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Phew. Was it just me and a goodly portion of the Tin that thought Jackson was a giant slobbering plonker? Hard luck Chief's. I thought you had that. By far the better team in the first and for a chunk of the 2nd. All the best for next year. Certainly wasn't his best game. Chiefs looked like they we...

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Stuff should take a bow. They've just published, and stuck it as the main article on their front page to their website, probably the worst piece in the history of journalism. Well done. https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/comment/columnists/105561405/why-selfproclaimed-free-speech-champions-arent...

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So it turns out that herpes has been strongly linked to the development of Alzheimer's disease. People suffering from severe herpes infections were given doses of anti viral drugs which reduced their risk of developing Alzheimers by a factor of 10. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/18071...

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Wait, what? So teachers with higher pay are not worth it? The teachers at private schools will probably be better due to the higher pay, sure. But from what I've heard (from teachers at private schools) the main reasons kids get better education at private schools is due to smaller class sizes and ...

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As usual Liberals are being confused with progressives.

Peak Liberalsm is the whole western world.
Peak progressivism is Rotherham.

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Anyone know what sort of things you can pick up from sitting in a damp, oxygen reduced cave for 10 days? Aside from chest / lung infections maybe, how clean do you reckon the water in there is? Crystal clean. I was more thinking what sort of harmful bacteria would be growing in a cave. You can get ...

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If the Blues play to their potential they could be within 30 at the final whistle. As for Blues players looking for ABs spots, they might be short of water boys. Seriously though, Akira Ioane might well have a role to play at some point. I really like the fact that he likes to attack from the base o...

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Jeff the Bear wrote:Are you planning on building a dirty great big bridge from West Auckland to Manukau Heads?

We should just block the Manukau heads, and fill the harbour, it's not very deep.
We could use Rangitoto, nice free draining scoria

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The real point is that it continues to be a partisan blame game, when it should be a nationa.. er, common priority to deal with it. In reality neither main party is willing to take the political heat for the kinds of policies needed to improve housing affordability because too many their members ha...

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The ‘artistic licence’ argument is an interesting one, but I think it’s going a bit far to compare icing a message on a cake (a task that would’ve taken several minutes, at most and that wouldn’t require any substantial ‘buy-in’ from the artist) to the level of artistic commitment required to produ...

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The real point is that it continues to be a partisan blame game, when it should be a nationa.. er, common priority to deal with it. In reality neither main party is willing to take the political heat for the kinds of policies needed to improve housing affordability because too many their members ha...

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Products that give the appearance of something useful, but break within a week because they save 0.1 cents using a plastic part in place of a metal one.

Tin can opener makers, I'm coming after you

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Scott Barrett 9/10 SBW 8.5 Reiko Ioane 8.5 Massive games by those three. Totally transformed attitude in the forwards, especially at the tackle where we forced the French to really work for their tries, and the two French tries were excellent. Good debuts by all four newbies as well. Naholo continue...

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:o :o :o :yawn: All this hype around the baby is very pommy esque. The sooner this song and dance is over and Jacinda gets back to trying to fulfill some of labour's promises the better... Come off it mate. You just know you're going to be rushing out to buy the Womans Weekly/New Idea/Womans Day de...

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If SB and Dmac have a mare we'll be in big trouble. Ditto if a centre goes down. I'm still more worried about the backrow more, apart form inexperienced it seems light, which isn't great considering BBB is missing. If it goes to the dogs early we'll just see Todd and Mo'unga earlier than expected. ...

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Hydrogen takes lots of power to generate. Tick! Hydrogen needs to be pumped, so duty can easily be levied on it. Tick! Hydrogen cars only emits water, not like the fossil fuels to generate the electricity for those coal powered BEVs. Durrrrr... And you wonder why certain parties are keen on it. whi...

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One of the biggest dangers to Tesla is the fact that the Japanese and I believe Korea and half of china see hydrogen as a better alternative than battery. Batteries contains minerals that are finite and un recyclable so the price is only going to go up and up Japan is installing hydrogen stations e...

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Tesla have a huge headstart over the legacy manufacturers with their supercharger network. I have owned an EV for nearly a year now, and it's great. Hyundai Ioniq. I have done a public charge twice in that time, and one of those was a test run for when I needed the charge to complete the journey th...

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Nearly man.

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why not?

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Not to be a pedant GS, but I said he had amazing talent - which he obviously does - not amazing talent specifically as a first five. And he is developing. This is literally his first full season at first five, either at SR level or International level and he's already the preferred back up to Beaud...

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As an All Black fan thanks. I thought France played the best i have seen them in along time today forced school boy errors on to the ab's and generally pressured them all over the park. Can't wait till the 3rd test. Jeez I hope we see a test without a card next week. I don't blame the referees for ...

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My worst fears about Damien McKenzie were realised. He lacks the temperament and skills to manage a team from no.10 at test level. The frustrating thing is that this has been obvious to everyone but Steve Hansen and his 'yes men' Assistants. The role of bench players isn't just to be 'finishers'. I...

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The worst performance by an All Black forward pack that I can remember. Franks and Moody missed almost every tackle they attempted, the rest were AWOL at almost every ruck. Multiples times there were no volunteers to dive on the loose ball, and with ball in hand I think maybe they broke 1 tackle if...

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The worst performance by an All Black forward pack that I can remember. Franks and Moody missed almost every tackle they attempted, the rest were AWOL at almost every ruck. Multiples times there were no volunteers to dive on the loose ball, and with ball in hand I think maybe they broke 1 tackle if ...

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The Native wrote:Scott Robertson.

He'd take any resource rich but underachieving team and do wonders with them.

Except perhaps the Blues.
Management showed surprising foresight in giving them that name

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He's only 27 and people are talking about him like he's 32 or something. He should be at his peak. Have you watched his game for the last few seasons? He's been off the pace and hasn't looked like regaining his previous form. Honestly no, but has he just been figured out, or are his physical gifts ...

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You probably don't need my reassurance, but an excellent thread where at least some posters showed some feel for the game, and made logical arguments in good faith.

Probably won't last but refreshing

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troglodiet wrote:
Seneca of the Night wrote: Expect a lot of blue hair.
Miss USA 2019....

Holy shit the angry birds have mated with the pigs

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Anyway... where's the justification lie in a $600 monthly power bill for 4 people? Wind turbines aren't cheap mate. The cost of building new generation falls entirely on the generation companies. It's the price we have to pay for having 90% renewable energy. It would be cheaper to wack up half a do...

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Beyond that, there are players that are incredibly quick playing rugby. The problem is that rugby looks for other attributes. A winger designed for speed only will not succeed in rugby. He also needs to be able to tackle and counter ruck. Leg strength is vital to remain on his feet in contact, to g...

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Still decades away. "Millions" of miles of testing sounds impressive, it isn't. It hardly touches possible scenarios the cars will face. Plus I gaursntee the first Waymoo on the roads of NYC will have tyre trouble every day. I just don't know who to believe on this one. On the one hand we have a co...

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Still decades away. "Millions" of miles of testing sounds impressive, it isn't. It hardly touches possible scenarios the cars will face. Plus I gaursntee the first Waymoo on the roads of NYC will have tyre trouble every day. I just don't know who to believe on this one. On the one hand we have a co...

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Still decades away. "Millions" of miles of testing sounds impressive, it isn't. It hardly touches possible scenarios the cars will face. Plus I gaursntee the first Waymoo on the roads of NYC will have tyre trouble every day. I just don't know who to believe on this one. On the one hand we have a co...

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https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/06/as-uber-and-tesla-struggle-with-driverless-cars-waymo-moves-forward/ 62,000 Pacifica Mnivans. 20,000 Jaguar iPace. Total cost > $ 1Billion They are to be used for their robo-taxi ride service. It doesn't say who is manufacturing the sensor suite and fitting it t...

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Niall Ferguson confirming everything JP said about Universities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdeFJ4WCqhk Same Niall Ferguson https://www.stanforddaily.com/2018/05/31/emails-between-ferguson-scr-reveal-opposition-research-against-ocon-prompt-fergusons-resignation-from-cardinal-conversations-leade...

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Odd that you can't already submit a 3-d bitmap of your feet, to get a perfect fit.
Should be easy enough to approximate with a few still photos of your feet.

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Hareaway wrote:I love Chinese

They only come up to your knees (Spike Milligan)

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The man who got him his job: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/2018/05/25/i-was-jordan-petersons-strongest-supporter-now-i-think-hes-dangerous.html Peterson is such a f**king charlatan. Some good points, but then this.. Calling Marxism, a respectable political and philosophical tradition, “murderous”...

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Why didn't I select Mandarin rather than Japanese way back then????? Beyond all the communism and rubbish, Mandarin is the thing that grinds my gears the most. The systematic linguistic genocide of the other Chinese languages in favour of Mandarin saddens me most ( well ok, its nothing compared to ...

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