Comments on: Relative Spends

By: Duxton

Duxton — Fri, 30 May 2008 11:23:37 +0000

Steve @ 1758:

You bastard! You made me piss myself!

Classic!

By: Mr Dennis

Mr Dennis — Fri, 30 May 2008 05:43:59 +0000

Sure it is a funny cartoon. But frankly even a rusty old train set is a better use of money than a spaceship off on a futile search for life on a planet that time and again has been shown to have no life. What a waste. Give me trains any day.

By: dad4justice

dad4justice — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:51:05 +0000

A nome pill a day keeps the rogered idiot at bay.

By: Patrick Starr

Patrick Starr — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:44:17 +0000

we could send Nome as a peace keeper – he’d confuse the fuck outta them

By: dad4justice

dad4justice — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:37:26 +0000

Patrick – Mr Chinaman says, yuck, brown rain drops keep falling on my head and the red army would mobilize a 200 million strong army to smack some monks over.

By: Patrick Starr

Patrick Starr — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:33:32 +0000

D4J I think the slingshot would only have a skeleton left in its return, and China would be saturated with brown fatty rain

By: dad4justice

dad4justice — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:24:17 +0000

Patrick; No rocket is available to man that can propel Mr Horimia anywhere.Even space has a limit.

By: Patrick Starr

Patrick Starr — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:19:37 +0000

Excellent Rex, notice its a woman pilot? (the guys aren’t silly)
I’d like to see them demo it on Parekura Horimia first

By: Murray

Murray — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:19:02 +0000

SHOTGUN!

By: Murray

Murray — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:17:05 +0000

Sweet.

By: Rex Widerstrom

Rex Widerstrom — Thu, 29 May 2008 06:55:38 +0000

20 bucks oughta do it Murray. I'll go you halves, but I bags I get to drive the 4-wheeler.

By: Murray

Murray — Thu, 29 May 2008 06:38:49 +0000

If I give you 20 bucks can we just put Cullen in orbit?

By: Patrick Starr

Patrick Starr — Thu, 29 May 2008 06:04:40 +0000

“Distance from Wairarapa to taranaki, less than 200km”

NZ taxpayer real cost about $600 per klm

228 million kilometers to Mars ,
US cost about $1.90 per klm

By: Paul Marsden

Paul Marsden — Thu, 29 May 2008 06:00:45 +0000

ghostwhowalks3 (303) +0 Says:

May 29th, 2008 at 10:59 am
meanwhile also in the US…
“By using railroads, we are achieving some economy on fuel,” said Dan England, chairman of C. R. England, a family-owned company based in Salt Lake City that runs 3,600 tractor-trailers and now regularly loads 350 of the trailers on railroad flat cars to get them from, say, Chicago to Los Angeles.
NY Times

Fancy that using the railroads to carry the trucks AND their load”

Yes, fancy that. But um, err…..ever heard about the size of our tunnels??

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:58:59 +0000

Once upon a time there was a young girl named Helen who bought a donkey
from a farmer for $100. The farmer agreed to deliver the donkey the next
day.

When the farmer drove up the next day, he said, ‘Sorry miss, I have some
bad news. The donkey is on my truck, but I’m afraid he’s dead.’

Helen replied,’ Well then, just give me my money back.’ The farmer said,
‘I can’t do that. I went and spent it already.’

Helen said, ‘OK then, just unload the donkey anyway.’ The farmer asked,
‘What are ya gonna do with him?’

Helen said, ‘I’m going to raffle him off.’ The farmer exclaimed, ‘You
can’t raffle off a dead donkey!’

But Helen, with a big smile on her face, said ‘Sure I can. Watch me. I
just won’t tell anybody that he’s dead.’

A month later the farmer met up with Helen and asked, ‘What happened
with that dead donkey?’

Helen said, ‘I raffled him off. I sold 500 tickets at two dollars a
piece
and made a profit of $798.00.’

Totally amazed, the farmer asked, ‘Didn’t anyone complain that you had
stolen their money because you lied about the donkey being dead?’

Helen replied, ‘The only guy who found out about the donkey being dead
was the raffle winner, when he came to claim his prize. So I gave him
his $2
back plus $200 extra, which is double the going value of a donkey, so he
thought I was a really great girl.’

Helen grew up and eventually became the Prime Minister of New Zealand,
and no matter how many times she lied or how much money she stole from
Kiwi
voters, as long as she gave them back some of the stolen money, most of
them thought she was a great person.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:55:59 +0000

What NASA has done is research for a growing need of tecnology in a modern age.
A rusty train set provides 5/8 of fuck all.

By: aardvark

aardvark — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:48:36 +0000

> And still, we’re consistently ranked as having one of the most
> business friendly regulatory environments in the world…

Yeah, right up until you try to raise some finance for your hi-tech venture, then you find that we’ve got such a distorted economy that every man and his dog is investing in unproductive things like property.

That sucks.

By: ISeeRed

ISeeRed — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:34:43 +0000

tom hunter: how could you neglect to mention global warming/climate change? The, er, “science” of that is frequently debated here.

By: ghostwhowalks3

ghostwhowalks3 — Thu, 29 May 2008 05:18:49 +0000

Distance from Wairarapa to taranaki, less than 200km . Milk trains run every day rather than tankers going all the way AND running back empty. Log trains run through out the NI.
Coal trains are lined up btween the West Coast and Lyttleton, the single track is at capacity ( Coal mining is now twice the tonnage that it was in 1945)

more details on polar lander from nasa
http://www.nasawatch.com/archives/2008/05/the_actual_cost.html

By: labrator

labrator — Thu, 29 May 2008 04:54:16 +0000

“By using railroads, we are achieving some economy on fuel,” said Dan England, chairman of C. R. England, a family-owned company based in Salt Lake City that runs 3,600 tractor-trailers and now regularly loads 350 of the trailers on railroad flat cars to get them from, say, Chicago to Los Angeles.
NY Times

Fancy that using the railroads to carry the trucks AND their load

Los Angeles metropolitan area is home to nearly 12.9 million people
Chicago Metro population 9.5 million people.
Road distance from Chicago to Los Angeles = 3250 kilometres
Valid comparison to New Zealand?

Great cartoon!