Harold
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Commented on Holding pattern 2022 ...
The IBM heads might already be across this, but appropos of the IBM/politics thing mentioned upthread, there's a very interesting (old) book 'Big Blue' by Richard Delamarter, all about the anti-trust case he worked on for the US guvmint, their...
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gasdive (he, him, ia) commented on
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Oh, and Australia has the same perplexing attitude towards mining, where we prepared to pay foreign companies to come and relive us of all those annoying minerals....
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David L commented on
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Apparently there are plenty of foreigners willing to do so. I hear Germany is looking for some coal just now....
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Moz commented on
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Ask us about the cost of removing our native forests!...
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Moz commented on
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Don't forget the priceless historical artifacts primitive scratchings by mindless savages that we're getting rid of to make sure the climate catastrophe happens ASAP. Some of the images, including illustrations of long-extinct species such as the thylacine and flat-tailed kangaroo, are believed to date back nearly 50,000 years. ... The scale of Woodside’s proposal is vast. It would open an untapped gas field nearly 250 miles (400km) off the Australian coast and connect it to the mainland via a pipeline through an area rich in marine biodiversity, while expanding its existing Pluto LNG processing plant near Karratha to more than...
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Damian commented on
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I don't know how long resource extraction in Australia has been a glorified work-for-the-dole scheme, but it has been for as long as I've been in a position to understand it....
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