Posts by BenWilson
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Even more telling when he got to talk to small groups personally they tended to "get it" and make changes but when he talked to "the industry" he got nowhere.
That's heartening and saddening all in one sentence.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Ben Wilson notes that third person is the only style incapable of hiding his gender.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Stephen Judd,
Ben Wilson agrees, and likes his style too.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Farmer Green,
Bacteriological testing of the water that he has done himself reveals that it is normally perfectly safe.
Yes, that third eye is actually quite fetching, on an older man.
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Field Theory: The Force will be with…, in reply to Richard Irvine,
Maybe Qigon had bullshitted him about what the afterlife was like, and he really did think that there was more to it than becoming a ghost.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Bart Janssen,
They win by dint of persistence and excellence in spite of lack of funding.
What do they win?
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Fund winners, don't pick them.
Hmmm...but they're already winners. They don't need funding. To fund the winners is to reduce the diversity of your industry, and ultimately to be picking the winners, without intending to, in a self-fulfilling prophecy. We've been doing this forever already, we have a political party that was dedicated to keeping farmers the top dogs in this town, and it's still the GOP.
What I think does work is for government to create the environment through sensible policy: so for instance a policy of moving electricity rapidly to 100%+ renewables would help, because when everyone else has rapidly rising fuel bills, we wouldn't.
It's like the last 30 years of NZ energy history never happened.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
I don't know anywhere that a conscious, government directed industrial policy has succeeded long term.
Satire! Love it. Surely?
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Farmer Green, can you elaborate on what changes you made? You're farming dairy, right?
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Field Theory: The Force will be with…, in reply to George Darroch,
Nah, it meant I could develop my own tastes.
But you don't even know what the A-Team tastes like*. That's abuse.
*It tastes like shit. But I know that.
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