Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Forever Amber...
A physical snapshot/capture from 99 million years ago...
...a thing with feathers no less.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/08/health/dinosaur-tail-trapped-in-amber-trnd/index.html -
For some reason this chip reminded me of Donald Trump...
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cross looking cheeses...?
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Hard News: Public Address Word of the…, in reply to Sacha,
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Metric... Imperial...
NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because a Lockheed Martin engineering team used English units of measurement while the agency's team used the more conventional metric system for a key spacecraft operation, according to a review
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So Jacindamania wins WotY - and it is a word - 'a single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing' ....
But the two runner-ups are phrases - 'a small group of words standing together as a conceptual unit'.
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Speaker: Are we seeing the end of MSM,…, in reply to Alfie,
Maybe Queenstown is within a 100 miles of the sea...
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
oh God! – he just keeps digging/ blithering…
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11963408
he even says this:So, given it is my story, I am in the most excellent position to tell it like it is. And why I mention this is not because what is written about me is important, because it isn’t. But my real concern is it’s important to be accurate.
This much vaunted accuracy was not so much adhered to in his mis-statements about voting eligibility.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to izogi,
It doesn’t really seem like Dirty Politics, though, at least in the sense of what Nicky Hager described.
Yeah, I know – but it seemed an apposite thread to add it to, tonally.
– that or the 'death of mainstream media’ oneHosking continues to accentuate his inability to parse information:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/tv-radio/100041896/mike-hosking-hits-back-at-bsa-calls-them-humourless-time-wasters
