Notices by Ben Curthoys (bencurthoys@universeodon.com)

I have just realised that my problem is that I am being asked to believe that the Labour party will become *more *positive and progressive once they have won power, when every government in my experience has started with a set of positive ideals and had them ground away by contact with reality.

It's like leaving the starting blocks with 2010 Labour, instead of starting with the idealism and positivity of 1997 Labour.

I don't want Corbinite wishful thinking and economic illiteracy and blaming the centerists, but I do want at least the hope of change and improvement, at least some of which can be effected before they run out of steam.

@goatsarah @cstross @danjac Sorry, in between starting this and pressing post I can see you bothered to do the maths yourself. I wasn't researching very hard and have no desire to defend the first number I found.

I still think you're a bit optimistic, but I'm sure you know more about solar power than I do.

@revk This is what it has always felt like, every single time I have ever wanted to set anything up on Linux, ever. All I want is to run one poxy service, and all I have are instructions that are *slightly* out of date and refer to a *slightly* different version of a *slightly* different distribution, and the net result is that nothing works and basically to make anything function at all I have to understand the entire fucking stack from the bottom up.

Sometimes, on a good day, the instructions work, and I get something up and running. And if I need to tweak the configuration even slightly, it takes the best part of half a day to find out where they've hidden the fucking .cfg file.

@aral Yes, they have eaten faces before, but it would be premature to defederate from the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party now. Let's wait until they do it again.