Posts by Rich of Observationz

  • Hard News: Behind the Paywall,

    I don't think there'll ever be a shortage of actual, factual information. At worst, people will precis and rewrite the output of paid or ad financed news sources (much like the news on student radio). Remember, there's no copyright in facts.

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  • Hard News: Behind the Paywall,

    North & South's app –currently in iTunes Store approval limbo

    If Jobs has added "bigoted right-wing drivel" to his banned list I may even buy an iPad

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  • Hard News: Ideology for Evidence,

    What ' s up with this site today ? . Keeps logging
    me out and telling me pages ain ' t available an
    shit . anat an stuff

    After Key gets his way Russell will be able to fire his code bitches with even less explanation than above.


    And the market will force him to, just to compete with Kiwibleurgh

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  • Hard News: Ideology for Evidence,

    If you don ' t have a margin after
    labour and other costs you don ' t have a
    business and nobody has a job .

    Not at the UK retailer John Lewis Partnership (operator of Waitrose) where the employers only the business and split the profits. Or at many other cooperatives.

    It's a diligently maintained myth that capitalism is the only effective way to organise an economy. (of course, people like Kerre Woodham are paid to help maintain that myth)

    Back in Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 5550 posts Report

  • Hard News: Fridays are for Music,

    If any Wellingtonians like *good* dance music what you can dance to, like, Brighton DJ Adam Freeland is playing at the Garden Club. Sold out, I understand.

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  • Cracker: P is for Politics.,

    a new shop at my local mall is dedicated to
    swords and knives

    There's a shop here in welllington sells Rotary Lawnmowers and its a short distance from a video store that carries Brain Dead.

    Won't somebody think of the zombies!

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  • OnPoint: Like a hole in the head,

    Every dog handler has a pistol in their vehicle, all the time

    Bit of an aggressive approach to dog training that - if it won't stop barking, then shoot it.

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  • Cracker: P is for Politics.,

    of the six people I know who are heavily into their conpsiracy theories, five have a history of heavy P use. The other just smokes heaps of pot.

    Hmm. Would that include a well known Auckland alternative radio presenter?

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  • Cracker: P is for Politics.,

    how pointlessly wound up the security guards were

    On the P, undoubtedly.

    Question is, do they get dosed by their employer, as is common practice in the US military, or is their tweaking entirely recreational?

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  • Cracker: P is for Politics.,

    Former UK Lib Dem leader Paddy Ashdown is ex-SBS (like the SAS, but a whole letter harder). And MI6. Never seemed to do him any harm.

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