Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Personally, I'm still trying to understand why we even have electorates in this day and age.
Electorate MPs often do important work. While many electorates will also have a list MP's office in their electorate, they're not the same. It guarantees you local representation, and makes it more likely that they will be more responsive to local needs.
My view of MMP is that we have an electorate system which uses the list MPs to bring proportionality to parliament. Not that we have a proportional system which happens to have electorate MPs left over from our old system.
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Given Cactus' proven ability for phearsome web development surely you guys can come up with something?
We've been waiting two years to be able to edit our own posts. Back of the queue CC-boy.
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I just don't know if it would have felt so universally moving, and I don't know that I'm happy about that, because isn't that insidious sexism at its best?
I think also (and I can't explain why) that the Civil Rights movement was something that white people got actively involved with to break the oppression - Freedom riders, marching, fundraising, organising voter registration and education etc - whereas that's less the case for women?
Also, easier to express our white guilt by going over there and helping fix the crappy situation that 'we' have left black people in, than dealing with it in your own backyard where it's much more personal and deals with one on one relationships?
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Interesting* fact: the plethysmograph was used to stop people dodging the draft by pretending to be gay.
US Army shows draftees gay porn! News shocker!
It's quite a long way from "Don't ask don't tell" to "I'm going to put this on your penis and then we'll know for sure!" Bizarre.
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There was a gay rugby league player playing for Manly in the 1990s. Roberts?
But I suspect that, depending on the sport, 50 - 90% of gays/lesbians are in the closet in terms of their sport and their teammates.
In a competition between basketball and ice hockey, I suspect basketball might be more homophobic, but ice hockey is certainly more racist. Not sure about sexism, that could be a tie.
Would Jenkins' campaign for gay rights if any of his children were homosexuals?
Cheney wasn't exactly spending too much time working for PFLAG, so no, not necessarily.
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That music has a value, and if you won't pay, that's your problem.
I followed the link to the story. My impression was that this is music which is playing in the background of the family movies that he made throughout his life.
It's not like he's chosen this movie and laid it over the top as music, it's background music that was playing when he was a kid, which happened to be caught on film.
There should be a sensible rule about being able to use 30 seconds, not more than a quarter, of a song/movie/tv show etc in this sort of way for non-profits at least.
You're advocating for people to use creative commons, so why don't you use it yourselves?
Everything is published is copyrighted, the note at the bottom is just a reminder of that fact.
You can also quote public address within reason by simply referencing it, you don't have to pay anything.
The only thing you shouldn't do is not provide a credit, or publish most or all of it yourself elsewhere. Why you'd want to do either of those things, I have no idea.
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I can imagine they would have had to pay some of those guys quite a bit of money to get them to participate.
"You want to put a thing around my dick to measure my erection, and make me watch gay porn? But I hate fags!"
"Ooh, Two hundred bucks. Well I guess that's OK then."
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In the spirit of that, I'd like to say that I now believe, that if we all work together, there is nothing, nothing that we can't make be all about science-fiction.
Only if we make that Science Fiction and West Wing. Which is starting to creep me out with the similarities. I think Aaron Sorkin is actually the Wizard of Oz, pulling the strings behind the US govt.
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Pick time:
A National-Act coalition terrifies me. Even if it's 2 or 3 seats, I worry what sector is going to get shat on by being Acts 'win' in a coalition agreement or ministerial warrant. I think I'd prefer a landslide and National to make a clean sweep and form a government without a coalition.
I think the polls that came out today are going to be wrong, Labour will be three points higher, national a couple less. I think the green vote is going to hold, which is going to make them significant.
National (56)-Act (3)-Dunne (1) to fall three seats short of being able to form a government. Maori Party to agree to abstain for basically keeping themselves alive (Maori seats to remain the same) and to pay for it come next election when Labour takes back a couple of seats. Helen Clark to stand down after a year or so and then give her valedictory speech as a backbencher in 2011.
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Oh bollocks. Labour's strategy was to argue that Key was slippery to the point of being fundamentally untrustworthy. And given his willingness to promise (almost) anything he thinks the audience wants to hear, they're right.
That might be right, but that doesn't make it a smart campaign. Smart campaigns turn people off your opposition and onto you. That hasn't happened. The Labour campaign has been average to say the least.
These anti-Key rallies that are going on are a perfect example. Who the hell authorised that? This is an election, we're not off to some crappy war or anything. It's supposed to be getting people to vote for you, not getting into a yelling match with the other side.
Robyn, Grant Robertson is smart, and will make things happen in parliament. You can attribute a lot of Labour advances on students (interest free loans, universal allowances) directly to him. He'll be good for bureaucrat Wgtn Central and its demographic.
Also, he's not a complete git, which puts him one over Franks.