Dave Berry

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• Commented on Changing my mind on nuclear disarmament
  China's disasterous one-baby policy ensures both a gender imbalance and a rapidly aging population which will get old before it truely gets rich. It also, in concert with major civil engineering projects and control over major watersheds in the Himalayas,...
• Commented on Thinking the unthinkable
  This seems to be one of the key "corrupt centralised corporate nannying" that Cameron et al rail against - do we really want to lose this? http://stopemploymentwrongs.org/why-does-david-cameron-hate-the-working-time-directive/...
• Commented on The jet lag game
  I once turned down an opportunity to go to a week-long conference in Hawaii. My colleagues thought I was crazy, but to my mind it avoided two 24-hr flights and 5 days of 11-hour-time-zone-shift torture, all in order to endure...
• Commented on The jet lag game
  I always wake up early after an East to West flight, even after following the recommendations outlined above. I just put up with that (and don't plan to be too active in the evenings). For the return journey, part of...
• Commented on Political failure modes and the beige dictatorship
  I'm glad you wrote this reply because it captures many of my doubts about Charlie's post. You also add more points and to cap it all you write with the experience of someone within the system. To other posters on...
• Commented on Press release
  ... and how many milli-Hamiltons are there in a milli-Martin?...
• Commented on Unbreakable (part2)
  Off topic, but on reading these comments, I can only assume that the word "gangbanger" has a different meaning in the USA than the one that comes to mind in the UK. Ah - a quick check of Wikipedia tells...
• Commented on It's a Wonderful Life
  All those countries don't use diamorphine for managing pain? That is appalling. My flabber is well and truly gasted. Here in Scotland it's even one of the standard options for pain management in maternity wards. So lots of kids (mine...
• Commented on What are the big issues of 2013 going to be?
  This article by John Lanchester might prove to be relevant, especially the following passage: In the October edition of its regular World Economic Outlook, the IMF studied the question and announced that governments had been basing their calculations on the...
• Commented on The Algebraic Properties of Equality in SF
  Elizabeth Moon has two space opera series with mainly female characters. Some of the characters are almost Heinleinian in their overall competence but they aren't just male characters with the names changed. I'd describe both series are having a retro...
• Commented on 2512
  Wars are enormously expensive The Taliban seem to be doing reasonably well on a shoestring. while desalination is not cheap, it is a minimum of one order of magnitude cheaper than engaging in warfare OGH is talking about large parts...
• Commented on 2512
  If the world warms as Charlie suggests and significant parts of the currently inhabited world are flooded by rising sea levels, and fresh water becomes rarer due to over-extraction of acquifiers and other misuses, would we expect some fairly large-scale...
• Commented on National Talk About Something Else Day
  I'm planning which sessions I will attend this week at the EDUCAUSE conference on IT in Higher Education, along with which vendors to go and schmooze. I'm also hoping that my tooth that got chipped during this morning's breakfast doesn't...