Thread 'Let's talk politics'

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Dave Help desk expert Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2682	Message 109236 - Posted: 15 Jul 2022, 16:21:28 UTC Looks like it's going to be standing room only in the UK before long. Hardly. UK is taking a tiny fraction of the number of refugees many other European countries are taking. ID: 109236 · Reply Quote

betreger Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 18 Oct 14 Posts: 1487	Message 109237 - Posted: 15 Jul 2022, 16:24:09 UTC - in response to Message 109236. Please don't confuse Peter with facts. ID: 109237 · Reply Quote

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15558	Message 109240 - Posted: 15 Jul 2022, 16:31:58 UTC - in response to Message 109239. Error 1011 - Access denied The owner of this website (homescopes.com) does not allow hotlinking to that resource (/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/average-home-size-graph.jpg). ID: 109240 · Reply Quote

Dave Help desk expert Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2682	Message 109242 - Posted: 15 Jul 2022, 17:01:44 UTC But we're already vastly overcrowded. Greenbelts are being deleted to build houses, it's absurd. We. Are. Full. Net migration only accounts for a minute fraction of building. Most is because households are getting smaller with a much larger percentage of people living on their own. As a result of that, the average home size in that link is getting smaller. Also most of the Greenbelt is being lost in the South East which is the most water stressed and already overcrowded part of the UK. Instead of increasing the number of people in that corner of the UK to the point where the island is in danger of capsizing, the government should be putting money into the areas where there is empty housing and creating jobs there. ID: 109242 · Reply Quote

W-K ID 666 Send message Joined: 30 Dec 05 Posts: 469	Message 109243 - Posted: 15 Jul 2022, 17:54:15 UTC Last modified: 15 Jul 2022, 17:57:11 UTC For once I am going to agree with Peter. England is overcrowded, (424/km^2). Take a look at the population densities of European countries and ignore the UK figure, and split the UK into England, Scotland, Wales & NI, it is very misleading, because of the lack of population in the other parts, such as Scotland (68/km^2) Or compare France and the UK, similar populations, but France is over 4 times larger by area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_and_population_of_European_countries ID: 109243 · Reply Quote

Dave Help desk expert Send message Joined: 28 Jun 10 Posts: 2682	Message 109245 - Posted: 15 Jul 2022, 18:52:34 UTC - in response to Message 109244. What's the point in having any borders at all? I think the main reason in the minds of the government is to screw up businesses, academic collaboration and job opportunities for UK citizens in mainland Europe. ID: 109245 · Reply Quote

Jord Volunteer tester Help desk expert Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 15558	Message 109246 - Posted: 15 Jul 2022, 19:01:24 UTC - in response to Message 109241. Way too much control given to website admins. Why do browsers even have to tell them we're hotlinking? What's the difference between the request from your browser when you click the link, and the request when your browser tries to display it inline? It's not any of that and you know it. It's that outside computers that have never visited the original page load material from that page while the webadmin has to pay for the server and data transfers, while he gets no income at all from these computers as they don't see his adverts. Or in case they don't have adverts, they may have copyrighted material/photographs on their server and they don't allow them to be shared by just about anyone. ID: 109246 · Reply Quote

Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 23 Feb 08 Posts: 2492	Message 109251 - Posted: 16 Jul 2022, 1:07:32 UTC - in response to Message 109241. Way too much control given to website admins. https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/htaccess.html ID: 109251 · Reply Quote

Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 23 Feb 08 Posts: 2492	Message 109252 - Posted: 16 Jul 2022, 1:09:41 UTC - in response to Message 109238. But we're already vastly overcrowded. Greenbelts are being deleted to build houses, it's absurd. We. Are. Full. So you are in favor of mandatory abortion? It would be much different than that church government that wants mandatory pregnancy so there are ever more people to tax. ID: 109252 · Reply Quote

Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 23 Feb 08 Posts: 2492	Message 109255 - Posted: 16 Jul 2022, 5:16:58 UTC - in response to Message 109254. So you are in favor of mandatory abortion? It would be much different than that church government that wants mandatory pregnancy so there are ever more people to tax. I'm in favoUr of people not having kids for the sake of it. Only good looking fit healthy intelligent people should have kids, think how good the next generation could be. Ah, eugenics, just like the third Reich. ID: 109255 · Reply Quote

Sirius B Send message Joined: 12 Jun 09 Posts: 2102	Message 109257 - Posted: 16 Jul 2022, 14:58:44 UTC - in response to Message 109254. Only good looking fit healthy intelligent people should have kids, think how good the next generation could be. Highly intelligent people do not become selfish lawbreakers. Also, they don't like getting their hands dirty, much prefer white collar work. So who does the menial work? Robots? ID: 109257 · Reply Quote

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