Posts by Yamis
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Paul Williams,
I've been thinking of saying something similar to what Giovanni wrote there but didn't know how to word it.
So that's got me off the hook.
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Basically when it comes to the freedom of speech and over stepping the line it's all about the vibe.
I do however reserve the right to over step the lines when any sport team I follow is having a barry crocker.
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Ouch.
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That the killer is, most paradoxically, as much a product of what we call 'multiculturalism' as anything else?
Why do you state that like it is a fact?
What is 'multiculturalism'?
What is 'culture'?
Why does he hate things that begin with the letter 'M'?
Where are my pants?
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Lilith __,
We have the sort of situation where the Amazon is being cut down to produce beef for American hamburgers...it's not like America can't keep its own cattle, but it's cheaper to do it in the Amazon.
I don't disagree that certain 'tastes' have resulted in large scale environmental destruction but shifting production from an overseas location to your own backyard doesn't necessarily solve everything. I read that 260 million acres of US forests have been clearcut for animal agriculture. If they have to make their burger patties using local cattle it would be fair to assume they chop down a lot more of their own forests instead of those abroad.
The reduced transport costs and pollution would be an obvious incentive to do that of course.
Us meat eaters have a lot to answer for :( But it just tastes so damn good!
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Lilith __,
Plenty of hugely damaging work done on the environment BEFORE globalisation Lilith. Maori and NZ's forests being an example.
I'd also argue that those places most 'hungry' in the world have the least involvement in the process of 'globalisation'.
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to James Bremner,
These days every time you turn around you see an article like this:
http://blogs.forbes.com/jamestaylor/2011/07/27/new-nasa-data-blow-gaping-hold-in-global-warming-alarmism/</q>If you want to know how to include the word "Alarmist" fourteen times in a relatively short blog post read this article.
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That reminds me of high school where there were typing classes. They were optional, but all us boys thought the classes were really for girls.
And now look, I can type with the best of em!!
I'm off to knit some nice wooly lingerie.
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Islander,
Well the magnate seems to 'attract' followers. Maybe that's what I was getting at.
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I took Geo 101 (in 1994), and plenty of other Geo papers as it was my major but this was fairly early days I guess in any of the climate change stuff. I only very vaguely remember being taught about the Earths climate from Prof de Freitas.
It does seem very slanted that he doesn't appear to even be discussing the controversial (commonly held views) on climate change. Most uni students who are taking Geo 101 are probably going to become aware of the debate if they didn't know of it already but there is a huge drop off from those who take Geo in stage one to the following years. At least there was when I was there. I remember hundreds in the lecture theatre at stage one and by stage three it was more like 30 odd.
So that's a lot of students who may go off into other fields that have potentially missed some important messages.
Maybe it's different now. I feel old looking at how many years ago it was now.
By the way, has anybody caught that Aussie mining magnet with claims of volcanoes producing more CO2 than humans. Too bad he's selective with his facts. Not surprisingly certain sectors of society latch on to what he says and run with it. I've heard people I know repeating what he's said with no fact check on him.
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Now if only the Blackcaps could bowl cancer, we might start to win a few games!!!
