Posts by Ross Mason
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This "debate" sounds eerily like the Nuclear Winter debate of the 80s. The idea was greeted with skepticism from many corners - especially the "military industrial complex". It was not til Gorbachev mentioned inthe 80's:
"The environment has been greatly damaged by the nuclear arms race. Models made by Russian and American scientists showed that a nuclear war would result in a nuclear winter that would be extremely destructive to all life on Earth; the knowledge of that was a great stimulus to us, to people of honor and morality, to act in that situation."
Ref sourced from Wiki above and here
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When I lived in Canada it used to be a standard joke that an anarchist in Canada was someone who refused to use the postal code.
HEY !!! It must be time for a Newfie joke.
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I see Doug Edmeades is a trustee. Some may remember the Maxicrop saga where he was the Ag scientist who said it didn’t do what the makers stated it should. Years of litigation followed. He won. Fascinating he is now putting himself on the other side of the fence. I would have thought that science might win here as well.
I commented on a post to Sciblogs this morning
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Not only unrelated, but frankly, who cares?
I care. I care very much...We should all care about poor Michael. After all he is part of our wonderful world.
If we belittle him then we are influencing peoples thoughts of him.
In our own special way we are socially engineering the populace to ignore arseholes like him.
Tut tut.
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And as a postscript I should mention that my partner was once blessed by the Pope.
Was the partner..um.. touched? (Priest and all that)
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Hibernian Rhapsody
Meath inks a Limerick is about to go Down
Pop the Cork and Tip a rear 'e lad
I can see Clare Down the Cavan
Armagh God....He's Killed 'er...and Kenny!
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Where your theory falls down (and Bill's, and Gerry's) is that George currently lives in Australia.
Laughed!! I fell off my chair. Boom Boom.
Bloody lip shooters.
....He could have made a special trip to NZ you know....
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I lived in shoe box in t'middle o road.
We were so poor I used to have (literally) pudding bowl haircuts.
But we 'appy.
One of the first people I met when I arrived in NZ was the Prime Minister, David Lange
I lived with Muldoon for three nights at Scott base when he came down for the 25th anniversary celebrations 1n 1982. He had his bed applepied the first night. He thought it was a great joke. Management "forgave" the culprit 'cos Rob laughed it off.
The second night some Fwit did it again and all hell broke loose. The infamous Red Suitcase was in the room unattended. Woe. The shit hit the fan. He still thought it a good joke though but got pissed off 'cos he had to make it again! The culprit this time was not found....Phew.
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My $50 bike broke down irreparably two weeks ago. I needed transport, so I walked into a store and bought a new $800 one.
Jeez George. Maybe Bill and Gerry are right. We MUST be catching Australia since you can afford to buy a $800 bike!!!
Phew...we can rest easy.
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And the next night, Wednesday,we're recording an extended Media7 special for TVNZ's Spotlight on Science and Technology. Our theme is "communicating science", and to that end I'll be talking to Peter Griffin of the Science Media Centre, science journalist Alan Samson, Radio NZ science producer Phil Smith, Otago University's Rebecca McLeod (the McDiarmid Young Scientist of the Year in 2008) – and some chap called Haywood from Christchurch, who seems quite popular.
Haywood?
WTF does he know?
He's a scientist.
Don't you realise they are the sort of people you should NEVER ask about science. Sheesh. They might communicate to you what real data shows us instead of something you hold a death grip belief in.
Verryyy dangerous place to go that.