Posts by BenWilson
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Not as far as I could tell.
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You actually can't ignore the baby-boomers
Nor should you. This is a democracy after all.
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Now that is interesting dyan. That was the same year my son was born and rushed the following night into NICU. I was struck by how modern, well-kept and professional that part of Auckland hospital was. My opinion of the medical profession in this country jumped enormously during the traumatic weeks spent there.
I can't speak for other parts of the building, though.
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so are you saying everyone is a zax.
what makes someone not a zax for you?That they know when to let it go.
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The Harold has reservations about te bikepath, it seems:
The reservations seem to me to be refinements rather than opposition. They're not objecting to a cycleway, just the length of it.
Which could end up being a straw man. As anyone who uses the ones in Auckland know, they aren't just one big concrete path. They commingle with existing pathways and roads constantly. That's actually the beauty of the idea, that it can be built bit by bit, in many places simultaneously, with the difference being supplied by simple painting on roads. The first cut of the cycleway can be built right now, with paint, signs and maps. But I objected earlier to the idea that that should be the end of the idea. A lot of the time, you need more than that to make the idea really fly. Sometimes, when building a particular piece of it, it could turn out that following the highway is the best idea, or even the only idea that could work, by virtue of geography. Passes through mountain ranges seem likely to fit this mold.
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just me?
it appears this time I was the one who wasn't a zax.You were a Zax, forging inexorably in one direction. Eventually the other Zaxs got out of your way. I have no doubt that this Zax world is curved, though, and you will meet again. The bypass may still be needed.
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whatever do you mean by that, I thought you said you just found the cartoon amusing.
No, I said I find the Zax amusing. The cartoon itself is an important social satire, particularly since it is also a children's book.
And you are a Zax, my friend. Very much so. But the world would not be such a rich place without the legions of Zax crossing it in every direction.
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Plans for Zax bypass have been put on indefinite hold.
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It's a terrible idea to use Wikipedia for satire. On top of all the other filters you need to run to assess an article, asking people to spot and parse irony is just going to end in tears.
Well it hurts the main purpose, for people to find what Emma call the "boringly factual".
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Emma, lol classic. I guess Wikipedia's got a problem with people using it for satire, though? Especially since the satire is more about Wikipedia than it is about Russell.
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