Posts by Alfie
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Matt Bowden's Stargate Operations owes Inland Revenue $846,000 and other creditors around $700,000. I would have thought that selling legal highs with a large markup would be incredibly profitable. I wonder where all the money went?
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Up Front: Stand for... Something, in reply to Hilary Stace,
There's a zero missing from the end of that URL Hillary. It should be...
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Here's another almost identical sentencing, this time for a little shitbag who was blackmailing women and making their lives a living hell. He also received 350 hours community work and 12 months supervision. The court didn't require him to attend any sort of rehabilitation.
One of these people committed some awful crimes resulting in actual psychological harm to the victims. The Naseby woman helped her neighbours and hurt nobody.
The law is an ass.
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Garrick Tremain on the public meeting in Christchurch where a whole ten people turned up.
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Meanwhile a 59 year old Naseby woman receives 350 hours' community work, 12 months' supervision and is ordered to complete a drug and alcohol programme for growing a few plants and giving them away to her friends and neighbours.
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Envirologue: Multi-no-choice –…, in reply to Amanda Wreckonwith,
Sadly, until everyone reading this post accepts that responding to climate change IS going to 'cost us', we are pretty much cooked.
I'd like to think that most PA readers (with the notable exception of Stomper) accept that immediate action is needed to prevent catastrophic climate change.
Powerwall
However welcome Musk’s Powerwall may be, it doesn't yet offer a practical answer to the storage problem. The 7kWh Powerwall only outputs 2kWh -- not enough to run an oven and a heater at the same time. Musk's larger 10kWh system is only designed for 50 cycles per year, so it's really just an emergency backup. Sure... you can string multiple 7kWh units together, but then the cost becomes prohibitive.As the proud owner of a 4kWh grid-tied solar system I'd love to own an affordable storage solution -- but at this stage it's not likely to be a Powerwall.
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Hard News: Synthetic cannabis: it just…, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Why would you want to see him fail at having a successful business that encourages responsible use and crowd sourcing responsible use and knowledge?
Because I don't like either his ethics or the business he was running.
The product he was selling is evil shit and I know one person who is seriously fucked for life after acting as a tester for Bowden's products. Giving even a part of a legal weed market to a person like that is up there with handing it over to big tobacco. IMHO.
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Matt Bowden has put his Stargate Operations into liquidation. I can't find any mention of this on the Harold, but TV3 News deemed it important -- they ran it as the lead story on Saturday's 6pm bulletin. That story included the revelation that Bowden "wants the public's help to produce natural cannabis medicine."
Mr Bowden wants to set up a not-for-profit organisation where he will do the research then develop the products. He will need hundreds of thousands of dollars, but he says investors will get their money back.
Bowden admits he has made millions out of synthetics which surely raises questions about the liquidation. And he's the last person in the world I'd want to see making money out of weed.
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I like what you're doing Damian. Well done sir!
As an aside, I tried to view the piece but TVNZ refuses me entry unless I provide them with my email and other personal details. Whatever's that about? It seems a little unfriendly.
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Envirologue: Too Big to Fail – Why…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
They found, as you might expect, different people can smell different odours with different sensitivity. Then they genotyped all the people and looked for and found evidence that the ability to detect some odours is a fairly simple genetic trait.
Bart... I know this is slightly off-topic, but can I ask if this is the reason some people can smell asparagus pee and others miss it altogether?
