Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Friday Fun with Brickface, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Hmm. That was supposed to be on by now.
Update: it is now.
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Hard News: Vanilla Buffalo Yoghurt, in reply to Dave Patrick,
I've never understood the rationale behind that 'chicken in a tin" thing either - especially when on the TV advert the tins sprouted little chicken legs and danced around the place. It was like "Look at us, we're so processed and engineered we have ACTUAL LEGS on our tins".
The way they market it as "a great alternative to canned tuna" doesn't really make any sense to me. So it's ... fake fish?
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Hard News: Vanilla Buffalo Yoghurt, in reply to Hebe,
I'm so pleased Mr Smoked Eggs has made it to the big smoke and is getting rave reviews; I met him at the Dunedin market last year and was convinced he had a winner.
And this is something I really enjoy about the show, and markets in general. You can talk to people about something they've put their heart and soul into.
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Hard News: Vanilla Buffalo Yoghurt, in reply to Ben Gracewood,
Those Clevedon Buffalo sausages are so incredibly nommy.
I'm wondering if those guys make anything that isn't.
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to James Bremner,
These days every time you turn around you see an article like this:
http://blogs.forbes.com/jamestaylor/2011/07/27/new-nasa-data-blow-gaping-hold-in-global-warming-alarmism/Unlike the author of that column, I will not purport to comment on the scientific claims it cites.
I would, however, note that the co-author of the study referred to, Dr Roy Spencer, is not just a researcher who happens to have conducted a study that calls into question some elements of modeling.
He’s also the author of two books, Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor and The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World’s Top Climate Scientists. So he’d made up his mind about what was happening and who was to blame long before he embarked on the study.
He is also a proponent of “intelligent design” and does not accept the theory of evolution.
So, basically, the fact that you and your Forbes columnist have to resort to citing an obvious outlier like Spencer for comfort says more about your fairly desperate position than anything I could.
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to richard,
I think this is a copout. I just listened to a technical talk on an aspect of string theory, and “superpotential”, “F-term” and “complex structure moduli” are not terms in regular use outside the field.
But any good science is part of a larger enterprise and this should be explainable, and is likely of interest to the wider community.
I'm interested. Could you explain it here?
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Kumara Republic,
And it’s no coincidence that many neo-cons and Teabaggers are ex-Marxists. It’s the dogmatic zeal that remains the same.
Lindsay Perigo was brought up in a Marxist household; Keith Windschuttle and Elizabeth Rata are both apostates. Martin Durkin, producer of The Great Global Warming Swindle, was a member of a group around Marxism Today. It's quite a thing.
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I'm so, so pleased for Chris.
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Kracklite,
Pokie machines aren’t ironic enough to be fun.
Oh, bravo sir.
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Kracklite,
Purely for my own entertainment. James, like most trolls, is absolutely covered in big shiny flashy buttons that I just can’t resist pushing.
He's a pokie machine, then?
I bloody hope the profits are going somewhere good. Those things are a menace.