Posts by Steve Barnes
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There should be no nostalgia in cricket about a gentler game.
Come now, what could be more gentlemanly than this?.
If, however, no player comes to the wicket because all eligible players are unable to bat (e.g. through injury or illness) then they are not given out timed out; instead the innings is declared closed and 'absent ill/injured/hurt/dead' is noted next to those players' names as appropriate.
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How does it benefit our economy in the long term if all (or most) assets are sold? Isn't that just a one-off cash injection?
It's worse than that.
A countries internal economy can be illustrated as being similar to a "family". You do the washing up and Mum makes your bed, your Mum does your laundry, you mow the lawn, Dad goes to work, earns money and buys a petrol lawn mower, your job gets easier Dad now has to by petrol for lawn mower. Dad sees an ad for someone wanting to buy pots and pans so he sells all Mums kitchen equipment and pockets the cash to pay for the petrol for the lawn mower that makes your life bearable.
Mum can't cook any food because she has no pots and pans so you live on takeaways.
Most of your internal economy is swings and roundabouts, your transactions do not affect your external economy. If dad earns enough (foreign earnings) he can afford the takeaways and petrol (imports) if he can't afford the petrol you have to work harder to achieve the same result (inflation)
Simple, eh? But not as simple as those National guys. They are a bit like a Dad that just spends all the money on himself and resents spending anything on his family. -
Few beers @ the Neighbourhood Bar tonight then?.
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And now the overly generous Mr Key is going to give all our savings to his mates so they can steal our infrastucture.
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund is to put up to $100 million into a public-private partnership fund investing in infrastructure such as schools, hospitals and housing.
And while I'm here.
Happy Birthday Russell.
From all us here @ 202.74.207.16
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(see, also "dirty smelly hippies").
Hey man, that's like totally unfair you know. Save the whale, don't use water, man.
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However, If Graham Burton looses more body parts, he might argue that he's unfit enough the be safely put out to pasture. I believe William Bell has lost an eye
So, it's like we are sending them for dismantling. Can we sell the spare parts?.
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Second most reviled figure - Judith Ablett-Kerr. For going beyond her brief of providing a defence in this farcical case and, despite her mealy-mouthed protestations otherwise, putting the victim on trial.
Vile, vile, vile.So. No chance of a retrial on the grounds of an inadequate defence then? I suspect Albert-Kerr, after talking to her client, decided to let him hang himself after "doing her best".
The provocation defence is an odd one, we don't have "insanity" as a defence here but I think maybe we should. As it stands there is no way of "locking someone up and throwing away the key"
. An "insanity defence could work well. If the defendant is clearly uncontrollably homicidal then society needs a way of protecting the public from such people. If, on the other hand, the defendant is deeply troubled then they need treatment and/ or incarceration rather that punitive imprisonment.
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Just a bit of editing and...
I almost cried three times when walking into their tree and sculpture.
Ouch. ;-)
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Way back someone said this.
Off topic: I cannot see the video in the post, its just a square with the pic icon, running the latest IE (v8). Any ideas?
A brief search reveals a host of problems with IE with regards to content handling. The only way that the established media can survive is if they can supply something akin to a newspaper on the web. Something that is "better" than the biased opinion pieces than many blogs are.
However. 14.9% of people still use IE6 which just cant deliver any kind of rich web experience. Even in its latest incarnation IE8 does not impress, Read Write Web has this to say,Overall, IE8 is not a bad browser, and most mainstream users who are still using IE7 will feel right at home. The problem for Microsoft, however, is that a lot of users have already moved to other browsers like Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome, and IE8 doesn't really offer these users anything new or innovative.
Fortunately almost 60% now use something other than IE so now developers can get on with creating better ways to use the web without being hobbled by a dumb browser.
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Oh sheez. Soap? Washing my nether regions is now fraught with guilt? Is there not one single thing I can buy at the local supermarket which doesn't exploit someone vulnerable or deforest something or exterminate an endangered species?
Sorry but I couldn't help but read that in a bad way. You've got what living where?, I shudder to think.