Posts by nzlemming
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I predict you'll be busy today...
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Hard News: Cheer Germ, in reply to Sacha,
what is this 'weekend' you speak of?
Eggzackery! Long weekend just means more time available to fight this fucking expressway. Stupid, stupid RoNS.
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
They're always the ones that come back and bite you :-D
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In other news today from the Gummint:
Government reviews more state agenciesNew group to advise on state sector reform (be afraid - it includes Mark Ford)
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Hard News: We are all Twitter, in reply to Sacha,
Is Facebook public? I can control who reads what I put on it, can’t I?
You can, but many don’t
Any control you think you have over material on Facebook is purely illusory.
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to Russell Brown,
But aren't y'all supposed to crowdsource that sort of thing and tell me?
Every now and then, we just need to let you make a dick of yourself, Russell. ;-) (Personally, I never knew what "ATA" stood for, but then I'm probably even more of an invisible middle-class weasel than you are)
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to Juha Saarinen,
Springtime for Sarkozy in France, perhaps? Hmmm, sounds like a song...
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Hard News: We are all Twitter, in reply to Steve Parks,
You can't take out an ad in the newspaper either. When you put something out in public, where even you can't control who reads/hears it, you become a publisher. Get over it.
The problem with allowing exceptions is that people regard them as loopholes and drive trucks through them, then claim them as precedent for next time.
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Hard News: We are all Twitter, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
Does that actually happen everywhere else?
Not everywhere, but it does happen. The hard thing is to draw the line between advertising and coercion. So, the logic goes, if you disallow advertising you'll make coercion harder too. Also, as "Gandalf" noted in the Harold comments yesterday:
There should be no electioneering on election day. If we remove all restrictions on election day advertising you will get massive inflammatory lying rhetoric from large organised groups, a real problem as there is no time for a right of reply. The whole election will become a total farce, and a shouting competition
Idiot/Savant had a nice piece on this the other day as well.
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Hard News: Someone has to be accountable…, in reply to John Holley,
Prompted me to buy from Amazon The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting it Wrong by Matthew Stewart. Read it an you will understand
Yup, I've read a couple of the chapters he published. So much bullshit in the name of "science"!!