Posts by Don Christie
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By the way, I just spent the weekend in Auckland, protect the domain, won't you...It's a treasure.
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David, how about a stadium where all those cranes and containers are?
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First it's evolution. Then comes plate tectonics and the Big-Bang...I've seen it happen again and again.
Ignoring the above ordering of events, I wonder if we have found our 7 million year old monkey!
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I have lived in some racist countries and this is not one of them.
My feeling too (having lived in Africa, UK, Europe and NZ). Still, it is a fragile state that can change very quickly for the sake of a few votes. The tenor set by Howard in Australia is shameful and should be recognised as such. Hatred and division can be frighteningly easy to stir up.
On a happier note, Mr. Slack has reduced my productivity today to something so close to zero a pure mathematician would round it off within a blink of an eye.
My favourite so far from www.fstdt.com is:
"as a pro-lifer, I cannot support an organization that is opposed to the death penalty"
No, wait, it's this one putting the final nail in evolution's coffin (not before time, I might add):
"several million years for a monkey to turn into a man. oh wait thats right. monkeys dont live several million years"
and I know I am going to love the post titled "The fallacies of gravity" which I hope and prey was not written by an antipodean.
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It actually doesn't sound so bad ...
No, and then I saw the picture.
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Actually, I suspect Sonic is Stephen Colbert...
Russell, why would you be against the compulsory carrying of flags?
Is it because you hate freedom?
Pure gold...
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By the way, the economics of racism and misogyny are terrible. We were a medium sized sponsor of the conference and prboably had about the largest contingent of delegates from any one company. I will have a chat to the organisers but I will certainly think very carefully about future sponsorship, funding attendance and doing business in Sydney (which *is* a great city).
Australia might be able to afford overseas folks having second thoughts about doing business with them and spending money on them but New Zealand cannot.
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Recently had some folks attend an IT conference in Sydney. Reports of abuse, racism and harassment by, admittedly, a minority of attendees were a shock. I guess nine years of polarised politics legitimatizes a lot of that shit.
I hope it stays out of the mainstream here and the likes of DPF have an obligation to keep it out. I am not confident that it will stay out having seen Franks, Coddington and even Brash cynically exploit peoples basic fears about other cultures and even the opposite sex. The fact is, they do know better, but they think is more to be gained by getting the 5 to 10% rump of voters that are attracted to this message.
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Think you know Clark Gable,
His Family and naval.Now that's an intro for Missy E if ever I heard one
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To put this in some context, when compared to an iPhone, this Wii innovation wins hands down.