Posts by FletcherB
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I'm having trouble with the concept that cutting down a tree releases the stored carbon?
If you burn the wood, or let it rot and decompose sure, its released.
But surely the walls of my house and the furniture I sit on still have all the carbon inside them, unreleased, that was in the tree before it was cut down?
Maybe we should be growing more wood, and using it to make stuff while growing more, instead of making plastic stuff, to "suck up" more and more carbon?
(as you can see, I'm a complete newbie to this topic and probably need re-education?)
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So, if supplying a device, or information, to get around TPM is illegal.... and some of the pathetic root-kit installers on CD's are circumventable simply by not executing a file when inserting the disk, which can be set in the operating system as a permanent option, or done on a case-by-case basis by holding down the shift key....
Doesnt that make Microsoft or your PC manufacturer liable?
Seems a mighty big call?
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It seemed that back then non-Flying Nun listeners would clump all the Dunedin bands together in a tuneless, hairy, pissed, mumbling, black jersey-clad mess.
Um.... yeah, guilty as charged. :sheepish look:
That was my original point.... not so many people now admit to having thought that way in the past.
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Russell... thats a valid comment...
Perhaps my own tastes were more heavily influenced by commercial radio and Ready To Roll than the stronger NZ presense on Karen Hay's Radio With Pictures... I was, after-all too young to attend live gigs at the time...
Heavenly Pop Hit was possibly the first Flying Nun release I did like.... I wasn't considering that part of my "especially the early years" it was 1990 after all :)
Now, being older and wiser, I can see the difference between production/polish/presentation and the greatness (or not) of a song... but to young eyes/ears low production standards of the videos/recordings at that time were a hinderance to "getting" the music, and I've known my share of bands that were great live but could never get that greatness when recording...
So perhaps if you were old enough to get to the gigs you'd get a better idea of how good they were, moreso than if your only exposure to them was radio/tv?
I think its one of the great acheivements of digital technology, for start-up bands and the like, that its far harder now to tell the difference between a $1000 recording and a $10,000 one, let alone a $100,000 one, than it was back in the '80's.
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Is it just me, or does a dead Pinochet totally win the Yoda look alike competition?
Yoda? I guess, quite a bit.... but almost 100% Jabba The Hutt I'd say.
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Re: Che's If you think of yourself as X, and others agree, then you are...
On the face of it, I like that.... but here's the rub.
I was born in Australia, and have an Australian passport... but I've been here long enough, and from young enough, that I'm far more Kiwi than Australian... I support NZ sports teams, I consider Aussies rude/arrogant/racist and generally share the New Zealand view of things.... My accent dissapeared decades ago.
If I say I'm a New Zealander... everyone who hasnt seen my passport beleives me. (and I do beleive I have become one, or at least 95% of the way there :-)
On the other hand, If I'd arrived in this country equally long ago, formed the same opinions and beleifs, but happened to be of non anglo-saxon blood-lines, I'd probably have a much harder time getting the other New Zealanders to agree/beleive that I was?
That seems a little unfair/unbalanced that its harder for some people than others to acheive a new identity?
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Me, I've never really "got" the whole Flying Nun thing.... especially the early years...
I'm not here to detract from the bands or the label.... different strokes for different folks and all that...
But, I seem to recall at the time, that mine was not a minority view.... And it seems to me an awful lot of people claim to have always loved Flying Nun/The Dunedin Sound....
They may indeed love it now, but some of them are full of it when it comes to thier historical view.... Just ask Flying Nun themselves about the early sales figures.
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Well, its not quite online dating, but I did sign up to www.companycompany.co.nz
An organization that does dinner for six and other organised activites for singles...And that is where I met my now wife and mother of our two kids.
No, its not something we proclaim widely and loudly... we are somewhat sheepish about how we met when asked, but at least we dont lie :)
There are quite a few who go to those things who are plainly lacking in the social or other departments that provides obvious clues to how they came about being in a singles club. There are some who are plainly looking for sex and not much else, and there are some who are desperately clock ticking, or jaded/jilted anti-the-opposite-sex-not-ready-for-a-relationship-yet.... And equally, there are genuine nice people just looking for friends or see what develops....
Having met the love of my life, and bringing up two great kids really has changed my life for the better... sure, you dont get out as much, have far less spare cash, but the rewards are so good.... its hard to descrribe.
But, also, I remember being single, and how difficult it was to beleive or understand what I just stated above... So, unlike some "happily marrieds" I dont try to push those views onto my (rapidly reducing number of) single or childless friends.
P.S. I'm not rapidly losing friends... just they stop being single or childless :) I guess its contagious ?
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I also have always had a problem with the Etnicity question.... Not because I dont want to answer, but I always hhad trouble figuring out where I fit..... and not because I'm multi-ethnic....
What with being a white immigrant from Australia, I've never found Pakeha or European to have any resonance with me, despite I guess, that is where I was "supposed" to tick the box?
Are they trying to group you to people with similar genetics, or similar social history, or something else?
If they are simply trying to identify genetics, surely its "Caucasian" that groups together all the white decendents of Europe, be they European, New Zelander, Australian, South African or where-ever else our ancestors spread themselves?
Alternatively, if "European" is supposed to cover us honkys, where do you put people from Europe who are not white? Or is it intended to be a broad enough term to cover a collection of different peoples in the same way Asian is used?
I think the question would get better responses if what was trying to be discovered was more clearly spelt out in the form.
I realize that "ethnicity" probably has a reasonably narrow definition to the people asking the question.... but it seems easily mis-understood by the wider populace (including me).... so maybe they should ask more clearly if they dont want bogus responses?
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"You also have to be aware that people say things on the internet behind aliases they would never ever say in real life."
That's true.... but it doesnt mean it's not what they actually think.