Posts by Steve Barnes
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Watching Kevin what-sit on TV tonight,
I am forever tortured by that man's existence.
Try designing a house after your partner has discovered this property porn star.
AND... My ability to have any influence over interior design has been extinctified by "The Chairwoman"
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Susannah Shepherd,
A quick Google™ suggests that "Affluenza" may well be worth reading,
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Sacha,
Damn you and your Wiki foo and your pendanticallity.
Teh Interwebz Which, in turn led to... ie out of which was born..."The World-Wide Web was developed to be a pool of human knowledge, and human culture, which would allow collaborators in remote sites to share their ideas and all aspects of a common project."
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Creon Upton,
there’s a stool in the middle of the kitchen floor
Really?There is a difference between a solid argument and just going through the motions.
You have to sit somewhere within the vicinity of the fence, whether on a stool or not.We are told that doing nothing is a sin and that killing is wrong.
We are told that international War is bad and private enterprise is good.
But almost every concept exploited by private enterprise has been a product of military research. I could say that the exception of this rule is the internet, which was born out of the wish for scientists to share information.
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Field Theory: All Blacks v South Africa…, in reply to BenWilson,
there will be hell to pay.
And that would be worth about... $220 ?
Does the devil take credit?
Visa or Mastercard, apparently.
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to James Butler,
while I don’t doubt that one’s society and environment have a major impact on the effects and expression of such disorders, I see no reason to believe that they are the causes. History is full of accounts of people prone to “melancholia”,
Ah yes, Nature V Nurture, 50/50 they say, but every little helps.
those world wars, Depression (financial) and so on were just delightful
All part of growing up, like spots and broken hearts but in Global terms.
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A lot of depression in modern society is, as we know [citation needed] is the feeling of inadequacy many people feel as a response to the ideal consumer, go getting "wealth" creator. We live in a time where financial value is directly tied to socialtal value, you have to "Improve" you have to be "Better". Growth is King.
On the last day of the last Century I looked back at what we, as a civilisation, had achieved, the first half looked pretty amazing if you ask me, culminating it he ideals of the Sixties, or was that the beginning of the downfall?
If the USA had become stuck in the Fifties, would that have been a bad thing for the rest of the world, or indeed them?
I could propose a new paradigm, Nothing. The less you do, the less you can harm.
Surely, there must be a time when you can sit back and enjoy what we have done, reflect on the bad stuff and not do it again. Do we need growth?
If we all learned to maintain what we have. The world would be a better place.<afterthought>
So. If music be the food of love, plagiarise. (pre-empting a new copyright thread)
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Ah, Science and BIG Pharma...
"So, how's the trials on the Hair Growth thing going"
"Well, not that good actually, some of our subjects have experienced extreme erections"
"Hmmm, how did they feel about that"
"They seemed quite happy actually"
"Great, we have a cure for depression"
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Hard News: Angry and thrilled about Arie, in reply to Sacha,
No such applause is due to the New Zealand Police, ...pigheadedness
Says it all really.
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I think it was Churchill who said... "There but by the grace of God goes... God"