Posts by Steve Barnes
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Do you reckon there's something fishy about Genetically Altered Salmon?
“You don’t get salmon the size of the Hindenburg,” said Ronald L. Stotish, the chief executive of AquaBounty. “You can get to those target weights in a shorter time.”
Meanwhile, how about some Chicken Wings with breast implants?
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Thank you Mr. W apology accepted.
Whether BP is deliberately not giving a toss about the environmental consequences of their actions or not (note use of double negative there, clever huh?) they consider their job is to explore and extract to feed us all the oil we want and damn the cost, they are not in the business of environmental conservancy. As for the drop in share price, in the wonderful world of wacky money games that is Capitalism I'm sure there is someone making a fortune out of that. The socialisation of cost is a game played by all those wacky wonderful multinationals out there, the world Cup is no different (see The True Cost of the World Cup in South Africa)
Also, for your edification and Saturday Viewing...
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I think you miss my point. BP is trying to save the rather expensive hole they had drilled, there are billions of dollars worth of oil down that hole. If they plug that hole there is no way in hell they would be allowed to drill another one for the foreseeable future. The public image means nothing, they are an oil company and people want oil. There is no conspiracy, it's just business as usual.
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Average home-boy is just so... so... you know.
Anyhoo
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Why thank you ChrisW, I wonder what the W stands for?
. It doesn't take a rocket technologist to work out that the lost oil revenue of a million or few dollars a day is small change to BP in comparison to the tens of billions of dollars in subsequent costs,
Oh perleeez...
Have you never heard the term "Privatise the profits, socialise the cost"?
It's not a case of balancing the books. it's an instinctive response of multinational companies, it's what they do, Wally.
And... Sacha's link gives a 404, a cover up?
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So. We beat the World champions then.
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How would this force them to remove the cap?
It seems to be the old hydrate problem that they had with the original cap but this time it is the system for preventing build-up of hydrates that has fucked up. Why they don't just cap the well is the real conspiracy.
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Oil spill gets worse, thanks to BP wanting to save the oil rather than the the Gulf and all of it's inhabitants. This from The New York Times
Problem With Cap Causes Causes More Oil to Gush in Gulf
By LIZ ROBBINS 6:37 PM ETBP suffered a setback when a discharge of liquid and gases forced it to remove the containment cap.
And now this...
WASHINGTON — A federal judge in New Orleans on Tuesday blocked a six-month moratorium on deep-water drilling projects that the Obama administration imposed after the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
When will it end?.
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We need to keep in mind that protesting is not about writing laws or resolving all the world's problems in all their complexity.
To me it seems that protesting in this country consists of marching down Queen St chanting "One Two Three Four. What the hell are we marching for" and waving banners with pithy puns scrawled in crayon made out of mum's best sheets, I think that Mr. Norman did better than that.
In other news I see the economy, of Auckland at least, seems to be growing.
In a massive mangling of mixed metaphors the Herald proclaims that the "Light at the end of the tunnel is growing brighter for bars and restaurants" and a certain Mr. Andrew Harris, a business advisory partner for chartered accountants Grant Thornton. espouses..."Unfortunately for many, the summer did not give them the profit needed to see them through a second winter of discontent. There's no fat left and they are walking a tightrope,"
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"The banks and breweries have picked the players they will support, and if you are outside their respective teams, there are not a lot of places to hide."
Erm, yes, well. It's a game of three halves and on the day the winner is the ball.
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Bob McCoskrie is from Krypton.
I thought he was from Manure wa.