Posts by Steve Barnes
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Hard News: Why we thought what we thought, in reply to BenWilson,
You could do that with a Pie graph, although you may have to blow on it first and in Brownlee's case make sure he doesn't take a big bite out of it.
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Hard News: Why we thought what we thought, in reply to nzlemming,
I counter with Commandments... 13 of them.
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Hard News: Why we thought what we thought, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
he had cast himself
Knit one, purl one, cast off into a boiling sea
made treacherous by hidden monsters with needle teeth
that clatter like the hooves of an aran jumper
The cable knit ties that anchor are dropped
And sew to sea Lord Cardigan...I do like a good knitting yarn.
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Hard News: Why we thought what we thought, in reply to BenWilson,
I see where you are coming from now, a graph depicting something along the lines of relative scores on each question. That, surely, would become quite cumbersome and open to "cheating" yes?.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
What I am is a citizen of a country that holds free, fair and credible elections even when the outcome isn’t to my liking.
As opposed to…
“Frankly, you know, one of the reasons I am so utterly determined to work every hour of the day and night I have got until the election is to make sure he’s not the prime minister."”
Collins on David CunliffeRespect Craig but you are a champion for these people and reading Collins’ remarks makes me believe you are not on that “Team”
The link to Brash seems broken
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Hard News: Why we thought what we thought, in reply to BenWilson,
And just as you can’t really judge how close stars are to each other by their apparent clustering to the naked eye,
I suppose you could call that the Z axis which in the case of what we are discussing would be the change over time (as distance over astronomical distances equates to time) unless, that is, you wanted to use time as the fourth dimension in which case I suppose your concept could indicate a spiritual element which means... erm... Oh... is that the time? gosh. I really should be asleep by now.
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Speaker: A Slight Diversion from…, in reply to Paul Brown,
I have thought about a book in a gonzo style of journalism.
Hunter S. is still one of my heroes, I had my first beating from a stranger with Hell’s Angels in my pocket, not really sure if that means anything but hey…
I feel our paths may have crossed along the way…
My experience with ferro cement was kinda second hand. Back in '76 I was building fibreglass 22 foot Bermuda rigged keelers for a while for a company in SE London when a guy came to the yard and asked the boss if he could build a 45 foot ferro sloop there, boss said yeah and took the rent. After the guy had got all the steel tied up, he used welded metal frames with 5mm round with 5x50 mesh with 12mm chicken wire over if I remember right. Anyway, he got to the stage just before plastering when the Council guy turned up and said we didn’t have permission to build boats at the yard, just to store them. He was gutted, had to move the thing elsewhere. I doubt if he managed to move it without wrecking the damned thing and I never heard about it cos my job went down the gurgler too. So, needless to say, Councils don’t rank well in my scheme of things. -
Hard News: Why we thought what we thought, in reply to BenWilson,
It would be interesting, since they collect the data, for them to report not just the two aggregated dimensions relative to you, but also the magnitude of your distance in all the dimensions (a single number) to the main parties
Not quite sure where you were going with that but how about they make a graph of how society changes over time?.
Everybody’s perspective changes over time, growing up, growing old. Some say that people get more Right wing as the get older, could be the ebbing of the optimism of youth, becoming more aware of risk. My Mother went from hard line Communist/international socialist to National conservative White supremacist over her life, me, on the other hand l make Gandhi look like Thatcher and people still despise me.
