Posts by Jeremy Andrew
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Man that's harsh! Did Claire Chitham kick the writers' puppy or something?
There was some stunned silence in our household. Still is. -
BTW, I'm obviously not quite nerdcore enough to get the hat. 419, I'd get the Frontalot shout out, but 501 nup.
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Bunch of scruffy looking nerf herders...
Go the 'Tron! Reprazent!! Nerdcore hip hip will reign supreme!
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The breakdown of the natural family and the consequential moral and political failure, not human “overpopulation,” account for poverty, starvation, and environmental decay.
They'll be all over this article in the latest Listener then.
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Of course they're nonsense, just like prisoners' rights, natives' rights, women's rights, in fact the rights of anyone who ain't them.
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Ingmar Bergman is now depressing the Almighty
Not yet, he has to finish the chess game first...
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Pearl Jam, 10cc, The Loving Spoonful - there's a long history of bands naming themselves after the baby batter.
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I thought it was the exploding P labs that were worrying the cows in Chch.
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All the examples you cited were cases where states did take action.
Except the Bird Flu thing - IIRC that wasn't so much "an epidemic will happen unless we..." as "an epidemic will happen.".
All the action I saw taking place was mitigation measures for when the epidemic happens - stockpiling Tamiflu, planning for disposal of extra corpses, etc etc. -
I predominantly use PCs, but I've used and supported Macs in the past. I have PCs at home, but the kids use Macs at school. I can swing both ways with a mental gear-shift, but the kids barely notice the difference - its just another computer to them. Every computer they use is set up slightly differently, its just a different set of differences on the Macs.
The Mac is becoming just another bit of hardware, with the OS as the main differentiator, and OSes are becoming less relevant with the rise of the interweb and platform agnostic apps like the Google family.
By the time my kids hit the workforce mac vs pc is probably going to be nearly as irrelevant as Sony vs Panasonic for TVs. (for the average user, standard conditions apply, YMMV, results not typical, best results combined with diet and exercise, may contain traces of nuts).