Posts by debunk
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Hard News: To be expected, in reply to Sacha,
There are some clever people in the Greens compared with current Labour leftovers, and they should be in more senior positions .. which they won't get with Labour but might get with National.
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Hard News: To be expected, in reply to bmk,
Suspect Greens would be more likely to get Ministerial positions with National (if Hon Dunne can get away with making up silly laws and behaving badly) ..Greens are not really that "left" - their view of economics is pretty conventional in the current world banking and business climate where all sorts of chicanery and nonsense is heating up ..looking at March 8th Economist on their Finance and Economics section ..which mag may be miguided on warming climate change but are forced to examine the "rigging" etc going on, even in commodity markets ..and forex .. NZ is involved. Oravida with Collins and PM overt support surely offshoot of dodgy "market" behaviour condoned by present govt. Thin ice.
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Sure you're right Sacha. I wouldn't know, not being exposed to "official business stats series"..and it doesn't advance the conversation, as usual .. Steven Joyce "knows" everything and nothing. Most small businesses only submit data to IRD and do their own accounts - so would have thought what they claim as expenses would provide sole input to such stats series.
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I am saying that it is a matter of how R&D is defined for the IRD etc. Market research goes on all the time (especially with technology product) but it would not be classified as R&D. Government science classifies everything they do (part from admin) I suggest - as R&D so comparison is difficult .. Gallaghers fencing are a high R&D company? Not knocking it .. but the transformation of MAF to Lincoln etc is a lot of nonsense. In my view NZ should have kept the CSIRO model in NZ with DSIR etc and concentrated on the science and the long term. International "market" should sort out the dunces, not some wishful thinking here about a domestic "science market" - total waste of precious funds.
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Compared with Australia and UK it seems to me that Radio NZ gives a really good coverage of "science" .. I have been impressed. I think the "private sector" does a lot of R&D but it is classified as a business expense ..unless one applies for funds - in which case it has to be for some large amount (whereas you just want to update your stats/maths AI software etc) and "government science" is thrown in as the "expertise" to go with it - crowd funding may be an answer to this? I have been in "government science" and "science by committee" and that's enough of that - entertaining as it was at the time - independence has a lot going for it these days..the MSM science suppporters tend to be in universities - perhaps because they have more job and funding security -
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Re laws ..thought RMA and ACC Acts confusing enough but son Dunne will have fun with this one.
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Re passing into water .. apparently the Thames yields up an interesting profile of drug use in London and thereabouts. Probably a big cleanout with recent flooding. Happy wildlife.
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No this was on a NZ Poisons Centre Info page devoted to "New Party Drugs" (News Archive) with that date (2009) so accurate labelling of product has been a requirement for at least the past 5 years it seems. MoH withdrew the last category because JWH-018was found in it by analysis but not listed on packet. Never seen a packet myself so I don't know where ingredients are shown.
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Quote from Wikipedia page. A lot more on Dept Health page re "Legal Highs" but mislaid my printout. NZ Poisons Centre Info does say, however (14.01.09):
"Products sold as 'herbal' cannabis substitutes such as "Spice," "Dream" or "Yucatan Fire" have been found to contain the chemical compound JWH-018, an ingredient not listed on the label...has been recently banned in Austria and Germany"
"In New Zealand products are legally required to list all ingredients on the label"..
I presume the labelling requirement still applies.
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More dangerous because it (and many of its analogues) affects the whole CB1 receptor ..not partial agonist like cannabis - therefore stronger and less predictable effects..is not THC remember!
"THC has been shown to inhibit GABA receptor neurotransmission in the brain via several pathways .. JWH-018 may cause intense anxiety, agitation, and, in rare cases (generally with non-regular JWH users), has been assumed to have been the cause of seizures and convulsions by inhibiting GABA neurotransmission more effectively than THC. Cannabinoid receptor full agonists may present serious dangers to the user when used in excess."
Maybe the unfortunate cooky consumer got the slice with all the strong bits in it ..can't take much from that description. Was a case here with a marijuana birthday cake taken to workplace in Palmerston North I think, where fellow workers weren't told and one had a bad reaction. Like Nutts sensitivity ...Nutts don't agree with everyone -