Posts by Hadyn Green
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Regarding election stuff: Has anyone read Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail? To me it seemed like the same thing over again.
Nixon screwed over the Republicans and the Democrats were like "It's ok, we'll take the next one".
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Anne M: The problem is that I am in the bookstore/ticket queue etc. You're charging me for you being able to get in quicker.
ps. In the states athletes do get a percentage of gate takings. It's used to calculate the salary cap and salary floor.
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The artist (or whoever) doesn't get a slice of your $A profit either.
Forgot to say that sometimes its a charity that misses out, like at events such as Blues, Brews and BBQs in the Bay of Plenty.
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3410: that was fun for a Friday arvo, cheers! (also glad I'd get into a British Uni)
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Isn't it the French that use base 60?
I thought that the Chinese count like Maori. i.e. to say 11 you say "ten and one", to say 342 you say "three hundreds and four tens and two".
but I don't speak Chinese, anyone?
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Re: The "scalping being an evil thing" - can someone explain to me why, in the fabulous free market economy it is so vile?
I suppose for me there are two things:
1. You have chosen to not participate in the culture, be it sport or thetre or music etc etc, but you have chosen to profit off the "misfortune" of others not able to get to the front of the line fast enough.2. You are inserting a middleman. In the free market the price of a ticket has been determined to be $X. You are selling the tickets you purchased for $X at $X+$A. The system is no longer a free market (as far as I see it).
The artist (or whoever) doesn't get a slice of your $A profit either.
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sorry 3410, i misspelt your name
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3140: you know about footpegs but not Bardiche? :)
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It was worse than that, it was 'ninety eight, ninety-nine, glockenspiel, glockenspiel-and-one... six glockenspiel and forty-two..."
Actaully that much MUCH better! If he just threw in "glockenspiel" instead of 99 he wasn't doing any critical thinking about how numbers "work".
When you think about it "hundred" is just a nonsense sysllable that could be replaced with anything. Your boy showed excellent thinking to just put in the word but keep the numbering system. Especially considering that English counting is terrible to learn compared to Chinese or Maori.
I mean "eleven" and "twelve" what horrible concepts in a base ten system!
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"No surprises that the US election was rigged"
Sarah, please provide hard evidence
Why does she have to provide evidence that she wasn't surprised? :)