What do you think of the Coral Castle?

A US-based dating website says it is helping hundreds of Perth students pay for university by connecting them with willing “sugar daddies”.

The website, SeekingArrangement.com, has released a list entitled “Australia’s Top 20 Fastest Growing Sugar Baby Colleges of 2012″, which shows the universities where alternative fee-help is most frequently sought.
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Western Australia’s main four universities; Curtin University, Edith Cowan, The University of Western Australia and Murdoch, respectively, all make the list.

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Perth uni students turn to ‘sugar daddies’

Should we can student loans and insist upon these arrangemts?

What do you think about the trithilon stones?

Well I am off to Auckland for the weekend, so no after work co2 creating booze, but the aircraft fuel should make up for it

Please don’t tell the rest of NZ about how fantastic Auckalnd is, or they will all want to move here and take advantage of the soaring property prices; especially those wankers from Wellywood

That kind of notoriety was enough to get him fired.

He moved to another part of the country and applied for a
similar job. One blank on the job application called for
the reason for leaving his previous position.

Hopkins wrote, “The climate didn’t agree with me.”

A Scottish Soldier, in full dress uniform,

marches into a pharmacy.

Very carefully he opens his sporran
and pulls out a neatly folded cotton bandana, then
unfolds it to reveal a smaller silk square handkerchief,
which he also unfolds -
to reveal a condom.

The condom has a number of patches on it.

The chemist holds it up and eyes it critically.

“How much to repair it?’ The Scot asks the chemist.

“Six pence” says the chemist.

“How much for a new one?”

“Ten pence” says the chemist..

The Scot painstakingly folds the condom into the
silk square handkerchief
and the cotton bandana, replaces it carefully in his sporran,
and marches out of the door,
shoulders back and kilt swinging.

A moment or two later the chemist hears a great shout go up outside,
followed by an even greater shout.

The Scottish soldier marches back into the chemists
and addresses the proprietor, this time with a grin on his face.

“The regiment has taken a vote,” he says.
�We’ll have a new one.”

Then he dropped the microphone on his foot and he yelled “Fuck me!”

What happened next will haunt me for the rest of my life.

We don’t frikkin know what’s coming do we?

It’s interesting how the tables have turned. I certainly have doubt about climate sensitivity. Only a few years ago the certainty with which some believers in anthropogenic warming promoted their views and the way they turned climate science into political rhetoric was, in my view, a feature of the “warmists” that wasn’t mirrored to the same extremes among the skeptics. But these days the pendulum has swung very much in the other direction in my view. No longer is skepticism simply about suggesting there is doubt, it has become a religion itself where not only is the science behind AGW questionable but rather skeptics know unequivocally that it’s a “hoax” and that it’s definitely not happening and they leave just as little doubt as the most fervent greenie leaves for the AGW theory.

david (2,250) Says:
February 1st, 2013 at 4:05 pm

Pffffft what garbage gets peddled here at times. Gaia is blind and cannot tell the difference between CO2 derived from organic decomposition and CO2 derived in any other way. Anyhoo I would be keen to have it explained how CO2 from burning petrol (derived from an organic source – oil) is bad when CO2 released from the compost bin in my garden is not bad. FFS, CO2 is CO2 EOS

Why is two paracetamol okay but 20 not? Paracetamol is paracetamol?

The point that seems to escape you is that while “Gaia” may not tell the difference between CO2 of different origin, science can and it can tell us where the recent increase in CO2 is coming from.

krazykiwi (8,691) Says:
February 1st, 2013 at 2:35 pm

…there is no evidence which suggests… that the ‘majority of increases in atmospheric CO2 since industrialization is due to human activities’

Kea (1,979) Says:
February 1st, 2013 at 2:57 pm

Weihana, Mans contribution is very small and is lost in the natural variability. Also we are not *adding* anything by-the-way. All the co2 released from fossil fuel came from the atmostphere in the first place, we are simply liberating it.

And that is precisely why we know that the increase in atmospheric CO2 since Industrialization is primarily anthropogenic.

Stable isotope ratios of the life science elements carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen vary slightly, but significantly in major compartments of the earth. Owing mainly to antropogenic activities including land use change and fossil fuel burning, the 13C/12C ratio of CO2 in the atmosphere has changed over the last 200 years by 1.5 parts per thousand (from about 0.0111073 to 0.0110906). In between interglacial warm periods and glacial maxima, the 18O/16O ratio of precipitation in Greenland has changed by as much as 5 parts per thousand (0.001935–0.001925). While seeming small, such changes are detectable reliably with specialised mass spectrometric techniques. The small changes reflect natural fractionation processes that have left their signature in natural archives. These enable us to investigate the climate of past times in order to understand how the Earth’s climatic system works and how it can react to external forcing. In addition, studying contemporary isotopic change of natural compartments can help to identify sources and sinks for atmospheric trace gases provided the respective isotopic signatures are large enough for measurement and have not been obscured by unknown processes. This information is vital within the framework of the Kyoto process for controlling CO2 emissions.

http://www.bgc.mpg.de/service/iso_gas_lab/publications/PG_WB_IJMS.pdf

Gosh, Prosenjit; Brand, Willi A. (2003)
International Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Under the UK government’s austerity program millions of low income households are facing a hike in their council tax bills of up to 333% a year. New changes are to be introduced this April, while Scotland and Wales chose not to implement the cuts to benef

The UK benefits system is about to undergo it’s most radical restructuring since the introduction of the welfare state after the Second World War and many families will be pushed further into poverty, a new report by the Resolution Foundation think tank reveals.

http://rt.com/news/tax-rise-uk-poverty-182/