to sleep perchance

[davefreer]

Buttons is not giving us a lot sleep - like we needed that to add to equation. Anyway, not sure what is wrong with her - she's 17 and theory dead already. Might be something basic like constipation. She was drinking a lot. I so do not need vet bills right now, especially as I suspect it will be nothing much can be done. She doesn't appear in any

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[antikva]

Perhaps Buttons is just feeling the worry and reacting to it by not sleeping normally? Animals know when their humans are out of whack :D

[davefreer]

You are quite right about them knowing we're out of kilter. They're all over us at the moment. But it's only been the last couple of nights Buttons has been miz - when, since the Save the Dragons project got up and running, B and I have actually been much better. But last night was a better night for her. You must understand she is 17 blind, deaf, and a little confused (apparently her breed are from Reunion and are not Malteses at all. She's an adoptee so it's hard to be sure if she's purebred or not - but they are prone to some degree of dimentia. She also has a heart condition, but she's happy and contended an quite comfortable (she has a very indicative tail) so we'll look after her as long as she is comfortable. I think it might be heart condition playing up a bit.

[reverancepavane]

I just don't get it.
I have to admit that I didn't used to get economics either. But once you assume money has no innate value then the whole system once again begins to function according to the laws of thermodynamics (although money is endothermic rather than exothermic – collections of it draws money out of the surrounding environment). Which works reasonable well when you have an open system with abundant reservoirs to draw on, but in our increasingly closed system with little in the way of reserves...
I also don't believe that there will ever be a rebalancing (or that it will ever be possible). Once you decouple value from money, and even worse, attempt to generate value from money alone, you've effectively lost the game (unless, of course, your one of the people who are capable of doing that, and then, as we have all discovered, you have to try to be the one sitting in a chair when the music stops).
I used to hope that the rise of the EU would help stabilise the system to some degree (by creating another 800 pound super-gorilla

[davefreer]

I'm really not keen on the crash scenario. I maintain some form of nuetral (not national) currency, backed by something of value (therms?) is the only way forward.

Pigeon vs. Telkom

[qbzzt]

I can't help you, so at least this might entertain you - it's a competition between Telkom and a homing pigeon as to who can deliver data faster.

Re: Pigeon vs. Telkom

[davefreer]

my vote is for the pigeon