Posts by Morgan Nichol
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What is this all about?
Jesus, that is some alarming looking shit.
There are a lot of people saying it's fake, I don't know if that's true or not yet.
If it's real, then it's still possible that it isn't what it looks like. What it looks like is basically a kidnapping, what it could possibly be is extraction of a plain clothes officer or informant.
What I'm seeing doesn't make sense though. I don't understand why anyone would be there in camo fatigues, and anyone wearing camo fatigues surely wouldn't be unarmed.
Ugh.
Regardless of the video's provenance, someone needs to make the guy chanting about the KKK shut the fuck up, what an idiot.
Little brother is watching.
Absolutely right. Cameras are cheap - and a pretty effective way to keep making things better.
Don't need to be an activist on the street to be effective either, open government data, easy access to legislation, access to our parliamentarians (many have blogs and actually engage with their readers), etc. Basically just trying to open up the sharing of information, keeping our eyes open, and always opening our mouths when we see anything that sucks.
It's all we can do, but it's all that it takes.
Bangkok this week though, True are advertising a Blackberry 8000 (which, seems to dominate SEA's Smartphone market) for about NZ$700, with a $20 a month unlimited data package.
Makes one wonder just why the fuck we let Vodafone & Telecom get away with the appalling packages they limit us with.
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"Young people these days. All tweeting and shit. Never a thought for just occupying something and getting themselves dragged off on national TV. Hashtag that bitch!"
Ahem.The thing is that the very worst shit tends to go down when the big obvious TV cameras aren't there. (Strangely enough.)
Many of these new technologies tend to work pretty great on mobile phones. (Which in turn tend to be light and robust enough to be carried during protests.)
Not all about twitter of course, but things like stickam/twitpic get this stuff out there RIGHT NOW. It doesn't matter if the phone or camera is later smashed (or "confiscated"). It's too late to cover shit up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQD3hgNtYN4
(So that wasn't taken on a phone, or streamed live, but it did get big on youtube before the police took notice.)
That hashtagged tweet? It could be from someone just seconds away from being dragged away, or from someone in the back of a paddy wagon.
Or from someone who really needs help, right now:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/04/25/twitter.buck/If this stuff didn't work, people who use it wouldn't be stomped on from a great height:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/15/guatemala-twitterevo.htmlIt's all better for everyone, the protestors get a more effective, tightly run event (assuming the organisation pulls finger out), the media get a bunch of extra amcam/etc material to work from, and the police get to weed out the few officers that fuck things up for everyone. Win-win.
And, possibly the most important point: you don't need a group to make a protest that people actually hear about.
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Just be parsimonious and choosy about who and how many you follow. I definitely prefer to enjoy my contact with a selection of people than sign up for a deluge, and people who tweet every 15 minutes don't get followed.
Absolutely. I only follow about 60, many of them run quiet much of the time. Bit of an arse though, as my thing about keeping numbers down means I'm probably missing out on gems from some my more recent followers.
Dumped almost all of the internationals & "big names", and very nearly all of the boring-as-fuck Wellington twitterers, keeping only a few friends-who-have-moved-there on the list.
I don't care too much about people who toot every 15 minutes though, as I find all of the people I follow to be at least moderately interesting.
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We must remember that it's BIOLOGY and SCIENCE, and it should be recognised as helpful when women remind you that you risk both the health of your unborn children and the genes of your descendants when you choose to delay fatherhood.
I don't need to be reminded that my wallet is tick tick ticking away the years, you know. I'm already entirely too aware that it's drying up and shrivelling.
MIND YOUR OWN FUCKING BUSINESS. IT'S MY GODS DAMNED WALLET TO DO WITH AS I PLEASE.
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And yet it is mainly those nasty unnatural left handers wee hear about. Odd, eh?
I've always thought they were sinister.
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On second thoughts - would this be a good time for a godwin?
There is never a good time.
Unless you've seen Inglourious Basterds?
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Morgan, you don't seem to be making any attempt to grasp the point here. Which is that the women here know a shitload more about their reproductive options than you or Andre ever will.
Russell, you're so wide of the mark in characterising what I think or grasp that you're not even in the same timezone.
I think Robyn was probably right when she suggested that people are reading my comments in light of comments posted by people who are. not. me.
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Hey Keir, you're absolutely right of course. I didn't even think to say anything about men in my post, and it's clear from the reaction that I should have. Please take it as read that whatever you want to do is cool with me. (And that I know it's not at all important if it's cool with me or not. I'm just saying, you know?)
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Bro, don't get me started about the one-handed folding action on our Babyjogger City Mini. It's a work of art!
Oh you have to use your hand? Must be last years model. *sniffs*
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well, let's just say it's very difficult to not sound like you're offering unwanted instruction, mmm?
This does explain the (entirely unwarranted, IMHO) response to my post, which was - it seems to me - much less judgemental than some of those that went before it.
Well, I did make the crack about the patriarchy.
If there was a drug that could cure addiction, I could get addicted to heroin, take the cure, get addicted again, take the cure again and again... In-fact, we could all get stuck in. knowing there was an out plan, that didn't involve death, institutionalization or group hugs and God.
I think it'd be better to put some money into coming up with better drugs in the first place. Fuck heroin. Talk about your old fashioned crap. I want a little implant that can meter out little doses of love, or joy, or love and joy. Or focus. Or forgetfulness (I'm sure it could come in handy from time to time).
Or Excitement, in a little pill.
OH MY GOD YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE NIGHT I HAD AT HOME SITTING ON THE SOFA IT WAS IIIIIINTEEEENSSE!!!!