Posts by Rich of Observationz
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You can get styli for capacitive screens. Not sure who stocks them in NZ.
I was thinking of trying a 1uf tantalum as an alternative.
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"please, Steve"
Call me picky, but I prefer a platform where of there's a functionality hole, users can fix it by coding, not obsequies.
Of course, open cellphones will take down the network. My Android did only last week. Didn't you notice the smoke?
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Steve, if you want to eat radioactive food, it's up to you. Grind gas mantles and old smoke detectors over your chips or something.
The rest of us mostly would rather not, hence farmers with fallout in their fields don't get to sell product.
And the dental X-ray analogy is misleading. That's high level exposure for a fraction of a second. Some ingested radionucleides, like Sr-90 are with you for life.
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Also, developing countries are not all the same. Some places, like Venezuela have chosen not to be a big sweatshop for the West. Arguably people are better off there with a chance to control their destiny rather than be serfs of Nike and Apple.
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If you take the film industry as an example, eventually someplace will offer pixelbashers at even lower rates than NZ and the work will go there.
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I think the way forward in trade isn't the traditional consensus that's been honoured in the breach since WW2. While that gives us cheap electronic toys and markets for milk, it also fucks the planet and the workers.
I see fair trade as the way to go. Not the tokenist fairtrade where the wealthy, liberal minority-in-a-minority buy fancy chocolate and hessian bags, but an actual level playing field for workers.
If a country uses cheap labour to produce goods or services, its products get taxed by the difference. If it isn't applying decent environmental standards, it gets taxed by the notional cost of those standards. That way, providers have to compete on quality, not on exploitation and pollution.
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What people outside Europe don't take into account are the events of the 20th century. Britain was nearly starved out of WW2 because of a reliance on imported food. Food was desparately short in continental Europe during the immediate post-war period.
This meant that food security has always been a key priority, even today. Growing surplus food locally is an insurance policy, and at $60bln, it's a cheap one for a continent with 16 trillion of GDP.
The world is very different for a country that has never seen its soil touched by global war and can grow way more food than its people will ever eat.
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Even though some of the stuff that went on under Muldoon was dumb, and I totally disagree with the social conservatism, ordinary people were better off in those days.
One could earn a decent living, land was cheap and hence house prices and rents were low, basics were cheaper and jobs were secure.
The 80s 'reforms' led to a massive transfer of wealth from the ordinary people to rich asset owners.
There are alternatives to capitalism, and they don't involve disassembling and rebuilding cars.
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I understand that goitre is making a comeback due to the consumption of "organic" salt with no added iodide. Not sure if cretinism has done so as well - some would argue the victims are already there.
(salt is one of the few food items that is incontrovertibly *inorganic*)
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Out of interest, how many people actually read Farrar's bleurgh? I suspect if it was a photocopied scandal sheet it wouldn't get anything like the dubious credibility it picks up.