Posts by BenWilson
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Wishart would probably sue just for the publicity, let alone the bullying value. Not that the sue would get anywhere. What a sad nutcase. I feel genuinely sorry for him.
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Nobody Important, lol, dude, never assume you're a twit. I was actually meaning people on kiwiblog.
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I'm wondering if the reason numerous twits are equating this chicken-flick with kiddie porn is because about the same time that I remember some dumb chicken-flick doing the rounds of my mates in the 80s, a number of films involving Traci Lords turned out to have been when she was a minor. Most of the porn-watching population of NZ at the time have watched 'kiddie porn'. That they were unsuspecting won't stop the likes of Wishart.
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So *that's* how a copy got into my doctor's waiting room! There was me thinking my doc was a subscriber. Pity Playboy don't do the same thing - the articles really are a lot better than Investigate's.
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Tom "I almost feel sorry for Mr. Wishart. I don't know what demons he keeps locked in the dark corners of his mind, but I would guess sometimes their pounding on the doors gets very loud indeed."
It wasn't long ago he revealed that his wife had been stalked by a real creep for quite some time and it made their lives hell. The stalker is in jail now I think - I can't find the kiwiblog article about it as the search doesn't seem to be working. Anyways, I'm wondering if that might have affected with his balance. If it happened, that is. I've only heard allegations.
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Well done Public Address.
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"Alternatively if, after 10 years of most of the major CO2 producers cutting back we haven't seen any appreciable changes in climate then maybe the whole CO2-emissions thing isn't a factor in all this."
Depends how much cutting back we do, of course. I don't believe there's any real controversy about CO2 being a greenhouse gas anymore. The big controversy is merely about what we can/should do. And I favor an experimental approach, personally. It's a costly experiment, but the consequences are very weighty too. And we will have to live without fossil fuels sooner or later, so the cost of the experiment will happen at some point anyway. But we could choose the time.
It might even be quite soon. Gas has almost doubled in price over 5 years. It only needs to do that a few more times and biofuel will actually be the same price.
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Chaos Buddha, I know what you mean. The global warming debate does have the problem of not being amenable to localized experimentation, so it's not as hard a science as many would like. We can't really prove (or disprove) that humans can affect the climate until we try, which is a huge call. Because trying involves a very costly effort over a very long time.
I was a real climate change skeptic for a looong time, but for me the tipping point was the sheer number of credible scientists thinking there is something to it reaching a sort of critical mass. I don't really care what Al Gore (politician) or David Bellamy (botanist) think about it.
It would be nice if the Kyoto process were approached as an experiment rather than buying into a religion. If after 10 years of most of the major CO2 producers cutting back, we haven't seen any appreciable changes in climate, perhaps it could be scaled back again. Then if we do see changes again, that's another experiment. Naturally those figures are highly political, so a really clear evaluation method needs to be established.
The time using less CO2 doesn't need to be a languishing period though. It could be used as a time to develop more efficient alternatives to fossil fuels, something we certainly will need sooner or later. Even if it's as ungreen as nuclear power, it's still helping us cope with the impending peak oil crisis. We may find quite rapidly that Kyoto is not as costly as it seems. Or not, in which case humans are going to have to suck on it at some point! Wouldn't it be better to do it whilst there is still cheap oil?
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Kyle, hey, it's at least a novel way of getting your kids to earn their pocket money doing something that isn't completely 'make work' nor also completely disgusting or tiresome the way most of my childhood chores were. It does amuse me that this kid earned as much from editing the ads out of 4 programs (I'm thinking about 10 mins work) as I used to from 7 hours of paper deliveries, but that's just my 'bad old days' story. I did also get pocket money just for nothing so I can't complain that much.
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So Maurice Williamson has found a way to turn free TV into pay TV! But having no ads definitely adds value. I think I almost would pay $5 to see Heroes without the ads.
Russell, you didn't tell him that his Communications Policy needs a bit of work? http://www.national.org.nz/Article.aspx?ArticleId=5115
I guess he's working on it.
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