Posts by Sacha
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Random Play: Alt.Republic: The rolling mall, in reply to BenWilson,
If more people caught the bus to the mall, I'm sure the bus companies could be persuaded to run more routes. But they don't, so they haven't.
That's touchingly naive about how transport planning works, or the constraints of the current nationally-legislated bus funding and contracting arrangements.
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Hark. Stephen Fry using the word twazzock
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Random Play: Alt.Republic: The rolling mall, in reply to BenWilson,
Not being on a "transport corridor" just doesn't seem like that much of a crime for a place that is designed for cars.
You may be juding by today's traffic volumes, Ben, but the only way the roads around there won't be gridlocked with a bigger mall is to remove some of the cars. Public transport does that - and even the cost-benefit accounting shows a large improvement for car drivers from investing in it.
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to HORansome,
Maybe it's *aspiring* to a conspiracy when the tinfoil is currently insufficient
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to HORansome,
Oh I see you were discussing over at Word o Year. As you were.
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Juan Cole's Top 10 Middle East Wikileaks revelations so far.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to HORansome,
conspirational
Is that like conspiratorial mixed with aspirational?
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Speaking of state power.
The main website and a sub-site devoted to the diplomatic documents were unavailable from the US and Europe on Wednesday, as Amazon servers refused to acknowledge requests for data.
The plug was pulled as the influential senator and chairman of the homeland security committee, Joe Lieberman, called for a boycott of the site by US companies.
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The White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, shrugged aside as "ridiculous" a call by Assange, interviewed by Time magazine, via Skype from an undisclosed location, for the resignation of the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, over an order to spy on the United Nations. "I'm not entirely sure why we care about the opinion of one guy with one website," Gibbs said. "Our foreign policy and the interests of this country are far stronger than his one website."
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But others, particularly rightwingers, are seeking retribution, with Assange as the prime target. Legal experts in the US were divided over whether the US could successfully prosecute Assange under the 1917 espionage act.
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Suits are like commercial radio then..
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Russell Brown,
But anyway, about those cables ...
Yes please. Some of us are over the cult of personality stuff.