Posts by Andrew C
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NZ's just as bad. We continue to run coal and gas fired power plants because of the naive belief that nuclear energy = bad. While I can understand "No Nukes" in the dirty-bomb sense of the word, extending that to power is just outright silly.
Unfortunately nukes are bad for a whole lot of other reasons. Their waste is horrid to get rid of, expensive to secure (the process of making nuke power leaves a waste which is handy for making nuke bombs), made out of not very environmentally friendly materials, and, most importantly, nuke is expensive to build. Like f*$%ing expensive to build.
It takes so long to build and costs so much to build a nuke plant that almost zero private co's have ever risked their capital for the long wait until payback. In most cases nuke station builds have been subsidised by governments, or used other methods of socialising the costs.
NZ aren't the only ones being "silly", nuke stations are simply not built any more, and havnt been for ages, including by countries without any anti-nuke dogma.
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@Alan P
Can anyone suggest some good web links with (fairly) un-deniable authority, to which people can be pointed?
For an easily approchable site try Tim Lambert|Deltoid, he helps pick apart deniers claims. He has been covering global warming for a very long time, you might want to read through the archives to find out about any specific claims you are interested in debunking. For the hard core stuff most of the gold is in the comments.
Undeniable authority doesn't exist for climate change deniers.
However I think we all need to have some sympathy for the general public being confused. For example see here. If you read that, it wouldn't take much arm twisting to start thinking something fishy could be going on. Or in other words, trying to actually get off your arse and understand this stuff by looking at data and adjustments and stuff, rather than just accepting what others are saying, can fairly easily lead to confusion and scepticism.
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Noob question.
With these freeview PVRs are you able to take downloaded movies/shows etc from your computer/friend and load them into the PVR and play them? Even just plugging in a usb and playing it from that would be fine.
Currently we have to lug our PC out to the TV to play them.
Thanks
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Don't they call this "keeping on message" in politics?
i get the continuous mentioning of it and the point of it, it was the vibe of his delivery, made us sound sort of a bit pathetic?
Just saying a bit of polish and it could have been much better.
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i didn't think it was too bad. gooberish, yes
I thought in his non-scripted bits he sounded a little bit like he was begging/desperate to have tourists to come over. Anyone else get this vibe?
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If you go to Scopa, try the hot chocolate.
someone in there told me to, so i did, it was freakin awesome.
Speaking on hot choc, in case there's anyone in akl who hasn't tried it, make sure you check out the choc boutique in parnell road. You melt choc in a teapot thing and add cream and drink.
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Down in WLG last week and randomly tried both Floriditas and Scopa and liked them both, def in the not to flash, not to casual category.
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Peter Calder knows how to review a meal without being the slightest bit pretentious
I recall a meal review by Peter Calder where he complemented the establishment's steak because 'they were able to cook a steak nearly as good as he could'
Or did I totally miss the joke perhaps..?
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Suggestion:
Prob 15+ years ago Ian Fraser did a series of NZ political history docos that I have always wanted to see again. For some reason the title "frontline" keeps popping into my head, but it just sounds wrong?
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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?