Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Hard News: Masters of Reality, in reply to Steve Barnes,
I was kinda hoping that this was referring to one of our leading politicians.
(BTW, USD6 billion will not get anyone to Mars. The Boeing 787 cost $30 billion to develop, and it gets you to California. Subsonically).
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I'm fairly convinced that we'll only get rid of the Nats when either we have a fairly massive economic crash that hits the average mortgage payer, or Key gives up and gets replaced by someone a lot less user friendly.
The latter might happen if Key gets niggled enough - he did say in an interview that he considered it in his last term. The business alluded to might do it - the suppression order will hide the sordid details, but they'll drip out slowly. If nothing else, there might be a new prisoner turning up in jail sometime in the next two years?
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most mad scientists are actually mad engineers
There is the fact that in our "rock star" economy there are bugger all jobs for science graduates (anecdotally, I know several life sciences grads who had no luck at all finding a job in the field, and NZ is supposed to be a leader in life sciences*).
It seems that if you plan doing a science degree, you should either see yourself going down the PhD/academic/CRI path or treat it as useful general knowledge before you become a teacher, computer programmer or barista. There's nothing wrong with the latter, but it rather indicates that for most students a science degree isn't really more "useful" that a BA or whatever?
* I'm not sure why this is. Is it that there are actually no jobs that don't require either a PhD at one end of the scale, or a school leaver with a checklist at the other? Or is there a sufficient excess of PhDs such that there is no reason to hire graduates?
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Is it true the "Taxpayers Union" was about to greet Alex Swney as their fourth member? That's what I heard, anyway..
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Hard News: CWC 2015: Contains graphic horror, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
the fireworks I saw on the horizon weren’t on the telly simultaneously
C'mon Ian, you don't think what happens on the telly is real, do you? Next thing you'll be telling us the Gulf War actually happened?
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Or the viewer can choose to take on the role of their favourite player, put on an Oculus Rift, grasp their bat and face virtual deliveries in the comfort of their own TV room.
I suspect they wouldn't stay in for very long. Maybe against some of the more obscure teams.like Ireland or Narnia.
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If you have a large sign on the front of the building saying:
NO LOOKING, WE'RE NOOKING
does that alter the legal position?
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Interesting insight on Aucklander attitudes to cars. Being deprived of one's vehicle is forced imprisonment apparently?
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Speaker: Why all the fuss over six trees?, in reply to Rhys Jones,
Yeah exactly. It's easier to get people to focus on small stuff like pohutakawa trees than the big, distant issue of climate change.
See also fracking - it's probably possible to do it safely at a micro level, but not doing it keeps the oil price high and limits consumption. Still, I think it would be better on the whole to do the fracking and stop buying oil from the Middle East.
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Speaker: Why all the fuss over six trees?, in reply to ,
The raised funds can go to providing adequate public transport that's faster than driving.
Goods and service vehicles can factor the charge into their costs, given that it would apply to every business equally (or choose to deliver off peak).