Posts by Lyndon Hood
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James W - I think Workman was using National's old version and this is re: the current one. (?)
That 'people who would be alive' argument is pernicious anyway. To make it work you have to calculate who is now alive that would be dead and compare them. Plenty of room for argument, not going to happen anyway.
Here's an angle I hadn't seen before (c/o comment on http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2010/01/20/gordon-campbell-on-three-strikes-sas-in-kabul/):
Will encourage people to plead not guilty, particularly in third strikes. (Not that we have a wealth of guilty pleas in such cases now.) 'More sex crime victims on the stand'.
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Remined of this one:
Testosterone leads to fairness, not aggression: researchers
... but the women who thought they'd got testosterone were more agressive.
Speculation at the bottom:
Eisenegger said the experiment suggests that testosterone increases a person's sensitivity to status. In animals with simple social systems, aggressiveness can lead to higher social status, so testosterone leads to aggression.
"In the socially complex human environment, pro-social behavior secures status and not aggression," said Naef.
Which I suppose would still apply to: High-testosterone men reject low ultimatum game offers
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"What should I do with it?"
"Sniff it."Apparently the discovery of artificial sweeteners tends to be necessarily accidental.
Apparently one conversation went
STUDENT: What have I just made.
SUPERVISOR: Test it.
STUDENT: <mishears, tastes it, discovers artifical sweetener> -
I understand it's also easier for a male to be convicted (of of public idencency?) for being publicly naked than a woman.
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I agree the celebrity and throwing to lions aspects are rather universal.
Cause and effect aside, it's notable that human sacrifices work best if you treat them like kings beforehand. Or so I hear.
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Apropos of businessman and knighthoods, here's ARD Fairburn:
Once a jolly fishmonger, sitting on a heap of guts,
Said to his wife, 'Oh my dear wife,' said he,
'We've made lots of money, now it's time to make the Honours List —
Who'll come a-hunting a knighthood with me?' -
Sword.
Falling.
Impaled.I know that one! The whole last act of Julius Caesar!
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This was a perfect opportunity to use regular expressions. I think
Wh?anganui
would return a hit for both options.
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And why is the pie stagnant in the first place?
Too much blowing? No?
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Oh and to be shameless on various levels my my recent column contains:
Go see some glaciers, before they melt. Stupid glaciers! Don’t they know they’re being played?
The last part of which I'm sure I pretty much read somewhere, but I can't find any source. (That much acknowledged in the comments, which are, admittedly, hardish to find from Scoop.)
Your,
Conflicted, Thorndon.