Posts by Islander
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Islander,
Our ones are majorly parthenogenic - altho' a few are facultative parthenogens and- depending on the number of males around - will reproduce sexually-
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Lilith __,
and Sof'-
stick insects make wonderful pets - all you have to do is provide a largish potted plant they can dine on - preferably indoors ( some birds love 'em a little too much)-
they have some fascinating behaviours (swaying to indicate they are a real twig in a passing breeze) and - when they've finished the plant (and you've carefully released 'em)- you'll find they've left you viable eggs... -
Hard News: MegaBox: From f**k-all to zero, in reply to Stephen Judd,
1. Unbreakable encryption is already freely available to anyone who cares to use it.
2. Any encrypted thing must be decrypted by an end user to be useful to them. There will be traces on any end devices where this has happened. A user sufficiently clueful to eradicate such traces is a user already in the group of people identified in 1 above.
3. The real enabling technology for socially harmful information of this kind is not encryption but recording. I cannot understand the logical grounds on which people whose go-to objection to new tech is the child porn angle tolerate the free availability of cameras.
4. WON’T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN.
5. After at least 20 years of child porn, bomb making and other internet scares, haven’t we had enough, for fuck sake?Report
TAUTOKO Stephen Judd-
and, aue! the horse has bolted- -
Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
Dear Heaven!
I couldnt fit my butt inside that space - and I'm not actually all that big (ok, 92 kg & 5'6" - but...Polynesian bones, truly! Polynesian bones!) -
Capture: BOTY Potty., in reply to David Hood,
Ka nui te pai!
Note how it is using one wing as a brace against the branch-
Some of our birdlife is basically 4-footed- -
Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Appreciated Chris... she was a very creative nuturing person & I'll never have another best friend like Jude...I'll just go crash in bed because I have to think about a new flag and a new poem - "How Shall I Miss Thee?" fits - but it has to be Okarito/Jude-ish/tui-rich-
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Islander,
12.30 am yesterday - my times are muddled by both grief & whisky-
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Islander,
Aue!
My much-loved neighbour
Judith Ann Maloney
has been brought back to
her house-
she died v. early (not long after midnight) this day.
I will miss her, all the rest of my life- -
Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Joe Wylie,
They are esteemed as good workers...
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Hard News: The mathematics of marriage, in reply to ChrisW,
NAH, THEY were REVERSING SAIL- you can see that by the bloke standing up and the forecrew holding the waka steady-