Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to Moz,
The question of whether certain Labour members will be able to resist putting the boot into The Greens is, as always, open. They still have their hard-core “I would rather die than share government with The Greens” members, and there’s a very real risk of public hissy fits.
Shane Jones doesn't even seem to be trying to keep a lid on it. But I do think most of his colleagues will be more constructive.
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I've now been told by two people that the timing has been influenced by a sharp dip in National's (and Key's) internal polling. It's sure not showing in the public polls.
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Hard News: Games with Attitude, in reply to kris_b,
That site was built by competent people :-)
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Hard News: Spring Timing, in reply to Paul Williams,
I think it’s worth noting, at least in my opinion, there’s a number of factors benefiting Labour this time compared with last. Firstly, I think Labour will campaign much better this election under Cunliffe compared with Goff (no disrespect to Phil).
Let alone Shearer. Cunliffe did sound convincing talking about campaigning this morning. The problem may be that less engaged voters still don't seem to like him.
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Hard News: The Web, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
It’s interesting the way NZ went. In the UK dial-up access was typically through a revenue shared standard rate call (0870 number ISTR) such that the ISP got per-minute revenue.
Whereas we always had free local calling. The big ISPs here did kick off by charging $5-$6/hour for access, but Ihug made that untenable. Bravo.
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Hard News: The Web, in reply to Gareth Ward,
Yep:
The word is a trademark of Google, and the PageRank process has been patented (U.S. Patent 6,285,999). However, the patent is assigned to Stanford University and not to Google. Google has exclusive license rights on the patent from Stanford University. The university received 1.8 million shares of Google in exchange for use of the patent; the shares were sold in 2005 for $336 million.
Worked out well for Stanford, which has quite a record in delivering start-ups.
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Hard News: The Web, in reply to Jean Hughes,
yep – I still have my original Ihug address ( and others of course) that I realise is also 18 years old
I abandoned my old ihug address -- which had become something of a spamtrap anyway -- when I departed ihug. It was a little bit of a moment, given that I was one of the first customers on their game-changing monthly flat-rate account. I actually walked into their old bunker on Newton Road a couple of days after they'd announced it as the Tuanz conference, found Nick Wood surrounded by modem banks and signed up.
Oddly enough, Nick and Tim Wood had actually set up my original Iconz account, when they were working there.
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Thank you for writing this, David. Fascinating!
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Speaker: The changing world of drug policy, in reply to Vince McLeod,
I’m not convinced about the Psychoactive Substances Act. I know a professional chemist who has tried and failed to determine what the active ingredient(s) in some of them are, so they cannot have been proven low-risk.
Nothing has been approved as low-risk yet, but there have been a few products granted interim approval as part of the transition to the new regime.
But the idea is for the ingredients of a product to not be a secret.
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www.govt.nz in 1996.
