Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Here's a question:
- has anyone looked at the efficiency difference between making biofuel from wood and simply burning the wood in a power station? -
"These yacht races might be more interesting if there were more boats on the water?"
That's the normal style of yacht racing for everything from small kids to millionaires in maxi-raters. Up to 100 (or even more) boats racing around anything from inshore buoys to thousand kilometre ocean crossings.
The Sydney-Hobart and Cowes Week are some of the prime yachting events.
Match racing is a tiny part of the sport, although it makes better telly.
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like an english council estate, without the poor people
But English council estates would be lovely without the poor people f...ing them up! Actually, after Thatcher had a lot of the underclass thrown down coal mines, many of them are quite nice. I have friends who live on quite idyllic ones.
Seriously, if you've ever been to the Barbican in London, it's a 1960s system built deck access estate, just like the Mozart, only the people who live there are mostly wealthy. And it's a nice place to hang out. It's got residential in the middle, offices and pubs around the edges and even a preserved church and a large chunk of the city walls included.
You can't buy smack there though apparently, unlike the Mozart.
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Expensive though. The yachts, crews and media would all need to go by air between the venues.
Oh - who just happens to own an airline??
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From the linked article:
But if you really feel the need to be seen to be supporting the “black boat”, rest assured that when you next fill up your car, a good portion of your money will end up in the pockets of the owners of this syndicate.Partly true anyway - the Dubaious have very little oil of their own but rely on Saudis and the like coming over the causeway for booze and hot chicks.
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Emirates Team New Zealand
Two countries named there. One pays the money and calls the shots, the other is New Zealand. If they beat Alinghi, I think it's at least evens that the next America's Cup will be raced off Dubai.
On the water front:
Why is it a better land use for (very) rich wankers to have sheds to play boats in than for less rich wankers to have apartments? Most of the viaduct apartments have a walkway between them and the harbour - the cup bases do not.And as an Auckland apartment dweller, I'd remind everyone that each CBD worker living in town rather than the 'burbs is a car not clogging the roads every day. Some apartment blocks may be ugly, but motorways are a lot uglier.
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Eleanor, I was using "medic" as shorthand for "professional health practitioner" as you told us you were in your first post.
I see where you're coming from with your definition of "antibiotic" but it doesn't really match with the conventional usage, which covers agents which are effective against bacterial infections *within the body*, like penicillin or doxycycline.
As this article points out, lots of things (including soap and water) are effective against bacteria on the skin surface, but they're not antibiotics in the usual sense of the word.
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Sorry Eleanor - I didn't see that you weren't advocating Lavender Oil as an antibiotic :-)
I could be convinced that it works as an biocide. But as a medic, shouldn't you know the mechanism for that?
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yeah but would you put sodium hypochlorite on your skin and still have a good day?
big difference eh rich.
Depends on the concentration. It's used medically as a disinfectant/antiseptic - see Dakin's solution
My endodontist used it when doing my root canal. It was also used in the Falklands war to treat burn victims.But there's a big difference between an antiseptic (which kills bacteria outside the body) and an antibiotic (which kills bacteria inside).
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we should be seeking to democratise Trans-Tasman relations, rather than retreating into ourselves
The EU works because the largest country (Germany) doesn't dwarf the others - so there has to be multinational consensus to do anything.
A democratic trans-tasman partnership would essentially be run by Australia. Plus they're rednecks.
It'd be a bit like having an EU with just the Netherlands and France at it's most poujadist.