Posts by Steve Barnes
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OnPoint: Pay Attention, in reply to Sacha,
Stifling?
El est Scorchio, had to have siesta this arvo, just finished working, it got dark. Gets better by the day :-) -
Hmm, now, where have I heard all this before?
The peoples right to know all the magic stuff that is beyond their daily experience.
Before Guttenburg started printing bibles Kings were regarded as deities, the mere touch of a sixpence blessed by King Charles was enough to cure one of scroffula for life, albeit a short life. Once the secrets of mystical religion with all its Latin mumblings were available to common folk people started to think they knew the mind of God personally, rather than through the manipulation of the Church. This gave way to the puritan, those that would look down on the godlessness of others, like those lazy Polynesinans who didn’t see the need of struggling to earn a living because of the devils bread fruit.
This is what the internet promised, “The Information Superhighway” no more magical thinking, we do have a right to know what is going on in our world but do we have the ability to truly comprehend the consequences?.
Assange is a fool but he is our fool, while the world is run by fools we need one on our side. -
Federalmonetaristislamocommunazis
Well they won't find me. Quite by chance I am sitting in a container in the bush in the Far North, communicating over a prepay GPRS modem, tee hee.
As for Russia being a Mafia state, what did we all expect? The much applauded collapse of socialism by the West turned into a grab bag for the greedy. All the assets of the USSR were the property of the people and they were all royally ripped off by the miracle of capitalism, which is what the Mafia is all about, free enterprise at its best. -
Yes it did. Now I'm off to the pub.
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I thought this post was about the street the Queen lives in having an earthquake or something. But no it is about a shopping center, how disappointing. Innit?
I know this is a totally nonsense post but I needed to try out the new interface, not happy yet. Did this post? -
Some things never change...
From Norman Lewis' "The Missionaries"
"‘Witnessing the cheapness of labour by means of the negroes he thought the natives of these islands might be induced to labour in the same way.’ He was mistaken. The enterprise failed, and Mr Orsmond, believing that ‘a too bountiful nature on Moorea diminishes men’s natural desire to work’, ordered all breadfruit trees to be cut down. "
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Now I remember why I stopped writing here. Neither passion nor logic.
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I think you’ll find the job is to take all reasonable risks.
I would say "take all Necessary risks" and apply cost benefit analysis, risk seven to save 22? your call. I don't think this is the time to discuss wage levels, seems a bit pointless when CEOs of banks and politicians for that matter, get more than anybody in the emergency services or any other worthwhile occupation.
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Hard News: Where nature may win, in reply to FletcherB,
Are you suggesting they should have followed the Pike River method?.
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Hard News: Where nature may win, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Trust me, I have missed none of the speculation, the "What if"s