Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to merc,
not including Mr Joyce's proposed super heavy trucks.
Gossip from the trucking industry has it that no-one is going to use the new super trucks, because the RUCs make them unprofitable. O.o
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I thought Jane Wrightson sounded completely arrogant and out of touch.
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to merc,
Faaaaaaaaaark.
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Hard News: It's In the Kete!, in reply to Lilith __,
ROFL
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Hard News: It's In the Kete!, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Also cannot abide the smell and appearance of shell-fish.
Moi aussi, although that actually extends to any seafood. Don't know if it's psychological (e.g. growing up catholic) or allergy but I do get physically sick if I ingest any. Which is a bit of a bugger in an island nation surrounded by fish...
Also, I can't eat mushrooms, which I appear to have inherited from my mum.
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Hard News: Unwarranted risk, in reply to Kumara Republic,
I commented on that Stuff thread about the PSA
You know what would be interesting? Fairfax checking the IP addresses of all the comments and reporting on the ones originating from the Beehive...
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Hard News: It's In the Kete!, in reply to Sacha,
what does offal even taste like?
It might taste like liver (nummy, fried with onions and gravy) or kidneys (also nummy. especially with bacon) or tripe (bloody awful - I don't care what anyone says), or any number of internal organs and bits that don't qualify as "cuts of meat"(tm)
Offal /ˈɒfəl/,[1] also called, especially in the United States, variety meats or organ meats, refers to the internal organs and entrails of a butchered animal. The word does not refer to a particular list of edible organs, which varies by culture and region, but includes most internal organs other than muscle and bone. As an English mass noun, the term "offal" has no plural form. Some cultures shy away from offal as food, while others use it as everyday food, or in delicacies.
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Interesting post from Glyn Moody on Techdirt: 'We, The Web Kids': Manifesto For An Anti-ACTA Generation
One of the striking features of the demonstrations against ACTA that took place across Europe over the last few weeks was the youth of the participants. That's not to say that only young people are concerned about ACTA, but it's an indication that they take its assault on the Internet very personally -- unlike, perhaps, older and more dispassionate critics.
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We grew up with the Internet and on the Internet. This is what makes us different; this is what makes the crucial, although surprising from your point of view, difference: we do not ‘surf’ and the internet to us is not a ‘place’ or ‘virtual space’. The Internet to us is not something external to reality but a part of it: an invisible yet constantly present layer intertwined with the physical environment. We do not use the Internet, we live on the Internet and along it. If we were to tell our bildnungsroman to you, the analog, we could say there was a natural Internet aspect to every single experience that has shaped us. We made friends and enemies online, we prepared cribs for tests online, we planned parties and studying sessions online, we fell in love and broke up online. The Web to us is not a technology which we had to learn and which we managed to get a grip of. The Web is a process, happening continuously and continuously transforming before our eyes; with us and through us. Technologies appear and then dissolve in the peripheries, websites are built, they bloom and then pass away, but the Web continues, because we are the Web; we, communicating with one another in a way that comes naturally to us, more intense and more efficient than ever before in the history of mankind.
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Hard News: Unwarranted risk, in reply to James Butler,
Gold has no intrinsic use
It's a bloody good electrical conductor and it doesn't corrode. Which is why computers have enough in them to be worth harvesting when they're junked.
So it does have intrinsic use. What it doesn't have is intrinsic value
Edit: Oh snap, Richard Stewart. Read the whole thread, Mark...
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Actually, the Social Media Gurus(tm) are exactly right, in this case. This is how you market a game virally - seed the concept around a genuinely desired product[*] then stand back and don't try to direct it.
The mistake most entities try to make around viral marketing is to assume that marketing is a science, that it can be directed as you choose and has to be "managed" to limit liability. These are the people that think marketing alone will sell a product, no matter how crappy the product. The truth is that the best marketing is the stuff you don't notice because the product is selling itself. You have to make a decision to let go the reins, and that can be hard for some organisations.
It's why government entities usually screw up when it comes to social media - the risk-aversion gene runs deep. But the risk of letting go and genuinely participating is much smaller than the perceived risk, as long as mistakes (there will be some) are quickly owned and rectified. Vodafone's twitter cockup from a couple of years ago is an example of poor judgement, followed by swift rectification and apology. Made their SM brand stronger, if anything.
[*] given the traffic around #solcomms, I'm guessing it was genuinely desired. I'm not a gamer beyond Spider Solitaire so I have no idea if the game is good, but other opinions indicate it is much awaited.