Posts by Kumara Republic
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I am reminded of the Ma Bell carve-up in America in the early 80s, which was outright amputation, compared to the surgery Telecom is undergoing (and BT underwent).
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I think one of these would be a better idea for Cook Strait, or specifically Wellington:
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Spot on.
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I am reminded of a news story, possibly an urban legend, that I read a few years back about a high school in Melbourne where two-thirds of the students were of ethnic minority descent (in Aussie, that refers to mostly non-Polynesian ethnics). The story covered the school not having enough players to field a First XV rugby team for the first time in its history, and its relation to the school's ethnic makeup. The rest of the story is lost in the mists of time, and I have been unable to find a digital copy of it.
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Supposedly the US Airforce in WW2 got a lot of meth too.
As did Japanese kamikaze pilots.
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I'm definitely one of those who spends more time on the Internet than watching TV these days. In spite of being stuck with a fast dialup plan, which at least has no plastic spaghetti to wade through.
Tom - is Telstra cable unavailable in your area, just like mine? I found out the hard way that it's unavailable in a lot of apartments and townhouse clusters.
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Nuclear energy won't become publicly acceptable until nuclear fusion becomes viable, and that's a long way off. Fusion solves most of the issues with current fission-based plants, especially nuke waste. The catch? Nuclear fusion only happens at 10^8 degrees Celsius, and not even tungsten will handle that sort of temperature. But an isolated magnetic field might.
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A combination of something uniquely NZ (Split Enz) and something uniquely Japanese (animé).
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Happy b'day Russell. First machine was a C-64 back in 1984. My father recalls me drawing a near-perfect picture of it and showing it to my teacher in J1 class.