Posts by Steve Barnes
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<work in progress> Is Spanish Muzac known as "El Avatar" music ? </work in progress>
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But round about 40ish, I suddenly realised: the great drug was adrenalin. War & other forms of aggression were what drove the olds...
So. Pot's a good thing then?. And I don't mean Pol Pot.
Shotguns, iirc, are illegal under the Geneva convention but apparently the good ol' USandA thought the use they got in Vietnam (for smoking Maryjane) was worse. -
Too much whiskey, too early brings out vitriol.
Whiskies and other distilled beverages such as cognac and rum are complex beverages containing a vast range of flavouring compounds, of which some 200 to 300 can be easily detected by chemical analysis. The flavouring chemicals include "carbonyl compounds, alcohols, carboxylic acids and their esters, nitrogen- and sulphur-containing compounds, tannins and other polyphenolic compounds, terpenes, and oxygen-containing heterocyclic compounds" and esters of fatty acids. The nitrogen compounds include pyridines, picolines and pyrazines.
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It's not surprising Prime Minister John Key is itching to champion plans to form an Asia-Pacific financial services hub in New Zealand.
Key is sitting on a confidential report suggesting financial services could reasonably swiftly swell into a billion-dollar industry,Insider trading?.
Nah but.. Didn't Nauru try something like this?Nauru decided to become a tax haven and offered passports to foreign nationals for a fee. This attracted the wrong kind of money (but a lot of it): the Russian mafia funneled over $70 billion to the tiny island nation. Things got so bad that most big banks refused to handle transactions involving Nauru because of money laundering problems.
And that was after they had mined all their Phosphates. With all that Drug money from the Gangs this seems like a splendid idea.
Still, that wasn't the end of the road, there was still another money making scheme in the offing...This led Nauru to another extraordinary money-making scheme: it became a detention camp for people applying for asylum to Australia!
Yesss... John Key, the one for me.
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What if the Guy in the Vatican wants to watch Americas Top Model instead?. -
You miss my point. Having had the opportunity to build a new stadium, not owned by the Eden Park Trust, it's a bit rich to now complain about putting the money into the stadium that they own.
Ah, but. According to the IRB
potential economic benefits of up to £2.1 billion for Rugby World Cup, combined with low construction expenditure due to a policy of utilising existing stadiums,
As for those 238 countries. I can only account for 219 and that is including disputed states such as, Abkhazia, Kosovo. Palestine, Taiwan , Nagorno-Karabakh Republic and who could ever forget, Transnistria – Transnistrian Moldovan Republic who are, no doubt, Rugby Union fans above all else.
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. Unless you're suggesting that Reuters was toadying to NZRFU back in 2008 to inflate viewer figures from the 2007 RWC?
Of course not. I doubt if they've even heard of each other.
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No, Steve, if it looks and quacks like a duck, and is lame in the bargain then it's the Labour party...
I stand corrected, is there a Goff type of duck?. I daren't upset Biffer Mallard.
I should have guessed that venturing into the lions den waving red meat around can cause problems.
Next time wear a longer coat.
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Suspect that, like some other sports, they were giving an aggressive positive spin to viewer numbers.
Of course not. The sponsors aren't interested in those numbers so why would the NZRFU inflate their estimates. It's not as if the number of people watching was important, it's the game that counts and the Sponsors know that. They just want to help out and give something back to the people that buy their products.
It's not like the guys NZRFU make anything out of it. It's just the love of The Game.
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but at that age we were in a legislative nowhere land.
Not only are children unlikely to comprehend the law but it goes totally against earlier experience. You go from laying there with your Mother wiping poo off your butt and calling you a good boy or girl to being taught that that sort of thing is bad. You can no longer run naked down the beach because... well, just because, because it's rude. The paranoia begins, the fear of being seen, the secrecy starts and the mystery deepens... and deepens. Until you awake one day and all that has changed... you have desire and nobody ever told you how to cope with it. With luck you meet a member of the opposite sex and muddle through the whole mess of marriage and children and schools and jobs and Society calls this Normal and nobody is rude.
As a kid I had a fantasy that all this could be reversed, that we all ran around naked and peed in the woods. When we fell over it didn't hurt, in fact it felt great, you could jump off trees and never get a graze. And, of course, I could fly.
That innocence should be preserved as long as possible.