Posts by Kyle Matthews
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I think it’s still the case that broadcast, once the infrastructure is in place (which it is) scales better than IPTV.
I do think there's a growing market for some sort of netflix like arrangement where you pay a subscription, or buy either channels or shows, and then just pick what you want to download to your box. Those people who only want sky for the HBO channel etc.
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Another start would be not enabling or condoning the thuggish behaviour exhibited by Ben Franks, in that adrenalised game against the Boks yesterday.
I was happy that he came out full on and called it dumb which I viewed as an improvement. I've seen a lot worse from All Blacks and other sports teams. The politics around protecting Tana Umaga after Brian O'Driscoll was injured in the 2005 Lions tour for example.
I had the pleasure of refereeing an ice hockey game this year where the captain of one team poked his stick in the face of an opposing player from behind. When he went down to the ice another member of the offending team skated up to him and yelled out "get up you French faggot!". Sports has a long way to go.
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No, not really. If that injunction had come down anyway, and all Rushbridger had on the record was those pretty weak initial stories what “purpose” would have been served?
I mean, if you can get 2/3 of the story out, even imperfectly, before the injunction becomes available as a weapon, you start to reach a tipping point at which an injunction isn't effective any more. If the story is largely already out, the government isn't going to stop you publishing it.
From reading the New Yorker article, they had the documents for quite some time before publishing anything, and the government knew that they had them and was threatening them, so it must have been a consideration.
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Because that’s what Glenn Greenwald, who brought the story to The Guardian, demanded
It does make some sense, when viewed in light of this line from the Auletta piece:
Heywood had learned about the most recent revelation when Guardian reporters called British authorities for comment; he warned Rusbridger that the Guardian was in possession of stolen government documents. “We want them back,” he said. Unlike the U.S., Britain has no First Amendment to guard the press against government censorship. Rusbridger worried that the government would get a court injunction to block the Guardian from publishing not only the G.C.H.Q. story but also future national-security stories.
Who knows if that would have been successful, but possibly better to get something out there so an injunction would serve less purpose?
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Christ, contender for most depressing thread ever :(
Does anyone have any good news about how this is getting better before I leap out the window? Or how to make it better? As the father of a soon to be seven year old girl...
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I’ve no idea when her birthday is (nor am I seeking that info) but in a year from now she’ll have another birthday before ahe could vote and 2018 the next general election eligible.
November she said in some inteview. So theoretically she could make the cut, but unlikely.
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Hard News: Rape and unreason, in reply to Danielle,
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But I do think that the argument that woman should “stay out of trouble” such as made by Bob Jones and, arguably, society at large is pretty much the same as the argument that women should view all men as a potential threat.
I don't think they're equivalent.
"Don't wear a short skirt" is a message being applied to all females through no fault of their own.
"Don't rape" is a message being applied to all males, through fault of some of them.But the difference is that most males can take that message, check it, and move on happily knowing they don't do that. If the message was more subtle ("seek consent") they might take it on board more and try and include it in their relationships. But either way it's a positive message for most of us.
Females seem to have to take their message, check their personal safety, cross reference that with their rights to do what they want, and respond with "hey FFS, I'm not doing anything wrong, how about the people causing the problem stop doing it, and society gives that clear message?!"It's a different message when your response to it is buried in those competing things, all of which impact upon you very strongly.
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Gee there's some great bands there. Paper City got screwed if they didn't go to the national final.
Grumble grumble at that list of bands from Smokefreerockquest. Die!Die!Die! did not compete there, they formed in 2003. Carriage H won in 2000, and then the band fell out and two members reformed as Die!Die!Die! The third, Tim Smith, was most recently seen in Idiot Prayer (plug: http://idiotprayer.bandcamp.com/).
Bloody wikipedia.
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Hard News: The Crazy Gang Nation, in reply to Keir Leslie,
It’s almost like the time three politicians managed to drive the NZ economy off a cliff by (as Easton puts it) a very impressive piece of political leverage.
That wasn't an electoral outcome brought about through FPP though. Labour won the election by presenting the electorate with a manifesto, and then doing something completely different when they took office. Depending on where you stand none/some/all of which was justified given the situation they found when they opened the books.
But that really was about control of cabinet and people being suddenly captured by a new right ideology (or allowing themselves to being bullied into voting for it), and a left-wing party suddenly taking a massive leap to the right and fracturing. Politicians got punished as a result by the country reclaiming the electoral system.