http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CltZG7Cw0eo

Nothing at all should be read into the above!

Thank you for capitlaising both. The widespread tendency to apply a lower case to Pakeha has been interesting.

Horrible mutilations of Maori place names when speaking is a whole…

For a prescription to have any value, it has to come after…

Hey, takata pora sounds excellent as well, both in terms of "ship people" and "white turnips".

Yes, a lot of Swedes came to Dannevirke.

Coming very late to this debate, but having read the very many well considered opinions I come back to NRT's as the one which best encapsulates my own. We caught someone whose ranking on the 'evil scale' is up there with Stalin…

For that matter, I fail to see any evidence than Bin Laden and the Talitubbies…

My contention is that he would have. It is basically composed of things he thought were the work of the devil. I honestly do not believe he would have had a shred…

I’m simply suggesting Dr Ranginui Walker, Willie Jackson, and all who never met…

It really is quite silly isn't it. I didn't agree with everything you said on the Hobbit dispute. And yet I agree with much of what you say about the Operation 8 "terrorists".

Either one or both of us is a…

So basically less of the Reductio ad Insertespacehereum.

Blogger has this great comments moderation feature called "Stalinism". Works superbly.

I consider the purpose of reading, following and posting a blog…

and the alleged Left...

The NY Times story notes that White House officials: "acknowledged that the…

Economically, he pretty much was.

Socialism run by tories.

Squee! Except, could someone reach into my brain and extract the damn bouncy Beyoncé ear-worm. I keep doing involuntary chicken dances.

Was he Lawful or Chaotic is the next question.

After his poor showing on Hard Talk – Key seems to see life as a game of Monopoly, he wins you lose.

Two weeks ago in response to, was it, the Master Builders concerns about skill shortages in the trades and building industry -…

It's hard to tell what you're on…

That would…

Oh, Hell exists, alright (note the name of the railway station). Nice enough little town, I was there for a couple of hours all up – a brief stop on…

Are you talking about... this thread? If you are, this has got to be the most solemnly analytical expression of 'blind rejoicing' I've ever encountered.

However:

If you like it then you shoulda put a line on it!

Ā – Ō – Ō – Ō – Ō -…

Ā – Ō – Ō – Ō – Ō – Ō – Ō

(Found the character set box on mac – easy peasy. I got my Mācron on!)

I may have this wrong, but it seems that the answer to a political question is to put a macron on it.
Gold.

ETA: I did not know that Kirsty MacColl (in above video) died in 2000 aged 41. That’s pretty sad actually, and the circumstances extremely tragic, even if I am 11 years late.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIXg9KUiy00

Oh, goodie!! Dualism, my favourite! ;-)

Because...ummm... the Internets? Oh, look! A demonic duck!

If you took a view of complicity akin to todays peacetime standards, hundreds of thousands would have been…

(Why didn't it do that before?.... I thought that's what I did.)

Thanks for your help.

just to cloud matters

Fog of war and all that.

You can…

How do we know?

An argument in which the protagonist is imposing his perception of a third party's thought processes against others' perceptions is always going to be – somewhat moot. When this third party has managed to evade detection for…

You read those , dear boy that's taking things a bit far.

Assassination during wartime has its precedents, such as that of Reinhard Heydrich and Isoroku Yamamoto. Both could be justified for tactical or strategic reasons – ie. they were active and…

(Italics not working as I expected: what am I doing wrong?)

Penny Bright really doesn’t have a national stage. From those that have been bothered professionally by her (e.g. me, when I worked for the gummint), you would hear plenty of vilification, not so much…

Plenty of pretty heinous Nazis were captured and put on trial.

That said, I can't imagine a Soviet squad entering the bunker and not firing on sight – although I guess that's…

I regard it as encouraging that the soft left are quite *so* spooked by Hone. That suggests that the Mana Party has a bit of momentum and might get somewhere at the election.

(You don't get…

From that:

Though a New York jury would certainly have sent him down, they don't have the death penalty there – and so his place of incarceration would have become a shrine

If OBL was to have been tried in the US, I'd argue…

Scene: Osama bin Laden’s compound. In walks Inspector Harry “Snapper” Organs of the Yard, accompanied by a troupe of bobbies.

Organs: You’re nicked, me old fruit.

bin Laden: It’s a fair cop, but I blame society.…

Unix and Linux systems also have a neat thing called a "compose key". It composes two keystrokes into the intuitively obvious result — eg:
a + " = ä
n + ~ =…

For OpenOffice on whatever platform (I believe) try here

I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said "Stop! don't do it!" "Why shouldn't I?" he said. I said, "Well, there's so much to live for!" He said, "Like…

On OBL; I quite enjoyed Boris Johnson's contribution in this…

That Knowledge Bro Link works like a dream, well the sort of dreams you get when updating Windoze (click, click, fumble, go back, click, swear, re-boot,…

Oh crap! Ditto on the love to read or hear him, regardless of the message which I often disagree with. Especially when he was so gung ho about Iraq.

My favourite is the Intelligence Squared debate…

I thought it was common Knowledge... Bro
I love the smell of roasting Mācrons in the morning

You're not kidding, are you?

Okay, this, from…

http://www.ted.com/talks/roger_ebert_remaking_my_voice.html

Hmm, it seems to me that it depends what you are having faith in

If it's the religious teachings of a particular sect, just having the faith marks you as a member by definition, whether or not you pay…

WTF has the depradations of Al Queda in Iraq to do with Bin Laden? The linked Wiki article on AII mentions Bin Laden exactly twice, and it seems to me fantastical to suggest he was in some way personally directing it's activities.
To…

I'm the same. I hate the word – it defines what I don't need defined.

That said, and despite the fact that what he says often annoys the fuck out of me, I love listening to Hitchens speak.

Or at least I did.…

When I remember, I do, but I usually have a document called "macrons" on the desktop of whatever system I'm on so I can cut and paste :-D

I can find plenty of reasons…

Correct (as with Windows 7 apparently), though I use the alternative option-a which also works.

Sure, me too. I'm not saying I have any right or desire to limit or pre-judge – as long it doesn't negatively impact me or others – where people derive their happiness…

Nope that's missing the point. Some of the stories whether true or false espouse decent moral behaviour. Some don't.

Very many folks use the stories that promote decent "good" behaviour to help them led decent "good" lives.…

If you're under Mac OS X, with the Maori keyboard chosen, I think they key command is `-a ("back…

I propose sending over Emma Hart to knock some…

No, but they should care about Hawaiian

ETA What David Hood said.

Well, the Windows 7 instructions are pretty easy as well. XP is harder (but it is a 2001 operating system). Linux is about what you would expect.

I'm often amazed by how much more actual manual labor I've done than many a person who has called me bourgeois. But that is evidence in itself of my middle-classness.

That isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Since for many people their religion is a major source of their happiness then that's fine by me. It may…

In a way, Craig, yes.

But the family that runs the dairy around the corner from are see themselves as good, observant Muslims too.

And that's not unusual, but it does exclude the fact that…

OK, now I can only think of Foghorn Leghorn. Russell, perhaps it would help your image if you were to start all posts with "Boy! Ah say, boy!" from now on...

Defamation? Martyn, darling, love you. Love your work. Harden the fuck up – because “defamation” is way too much WhaleOily Coddingswallop for one day. You think Russell has misrepresented your views, fair enough. Been there, done that, made a counter-argument with varying success and,…

And strictly drink only instant coffee.

And I'm sure all the people using it have impeccable working-class cred themselves, you understand.

And I sincerely respect your right to do so. Cauldron of ideas and all that. Have at it.

The middle-class thing certainly seems to have taken hold, via The Standard et al. I'm just a bit puzzled as to when and where I've claimed to be otherwise.

Although I have to give it up for your description as a "middle class foghorn," Russell. So evocative!

Being defamed by Russell Brown and Mr Smug – http://tiny.cc/hfud0

Quite. Some unattractive family customs of, say, Pakistani immigrants in Britain…

And Newt Gingrich has so much respect for the institution of marriage he's done it three or four times — efficiently making sure he had the next one racked up before dumping the…

What little flag? And what's this right click of which you speak?
(Well, sort of, my…

I feel like there's an excellent Venn diagram to be made here.

Oh, don’t put this on me now.

Oddly enough, I did look at it yesterday, and the instructions didn’t work for a modern Apple keyboard – no alt key. So it’s the backtick then retype the vowel …

They do, my Mac allows me to show character palette (right click on the little flag) and select all sorts of weird symbols. Most of which I have no idea how to use properly.

Except for the gay bits. Those, they really take a lot of notice of, for some reason.

Bah too slow to edit, should be – wouldn't consciously notice

Of course people can and do. Religious texts are used by many folks to…

The steps to adding the Māori keyboard (soon to have screenshots!):

– Click on the Apple in the top left and open System Preferences.
– Open Language & Text.
– Click on the Input Sources tab.
– Scroll down the input methods…

They probably smelled funny. And no I'm not being snarky, they almost certainly ate a different diet and had significantly different genes both of which would make them smell different. The genetic difference would give them different pheromones which would…

mmmm lunch

there are lots of online resources take your pick

And as I noted, indigenous people are writing right now, in their own media, in a style other than the one you're saying is the only correct one.

Hey, Andin, if you're already written off as a psychotic thug who's morally indistinguishable from mass murderers why not?

So now what? A handful of knowledgeable persons are guilted into using the macron when writing ‘Māori’ (how do you even do that in a browser…

Ross: Yeah, because the overwhelming majority of law-abiding religiously observant folks in this country are absolutely morally equivalent to Bin Laden, Fred Phelps and Ian Paisley. Just as…

But picking and choosing the word — or at least interpreting it — is…

Looks like you made Bomber cry... .

I have just received the equivalent of a drive-by shooting from a Lexus hybrid.

But hey, at least Chris Trotter get its...what Bradbury got from Trotter will respond to antibiotics, I hope.

I agree completely. I do find the claim, oft heard, that 'our understanding of these guiding texts has…

I take it 'takata' is cognate with 'tangata'? And 'pora' is 'foreign' or 'foreigner'?

I found when I was learning Bahasa (Melayu / Indonesia depending on which side of the 1820 UK drawn boundary I found myself on) it was easier if I treated the vowels as if they were Māori (or Maori if you so wish). There…

No, about their culture. He would have despised it, for the reasons I noted. Do you seriously think he’d have embraced a culture in which music plays such a part? In which carvings, and whole houses, are imbued with the wairua of ancestors?

I no longer have the inside word…

Which is just as well or PA would have little need to exist. Makes…

Another matter: in the far South, we never called Pakeha – Pakeha. We…

on a side note, a linguist described the etymology of pa:keha: to me as "has different feeling", and is conceptually related to mauri.

early settlers just had a…

My understanding of the meaning of "tauiwi" was that it meant "foreigner", in the sense that you're fresh off the…

And fair enough too. Personally I'm less bent about macrons and enraged by media outlets whose pale pink editors think annual visits to Waitangi and Ratana and having the usual…

Ṯẖāṉḵ ȳȱū Māṯẖēw Ī sẖāḻḻ ṯṝȳ ṯȱ ūsē ā Mācṝȱṉ wẖēṝēvēṝ Ī cāṉ.

Alles klar!

absolutely obligated to play by the rules -

Rules??? What rules??? Isn't that the point of asymetric warfare? There are no rules.

911 was one of the most brilliantly executed operations of this asymetric "war". There was no way the US was going to pull the guy in and put…

As my Nan had frequent cause to say to me: "The apology is all very nice, dear. Next time, have nothing to apologise for." She also used to say God gave us two eyes, two ears and only one mouth…

Don't know if anyone has linked to Chomsky's article.

Of course we/they can, we're imperialist overlords after all it's our responsibility to tell other people how to do things

And of course, doing so runs counter to a proud US military history of never using extra-legal means to an end.

I think you mean "bound" by "their" rules of engagement.