Posts by Ross Mason

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  • Speaker: Sharks Dine Out on…,

    It is simple. We talked about it earlier. Prevent the selling of empty sections within 50km of the Red Zone by no more than a percentage of the 2007 rateable value per year from now. Lets say 20% as a quickie guess.

    Upper Hutt • Since Jun 2007 • 1590 posts Report

  • Up Front: P.A. Story,

    The Greendale Fault moved. A small shiver. The fault had shot due south to Ellesmere and north along SH1. It continued on and split the Red Zone clean along the Avon River. Haywood was now part of the 4th Isle. The Cashmere members of the Weedons Country Club and Golf Course would now be needing a ferry to reach the 1st.

    The gap widened. By 3-46pm Tuesday, the 28 July 2011, it was 147.45m wide at the Oxford on Avon which was now more than spitting distance from the Town Hall.

    Ngai Tahu phoned the Waitangi Commission to claim the bed of the newly formed Red Zone Strait. It was just in tme too. Gerry was contemplating filling it in and selling it off for his temporary housing.

    Abigail, standing on the torn end of the Bridge of Rememberance watching in wonder, muttered." I hope I have remembered my She Wee".

    Upper Hutt • Since Jun 2007 • 1590 posts Report

  • Hard News: Angry and thrilled about Arie,

    Um...R of O....

    The point of the star map is to SHOW you what the sky would look like and the screen (and google star map) identifies the stars. You point the screen at the sky and the display shows what the sky should look like.

    Using the camera will just show the sky it is pointed to. All sorts of image ID/ pattern recognition software would then be required.

    And another advantage of not using the camera is that you can still tell where the stars are (and planets BTW) even with cloud cover! So if you have a cloudy night then at least you know where to look to find the object of choice.

    Upper Hutt • Since Jun 2007 • 1590 posts Report

  • Hard News: Angry and thrilled about Arie,

    You lot measuring things, stuffing things, wanting neutrino detectors obviously need a Turboencabulator

    Upper Hutt • Since Jun 2007 • 1590 posts Report

  • Speaker: The great New Zealand phone…,

    Gaaaa....Alan Turing!!!!!

    Not von Neumann!!

    Bletchley Park Ok.. 80% were women.

    Upper Hutt • Since Jun 2007 • 1590 posts Report

  • Speaker: The great New Zealand phone…,

    They then built a huge infrastructure to brute force their way into the keys.

    And is the traditional classification of them as geniuses influenced by them being on the Right Side?

    Just remember all they had were a few relays and glass valves hooked up capable of a few hundred cycles per second. The ultimate in machine code programmng?? Oh...and the odd guy with names like von Neumann. And if you were really really good at cryptic crosswords you were in as a "calculator",

    A Calculator in those days was 99.999% a girl who did paper calculations of one piece of an algoritm..

    Upper Hutt • Since Jun 2007 • 1590 posts Report

  • OnPoint: Why Rightwingers Should Support…, in reply to Angus Robertson,

    Hmmm...my simple logic thus: If a landlord improves the rented house, he can up the rent. He thus receives the benefit from day one. He does not have to pay the tax on the capital gain until he sells it. A little bit of optimisation should figure out how much to raise the rent to cover the tax "loss" over x years.....

    Upper Hutt • Since Jun 2007 • 1590 posts Report

  • Hard News: Angry and thrilled about Arie,

    A quote from a Facebook contributor:

    The real culprits with an empathy-deficit... Police National HQ.

    Sunday Star Times had a readable and timely article written by a "low number". On empathy, Simon Baron-Cohen and quizzes.

    Upper Hutt • Since Jun 2007 • 1590 posts Report

  • Hard News: About Arie,

    Appease is the wrong word. I think I mean to make sure the plice at least made eye contact with them to ensure at least a good look.

    Upper Hutt • Since Jun 2007 • 1590 posts Report

  • Hard News: About Arie,

    Nothing like a few last minute visitations to appease the owners. Wonder what Sunday will be up for. Interfering in a case before the courts I suppose. But there is no way NZ could get that sort of background by only listening to the court process.

    No army guys huh?

    Upper Hutt • Since Jun 2007 • 1590 posts Report

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