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» 8/11/2016 3:35:18 PM Hello Contemptible Troll, Let me rephrase that for you: "the people had their say an.....
» 5/11/2016 3:08:43 PM Alan, what "children" lesrn is a product of what they are taught........
» 5/11/2016 3:06:34 PM The "costs" of renewables are largely the product of paying people to do needful.....
» 5/11/2016 2:20:12 PM "boom boom, bang bang, lie down you're dead".....
» 5/11/2016 2:18:39 PM Given that everyone who has a registered vehicle should be contactable before expiry, I'm .....
» 29/10/2016 5:14:08 PM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr4-hICWpdQ.....
» 29/10/2016 4:49:11 PM SM, I accept your apology. It's very easy to forget that we are dealing with real people o.....
» 25/10/2016 4:07:08 PM I applaud you for having the courage of your convictions, Noel. It's a shame that in this .....
» 25/10/2016 3:44:20 PM You know AC, I wasn't talking about the people he claims to represent, but the type of thi.....
» 25/10/2016 12:40:02 PM Of course I can. The Americans who ignored their own Government's advice not to join in th.....
» 25/10/2016 10:20:52 AM It's my problem because I am a person who has a view on feminism. Why are you so determine.....
» 25/10/2016 10:19:20 AM Yes, Is Mise, Switzerland is a remarkable exception to the rule. One significant reason fo.....
» 25/10/2016 10:05:54 AM Hi AC, I don't think much of the Clintons, but I think Trump represents all that is fundam.....
» 25/10/2016 9:59:01 AM ttbn, I tend to agree with the sentiment, since Australia is a State enemy of IS. I don't.....
» 25/10/2016 8:43:10 AM Is Mise, The reality is that heavily armed societies are societies with high rates of deat.....
» 25/10/2016 8:35:13 AM Phanto, I actually think that feminism deserves to be represented more effectively. The ru.....
» 25/10/2016 8:11:25 AM Hi Silly Sausage, We have a little thing in this country called democracy. If you don't li.....
» 25/10/2016 8:07:33 AM Ah JF, you've hit the nail on the head. What we need is a big sign on every house saying &.....
» 25/10/2016 8:04:53 AM Hi Windscreen Bugsplatter, Whether you want to cling to outdated models of doing business .....
» 25/10/2016 7:24:18 AM Sheesh Hasbeen, Trump is the model of the Robber Baron. The only people he'll "strip&.....
» 25/10/2016 7:22:26 AM LEGO, points 1 and 2 are very good, then you went right off the rails mate. Each new wave.....
» 25/10/2016 7:07:51 AM Oh really Killarney? It got one decent post out of you before you went back to your old ab.....
» 25/10/2016 7:04:12 AM AC, Seriously disturbed individuals are very rare. The guy at Home Hill was seriously dist.....
» 24/10/2016 1:45:27 PM Guns don't kill people, algae kills people... Had a look at that link on the other thread.....
» 24/10/2016 1:43:04 PM Thanks again Shady Character, Are there really such things as Low Bays? Well I never! Next.....
» 24/10/2016 11:09:51 AM Hi Sludge Mincer, Thanks for the praise, it's always nice to have confirmation one is on t.....
» 24/10/2016 9:37:40 AM ttbn, I apologise for that last post, it was unnecessarily snarky. The point remains thoug.....
» 24/10/2016 9:31:49 AM By stopping heavily armed paranoid would be vigilantes roaming the streets presumably......
» 24/10/2016 9:29:58 AM I'm not sure Joe, but as I said to ttbn earlier, whether CO2 existed as a problem or not, .....
» 24/10/2016 9:06:10 AM ttbn, You may not be aware of this, but a rifle fires one projectile at a time and it goes.....
» 24/10/2016 8:31:54 AM I am curious though, what does the putative driver do if the bloke doing the threatening d.....
» 24/10/2016 8:27:20 AM Or he could use his phone to call 000? You know, "emergency, please help, there's a c.....
» 24/10/2016 3:46:30 AM Hi Aidan, There is very little disagreement among economists these days, actually. The cas.....
» 23/10/2016 6:19:59 PM I'm by no means suggesting you can't be trusted, Is Mise, but there are lots of people who.....
» 23/10/2016 3:37:21 PM The question is, how safe are the rest of us from an armed 83 year old trotting around sca.....
» 23/10/2016 2:14:24 PM Hi IM, That may be so, but that prompts the question of what is a reasonable limit on thos.....
» 23/10/2016 9:37:10 AM That was a weird non-sequitur in the middle there, it was part of a lengthier paragraph th.....
» 23/10/2016 9:28:25 AM Killarney, Thanks for a great post. There are many examples of stereotyping on both side.....
» 23/10/2016 8:08:13 AM Well, of course, if it hasn't been invented somewhere else it can't be any good, can it?.....
» 23/10/2016 8:05:35 AM I dunno, but I do know that's the best you can do......
» 22/10/2016 8:53:20 PM Hi JF, You might find this interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-XOkVbkmd4 We C.....
» 22/10/2016 8:42:34 PM JF, All of those things are undoubtedly important, nobody would claim otherwise, but sorti.....
» 22/10/2016 5:37:35 PM Because I'm helpful?.....
» 22/10/2016 5:36:52 PM Haha, it doesn't make it any more IRrational........
» 22/10/2016 5:25:44 PM Hi JKJ, It doesn't make it any more rational either........
» 22/10/2016 5:21:58 PM sheesh phanto, of course I offered advice, why on earth would I not? It's in her gift to .....
» 22/10/2016 1:26:15 PM Irrelevant, JF Aus, the carbon resources are sufficiently valuable to make every effort to.....
» 22/10/2016 1:21:51 PM Hi Slurry Muddler, it's nice that you've taken an interest, but I'm afraid your detective .....
» 22/10/2016 11:03:28 AM ttbn, Naomi Klein was right, the reason the world has been so slow to act on the horrendou.....
» 22/10/2016 10:58:23 AM Hi Shady Moocher, I guess we can take it as read that you're just trolling and have no gen.....
» 22/10/2016 9:11:17 AM JF Aus, the science is "settled" to the extent that we know that burning valuabl.....
» 22/10/2016 8:10:58 AM No Phanto, it doesn't assume I "know better". In this case it simply means that .....
» 22/10/2016 7:42:05 AM Hi Luciferase, yes, you're right, I phrased that comment poorly. I am strongly of the vie.....
» 22/10/2016 7:07:07 AM It's up to you Killarney, if you regard some well meant advice as some attempt to control .....
» 21/10/2016 6:15:26 PM SM, At no time have I advocated a shift to 100% renewable energy. The reference was merely.....
» 21/10/2016 5:14:10 PM waverley, what stood out for me was the comments section, which was largely respectful dis.....
» 21/10/2016 2:22:12 PM I think it shows good sense to give Payne and Tehan the support of a very experienced Mini.....
» 21/10/2016 8:08:08 AM mhaze, Ah, now I see the confusion: you think that because these people have come to a con.....
» 21/10/2016 6:51:27 AM What do you think I'm "backing down" from SM? I'm glad to see you've now accept.....
» 21/10/2016 6:33:13 AM Hi AC, You'd be surprised how well some of the algorithms steer you around and where they .....
» 21/10/2016 6:22:32 AM Awesome, you actually read something! It's interesting that you're now trying to discredi.....
» 21/10/2016 6:17:48 AM Killarney, Ask yourself why every attempt to have a discussion with you ends with you whin.....
» 20/10/2016 8:41:01 PM If you've got a grand plan that costs that much I'd like a job please......
» 20/10/2016 8:37:39 PM What gives you the idea I hate feminist viewpoints? I just praised both Germain Greer and .....
» 20/10/2016 5:47:37 PM SM, I have never said anything about ideology, my argument is based on economics. You rea.....
» 20/10/2016 3:16:35 PM I have a lot of time for Germaine, Albie. She was and remains fundamentally well motivated.....
» 20/10/2016 3:03:49 PM I haven't read the report you refer to, mhaze, but I would be extremely surprised if any s.....
» 20/10/2016 11:51:07 AM Hi mhaze, Science rarely "explicitly endorses" anything. The scientific model is.....
» 20/10/2016 10:51:25 AM Ah Joe, I should have realised you'd be a sucker for a nice pair of huhus........
» 20/10/2016 10:01:16 AM Hi Joe, Up in PNG it's Niugini Pidgin, which evolved from a simplified trading creole that.....
» 20/10/2016 9:43:10 AM That's a good comment, Waverley. The problem is that the way the gender topic has been th.....
» 20/10/2016 5:27:18 AM Killarney, the irony in your comments is that they demonstrate the author's point for him......
» 20/10/2016 5:08:15 AM Hi Robert, The dangers of "groupthink" and confirmation bias are inevitably real.....
» 20/10/2016 5:01:20 AM Hi AC, You're probably already aware of this, but just in case, I'll mention it anyway. L.....
» 19/10/2016 7:48:47 PM ttbn, in my house at present, there are several languages spoken: Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Spa.....
» 19/10/2016 7:39:58 PM "The sky is falling, the sky is falling"........
» 19/10/2016 9:19:13 AM Hi David, What a wonderfully pickled red herring!.....
» 19/10/2016 7:26:53 AM Alan, for a leaky old bugger you can be very funny........
» 19/10/2016 7:24:39 AM A good piece, Peter. The tendency for women to want to make "something better" .....
» 19/10/2016 7:05:42 AM Hi AC, Do I think that Moslem people will share the Australian dream? I don't need to &qu.....
» 18/10/2016 6:03:15 PM Hi Tombee, I favour a level playing field approach being implemented sooner rather than la.....
» 18/10/2016 5:00:37 PM Hi Tombee, Actually, already solar PV is cheaper to build than new coal, regardless of sub.....
» 18/10/2016 4:11:45 PM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q33S5iZw270.....
» 18/10/2016 4:03:43 PM Hi David, you might enjoy this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD3SkTyXzcE.....
» 18/10/2016 3:25:36 PM Hi Mark, yes, of course you're right about the geographical considerations in SA. The same.....
» 18/10/2016 11:12:37 AM Ah, that's more like it: the torches are burning and the pitchforks are being waved and al.....
» 18/10/2016 5:45:01 AM There's more than one way to provide a syncing reference David. It's just a signal with a.....
» 18/10/2016 5:20:19 AM Thanks for that Bazz, it's nice to be useful. There are far too many "useless idiots.....
» 18/10/2016 4:43:47 AM He apparently dies of a sub-arachnoid haemorrhage that wasn't controlled in time. https:/.....
» 17/10/2016 5:59:56 PM Yes Luciferase, investment is needed in order to stimulate development, thanks for clarify.....
» 17/10/2016 5:38:23 PM Whatever you say mac. Crawl back under that bed if you must, but make sure you check it fo.....
» 17/10/2016 3:14:53 PM It makes no difference, Is Mise. Political Islamists are driven by exactly the same moti.....
» 17/10/2016 2:50:07 PM mac, I get it, you're scared. As far as Nazism and Fascism go though, they prospered bec.....
» 17/10/2016 1:58:58 PM I'm sorry Jayb, but fearmongering isn't an argument. You're repeating exactly the same sor.....
» 17/10/2016 11:58:19 AM Synchronous generators require a phasing reference to be added to a grid. Wind farms do p.....
» 17/10/2016 11:47:02 AM Hi Jayb, yes, I'm sure that mac has a life, but if he's spending his time worrying about b.....
» 17/10/2016 11:07:03 AM I should have also mentioned that I don't see any "sacrificing" of the economy t.....
» 17/10/2016 10:52:11 AM Hi Gerard, I think fossil fuels (including nuclear) are going to be a vital source of elec.....
» 16/10/2016 5:37:42 PM Alan, losses in HVDC are purely resistive, whereas in AC circuits there are also reactive .....
» 16/10/2016 4:38:41 PM Hi Joe, As I said, regardless of the pretext. The Afghani people have been resisting inv.....
» 16/10/2016 3:37:20 PM Hi Joe, Let's face it, if Australia was occupied by an invading army for years, regardless.....
» 16/10/2016 2:06:39 PM JKJ, Was there a discussion going on? When? In my last post I was merely altruistically.....
» 16/10/2016 12:23:26 PM LEGO, Your argument is based entirely on the assumption that there is intentional discrim.....
» 16/10/2016 10:49:10 AM JKJ, there are more ways to do capitalism than Misean irrationality. http://oecdobserver......
» 16/10/2016 10:29:24 AM Hi Ingongruous, I keep the cumin under lock and key; he could be radicalised any time. I'm.....
» 16/10/2016 9:56:44 AM Hi Rodney, Thanks for that, it's a wonderful song by one of the great poets of the age, ba.....
» 15/10/2016 4:20:01 PM Joe, Yes, some may just be "bastards", but it doesn't change my point. How man.....
» 15/10/2016 4:08:45 PM SM, you brought up the issue of credibility, which was foolish, given that you have none. .....
» 15/10/2016 1:31:22 PM You're right SM, credibility is important, so let's examine a few things. On the one hand.....
» 15/10/2016 12:35:52 PM mac, you're most welcome to cherry pick all the lines from the Quran you like, at least it.....
» 15/10/2016 11:42:11 AM Hi Peter, One good turn deserves another; you might enjoy this discussion by Michael Sande.....
» 15/10/2016 11:03:02 AM Hi Mark, Yes, HVDC linking geographically diverse sources is one solution that offers some.....
» 15/10/2016 10:05:24 AM JKJ, I have no obligation to even engage with your argument, let alone take the trouble to.....
» 15/10/2016 9:41:06 AM Joe, murders are always carried out by people who are in some way deranged. They might loo.....
» 15/10/2016 8:39:03 AM The problem is how to provide people with the means of sustaining a worthwhile life while .....
» 15/10/2016 6:09:34 AM Hi AC, I think you're onto something important. There are some experiments around the wo.....
» 14/10/2016 9:07:12 PM I thought you'd enjoy that runner. Is Mise, one of my Muslim friends is a former lecturer.....
» 14/10/2016 5:59:25 PM I watch how you behave runner, I don't need to guess. There is no love in your heart, ther.....
» 14/10/2016 5:30:39 PM No JKJ, the onus is on you. Your argument entails the premises......
» 14/10/2016 4:03:59 PM SM, I don't have an opinion on the article, other than that it is well written and interes.....
» 14/10/2016 3:54:05 PM Well, off you go and look, SM. I'm sure that shopping around for congenial opinions is one.....
» 14/10/2016 3:52:05 PM WWJD runner? Here's a clue: he was happy to spend his time and efforts to help people who.....
» 14/10/2016 3:36:14 PM Actually mac, it's called reductio ad absurdum, although I must say it's hard to reduce so.....
» 14/10/2016 3:18:46 PM Yes mac and we should deport all those damn Scotsmen and Irishmen: unAustralian the lot of.....
» 14/10/2016 1:16:28 PM SM, I suggest you take it up with Prof Derek Abbott. He can be found at Adelaide Universit.....
» 14/10/2016 11:21:49 AM You know ttbn, for someone who claims to have managed his life so well, you seem awfully m.....
» 14/10/2016 10:53:13 AM JKJ, you're simply arguing around in circles, as is your usual wont. runner, WWJD?.....
» 14/10/2016 9:53:48 AM Thanks Peter, I'll try to get a copy to read over the uni break......
» 14/10/2016 9:52:56 AM Mark, the wind in SA is especially reliable, being at the edge of the Southern Ocean and t.....
» 14/10/2016 9:35:36 AM You're most welcome mate. The environment has changed a little over the past decade here o.....
» 14/10/2016 9:27:44 AM I was going to respond to this, but in all honesty it's such a hodge podge there's nothing.....
» 14/10/2016 4:43:35 AM Hi Peter, another interesting meditation, thanks. I think your comment that "the ess.....
» 14/10/2016 4:19:00 AM Ah, okay, I see where the confusion arises. I was referring to energy and you were referri.....
» 13/10/2016 4:14:02 PM Hi Alan, I must admit I haven't followed the thorium topic very closely, mostly because I.....
» 13/10/2016 10:51:20 AM Alan, you're right, some nuclear technologies hold the promise of trending cheaper over ti.....
» 13/10/2016 10:30:13 AM Actually, I just read that again. I only skimmed it previously, looking at the brush comme.....
» 13/10/2016 10:26:33 AM Thank you SM......
» 13/10/2016 10:00:39 AM The subsidies exist to enable renewables to compete with the heavily subsidised coal gener.....
» 13/10/2016 9:01:41 AM I suggest you take it up with the US Energy Information Agency, SM, I just quoted their wo.....
» 13/10/2016 8:47:29 AM The problem with both the article and your comment Taswegian is that the best genuine expe.....
» 12/10/2016 7:54:43 PM I'm happy to put up the rest of the references from the paper referred to earlier if anyon.....
» 12/10/2016 2:21:51 PM LCOE is a poor measure, SM. Perhaps you might try reading references before you respond to.....
» 12/10/2016 11:56:49 AM Yeah, that pesky evidence thing just won't go away. I think you're being a little unfair .....
» 12/10/2016 11:32:07 AM Hi Martin, Sync is a separate issue, I was simply suggesting that we could minimise the va.....
» 12/10/2016 11:01:04 AM Hi Mark, Wind turbines can be designed to operate in all sorts of wind conditions, includi.....
» 12/10/2016 9:16:14 AM Thanks, at last a proper contribution to the discussion. I wasn't aware of the pricing arr.....
» 12/10/2016 8:53:44 AM Another 15, just 61 to go... [15] Deane JP, Drayton G, Gallachóir BPÓ. The impact of sub-.....
» 12/10/2016 8:03:51 AM Thanks for that, Bazz, I'm glad you've not taken it personally. I'm not surprised the win.....
» 12/10/2016 4:54:40 AM Bazz, all you need to do is ask if you don't understand something, although the explanatio.....
» 11/10/2016 6:38:48 PM The first 14, 76 to go. Enjoy... [1] Delucchi MA, Jacobson MZ. Providing all global energ.....
» 11/10/2016 5:38:29 PM Jabber, jabber, jabber........
» 11/10/2016 3:33:08 PM thinkabit, of course the transition to renewables will take time. I'd be surprised if we c.....
» 11/10/2016 1:56:57 PM Ah, but Shadow Minister, I provided you a comprehensive peer-reviewed report co-authored b.....
» 11/10/2016 1:49:12 PM Yes, SM, and the "economic and social policy" that is being encouraged is the ma.....
» 11/10/2016 9:58:38 AM Of course it's subsidised - any discount to encourage higher levels of consumption is a su.....
» 11/10/2016 9:09:27 AM For those who are still reading, these are the standing offer prices for business from Ene.....
» 11/10/2016 8:42:37 AM I'm sorry, you seem to have misunderstood, I asked for references......
» 11/10/2016 8:39:24 AM Ah, now I begin to understand your obsession with baseload, Shadow Minister, you're a huck.....
» 10/10/2016 6:05:50 PM Shadow Minister, those are interesting observations. Do you have the references you're rel.....
» 10/10/2016 1:56:05 PM Sure, the transition is going to take time, but 2030 is only 14 years away. The bit abou.....
» 10/10/2016 11:53:38 AM Hi Bernie, China is already massively investing in renewables and has plans to increase th.....
» 10/10/2016 9:53:01 AM Hi Jayb, The problem is that the discussion, like so many discussions in which politics be.....
» 10/10/2016 9:43:16 AM Hi Robert, The US Electoral College model does appear to be broken, doesn't it? All, At p.....
» 10/10/2016 9:09:54 AM Another view... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzLGPyd848w.....
» 10/10/2016 7:03:16 AM Hi Chris, I think it reflects an understanding that top leaders are exceptional individual.....
» 10/10/2016 6:07:39 AM What a good post, Joe! I don't think it's possible to exclude the role of hypothesis in t.....
» 10/10/2016 4:14:40 AM Hi Jayb, of course, that's the point I've been trying to make. Whether coal is currently.....
» 9/10/2016 8:24:59 PM Aidan, Perhaps you might tell me what else I've said that you think lacks credibility? I'm.....
» 9/10/2016 3:41:14 PM Give me your email and I'll gladly send you a copy, Shadow Minister. GY has my details......
» 9/10/2016 3:19:13 PM Shadow Minister, That's a lovely reference, I think Wikipedia is an excellent resource. Sa.....
» 9/10/2016 1:58:11 PM LEGO, Just to put our discussion into its proper perspective, this is the late and sorely .....
» 9/10/2016 1:19:01 PM Bazz, What's being missed in all the discussion of this topic is that the technology is im.....
» 9/10/2016 11:07:48 AM Enforced cultural homogeneity can be expressed in 2 simple lines Ein Volk Ein Reich Its .....
» 9/10/2016 10:47:22 AM Not at all, Aidan. I made the claim deliberately with a specific intent and made the fact .....
» 9/10/2016 10:42:40 AM Nobody with any competence has suggested that baseload is a myth, Shadowy Trollster. That .....
» 8/10/2016 8:45:33 PM You noticed that too, Jayb? Unfortunately, the standards of behaviour of a couple of thos.....
» 8/10/2016 7:58:52 PM Never mind, perhaps you can ask someone to explain it to you offline......
» 8/10/2016 7:30:00 PM LEGO, I'm sorry, I really thought there was a chance at a proper discussion. Enforced cul.....
» 8/10/2016 5:24:36 PM Oh, haven't I? Oh dear........
» 8/10/2016 4:43:12 PM Well, of course, you must be right SM. After all, you said so........
» 8/10/2016 4:00:02 PM Nobody said anything about load shedding old fella, that's your idea. You're not very goo.....
» 8/10/2016 3:41:07 PM You're not real good at reading for comprehension, are you SM? http://forum.onlineopinion.....
» 8/10/2016 12:12:18 PM No, you're wrong and you're no engineer or you'd understand why you're wrong......
» 8/10/2016 12:11:06 PM Conflict is not a given, there are many examples of groups living together peacefully for .....
» 8/10/2016 10:39:12 AM I'm just wondering when the last time was that you actually contributed anything useful to.....
» 8/10/2016 10:18:45 AM Of course, some of you will always be a lot further than half a dozen steps behind........
» 8/10/2016 9:32:00 AM Baseload is an artefact of demand management designed to minimise load variations so as to.....
» 8/10/2016 9:13:42 AM SM, you have cause and effect arse backwards, which pretty much sums up your world view in.....
» 8/10/2016 9:10:18 AM LEGO, I did you the favour of trying to understand your position without putting words in .....
» 7/10/2016 6:32:48 PM Hasbeen, would you mind explaining why you think renewables (wind in this case) were the p.....
» 7/10/2016 5:55:39 PM LEGO, you might enjoy this. https://youtu.be/bILldpGbVf0 It's Milton Friedman on the roo.....
» 7/10/2016 5:34:40 PM There was very little that was socialist in post WW2. There was a shortage of labour and h.....
» 7/10/2016 4:51:15 PM SM, baseload is a concept that only exists because of the need to keep generators spinning.....
» 7/10/2016 4:25:12 PM SM, maintaining a position in the face of changing evidence may be regarded as a desirable.....
» 7/10/2016 3:39:35 PM Hi Aidan, Thanks for the info on high power switching technologies. I haven't encountered .....
» 7/10/2016 1:41:37 PM SM, your posts aren't often worth fact checking, because you will draw the same conclusion.....
» 7/10/2016 9:58:04 AM I think the time has come to move away from the silly false dichotomy of "coal vs ren.....
» 7/10/2016 8:38:19 AM I'm sorry you feel that way Bazz. I guess I was being a "technical troll" and I'.....
» 7/10/2016 8:26:34 AM Hi LEGO, Thanks for your reply to my quite personal question. I am sure some variant of yo.....
» 7/10/2016 7:41:55 AM As someone who has struggled with my weight over the past few years I have to admit this a.....
» 7/10/2016 7:29:45 AM Hi SM, I'm pleased you took the trouble to do some research instead of just blurting out t.....
» 6/10/2016 6:51:59 PM Hi LEGO, I think that you are a philosopher, but because you associate that term with some.....
» 6/10/2016 3:08:48 PM Here you go, shadow Minister, a pretty straightforward explanation of balanced 3 phase sys.....
» 6/10/2016 3:05:13 PM Shadow Minister, of course you must be right, after all, you said so... On the first poin.....
» 6/10/2016 12:08:20 PM Thanks for that Aidan, another technology I wasn't aware of, but with familiar operating p.....
» 6/10/2016 6:45:27 AM Sorry Aidan, I neglected to answer your question about synchronisation and generation. I w.....
» 6/10/2016 6:35:21 AM LEGO, would you mind answering a question? It's genuine. What does your ideal world look .....
» 6/10/2016 6:27:57 AM No need for surrender Bazz, a truce is fine :). Aidan/Bazz, thanks for that info on GTO t.....
» 5/10/2016 2:15:08 PM You're confusing DC with AC power, Bazz. In all seriousness, without a comprehensive disc.....
» 5/10/2016 1:49:43 PM Bazz, 85km/h is a very high wind speed for turbines, but it may be within the operating ra.....
» 5/10/2016 1:10:39 PM Aidan, the problem is synchronisation. In an ideal 3 phase network current is 30 degrees o.....
» 5/10/2016 12:58:46 PM No, it's not beginning to look like renewables had a big role at all, Shadow Minister. It'.....
» 5/10/2016 12:18:27 PM I've just read the press versions of the analysis of the SA power problems. The official .....
» 5/10/2016 11:34:52 AM No Aidan, it's not the case. There are several ways that a high voltage main can fail, but.....
» 5/10/2016 1:53:22 AM That's interesting Bazz, I'd have thought that sort of wind would be a definite overspeed .....
» 4/10/2016 6:54:46 PM Bazz, I haven't paid a lot of attention to the problems in SA, but I'll try to hazard a gu.....
» 4/10/2016 5:53:39 PM I'd just like to offer my congratulations to Banjo P and LEGO for a couple of very interes.....
» 4/10/2016 5:40:20 PM Hi Exismental, I'm sorry to hear of your troubles. As I'm sure you realise they're an all .....
» 2/10/2016 8:08:32 AM Hi Benk, I don't think there are any groups that have comparable social conditions to Abor.....
» 2/10/2016 6:36:37 AM That post was a bit disjointed, I posted before editing and my second cup of coffee... Th.....
» 2/10/2016 6:23:03 AM Hi Banjo, I think that may be oversimplifying a little too much. While there may not be gr.....
» 30/09/2016 9:49:08 AM Hi JF, Thanks for that WEF report, I'm looking forward to having a good read! If you don't.....
» 30/09/2016 6:50:47 AM Yes LEGO, you are obviously a representative of a master race. Everyone knows white blocks.....
» 30/09/2016 6:46:24 AM Hi Banjo, I suspect the controversy around self-selective breeding of human populations is.....
» 30/09/2016 6:25:56 AM Joe, you might find this interesting. http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/.....
» 30/09/2016 4:24:05 AM Thanks for that link, Joe, it's an eye-opener. The same kinship models operate up in PNG a.....
» 29/09/2016 5:22:28 PM Joe, I apologise most profusely, but it was either anthropology or sociology, so I settled.....
» 29/09/2016 12:19:31 PM Hi Joe, I agree, those are terrible figures and they bear out my own calculation based on .....
» 29/09/2016 9:21:28 AM Don't thank me Bob, no matter what I wrote, it would have "confirmed what you suspect.....
» 29/09/2016 6:56:43 AM Hi Banjo, In general I agree, but I'd like to muddy the waters a little by mentioning that.....
» 29/09/2016 6:44:47 AM That's a good suggestion, Paul. Far too many older blokes tend to pull into their shell wh.....
» 28/09/2016 6:56:16 PM Shadow Minister, I wasn't referring to the law of assault, there's nothing wrong with that.....
» 28/09/2016 4:50:26 AM Hi Toni, it's not police that are needed, it's a change of culture. Aboriginal people, in .....
» 28/09/2016 4:31:20 AM I know you haven't thought about it Bob, because let's face it, you don't want to think ab.....
» 27/09/2016 4:19:16 PM Hi Joe and Big Nana, those are interesting perspectives on pre-European Aboriginal culture.....
» 27/09/2016 2:03:41 PM Hi Joe, I'm sure you're right, but I don't think it has much to do with "getting away.....
» 27/09/2016 12:17:24 PM The violence is a symptom, Shadow Minister, just as empty-headed rants about "lefties.....
» 27/09/2016 9:49:10 AM DV doesn't exist in isolation. Happy couples don't assault each other; tolerably miserable.....
» 27/09/2016 8:35:42 AM How are you getting on with those cost/benefit estimates Bob? Surely they can't be too har.....
» 27/09/2016 3:58:29 AM Cossomby, that's an interesting perspective that Discover puts forward. I'm not sure that .....
» 22/09/2016 6:36:44 AM Fellas, whether you wallow down there in the muck and slime or choof off and clean yoursel.....
» 21/09/2016 5:20:16 PM JFAus, are you able to explain it? I'm keen to understand this issue better......
» 21/09/2016 9:22:38 AM Bob, It's wonderful that you want to play white knight to Jennifer's damsel in distress ac.....
» 20/09/2016 12:39:01 PM Bob, the Brisbane flood height was under 5m in total at the City gauge. The releases from .....
» 20/09/2016 10:14:44 AM Joe, I'll second AJ Phillips' remarks. My only real issue with your approach is that you t.....
» 20/09/2016 6:54:14 AM A good thread, o sung wu. I haven't spent much time on OLO in recent years, so I'm not sur.....
» 20/09/2016 6:41:49 AM You seem to be confused LEGO. Your little friends are the ones over in that dungheap in th.....
» 19/09/2016 7:25:15 PM Bob, you have the cart before the horse. I made a simple post asking about economic impact.....
» 19/09/2016 12:54:41 PM Bob, my apologies for the slow response, the dreaded 4 post/day limit struck. Jennifer's .....
» 19/09/2016 6:37:52 AM Never mind, LEGO, you've still got your little friends who think that abuse is argument. W.....
» 18/09/2016 1:26:48 PM Jennifer, I don't need to have a fire burning on my lounge room carpet to assess the relat.....
» 18/09/2016 12:41:47 PM Jennifer, I'm sure you know as well as I do what was insulting about your response, so let.....
» 18/09/2016 12:22:18 PM I don't presume to think I have a "solution" Leo Lane. I merely suggested a coup.....
» 18/09/2016 12:01:10 PM Jennifer, I'm not sure how you arrived at that rather insulting conclusion from my questio.....
» 18/09/2016 11:09:58 AM Can anybody tell me what the negative consequences might be of treating human induced clim.....
» 18/09/2016 9:08:40 AM Guys, I don't generally follow climate change discussions, mostly because of the abusive n.....
» 18/09/2016 8:26:21 AM I'm amazed at the vitriol this straightforward piece has attracted (actually, that's not t.....
» 18/09/2016 7:42:01 AM "confirmation bias noun the tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of o.....
» 15/09/2016 12:21:29 PM That's the way Joe, keep the herd nervous... Nutjobs appear anywhere and everywhere. Som.....
» 15/09/2016 8:51:11 AM Joe, The reason terrorism works is because people among the "terrorised" run aro.....
» 14/09/2016 1:16:09 PM Armchair Critic, I apologise for my last outburst, I failed to live up to my own standards.....
» 14/09/2016 12:32:26 PM Ah, I see Armchair Critic, you believe you have no reward, so any risk is unacceptable. W.....
» 14/09/2016 11:50:29 AM Armchair Critic, Do you ever drive anywhere? Catch a plane? Take the dog for a walk? Use t.....
» 14/09/2016 5:50:47 AM I haven't read or heard Shriver's comments, but if the article reflects them, then I think.....
» 8/09/2016 4:38:42 PM What a good idea Steele. Congratulations, Shadow Minister, you've repulsed another possib.....
» 8/09/2016 1:58:33 PM You're historically challenged as well, old man. 2005 and 2006 are not generally regarded .....
» 8/09/2016 12:17:52 PM Oh dear, Shadow Minister, you're really not very good at this, are you old chap? My name .....
» 7/09/2016 9:04:25 PM Shadow Minister, an ad hominem argument is designed to discredit the opposing point of vie.....
» 7/09/2016 3:11:14 PM mac, I was asking a genuine question: what have you done lately you're proud of? I think w.....
» 7/09/2016 12:56:38 PM Shadow Minister, the poster in question made no argument to address: his only response was.....
» 6/09/2016 12:57:20 PM Chris, Surely if you're going to take the trouble to write a post asking a question you wa.....
» 6/09/2016 12:34:39 PM There was no ad hom, Shadow Minister, merely an observation of behaviour and a deliberatel.....
» 6/09/2016 7:08:24 AM Shadow Minister, I suggest you take the trouble to read Kohlberg before you insultingly ch.....
» 5/09/2016 8:30:07 PM Chris, ungrounded discussion that goes around in circles doesn't inform or entertain, it m.....
» 5/09/2016 8:16:04 PM Hello Shadow Minister, I've put up with a great deal of abuse from ttbn and his fellow tra.....
» 5/09/2016 2:46:41 PM You're right, Hasbeen, what the world needs is a good war to bring out the best in people......
» 5/09/2016 6:54:07 AM Thanks for that Killarney. Was there anything you'd like to actually contribute, dear?.....
» 5/09/2016 6:51:54 AM Steele, I'm not proud of bringing that out in people, I actually sympathise with their pla.....
» 4/09/2016 5:32:46 PM Very well put Joe. Our world is going to undergo enormous and rapid change over the next .....
» 4/09/2016 4:39:24 PM Hi Chris, you're right, there are no "wrong" questions as such, although not all.....
» 4/09/2016 3:40:30 PM No, psychology, particularly moral psychology, has been a long-time interest and I've done.....
» 4/09/2016 3:13:21 PM Hi Mac, As a matter of fact, I'm preparing an article on just that topic, as a break while.....
» 4/09/2016 2:59:14 PM I suspect that the tunes of some here might change if their imminent demise was at hand an.....
» 4/09/2016 2:26:21 PM Hasbeen, you do realise that the attitude displayed by ttbn is contemptible...don't you? .....
» 4/09/2016 7:43:26 AM I think the author's point has been well made by the comment thread........
» 3/09/2016 7:10:33 PM Thank you for the excellent example of Kohlberg's Stage 2 of pre-conventional morality, tt.....
» 3/09/2016 11:43:01 AM It's amusing that some people are really scathing of the article, to the point of abuse, y.....
» 2/09/2016 8:09:08 AM Well Hegel had a lot of good ideas and so did Marx/Engels, but they were limited in their .....
» 31/08/2016 5:50:28 PM Thanks OTB, I think it's an important discussion that has been avoided for a long time. I.....
» 31/08/2016 5:44:59 AM I think this discussion has run its course. Thank you to those who contributed, it's a sha.....
» 30/08/2016 6:02:38 PM Interactive, I don't share your concerns about the use of phones. Quite the contrary, in f.....
» 30/08/2016 2:14:53 AM Killarney, I agree that this is a much bigger issue than people "feeling sorry for th.....
» 29/08/2016 6:38:48 PM Oh dear Alan, abuse? You're not very good at this discussion stuff, are you? Never mind, I.....
» 29/08/2016 2:39:57 PM Thanks for the "contribution" Daffy, I'm sure you did your best. Isprey, yes, I.....
» 29/08/2016 2:11:48 PM Thanks for the responses folks. Cobber, yes, there does seem to be an effort being made t.....
» 17/08/2016 8:14:27 PM ttbn, you're all right because, notwithstanding whatever excellent personal qualities you .....
» 17/08/2016 4:52:17 PM Oh ho ho ho, Toni Lavis. Angry white men are such an amusing little bunch aren't they, not.....
» 17/08/2016 10:41:02 AM Ah, the path through...Yep, that's the question all right. The world has irreversibly chan.....
» 22/07/2016 4:17:56 AM There is no privacy issue. The Queensland Police Service likes the idea. http://www.abc......
» 10/07/2016 1:59:42 PM Yes there are apps, but they are clunky to use, requiring lots of click-throughs making th.....
» 10/07/2016 9:33:55 AM To save GY the trouble, if anyone wishes to discuss this further, get in touch at [myname].....
» 9/07/2016 8:20:26 AM http://www.wired.com/2016/07/philando-castile-social-media-911/?mbid=psocial_techreview .....
» 2/11/2015 7:02:01 AM I had to add my own best wishes, David. I find it hard to believe you're 90! When we met a.....
» 2/07/2015 10:22:48 AM I had a comment prepared for this, but I've decided that I won't bother putting them up. .....
» 2/07/2015 8:22:47 AM I don't share Peter's religious beliefs, Banjo, but I am sympathetic to the view that ther.....
» 1/07/2015 7:59:29 PM You're simply failing to understand the problem, AJ. Whether you think the alternative exp.....
» 1/07/2015 5:35:11 PM AJ, while your comment seems reasonable on the face of it, is assuming that event probabil.....
» 1/07/2015 12:00:03 PM All, notice how some people think that children shouldn't be educated? I wonder why?.....
» 1/07/2015 10:45:09 AM Attendance is only compulsory in concept, the practice requires a willingness to enforce w.....
» 1/07/2015 10:18:18 AM Oh and just one more little point. Ramanujan was a self-taught clerk in the Indian Railway.....
» 1/07/2015 9:48:11 AM An interesting piece, thank you. Funny that some seem not to want a rule of law at all......
» 1/07/2015 8:07:39 AM Banjo, some of the greatest puzzles in mathematics involve trying to prove that a stroke o.....
» 1/07/2015 7:59:25 AM Jon J, a good comment, but I'll make just one quibble. In Australia the ALP has come to b.....
» 1/07/2015 7:33:52 AM "Figures gathered in the U.S suggest that only about 4% of homosexuals will marry if .....
» 30/06/2015 5:09:35 PM "I agreed with almost everything which Peter West said" Peter, obviously next t.....
» 30/06/2015 5:02:31 PM Sadly, it appears that some of the commentators here failed to pay attention in reading cl.....
» 30/06/2015 4:06:17 PM Mazel tov, Joe........
» 30/06/2015 11:18:28 AM Roscop, seriously?.....
» 30/06/2015 10:01:12 AM Ponde, he wasn't arrested because he did nothing wrong. Well spotted. ttbn, how curious t.....
» 30/06/2015 9:40:38 AM Nash spent just a few months in hospital, Banjo, admitted by his wife. He was subjected to.....
» 29/06/2015 7:21:32 PM Boxer, the issue is appropriate use of technology. If it is possible to be more efficient .....
» 29/06/2015 6:44:54 PM Amortisation isn't depreciation per se, it's the spreading of a cost of a capital asset ov.....
» 29/06/2015 5:12:24 PM David, I'm sorry, but I must be missing something, because I can't see any relevance to th.....
» 29/06/2015 1:56:24 PM Mark, the cost of the vehicle has to be amortised just as the cost of the plant does. Howe.....
» 29/06/2015 1:30:26 PM Leo, my primary viewing/listening of the ABC is to the news service. I also watch occasion.....
» 29/06/2015 10:40:31 AM Mark, the cost of the vehicle is not relevant for a couple of reasons. Firstly, the plants.....
» 29/06/2015 10:14:33 AM Hi David, I'm not sure how to proceed in having a conversation if the entire discussion is.....
» 29/06/2015 9:48:17 AM The ABC is a "fringe broadcaster"? News to me and the millions of people who spe.....
» 29/06/2015 9:21:15 AM David, you're taking the narrowest possible view of religion that simply doesn't hold for .....
» 28/06/2015 5:15:10 PM There is absolutely no reason a Jewish nation should be ruled out as a concept. The argum.....
» 28/06/2015 5:02:26 PM Well David, you're perfectly entitled to feel that way, but it's not a lot different to th.....
» 28/06/2015 2:33:56 PM Speaking of anti-Semites........
» 28/06/2015 10:49:39 AM David, you're confusing cause and effect, I think. The sense of having the power to do thi.....
» 28/06/2015 9:18:36 AM CH, I'm sad that you think my feeble attempts at satirical caricaturisation are "imma.....
» 28/06/2015 7:45:31 AM Monis was a regular offender with a record as long as your nose, Pinocchio, including havi.....
» 28/06/2015 7:35:17 AM To the tune of "The Wheels on the Bus" as sung by The Wiggles. JKJ goes round a.....
» 28/06/2015 6:54:32 AM JoM: "ridiculous openness and transparency debate". An interesting comment, Jay.....
» 28/06/2015 6:32:30 AM Pericles, that's terribly unkind. The poor dears are flat out working which side the butto.....
» 28/06/2015 6:23:36 AM Banjo, the Exodus story is an obvious case of the "drift" I was referring to, bu.....
» 27/06/2015 6:44:39 AM LEGO, I did not suggest that the ABC is never biased, I pointed out that the general quali.....
» 27/06/2015 6:38:56 AM Banjo (and Peter), I wonder whether it is entirely true that myths are not falsifiable. Wh.....
» 27/06/2015 6:25:19 AM Peter, I suspect that all of the great religious figures have had some element of the myst.....
» 26/06/2015 3:19:13 PM I can only work with the material available, Leo. The particular specimen provided was es.....
» 26/06/2015 2:36:16 PM Leo Lane, have you considered a career in comedy? You're a natural......
» 26/06/2015 12:13:03 PM A good article, Don. "rights" are derived from fulfillment of obligations, they .....
» 26/06/2015 11:57:51 AM Well, obviously you'd say that, JKJ. After all, the ABC produces reports of fact and there.....
» 26/06/2015 7:01:33 AM Thanks for another interesting piece Peter, that goes some way to explain your use of the .....
» 25/06/2015 8:41:14 AM Hi R0bert, As I understand the amendment being proposed by the Government, the purpose is .....
» 24/06/2015 5:48:30 PM The Brisbane Times, as a journal of record, is quite good at reporting the events of the d.....
» 24/06/2015 7:11:01 AM Apparently I do understand, JKJ. "Tony Abbott's plan to use ministerial discretion t.....
» 23/06/2015 7:11:25 PM Yeah, BJelly, watch out! LEGO might spout more crap......
» 23/06/2015 12:01:13 PM Thanks Banjo, the exam stress is now over for a little while. I'm looking forward to list.....
» 23/06/2015 10:54:29 AM Peter, what does "cost-effectiveness" mean in the context of your article? A &q.....
» 23/06/2015 10:42:30 AM The author's calculations are rather suspect. TVs and appliances There are several unsupp.....
» 22/06/2015 5:17:21 AM Hi Yuyutsu, "concomitant" means something that must be naturally associated with.....
» 22/06/2015 5:03:16 AM Banjo, I'd love to take you up on the fascinating points in your first comment this mornin.....
» 21/06/2015 5:52:06 PM Jayb, I can't speak for anybody else, but for my part I can't see any point in belabouring.....
» 21/06/2015 3:12:19 PM You're right, CH, the person you refer to is not even a relative to the best of my knowled.....
» 21/06/2015 1:13:20 PM otb, don't be silly. There have been many instances of police bashing suspects (most rec.....
» 21/06/2015 11:57:50 AM A quick google will do it for you, old fella. Ask someone to do it for if that's beyond yo.....
» 21/06/2015 7:11:33 AM Oh look, JKJ is a sock puppet of LEGO. Does GY know you're using two accounts, you naughty.....
» 21/06/2015 6:55:18 AM Yuyutsu, you're flogging a dead horse with those red herrings, mate. Any right must have .....
» 21/06/2015 6:49:14 AM Thanks for that, Banjo, another beautiful piece and a perfect start to my last day this se.....
» 20/06/2015 6:42:53 PM JKJ, your argument is fatuous. You seem to be advocating for a form of "Parliamentary.....
» 20/06/2015 2:33:56 PM Too late, ttbn. In a fantastic example of recursive irony you've already made your own com.....
» 20/06/2015 10:46:22 AM OTB, I'll take "churlish" over "stupidly trying to justify the unjustifiabl.....
» 20/06/2015 9:40:31 AM jayb, the existence of a sniper does not justify the murder of hundreds of civilians, incl.....
» 20/06/2015 9:24:43 AM OTB, my post was in relation to your ludicrous suggestion that membership of an armed forc.....
» 20/06/2015 7:00:07 AM OTB:"even a highly trained, disciplined soldier could not have performed because s/he.....
» 19/06/2015 4:05:17 PM Yuyutsu, the facts may or may not be correct, I haven't checked, but it doesn't matter, th.....
» 19/06/2015 2:49:35 PM Yuyutsu, you're projecting. The fact that some religious people make the claim that they f.....
» 19/06/2015 2:07:36 PM Au contraire, JKJ, you misunderstand the nature of Parliamentary sovereignty. The Parliame.....
» 19/06/2015 10:55:48 AM Are you advocating the use of laser-guided bombs in Australia, Pete? How strange........
» 19/06/2015 10:29:42 AM Thanks for providing an excellent summation of the reason that the Doctrine of the Separat.....
» 19/06/2015 10:09:38 AM LEGO, you don't stand for any of the things that I regard as fundamentally Australian. Yo.....
» 19/06/2015 8:53:47 AM Apparently that paragon of logic, tolerance and reasonableness Fred Nile tried the "C.....
» 18/06/2015 7:22:13 PM Toni, I prefer "sentientist", it sounds so much more pretentious and it only has.....
» 18/06/2015 7:18:44 PM Phanto, if two people of the same sex seek to marry, then it is likely that they are homos.....
» 18/06/2015 5:34:53 PM Civil discrimination in the lower courts is subject to Statute, unless there is a defined .....
» 18/06/2015 10:37:32 AM Suse, why do you feel the need to denigrate the author for raising the topic? It kind of m.....
» 17/06/2015 2:25:17 PM The moon must be full........
» 17/06/2015 6:37:34 AM Yes Banjo, it's just awful! Running around with gay abandon changing the meaning of perfec.....
» 16/06/2015 7:50:07 PM Banjo, have you thought of a career as a disc jockey? I was never a big fan of Beckett th.....
» 16/06/2015 7:22:07 PM Phanto, last I checked, marriage licenses were priced on at least a cost-recovery basis. .....
» 16/06/2015 4:18:01 PM Sheesh, Yuyutsu, hysterical much? MO, still waiting on that simple answer to simple quest.....
» 16/06/2015 3:38:25 PM Oh Gawd, 'ere we go again... Nice poem David, shame it was spoilt by being part of your a.....
» 16/06/2015 3:34:02 PM Still waiting for an answer to the simple questions in my first post, Raycom, your obsessi.....
» 16/06/2015 1:59:42 PM You're quite right, David, that is the gist of Hof's work, but it's also true that definin.....
» 16/06/2015 11:15:01 AM David, thank you for those links. Erdos is one of my own favourite characters in science a.....
» 16/06/2015 6:39:20 AM Phanto, it doesn't matter what the claimant says, if there is no discrimination, there is .....
» 16/06/2015 4:04:14 AM Yes Toni, "Clapham" is of course, what I meant. Perhaps there was some unconscio.....
» 16/06/2015 3:37:00 AM Banjo, Bye mate......
» 15/06/2015 5:50:09 PM David, if this link turns you on, your nerd potential is surreal... http://www-cs-faculty.....
» 15/06/2015 4:57:30 PM Banjo, I'm not going to bother arguing with you. It's an entirely pointless pursuit. If y.....
» 15/06/2015 4:15:35 PM Yuyutsu, mate, without the rule of Law, which has to involve the threat of coercion, there.....
» 15/06/2015 4:11:27 PM Why a plebiscite? That's just more money spent and more time wasted for politicians who sh.....
» 15/06/2015 12:54:28 PM Leo, there is nothing surer than the eventual implementation of laws that give homosexual .....
» 15/06/2015 12:48:47 PM That's awesome, Raycom. It would be nice if you could just answer the really simple questi.....
» 15/06/2015 12:46:32 PM If it is such a minor issue, then why can't it just be passed on the nod by both sides and.....
» 15/06/2015 4:41:03 AM Raycom, all that and I still don't have a clear understanding of what the consequence is f.....
» 15/06/2015 4:26:46 AM Banjo, sophistry is a fun game, but it is not indicative of good will. I grew out of pla.....
» 14/06/2015 7:06:23 PM In that case, Leo, I will withdraw my comment to that effect. In a similar spirit, perhaps.....
» 14/06/2015 7:03:23 PM I must be a bit thick, mil.observer, I didn't see any "consequences" for Christi.....
» 14/06/2015 12:13:30 PM Leo, when you start "discussing" rather than "debating" I'll be all ea.....
» 14/06/2015 10:52:58 AM Hi Banjo, Peter has made it clear what he meant by "engage". It is not what you .....
» 14/06/2015 9:52:53 AM Hi Yuyutsu, government already registers marriages. You're welcome to argue that they sh.....
» 14/06/2015 7:38:06 AM Raycom, thanks for the response, it has taken some time. From your response, it appears yo.....
» 14/06/2015 7:07:27 AM Oh Gawd, Leo, enough obsessing already......
» 14/06/2015 7:05:27 AM Banjo, I think you miss the point; Peter is not asking you or anyone to "engage".....
» 11/06/2015 3:27:34 AM "The web is full of" Code for, "I have no ideas of my own, so I trawl the .....
» 10/06/2015 4:09:02 PM As always, runner, you demonstrate an amazing ability to confuse motes and logs......
» 10/06/2015 3:44:36 PM Luciferase, I realise that as a peer-reviewed paper from engineering experts the piece I'm.....
» 10/06/2015 8:03:48 AM Adam, I'm still waiting to have a really good explanation of what the "consequences&q.....
» 10/06/2015 7:53:35 AM Jon J, citing Locke is perfectly reasonable when discussing the "tabula rasa" mo.....
» 9/06/2015 12:32:43 PM Bushbunny, there have been gay people accepted socially for at least as long as records ar.....
» 9/06/2015 11:56:56 AM Yeah, Bond was as shonky as they come......
» 9/06/2015 11:37:06 AM spindoc, having reexamined the initial posts, it looks like I owe you an apology first. &.....
» 8/06/2015 2:12:09 PM spindoc, I don't think we do have an understanding, tacit or otherwise. I'm neither autist.....
» 8/06/2015 12:18:09 PM Rhrosty, maglev (magnetically levitated) trains are supported by a magnetic field that is .....
» 8/06/2015 11:47:51 AM Is there something you want to tell us, ttbn?.....
» 8/06/2015 11:40:36 AM spindoc, you're quite right, CERN do a great job at informing the public of their work. It.....
» 8/06/2015 10:20:27 AM thinkabit, new coal is about at cost parity with solar PV, although existing coal is still.....
» 8/06/2015 8:24:50 AM It's not my implication, it's your inference. However, if the shoe fits... As for the au.....
» 8/06/2015 7:49:38 AM Hi spindoc, it's nice of CERN to take the trouble to send you press releases. I hope the .....
» 8/06/2015 7:45:57 AM Hasbeen, it's even worse than you fear, I'm not just a planner, I actually think and it do.....
» 8/06/2015 7:39:25 AM Hi Banjo, I'll second David's comment. When I was a lad I played in the school's baroque b.....
» 7/06/2015 1:31:24 PM Phanto, My use of the words you refer to is what is known as "satire". It's an a.....
» 7/06/2015 8:42:48 AM C: So, the next question then, is what percentage of those homosexual people would vote La.....
» 7/06/2015 7:09:26 AM Jay, you may well be right that Shorten and Plibersek see an opportunity to reduce support.....
» 6/06/2015 6:48:45 PM I'm intrigued, Jay, how do you think it serves the interest of politicians especially to f.....
» 6/06/2015 5:48:06 PM Ah, I see the problem now, spindoc. You haven't the faintest idea what any of the things y.....
» 6/06/2015 3:07:21 PM There's nothing alarmist about it, spindoc, simply an observation that it is likely and th.....
» 6/06/2015 2:40:03 PM Spindoc, what was “void of meaning” was your guff, as was clearly pointed out. I clearly d.....
» 6/06/2015 2:01:50 PM Hasbeen, I'm no more a "greenie" than you are an engineer... However, let's fac.....
» 6/06/2015 11:04:49 AM Whether jets use less fuel per passenger miles than cars is not the issue. Both cars and j.....
» 6/06/2015 9:59:40 AM Hi Aidan, I don't claim to be an expert on this topic, so I can't give you a definitive an.....
» 6/06/2015 9:37:45 AM Gawd, speaking of "hysterical"........
» 6/06/2015 8:34:46 AM Hi Geoff, Nicely described and to date the most elegant model put forward, but it still be.....
» 5/06/2015 5:43:31 PM Spindoc, if the people at CERN were to tell me the guff that you have put up here then yes.....
» 5/06/2015 4:20:08 PM Do it, Foxy. Don't forget the last step........
» 5/06/2015 4:15:13 PM There's not a lot to comment on, spindoc. None of it made a lot of sense. For example, &.....
» 5/06/2015 3:20:23 PM spindoc, I'm very happy to shed more light on the subject. None of the major grains are r.....
» 5/06/2015 2:33:44 PM "This region below QED/QCD unification is referred to as “quantum jelly”" Oh de.....
» 5/06/2015 1:27:15 PM Oh, sorry, didn't give Nan's recipe. 6 eggs 1/2 cup of castor sugar pint of cream pint an.....
» 5/06/2015 12:56:16 PM Yum! I'm a huge fan of the old beef strog and as for strawberries and cream, by any name a.....
» 5/06/2015 11:07:38 AM ttbn, I asked you in an earlier thread to explain to me what you think I am "bigotted.....
» 5/06/2015 10:06:54 AM phanto, just taking a wild stab in the dark here, but I reckon that if someone says they p.....
» 5/06/2015 9:24:28 AM spindoc, wheat and other grains don't grow in rainforests. Are there any other basic scie.....
» 5/06/2015 9:18:37 AM A really good article, thanks. One of my personal heroes is the late author Iain Banks. Ia.....
» 5/06/2015 9:07:45 AM Prompete, the author is advocating for differential treatment of people based on a charact.....
» 5/06/2015 8:02:30 AM David, you're a "bigot" because you advocate policies derived from your personal.....
» 4/06/2015 5:36:01 PM Dr Russell, I don't dispute that feminism was motivated by a genuine desire to enhance th.....
» 4/06/2015 9:57:48 AM CO2 increases plant growth, but it also increases fungal growth, especially when combined .....
» 4/06/2015 9:06:04 AM Oh, but you are. Sour grapes make the best whine........
» 4/06/2015 6:47:14 AM AH, well done Luciferase, as usual you're showing the world the way. Don't you go giving .....
» 3/06/2015 8:00:15 AM Luciferase, If only Panasonic, Origin, AGL etc, etc, etc had someone as wise as you to sho.....
» 1/06/2015 6:59:50 PM I demand an invitation to your next dinner party Foxy......
» 1/06/2015 6:11:31 PM Joe, I don't say it is possible there is no net reduction, I say I don't know the exact am.....
» 1/06/2015 10:26:12 AM Anonymous Troll, I have full access to papers published in Energy through my university. F.....
» 1/06/2015 9:55:49 AM Graham, that's a very pragmatic idea, but it does tend to beg the main question, which goe.....
» 1/06/2015 6:36:55 AM Anonymous troll, the link you posted was: http://festkoerper-kernphysik.de/Weissbach_EROI_.....
» 31/05/2015 5:16:45 PM Joe, it is indeed a foolish question to ask of someone who has already given you an answer.....
» 31/05/2015 3:38:46 PM Which "bigotries" do you think I have, ttbn? I'd be fascinated to find out. And.....
» 31/05/2015 3:22:32 PM Joe, I can't point you to such a study, although I'm sure there must be some in existence......
» 31/05/2015 12:02:12 PM Wow, what an impressive "reference". No wonder you're so concerned about in-bree.....
» 31/05/2015 11:52:19 AM ttbn, emigration of any kind is driven by the perception of the emigrant that there is a b.....
» 31/05/2015 9:37:59 AM CHERFUL, the Cronulla riots were down to a bunch of young men on both sides trying to esta.....
» 31/05/2015 8:42:56 AM What LEGO says is almost always entirely the product of a one-sided view that doesn't have.....
» 31/05/2015 8:00:31 AM Oh gawd, there goes LEGO Mitty again... Pocketa pocketa pocketa........
» 31/05/2015 7:57:48 AM Killarney, the bully around this site is you and like all bullies, as soon as you are conf.....
» 30/05/2015 11:45:40 PM Killarney, stop the hysterical victim-playing, you constantly attack me and others. You're.....
» 30/05/2015 4:59:27 PM Hi O Sung Wu, There are many laws that exist without any unambiguous necessity being demon.....
» 30/05/2015 8:19:24 AM Onya LEGO, never let a chance to kick someone when they're down pass you by. What a guy!.....
» 30/05/2015 7:16:12 AM O Sung Wu, I think the point that is being made is that if the law is out of step with the.....
» 29/05/2015 7:52:57 AM The economic/sociocultural considerations are relatively less important than the implicati.....
» 29/05/2015 6:13:19 AM Yada yada patriarchy Yada yada power struggle yada yada control yada yada yawn... I w.....
» 28/05/2015 1:06:33 PM I'm prepared to have a chip on my shoulder, if that helps?.....
» 28/05/2015 10:45:09 AM Personally, I reckon all cake shops are secretly gay. Have you seen how some of those cake.....
» 28/05/2015 9:35:10 AM Hi Hasbeen, the same argument applies to all the other inputs as applies to the PV materia.....
» 28/05/2015 7:38:52 AM Aidan, you make a good point wrt money and energy. It seems to me that a large part of the.....
» 28/05/2015 7:18:30 AM Spencer, domestic PV is very much viable, although it is a little costly at present. That .....
» 28/05/2015 6:47:10 AM Mope, never contacted Peter by email, although I do occasionally comment on Peter's articl.....
» 27/05/2015 4:50:40 PM Until the definition is changed... Dictionaries follow usage, they don't determine it. Th.....
» 27/05/2015 3:17:20 PM Hi Moe, don't be too hard on yourself, even some quite bright people have trouble working .....
» 27/05/2015 1:43:05 PM Leo, I don't doubt his medical ability, I doubt his ability to make ethically-demanding de.....
» 27/05/2015 1:15:07 PM Nothing to do with fuel cells, Rhrosty, it's a similar technology to that used in your mob.....
» 27/05/2015 11:14:34 AM Mark, the Tesla "gigafactory" is entirely powered by PV to the best of my knowle.....
» 27/05/2015 9:24:01 AM What a fascinating digression. I like Peter's pieces, they seem to represent a sincere at.....
» 27/05/2015 8:32:55 AM Hi Peter, an interesting article, giving the user perspective that is so valuable. In a p.....
» 26/05/2015 8:19:12 PM No, you don't have to trust me, Luciferase. You're welcome to be as foolish as you like. .....
» 26/05/2015 4:36:27 PM If you want my respect, act like you deserve it instead of constantly whining. Funny tha.....
» 26/05/2015 12:53:57 PM Peter, constantly reiterating the same thing doesn't make it so. Similarly, trying to ext.....
» 26/05/2015 12:30:00 PM Round and round and round........
» 26/05/2015 9:44:13 AM Yeah, that Musk, what would he know eh? www.teslamotors.com/ www.spacex.com www.solarc.....
» 26/05/2015 7:14:17 AM Killarney, I didn't realise you live in Ireland, I guess it explains the handle pretty wel.....
» 25/05/2015 8:01:14 PM O Sung Wu, homosexual people already form relationships and experience breakdowns of those.....
» 25/05/2015 7:45:35 PM And round and round and round........
» 25/05/2015 6:46:20 PM Homosexuality is a normal part of the range of human sexuality and has nothing whatever to.....
» 25/05/2015 12:37:33 PM Hi Longmarch, you seem to think you've proven something. That's nice. ISIS is simply fill.....
» 25/05/2015 8:40:42 AM Hi Lobemush, no half-witted comments, I've realised I can't possibly compete on that basis.....
» 25/05/2015 7:56:15 AM Is this guy really allowed to practice medicine? The AMA is obviously a very broad church......
» 25/05/2015 7:46:11 AM Hi Loadmash, I'm sure you can't be the only one who feels that way, there are many other n.....
» 24/05/2015 6:38:35 PM Hi Lardmouth, the situation in the Middle East is a power struggle between groups of peopl.....
» 24/05/2015 4:55:19 PM Phanto, your words and "opinion" disgust me because they are bereft of humanity......
» 24/05/2015 2:38:52 PM Phanto, you’re absolutely right that I am uncomfortable with your crass and boorish behavi.....
» 24/05/2015 2:24:00 PM Round and round and round they go...stuck on their merry-go-round. And meanwhile, in the .....
» 24/05/2015 1:37:32 PM Round and round and round........
» 24/05/2015 9:56:41 AM Thanks Roscop, I try to express things as clearly as I can. Phanto, if you don't like the.....
» 24/05/2015 9:38:06 AM It's good to know that there is some interest in examining the topic, but unfortunately, w.....
» 23/05/2015 6:51:46 PM Yes, it is more efficient; yes, it is less costly; yes, it is a game-changer. One major p.....
» 23/05/2015 4:46:13 PM Luciferase, the paper you referenced is over a decade out of date, although it does canvas.....
» 23/05/2015 3:50:52 PM Dr Russell, police issue interim DVO/AVO with no recourse to courts and a Magistrate will .....
» 23/05/2015 2:13:17 PM Dr Russell, the problem is that to a very large extent DV is not treated as a criminal off.....
» 23/05/2015 12:57:40 PM Luciferase, distributed generation is facilitated by grid connection. Perhaps next time yo.....
» 23/05/2015 12:52:19 PM Of course, you must be right, Peter......
» 23/05/2015 7:04:50 AM The prosecution rests........
» 23/05/2015 7:03:01 AM Fair dinkum fellas, Rosie Batty lost her son in extremely brutal circumstances. Let's have.....
» 22/05/2015 2:24:09 PM Gawd there are some prats on this site......
» 22/05/2015 11:46:36 AM Whatever you say, Peter......
» 22/05/2015 11:10:10 AM Peter, whether you like it or not and speaking for myself, I have a sneaking sense of grat.....
» 9/05/2015 8:21:31 AM Gawd, plurry awful punctuation. Please amend as necessary........
» 9/05/2015 8:18:59 AM Dr Russell, I think you're mistaken in saying that feminism hasn't been influential in cre.....
» 8/05/2015 7:48:53 PM After re-reading my last comment I would like to modify it a little. Feminism as an ideolo.....
» 8/05/2015 5:48:46 PM Dr Russell, You asked some time ago why it is that feminism has come to assume a pejorativ.....
» 5/05/2015 4:36:36 AM Killarney, you're just feeling a bit miffed because you don't like having your controlling.....
» 4/05/2015 7:50:02 AM LEGO, some people are great supporters of all sorts of stern measures that they think will.....
» 4/05/2015 7:43:48 AM R0bert, thank you for the kind words. Aussieboy, you've summed things up much more succi.....
» 4/05/2015 7:36:05 AM Killarney, a "dialectic" is a rationalisation or argument to justify a particula.....
» 4/05/2015 7:26:44 AM Dr Russell, sorry for taking so long to get back to you. I'd suggest you have a look at th.....
» 1/05/2015 2:13:45 PM CtH, I waited till ANZAC Day was over out of respect. I'd have to say, from reading your.....
» 1/05/2015 9:08:13 AM Dr Russell, the problem is that laws which seek to modify human behaviours that have a wid.....
» 30/04/2015 5:37:46 PM Is Mise, you're most welcome to differ, it would be a terribly dull discussion if we were .....
» 30/04/2015 2:55:24 PM Is Mise, it was always stupid. They chose to do something in which a successful outcome w.....
» 30/04/2015 2:06:43 PM Foxy, the death penalty is not and has never been about either retribution or deterrence. .....
» 30/04/2015 12:43:57 PM ttbn, they were drug smugglers and they were caught and they were eventually punished as t.....
» 30/04/2015 8:56:38 AM Sheesh Killarney, at least TRY to make sense........
» 30/04/2015 8:12:06 AM McCackie, your hysterical content-free comment contrasts markedly with the article's measu.....
» 29/04/2015 5:20:36 PM Dr Russell, it seems to me that socially constructed norms that don't fit with intrinsic m.....
» 29/04/2015 8:44:50 AM Dr Russell, despite the obvious intent to provoke, I think both Roscop and Armchair Critic.....
» 28/04/2015 7:13:46 AM Dr Russell, thanks for the good wishes. You are quite right that ideologues are not susc.....
» 27/04/2015 11:31:21 AM Dr Russell, I realise that you tried to discuss class distinctions within your previous ar.....
» 26/04/2015 7:06:14 PM Suseonline, the response has been overwhelmingly one of a willingness to engage respectful.....
» 26/04/2015 6:33:41 PM Dr Russell, you're obviously a skillful and well-qualified person, with the personal integ.....
» 25/04/2015 12:19:26 PM Wolly, I don't think that's a fair characterisation of Dr Russell's approach or her views .....
» 25/04/2015 9:57:40 AM Dr Russell, do you think you could expand on what you mean when you use the term "gen.....
» 25/04/2015 8:53:11 AM Sarah, with respect, your last post is not convincing and it explains why I found your art.....
» 21/04/2015 6:00:54 PM ttbn, "Islam" is an idea: ideas do not wage war, that is the exclusive preserve .....
» 21/04/2015 5:58:10 PM Well done, Dr Russell! Your response was a much more worthy effort than your original pie.....
» 18/04/2015 6:55:24 PM Gawd this site attracts a lot of prats........
» 18/04/2015 3:50:38 PM Yeah, after all, look at how welcome we make these young men feel... Did I mention that .....
» 18/04/2015 11:35:20 AM Gawd this site attracts some prats........
» 18/04/2015 10:42:42 AM Gawd this site attracts some prats......
» 18/04/2015 8:28:42 AM CH, you may be right... However, judging from the answer to his question, I'd say the cha.....
» 17/04/2015 5:20:16 PM CH, I took Yuyutsu's question to be an example of reductio ad absurdum, designed to make p.....
» 17/04/2015 4:50:26 PM Joe, I'm not sure that you're quite right. The author's article is arguably based on her &.....
» 17/04/2015 4:24:49 PM OTB, Yuyutsu is not by any means "poisoning the well", he is simply asking a que.....
» 16/04/2015 9:56:51 AM Sorry, of course that should have been "There were Irish churches and there were Ital.....
» 16/04/2015 9:50:10 AM 'ere we go again... Big Nana and Jay of Fantasyland, if you don't think that earlier immi.....
» 15/04/2015 12:36:47 PM Oh gawd, Rhrosty, the piece was a straightforward class-politics smear polemic that ended .....
» 15/04/2015 9:46:28 AM Notice that Cambo's comment is content-free and consists entirely of scatter-gun smear, ju.....
» 15/04/2015 9:27:12 AM An interesting case of log and splinter in this piece......
» 8/04/2015 6:22:20 AM Hi Yuyutsu, I think we do agree on what the problem is and your comment sums it up pretty .....
» 7/04/2015 4:46:04 PM Hello Yuyutsu, The point I was making is that it is possible to create a positive sum game.....
» 7/04/2015 1:06:56 PM A good piece, very much in line with some of the ideas of behavioural economics. The only.....
» 2/04/2015 7:50:50 AM This thread has become a perfect illustration of why it's pointless trying to discuss idea.....
» 1/04/2015 5:35:39 PM AJ, I've already said I won't be bothering to argue with you. If you won't accept the Webs.....
» 1/04/2015 3:22:15 PM AJP, from Webster's Dictionary: Indoctrinate Full Definition of INDOCTRINATE transitive .....
» 1/04/2015 8:34:44 AM Inculcation of a set of axiomatic cultural norms ("beliefs") is a functional, in.....
» 1/04/2015 8:07:39 AM Foxy, I think the moral of the story is that you could have happily done as you wished, sa.....
» 31/03/2015 8:18:38 AM Hi Dan, Yes, that is what I wrote and that is what I meant. Have a look at those other thr.....
» 31/03/2015 7:25:28 AM I woke this morning to find a text message from Westpac on my phone telling me that a susp.....
» 31/03/2015 6:24:59 AM Hi Dan, do I believe that religion is a sociological phenomenon? Yes Do I believe it is &q.....
» 30/03/2015 8:52:15 AM Hi George, re: Feynman, I'll let him explain it himself. This is some video of one of his .....
» 30/03/2015 7:42:34 AM Hi Dan, I don't dispute that faith is important and if you've followed some of Peter's oth.....
» 30/03/2015 12:54:40 AM R0bert, I don't think they were in a position to excuse Clarkson regardless of Savile or a.....
» 30/03/2015 12:41:00 AM Hi George, I agree that there is a great deal of interest within modern Christianity in se.....
» 29/03/2015 11:42:16 PM R0bert, I'm not sure such a history should be an automatic reason for complete exclusion f.....
» 29/03/2015 10:49:49 AM Hi George, Like theology, mathematics has at its heart the notion of internally self-consi.....
» 29/03/2015 8:35:00 AM Pericles, I largely agree with you.Clarkson is a victim of his own lack of self-discipline.....
» 29/03/2015 8:08:00 AM Hi Dan, I don't think there's a contradiction. Religions, including Christianity, are all.....
» 28/03/2015 10:34:40 AM Hi Peter, I agree entirely with your comment vis a vis Christianity's (and I think it's as.....
» 24/03/2015 3:43:51 PM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 24/03/2015 2:43:27 PM A good piece, well argued as Rhrosty said. The problem of communicating science to a commu.....
» 24/03/2015 11:11:58 AM Hi George, the assumption in religion is that there are some aspects of the human conditio.....
» 24/03/2015 7:38:31 AM Jon, if you are secure in your own views and you don't agree with Peter's article, then su.....
» 23/03/2015 8:20:07 PM Imagine all you like Jay, your ideas will remain repugnant......
» 23/03/2015 5:33:11 PM Jay, I'm not remotely concerned with your justifications, your views as expressed here and.....
» 23/03/2015 4:01:32 PM No Jayb, nothing to do with PC, just repugnant and disgusting......
» 23/03/2015 9:59:31 AM Tombee, I think you're missing the point. I'm an atheist, which is to say quite specifical.....
» 23/03/2015 9:35:26 AM I think you've got very close to the nub, Peter. You may be interested in a couple of pie.....
» 22/03/2015 8:25:59 PM Go away Jay......
» 22/03/2015 3:25:04 PM JF, see my response at the top of page 7 of this thread. And that's it for me on this thr.....
» 22/03/2015 12:20:20 PM And why would "many Germans" think the Soviets would behave so poorly? Ah, that.....
» 22/03/2015 12:15:20 PM Hmmm, let's think about this - 3 nutjobs who arose in the early part of the 20th century a.....
» 22/03/2015 11:01:15 AM Jay, with the greatest possible disrespect, I think your views are repugnant and not fit t.....
» 22/03/2015 10:43:44 AM JF, you're continuing to confuse politics with science. No matter how clear the scientifi.....
» 21/03/2015 12:58:37 PM Hasbeen, you've convinced me; what we obviously need is leaders who can't navigate their w.....
» 21/03/2015 12:24:56 PM Poirot, you (and Fred Chaney) may well be correct, but I can well remember Fraser during t.....
» 21/03/2015 12:13:42 PM JF, I've already given you an honest answer and you're not satisfied. Sorry, that's all .....
» 21/03/2015 9:31:26 AM As a young student in the early 80s I was an active participant in the protests over ".....
» 21/03/2015 8:01:41 AM You get the Government you deserve, people! The author is absolutely correct to point up .....
» 21/03/2015 7:28:27 AM Peter, you sometimes manage to create highly indigestible pieces that require significant .....
» 19/03/2015 7:26:45 PM JF, I'm sure that I can't answer your "basic question" to your satisfaction. A.....
» 19/03/2015 6:19:50 AM So what you're saying, JF, is that real science is about things that you feel you can unde.....
» 18/03/2015 5:28:23 PM JF, "there is no scientific evidence that such an amount is natural" is a failur.....
» 18/03/2015 5:22:25 PM Peter, if it takes 3 posts that nobody will be bothered reading to say what you think you .....
» 16/03/2015 11:48:36 AM Gee, you're doing well with avoiding that whole smear thing Leo........
» 16/03/2015 11:47:20 AM JF, I can't answer your questions, I'm sorry, it's simply not my field. On the topic of nu.....
» 16/03/2015 10:55:33 AM Hi JF, I'm going to assume that by "Chris" you mean Craig :). Buggered if I know.....
» 15/03/2015 5:36:15 PM https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224258678_Is_Nuclear_Power_Globally_Scalable_Poin.....
» 15/03/2015 3:12:09 PM Suse, I think you may be on the right track in some ways......
» 15/03/2015 2:32:02 PM JF, this is a discussion about the philosophical underpinnings of science. Whether AGW is .....
» 15/03/2015 8:43:36 AM JF and others, this isn't a discussion of AGW. If you'd like to discuss that, perhaps you .....
» 11/03/2015 11:16:25 AM sheesh, Peter, speaking of zealots... Congratulations, you win, you can rant away to your.....
» 11/03/2015 3:18:01 AM Oh, by the way, Friedan and Abzug were women, Friedan wrote The Feminine Mystique and they.....
» 11/03/2015 3:06:18 AM sheesh... so much for mature discussion. You really do just hate blokes. How weird......
» 10/03/2015 8:50:23 AM An interesting piece, thank you. I don't think there has been any question that storage i.....
» 10/03/2015 8:05:45 AM warmair, determinism doesn't imply predetermination, merely that causes and effects are li.....
» 10/03/2015 7:43:24 AM Killarney, I reject your assertion that I have treated you as a misguided fool at any poin.....
» 10/03/2015 7:17:20 AM Hi Peter, I am not "opposed" to nuclear; I have never suggested that at any poin.....
» 9/03/2015 6:45:30 PM Peter, Thanks for going to the trouble of putting up those links, I'll have a look at them.....
» 9/03/2015 6:16:28 PM I see the white crow still has crap to regurgitate......
» 9/03/2015 6:01:24 PM Yes, indeed it was, LEGO. Wasted on present company, of course......
» 9/03/2015 4:23:31 PM LEGO, generalisation from extremes is not just poor argumentation, it's stupid......
» 9/03/2015 4:00:39 PM Hi Amanzi, "determinism" simply refers to the idea that every effect has some ca.....
» 9/03/2015 3:28:01 PM NC, very well said......
» 9/03/2015 8:16:40 AM And the White Crow flies off into the sunset, leaving another pile of regurgitated crap fo.....
» 9/03/2015 6:15:44 AM Killarney, the "prickly discomfort" I feel is in trying to hold a sensible conve.....
» 8/03/2015 8:46:34 PM Suse, I'm not suggesting that women don;t want what's best for their men, I'm suggesting t.....
» 8/03/2015 8:44:27 PM Sheesh, you girls are so defensive it's like trying to have a conversation with a cactus. .....
» 8/03/2015 6:14:31 PM Hi Suse, your comment is very defensive of feminism, but having read some of your other co.....
» 8/03/2015 9:38:04 AM Sure, storage is important and so are backup generation sources. Redundancy is a basic eng.....
» 8/03/2015 9:36:18 AM Hi McCackie, A bulk system may contain so many interactions that it is effectively impossi.....
» 8/03/2015 8:50:34 AM Sheesh, now every Muslim's a paedophile! Obviously, every Pom is too, because...Jimmy Sav.....
» 7/03/2015 11:03:26 PM The problem is, Killarney, that feminism has merely reiterated patriarchal culture, so if .....
» 7/03/2015 7:53:39 PM John Bennets, you're being dishonest. I told you in an earlier post that I would need to c.....
» 7/03/2015 7:09:57 PM Yeah, Peter, my comment was directed at you. It's a shame you aren't able to interact wit.....
» 7/03/2015 7:03:15 PM Nice work, JP, but it doesn't really go far enough, which is not surprising, it's a far fr.....
» 7/03/2015 6:29:29 PM Sheesh, what a great way to ruin an interesting discussion. Nothing worse than a zealot w.....
» 7/03/2015 12:56:44 PM AJP, I'm not certain that "capitol punishment" isn't worse than the other form. .....
» 7/03/2015 12:51:29 PM JP, you haven't thought this through, but I'll agree that your repetition of the same thin.....
» 6/03/2015 7:54:18 PM thinkabit, my background is in science and engineering (among other things) and I'm curren.....
» 6/03/2015 12:25:48 PM Is Mise, for me, being locked up in a high security prison with nothing to do and nothing .....
» 6/03/2015 11:52:56 AM Bugger, wasted a post. thinkabit, I'm afraid you don't understand QM. There is nothing no.....
» 6/03/2015 11:47:50 AM JP, what is "meaning"?.....
» 6/03/2015 9:18:25 AM I tend to agree on the subject of Ariel and Singer, James. They do their own cause a lot .....
» 6/03/2015 9:14:49 AM This is a subject that people do struggle with, but it's not really all that difficult whe.....
» 6/03/2015 8:40:14 AM JohnBennett, I'm still chasing up those references. They were presented during the seminar.....
» 4/03/2015 1:26:24 PM Mark, I attended a very good seminar given by Engineers Australia on precisely that among .....
» 4/03/2015 12:24:15 PM CH, what on earth gives you the idea that I think ISIS is worth defending? However, bear.....
» 4/03/2015 12:11:43 PM Rhrosty, it has nothing to do with thorium vs coal, but with distributed vs central distri.....
» 4/03/2015 10:27:32 AM Mikk, with respect, that's a silly response. Indonesia is a friend and a good neighbour to.....
» 4/03/2015 9:51:42 AM Very good article, David, thank you. It fascinates me that it is often the same people wh.....
» 4/03/2015 9:42:05 AM Just one other small correction to the article. Solar PV is now competitive with the cost.....
» 4/03/2015 9:21:01 AM Yes Joe, a good comment, very much in line with my own viewpoint and, I suspect, that of t.....
» 4/03/2015 9:07:40 AM David f, a good and thoughtful comment. I wonder whether Mr Alhadeff is prepared to simil.....
» 4/03/2015 8:56:42 AM An interesting article, but ultimately inadequate. The central generation model is already.....
» 4/03/2015 8:38:27 AM Hi Killarney, the second wave feminist dogmatic model is "important" because the.....
» 3/03/2015 12:53:05 PM No anger, "pericles" (a misnomer ever there was one), merely resigned disappoint.....
» 3/03/2015 11:51:26 AM I'll have to take your indisputable expertise on insensible people runner. Got your 5c p.....
» 3/03/2015 10:18:51 AM I'm not alleging anything at all, OTB, you made the claims. I notice you avoided answerin.....
» 3/03/2015 9:57:45 AM What is your evidence for that, OTB? Assuming you are right, what do you think might be re.....
» 3/03/2015 9:03:19 AM Tragic that this piece needs to be written......
» 3/03/2015 8:27:15 AM Ah, I hear the distinctive morning chorus of Corvus Dementicus (the white crow, sometimes .....
» 3/03/2015 8:20:32 AM Oh, Jayb, what a witty response........
» 3/03/2015 7:50:56 AM Snick, I'll just agree with you. I've had altogether enough of trying to hold intelligent .....
» 3/03/2015 2:54:10 AM gawd you're a tit......
» 2/03/2015 7:04:18 PM What a bunch of nitwits. The collective reasoning power and imagination of a z86 between t.....
» 2/03/2015 9:19:06 AM Part of the problem, perhaps, is that rape is actually very poorly defined. Successful vic.....
» 2/03/2015 9:02:34 AM An interesting article, Virginia, thank you. Semantics and more broadly, semiotics are a v.....
» 2/03/2015 8:12:16 AM You make a good point, Roger. I watched only a small part of the program and it was notabl.....
» 1/03/2015 7:32:57 PM Yeah, white supremacy rulez, eh Joe? Can you hear that whirring sound of someone spinning.....
» 1/03/2015 7:27:18 PM Jayb, given that NC is a Moslem and he has said several times that he does not see the wor.....
» 1/03/2015 5:41:29 PM Ye, that was a great speech from Obama and not the first time he's said it. On the other.....
» 1/03/2015 5:35:04 PM Wow, what a great argument, Joe. I can recall hearing back in primary school: "Yeah.....
» 1/03/2015 12:53:59 PM I saw the front line boys popping their pills Sick of the mess they find On their desert s.....
» 1/03/2015 12:16:55 PM Gawd a'mighty........
» 27/02/2015 9:48:01 PM Jay, I've done many things and I hope to do many more. I've no desire to die any time soon.....
» 27/02/2015 5:55:31 PM Joe, I'm 52 this year and I hope to live to some reasonable age. I'm at the tail end of th.....
» 27/02/2015 4:15:01 PM Jayb, there are prices that are not financial and yes, the young people and their parents .....
» 27/02/2015 3:12:12 PM Rhrosty, sometimes real men and real women get drunk and sometimes when they do they have .....
» 27/02/2015 3:10:41 PM Jayb, I suggest to you that you have not watched the bullying and "shaming" that.....
» 27/02/2015 2:53:57 PM Thanks for an interesting article and to the commenters for some interesting perspectives......
» 27/02/2015 1:45:54 PM ojnab, you're the one who brought the subject up. Apparently you've now changed your mind.....
» 27/02/2015 10:25:12 AM Still waiting, ojnab... Or ado you rely on Bill Gates to donate on your behalf?.....
» 27/02/2015 8:31:22 AM A very good article that touches on a broader subject; the reversal of the onus of proof. .....
» 26/02/2015 6:30:18 PM "especially because we are Pig ;-) headed & won't convert." I've asked some of .....
» 26/02/2015 5:02:57 PM ojnab, some Christians and other believers give a huge amount to charity too. I'm an athe.....
» 26/02/2015 3:42:45 PM JKJ, thanks for the concern, but my underpants remain unstained. In front AND in back......
» 26/02/2015 3:30:33 PM Joe, I think you need to have a serious discussion with your sitting bits again. They se.....
» 26/02/2015 2:34:05 PM JKJ, Islamic youths are merely the group du jour that happens to be disaffected and aliena.....
» 25/02/2015 4:02:28 PM Sheesh and you lot complain about the ISIS mob........
» 25/02/2015 3:55:05 PM JKJ, for two main reasons: because for the most part the problem that is being described .....
» 25/02/2015 12:48:57 PM ojnab, I'm an atheist, but whether I believe in a god is irrelevant, because the people in.....
» 25/02/2015 12:05:51 PM Less important is the cultural change that has seen us devalue individuality in almost eve.....
» 25/02/2015 12:05:23 PM JKJ, that's some of the most specious "reasoning" I've ever seen. Even runner wo.....
» 24/02/2015 3:01:11 PM Keep huffing and puffing, old fella......
» 24/02/2015 10:45:11 AM WWJD, runner?.....
» 24/02/2015 10:18:08 AM Ant, the BOM is a great service and their forecasts are indeed excellent and getting bette.....
» 23/02/2015 6:50:46 PM JoM, The point in my putting up those links was to demonstrate that it is necessary to exa.....
» 23/02/2015 5:24:13 PM I'm glad you and your sitting bits are on talking terms, Joe. Evidence is unquestionably .....
» 23/02/2015 4:37:54 PM Joe, with the greatest of respect, you're talking through the bit you should be sitting on.....
» 23/02/2015 4:26:03 PM Hi LEGO, I just checked on Google and while I hate to correct a fightin' man of your...erm.....
» 23/02/2015 3:58:54 PM I'm going to contradict myself: this is my last comment on the topic :). It has nothing t.....
» 23/02/2015 12:45:08 PM runner, I clicked on your link and got a picture of a man with a rather large gun. WWJD?.....
» 23/02/2015 12:42:29 PM Hi AJ, This is going to be my last post on the topic. Evidence-based (deductive) reasoni.....
» 23/02/2015 12:34:42 PM Foxy, soldiers of today probably would do as you suggest, being well-trained and educated .....
» 23/02/2015 8:46:12 AM I must say I agree with the author. I'm by no means an expert, but I noted the same things.....
» 22/02/2015 3:53:13 PM I must be doing something right, yay!.....
» 22/02/2015 2:16:02 PM Oh gawd, here we go... Everyone strapped in?.....
» 22/02/2015 11:57:48 AM JoM, I've already made it clear that I don't care whether anonymous dropkicks who use the .....
» 22/02/2015 9:12:36 AM JoM, I find it hard to take character assessments seriously when they come from people who.....
» 21/02/2015 5:32:49 PM Let's face it LEGO, the only "gun" you've ever played with hasn't worked in year.....
» 21/02/2015 5:04:57 PM LOL, you really are a funny old fellow, LEGO. Humphrey for the senile set........
» 21/02/2015 4:45:06 PM I was wrong, runner. You're contemptible by any standard......
» 21/02/2015 2:24:49 PM I don't give a toss whether he's fazed or not, Foxy, I want him to know that he is contemp.....
» 21/02/2015 2:22:39 PM o sung wu, your comments are obviously deeply personal and very well considered. There are.....
» 21/02/2015 12:43:58 PM For the benefit of Joe: my apologies for using your handle in that tirade directed at runn.....
» 21/02/2015 12:41:09 PM Runner, you wouldn't know a left wing loony academic if you fell over one in your rush to .....
» 21/02/2015 12:34:17 PM Gee, Aussie abroad, you're a real inspiration. You love the place so much you bugger off. .....
» 21/02/2015 9:31:36 AM "Gee, Craig Minns" And what's your name, old man? Oh, the bravery of being out .....
» 21/02/2015 6:52:53 AM I think this deserves another run. It seems appropriate for those with "The Certainty.....
» 20/02/2015 4:48:28 PM "It's unavoidable circularity" Yes, because your view is dogmatic, not skeptica.....
» 20/02/2015 4:22:00 PM jet, this isn't a positive article, it's a rant......
» 20/02/2015 9:49:24 AM AJ, you'll always ignore whatever doesn't fit your preconceptions, as I said a couple of p.....
» 20/02/2015 9:41:42 AM Jonathan, the media is dominated by Jewish interests favourably disposed to Israel's inter.....
» 19/02/2015 8:42:42 PM Lol, you're a funny guy, LEGO. Not very smart, but definitely funny. A bit like farting .....
» 19/02/2015 12:45:10 PM Sheesh mate, this is why I keep telling your we're at cross purposes I'm not trying to &q.....
» 19/02/2015 11:24:18 AM AJ, we've come full circle because you don't want to go anywhere. I don't know how to ex.....
» 19/02/2015 9:55:56 AM It's sound, although slightly over-strong. What should we make of your selective quoting .....
» 19/02/2015 9:43:13 AM Sheesh, serves me right for editing on the fly. First sentence should have read: "AJ.....
» 19/02/2015 9:37:48 AM Thanks OTB, I was waiting for that. From the article: " Prof John Stein, Emeritus P.....
» 19/02/2015 9:22:10 AM Hi Chris, A cut-off is not an average, but if the cut-off is moving down then even if all .....
» 19/02/2015 8:33:27 AM AJP, the point is that the "bad ideas" are not driven by religious experience, t.....
» 19/02/2015 8:09:00 AM LEGO, the rates of capital crimes have shown no change in countries with the death penalty.....
» 18/02/2015 11:19:33 AM Good on you, snake. As for you other two: jealous much? Brian, a decent article, focuss.....
» 18/02/2015 10:49:32 AM Poirot, we'll have to agree to disagree about AJP, I think. As I said, I watched a friend .....
» 18/02/2015 10:02:43 AM Hi Poirot, I rarely report others' comments. On the other hand, GY has applied some rules .....
» 18/02/2015 5:30:12 AM Well, LEGO, I must say that was worth waiting for. A flawless exhibition of some great psy.....
» 18/02/2015 5:17:48 AM SR, I thought Peter's response was well calculated and it seems to have been effective. Re.....
» 17/02/2015 3:45:50 PM Gawd, obsessive much?.....
» 17/02/2015 3:44:00 PM sheesh........
» 17/02/2015 1:02:00 PM Chris, thanks for taking the trouble to respond with some thoughtful comments. I do think.....
» 17/02/2015 9:34:57 AM AJP, a contradiction is just a contradiction. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. I.....
» 17/02/2015 9:02:50 AM Chris, student achievement levels HAVE plummeted and in my limited observations throughout.....
» 17/02/2015 7:05:33 AM Hi LEGO, interesting comment. There are some powerful arguments against the death penalty,.....
» 17/02/2015 6:35:32 AM Bravo! I'd go a little further and suggest that the current model of tertiary STEM educat.....
» 17/02/2015 6:20:17 AM All of that and nobody thinks to ask what on Earth would motivate North Korea's leadership.....
» 16/02/2015 4:10:20 PM AJ, to quote Michael Palin (a well-known atheist) "Contradiction is not an argument......
» 16/02/2015 2:39:46 PM AJ, I say religion works because it is patently obvious that a very large number of people.....
» 16/02/2015 9:40:20 AM Don, Corby was not one of the "Bali Nine"; hers was a separate matter involving .....
» 16/02/2015 8:44:15 AM Hi Joe, I understand that and it seems that Pericles and I agree on that point. However, .....
» 16/02/2015 8:34:51 AM Pericles, I asked you to explain your original question to George, which you claimed I mis.....
» 15/02/2015 10:58:20 AM Nice........
» 15/02/2015 9:18:48 AM Sheesh David, get over yourself......
» 15/02/2015 6:20:16 AM David, I had no intent to offend and I'm sorry if I did. The thing about the past is tha.....
» 15/02/2015 5:16:02 AM David, pulling up historical references is pointless, I'm afraid. The whole point of my ar.....
» 14/02/2015 12:12:41 PM Davidf, I don't read Peter's articles the same way, although I must admit to having been a.....
» 13/02/2015 10:46:45 PM JKJ, my apologies, I didn't properly read your last comment. Does religion , or at least s.....
» 13/02/2015 9:37:23 PM Pericles, I'm not interested in silly schoolyard games. You made a confused statement in a.....
» 13/02/2015 4:16:57 PM David f, you're quite right, I should have said that science and religion derive from a co.....
» 13/02/2015 10:51:46 AM AJP, as I have tried to explain, science derives from religion. Any science-based argument.....
» 12/02/2015 5:14:49 PM AJ,cience and religion derive from the same epistemological (search for causation) roots, .....
» 12/02/2015 3:11:59 PM AJP, science simply doesn't address issues of morality/ethics. The quintessential scientif.....
» 12/02/2015 2:22:08 PM I used the word "hijacked" because it fits. Those who seek to distort ethical/mo.....
» 12/02/2015 10:11:52 AM You make some very good points, which I think deserve some proper consideration. Avoiding.....
» 12/02/2015 9:02:16 AM Davidf, natural science is derived from religious impulses. All of the great natural philo.....
» 10/02/2015 11:43:14 AM Hi George, that is my own formulation, but is intrinsic to the ontological model of the &q.....
» 10/02/2015 11:36:38 AM David F, I wonder if you could explain why you are so concerned about the dogmatic axioms .....
» 9/02/2015 1:46:56 PM JKJ, would you mind expanding on that (leaving the author's position aside for the moment).....
» 9/02/2015 1:23:06 PM Wow just...wow........
» 9/02/2015 1:10:39 PM Sounds good to me, Hasbeen. I reckon I'm due about $50,000 based on 50% of my net financia.....
» 9/02/2015 12:54:35 PM I suggest you go back and read the article again, Rhrosty......
» 9/02/2015 12:09:41 PM JKJ. the problem with the view you expound above is that it precludes any consideration of.....
» 9/02/2015 11:56:47 AM Another thought-provoking piece, thanks Peter. David Deutsch has taken on the problem of .....
» 30/01/2015 6:11:41 PM Thanks for that Joe, coming from you that's a great compliment. Rhian, whenever somethin.....
» 30/01/2015 5:55:18 PM Peter, thanks for the pointer to Scruton, he has some interesting things to say. It's real.....
» 30/01/2015 5:14:17 PM AJP, we are indeed talking at cross purposes, unfortunately. Of course religious explanat.....
» 30/01/2015 1:42:17 PM Jay (and Killarney), with respect your posts are begging the question. Does it matter wha.....
» 30/01/2015 10:42:09 AM I have to wonder at what purpose might be served by seeking to prove that the holocaust di.....
» 30/01/2015 10:27:04 AM AJP, I'm happy to accept your good faith in the discussion, but with all due respect, we'r.....
» 29/01/2015 10:32:24 AM Ah, SPQR, I bow before your obviously superior knowledge. Or perhaps not... http://www......
» 29/01/2015 7:22:02 AM Hi Luciferase, I agree that the religious approach has largely run its course as a means o.....
» 29/01/2015 7:00:19 AM AJP, I'm sorry for not responding to your rather lengthy contributions. I'll do so now, al.....
» 29/01/2015 6:37:41 AM Hi Peter, are you able to expand on that definition? I think your point was interesting, b.....
» 29/01/2015 6:29:19 AM OZIDEAS, etymology is about the story of the words. Kids love stories. Hasbeen, I've nev.....
» 28/01/2015 12:06:20 PM The story of the cross sounds as apocryphal as the rest of constance's guff. Islam recogni.....
» 28/01/2015 11:24:20 AM An interesting piece, Peter, thanks. I and my 18 year old daughter visited GoMA here in B.....
» 28/01/2015 11:04:32 AM Bazz, what is time?.....
» 28/01/2015 11:02:30 AM AJP, what I "seem" to do in your mind and what I "say" on paper, ".....
» 28/01/2015 11:00:30 AM Luciferase, my own position is the same as you ascribe to Dawkins, et al. I do not expect .....
» 28/01/2015 10:38:44 AM As someone who's never had any trouble with spelling from my earliest days of learning to .....
» 27/01/2015 6:11:42 PM Luciferase, HDK take the null hypothesis to be that no God exists. In doing so they limit .....
» 27/01/2015 3:25:30 PM People are often prone to getting caught up in details and tend to overlook wider pictures.....
» 27/01/2015 3:14:39 PM Luciferase, I've spent most of my life in science, engineering and practical work, I think.....
» 27/01/2015 7:21:35 AM Me, polite? I've not often been accused of that........
» 26/01/2015 7:26:50 PM Killarney, a little reminder http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=16867#2.....
» 26/01/2015 5:53:01 PM Is Mise, I wasn't thinking along those lines, but you make a good point. What I: was get.....
» 26/01/2015 5:47:33 PM Luciferase, they are trying to argue with religionists on deductive grounds, when religion.....
» 26/01/2015 11:38:37 AM I'm really sorry you see it that way Suse. I look forward to reading your comments in futu.....
» 26/01/2015 8:09:17 AM Hi OTB, Hitchens was wrong for several reasons. His argument presented in this video is.....
» 26/01/2015 7:45:12 AM Ah, that's more like it! Nothing like a good old-fashioned hysterical rant to brighten up .....
» 26/01/2015 7:43:26 AM Killarney, I was responding to the specific post of JKJ's, and I stand by that initial res.....
» 25/01/2015 9:37:56 PM OTB, Hitchens was a smartarse, although not especially smart. I admire him for that and la.....
» 25/01/2015 9:32:59 PM "Hate" Constance? You're a very funny old bigot........
» 25/01/2015 7:41:42 PM Nathan J, a great way of looking at things......
» 25/01/2015 7:16:37 PM I guess being called a 'bigot' by an anonymous bigot is a reasonably unique honour........
» 25/01/2015 6:11:09 PM The people at Charlie Hebdo had names. skulk in your corner, gutless wonder........
» 25/01/2015 1:53:29 PM I know exactly what you're talking about, Hasbeen, but that isn't a reason to stop trying......
» 25/01/2015 1:43:14 PM Divergence, I've not seen too many posters using their real names here. A few who've writt.....
» 25/01/2015 12:48:22 PM Not a thing, Hasbeen, it's a perfect solution......
» 25/01/2015 12:34:42 PM Hasbeen, you really are an engineer! :).....
» 25/01/2015 12:31:10 PM I don't blame you for remaining anonymous, Is Mise........
» 25/01/2015 12:30:01 PM Voters aren't anonymous anywhere in the world, to the best of my knowledge. Certainly not .....
» 25/01/2015 12:27:35 PM Divergence, thanks for a great summation of the problem. As you say, change can only come .....
» 25/01/2015 10:01:07 AM Bloody laptops, I didn't mean to hit "post" just then. To continue: It's impor.....
» 25/01/2015 9:52:17 AM JKJ, that's an excellent comment......
» 25/01/2015 8:59:51 AM Oh look SPQR, you've got another anonymous internet troll on your side. You must be so pr.....
» 25/01/2015 8:42:03 AM It's fascinating that someone who uses a handle celebrating the form of Government of the .....
» 25/01/2015 8:29:45 AM An interesting idea, Is Mise, but I wonder if you've fully considered what it might mean. .....
» 25/01/2015 8:05:30 AM Or you could just go somewhere else. Exercise that freedom you're so keen to trample all o.....
» 25/01/2015 7:09:48 AM I suggest you do some more research, SPQR. It's still not too late to enrol in that OUA co.....
» 25/01/2015 6:53:09 AM Let's think a little about this. The Lakemba mosque is the home of the Sydney Lebanese co.....
» 25/01/2015 6:28:31 AM Hasbeen, I did suggest that raising the bar might be a possible approach. You're a man of .....
» 24/01/2015 5:26:30 PM Divergence, when I used the plunger on my bathroom drain this morning I did so because I n.....
» 24/01/2015 5:08:40 PM Foxy, it's not a bundle of laughs, but see if you can get hold of "The Water Diviner&.....
» 24/01/2015 11:33:56 AM Me, to R0bert:" if you wish to use an alias that should be your choice, but I think t.....
» 24/01/2015 9:59:16 AM No, I'm not kidding, spindoc. Seriously, you think the risk of being abused by raving nu.....
» 24/01/2015 9:41:42 AM Oh, I'm sure we have different lives and, as I said in my last paragraph, if you wish to u.....
» 24/01/2015 8:39:33 AM Sheesh, that wasn't worth the effort. Hysteria ain't what it used to was......
» 24/01/2015 8:22:04 AM Oh, goody, more fear porn. I hope everyone remembered to get popcorn on the way in?.....
» 24/01/2015 8:04:07 AM Let's think about your post, SPQR. I call a plumber: "Help, I have water all over th.....
» 24/01/2015 8:00:19 AM Robert, I've been thinking about your post on use of real names. http://forum.onlineopini.....
» 24/01/2015 7:24:39 AM That may be one of the all-time classics........
» 24/01/2015 7:23:31 AM Hands up all the people on this forum who either arrived as refugees or had close relative.....
» 23/01/2015 4:46:07 PM Thanks for the link, Foxy, it seems to be saying some of the same things as I have been tr.....
» 23/01/2015 4:32:32 PM The problem is not with the lectures or lecturers, per se, although obviously some have hi.....
» 23/01/2015 12:21:42 PM Hasbeen, your comments do have some validity, but they're not entirely fair. I'm currently.....
» 23/01/2015 9:20:00 AM Get a lot of bombs dropping on your head, do you....erm... what was your name again? &quo.....
» 23/01/2015 8:14:26 AM It's not an easy problem and as several people have pointed out, it's all the harder becau.....
» 23/01/2015 7:34:05 AM Altogether now... We play the game With the bravery of being out of range We zap and maim.....
» 23/01/2015 7:31:17 AM You've got me all wrong, LEGO, it's not that I'm anti-lorikeet, I just can't imagine a cru.....
» 22/01/2015 8:36:56 PM Do you really need the whole bowl Hasbeen? surely an intrepid yachtsman of your calibre is.....
» 22/01/2015 9:06:18 AM That's an insightful comment Foxy. The evidence is that the average capacity range of work.....
» 22/01/2015 8:36:12 AM And the local expert on false prophecy and being mad has spoken........
» 21/01/2015 4:28:27 PM Luciferase, the Ottoman Empire was just that - an Empire and like all empires there were l.....
» 21/01/2015 4:15:47 PM No Constance, I'm not Muslim, nor do I subscribe to any of the religious doctrines. I'm s.....
» 21/01/2015 2:44:44 PM Foxy, isn't it funny that some people are so happy being miserable that they won't give it.....
» 21/01/2015 9:03:50 AM Aidan, Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition is supposed to have the best interests of the realm .....
» 21/01/2015 8:49:55 AM Jay, the great achievement of the Abassid and Seleucid Caliphates was to foster trade by i.....
» 21/01/2015 8:34:03 AM Thanks for an interesting piece on a topic that tends to be swept under the table. Psychi.....
» 21/01/2015 8:20:13 AM The irony is getting thicker by the second. If only we could mine it........
» 20/01/2015 9:26:25 PM Killarney, thanks for your kind words earlier, I enjoy reading your thoughts too. It's not.....
» 20/01/2015 1:31:37 PM Thanks for a really good article, Don, on a topic that's pretty close to my own heart. I.....
» 20/01/2015 12:52:54 PM JKJ, let's start again. I'm sorry for having taken a cheap shot. To go back to the questi.....
» 19/01/2015 4:47:41 PM Oh dear, JKJ, a variant on the schoolyard favourite 'I know you are but what am I?' (you m.....
» 19/01/2015 4:34:33 PM Jonathon, perhaps I was hasty, so please accept my apologies for casting aspersions on you.....
» 19/01/2015 1:25:26 PM No JKJ, by pointing to what I define as 'enough', I establish that I am capable of determi.....
» 19/01/2015 10:09:41 AM Yeah, what we need in Australia is more anonymous internet trolls........
» 19/01/2015 10:07:46 AM JKJ, an interesting comment, but well wide of the mark. I have a laptop which cost me $6.....
» 19/01/2015 8:44:44 AM The 'religion' that is most responsible for wars of aggression has nothing to do with spir.....
» 19/01/2015 8:33:57 AM Shooting the messenger... yeah, that always works Mr Ariel. As an economist, it's a surp.....
» 19/01/2015 7:58:20 AM ...cont The beat goes on, beat goes on Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain La de da.....
» 19/01/2015 7:50:01 AM Hi Joe, thanks for the link. It's an interesting survey of some of the legal underpinnings.....
» 18/01/2015 5:15:21 PM I work with the material available, LEGO......
» 18/01/2015 5:12:54 PM Hear, hear, R0bert......
» 18/01/2015 4:22:45 PM It seems to me that there is a question left unanswered by the 750-odd posts on this threa.....
» 18/01/2015 1:12:17 PM Gawd you speak a lot of crap......
» 17/01/2015 8:04:18 AM Breaking news, Muslims support each other! Show uncanny resemblance to every other cultura.....
» 17/01/2015 6:14:03 AM Fair dinkum?.....
» 13/01/2015 9:33:51 AM Excellent article. Mutual respect and an assumption of good faith is the most fundamental .....
» 13/01/2015 12:11:55 AM You're so right, Luciferase, how foolish of me not to have picked up such an obvious flaw......
» 12/01/2015 10:30:07 PM Well, you've convinced me, Luciferase. The sheer unmitigated gall of suggesting that peopl.....
» 12/01/2015 3:08:52 PM In today's world the pissant whining of the perennially frustrated is broadcast ad nauseau.....
» 12/01/2015 3:02:06 PM Hi Banjo, it is a vexed question, isn't it? I think we can do better than turning away fro.....
» 12/01/2015 8:10:11 AM Thanks for the kind words and the suggestion, snake. I do enjoy writing and I've thought a.....
» 11/01/2015 11:17:16 AM Hi Jay, thanks for the link. The term seems to be a portmanteau for a fairly loose collect.....
» 11/01/2015 11:00:34 AM Squeers, with respect, it seems to me that one making the choice to be helpless in the fac.....
» 11/01/2015 8:04:56 AM Is Mise, one makes a Muslim a zealot the same way one makes a Jew a Zealot (the original Z.....
» 11/01/2015 6:24:27 AM Jay, nice piece, but I'm a little puzzled by why you limited its applicability to the 'new.....
» 10/01/2015 7:54:15 PM Tell ya what, "Bazz", you show us how it's done. You'll be right on your own, I .....
» 10/01/2015 7:49:38 PM Squeers, I really have to correct you on a couple of things which you have quite wrong. .....
» 10/01/2015 11:20:53 AM Well done LEGO, you win the 'Prize Pinhead of the Month' award. It's a special achievement.....
» 10/01/2015 10:16:46 AM What a tragedy this has been. Even worse, as such things are prone to do it will undoubted.....
» 10/01/2015 8:23:28 AM Squeers, my sincere apologies, I had no intent to denigrate your argument or to misreprese.....
» 9/01/2015 5:43:03 PM Snake, beautifully put......
» 9/01/2015 5:39:55 PM Hi Squeers, there's no apologium of the sort you suggest, merely a recognition that making.....
» 5/01/2015 8:01:39 AM Yuyutsu, thank you for your comments. They reflect a great understanding of the essential .....
» 5/01/2015 6:52:49 AM Squeers, I seem to have a knack for being unclear! I don't for a moment suggest that comfo.....
» 3/01/2015 9:11:34 PM Hi Hasbeen, Sadly, I haven't been a kid for a long time. I think you may have misunderst.....
» 3/01/2015 5:21:49 PM Thanks Squeers, another interesting and provocative post, although I'm not sure that it ad.....
» 3/01/2015 4:50:20 PM Can anybody explain to me what is meant by the use of the terms 'left' and 'right' in the .....
» 3/01/2015 10:33:32 AM David f, if every taxpayer's religion has an equal right to subsidy based perhaps on the r.....
» 3/01/2015 10:05:38 AM While there have always been scoundrels and opportunists of both sexes, it was a broad soc.....
» 3/01/2015 10:05:06 AM Killarney, I think your point about women having control over their reproductive choices i.....
» 3/01/2015 9:13:52 AM Squeers, thanks for your well-considered answer. I'm not sure that I agree with you that a.....
» 3/01/2015 8:19:08 AM Is Mise, from where I sit, there is no justification for a death penalty to exist in a mod.....
» 2/01/2015 9:15:59 AM With respect, Yuyutsu, that is simply not remotely true. The East has lead the West in pro.....
» 2/01/2015 9:02:37 AM That last post was obviously on the wrong thread. It was meant to be on the "Black an.....
» 2/01/2015 4:47:57 AM Joe, In simple English, what I meant is that you and your fellows here are acting like sa.....
» 1/01/2015 7:07:14 PM Gawd a'mighty... Give it a rest, Joe. The only black clouds I want to see are the ones co.....
» 1/01/2015 12:44:47 PM The discussion has taken an interesting turn. I'd like to take a moment to think about th.....
» 1/01/2015 7:47:55 AM This piece might help Mr Johns and his fellow parasi...learned colleagues move a little cl.....
» 31/12/2014 7:59:16 PM Same to you, NC. And to the rest of you misery-guts mob, may the New Year bring you all t.....
» 31/12/2014 6:10:21 PM George,Sells, I think we are converging on a limit through our different paths. I was goi.....
» 31/12/2014 1:52:02 PM Joe, I'd love to continue this discussion, but in order for that to be a worthwhile exerci.....
» 31/12/2014 1:31:39 PM Aboriginal people have survived conditions that would have quickly killed Mr Johns and his.....
» 31/12/2014 1:22:41 PM To continue... Mr Johns does have a point about intergenerational poverty and there is no.....
» 31/12/2014 11:29:43 AM Joe, a reference to right- or left-wing makes no sense in the context of a movement like I.....
» 31/12/2014 10:17:25 AM Hardly a surprising article from Mr Johns and no doubt attractive to some who share his un.....
» 31/12/2014 8:42:02 AM Loudmouth Joe Lane, I am not a Muslim. I am not a Christian. I am not a Hindu, or a Buddh.....
» 30/12/2014 6:46:35 PM Hi Peter, from where I sit the idea that there is something transcendent that is extrinsic.....
» 30/12/2014 2:12:54 PM I'm not ashamed for you, Kactuz, I'm ashamed of you. The tragedy is that you lack the cap.....
» 30/12/2014 12:48:45 PM JKJ, don't confuse justification with motivation. If one has the motivation, then a justif.....
» 30/12/2014 12:10:51 PM George thank you too, for helping me test my own understanding. I think Geertz's descript.....
» 30/12/2014 7:04:03 AM Hi George, there was one thing I should have said further. I am not seeking to replace or .....
» 30/12/2014 6:32:18 AM JKJ, whining about my critique of the appalling behaviour of some of the participants here.....
» 30/12/2014 6:14:11 AM Hi George, I don't disagree with anything you say. As I tried to point out, context is vit.....
» 29/12/2014 9:36:16 PM Loudmouth Lane, Of course they do. In fact, even as I type this the global Jihad is starti.....
» 29/12/2014 1:44:34 PM Loudmouth/Joe, I can see no way in which McAdam or NC can be connected with the atrocious .....
» 29/12/2014 12:29:56 PM NC and especially McAdam, I admire your grace and calm persistence in the face of such wil.....
» 29/12/2014 11:49:43 AM Hi George, I'm afraid I can't point you at anything specifically on the topic, because the.....
» 29/12/2014 7:01:05 AM Hi George, I meant Mihaliy Cziksentmihaliy, yes (the 'Cz' is pronounced 'Ch'). The genera.....
» 28/12/2014 4:49:31 PM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rekuWIKr55A.....
» 28/12/2014 3:50:35 PM So much fear driving so much hatred. On both sides. To what end?.....
» 28/12/2014 3:12:37 PM Hi Ojnab, there is an old phrase which goes along the lines of "there are none so bli.....
» 28/12/2014 11:28:20 AM On the original topic, I suspect the author's question reflects a poor understanding of th.....
» 28/12/2014 11:01:08 AM I rarely bother to contribute to theological brawling, but I must congratulate the partici.....
» 15/12/2014 3:20:49 PM A lovely piece, thank you. Beauty is, of course, 'in the eye of the beholder'. It is a de.....
» 14/12/2014 5:52:38 AM Killarney, I'm sorry you find my discussion with Stev difficult to follow. I'm sure if you.....
» 11/12/2014 12:42:03 PM Stev, the propensity for hawks and doves to evolve is precisely why I refer to needing to .....
» 11/12/2014 11:09:10 AM A really good piece, thanks. The media's ability to influence is undoubtedly enormous, but.....
» 11/12/2014 10:47:51 AM Stev, what you're describing is a one-off games theory approach, in which we make our choi.....
» 9/12/2014 7:30:05 AM Killarney, I quite agree with you that women and men have seen their life choices reduced .....
» 9/12/2014 7:22:59 AM Killarney, I don't demand trust, I'm offering it. You see, trust can't be demanded, only o.....
» 9/12/2014 7:15:51 AM Stev, I think I see the problem. You're concerned with trying to understand a deterministi.....
» 8/12/2014 10:10:19 AM Stev, it's great that you've read Aumann and Kahnemann, I wish more would. What you say i.....
» 8/12/2014 8:30:07 AM Conrad, in your piece was a comment I found really interesting and I wonder whether you mi.....
» 8/12/2014 7:01:21 AM Jay, dialectic is the only way people who behave dishonestly can be convinced not to do so.....
» 8/12/2014 6:18:56 AM Killarney, I'm so sorry you perceived my questions as some sort of facile psychodramatic t.....
» 7/12/2014 8:33:10 AM Jay, given my earlier observations about the futility of these endless reiterations of sta.....
» 6/12/2014 6:22:17 PM Jay, that's a pretty poignant comment, which I suspect may resonate a little with lots of .....
» 6/12/2014 11:06:15 AM Having watched these online struggles over gender issues and other contentious topics (AGW.....
» 5/12/2014 9:17:27 AM Sigh........
» 4/12/2014 12:23:51 PM And the tribalists go on,nappy-slinging and bra-waving......
» 26/11/2014 11:51:31 AM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sxpKhIbr0E A TedX Talk by Scott Geller, a Professor of B.....
» 26/11/2014 11:22:42 AM Oh no, Mr Author, not more gender tribalism! I am a man, you are a man, but we both only .....
» 25/11/2014 1:39:58 PM This discussion seems to have run its course. What a shame. I hoped there may have been so.....
» 24/11/2014 6:47:59 AM Onthebeach Thanks for drawing my attention back to Rand. I have largely ignored her work .....
» 22/11/2014 3:05:04 PM I tried to read Atlas Shrugged some years ago and found it relentlessly misanthropic. Howe.....
» 22/11/2014 6:53:08 AM Judges are expected to make judgements and there is a great deal of accumulated wisdom for.....
» 21/11/2014 4:31:30 PM Multimodal distributions are a useful tool for "social justice" rent-seekers of .....
» 20/11/2014 8:37:52 PM It's a little sad to watch the way tribal loyalties establish the cognitive biases that de.....
» 19/11/2014 9:42:34 PM And the tribalism continues......
» 19/11/2014 9:57:54 AM Thanks for the good, positive piece Nick. I think you hit the nail on the head with your f.....
» 18/11/2014 9:20:08 AM I think this piece, by no means uniquely, misses a much larger "problem" which i.....
» 18/11/2014 8:04:29 AM Susan, thank you. This was obviously not an easy piece for you to write and it wasn't an e.....
» 22/10/2013 2:03:49 PM One factor that the article fails to discuss is the massive trade in recycling metals, whi.....
» 8/08/2013 8:28:14 AM The Shia/Sunni split is a case in point, imposing a divine right to rule not dissimilar to.....
» 8/08/2013 8:27:47 AM divine msn, Islam accepts Christ as a divine prophet, Judaism doesn't. Don't confuse Weste.....
» 6/08/2013 9:54:43 AM Another impact is that the men who are in this position are often driven into depression o.....
» 6/08/2013 9:52:18 AM A good piece that goes to a lot of the things I've been banging on about for ages. Howeve.....
» 6/08/2013 6:56:36 AM SPQR, thank you for your interest. Indonesia is not "Muslim", despite having a .....
» 5/08/2013 6:32:27 AM Some interesting comments, thank you everyone. Poirot, I didn't examine anything about th.....
» 3/08/2013 7:14:37 AM Hello Poirot, I was trying to make the point that this doesn't have to be thought of as du.....
» 2/08/2013 6:56:13 PM Thanks Rhian. I hope so too. It's a beautiful place and it deserves more than the shallow .....

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