Posts by Brent Jackson
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Help - effect vs affect
"Affect" **a**cts on things (verb), "effect" is **e**vidence of something (noun).
When I first went caving (at age 9) I was told, "When the 'mites go up, the 'tites come down". I never been exactly sure what it means, but have never had a problem knowing that stalactites hang down from the ceiling ...
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It is obscene that the programme is made in the first place as it is deliberately misleading. Even more so if it is funded by the Government !
Don't make it, and don't screen it ...
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Gimelstob by a country mile ...
Gimelstob's misogyny is inexcusable.
Cowan appears to have an alcohol problem.Cowan may be able to sort his life out, but I doubt that Gimelstob will ever stop being a complete dick ...
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When selling a car it is vital that the ownership transfer is completed by both parties. The seller's only is insufficient. I've heard of cases where the "buyer" has driven the car around for months, accruing lots of tickets, and then abandoning it on the side of the road. The "seller" can be held liable for all those tickets.
The official advice is to not hand over the keys until the buyer completes the transfer. This used to be somewhat impractical (eg seller lives miles from a Post Office, transaction occurring after hours), but now the change of ownership can be done online at any time at :
http://transact.landtransport.govt.nz/Convient.
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You can't stop now linger ... look at the title of this thread !
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I asked :
How is a fertilised egg more human than an unfertilised egg ?
Grant replied :
Because he has everything any other human being has. Why would he not be?
At this point it is two cells. It patently does not have everything any other human being has. Your assertion is wrong.
I asked:
There are millions of processes that have to occur before a sperm and an egg can become born as a baby. Why do you believe that the sperm fertilising the egg is the crucial one that turns these cells into a baby ?
Grant replied :
Because that is when the process is completed. Everything after that is just growth.
Everything after that is not just growth. For example, some of the cells separate off to become the placenta. That is not "just growth". Your assertion is incorrect.
Grant asked :
When do you think a baby becomes a person?
When it is born.
Grant stated :But you'd be ignoring the fact that at conception a baby is alive and human...
The fertilised egg is not a baby. It is two cells.
The fertilised egg is alive.
The fertilised egg is human.
However, the fertilised egg is not a human being.You conflate "human" as in having homo sapiens genetic material, with "a human" which is short for "a human being" which means a person. They are two totally different concepts. A hair on my head is a human hair, so it is human. It is not a human being.
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Grant,
Is a sperm a human ?
Is an unfertilised egg a human ?
How is a fertalised egg more human than an unfertalised egg ?
There are millions of processes that have to occur before a sperm and an egg can become born as a baby. Why do you believe that the sperm fertalising the egg is the crucial one that turns these cells into a baby ?
Brent -
"Anon for obvious reasons", thanks a lot for sharing your experience.
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I am pretty sure that The Members never played in New Zealand. (they were one of my favourite bands, and I'm sure I would've noticed). I also don't recall XTC ever touring here (I think their only international tour was cancelled after the first US gig).
Cheers,
Brent. -
daleaway wrote :
(As a footnote, we were with Daphne in a pub in Weston-Super-Mare one day when she and Mr Daleaway decided to try out the quiz machine together. Even with those two superquizzies collaborating on the answers and working the buttons together, they could not win a quid out of it. Those machines are rigged!)
Weston-Super-Mare !?! That huge pub out in the middle of nowhere ? With 40 to 50 different meals on the menu ? That was a great pub.
We got one of our best ever wins on a trivia machine there. 12 quid I think it was (way back in '88 when $40 was a goodly sum of money). I don't think anybody had won much from it for quite awhile because all of the payouts were at their maximums of 1 quid.
Cheers,
Brent.