Posts by BenWilson
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Thx Kyle. I was thinking it was some kind of 'average length between clicks' formula, but it's good to hear from someone who actually knows.
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Wow! I thought I was just a narrow coffee mind when I found coffee in Europe (outside Italy) was not to my taste. Turns out we're cutting edge, at least in espresso, and particularly latte. Kewl. Nice not to be a yokel sometimes.
I'm really surprised the espresso machine/person ratio is only 1:850. Amongst the people I know it's more like 1:4. But I do live in inner Auckland.
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Confused about how you can measure 'minutes spent on site'. I mean for me Public Address is open in a tab 24/7, but I'm not reading it that often. Similarly with Hotmail, Google News, and a number of other sites. But total time spent *reading* the Web is probably less than 2 per day. I'd probably spend a lot more time on Public Address looking at my own writing, during the composition of a post, than I'd spend reading it.
So how do they measure it?
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I find it hard to think of any demographic less likely to become terrorists than doctors. They have a lot to live for, and live to heal.
What a quack. Need any more really be said?
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"I honestly can't see why I'd care."
What if their pageads were all for Starbucks?
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I'm sorry we lost too. The feeling is at a similar level to hearing we've lost at any obscure sport though. Riiight so we didn't win the underwater hockey, o-kaaay.
You've bummed me out more by pointing out that I'm going to be surrounded by an iron ring of roadworks for another 4 years! Aaaarse!
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Yes, will I be able to stream it to my PDA so I can watch it on the toilet? It will certainly help any time I've got constipation.
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That would be too bitter a pill to swallow. It would be like claiming to come from Dunedin. I just couldn't do it.
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"Well, there goes the "sentence was inappropriate" excuse ..."
I would have thought all the analysis needed would be "he was sentenced in a competent court after being found guilty in a trial". It's a lot more due process than Bush has given a lot of guys who have copped far worse sentences without any trial at all. Certainly a lot more analysis than anyone I know has ever received for some pretty harsh sentences dealt. He's even allowed an appeal, at which he could be compensated if the lower court's decision was found wanting.
But no, this is a much more cynical move by Bush. It doesn't even risk that the next court might also find Scooter guilty. It simply erases the punishment, and aims to wind the whole sorry affair up without further questions. Questions which no doubt might actually point the finger at the actual perpetrators of the actual crime that this thing was supposed to be about. And not being in prison, Scooter will not be motivated to squeal out, as is no doubt the prosecutors intention in pursuing him.
Which is a mere footnote to the crimes being committed at the time, and still being committed today. That Plamegate is the only thing chasing Bush at the moment is indeed the greatest indictment on the American system all round. Their sorry excuse for an opposition is being punished in the polls for not doing what the electorate wanted, getting the US the fuck out of Iraq.
It's kind of like there's an aura of sacredness that has somehow surrounded these scoundrels, which only the bulk of the American population can see through. But who gives a shit what they think? Bush sure doesn't and it's seems all the rivals don't either.
It's no wonder an American struck up a conversation with me whilst queuing to get into Kelly Tarlton's the other day, so that he could without any prompting at all tell me that he was in no way a supporter of Bush, and never had been. American people seem to feel that their own representatives simply aren't doing the job required to let the world know that American people aren't like the wankers who lead them. Which does a great deal to undermine their claims to being a great democracy.
That he thought that Australians were all in favour of Bush and Iraq and was fearing his time there made me giggle. Seems Australians have exactly the same problem with wankers claiming to speak for them. I told him the safest thing to do would be shut up about the war and splash his dollars around, and he'd be fine. At which he lamented that because of Bush, his dollars weren't what they used to be.
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It's funny what we get outraged about. So some fall guy for the cover up gets to stay out of a velvet lined prison, and the perps of the actual crime don't even get charged. Big deal. More actually important things happened as a result of Bush being a wanker between breakfast and coffee this morning. Dozens of people were killed. Hundreds of people are incarcerated without trial and many of them are being tortured. Millions of dollars of taxpayer money were spent on war. Millions of Americans with poor health continued to have no treatment.
And here we are getting outraged because someone that noone had even heard of until he opted to be the fall guy, has managed to get his powerful buddies to keep him out of prison. That's probably even happened in NZ today to fuxors that we might even know. Surely the pamphlets suppressing weeds in my veggie patch count as executive privilege overriding the rule of law too.
At the same time Parliament are getting on with scratching their arses and falling asleep in the privacy that all powerful public servants shouldn't enjoy, whilst simultaneously rubberstamping the removal of a few more of our civil liberties, however disgusting flavoured and weakly ineffective.
But most importantly of all, the Ozzies think they can have a crack at our glorious captain just because he's lost one test. That's what really winds me up.
PS: Did I forget to get outraged about that boat thing? Funny that.
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