Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Friday Music: About Apple Music, in reply to Clarke,
To my ears, nothing sounds worse than a 128K rip of of a favourite track - it's like nails across the blackboard.
No argument there. Given the option to pay a premium for FLAC over high-bitrate MP3 I'll usually take it. But it has nothing to do with with Roon's claims of inherently superior playback quality.
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Hard News: Friday Music: About Apple Music, in reply to Clarke,
What you need is Roon - once you've used this little puppy with a TIDAL account, you'll never bother with iTunes or the Apple ecosystem ever again.
While Tidal might offer something, as a paid app Roon by itself makes some dubious "audiophile" claims while barely matching the features of totally free players such as Media Monkey and Music Bee.
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Envirologue: Choose Wisely, Grasshopper:…, in reply to Jack Harrison,
A young Joe Wylie in old Russia,
While the confusion is flattering, I suspect you're thinking of Howard DeVoto:
"I`d`ve been Raskolnikov
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Envirologue: Choose Wisely, Grasshopper:…, in reply to Jack Harrison,
Actually living in a corridor is well documented in Fyodor Dostoevsky 's "Crime and Punishment."
Raskolnikov did 8 years in Siberia for a premeditated double murder. Liberal times.
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Envirologue: Choose Wisely, Grasshopper:…, in reply to BenWilson,
In the past it was much worse. I know elderly people who actually lived in houses with dirt floors when they were kids.
Young people of today, they won't believe yer....
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Envirologue: Choose Wisely, Grasshopper:…, in reply to Brent Jackson,
It shouldn't require a martyr to make the government consider good policy.
Perhaps it's a sign of how far Cameron Slater has been thrown onto the back foot that he hasn't challenged a member of the dead child's family to a boxing match.
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Envirologue: Choose Wisely, Grasshopper:…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
How many people, besides hardline fanboys, still take the self-appointed Perk Buster seriously after he himself got perk-busted?
Someone at the Herald must have a thing for Rodney. How else to explain his flickering afterlife since suffering the ignominy of being deposed by the sorry carcass of Don Brash.
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Without his long-vanished yellow jacket I don't believe that anyone much outside of his tiny fanbase knows or cares who Hide is. When he appeared dripping wet on Wellington bus billboards plugging his swimming endeavours for a get fit campaign, a quick vox pop revealed that some thought that the Rodney of "If Rodney can do it" was a randomly chosen "special person". And that was when he was still an MP.
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Access: Disability as a wicked policy problem, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
"super-comes-at-cost-of-health-and-welfare-english"
Despite this sadly misguided attempt at spin, super is welfare. A universal living wage is both affordable and inevitable, or we're all stuffed.
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Hard News: Meet me at Camera 2: White, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I’m not sure Forbes would welcome being co-opted into another discussion of white privilege derailed into what’s really wrong with brown people. Again.
Common self-interest, Craig. Whether it's Helen Clark protecting a cosy fiefdom with her haters and wreckers outburst, or Ngai Tahu being employed as a willing stalking-horse in the diversion of Canterbury's water into private hands, it's about protecting and advancing entrenched privilege for an elite few. And Forbes is every bit as much a public figure as John Campbell. My commenting on her case is no more co-opting than whatever you may have expressed about Campbell's.