Posts by Juha Saarinen
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I'll be honest and admit that until recently, I didn't know that the incandescent lightbulbs I bought to be environmentally sound contain mercury. Will have to check next time if the packaging states this. I remain bothered by there not being an easy way to recycle batteries as well.
Non-volatile mercury is easier to handle than nuclear waste but it's still poisonous. We should think twice before introducing more of the stuff.
Renewable energy sources - I presume you mean wind and wave generators for instance - are somewhat dubious environmentally. The huge windfarms in California are downright scary, and while they don't kill as many birds as say traffic does, they seem to butcher bats en masse. Apparently the fix for that is to relocate them out into the sea where they also produce energy in a steadier fashion, but the trade-off there is the added cost.
Likewise, damming rivers isn't sound environmental practice. Doing so even generates greenhouse gases like methane apparently.
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"... paid $12.50 an hour to parade in jockstraps, getting grease-burns and sexual harassment from customers"
Shush. You'll bring the Kiwiblog crowd in here with talk like that.
On a more serious note - yes, I hit those occasionally if I try hard - the whole issue bothers me, coming from a not-so-distant egalitarian time warp. It seems to coincide with the rise of neo-conservatism, but are they related?
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"Renaming the thing 'Toddller Tingler' and making it look like a pink wand with flowers on it "
/me double-checks he's not on 4chan or YTMND by accident, with Pedobear lurking in the background.
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Oohh... is guoba like Japanese okoge?
I know of a Chinese guy in Malaysia who'd fit the Marley bill, at least when it comes to dreadlocks.
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I like the name. "Thorium". Very heavy metal, totally high fission. It resonates with power, it does. Odinium wouldn't be half as cool.
If we're going to ban incandescent light bulbs in favour of fluorescent ones containing mercury, why worry about something like nuclear power that won't be anywhere near as hard on the environment?
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So spanking children is outlawed, but not tasering them. Interesting.
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Bah. I was looking forward to my Triangle of Life.
Your senior male friend (sounds dodgy that too) should blog about it.
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"As a prevention to conventional methods of "duck and cover" or the "turtle" position that most of us are advised, most people are actually killed with this method, and should be outlawed and replaced with the "TRIANGLE OF LIFE" this could be a good time to make everyone aware to Doug Copps method of......... "THE TRIANGLE OF LIFE".
If there were to be a more serious quake this method saves just about everyone in a building. his theory is to find a space that will become a void (eg: on the floor beside a sofa) when buildings colaspe rather than being crushed under something. He is extremely experienced with global distasters"Yes, yes... let's have a triangle of life. Never tried that. (From the Herald comments page.)
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Merc++ !
And Che Dobermann... the Indons and Turks are a gregarious lot. You're looking at some lengthy and intensive pansy calling there.
Video imagery of typical JAFA panicking when the earthquake struck.
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The moaning in question only emanates from the feverish minds of some provincials as they wring out every little bit they can from a sad, self-induced inferiority complex.
No-one panicked and took to the streets. That's all lies. Nevertheless, a biggish earthquake in an area not known for them, but which is riddled with volcanoes, happens to be news.
When an earthquake happens, you don't know how it will end. I can safely say that even if you're used to smaller ones, if you say you don't react with at least some apprehension when a quake happens, you're either a liar or terminally stupid.
There were more powerful earthquakes in Turkey and Indonesia recently too, that frightened people. Luckily, nobody seems to have died and the damage wasn't bad. Any Wellingtonian wanting to have a go and call the Turks and Indonesians "pansies"?