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Yeah. That's a fairly typical minarchist position. I didn't say police though. I said law enforcement to include courts etc.

I've put a fair bit of thought into my political ideology. If 0 is complete anarchy and 10 is complete totalitarianism, I'm about a 3, a moderate libertarian.

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Big question. Not 100% sure. Law enforcement, probably an army, probably some other stuff (but nowhere near as much nonsense as is currently funded by taxation).

So the government took a load of your money and spent it on poisoning and now you trust them with more of your money? Trust them enough to buy into a scheme you happen to like that is. Ideologically flexible. Of course that's not really the point though. If 51% of people like poisoning, maybe 100% of people should pay for it. Or perhaps if 51% of people like poisoning, maybe that 51% should pay for it and the other 49% should spend what they want on what they like.

Are you or would you be happy about that?

You may personally be. I'm personally not. If so many of you really do want to to contribute to these experiments, your voluntary contributions should cover the cost without the need to force mine. Of course experiments are fine. I'm happy for people to experiment with whatever they like. You could call it R&D. The experimenter can then reap the rewards. They volunteer to take the risk of losing time/resources for the potential benefit. The point I make is a general one, not specific to tree cutting. Perhaps I would rather this or some other land is used for a poison factory and I declare there is a sufficient interest in poisoning that everybody should be forced to contribute to poison research. You might not like poisoning but you're going to be forced to pay for it anyway.

If that was the case, the whole of society that wants to benefit from that particular acreage of biodiversity will voluntarily pay for it. The premise that it is necessary is bollocks though. Nature needs no help from from a few artistic cutters. They're only trees. They live, they die, bits fall off them, some last, some don't. You can look at them, sit under them, string hammocks from them, build with them, burn them, whatever takes your fancy. If one dies or gets cut down, they generally grow back or some others will somewhere. Pretending that this is necessary work makes you as deluded as the hairdressers and telephone sanitisers. http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Golgafrinchan_Ark_Fleet_Ship_B Alternatively, if people who own land aren't making enough on the swings to absorb the losses from the roundabouts, why are people who don't own land being forced to subsidise their lack of business acumen? They've got a monopoly over one of the only resources that actually means anything and they're being paid to fuck it up.

Is there a benefit in it? If yes, why wouldn’t the land owner pay for it himself? If no, why am I paying for something that has no benefit?

Me then.

Who's paying for this fannying about?

Thanks but that's the sort of thing I'm trying to avoid.

Thanks again. Mark_Skyland, No idea. Whatever are about a fiver from saw shops and similar.

I follow putting it high up the stirrup but not sure what the cord does? Could you post a picture please.

Not Bolam.

Much obliged. Anyone any suggestions in leather?

Are they different to the “normal” rubber ones you’d pick up a couple of pairs of while you’re in a saw shop?

I’m fed up of those rubber palmed gloves that only last two climbs. Are there any good fitting leather (or another material) gloves out there that still let you clip biners etc easily?

I currently just use a CT on my right , strapped on over my spike stirrup. I’m thinking of getting a lefty one and bolting it to my left spike stirrup. Will I be forever spiking myself with them both clipped in?

£10 from eBay. Is the solution elegant? Apart from its simplicity, not really. Does it work? Yes. Is a Petzl one better? Probably. Is a Petzl one at ten times the price ten times better? Probably not.

Drax (v) To love something because other people love it. (Éloge) http://englishisgoodforyou.free.fr/liff/index.html

I’m a legally educated person and I completely agree.

I have a friend just down the river from you, Paul, who works as a trainer (different industry but similar gear and mileage costs and client bases I reckon). I’d be happy to put you in touch with him if you’d like some advice on the business side of things. PM if interested.

Very nice.