Posts by Bob Munro
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Exactly. How could they top that?
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Meanwhile, the NBR website was being revamped and would be developed into what Gibson described as a right-wing answer to the Public Address website which had assembled left-wing commentators under its banner.
Their lazy pigeon holing of the riches to be found on this site doesn't auger well for them.
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This is Ellen MacArthur, real women stuff.
Oh and it technical.Ellen MacArthur kicks arse on land too.
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Joseph Romm at Climate Progress has a go himself at a new name for deniers.
He opts for 'delayers'.What name can we possibly use for the people who are working feverishly to convince the public to ignore the broad scientific understanding of global warming and to delay taking serious action — action needed to avert a very grim fate for our children and their children and so on?...
...I — and many if not most other advocates for action — have used the term “deniers” or “denialists” for these people. But the more I think about it, and the more comments I read from delayers, the more I realize that the term doesn’t work, especially as a broad brush.
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I guess the other trick is to practise with the preview function and try to learn that way. Although I have noticed sometimes the most glaring errors seem to slip under that radar and only reveal themselves once the post is public. :-)
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"PS This is an awful admission but I haven't quite mastered the reply process for this blog. Any advice?"
Hi Geoff - to make the above into quotes just copy and paste the line under 'Quote' to the left of the 'Post a reply' window. delete the word 'text' and copy in the paragraph you are referring to.
PS This is an awful admission but I haven't quite mastered the reply process for this blog. Any advice?
Russell - is there anywhere a short tutorial can be posted where we can read how to do the technical things to our offerings. I know I get so caught up in the mechanics of it sometimes I lose track of what I am trying to say.
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Yes. Quite a while back. It's apparently not going to be released on DVD in NZ.
This is correct. Seasons 1 & 2 were released on Zone 4 format but not Seasons 3 & 4.
I think because of it's sprawling plot structure and lack of ad break timed highlights 'The Wire' must be diabolical to watch as one hour episodes once a week. It's really only made to watch as a complete whole, or as many episodes at a time that you can cope with. Yes get it from the usual sources and definitely watch season 3 before season 4. I haven't seen season 4 yet but how television entertainment can be better than season 3 I've no idea, but look forward to with great anticipation.
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This has nothing to do with joining anything, but is connected to H Block.
In 1981 I was working for the Mount Cook National Park. Part of the job was to maintain the mountain huts. It was mid-May and the end of the climbing season and three of us flew by skiplane to the Tasman Saddle hut at the head of the Tasman Glacier 27km from Mount Cook Village.
We spent a couple of days cleaning the hut and replacing the 12 volt batteries for the two way radios.
One of the delights of ski plane access was being able to take in large amounts of quality food, none of your dehydrated, boil in the bag tramping nonsense. On the last night we had a really slap up meal. As well as big steaks cooking on the kerosene burners we had luxury canned fruits like lychees and South African guarvas. The first of the Irish hunger strikers in H Block in the Maze Prison had just died. He had refused food since the beginning of March. So we dedicated our sumptuous repast to him, calling it the ‘Bobby Sands Memorial Dinner’.
The next morning was fine and clear. We had some quite awkward loads including two car batteries to carry down to the skiplane pick up a couple of km down the glacier. The planes could drop us off near the hut but late season crevasses stopped them picking us up there. We had a child's sled for the batteries and packs full of rubbish and tools. It was a bit awkward traversing the frozen snow with our loads but we got to the pick up point at the appointed time and it seemed to us still fine and clear. The plane duly arrived and overflew the spot to check the landing conditions, but the pilot declared it was ‘too turbulent’ to land and promptly flew away again.
It was a bit far to hike back to the hut and the weather forecast wasn’t great so we decided to carry on down the glacier. I think we abandoned the batteries at some point but it was still quite a struggle to get to the hut halfway down the glacier where we arrived about dinnertime.
Small problem. In our confidence about getting picked up by plane we had left our remaining food back at Tasman Saddle. We scrounged as best we could but I think only came up with a couple of spoon fulls of rice and some mouldy cheese left by an earlier party some time ago. Breakfast the next day was a cup of tea and it was a long and very hungry trudge down the moraines to civilisation, reached gratefully that afternoon.
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Well you have certainly earned your break back in the real world after taking the battle to such heights here. A bit like Prince Harry perhaps?
Anyway you probably know this already but here's a rundown of why the brick wall is so stubborn.
Hat tip to someone from an earlier thread. Sorry can't remember who. -
Kracklite, you do go above and beyond the call of duty banging your head against this particular brick wall.
To the denialisers.
We all accept that humans have modified the land. We can see it around us everywhere. We can probably accept that humans have also altered the sea and it's creatures.
Why then is it so hard to take the next step in the logic that we may also have affected the atmosphere?