Posts by Steve Barnes
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Southerly: How I Became a Grumpy Old…, in reply to David Haywood,
(I’ve already installed an emergency generator to power the house).
If you are thinking of going Solar, water Lectrix or both, drop me a line.
We have 4Kw solar + 5.2Kw gennie set-up. works a treat and no bills. :-) -
I think he meant "Blue Boar" its a pub. Geez that grass is long.
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Southerly: How I Became a Grumpy Old…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Can you explain why every single tread in our spiralling staircase has forms and degrees and blah blah blah…… :)
Why yes I can. ;-)
Excellent work David, both writing and building.
Our own project is still ongoing. First find a bit of native bush far from the maddening crowd then build a brewery. The rest follows at a leisurely pace.
I have often found that those that don’t build for a living often outshine the “Professionals”
As Ben said “Unless, of course, you secretly love it. I can never be sure, with people who obsess about finishing projects with a neverending horizon of perfection.”
Having been a builder most of my life I know how tedious the job can be, most people wanting the same old same old and the city planning departments and inspectors fear to tread the untrodden path.
I was told by a client once that “Only God can achieve perfection” and since then I have praised the Lord in my shoddyness, hence my building style, “Agricultural Sheik” yes, Sheik, sounds more like Shreek than Chic and goes better with our vast collection of “Eastern” Rugs.
Thus I am actually enjoying this journey into the “forbidden zone” and playing with ideas that no-one would allow me to explore. -
Hard News: The Web, in reply to nzlemming,
This I totally agree with.
What has happened, I think, is that someone at the White House has said “We need a good news story about the Internet!”, but this in no way counters the harm the NSA has done, technically and spiritually, to the Internet protocols and technologies by compromising the most basic levels of security. It’s going to take a long time and a lot of new tech for that to be undone.
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Hard News: Diverse Auckland: are we…, in reply to jh,
I’m not sure King had much time for post modernists?
Not so much Pomo, more Classical Mechanics, in Hamilton, well, Maramarua, on the way to Hamilton.
HamiltonianA simple interpretation of the Hamilton mechanics comes from its application on a one-dimensional system consisting of one particle of mass m under no external forces applied. The Hamiltonian represents the total energy of the system, which is the sum of kinetic and potential energy,
Sometimes my plays on words confuse even me.
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Hard News: The Web, in reply to Lindsay Vette,
I’m an old geek and to me the Internet is the underlying infrastructure that’s been around since I was in primary school in the 60s.
You went to primary at MIT?
Joking of course but "The Internet" is younger than you think I suspect, The World Wide Web, even younger...
Back in '63 "The Net" was still but a dream. Here's the Memo...
Memorandum For Members and Affiliates of the Intergalactic Computer Network
J.C.R. Licklider or Lick as he preferred to be called, could be considered the father of "The Internet"Tim Berners Lee is the father if the World Wide Web which, simply put, is the stuff of the internet, information linked using HTML
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Busytown: School bully, in reply to Tom Semmens,
our philistine masters, egged on by the anti-intellectuals that infest the right wing dominated media, rush to do more of the same and to cap spending, dumb down courses, funnel money into bloated salaries for corporatised governance boards and generally do everything they can to give public money to their mates in their mad free market crusade.
Yes but those "universities" are churning out lots of MBA's so that we, as a nation, can have more "middlemen" producing nothing but profit from the consumer to the "business" owner.
Crap like this...
National MP Nicky Wagner lost money in the sale of her share in two website companies to Digital Partners.
Website companies. Pah!
That seems to be the goal of this lot, money money money. -
Hard News: Things worth knowing, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Link was munched. Fixed.
Thanx Red, don’t know how that happened, must be all thumbs today.
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Hard News: Things worth knowing, in reply to Russell Brown,
Wong actually paid for her husband’s personal business trip on the taxpayer dollar, so it was definitely a level up.
But...
Collins deliberately removed her husbands ticket from the public expense.
Had she also removed hers and had her husband pay, there would have been no real problem. After all, there would be nothing wrong, surely, with her going in the private capacity of the wife of a company director. So why, we have to ask, did she not follow that path? Was it to give the impression of Government sanction or was she just trying to save a few bucks?.
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Busytown: School bully, in reply to tussock,
The real trick here is there’s an enormous amount of money to be had. With a partnership school all your incomes are higher and all your outgoings are lower and it’s government guaranteed forever, or at least until people stop voting for the bastards.
Come September I hope we see the true nature of NZ voters and not the realisation of the National Propaganda Machine's spin.
We are continually told that "Life under Labour and the Greens will be a disaster greater than any disaster that has gone before"
We are continually told that "National is ahead in the polls and Labour and the Greens are sinking like a stone"
We are continually told that "John Key is the only person that can pull New Zealand together, he is the "chosen one"'
We are continually told that "Everybody on the opposition benches is an idiot or a fool"
We are continually told that "Only National has the answers"
We are continually told
We are continually told
We are continually told.......“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
Joseph GoebbelsThere are those that say he never said it but that, I fear, is just another lie.
