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As I understand it when child mortality improves in a country birth rates fall. So in the UK, while we were knocking out about a million kids a year in the mid 60s, it's dropped under 700k in the noughties. In African nations where birth rates still remain quite high there are larger drops to follow. In places like China where the limitations on birth numbers are being eased, then there will be growth. In all of these countries though, longevity is a bigger problem in terms of overpopulation though. It only increases wherever you are and as cures for Cancer and that come along it'll worsen. The antibiotic failures might see the reset button pressed for a while mind.

Isn't population growth being driven by people living longer rather than breeding more? I thought we were all having fewer kids. If you had an environmental bone in your body you'd go to see Kevorkian at 50.

I've not flown anywhere in 4 years. I can count my hands the number of international return flights I've taken in my life. That's irrelevant though. i don't believe in people sorting through their own recycling or choosing to buy more economic cars if they want to any more than I believe individuals should collectively choose not to fly where the government gives them that choice. All environmentally harmful activity should be inhibited by government policy. Not exacerbated by giving millions of people the option to understand the implication of what they're doing..

No, they shouldn't. Carbon emission targets require us to go back to a 1970s level of flying, importing/exporting, driving, manufacturing etc.

Was his quote about "I'd have given my right arm to be a concert pianist" made up? Sounds like something that would have been made up.

In a world where this is happening... One of the busiest airports on the planet gets another runway. Madness.

I kept waiting for the bad bit which it builds to with trepidation. I thought it was going to be horrific, like Dancer in the Dark, but in the end it was just very sad. I was relieved the unfortunate event was as undramatic as it was.

Having consolidated celebrity deaths into a single thread I propose we next sort out a Christmas Tree Memorial Inane Questions For Those That Can't Function In Society Unaided Thread.

Went to war with the devil and shaitan He wore a bad toupee and a spray tan ... Born black, that's dead on arrival My job is to fight for survival In spite of all of these all lives matter ass white folk

Aye, like the bookies.

Keep? Ashley hasn't stumped up any cash since 2010. You can categorically say that he won't allow the club to borrow or to make a loss in order to push on. I thgink Rafa will be happy to work under that limitation though, because the income in the Premier League will be such that he has some folding money to play with. When he had his issues with owners at Liverpool it was because they were picking the players on the limited budget, not because there was a limited budget. Ashley has form on promising autonomy and then going back on it. He just doesn't have the excuse of a loss making club to do that again.

I'm obviously the last person to defend Ashley. But we were still a loss making club last time we were promoted. As we were when Keegan arrived. No matter how wrong Ashley was the way he went about things, he was on a manic drive to reduce costs and recoup as much as he could. Which meant selling assets and buying cheap replacements. I think Hughton has been too dignified to go into detail on why he was replaced, or maybe he doesn't know himself, but I think it was more to do with his contract renewal being due and deserving to double or treble his money and/or private conversations they'd had about assets like Carroll and what the reaction to a sale would have been. In his defense, the club doesn't make a loss now, it makes massive profits (thanks to TV deals rather thjan Ashley's financial acumen) and he has always allowed the club to reinvest profits (eventually). I have a hope that being in this position gives Ashley the opportunity to give a manager autonomy to manage a budget, rather than butting heads about harming the squad to make ends meet.

Call me an attendance bore but 45,000 it's noteworthy as the biggest domestic cup gate in over a decade. Predictions open NUFC to Score 0 - TheGingerQuiff 1 - MiddleAgeCool, Kevin Carr's Gloves, OTF, LooneyToony, @yourservice 2 - The Fish, Rayvin, StoneColdStephenIreland, wykikitoon, Dougle, barnabox, rogerbarton, Anorthernsoul, Renton, ToonMarshy 3 - Andrew, Dr Gloom, Happy Face, Howay, tooner, scoobos, zico martin, David Kelly, Monkeys Fist, Tom, sammynb, acrossthepond, Kitman 4+ - ewerk, strawb NUFC to Concede 0 - Dr Gloom, Happy Face, Howay, tooner, ewerk, Rayvin, scoobos, MiddleAgeCool, zico martin, wykikitoon, Kevin Carr's Gloves, Tom, strawb, Dougle, sammynb, acrossthepond, Kitman, rogerbarton, Anorthernsoul, LooneyToony 1 - Andrew, The Fish, StoneColdStephenIreland, David Kelly, Monkeys Fist, barnabox, Renton 2 - @yourservice, ToonMarshy 3 - 4+ - TheGingerQuiff, OTF

Leicester are top of the home table and won 3 out of 3 in champions league, but they're bottom of the away table. Mad form.

All their tweets link to the mails referred to. They've been doing nightly dumps for a fortnight.

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/26449#efmAF6AMV Could go in the election thread, but is a leaked email so putting it here. It's spot on insight and over a year old. With this well recognised fact, it's remarkable the Clinton campaign ignore it completely and still has surrogates in the DNC fighting dirty for her and having to resign, providing questions for the debate, tarnishing any opponents as Putin stooges etc.

Outrageous smiling and camaraderie with Chelsea players from them after the game. The hairdryer would have been too good for them 10 years ago. Hilarious stuff. Wonder if Fergie will come back.

.... If Carver had since lost a job also because of soliciting bungs.

When they said that Chinese consortium was going to buy them and bring back Allardyce, and the fans were happy, I wondered about their mental state. It would be like us wanting Carver to come back because he kept us up.

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If they show every game and every fan pays only to watch their own club then the money those fans pay goes mostly to the clubs they watch. If all fans pay into a pool and only a few clubs a week get money from the pool, then there's an audience of millions for Stoke v Bournemouth that would otherwise be thousands. Most of us will pay to watch man u v Liverpool. No way would any of us subscribe to eithers dedicated channel.

You want to have a word about the lack of workplace WiFi mind. Think that constitutes cruel and inhumane treatment of workers.

The article has caveats Of course, there are valid reasons why you may be paying more than £15/mth. These include: You're paying off the cost of a handset. Your credit score means you can't get a contract (though there are cheap PAYG deals too). You roam abroad. You're paying more for a really hefty data allowance.

Sorry, I have to manually add a count for someone when they get their first points, I'll add you later today.

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