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Posted by dorayme on 10/26/06 01:08
In article <MPG.1faa95d4eea2d38598971a@news.aardvark.net.au>,
Joe <joedinmore@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> In article <doraymeRidThis-C20919.11344625102006@news-
> vip.optusnet.com.au>, doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au says...
> >
> > This is one question which makes me stop wanting to be king. What
> > the hell to do? I like the idea of helping the farmers to
> > relocate to the north where it will be wetter...
>
> We need a national water policy but NOT one run by politicians.
> Give Tim Flannery whatever he wants and let him hire whomever he wants
> and do whatever he thinks is a good idea.
>
Did you see the poor fellow with John Doyle recently? He was
sooooo quiet... My analysis: he was a respectable scientist and
was maybe going to regret getting into a boat with a very funny
man (just like you worry about advising Luigi on Linux)
> Australia is a dumb place to grow cotton...
You won't be getting any argument from many about this.
>
> Relocation may be inevitable in the end, because once rainfall patterns
> stabilise we may well find that the traditional food-bowls of Australia
> have stopped producing. But you need to realise that a good many (?most)
> of our farmers are 60+ years old and would rather not start again.
>
That is true, was thinking more to tempt the younger people with
incentives...
> Actually, make that a national *resources* policy. We need to sort out
> power generation as well. If we (earthlings, not you dorayme) put less
> crap into the air, we wouldn't be in this mess. If we keep at it, our
> planet will eventually (?soon) look a lot like yours.
>
Yeah, well, er... splutter... I was kicked out when I started
complaining about the way things were going...
>
> >
> > I was struck by the effect of this:
> >
> > p.fancy:first-letter {font-size: 230%;
> > float: left;
> > vertical-align: text-top;
> > color:#400;
> > }
> >
> > The result is odd. I like it.
> >
> > On my latest (Blinkey alerted) FF with the extension of edit css
> > I get no effect from completely deleting
> >
> > float: left;
> > vertical-align: text-top;
> >
> Drop-Caps are fun.
> Those lines are hacks to accomodate some browser or other. I've
> forgotten which one wanted the 'float', but I'm pretty certain it was
> Opera that likes the vertical-align.
Ah, is that what this was about. Bit like putting in a cake
upside down in an oven that happens itself to be installed upside
down... er... no... goddam it, you have me going with cake
analogies now, except i am not so good at them...
--
dorayme
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