Posts by Steve Barnes
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Ok. This has been bugging me all night. What the hell is the Herald on about, Phantom Expander? WTF? what does he do? EXPAND? no, he doesn't. Look, I am a great fan of rhetorical devices and it pains me, yes pains me, to have to put up with this lazy, sub editorial bullshit. here was a perfectly good opportunity to use alliteration but what do they do? at best they attempt to employ a transferred epithet and fail miserably. phantom Expander my arse. It is the Phantom Phoamer.
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Bremner, a diminutive but hard midfield player, was scouted by Leeds while playing schoolboy football in Scotland and signed for the Elland Road club in 1959, the day after his 17th birthday. He was brought up in the Raploch area of Stirling where he attended the Catholic junior school, St. Mary's. He had previously been rejected by Arsenal and Chelsea for being too small.
He made his first-team debut in 1960 and was a permanent fixture on manager Don Revie's team sheet for more than 15 years thereafter unless injured or suspended. Bremner quickly established himself as an uncompromising player, tough in the tackle and often going beyond the rules to get the better of a skilled opponent - a Sunday Times headline dubbed him as "10st of barbed wire"
Oh, sorry, that was Billy He made much more sense.
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Keith, I think you take a narrow view. The flexible workforce you talked of earlier is the same workforce that would be absorbed, if not directly, by infrastructure spending. The money for public works is internalised capital and as such, has little detrimental effect on the economy. The upside is that, as opposed to some other suggestions for stimulating the economy, we end up with a tangible asset.
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Angry (Cheltenham)
I think we should all get back to healthy standard's and moral's, and don't think that the ludicrou's suggestion that E=mc2 is a likely solution to the problem of boyreacers drinking in school if you all went to church instead of being unemployed then we could all complain to god heel sort it out coz hes a bit like John Key but bigger and has a beard. -
People on the minimum wage are "relatively expensive"? How can this be?
If you have reletives on the minimum wage, you'll understand.
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You see hoons. I see frustrated engineers.
There's a difference? Have you been to an engineering Dept. party at Auckland Uni. ?
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Doh. Tax Take. gggrrrr edit button.
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Infrastructure is great for creating jobs, of course, but there are heaps of people who won't benefit from it.
Not exactly "heaps". Govt. expenditure on infrastructure allows money to filter out into the wider community without costing the country, as a whole, a great deal. This increases the tax tack and in turn gives the Govt. more money for infrastructure. It is a money go round. It may not increase GDP but stimulates internal trade in goods and services. The more the money moves the greater its apparent value becomes. The momentum of an economy is, almost, as important as its actual value.
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I'm fairly confident the "C squared" refers to one of these "[" from before they had them on keyboards.
That makes sense, no?
No.
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Iv'e always had a problem with Einstein. What is it with the C squared bit? why is it even there? any fool knows E=M is sufficient. The C squared is just a big number to impress people, Einstein made the whole thing up.
"I made it up".
Einstein, A. What's the Matter with Energy, Random House, pp 201-954 1874See, that proves it.