Posts by Joshua Drummond
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"Bank of America," he says, with not a little mirth, "it's probably soon to be owned by Barack Ob-ah-ma!" -- emphasis on the "ah" in Kiwi-speak. His press secretary rolls her eyes.
His press secretary did that when Nexus interviewed him at Feildays a couple years back. She did it a lot. At one point she kind of frantically made throat-cutting gestures. It was like Kapa O Pango.
On a semi-related note, does the specter of private prisons mildly worry anyone else? I'm filing them in my "what could possibly go wrong" basket.
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It looks like Dennis Franz to me - but I'd have to see his butt to be sure.
His butt. It's another part of his anatomy that he's generally recognisable by/famous for. :D
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Yeah, but the Ron Jeremyness shone especially strongly from this one.
WIth regard to the Law of Nature, do you suppose Ron Jeremy is the Platonic Idea for short, balding, faintly unsavoury white men in a hideous shirts? -
Insta-classic, damn straight.
Did I spot Ron Jeremy in there at one point, or was that just a Freudian reaction of some kind?
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Lots of rich Seppos wind up here, and the neocons do seem to like it. There's one down at Gibbston near Queenstown. Had a minor role in the Hollow Men. My relatives are his next-door neighbors. Decent enough guy, by their accounts.
I wouldn't mind Rush setting up shop here should Obama's stimulus package succeed. Win-win - America's economy recovers and Rush STFU. I can't really see him jumping all over our airwaves. He's got to run out of bullshit and retire sooner or later. -
Except you'd be pissed before you got below the front page fold.
Too true. Replace the word "fun" with "deadly."
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More on sub-editing=journalism: Stuff's story on the Blackout has the US President as someone called "Barrack Obama."
They also fuck up section 92A to Section 92a (as you might expect, given I doubt they've had any training in legal notation.) And that's on a quick skim. There may be more.
Outsourcing: Morre efficeint.
(NB: I don't know how many Fairfax subs are outsourced or not. But clearly people don't know what they're doing, either way.)
With regard to Stephen Fry's involvement - I think it's brilliant, but isn't it a bit sad that the MSM needed a celebrity hook to really address this in the way it deserved right from the beginning?
Also, who the hell is Glaucoma or whatever? That's flown right by me. Is it online? -
p.s. Here's my entry for the "How do you tell if it's blogging or journalism?" debate:
If it's journalism, you have a sub-editor!I like this. By this measure, nearly everything on the Herald website isn't journalism. Stuff is... sometimes.
Honestly, the Herald site is abominable for errors. You could make a fun drinking game out of spotting errors non-stupid subs could have fixed.
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I wonder how many people might conceivably breach this law. Would it constitute copyright infringement to watch a music vid on YouTube, let alone upload one? Or, even, to watch a home video online in which "Happy Birthday" plays in the background?
If so, wouldn't it mean that this law, if fully implemented, could (theoretically) see every casual internet user without internet access?I also wonder about the effect on universities. IT students in particular indulge in a fair bit of torrenting on university owned servers, and it's not all Linux downloads. Given the broad definition of ISP in this law, does this mean that a whole university (in theory) could lose its ability to access the Internet?
And is there any distinction between those ISPs who provide access to data pipes, and those who provide the pipes themselves?
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I'm fascinated by the phone calls - has anyone thought to record one? What do they say?