Posts by Steve Barnes
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Russell Brown,
Oh well. You did have your chance. Go away.
Thank you Russell, "Mission Accomplished"
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to DCBCauchi,
what specific criteria should we use to determine whether something is legitimate free speech?
Gio's opinion, apparently.
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Can we stop feeding the troll already?
Just handing him enough rope.
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As far as I recall Mr Hitler didn't personally go out and shoot people, had he done that then he would have been locked up as a "Mass Murdering Nut Job" and that would have been the end of the story.
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"p" for Pomposity? Pugnaciousness?
He is entitled to say what he likes but why so with affected intellect?
Like, whatever dude, you may mean what you say but you sound like a prat.How can you continue to deny the resultant paradoxes fair exploding from the scene of Anders Breivik?
There is no paradox, the guy is a mass murdering nut job. End of story.
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but when I had crawled for 20 minutes all the way up Greenlane Road from the motorway interchange, in the right-hand lane, because that would let me turn into the “good” carpark at the Auckland Showgrounds –
You really should have taken your car, all that crawling would be hard on the knees and I am so glad you didn’t turn into a Car Park, we love you just the way you are.
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Works in Opera and
Yes, it depends on the URL you use to get to the comments.
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Lilith __,
There are of course clever folk trying to make power via nuclear fusion in the UK at the JET facility. If they should succeed, it would provide a much safer method of power generation,
Not radioactive as such but they sure could sling some nasty stuff about, a neutron with an energy of 14.1 Mev is a hard thing to keep control of and you wouldn't want to get one of those in your eye I can tell you.
I have been actively campaigning against this sort of nonsense for a while, I was only chatting to a bloke down the pub about it last night and he was an electrician so he should know.
Domestic power consumption in NZ accounts for 34.3% of the total power generated in this country, add to that commercial (offices) and public consumption of 25% )public buildings, street lighting and such and you have a whopping total of 59.3% of power being used in the non productive sector. Taking into account the 40.6% used by industry and you can account for 99.9% of generated power. That missing 0.1% is due to transmission losses, which in 2009 was 3135 GWh.
This gives you some idea of the really big numbers we are talking about.
Those losses alone would supply 4 times the power used by the entire Dairy Industry.
If we had a sensible Government R&D policy ((RDRDR) laughing at my own joke) we would be looking at co-generation and solar power alternatives with an emphasis on massive decentralisation (solar panels on all roofs, wind generators on all (practical) farms). We would need no further construction of generation capacity, combine that with more efficient consumption and Bob's yer Uncle, Billy's the odd one that dresses like his Mum, a sustainable future and prosperity for all.
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to BenWilson,
I meant the front end in the dimension of time.
But what happens when that falls off?
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
You were a postie too? Such a noble profession–and it leaves the afternoons free for other things.
Like Drinking and Poetry frinstunce, Like Charles Bukowski An Heroic Drunk, and postie for a spell. Who's advice to aspiring writers was "Don't try"
"Somebody at one of these places [...] asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You don't try. That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like its looks you make a pet out of it."
Twasn't the Drink that killed him but the creeping carcinoma, luckless leukemia, in the spring of '94
I shall now take myself off to the pub
Neighbourhood bar in Kingsland for those that wish to join me.
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ETA:
Damn, a bit early, make that about 6
