Posts by Lucy Stewart
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"Remember when we thought ten gig was unimaginably huge?"
Hah. I remember when we got a Mac LC575 with 500MB of memory, and I thought it was ace, because there was just enough room to install Civilisation II, at a massive 50MB. Better yet, the screen had colour.
The lease on our flat expires in early January, and both groups leaving are currently fretting because we didn't realise that normal flats (as opposed to student ones) cannot be viewed and signed up for six months in advance, as we had been accustomed to. Damn near everything on TradeMe is available now, which means we're gonna have to start looking, oooh, about mid-December. And then we get to try moving out over New Year's. It's going to be interesting.
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I agree. An individual should be contactable, and their authenticity verifiable, but requiring their home address is unecessary.
After all, what does it really accomplish, apart from letting the crazies know where you live? And who the hell contacts people via their physical address these days anyway?
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(3) Anti-abortion referenda failures- South Dakota, California, Colorado (!)
I wouldn't be quite so surprised about the Colorado one - it was 100% crazy, and the vote (75% against) reflected that. Making any fertilised egg a person would basically be the first step to taking away women's rights to do *anything* that might hurt their potential precious cargo. Evidently most Coloradoans(?) were smart enough to realise this.
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Were some people seriously fooled that it was a hologram?
The way it jerked suddenly to new camera angles was a giveaway. I thought cooler than the people was the visualizations they devised.
I just found it hilarious that the half-assed Kiwi version looked *significantly* better than CNN's much-heralded attempt at the same thing during the American election coverage. Way less static.
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call Jim Anderton Labour for the purposes of this
A quick hand-poll at the Young Labour Christchurch election party ("Be honest, you all voted for Jim, didn't you?") demonstrated that this opinion was rather widely held.
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Because I'm registered in Te Tai Toka, mine will be a special vote, but there'll be quite a few of those - tourists, seasonal statt et al-
Why so? Te Tai Tonga encompasses the entire South Island, and at my polling place we just had an extra box for that electorate. Are there not enough people on the Maori roll where you are to justify that? Seems a bit silly to make it a special vote!
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Voted!
It was steady but not crowded at our polling place - mind you, with only three booths, it was pretty damn small, so it wouldn't have stood many more people. I didn't spot anyone wearing party rosettes, but I wasn't looking. I was encouraged by the number of parents with small kids and young people who were there, although I reckon that's a function of the area we're in more than anything. Still good to see.
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Now, how does grand coalition sound?
Terrifying and disastrous all at once?
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So she decided she would probably vote for ACT because "Rodney Hide is quite funny."
I think I'm going to cry.
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The real surprise to me in this whole thing was McCain's concession speech - I've heard so much about this honourable, dignified man who McCain supposedly used to be, without seeing one jot of evidence for it. And all of a sudden, there he was. One can only imagine the sort of race we would have seen had *that* McCain shown up to play. But then again, there's no point being gracious in defeat if that's the only time you can be gracious.