Posts by George Darroch
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Re overseas funding. Have you seen www.nsanz.org.nz? It's the newly formed National Shooters Association. No idea where they get the money from, but at first sight I wondered if it was an NRA offshoot.
As far as I can tell, it's just one man from Palmerston North who is fighting a court case trying to have the reclassification of certain semi-automatic rifles as assault weapons overturned.
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So you spent $59
$20 per licence, if you want to look at it that way. And that's the whole operating system, not some arbitrarily crippled "home" edition. How many hundred $ do you reckon the Windows 7 bug fix will set you back?
Both of you, stop it. Anyway, I got my OS for free.
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And you know how they always say "now, on a scale of blah to blah with shit meaning crap" every bloody time? We HAD to do that, and we got in trouble if we didn't read the question out exactly, every time. As far as I could tell, the supervisors were chosen for their ability to be pedantic utter arseholes.
Wow, long post. Sorry. I could vent about that job forever.I've been behind the phones and had those experiences too. I wouldn't regard any form of phone polling as particularly reliable. It will give you a general indication of opinion on a particular subject, but expecting anything more than that is just silly.
And of course, they're self selecting surveys, insomuch as you only get the people who want to talk to you. Which further invalidates the sample.
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I really, really, really hate 'men are like this, women are like that' John Gray-ism.
Aw c'mon Danielle. Men juswannafuck, and women want flowers and puppies and romance.
Obviously I do not think your indication of availability constitutes harassment, because the offer is made with good intentions for mutual benefit.
No, harassment constitutes quite the opposite. The harasser is not doing it for the benefit of the other, they're doing it for the benefit of themselves.
In rare cases they are completely deluded, but most of the time they're at least slightly aware that the person they are harassing has indicated they are not comfortable, and have chosen to persist anyway.
it is just an unwanted sexual advance you are making that is rebuffed and you can move on to other topics or exit the conversation, but apparently some people disagree.
And that, again, is the point. The person being harassed is usually not able to exit that situation, at least not in a manner that doesn't cause them discomfort, or even the risk of harm.
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And frankly I wouldn't care if an Australian designed this eye-catching, innovative, multi-purpose building which also includes cinemas, smaller galleries and museums and with restaurants and bars along the harbour side.
If we have an international competition (and we should) and someone of the foreign persuasion comes up with the best design, isn't that just fine?
Counting foreigners out is just silly xenophobia. The Australians got a Danish man to design their opera house by the harbour, and look how proud they are of that.
Of course, it only half works because they decided to do something that had never been done before on a limited budget, so we might end up with something that is only beautiful. Best, as you suggest, to use proven technologies.
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I think that is a great thought experiment to give men the smallest inkling of what it is like to try to enjoy your own sexual energy/power (because you can and you should and there is no reason to hide your light under a bushel) without men becoming grabby and downright scary when told that you are not interested.
It's so true, the behaviour of men (not all men, not all the time) limits the freedom that women have to express themselves in ways they feel comfortable with. This is obviously bad for women, but it's bad for men too, because they're so often dealing with women who are quite rightly guarded.
If this was a less threatening space, we'd all be better off, and be having better fun. I can't say for sure more or less romantic and sexual activity, because I simply don't know that, but I strongly suspect the former.
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Ah, I suck at this Internet thing. Is this thing even on? Where do you speak into? Hello?
That's because your tubes are blocked. It happens to me all the time. See that blue cord that leads into the back of your computer? You need to unplug it and let it drain for a few hours.
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Excuse my ignorance, what is APB? I know a few things, and can think of a few more, but none of them seem to fit.
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Ian, you win the internet.
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guys often can't really comprehend the experience
I certainly agree. I do think you can explain it in terms that anyone can relate to, however, even those who can't get into that headspace.
Someone wanting some item of yours, something that in certain circumstances you'd be happy to share with certain people, and acting aggressively to get it when you've said no. In this case, that item happens to be your personal space and/or your body.
When I think about it like that, it suddenly becomes much more compelling, and the implications are pretty moving.