Posts by Rich of Observationz
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I'm just of the view that censorship (by which I mean censorship conducted by government or large corporations - not editing ones own website, which anyone is entitled to do) is wrong. And when somebody says "you must", I take that as being a call for government to step in and require such censorship. (e.g. forcing NZ based sites to moderate their content and programming the Internet Filter to block any overseas sites that don't do so).
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to giovanni tiso,
I kinda don't agree with that guy's set of imperatives. You *must* do this, etc.
If people want to read the sewerblog pages, or comment offensively on a public site, or buy the Sunday Star Times, then it's up to them. For commodity sites like Google and TradeMe, should they be setting bounds to comment? They are after all in a quasi-monopoly position. Sure, some would be happy if they spike anything beyond the liberal consensus, but what if they fall into right wing hands and start deleting anything which is outside *their* idea of acceptable opinion? (What if Murdoch hadn't stuffed Myspace up? We might have News Corp owning social networking).
Also TradeMe is one of the least anonymous sites on the web almost by definition. Most of those posting will also be selling stuff, and if a large aggrieved person wanted to remonstrate with one of those fucktards, they could easily bid for the little worn Don Brash t-shirt they had for sale, pop by to collect and deal to them physically.
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Just get a black shirt with “New Zealand” on it for $30 – they haven’t been able to ban those. If you want to help sport, give the $190 or so you save to a kids rugby team.
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Amazingly, I *do* have "John & Bronwyn" coming to dinner this weekend. Fairly sure these ones are both gay, though.
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
You've been on Google+ too much.
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I've discovered this wonderful thing called E-mail. It's just like posting on a forum/social network, but (in theory) the message only goes to the people you address it to. Just brilliant, really. Have they had this long?
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to Christopher Dempsey,
Employers: Only employ lucky people. Throw half the CVs you receive away without looking at them.
#viztoptips
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OnPoint: Easy as 1, 2, 22.8 billion, in reply to DexterX,
I believe I posted this on an inferior site not long ago.
I'm predicting 12% for the Greens this time, level by 2014 and that they will lead the government after the 2017 election unless the Nats (by then incorporating ACT) work out an ingenious way to steal it.
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to George Darroch,
I could code that for you. It might involve character recognising the words "737-900" on the tail. But that's how I'd identify one in real life.
Incidentally, those Q300's on the Nelson run. I think they make you turn your phone off to avoid people googling the wiki article, and seeing how they were grounded by the Swedes through lack of confidence, and the name was changed to stop people calling them the Crash-8. Not good for nervous passengers.
(I love these open threads)