Thos Judge
I’m a professional Saxophonist in Tenerife and a has been session musician, computer programmer, scuba diving instructor and English language teacher with 10 books published at Amazon. thosjudge.com
Location Tenerife
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The problem with money is that it is created at the wrong point. It needs to be created at the point where the work is done so as to eliminate poverty. Otherwise you need to possess money to use it. Cryptos are still being created at the wrong point.
Imagine that I want my house cleaned and somebody offers to clean it for £20. But I don’t have £20. So... -
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It’s all going end with the elimination of cash
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I’m saddened to see avarice find its way into this brave new technological world. Things can only get worse not better.
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Very well and concisely explained
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It’s gambling by another name
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Flash loans seem to be a type of REPO (Repurchase Agreement) used in conventional banking.
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It seems to me to be old concepts with new technology.
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So if I want to buy something e.g. a house for 100,000 ETH I need to deposit 150,000ETH to borrow 100,000ETH. Rather silly I think.
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Taking out loans and creating money in the process! Very clever. Isn’t this fractional reserve banking?
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Same sh!t different currency. The model has retained the main defect of fiat currencies which is that the money is created at the wrong point. It should be created at the point where the work is done, not by some central body. For example if I want my home cleaned and you want to do it and charge me £20 but I don’t have £20 then it doesn’t happen. We need an...
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Volatility versus stability. If it can go up a lot it’s equally likely to go down a lot. USD, GBP, EUR can be bought and sold electronically so I’m not sure what the point of Stablecoins is.
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Go long on unstablecoins?
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Perp = virtual txn?
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The biggest criminals are governments. They lie (statistics) and they steal (tax)
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The fact that banks get bailed out by government shows that banks can’t be trusted. The fact that many other businesses don’t get bailed out shows that government can’t be trusted.
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Trust = being able to reasonably predict what the other person is going to do in a given situation
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it has already happened. You only need to look at Facebook posts to see that humans have very little intelligence
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Why does it always rain on me?
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I live in Tenerife and have recently acquired a Sunseeker 27 speedboat fitted with 2 x 5.7l V8 petrol engines. I want to convert to an electrical system and need to know more about battery technology.
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The capital investment for batteries sufficient for large scale power supply/storage is such that only the banks who lend the money to buy them are the ones making a profit.
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I live in Tenerife and have acquired a Sunseeker 27 speedboat fitted with two 5.7l V8 petrol engines. I am planning to replace the power system with an electric set up. Hopefully I can learn something on this course.
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It's a quote from the course. I assume they mean what you suggest but maybe also things like shoes and clothes. My point was that it is quite a flexible definition.
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I won't be taking a Covid-19 vaccine because the clinical trials are not of sufficient time length to evaluate their effect on the human body. It typically take 10-13 years to license a vaccine but they claim to have developed and tested one in under 1 year.
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Best advice ever - Stop stamping your cartoon footprint everywhere
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We need to stop travelling so much. In fact we should be forced to stay at home. Oh we already have to oops.
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Most people want shiny and new. Thus we have the core of consumerism. And so people are buying stuff they don't need with money that they don't have. We need to stop making junk. Unfortunately this means that Chinese school age children won't have any slave labour to get up at 4am for.
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Markets are for exchanging thing and making the best profit possible. It is dependent on human greed. People are like donkeys, the can be controlled either by a carrot or a stick e.g. taxation or subsidies. For any major change to be effected we need to change peoples attitudes via education.
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People in cities have had allotments to grow vegetables for years. When I was growing up in the 1960s we ate very well from my dad's vegetable garden. I also learned to tend it and so I learned about cultivation and pollination and pests. I also learned what fresh onions and beetroot and rhubarb and strawberries taste like taken straight from the garden...
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We wouldn't have expensive sports shoes if we didn't have child slave labour in China
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"There’s a really interesting situation here in the UK because to be honest, our government is next to useless when it comes to sustainability. They don’t understand it."
Government (UK) understands nothing except winning the next election. For example they do not and are not obliged to follow their election manifestos. 650 lazy overpaid buffoons in HP... -
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I think we need to understand more about the great reset that is discussed as a consequence of Covid. It must surely have an impact on any future economic model.
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Sustainable abundance is what we need. The reason we don't have it it is because of money.
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Inside the donut in the social foundation zone, I'm surprised at the omission of housing.
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Electric vehicles also cause environmental damage. Batteries require substances such as Coltan that has to be mined and of course Lithium
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Are we already too late? Is climate change really man-made? I live in Tenerife it's a Spanish island off the coast of Africa. Over 2000 years ago the Romans referred to it as Nivera, meaning white. This was because the volcano El Teide at the centre of the island was perpetually covered by snow. 3,715m high El Teide only gets a dusting of snow mid winter...
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This is all so altruistic and perhaps naive. It only takes a plague or some other worldwide disaster to topple the apple cart.
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It takes more than targets to get results. Sometimes it takes regulation/law but the most effective way is education. Education as you know is the adjustment of Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes. Western society trains people to be ego-centric and competitive. We need to teach people how to co-operate. It's difficult when there is competition for resources. But...
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At what point do all the countries stop developing so that sustainability can be achieved? Do they all stop at once or is their some other arrangement in place?
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The Key Performance Factors (KPFs) in any endeavour are Time, Cost, and Quality. These are what the goals should be measured against. Are they being measured at all?
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Goals for governments, there's a joke if ever I heard one. Governments in UK only pursue 1 agenda and that's to stay in power. As for the UN, an organisation that writes international treaties which by constitutional convention in UK don't apply and in USA need to be ratified by the President and are not because they might affect the constitution e.g....
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10 bn people by 2050 unless culled by Covid?
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Austerity, not sustainability, is all about going back to live in caves. UK Gov has been working on this strategy since 2008 and before.
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I think if we (the West) stop bombing the sh!t out of people then they might decide to stay at home. I guess we have to keep up the deployment of weapons otherwise the economy of the West will come to a standstill.
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I think 16 million of UK's population may actually be refugees, economic migrants certainly.
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J P Morgan ROFL
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Talking to residents over a cup of tea is now considered as collecting data? I wonder how granular that data might be. Or at a more fundamental level, what data is being collected....actually.
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People not living in London are sick to the back teeth of London centric politics. One of the reasons the UK is a disaster is London centric everything. I lived in London a long time and confirm most of it seems like the third world.
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Cash crops are needed because cash is needed to pay taxes. There the woeful story begins.
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I doubt if there are any Africa based organisations conducting the same analysis in East London. The organisations performing this type of investigation seem to be charities working out of the most expensive real estate in the world. Maybe I'm just being cynical?
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What we expect and what we get = happiness/unhappiness
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How's about a Homelessness Index and only that? Any civilised society should have ZERO homelessness.
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Go to Happy Planet Index and check out Luxembourg, amazing
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Why do we have to measure anything?
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Government delivers services via systems and so we need to review the systems and services that the government provides and how they are funded.
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Modern government works by keeping the population in fear. We see this with the recent Covid issue. But even with economics, people are in fear of losing their job or their hours; fear of interest rate increases affecting their mortgages or their rents increasing. There is to put it simply, no security. Some people say why should there be? Others say I'm all...
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Basic human greed is was and always will be the problem. The human animal is a hoarder against the necessities of a lack of resources. Even Communism or International Socialism as it is also called, a paradigm that set every worker equal, failed. Why? Because one group of people (the rulers) wanted more than the others (the workers). All economic models that...
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"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."; it was popularised in the United States by Mark Twain in a 1907 article in the North American Review.
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"A basic level of material consumption is needed to lead a dignified life" - Buddhists may disagree.
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The Vulcan salute 'Live Long And Prosper' meets the reply 'Peace And Long Life'. You need to watch Star Trek to understand. For thespians Prospero is the rightful Duke of Milan.
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I'm Thos a science fiction writer living in Tenerife. I like to learn.
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It should be effective against mutations of the virus. You don't want to have to be vaccinated every 2 months.
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The problem is that basic human emotion TRUST. Not everybody trusts the UK government. The reasons are endless.
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A leprosy ward in Paris? I thought leprosy had been eradicated?
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Baking stuff in an oven is not as expensive as feeding a woman watching Netflix all day.
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I have read that Newton's laws were known to be only approximately correct because they fail to describe quantum phenomena.
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Shakespeare was a man of few words? Alas no.
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Alas, Stratford, bed
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One of the problems of extracting hydrogen from seawater was that the electrodes were corroded by chlorine in the seawater. A new alloy has been developed that withstands this effect. Sea water is the fuel of the future.
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The key issue for most people is the cost of the energy they consume.
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Before popular music we used poetry for this purpose. Songs are only poems set to music. Some of them even have a melody.
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I’m a former session musician (sax) but never wrote a song until I learned to play ukulele. Made you laugh eh? But every member of the Beatles was a uke player. They were the best ukulele band in the world. I joined the course so I could learn how to write a top ten hit and change the world. As for favourite songwriters, I rate Elton John, Burt Bacharach,...
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Nothing by The Beatles?
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I’m not bored in lockdown in Tenerife. But I have free time and I like to use it wisely.
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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. A proclamation by the pigs who control the government in the novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell.
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If you expect governments to do what the people want then you are seriously deluded.
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Why was there never a Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Men?
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I think it’s appalling that after 70 of UDHR which spawned ECHR and UK HRA98 that UK courts still endorse Child Abuse.
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Fathers 4 Justice has been campaigning for 20 years in UK to stop child abuse. This child abuse happens because one parent (usually the mother) stops for no good reason the other parent from maintaining a relationship with their children. Unfortunately the UK courts still do not support the marginalised parent (and the child victims) to regain their human...
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Why are the Moon’s craters so shallow?
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We have the responsibility to uphold the rights of others as well as our own rights @MaryTilki
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Ring particles bigger than a toaster must be moons as previously discussed.
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The failure exists in Government, Courts, and Police. Eg creators and enforcers of the law.
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Men being refused access to their children!
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We are all born equal. But some are more equal than others. Who said that?
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Working in Surrey in 1978-80 I was constantly accused of coming down here (from Scotland) and taking our jobs. Initially I thought they were joking but they weren’t.
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I guessed that it was moon roqfort
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Under Covid quarantine restrictions here in Tenerife only people with dogs are allowed out of their homes for exercise. Even then only 1 person can walk. This is firstly a restriction of freedom of assembly and secondly it suggests that dogs have a right to exercise but people don’t
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Kindness
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Police came to my home and stopped my birthday party of 4 people. Breach of A8
I can’t leave home to walk to the bakery to get bread. Breach of A5
I can’t meet with any friends. Breach of A11We no longer have Covid19 I in Tenerife. But even before we started this charade the Canarian governments Derogations were disproportionate
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A5 can’t be detained unless you can infect others with a contagious disease. Right to compensation.
A8 respect for private and family life (free of unlawful searches)
A11 right to freedom of assemblyLockdown has denied those who don’t have C19 their Hunan Rights
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We are one big family of brothers and sisters. We need to treat each other like that. We should not allow anybody to interfere with this fundamental concept.
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Dignity = treating people the way you expect to be treated yourself
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I’m in lockdown in Tenerife and I believe that my human rights have been breached by the Canarian Government. A15 of ECHR says that any derogation imposed by governments must not be disproportionate. I want to learn more
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How long has the Moon been in orbit around the Earth?
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I don’t think that we should be unduly concerned about contamination from other planets. We have already here on Earth scientists releasing man made viruses into the environment. Once humanity has a rethink about why we need biological weapons we can start to consider our home planet with the respect it deserves.
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For all of recorded history mankind has believed that the moon was made of cheese. But even after all those Apollo missions we still don’t know what kind of cheese it is. Does anybody know?
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At the first mention of Ninja my mind conjures up images of mutant turtles eating pizza.
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Mindfulness = live for this moment. Be unattached from the past, it’s gone and can’t be changed. Treat people the way you want to be treated yourself.
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Doesn’t work on my iPhone6. I guess I just have to accept things as they really are. But unfortunately you won’t know how mindful I really am, and neither will I. What a bummer.
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WE want to know who dunnit and how
