07/2009 5:32:03 PM Pericles, I understand where you are coming from but you (and many others) make the mista.....
» 25/07/2009 8:52:37 AM Pericles says "To do so, it borrows from Bank B, which happens to have $1,100 in the .....
» 24/07/2009 9:38:45 AM Pericles you are wrong. The money does not have to come from somewhere. Banks can create b.....
» 24/07/2009 7:13:41 AM The problem is not giving out money but it is borrowing money and then not spending it on .....
» 20/07/2009 4:58:28 PM Given that we want investment to reduce greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere th.....
» 20/07/2009 11:25:53 AM Andrew, The issue is not whether different voices or opinions are heard it is a question.....
» 18/07/2009 10:48:47 AM Pericles, You cannot accept the idea of money being different from debt. As I have said .....
» 17/07/2009 6:09:34 AM Pericles, You ask where the money comes from for the NBN. You keep making the assumption .....
» 16/07/2009 3:38:55 AM Peter, The "problem" with third way ideas is the same problem that neo liberals.....
» 16/07/2009 3:17:04 AM Michael there is room for optimism. In your article you say "Now that energy is decl.....
» 15/07/2009 5:24:04 PM Pericles, A variation of the first method is one I have described at http://stableproduct.....
» 15/07/2009 7:25:52 AM Pericles, The financial system is not fine and the recent activities of many governments .....
» 14/07/2009 7:14:19 AM Grim has it right and the video he refers to is a good one. I started thinking about this.....
» 13/07/2009 4:43:38 AM Pericles, Getting a $800 interest free loan makes good sense to me as it does to most. Pa.....
» 12/07/2009 5:12:41 PM Yabby and others, Banks do increase the money supply even if the money they create gets r.....
» 10/07/2009 7:29:22 AM Yabby, Banks are in a privileged position in society with respect to the provision of mon.....
» 9/07/2009 4:23:54 PM Yabby, You have hit upon the fundamental problem with banks. They are not Venture Capital.....
» 8/07/2009 5:28:40 PM Yabby the reserve bank can change the interest rates and the level of required reserves bu.....
» 8/07/2009 3:25:50 PM I agree with Robertson about the systematic problems caused by the way we increase the mon.....
» 30/06/2009 10:50:07 AM My apologies to the other Ian. To the author of this article Ian Read I am not arguing the.....
» 30/06/2009 10:24:29 AM Peter, You are right - CO2 is not the only issue. However, be it CO2 or small particles w.....
» 28/06/2009 7:14:43 AM If this article is saying that models are not the same as the "real world" then .....
» 29/05/2009 1:08:09 PM Ozandy What identity functionality is needed? Take a forum like OLO what sort of faciliti.....
» 28/05/2009 11:35:41 AM Many years ago I made the personal decision that if it wasn't available online in some for.....
» 26/05/2009 3:42:36 AM kulu, You are right that words alone are not enough and that action is required - but tha.....
» 25/05/2009 9:24:19 PM Well done Nicholas to point out the forgotten part of Adam Smith's work. Smith knew that t.....
» 25/05/2009 8:55:10 PM The way the current economic system is structured makes it difficult for innovation and ef.....
» 25/05/2009 8:35:32 PM There are some encouraging signs that things are changing. Take a look at what Senator Fau.....
» 12/05/2009 6:52:04 PM Susan, What is really interesting about your post is the number of responses. What is eve.....
» 12/05/2009 10:04:40 AM Robert, I did not say you HAVE to publish your name. What I tried to say was that the aut.....
» 11/05/2009 11:40:27 AM Co-operatives are a good idea as are limited companies as are government controlled entiti.....
» 11/05/2009 11:19:16 AM Susan, It is extremely frustrating when the only comments you get are negative. One chang.....
» 11/05/2009 11:08:36 AM The government has a R&D tax deduction scheme that works well for small research and devel.....
» 8/04/2009 5:19:42 PM Kulu, There is another way to reduce debt and that is to increase your assets and let the.....
» 8/04/2009 3:11:39 AM Gavin, Perhaps we should go the whole way and turn the payroll tax into a payroll bonus. .....
» 6/04/2009 12:40:53 PM Julie, It is not government spending that is the problem it is the mechanism by which gov.....
» 6/04/2009 12:20:36 PM I am dumbfounded that such a market does not exist. It would be so easy to create and fina.....
» 6/04/2009 11:54:52 AM The US Senate has voted to stop a cap and trade system if it increases the price of electr.....
» 25/03/2009 6:09:39 AM OZandy Your comments about nation building are correct. What is proposed is a method w.....
» 24/03/2009 5:41:32 AM Gavin, Removing payroll tax should encourage employment and adding it should decrease emp.....
» 14/03/2009 8:28:22 AM fatfingers Mainstream economic theory is based around mathematical models derived from t.....
» 14/03/2009 6:11:35 AM Geoff great article. Free open transparent markets are an effective way of allocating res.....
» 7/03/2009 5:16:15 PM Forrest Gump, I am not arguing about the amount of electricity produced. I am arguing abo.....
» 6/03/2009 8:03:20 AM One of the problems we have with economists like Greig is that they have been brought up b.....
» 5/03/2009 5:57:41 PM Forrest, Do not take too much notice of Greig. He is unwilling to listen or consider othe.....
» 5/03/2009 6:18:54 AM Forrest, To get an idea of the "magnitude" of the problem ABARE in 1999 estimat.....
» 27/02/2009 1:43:58 PM The big losers are the people who own coal burning power plants. Give a fiscal boost to .....
» 27/02/2009 8:58:48 AM For the benefit of readers, Greig's levelised cost analysis, is a discounted cash flow ana.....
» 26/02/2009 4:52:23 PM Grieg, I was wrong the average price of wholesale energy in 2008 from NEMMCO website was .....
» 26/02/2009 8:41:51 AM Grieg, You are wrong when you state renewable energy investments do not give positive fina.....
» 25/02/2009 3:03:36 PM Greig, You like many others think that to invest you have to borrow money. In the real w.....
» 25/02/2009 6:06:52 AM Investments in solar thermal, geothermal, solar voltaics, energy savings technologies are .....
» 17/02/2009 2:38:25 AM I agree with the sentiments of this article but I disagree that the problems are caused by.....
» 7/02/2009 2:18:56 AM Wing Ah Ling I did not say "So the basic value is stability in determining whether .....
» 6/02/2009 5:27:44 AM 1. What is the definition of a ‘stable’ as opposed to a not stable market? A stable stat.....
» 5/02/2009 3:03:58 AM Thank you Wing ah Ling for your comments. You put the traditional arguments well. The Aust.....
» 4/02/2009 12:33:18 AM Peter, You make the statement Your proposal is in effect that government can issue fake .....
» 2/02/2009 9:35:41 PM Wing Ah Ling The proposal will remove the need for controls of the credit markets. The on.....
» 2/02/2009 6:28:40 PM Peter, The current method of creating new money is that banks lend money they do not have.....
» 20/01/2009 6:23:17 AM I like this article and it makes some good observations. My main criticism seems to be the.....
» 20/01/2009 6:01:38 AM Green House Gas Emissions Permits increase the price of emissions producing energy so maki.....
» 1/12/2008 1:34:37 PM The difficulty with these discussions is that the term free market has taken on too wide a.....
» 16/11/2008 10:44:59 AM Chris you are asking for a "free market" in ideas. We have elections and that .....
» 16/11/2008 10:12:47 AM Most people are not greedy. Most are compassionate and most want to do the "right thi.....
» 11/11/2008 6:59:59 AM The Reserve Bank should guarantee all the money it issues and that the money will retain i.....
» 2/11/2008 4:59:36 PM I have just finished reading the Treasury documents at http://www.treasury.gov.au/lowpollu.....
» 2/11/2008 4:34:28 PM There are many facets to this problem from well meaning environmentalists who think we wil.....
» 31/10/2008 11:07:34 AM Here is another attempt to explain it. One of the outcomes of the credit crisis is that w.....
» 30/10/2008 6:53:17 PM Q&A It took me a while to realise it but it is simple and it will work and enviros is a g.....
» 29/10/2008 5:11:19 AM Q&A To achieve sustainability we 1. Pay people Rewards if they are frugal in their energ.....
» 26/10/2008 9:31:21 AM The world has a great opportunity to adjust its economic systems to move to a fairer, sust.....
» 25/10/2008 2:31:56 PM I would agree with those that say that throwing money at those who will spend it on consum.....
» 25/10/2008 1:53:49 PM The strange thing about the pursuit of self interest is that our brains have evolved to li.....
» 25/10/2008 1:38:25 PM Q&A The world is warming and if we keep putting greenhouse gases into the atmosphere it w.....
» 19/10/2008 6:34:34 AM George, There are ways to have our cake and eat it to. There are plenty of renewable ener.....
» 19/10/2008 6:21:53 AM Another warning sign of housing price bubbles is the number of new loans created to buy &q.....
» 12/10/2008 5:57:59 AM Building infrastructure is a good idea. It is the way we go about spending the money that .....
» 11/10/2008 10:13:57 AM To reduce emissions we need investment in renewable energy sources. What sort of renewable.....
» 7/10/2008 5:01:26 AM We can have cheap renewable energy generation, we can finance it, and we can replace fossi.....
» 6/10/2008 10:09:11 AM As everyone points out our civilisation is built upon cheap energy. The best way for us al.....
» 13/09/2008 7:05:03 AM Food, energy, population are all related and are all on an exponential growth path. To sol.....
» 13/09/2008 3:30:06 AM An idea that all political parties can accept. Another strategy to reduce greenhouse emis.....
» 10/09/2008 8:45:17 AM Global Emissions can be reduced to zero or less and the world will be richer simply by inv.....
» 10/09/2008 8:22:12 AM I urge people to go look at http://www.chrismartenson.com/peak_oil If you have time take .....
» 7/09/2008 4:21:24 PM Here are some facts Reality Checker. Solar thermal installations use salt heat storage to.....
» 2/09/2008 9:01:43 PM There is no need to reduce our living standards and there is no need to change our lifesty.....
» 2/09/2008 8:46:02 PM There is a solution to the prisoner's dilemma or tragedy of the commons and it is easy to .....
» 26/08/2008 10:58:50 AM Tristan (and anyone else who is interested) please contact me (cscoxk at gmail.com) if you.....
» 2/08/2008 6:23:40 AM David Howell and Carole Nakhle and this article have hit the nail on the head. Worrying ab.....
» 27/07/2008 6:59:54 AM Sylvia you are correct. The problem with investing in renewables is that the return on inv.....
» 26/07/2008 8:52:14 AM Democritus is right. The capital cost and the immediate return on investment is the probl.....
» 26/07/2008 6:34:37 AM Thanks to everyone for the comments. Unfortunately the main message of the article was mis.....
» 29/04/2008 2:59:48 AM Free markets allocate resources efficiently. A farmer's market with many stall holders sel.....
» 28/04/2008 4:49:01 PM In defense of James he is making the quite reasonable claim that the current energy suppli.....
» 28/04/2008 11:53:53 AM Australian net greenhouse gas emissions can be zero by 2020 - an outline of how it can be .....
» 21/04/2008 11:47:00 AM We should have the right to remove any images or information about ourselves from public d.....
» 13/03/2008 4:08:23 AM Michael the Tradeable Energy Quotas is a good idea. However, it is unnecessary to solve th.....
» 7/03/2008 3:24:55 PM Robert G and Michael T, I agree with you both. The current inflationary problems are fund.....
» 7/03/2008 6:10:48 AM One way to make problems such as the subsidies to Gunns more visible is to require that al.....
» 6/03/2008 10:13:38 AM Gecko, I have come to the conclusion that markets are an economically efficient way to al.....
» 6/03/2008 9:48:21 AM Gecko, Thanks very much for the support. The system we have designed will reward frugalit.....
» 6/03/2008 2:45:48 AM I am sorry to be an optimist but there is a solution and it will make us richer (which wil.....
» 4/03/2008 12:16:47 AM VK3AUU There is no point in worrying about "believers" unless their opinions ar.....
» 1/03/2008 9:47:32 PM DeeprkOpps The approach suggested does not change the GDP of a country and there are good.....
» 1/03/2008 2:34:57 PM Adam Smith was right when he wrote the Wealth of Nations. Free Trade is the reason why as .....
» 26/02/2008 3:14:34 AM "In other words, to meet the level that Garnaut sees as necessary, Australia would be.....
» 22/02/2008 4:59:36 AM There is a solution to the problem and it is simple to implement and is guaranteed to work.....
» 15/01/2008 8:54:40 AM For those people who worry about global warming here are some back of the envelop calculat.....
» 15/01/2008 4:28:42 AM Federal Politicians of all persuasions are to be congratulated for their efforts in stoppi.....
» 14/01/2008 4:53:51 PM Nicholas your analogy of everyone standing up at the football is a good one. We have a sys.....
» 1/01/2008 2:54:25 AM Nicholas I find it interesting that you have needed to write this article. In my naive way.....
» 31/12/2007 5:46:37 PM Stephen I (Kevin Cox) agree with you with respect to the idea of multiple identities. My .....
» 25/12/2007 5:17:27 AM Australians are not good savers? Surely our 9% super contributions, our large mortgages ar.....
» 24/12/2007 12:39:55 PM 2legit, I agree entirely with what you are saying and an extension of the system proposed.....
» 24/12/2007 12:18:31 PM Rstuart, I am the author of "the electronic me" and my apologies for being obsc.....
» 24/12/2007 11:15:29 AM There is another explanation on why the Swiss are "better savers" than it being .....
» 23/12/2007 12:22:26 PM Stephen, A person's identity is the sum of the relationships with other people and organi.....
» 22/12/2007 6:24:59 PM Stephen if the error rate on the biometric is 1% and the likelihood of the phone being sto.....
» 20/12/2007 7:43:00 PM Thanks for your comments. The main argument against the proposal is that it is better to.....
» 20/12/2007 12:31:04 PM Stephen, You are quite right. It is easy to steal a biometric so we must build our system.....
» 20/12/2007 5:33:24 AM Democritus, The company has received a $6.5 start grant compared to $100 million raised f.....
» 19/12/2007 5:18:51 AM Democritus I certainly hope you are wrong as I am investor in geodynamics www.geodynamics.....
» 18/12/2007 10:47:49 AM Lino There are ways of storing heat efficiently and solar thermal can store heat during t.....
» 17/12/2007 10:24:36 AM Amory Lovins from the Rocky Mountains Institute www.rmi.org has an excellent talk at http:.....
» 11/12/2007 4:57:17 AM Thanks for the links to Professor Garnaut's speech. I would urge everyone to read it. This.....
» 7/12/2007 5:48:53 PM Don I would agree with your caution if it was going to be a burden on society but the fact.....
» 7/12/2007 2:04:22 AM FencePost, Any system can be abused and people will find ways of pretending to be you but.....
» 4/12/2007 9:58:26 AM Leigh not quite sure if you are saying that to generate energy with renewable sources is g.....
» 4/12/2007 4:11:13 AM According to the World Bank the total energy consumption of each Australian is about 90,00.....
» 3/12/2007 8:59:19 AM To build a geothermal or a solar thermal power plant costs $3,000 to generate over one yea.....
» 3/12/2007 8:53:00 AM Hydrocarbons can be made from water or methane and carbon dioxide and energy (sunlight). U.....
» 1/11/2007 10:05:46 AM Why do we have this myth that governments are the only ones to spend taxes. For a large nu.....
» 1/11/2007 7:59:03 AM For those who wish to become even more concerned about our economy and the route we seem t.....
» 29/10/2007 10:44:39 AM This is a great article. Australians have gone in debt for what? A considerable amount of .....
» 23/10/2007 6:30:59 AM The Australian Housing Market - 1996-2003 Prices of houses throughout Australia doubled i.....
» 1/10/2007 11:25:37 AM There is another way of tackling the problem that will lead to more efficient expenditure......
» 6/08/2007 10:37:19 AM One way to fund research is that rather giving a tax break directly to a company we can ta.....
» 30/07/2007 9:27:32 PM China's issues are the same as the rest of the world. Most people want to be materially we.....
» 30/07/2007 8:40:25 PM I would be very interested to hear how the Victorian position on the Murray Darling is dif.....
» 1/07/2007 6:43:09 AM The company geodynamics (hot rocks) http://www.geodynamics.com.au claims to install genera.....
» 30/06/2007 7:30:08 AM Thanks sjk for the link to Trenbreth's article. The fact that we cannot predict what is go.....
» 29/06/2007 8:41:31 PM Climate changes all the time. The changes can be fast or slow. We would agree that human a.....
» 26/06/2007 1:55:30 PM fluff4 things have advanced. Probably the most significant development is the home plug st.....
» 25/06/2007 10:28:52 PM Aurora Energy has been trialing BPL in Tasmania. Here's a link to what's public about thes.....
» 25/06/2007 12:24:48 PM There is no technical or capacity reason why we have limits on downloads. There is plenty .....
» 18/06/2007 5:25:26 AM RobP. It can be done and we are attempting to do it. The first is a scheme that I have spo.....
» 16/06/2007 10:25:46 AM One way to improve regulations is to introduce legislation that specifies results rather t.....
» 12/06/2007 10:50:09 AM The cost of building hot rock geothermal power sources is estimated by geodynamics to be $.....
» 30/04/2007 11:33:47 AM Carbon Trading and Carbon Credits on their own are not going to be enough to change the sy.....
» 22/04/2007 5:09:00 PM We have created an incredible social system that works on the basis that the more we consu.....
» 16/04/2007 2:14:26 PM Turnrightandthenleft, There is no difference between the money I give as taxes and the m.....
» 16/04/2007 11:32:46 AM If you truly believe what you are saying then you will of course stop advertisers from tel.....
» 2/04/2007 10:55:54 AM If the major source of funds for reducing emissions is going to be carbon credits or their.....
» 27/03/2007 4:56:24 PM Richard it is not an either or case. Everything that helps should be looked at and include.....
» 26/03/2007 4:21:36 PM Richard no one is saying that teachers are the only or even the main reason we have differ.....
» 25/03/2007 6:10:20 AM Simon parents and their attitudes also have a significant effect on outcomes. This reinf.....
» 24/03/2007 10:42:48 AM Simon thank you. I have found the following http://www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/edt/eofb.....
» 23/03/2007 8:08:17 PM Simon can you provide a reference to the Acer research?.....
» 23/03/2007 1:46:03 PM skellet what is being proposed is a limit on the number of votes. That is, you only get a .....
» 20/03/2007 10:30:31 AM Sylvia I should have said water is no more a natural monopoly than is communications or el.....
» 19/03/2007 11:09:05 AM Sylvia says "Water supply is a natural monopoly. Accordingly, it can only be performe.....
» 19/03/2007 10:51:49 AM We need mechanisms to resolve conflicts. In practice most disagreements boil down to the d.....
» 19/03/2007 10:39:39 AM Well said. Transparency of what goes on in our schools is the first step to making sure th.....
» 19/03/2007 10:33:46 AM There is an incremental approach that will improve matters. This is to allow us all a say .....
» 19/03/2007 10:12:17 AM One possible way of making more houses available in an area like Canberra where the govern.....
» 17/03/2007 8:27:46 PM Most policies suggested by economists rely on prices to ration through price. Unfortunatel.....
» 26/02/2007 3:09:14 PM Nita it can be done. You now prove who you are in the "real world" when you ne.....
» 26/02/2007 12:51:38 PM If we think of the Access Card, ID card whatever you wish to call it as a way for a person.....
» 9/12/2006 12:06:52 AM Global warming is happening and it is caused by the release of carbon in many forms into t.....
» 1/12/2006 12:19:06 PM Col Rouge, I suspect you think you are critiquing the article but I read it as very stron.....
» 1/12/2006 5:21:05 AM Gusi I have passed this by economists and the main objection is that they think it unneces.....
» 11/10/2006 6:12:10 AM Merit based pay and key performance indicators are a waste of time and lead to unforeseen .....
» 2/10/2006 2:37:58 PM Why is it that Singapore has a much higher standard of living than its neighbours? Perhaps.....
» 18/09/2006 11:22:00 AM There is a solution and it relatively easy to do if you approach it by considering complia.....
» 12/09/2006 4:56:13 AM Energy Rewards would be easy to implement and it could be introduced incrementally tomorro.....
» 1/09/2006 5:21:38 AM These are not schemes to avoid taxation because avoiding taxation implies that the donors .....
» 31/08/2006 5:29:15 AM Gates and Buffet are both great men and deserve to be praised. The much younger Google fo.....
» 30/08/2006 7:09:19 AM Perhaps housing affordability has something to do with the mansions we now expect to live .....
» 30/08/2006 6:53:04 AM It is unlikely we will change the current system but perhaps there are other "elector.....
» 9/05/2006 10:34:48 AM This is an excellent idea. It does not destroy "the will to work" because the am.....
» 22/04/2006 4:19:32 PM Ludwig I like your philosophy. We have had children but purely for our own (or at least my.....
» 9/04/2006 1:40:41 PM Ludwig it depends on the arithmetic. If "productivity" causes a decrease in dema.....
» 9/04/2006 2:36:40 AM You seem to have forgotten the Jack Spratt part of the equation. What is the sperm count f.....
» 9/04/2006 2:32:10 AM Ludwig your objections are cause for hope. They are based on the belief that most politici.....
» 7/04/2006 5:49:07 AM Ludwig the article suggests one way that it can be done. At its heart is what bureaucrats .....
» 5/04/2006 9:59:09 PM I went to your website hyetal and found it quite interesting. There is no doubt that some .....
» 5/04/2006 3:43:53 AM Hyetal here are the calculations on the capital cost of using storm water recycling with h.....
» 4/04/2006 3:46:14 PM hytel I don't see any logo. Can you give the URL. My calculations were done on the basis .....
» 2/04/2006 10:26:08 AM The fact that the American implementation of a model fails does not mean that the model is.....
» 2/04/2006 7:07:15 AM What I find offensive in the IR laws is the unfairness and bias given to one side over the.....
» 2/04/2006 6:47:12 AM As many have pointed out price signals at the consumer level often don't apply in health c.....
» 2/04/2006 6:09:56 AM If we want sustainability for cities with our present or even a reduced population we have.....
» 27/03/2006 8:28:34 PM Let me pose this one. Given that obesity tends to lead to a lower sex drive perhaps obes.....
» 27/03/2006 8:14:20 PM Ludwig the proposal is one possibility that could prove to be a model. Here is the thinkin.....
» 26/03/2006 3:31:22 PM Bravo Peter. Information for all and with it the ability to understand and to change the .....
» 26/03/2006 3:14:23 PM I agree with the central tenet of this article that academics should be seeking a wider au.....
» 22/03/2006 4:42:08 AM Ludwig says "We can’t take control on something this big away from government without.....
» 21/03/2006 7:06:59 AM It would be interesting to see some comments on the idea in the article of taking control .....
» 19/03/2006 1:50:10 AM The main purpose of the article was to illustrate ways of including objectives other than .....
» 22/11/2005 5:18:56 AM The reporting systems can be extended to cover everyone - if they so desire. Businesses al.....
» 24/10/2005 7:59:45 PM There may be some justification for terrorism laws if they could be shown to achieve their.....
» 28/09/2005 3:16:11 AM This is an excellent idea and can be extended to other situations. For example why not ext.....
» 5/09/2005 10:48:11 PM A simpler tax system is an excellent idea. The difficulty is in implementation. It is im.....
» 4/08/2005 10:00:15 PM Author's reply to Swilkie – thank goodness someone has seen what this is all about. It cu.....
» 4/08/2005 6:04:19 AM The author's response to Jamo Plastic cards are convenient. We use them because they make.....
» 3/08/2005 9:33:16 PM Author’s response to the post by Pericles. Organisations that need to know who you are o.....
» 2/08/2005 6:29:34 PM Second part of the author's response. A mistake in thinking about the issue is that an id.....
» 2/08/2005 6:16:19 PM The author thanks people for the comments as it helps work out how to better explain what .....
» 28/07/2005 8:15:04 AM I guess I am a glass half full person as I see technology giving us the power to protect o.....
» 25/07/2005 10:21:54 PM Timkins all good questions and there are solutions. Remember that you OWN the card. The ca.....
» 25/07/2005 7:31:08 PM We currently carry many ID cards all of which are issued by others and owned by someone el.....
» 4/07/2005 7:58:37 PM The comments so far illustrate that I have not got the points that I was trying to get ove.....
» 27/06/2005 11:56:26 AM It is clear that we have to find economic alternatives and it is clear that we have to cha.....
» 25/06/2005 12:10:30 PM Like all problems there are a variety of solutions. Most require the allocation of upfront.....
» 13/06/2005 5:37:46 PM Whether it is dams or pipes the capital currently comes from money existing consumers pay .....
» 13/06/2005 2:21:56 PM Sylvia makes the excellent point that alternative infrastructure investment is inherently .....
» 12/06/2005 11:55:49 AM Eric has pointed out the problems with the current way we allocate capital and why we need.....
» 12/06/2005 7:11:44 AM Sylvia has missed the point of the idea. The vouchers ARE NOT used to buy water - only to.....
» 16/05/2005 1:07:08 PM There is at least one "solution" to the tax problem that removes all inequities .....
» 19/04/2005 4:01:44 PM In my reading of Don's Article I see no reference to denying parents choice as claimed by .....
» 21/03/2005 2:45:36 PM There are benefits to the individual in having a secure, safe, reliable, single electronic.....
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