Posts by Steve Barnes
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As some bloke once said "You don't know how lucky you are"
Whatever happens at the b it's better than...
"That was Black Sabbath, coming up Pink Floyd back to back with Led Zeppelin right after this..." cut to Lion Red commercial.
Or "We have Garth McVicar on the line..."
Love the b.Has anybody else come to the conclusion that radio, unlike TV is kinda tribal?.
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There is very little in software that doesn't qualify as obvious to a skilled practitioner, and the innovative steps are rarely significant.
I have to disagree there. Obvious does not necessarily equal logic, or the other way round. Some human brains cannot get past an (if x then y) statement ( if x= drunk and y= don't drive for instance). I know software developers that build massive collections of sub routines, gleaned from other peoples software (open source, of course) without a clue as to the logic of the sub routines, to construct applications that do wonderful stuff. Only to be dumbfounded when some young logician rips out half the code and the application not only still runs but runs better because they removed logical loops that were totally unnecessary.
Real logic can seem totally weird to the most clever people sometimes. -
3 News is hardly worth watching, unless you require news about Lady Gaga's ex-boyfriend, unusual car crashes on YouTube, odd TradeMe auctions,
John Campbell will be interviewing the washing machine at 7,
Tiger Woods' many mistresses or Madonna's adoptions.
There, I fixed it.
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The thing that sets the b apart from all the others is that they have never taken themselves that seriously but when they do serious stuff they do it seriously well. Mikey epitomises that. I, for one, will miss my dose of conspiracy theory in the mornings mixed with a certain madness that resonates with those of a suspicious mind and resembles nothing of the false prattle of so called pirates that proves the point that the others are shit.
Good luck Mikey maybe you'll get a haircut and a proper job now.
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I feel sorry for Gerry, he waited nine long years to wear his new tee shirt that says "I'm With Stupid" and he doesn't know which way to turn.
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Well I guess that when they've dug up all the gold, watered all their cattle and used the remaining rivers to flush away the cow poo we will have to the drink bottled water.
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Let's open a nuclear missile silo in Palms North.
Nah, power plant. You just watch,that's next.
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"everything is the fault of the Enlightenment"
It is interesting to note that "other" cultures were not part of that "Enlightenment". I guess that, as they hadn't been stifled by the religious aristocracy that ground on for hundreds of years after the Romans pissed off, they didn't need one.
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Economics in One Lesson
The art of economics consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the longer effects of any act or policy; it consists in tracing the consequences of that policy not merely for one group but for all groups.
by Henry Hazlitt 1946
Bennet's Bible?
Nothing is easier to achieve than full employment, once it is divorced from the goal of full production and taken as an end in itself. Hitler provided full employment with a huge armament program. World War II provided full employment for every nation involved. The slave labor in Germany had full employment. Prisons and chain gangs have full employment. Coercion can always provide full employment
Let's open up some more mines eh?
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Is this gubmint already at Sarah Palin levels of self-satire?
Sarah P and Da Cool J
Yeah Right... Tui anybody?
And it hasn't gone unnoticed