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Oh, BTW... Thanks, Keith. Your efforts are appreciated.
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And this story makes the top of RNZ's midday news.
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Anyone catch that bunch of baloney on One "News" last night? Headlined "Religious revival?: Why religion rocks: signs of a revival among our youth", it turned out to be about a survey of 150 people, though did mention, later in the story, that census trends show quite the opposite.
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This is appalling but also the thing I raced home from school to watch.
Heh, and surely the most plot-heavy theme song of all time.
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I must say, I was a bit shocked to find out the other day that pokie money contributes two-and-a-half times as much to rugby as to the entirety of "the arts".
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Disgusting dreck
or... Bubblegum gold.
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Rugby-head, for sure. ;)
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Hard News: Belief Media, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
you’ve hit the point: there is no (forward-looking) goal.
So, how can one deduce the level of efficiency?
Kind of like... If I tell you that I ran a race in 23 minutes, you can not say whether that was an extremely poor performance or a rather good performance unless you know how long the race was, right?
I guess my other point is that you can only call a biological system inefficient if you can show that it *could* have been some other way, and how can you do that?
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Efficiency means almost nothing, evolution is amazing but it is far from efficient.
Isn't it the case that we can judge the efficiency or inefficiency only if we know what the goal is, which we don't?
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The horror of the Spoken Word
This one has a special place in Hell; partly because it's such a cheap gimmick, partly because it's such a travesty, and partly because he comes across as such a prick.