Posts by George Darroch
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Um, I'm not sure if it's been mentioned here, but there wasn't a ban.
There was a minimum energy performance standard (MEPS). Important difference. Not all incandescents were knocked out by it.
It's a very useful policy instrument, and can be used to great effect. The Japanese have applied moving minimum standards for the last two decades now,where "manufacturers produce products that are better than products with the highest energy consumption efficiency of all the products in the same group that are currently sold on the market."
Too bad we can't even change a bloody lightbulb.
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Elephants with lasers
Who says the US missile defence program wasn't worthwhile?
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Raw data now! Says Tim Berners-Lee.
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I so agree. I'm tired of emotional missives. Let's see some data and think about what to do about it.
Data is so nice. It's like a cup of coffee. Anecdote and emotion more like alcohol - good in moderation.
It's not the emotion, it's how we're emoting.
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I avoid this problem by reading the newspaper a week late, usually on someone's coffee table. If it was important then, it is important now. If it wasn't...
It's a very pleasant practice.
If I could watch the TV news a week late, well, there would be nothing to watch.
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Just don't assume anything you read in the paper is true unless you have other evidence.
A sensible person like myself would assume that nothing in the paper was "true" in the sense of being reliable and fully accurate, until proven to be so. They're interested in breathlessly publishing as much as quickly as possible, as is their right.
Unfortunately, most people don't take this attitude and take what they read as factual.
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These objective and informative videos explain everything a decent, patriotic New Zealander needs to know about the backbone of our economy.
This video, on the other hand... Banned on Youtube.
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Giovanni, absolutely. The problem was the monopoly New Zealand Dairy Board, and now the problem seems to be Fonterra.
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I don't see why not? Contrary to one of the big lies of the right, France is a wealthy country with good wages, working conditions and welfare benefits. Not to mention taking less of a hit from the crash than the Anglo-Saxon economies.
Quite. Not perfect, mind, but we could get policy ideas from outside the Anglosphere just occasionally.
And we'd have good cheese. We already have the wine.
This is one of my pet grievances, actually. I'm a vegan, so don't eat any, but it makes me doubly disturbed to see all that suffering by cows go to waste. Why can't we make cheese, instead of sending it all overseas as low value dairy solids?
Anyway, this is why the English (and by extension, NZ) had such bad food until very recently. It's been around a few times, it might have been here.
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It is only with careful work... and respect that this relationship can be rebuilt.
My 'just realised' got in the way of that sentence.