Posts by Sacha
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an opinion he could remember
an opinion he wanted to remember
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Quite. Let's sell even more revenue-generating assets and export the profit overseas. That's ambitious.
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To be fair, "they" is all voters who bought the "ambitious future, no downpayment now" line that shaped their major voting options of both hues.
And perhaps didn't pay enough attention to the track record of those they voted into power and those pulling their strings.
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Impressive post, Jolisa. Thanks. And good to see you've attracted authors and partners/publishers to join the conversation.
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could be built with that money
That's the important thing when looking at any of these loony highway-building projects. It's real sustainable transport for our children and theirs that you're seeing pissed into the pockets of a few wealthy contsruction companies and party donors.
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trains on the same route will not have toilets
That would be socialism. Consistent with his belief in private enterprise, perhaps Joyce is instead planning to subsidise porta-potties for individual car drivers to reward their personal.. efforts.
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A couple of us posted in June about the WIPO treaty in the infamous copyyeahright thread. As a service to mental health, I'll duplicate mine here so no one needs to revisit the horror:
Meanwhile, there are pressing copyright issues like our representatives joining an attempt to kill a proposed WIPO treaty about international access to books by people with impaired vision.
Cory Doctorow drew world attention to this. Solid background from IP Watch, and an insider story from one of the people who got things moving in the first place, blind New Zealander Jonathan Mosen.
The arguments against the treaty quoted in that latest Wired story are pure self-serving bollocks.
It costs a lot to convert published books, and only one in twenty at most are currently available to people with impaired vision. The proposed changes are about removing extra barriers - particularly so that the same conversion does not have to be made in every country.
This is like the familiar ACTA and s92 arguments so I'm glad to see it raised here. The industry's resistance centres around general principles that copyright and DRM ought to be sacredly preserved at any cost and that somehow publishers will be losing out on sales if rich countries can share converted versions with the third world. I could go on but dinner beckons.
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I'm in the mood
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Maori is plural
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Love