Posts by Paul Campbell
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It actually appears that while the RWC is on there may not be room on TV for anything else ....
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speaking of art projects .... years ago state servants got 2 weeks off with pay if they ran for parliament .... but the deposit for an election was way less than 2 weeks pay at the time .... we had visions of 1000 people changing their name to "Rob Muldoon" and running in Tamaki ...
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Um - at least one of the McGillicuddys is currently in parliament, a party leader no less
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yup - the right response to the national front's bile is not to shut them up - but more speech, call them on their crap publicly - those people out demonstrating at NF marches are the real heroes, they understand
You don't shut people up and lock them in a corner, you let the sun shine in
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Yeah who knows - maybe the public will decide that the socialist workers ideas are better than the greens, or the nats - it's a marketplace: the best ideas should win on their own not because they have more capital behind them
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In general I see democracy as a market place of ideas - not of money - a good idea isn't necessarily the one with the most money behind it. If the people are to choose fairly between all the ideas on offer they need to get equal exposure.
So mostly I think everyone should get the same amount of TV/radio time - how we go about that is the problem of course. I think one can reasonably argue that there are a class of ideas that can be excluded (let's call those "lone nutter ideas") and so having a minimum constituency (ie a party of a minimum size) backing the idea is reasonable - after that why should the National party's tax plan get more air time than the Legalise Cannabis folks? - both are ideas that need public scrutiny at an election
More importantly why should the National tax plan which might be assumed to benefit those with money get more airtime than Labour's that might benefit those without
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I was around while that went down and it was rather more low key than you probably think - I think it was more a case of Linus getting fed up with the sniping from the free software purists, he seemed happy to continue to use BK - certainly Linus and Larry were cordial afterwards (I'd occasionally run into them in the cafe down the street from work afterwards).
Matt also created Mecurial out of the same fuss
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It is Friday isn't it (possibly NSFW for some value of S)
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I think David decided to retract it
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My offering had been the following (fortunately still available on a cached page):
When Phil tried to fudge his expenses
'coz just wine and no food dulls the senses
Key's first little scandal
Became too hot to handle
Now the minister's on the back benches