Posts by Ross Mason
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What kind of response could be expected from the fishing industry if seal numbers were to reach 200k? 500k?
I find it fascinating that the population of all fish species - and seals - was the greatest just before man decided that he should/could "harvest" the sea.
Seals sure as hell had a hard time eating out the Orange Roughy in competition with the deep sea netters!!!!
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Is Graeme Hunt cockney rhyming slang?
It was his brother Mike.
I think we can give Peter the ShortShrift can't we?
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Heyzeus!!!
This IS Life imitating Hayward!!!!
Oh Paula, how can they afford you? Maybe one should question her "home help" in the office.
Saunders? Saunders? Are you there??
There has to be a "Phar Lap and Me" sequel here . Surely!
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After sitting at our table for a while it became apparent that we were being stared at. It was quite obvious and they weren't being subtle!
It's quite obvious from down here. They only served Wellingtonians. You guys get a "malling" - we have manners.
:-)
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Phar Lap says he's the reincarnation of Judith Collins
I am sure the resemblence is with the teeth. But I could be swayed....
It's hard work but I must say that I'm very happy, and I wouldn't swap jobs with anyone.
Hehe. I read that first as "I wouldn't swab jobs with anyone".
Now Wiki is a wonderful source of info. Just checked Martha's link. It looks like Horse and Cart have been looking up it as well. What with Fags being taxed. Her first words on Corrie were: "Evening. Have you got a packet of crisps?". Her last words on Corrie St were "Can I have a large sherry". Fags first. Next will be Alcohol. Then Junk Food? Yup.... Connections.
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And apparently John Denver was singing 'Leaving on a Jet Plane' as he dropped towards the ocean -- such a tragedy!
I think is was probably more likely to be Jackson Brown's "Running on Empty".
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Am I your first correspondent from India???
Am visiting here in the shooting event.
A poor bastard who runs a ascrap metal yard got radiation blasts from cobalt 60 whcih someone sent to india it looks like. Cobalt 60 for christs sake!!!
God has not found India. if he had he woudln't have encouraged so many to breed.
I have the shits.
Back next week.
Thoroughly enjoyed the place though.
Coming back in October!!!
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You are right. Scary to watch. Apaches have these "wonderful" guns that are effectively aimed with a head display the pilot can wear. The cross is where the gun is aiming. So he just looks, the gun swivels and he hits the go button. It looked like it did have about 10m spread in the shots so not really pinpoint accuracy. And about a km or so away given the shot to damage time. That gets the techie bits out of the way.
I was rather interested to hear one group asking the shooters to identify which ROOF the group of Iraqis(?) were on who were firing "smallarms fire" at them. These guys they hit were on the ground. This makes it suspicious they hit the wrong group.
Remember, the US Dog is bigger than their Dog. Don't mention Satan...oh...he did...
Someone mentioned music while you shoot em up. Remember TopGun anyone? Just look at the penchant for callsigns! Crazyhorse. Bushmaster. Its a game.
The scarier thing is - and it is time to get brutal - is that it has to be a game. After WW2 some folk did some research and found that only about 15% of those who were in position to shoot someone or something deliberately, actually aimed at the target. The vast majority aimed to miss, shoot over the top or into the ground or kept loading and reloading their gun. Killing changed after that. Soldiers where trained to shoot on reflex. Trained to shoot first, ask questions after. It worked in Vietnam. But.....it caused all sorts of post stress and it is almost certain once they thought about their actions they regretted what they did and suffered for it. It makes you wonder if there is only 15% of us who would shoot without any qualms.
Who is right? Who is wrong? Who started it? Who is trying to "finish" it? Who wants revenge? Who wants revenge for the revenge?
Libraries have been written with those themes. But as an awful lot of books have mentioned. "If only their mothers could see them lying here. The war would stop".
Unfortunately they don't. So it won't. I can't help think that if you educate young adults that your country/religion is the only one worth fighting for and impose on the rest of the world then you are asking for it. And I am not just talking of the USA.
We are blessed in this country that we have the opportunities to get to see an awful lot of the world from an enormous number of points of view. We ARE able to make better assessments of where and what we should do as a nation.
We have taught our young well. Too well in some cases.
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Automated high-speed trading software multiplied the effect
A little while ago a company (NZ) wanted to know if they could get a more accurate fix of UT (Universal time - aka Greenich Mean time) from the Measurement Standards Lab - NZ Time Standard - so that their servers could really really be sure that when they shuffled shit over the financial net that they had a good chance of being "on time" ie first.
It scares the shit out of me that people are throwing billions a day around the place with a microsecond stroke of a mouse.
My fix to the "high speed trading" shinnanigans is to put a 1, 2, 4, 8, 12 or 48 (you pick) hour delay in the buy or sell. Microsecond trading is bizarre and unadulterated greed.
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Back to Square One:
Derty Desh now off Youtube