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why do web designers waste their time building feedback pages when their clients usually can't be bothered reading the resulting messages and replying to questions?
Well, it's not a waste of time if the web designers can bill the hours at a good rate is it? But it is a waste of money for the client if they're not using the facility. Which they invariably don't. Worst offenders are the real estate companies who (in my experience) never respond.
But yeah, there are huuuge numbers of companies who invite feedback and then fail to respond. Infuriating!
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I think TV3 also neglected to mention/disclose their connection to the victim's mother; who I think (RB will have to fact check) is a stringer with one of their Sth Island camera crews. Which possibly explains why TV3 News were "all over" this story ... I'm hesitant to call it a beat-up but they certainly went overboard.
As soon as they 'broke' the story I was sceptical of their initial claims that the Mullet had only taken party pills, and no illegal drugs, hence party pills must be banned!. Of course, a few days later his friends finally admitted he had taken other substances, including Ecstasy. Not that that stopped the doctor on 60 Minutes still insisting it was a party pill overdose.
I don't take party pills, I think they're stupid, but they are legal (at the moment) so its a bit late to ban them. I think the best solution is to regulate their manufacture so that some cowboys can't (as they are doing now) toss in 1000mg of BZB. One outcome may be that liquour companies decide to enter the market - wouldn't that be wacky!? Which reminds me: if its not too late to ban the currently legal party pills, then surely its not too late to ban alcohol? There are more people being harmed by alcohol than party pills.
60 Minutes said this week they will be showing who the people behind the manufacture of party pills are - millionaires all of them, evidently. Funny, cos the only time I saw Matt Bowden (head of the industry association) he was working his party pills stand at Erotica while his wife was stripping on stage to pay for the stand. (She's a former Aussie Penthouse Pet evidently - will TV3 manage to work that into their story?)(with some salacious footage?)
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forgerting
I don't know what's worse (actually I think I do):
forgerting to use the preview button, or using it but still not picking up ones errors!
aaaarrrgh!
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Hmmm, the one I met down that way turned his back on me and then said "Piss Off". The idiot presumably thought that if I complained he would have deniablity: "I know what the claimant said they heard Guv'nor but can they swear they saw my lips move?" Plonker
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click on 'Original Blog Entry' not 'Read More' to see what I mean ...
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Is it just me or has someone just munted your original blog entry? I suspect the Chinese govt now have you pegged as Falun Gong Mr Reid ...
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Dark Side of The Money was driven by ...
Have you been forgerting to use the preview button again!!
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Unfortunately the last time I went through Vancouver Airport the US had set up their own US checkpoint right smack in the middle of the airport. They're like an occupying force.
Unfortunately any plane that flies over US airspace is required to follow 'the law' as set by the US. This includes a plane that may later fly over US airspace ie if you fly NZ to Japan, and the plane later flies on to the US, the flight ex-NZ is subject to these regulations. The plane doesn't have to land in the US, just fly over its airpspace, in order to be subject to these regulations.
In short the US has dictated how the rest of the world must 'secure' its flights. It's one small step for them, one giant leap backwards for mankind. In Dubya We Trust
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Perhaps it's a question of where you live.
Crikey Rogerd - I'm moving to Wellie!! (Much better Public Transport too)
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Unfair, I suggest. I've never perpetrated a sexual assault, and have twice stepped in to prevent one.
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Misandric crap is indeed no more attractive than misogynistic crapSheesh, men are so sensitive! Why am I not surprised that even here there is (seemingly) no support for the idea that men as a group need to address this issue? I don't subscribe to the 'All Men Are Rapists' mantra and I'm glad that 3410 has proactively intervened BUT my point is that surely there is something wrong with Lad/Bloke culture that schoolboys can think they can get away with not only group rape but filming it and putting it online?
We've all been decrying (here on PA) the Police culture of the 80s where the cops ran riot with the womenfolk, but the fact is (borne out by this example IMHO) that the problem is still endemic. Women have been fighting against it for years without any real change; so maybe its time for the MEN to do something? A first step would be owning the problem, and not bouncing it back on the Britney Hiltons of this world (a modern day variation of last century's "she wanted it" defense)
But no, I'm Misandric so my comments are dismissed out of hand.