Posts by Stewart
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"When they kick in your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
or on the trigger of your gun?"maybe the Clash would be a bit too provocative?
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Danielle,
how does this "horse on our asses" thing go?
And are mules involved? Drug mules, or just slip-ons?It's all so confusing for a Friday.
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As a man I might be tempted to say don't worry your pretty head about it but as a doctor I would say 'take 2 of these and call me in the morning'.
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Speaking as a patent lawyer, ScottY?
Joshing...
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No worries, mate.
The written word is a little harder to inflect & interpret than the face-to-face spoken variety.
I personally would like the Greens to indicate that they have a good deal of diversity of opinion within their ranks and to indicate that they are not averse to changing their policies in the light of fresh evidence .
The rigid adherence to a held position despite changing evidence for/against that position is something thaty seems to afflict politicians of all varieties - they have to walk the line between 'flip-flop' and 'blinkered'.
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Bart, I wasn't having a go at you or at research in GE in general, so go a bit easy with the condescension and sarcasm big fella.
I was outlining why some caution wrt GE can be part of Greens policy without going for a total ban. Please don't set me up as your opponent unless I specifically pick a fight with you.
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Fair call, little p.
It would be a bit tough for them to come out with something like "He was a lazy bastard who always cut corners and he's no real loss to the force".
Also patently untrue, from what little I know about it. He sounds like he was "a good cop" rather than one of the bully-boys that bring the public image of the police down in the public estimation.(While I tend towards the opinion that a lot of cops are just bullies who like being in the gang that is supposedly 'on our side' I am happy to give credit to those who make it into and through the overly-macho us&them posturing and retain the dignity and positive attitude that allows the public to know that they are working for us.)
It sounds like Len Snee was 'one of the good ones'.
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Re the Greens' stance on GE, I think they need to make a distinction between the manipulation of naturally-occuring genotypes and the creation of genetic hybrids using genes from entirely different organisms .
Where genes from one organism are inserted into the genotype of another organism we (humans) are really dabbling in stuff about which we know very little. What we do know is that genes tend not to act alone and that they combine to produce a wide variety of effects as those genes and gene-combinations are expressed at different stages of the organism's life-cycle.
I, for one, am very wary of the possibility of these trans-genic combinations going awry. Selective breeding is a very safe means of genetic 'manipulation'; transposition of genes from within an organism's genotype is a bit more suspect and trans-genic experimentation is risky enough that I feel it should be contained in labs until we have just cause to believe in its/their safety.
It might be in the Greens' interest to take such nuances on board & eschew the blanket ban.
[Not a Greens member, FWIW]
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Afraid the "humility" rather exposes your forgery, Ian.
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whipping beanie off...
And you thought I was being a bit smutty?