Posts by Kyle Matthews
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What sort of bicycle pump sucks up liquid? Is it broken?
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Yeah - like the thermos flask that keeps hot things hot & cold things cold. How does it know?
If I drink too much tonight I'm going to have to think about that one.
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(Footnote): I am not, and have never been a member of the Green party. They've been getting my party vote recently though, for this among other things.
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At the risk of threadjacking. The NZ iteration of the Green Party is a bunch of luddites and I will have nothing to do with them. Saving the planet will require the best minds, knowledge and technology that can brought to bear on the problems.
Every time someone says this, I send them to one of David Haywood's early posts (on Speaker nonetheless). One of my favourite PA posts of all time. I'll quote the Green Party section in full:
Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand
Ironically, alphabetical order has placed ACT right next to their mortal enemy -- the Green Party. Practically all I know about the Greens is that they are anti-GE and seriously bad dancers. I entirely expected that their energy policy would consist of building wigwams, or perhaps making us wear braces instead of belts. Imagine my astonishment when I discovered that their energy policy actually makes sense. In fact, it's so sensible from an energy engineering perspective that I have hardly anything to say about it.
I would only seriously debate them on two points. Firstly, the Green Party supports the use of biomass for transport fuels. Apart from waste biomass, this is difficult to justify at the moment, and may only become economic when plants/organisms are bred that produce much higher energy densities at much lower extraction costs. In practical terms this probably means genetic engineering -- to which, of course, the Greens are implacably opposed. Secondly, the Green Party make mention of "wind and solar freighters in the shipping industry". While this is technically feasible, it is not readily available technology, and frankly it sounds bloody daft. This is the energy policy equivalent of letting a camera crew film you dancing, guys.
But these are only minor points. The Green's energy policy is by far the most detailed, comprehensive, and well-considered of any political party. Congratulations to whoever wrote it.
Energy Star Rating = * * * * 1/2
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One of the issues the Greens face is that people seek excuses not to engage with the Greens e.g. If it wasn't for <insert Green MP or Green issue>, then I'd vote/join/whatever...
There's probably a vaguely interesting political analysis as to why on the 'green side' of the equation people feel they have to agree with pretty much everything and everyone to sign up, but on the other side, ACT members will happily hate one or more of their diverse MPs and still jump in pimples and all.
The "890Mb pdf" actually does contain the maps you want and isn't really that big
Heh. What's a factor of a thousand between friends?
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Second chilling detail: this would be Star Trek XI.
What? How did we get from 4 when I was a teenager to 11? Did some go straight to video? I vaguely remember 3 or 4 slipping by, but 6?
though I still use Scotty's "hello computer" line
As someone who does tech support both at work, and pretty much every time I'm near my girlfriend or parents, I use that line all the time. It's picking up the mouse to say it that makes or breaks it though.
Umm, no not geeky at all!
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Seems that it won't.
Man. Time has caught up with some of the actors of that show. Glad they're not touching it again, too good to be redone.
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Quick note for Russell: Just because you've made up your mind doesn't mean Plunket should throw all scepticism out the window.
Wait, Plunket accepting the numbers provided by the Minister means that he hasn't thrown all scepticism out the window? That didn't sound backwards when you typed it?
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Locals (by and large) accept the motorway is going to be built and that there are regional benefits, and had worked through a proper democratic consultation process to ensure that the social and environmental costs were minimised where possible. Now that process looks like it will need to start all over again.
It seems you can rest assured that it won't need to start all over again, the government will be amending the RMA to ensure that much less consultation will be needed now.
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Practically writes itself doesn't it?