Posts by Ben McNicoll
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Is the article paper version only? I can't find it on the herald site.
Or did I miss a link to it somewhere?
OOOOOO!!!! In firefox 3.0 beta2 you can drag text in a textarea, and it pulls a transparent preview of the selected text with it. It's purrdy!
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except of course, "New York Minute" is not by Steely Dan, but by Don henley, and I only associate it with Steely Dan because it is next to a jazz cover of the Steely Dan tune "My Gold Teeth" on Herbie Hancock's "The New Standard" which is a great album featuring the talent's of the late great Michael Brecker, and the sublime John Scofield. Which i would have known had I sung through it all in my head before posting.
Well, DUH.
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Although, I'm not sure I need any BONUS nerd points...
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@Craig
That would be Steely Dan's "New York Minute", and The West Wing respectively. Two fine creative works.
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I remember a NatRad interview with John Stansfield (Problem Gambling Foundation) who was talking about harm minimisation by forcing people make their gambling choices away from the machines.
If I remember correctly all pokie machines would require a card to operate, similar to the "loyalty" card systems operating in casinos already, except that the cards would be programmed with a lose-limit that wouldn't allow someone to lose more than a predetermined amount in any 24 hour period.
Seemed to me to be a good compromise (short of banning the machines which i think is a far better idea).... of course as 24% of pokie revenue comes from the 3% of problem gamblers source: PGFNZ Fact sheet that this scheme would be principally targeted at, I can't imagine the casino and pokie trust operators would be too thrilled to get on board.