Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to BenWilson,
suggests an end to modernity
that would be a modernist way to interpret it, yes
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to BenWilson,
the modern version
heh
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to BenWilson,
there seemed to be no new ideas in that tradition
upending modernism seems significant enough
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Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to webweaver,
Everyone was kind to everyone else.
That was important not just for those enjoying drugs, I should add. It really helped the year my father had recently died and I was struggling with some of my own responses at the time. Forever grateful.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to BenWilson,
Gone are the days that a clever patent clerk can work it out in his spare time, and everyone can go "wow, so the universe is actually curved?"
To be fair, he's well beyond clever. Was a gap of over 5 decades before anyone was able to progress some of Einstein's work even theoretically and they're still trying to experimentally verify it today (and not without contention).
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Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to webweaver,
Over New Year's Eve they were FAR more worried about the alcohol intake of the local yoof down on the beaches and in town
I remember them doing a walkthrough for about half an hour and then zooming down to Motueka to deal with a boozy streetbrawl.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Square Two, in reply to Matthew Reid,
'Areas of retreat'
Maybe the delay was for Crosby Textor to run those focus groups and come up with the most acceptable term to replace "abandoned".
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Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to webweaver,
Harm Reduction/Minimisation policies (like we used to have at The Gathering for example)
Your team's lovingly detailed attention to creating a safe and supportive environment really impressed me - especially compared with the Big Day Out's inconsiderate suckiness a mere few weeks later, which put me off their event for good.
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Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to BenWilson,
evil joys and foolish sorrows
beautiful
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Hard News: What the kids do, in reply to Damian Christie,
Let's start with working out whether there's a problem in the first place
For some, others having fun seems to be a 'problem'.