Posts by Steve Barnes
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I would have thought that if you were running a mining business you might be aware of the risks and the best ways to alleviate those risks. Maybe even spend some of your set-up cash on equipment to cope with those risks when they arise, as long as it didn't eat into your shareholders dividends that is.
I wonder how things at Chernobyl would have worked out if they considered it unsafe to send workers into the heart of the beast?
Meanwhile, in that country that, apparently has no respect for human life or rights, they rescued their 29 miners within a day or so. Here in Godzone the Police are reticent to allow anyone to enter a liquor store to save a dying man, just in case the armed offender was hanging about for some unknown reason, perhaps reading the Herald.
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Hard News: Where nature may win, in reply to Kracklite,
Beat me to it Kracker. "I guess I picked the wrong day to give up smoking" Lloyd Bridges, Airplane.
Have the people at the Herald forgotten about those poor cyclists?.
Couldn't the Police have sent a Cab down there?.
Couldn't they send in Gerry Brownlee with his special powers and have the whole caboodle reorganised by Rodney Hide?.
They could do so much more eh?.
I would remove the cynic hat but it seems to be permanently attached. -
Could you do us a favour by boycotting your computer (made with steel, which requires coal) and power supply (high-tension steel cables require coal) until there’s a perfectly safe way of extracting coal? Thanks.
Not to be picky but.The only steel in a computer, to any great degree, is the case, which could be made of recycled potato peelings. As for high tension power cables, perleeeze. Anyone who uses steel to transmit power has more power than sense, the losses would be horrendous. In most cases these days the cables are aluminium and for lower voltages copper is the norm.
I believe (though not for sure) that the samples were being flown to Rapahoe for testing by gas chromatography, I don’t think individual mines could be expected to have that sort of instrumentation on-site or staff qualified to run and analyse them
I can see it now...
Highly educated and well paid mine safety executive.
"We need to have these gasses analysed by gas chromatography to see exactly what we're dealing with here"
Miner.
"My fucking Canary just blew up so I think were can be pretty sure it's dangerous down there" -
And.... While you make your compost you can also make your own Gas (Advanced users only ;-)
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I haven't posted for a while but now we have this big writing I don't have to go a hunting for my glasses.
Anypoo. Like the disparagement of the Indians for the Commonwealth games preperations and the mutterings over the sale of the Crayfar farms I can't help feeling the ingrained racism of NZ in this. Sure, she done wrong (resists urge to spout "Wong was just plain Wrong" for that is also racist in my book) but who is without some "Sin"?.
Until we see the likes of Briers and Hotchin pilloried for their blatant theft of old folks savings I will reserve my judgement on the culpability of Pansy Wong (much as I despise what she and her National ilk stand for).
On the subject of travel perks in general I think they should stop, even employees of Air New Zealand lost that right years ago. -
The horrid thing is I don't know whether it's true or not.
TV3 and TVNZ are, most likely, fighting over the rights to the blubbery one in their continuing race to the bottom, or in this case arse.
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Name suppression has been lifted.
Did you know that David Garrett....
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I wonder if there's a case to require name suppression be reconsidered by a judge for anyone running for public office,
More to the point. Garret should have applied for the lifting of name suppression the moment he considered public office. The fact that he didn't is deceitful to say the least. This is not only Garrets problem but a problem for the ACT party, who knew of the name suppression and took advantage of it, after all would the public vote for a man who stole a dead child's name?. I may go as far as saying this was election fraud, a deliberate concealment of the facts so as to gain public office. If that ain't an offence it should be. Where's Gerry Brownlee when you need him?.
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Whale Oil Beef Hooked will star in his own telly show soon. TVNZ are negotiating the rights at the moment.
That is the worst taste joke I have ever seen on PAS, I hope.
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And we've only got his word that he never used it.
Shame, if he had used it he might be living outside the country, permanently.