Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Jackie Clark,
And let’s not forget that ” half the nation” actually refers to “half the people that have those meter things on their tellies”. I would be very surprised, anyway, if the actual number wasn’t far higher than that.
Yes. When you and Craig not only watched but expressed enthusiasm about the result, something was clearly going on :-)
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Hard News: Thinking Digital, in reply to George Darroch,
Mikaere, I think that the spirited defense of the right to connection put up by Gareth Hughes and the party in the last 12 months speaks most strongly to that issue. The policy itself probably needs an update to reflect that reality.
To be clear, I wasn't criticising the Greens or Gareth, who have clearly shown leadership on the issue, just remarking on the difference in tone between the policy documents.
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
You may not have, specifically, but a bunch of other people definitely have said things along those lines.
Some of whom are now watching intently with the rest of us ;-)
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Matthew Poole,
After all, when was the last time the collective nation got overwrought to the point of violence and depression because a Kiwi didn’t win a Nobel Prize for which they’d been nominated?
Such events don't generally involve alcohol consumption, which I suspect is a more proximate external cause than the rugby per se. Christmas has nothing to do with rugby, but is a reliably bad time of year for family violence.
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Hard News: Thinking Digital, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Is this some new constitutional change, possibly passed under secret urgency? Farrar gets a veto over Labour policy? Great.
Heh. Just in the sense that "Labour's internet tax" is precisely the kind of coinage that will catch on, and spook the leadership, whether it's accurate or not.
My suggestion would be an opt-out levy with an indemnity from legal action for non-commercial file-sharing as a quid-pro-quo. $10 a month, and no-one can take you to the Copyright Tribunal (unless the violations are being done for gain, obviously).
Some European ISPs are including rights to unlimited music downloads as a premium to win customers. Which isn't quite like what you propose, but shows that the current way of doing things isn't the only way.
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Marcus Turner,
Just looked it up…..
Righto …
I literally LOLd.
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Rich Lock,
Ah, grasshopper. Lose all distractions of ego, analysis and self-referring thought, immerse yourself and become the activity. Let the purity of your action be unsullied by conscious thought.
Richard Loe, right?
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Bart Janssen,
that half the country didn’t even watch last night’s match
You point of course being that half the country did
And that actually being a record audience, ever, for a telecast event in NZ.
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Raymond A Francis,
And I know plenty on the other side of the equation who have the desire but not the talent, got to feel sorry for them
Nah. Playing rugby was one area where I had to work hard just to be okay at it. As a kid who found most other things at school relatively easy, that was character-building.
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to BenWilson,
I'd go so far as to say that at this point, it seems like everyone except the French support the All Blacks.
The odd English rugby journalist -- and the people who comment under the reports -- still seem a bit bitter on us.