Posts by Russell Brown
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Interesting.
Methinks TV3 didn't actually want to reveal the contents all along. Maybe they just wanted to look like they were on the side of 'the public's right to know'.
Very interesting. Intriguing analysis, I/O.
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Dad asked me to compile a bunch of clips from links I've sent him lately. So I have …
Just one of the reasons the human race is awesome … Cuz' we make sh*t like this.
Identical twins playing a hell of a prank.
Mozzaman does some incredible stuff with GMod. Take a look!
http://www.youtube.com/user/mozzaman
He also does stuff outside GMod. Short stuff ...
... about food ...
... and failure ...
Playing with Dolls. And Pyrotechnics.
We all know what happens when you mix Diet Coke and Mentos. But what about other combinations?
A song about a mean kitty. Check out this guy's profile for more videos on the cat.
And the World of Warcraft Band performing in Orgrimmar. Dad raved to me about the song …
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Another question for poor old Graeme, who ought to be getting some sort of compensation for being the PAS House Lawyer ...
I've sent him some whisky. It now seems it should have been more expensive whisky, but I've, um, opened all the expensive whisky ...
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You were right, I/O. According to one of the factsheets I linked to upthread, blackjack has a much higher rate of return to the punter than pokies. You, with your hunter-gather male neurology, know that.
OTOH, perhaps the patriarchy just set things up so the ladies lost again ...
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I sympathise with Bob's reflux. Never nice being introduced to the world when it's filled with pain and I will remain ever grateful that was one problem we didn't have to deal with. Good luck.
The good news: we now know that Jimmy was probably in a lot of pain with his birth injury -- a big haematoma, the result of a late rotation, that calcified in the weeks after his birth.
I'm now confident that it has had no permanent effect on him -- and also, thanks to his brother's arrival, that it was not what made him mildly autistic. That was the genetic lottery. Like Heroes, only nobody gets to fly ...
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Stephen, I so agree. I don't see how you can learn a foreign language without a massive degree of rote learning. But other mental skills are of great value too. And they are sooo interrelated. Problem solving is 90% memory, in my job
I'd agree in a slightly different way. There was a great review in the New York Review of Books of Blink, which pointed out that what it characterised as some innate ability to make snap decisions was in fact the fruit of experience -- or, to put it another way, the inscription of neural pathways.
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Well we had our 12 year old daughter come home from school laughing that they had been taught that man has never landed on the moon. If that isn’t seeing through BS I don't know what is.
Really? I'd be very strongly complaining to the school if that's actually what happened.
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Oh, and before I go and have a glass of wine, I'm quite relieved that my tip was correct. You always risk looking like a prat when you run with one of those ...
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Pita Sharples has just been on the radio complaining about the potentially prejudicial effect of the phrase "disturbing activities", and describing it as loose talk.
He has a point, but he'd be on stronger ground if a couple of his own MPs hadn't vented so thoroughly with their own characterisations of the case.
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It looks like the big loser is the TSA itself -- "incoherent" is quite a strong word for a senior law officer to use -- and Michael Cullen has already said the government will follow his recommendation and refer it to the Law Commission for a thorough review.
Ironically, far from being too loose, the TSA is, in the SG's opinion, pretty much impossible to secure a conviction with in regard to any domestic activity.
I/S is right: the cops would seem to have wrecked their chances of bringing more serious charges. I'd love to know what their legal advice was, from whom, and how it differed from the SG's view.
Im sure lots of people will now declare there was nothing to ever be worried about, but the SG seems to have been at pains to say there was, and that the police had "put an end to disturbing activities".
The cops have just fucked it, and most of their evidence along with it.
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