Posts by Rik
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My personal feeling is that DINZ is beginning to look rather petulant and our design industry somewhat insecure and lacking in self belief and confidence.
Is it such a bad thing to ask stakeholders with or without formal design training to have a go? Do we really think this will undermine the value of high quality professional design work? Are designers the final arbiters of everything creative? I don’t think so.
Ahhh....the voice of reason!
Nicely put John.
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Hahaha
those works need experienced, professional, trained experts? Just like graphic design actually.
Possibly nothing is quite as funny as a graphic designer or an information architect or whatever who feels professionally slighted by this sort of idiocy. ;)
Yes, someone's being a wee bit precious here.
There's lots of examples of people who are not particularly qualified to do something having a crack at it. I'm thinking...Michael Cullen, running a country's finances.
There is a long-standing tradition for punters to provide artwork for the covers of the White Pages. You don't get professional artists forming picket lines and demanding that only they are qualified to provide said artistry.
Perhaps an essential quality for a good designer would be a sense of humour?
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Ever thought about becoming a My Ticketek member? Costs nothing and you get tickets to shows like Pixies at Powerstation in a presale no problems.
I thought everyone did this? Mind you - if everyone did it kind of defeats the purpose a wee bit...
Probably doesn't make you feel any better about missing out on this gig but hey, maybe now you know next time you won't?
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Ever noticed that The Feelers "Venus" is a complete rip-off of Men at Work's "Overkill"?
Maybe MaW should do a little sueing of their own...
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I remember riding this route with a mate a couple of years back as we tried to figure out where the new motorway was going to go. Passed a couple of odd looking types while snooping around Harbutt Reserve (behind the Paknsave/railway line) and came across a campsite where these guys must have been living that gave us a very eerie feeling...without a word to each other we just turned back and headed out of there. I read several months later about the cops busting these guys as they had been a menace for local crime - glad we didn't come across them on the way out!
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Russell - for me billing.microsoft.com re-directs to login.live.com and has a VeriSign certificate issued to Microsoft valid from 16/6/9 to 17/6/10. Looks OK?
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A dozen responses...yet no-one has suggested John Key is behind this conspiracy so far?? Come on centre left, you can do better!
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Your position seems to amount to the idea that "celebrities" should wear heavier consequences for their actions simply because they are celebrities.
No - my position is that "celebrities" should wear the same consequences for their actions regardless of whether they are celebrities.
You, on the other hand, took such leave of a sense of proportion that your first thought was to compare it to the beating to death of an elderly man.
Correct, however you must have missed this:
It probably was a bad comparison - I certainly do not want to trivialise a man's death.
Someone should remind me not to tangle swords with an accomplished wordsmith such as yourself. I do have a different viewpoint to yours and wish I was better able to express it.
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It probably was a bad comparison - I certainly do not want to trivialise a man's death.
However I was attempting to make a valid point and that point is that you appeared to be trivialising the act that occurred by saying that he was drunk, that he didn't know what he was doing, that he didn't think hard enough, that it really wasn't that big of a deal (who are you to judge?).
I do not agree with your viewpoint.
I have no problem living with the consequences of my actions. I don't see why anyone else should not do the same.
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But the offence with which he was eventually charged took place in the course of about 10 seconds. If, indeed, it was to ruin the rest of his life, that would be quite a punishment.
Russell - I find this line of reasoning to be off the planet. Ask the family of the old indian fella that was knocked off in a road rage incident if they agree with you that what people do with a rush of blood to the head should not have any bearing on the rest of a persons life. Maybe you know something the rest of us do not know however if it absolves the "star" then lets just name the star, report all the facts and let people make up their own minds how they feel about him?
To be fair, you were the one that used a bus driver as an example.
Andre - no I was not. You are mistaken.