still there isnt free footpath data in digital form from the OS

complaint to the ordnance survey

I wish to make three complaints

1: as a person who has a degree in Graphic information design, turning the symbolic old symbol of christian churches a cross into the letters of PW (place of worship) how bloody non descript and weak an expression, this is an abomination, which person / pressure group organised this symbols swap to letters scenario ? the eye then has to differentiate this text from other text this isnt as efficient for the eye as differentiating a symbol from text which has a greater natural graphic seperation in the first place, this has no doubt be done to appease some ethnic groups somewhere, i find it denigrating and personally offensive that you have done this, not that im am in anyway part of any organised religion, as a graphic purist you are removing usefull information from the map, even if its a mosque (crescant symbol) … i want to know, if its a church (the old cross symbol) i want to know, small overly PC cowtowing no doubt idiot government approved of chivying denigrations such as these are continuously damaging my culture, it offends me your organisation gives way to this idiocy.

2: the “GetaMap” service (nice marketing slogan led era we live in today) well its a really great service, build your own walk with waypoints … stopoffs … point of interest …walking times … fantastic ………up to the point …… at which you need to use the information ? if i can’t get the route that ive constructed on the getamap website as anything other than static A4 printout for a £1, how really usefull is it to me in this technological age ? did you think about the environment and wasted paper you are creating with this one decision alone ? I guess you think your saving the environment compared to people buying full maps which are printed, I need it as digital information to go into a gps smartphone/iphone so I can live track myself on my route with all the points of interest and pubs as an itinerary, with perhaps a virtual walker on the same route travelling at my estimated speed so I can see whether im ahead or behind my schedule, then it would be a truly amazing service.

Do you fear … that you might be giving the people to much information from the information pile, they have paid you to collect in the first place ! whether as in your founding by charter of a warring king who taxed his people to pay for you, or through all the moneys that ultimately flowed from the people over the years to your organisation. I dont believe you should have no ways of generating revenue, I just believe that you should be making most of your money from commercial organisations, planning etc and not individual walkers.

oh there is memorymap digital maps … I hear you say ? well I’d only need 69 of those at £100.00 ie £6900 to get the whole of the UK at 1:25000 not even 1:10000, i would truly love to know what the vector based(ie not as images) dataset of britain at 1:10000 would be digital data size wise with all the information relevant to walkers, 32gb ? 2tb ? which ever way the idea that this could be squeezed into a handheld gps navigating device, seems possible to me.

3: The fact that in this day and age I still cannot get access to a whole or protions of a free 1:10000 digital footpath map for my own country is an embarassment for the OS, long may openstreetmap continue to grow and be contributed too by the ordinary public, so that one day we do have an organisation that is open and for the people in this digital age rather than being dependant on a public exploiting organisation like the OS, so that we the people can have our footpath knowledge for ourselves in a digital form, after all it was the ordinary people and the drovers and hard working sods over thousands of years of drudgery, who created the majority of the paths with their footfall in the firstplace. the footpaths are one of the small remaining symbols of some of the last public ownership and rights in this country that no matter how poor and disenfranchised you maybe in society, you can take advantage of on a nice walk, in a nation so consumerist, overmarketed, fractured, divided, outsourced, privatised and apportioned into the hands of the selfish few and private wealth international ownership brigade, it is a tragedy you dont make this footpath data freely available to people.

A British Native

Grr this government must take her and her childrens citizenship away

bastard fucking immoral religious primitive cunts filling my country with their immoral behaviour and their seven fucking children at my expense, the native priced out of existance by property speculating, comfortable house and land owning sector, who guardian esque think immigration doesnt create more unnecessary competition for native resources, with people from abroad who are not hampered by homegrown morality and decency propaganda most of the imports dont even have to consider.

I literally wish this human being the worst outcome in life !

The reason why Laurent Gbagbo wont leave and why the west want him out > just for the record > ivory coast the truth

first of all read the full wikipedia page and cultural details of the country, including the fact that west african immigrants make up 40% of the population.

What you need to understand from reading the wikipedia post, is that under french collonial rule the ivory coast was lumped together with other neighbouring countrys from an administrative perspective into a single entity, and the french as collonial masters defined the country on their terms. and that like most collonially occupied countrys as defined through colonisation, the masters had little to no understanding or care towards comprehending tribal groups or boundarys beyond their own devisive and exploitative interests, you also need to be understood that the ivory coast has a very high immigrant population as high as 40% who have in the most recent and rushed UN western led elections been giving full voting rights and parity without much rigourous checking of identity in terms of voter registration. This has led to allegation of electoral fraud.

The reason why the encumbent gbagbo wont leave is because he and his supporters feel they represent the real native people of the ivory coast, and the reason they are not happy about the election, is because supposed democracy, has just enabled the leader of the opposition party, that mainly represents historically non native ivorians, immigrants and their interests to win the election with fraud and recently enabled loose voter registration. Meaning control and power of the country is being attemptively switched to non ivorian native control, and this has been made possible because of the high levels of immigration into the ivory coast from other west african nations, estimated around the 40% level, this disporate populational section has managed to take control by allying themselves together as a tight unified voting unit under outarra, whilst some of the native population have remained divided by tribal alliances, this has lead to non native control of the ivory coast. And all this the average idiot western watching the news propoganda will never comprehend because the news isn’t subtle enough to enlighten the general TV watching public about the concept of nativity at all let alone in the ivory coast ? perhaps because TV is racist enough to to just perceive all the people of Ivory coast as “black people”, without bothering to comprehend the tribal and cultural differences within the population that are causing the trouble.
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fukushima nuclear disaster = chernobyl x 3

From a visual reckoning thats 3 nuclear meltdowns on one site, on the scale of chernobyl. ie at the worst childhood thyroid cancer, and cancers in general in young people and birth deformitys will end up being anywhere upto three times that or worse of the scenario found around chernobyl upto 150 miles away. watch the chernobyl heart documentary “chernobyl heart”

obviously japans economic situation will enable them to save more children from illness, but still we can expect an increase in these childhood illnesses. 16 years later there is still a 30km exclusion zone around Chernobyl. So Tepco’s three reactors will present a much worse situation they need to entomb those reactors now. with halflife of some of these radioactive materials, the wider they distribute into the environment the worse it will be for the population of japan in the long term, the exclusion zone should be widened now, those people should not be returning to their homes in the exclusion zone, unless theyre old and have had children and are not worried about the possible effect, the people who return to near that land, should be adult people who dont want children or are well beyond the age of having children. As its those organisms that are newly born, young or growing that will be most affected by the uptake of the radioactive compounds, dust etc.

for instance here is the countries affected by fallout from chernobyl :

so superimpose that size of fallout on japan and times it by three

see whether you can do snap with these images ?
fundamentally nuclear power is never going to be very safe technology

to me thats at least 2.5 times chernobyl and these reactors contained a great deal more radioactive material on site. so its probably 3 times chernobyl.

This might be considered a one off, but really nuclear power stations rely on trying to control runaway reactions, similar to those that occur in a nuclear explosion and keep them under control for the purpose of generating electricity, the problem is once they get out of control theyre almost impossible to bring back into control, especially if you have no way of cooling the reactors as in this scenario, and then what happens is kind of inevitable … a nuclear meltdown and its related explosions distributing radioactive material into the atmosphere and environment. Radioactivity can be thought of being a bit like magnetism, in the sense, that one one magnetic object can magnetise others, so its the same with radioactivity, in the sense that one source of radioactivity can make other things radioactive, the problem with the environment, radioactivity and the long half life of these materials, is the inevitable portability of this radioactivity and its almost inevitable diffusion into the wider environment.

Just read the “cat in the hat comes back” by Docter Seusse and imagine the pink stuff as radioactive compounds and you get an idea of what will be going on.

Also my prediction is they will go for an entombment approach as they did with chernobyl, the brush it under a rug scenario, which is possibly the best scenario ? shipping the radioactive material elsewhere will probably just distribute more radioactivity, but how are they going to entomb this site quickly ? its going to be exposed to the wider environment for many months now, and secondarily this isnt the russian era where you can pay 150,000 volunteers to recieve their lifetime dose in 15 minutes of work to clear the mess up, theyll now either have to use robots which will take forever, sadly theyll need an army of old heroic volunteers who arent going to be having children or have already had them to do this work. the tomb will have to be three times bigger than chernobyl, and they will still have big risks from rainwater leaching radioactivity into the water table underneath.

my hope is that the seriousness of this situation is gauged correctly by the government officials tasked with dealing with this situation, and that all possible measures are being brought in to contain it.

irish citzenship all it takes is holiday sex according to the EU.

According to this article. all it now takes to become an irish citizen is to fly there on holiday, on arriving or prior to arriving put you missus up the duff, then 10 months or less later out pops an irish citizen, and the parents can stay because of this, so basically anyones whos prepared to breed, and can illegally hop about ireland for 10 months avoiding being thrown out for overstaying there visa can become an irish citizen ? fucking great im sure its pretty much the same in crappy old britain, the european court of justice can go fuck itself, rights to my culture and citizenship should mean more than a holiday sperm injection.

fuck all these foreign invaders, they have no fucking respect for anything or anyone, the story of immigration is and endless story of systematic abuse of borders, generally by self enfranchising people of low morals who are prepared to do anything, I have much more respect for the foreign people who stay at home and remain as the genuine constituent natives in their own land, they are the decent real people that a country is made from. the world today is riddled by people who move to seek benefit for themselves, it is obvious action.

getting a peice of paper stamped in an office does not make culturally anything, it might technically make you a citizen but other than from a law perspective it means nothing culturally.

Things like this make me despise the EU and wish to see it burned to the ground its agenda seems to be to destroy all european borders completely and by this process create a cultureless uber fatherland, even the nazis would have been proud of. sooner or later theyll want to start flying there blue starry fucking flag all over the states of europe as well, only a little more propoganda to make that happen, and they love pumping out propoganda because they have an agenda.

being born somewhere when your on holiday should not make you a citizen of that country, its ridiculous 400 years worth of familial heritage and history somewhere native, can be washed aside by birthing somehwere foreign i dont think so, this is just immigrants taking advantage of systems.

budget defecit graph wow thats a clear indicator of out of range fiscal change

budget defecit graph wow thats a clear indicator of out of range fiscal change. and this doesnt even take into acount the national debt at 4.8 trillion !

those positive defecit years were few and unsustained, and didnt make much dent in the 4.8 trillion debt.

the cuts are nothing compared to what would fiscally be ideally sought, if you were trying to remove debt.

rubbish designer lightbulb industry still pushing cfl

designer energy lightbulb is just further proof as to how poor design has become in this country, that this heap of shit wins an international prize ! this is merely just a different form that is in itself not design unless that form adds better function to the product, it does not its just a different shape.

good design is in bad shape … this thing is a heap of shit, this is really art rather than design as the change in design has not yielded any improvement in function, theyve just taken the current CFL bulb and asked the factory to blow the glass tube in a slightly different configuration, its still the industry > pushing supermarket strip light technology from the seventies , enhanced a little by miniaturising it and enhancing the shitty starter refresh rate, untill they sort this to be instant on and correct the colour temperature of these things to match or be better than incandescant they are not good enough, incandescant warms life up with its glow these CFL bulbs seem to make us look like were all living in a mortuary, the light these things emit regardless of lumens measured seems dingy unstable and badly coloured and that is the function part of a lightbulb these guys must master or theyll never be liked regardless of energy savings, you want the bulbs to be adopted rather than guilted onto us for energy reasons ? well … make them match incandescant in colour temperature give them a 400hz refresh rate, make them safe, instant on, no warm up period of dinginess, and make them not fundamentally rely on transmuting uv radiation into visible light as uv light leakage can be very sensitising for some peoples skin.

UK culture industry brain drain and tech

all text quotes are taken direct and undedited from the telegraph article here by “Milo Yiannopoulos” my responses are in italics

“This column recently praised Silicon Valley for its ebullience and optimism,
silicon valley has an an industry”

margaret thatcher pretty much caused the collapse of all manufacturing in britain including our silicon industry in favour of service industry’s by not marketing it right, and discouraging it, and giving up on manufacturing in general, if you dont practise the art of making things you loose the expertise to do so well, or even to do the design and instruct others somewhere else.

“noting that the attitude of Californian tech entrepreneurs was a major factor in the region’s success.”

hmm … Silicon valley is mainly still there today, because of collaborative efforts made in 1986 to unify the industry into a unified geographic unit to hold up against global chip market and innovate and to retain the design and industrial assets necessary to be in the semi fabrication game there, and this was acheived by bob noyce who made it his agenda to help bolster the chip industry through running the semi conducter industry body sematech, and also he popularised the IC by pricing them less than their production cost, and gambling production improvements and efficiencys could garner a profit back.

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