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@ Rippedoff Ratepayer: I think I am forced to disagree with your assessment of Mr Cocking’s hairstyle. To me it is no different from the Mullet that I wore as a younger person, remembering that a Mullet was business up front and party round the back.
Mr Cocking’s hairstyle represents his age and life choices, you and I may think they are feral. But he has the courage of his convictions and he has the right to present himself accordingly.
It also allows you to see the true person rather than some gormless robot doing their master’s bidding.
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@ Hal: Hahaha. I didn’t catch on at first. Definitely a fashion trend that is totally out of place in Central Australia.
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Alice wants substantial increase in solar: survey
@ Hunter Trolle: Thank you for confirming my opinion that this survey was/is as I described it:
Your statement “Laurence obviously has no idea about statistical surveys and voluntary participation in them. I filled in my survey at the Show, and saw them approaching people at the markets regularly” confirms this: Hand picked respondents do not make a random sample, so any “evidence” gained from this exercise is flawed from the start.
It seems to be a common practice to use statistical evidence to suit your purpose with either “Dorothy Dixer” questions or cherry picked statistical results. Neither of these options will give true evidence.
As I stated previously I like many others DO want a sustainable, reliable source of renewable energy but as I also said not at the cost of my first and second born.
I’m so glad this cheap form of energy is just on the horizon, so is regular space travel, world peace and the Wallabies winning back the Bledisloe Cup.
Journalists as prostitutes
And yet it seems that personal opinion colouring an article is perfectly OK.
This is possibly why I was told along time ago “reporters report news without bias and journalists write gossip” or is that too harsh.
Alice wants substantial increase in solar: survey
@ Richard Bentley: Sorry, it’s a rubbish survey, it’s a survey of those who have/had a vested interest in the topic.
What it really tells me is that only 3% of the population could be bothered to reply to the questionnaire. That does not make it a good sample size.
Perhaps the other 24,000 are looking south of the border at the flagship state for renewable energy and are horrified at their cost of renewable energy.
SA currently has the most expensive and unreliable power generation in Australia.
I have a belief that most people actually do want a sustainable, reliable source of renewable energy but not at the price of selling their first and second born children to afford it.
Alice wants substantial increase in solar: survey
Awesome about 3% of the population. Seriously, what do the other 24,000 people think?
‘CLP rehashes fracking policy that caused its wipe-out’
As somebody who has not completely made up his mind as to the dangers and/or the benefits of fracking I am amused to see the Frack Free Alliance claiming responsibility for the CLP’s demise.
And here was I believing it was it was based on their inability to govern, their infighting, incompetence in dealing with the juvenile detainees and regular back stabbing of each other (strangely these traits are being shown by the current governing party as well).
Since the launch of “The independent Scientific Inquiry Into Hydraulic Fracturing” and its public meeting (as reported on March 7, 2017) I was looking forward to some rational debate as well as some hard and verifiable scientific knowledge instead the meeting turned into an orchestrated farce led by anti-fracking activist Jimmy Cocking.
He, along with the like minded cobbled together a list of concerns that would gladden the heart of every social justice warrior present, unfortunately had little or nothing to do with the term “scientific”.
Oh well, I have little or no doubt that fracking will go ahead as it seems both the state and Federal governments want it and does this make the current inquiry to be basically a feel good exercise to appease all and sundry?
On a side note, can’t wait to see what offends our SJWs and NGOs next.
