Posts by Steve Barnes
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Hard News: Friday Music: This stuff works, in reply to Jos,
Mr Shearer isn’t too bad!:)
Tell me if I’m wrong but are the first words of this song “The fix is in, there’s a ne-ocon dance on in Epsom”?
I love the mocking tone of the chorus and that the “Mickey’s” have been slipped and the Joker is Cocky and Vicious.
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Hard News: Reading the Numbers, in reply to JLM,
the way poor people are being excluded
I have pointed out before that the 85% coverage provided by terrestrial broadcast is in reality just the main centres. All those living outside of those areas will need a satellite dish. A dish plus installation costs plus the decoder (TVs don't come with satellite decoders, terrestrial only) looks expensive compared to signing up, so Sky win by default and if you can't afford Sky you may well have to go without.
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And then we have Amercian (sic) Presidential hopeful, Mitt Romney treating his Dog like luggage
You can tell a lot about someone's character by the way they treat animals. -
Hard News: Reading the Numbers, in reply to James Littlewood*,
Golly, a quick google of “BBC licence fee” reveals two things.1. 145 pounds. Ouch.
Average Sky subscription $600 (double the amount) a year. Makes the licence fee attractive no?.
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Legal Beagle: Shirking their responsibilities?, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Brownlee should spend a couple of days riding Auckland’s public transport at peak hours,
Spare a thought for those that have to.
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I once sat and chatted with the late David Lange at Waikaraka Park Speedway.
I had only been in the country a week and didn't know him from a bar of soap. -
Hard News: Reading the Numbers, in reply to Ross Mason,
a lunchtime demo of my lemon gun shooting tennis balls to unearthly heights.
Surely a lemon gun shoots lemons, not tennis balls?. or is it powered by lemons?.
Like; C6H8O7 + NaHCO3 = piles of CO2 and a big mess stuff that tastes like lemonade. -
My pleasure Hilary. My reference to Scientists disliking explosions was more a reference to Sir Robert Winston, who at a Media 7 special voiced his disdain for such programming, especially Mythbusters and their "science warnings" when they deviated from blowing things up.
He had equal disdain for a certain "rat like person" from Top Gear presenting a program entitled "Engineering Connections" this was based loosely on James Burke's excellent 1978 "Connections" series, without any of the technical foolishness but plenty of explosions. In the later series rat boy actually apologises for any hard science that slips into this celebration of ignorance. -
As seen here.
