Posts by jon_knox
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...I got let off lightly by dint of being heavily pregnant to a man who wasn't my husband.
Interesting turn of phrase that.
Did you mean :
a) you were/are an unmarried mother?
b) you were/are married, but not to the father of that fetus? (possibly including father of the fetus is someone else's husband).
c) pregnancy was a result of a close encounter of the 3rd kind?
d) all of the above?
e) none of the above?
(repeat for civil union)Marriage is apparently a form of prostitution....(cue wonder if one of the churches is behind that idea as an attempt to boost the popularity of marriage...cue speculation regarding which one).
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i think you'll find that "political advisers" held by minsters are actually extremely powerful gatekeepers in relation to their typical age and experience.
Hmmm, has stem cell researched progressed that much that they can bring back Milty?...surely there must be a risk that he picked up something in the nearly 2 years down there, other than a really nice tan.
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Channel 4 (UK) is providing a free catch-up for the next few weeks on this...it may even work for people outside the UK.
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I think Mackintosh's problems come down to the fact that in ANZ Cup the referee's have stopped using the word pause
I'm not a prop, but I would have thought the scrum is about the forwards acting as a single unit in putting the hit on. Even if Mackintosh does have good technique, if the timing gets a bit wobbly, he can be made to look pretty ordinary. I have just been unsuccessfully trying to find the video to have another look. Hours of fun (please shout if someone has some useful links to footage). The amount of time that Mackintosh is said to spend with Mike Cron tends to indicate that he'll come right.
Though I've not seen much of Mackintosh, I like that he's roughly the shape and size as Hayman. Firs run-on test has got to be a learning experience, especially in the front row and if he stays ahead of the learning curve then he should be rewarded with more caps. Good repetition of the experiment from Henry, in putting another awkward, very big guy in to add the extra dimension in for opposition front rows to try to deal with.
It's worth remembering that it took even Hayman a while to find his feet scrummaging at that level. Hands-wise I don't think Hayman ever really came right, but am prepared to accept that the excellence he brought to the scrums & lineouts outweighs the odd occassion someone made the mistake of passing to him in open play & he lived into his 'shitty-hands' nickname.
Suspect we've got to continue the habit of blooding new guys to see if they work well at the top level, else we revert to the situation that most of the other coaches find themselves in. We went through the pain introducting rotation, now we have to use that investment to our best advantage. The other coaches will be playing catch-up for a while, as depth isn't like working out how to tackle the likes of Jonah.
This means that having the top 15 on the paddock at one time is unlikely, but defends against the risk of injury and may mean that we're less of a static target. I do like the fact that we're leading rather than following on this.
Nonu remains a bit too variable in the quality of his games. I'm not sure if it's that he's a bit one dimensional (lacking talent in distribution and seemingly reliant on sheer power to break the line) and the opposition teams occassionally are dead right in their preparation regarding how to handle him, or if it's something else. I'd suspect sorting out the centres is one of the reasons that Toeava has been afforded so many chances to get things right and perhaps vice-versa.
Toeava on the other hand started to show a bit more composure and the ability to successfully utilise his 'A game' when needed, albeit after a lot of chances. Toeava has the range of skills and physical attributes to be one of the top outside centres, it's (just) a case of getting the mental aspect reliabily under control. Hopefully the confidence gained from the last game will remain and be built upon in the next game. It may even provide Nonu with the required stimulus to raise his game too. Again adds another dimension for other teams if you have to prepare for 2 very different skills sets in the same position....Maybe Hadyn could start a thread on the dreams of Ted.
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(how to stop you doing the things you want to which may involved downloading a movie or tv episode. 700 meg eh kyle, that's suspiciously the same size as a movie file) peer to peer filtering closes the gate on big stuff but it's unlikely to filter out music copying though, but those who do it will probably get caught in the same net that filters out movie traffic)
Please can we let that stuff rest? I don't think we really do anyone any favours getting bogged down in that. Time will tell what the outcome is.
care to critique the behaviour of sacha and mark
Yeah I could have picked Mark, or Sacha, but it was an example. I am sorry for picking you, if you feel I've done so unjustly, and/or done so in a disrespectful manner. I've tried to play the ball, not the man regardless of my own stance.
make up you mind
I can see that you've added benefit greatly in the discussion, but I can see that you're also preventing the discussion moving on. Neither of these are mutually exclusive and yes by no means are you the only one who has a monopoly on this. I don't think it's fence-sitting.
So are we cool with this as 'response to Lessig'?
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who moved that preview button? And took away the 'edit' button? (cringe)
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Just caught the end of what seemed to be a very thoughtful doco on conscientious objectors called "Not forgotten", with Ian Hislop wearing his serious hat.
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A teenager, recently brought the following words to my attention, words that ring true when I see people dis'ing others here.
Avoid distraction, for distraction lodges in the bosom of the fool
This statement typifies the approach of Simon and Russell, ignoring or not (often) dignifying objectionable statements with a response.
I can't begrudge passion with which people are clinging to their beliefs, but it may be useful to be able to suspend those beliefs for a bit, particularly if you know you're right. I just read a scathing description of the Falklands War by Jorge Louis Borges as “Two bald men, fighting over a comb” and though I’m not suggesting that we’ve got 2 bald men here, I am suggesting that there is a similar lack of humility. If we always start with the assumption that we are right, I think it makes learning quite challenging.
Using Rob as an example in this case, though I know he's standing up for what he believes and in many cases is bringing a great deal of value to the discussion in representing his ideas as perhaps representative of those of the music industy and as a valuable counterpoint to the ‘society view’ that some of us non-creatives/non music industry have.
I think Rob could more postively contribute to this part of the discussion if he'd let go of the ISP responsibility angle on the 'response to Lessig' side of the discussion and just let the discussion take it’s course. Shouting all others down and hanging all hope on just the one model, is turning people away from this discussion regardless of merit. Vice-versa for people on the other side of the argument (consider that the Lessig type approach does not exist for a bit...please go write about your ideas on the other thread).
Now liberated from that stuff, what does Lessig's view look like? Is Lessig, still:
more a bored, smooth talking lawyer with no greater task he can apply himself to
For me when I read Matt's post on Lessig, I got that he's realised the enforcement path is futile and that he's keen to find a way that provides benefit to the creators of works, rather than merely trying to rip creatives off, or turn himself into a legend in his own lunchbox.
Matt's original post describing Lessig's introduction resonated with the approach that I read in the one of Robert Fisk's books, the idea that without history to provide a base for the moral compass, we are stuck repeating history. Simon’s comment is indicative (to me) of this:
Before that I regard much of the moaning as little different to the cries of home taping is killing music.
I don’t really need to see too many examples of prohibition & an enforcement model to know that it can be bung. Is the Creative Commons type approach the best we can do, or is it case of we've struggling free of one box, only to constrain ourselves immediately in another pretty similar box?
Simon wrote:
Reign in the fuckers drafting this stuff. You won't get a lot of argument from a lot of the recording industry.
As part of reigning them in, I’d suggest we need to have a better model that they can look to employ.
and would like to see properly defined a fair use proviso (although such has been handily given a helping hand by the Lennon ruling of recent). I'm just nervous about where the demarcation comes.
An example (or 2) here may help to let the rest of us understand your nervousness, but understand you gotta run...me too.
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So rather than viewing filesharing as the form of theft labelled 'copyright infringement', if we consider the deprivation it creates as akin to not watching the ad's in the middle of our favourite (free-to-air) TV program, we may begin to understand the relative worth that much, (dare I say 'most') of society is putting on copyright infringement as an indication of how much effort should be consumed in enforcement? (particularly in the case of TV that has been broadcast via free-to-air somewhere that we then subsequently download sans ad's).
Does this work any better than the swimming pool analogy?
And yeah I am aware that advertisers are aware of the fact those most people will do almost anything else to avoid watching the ad's that they're paying for and accept that risk...there's seemingly no such knowledge for non-TV content providers, or is even that risk now reasonably forseeable?
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the whole lobbying to get ISP’s into the mix has only just happened and that would have been a bleeding obvious first port of call you would have though.
I asked a former Internet Architect for Xtra, about the suggested ISP responsibilities.
He laughed. Not practical to technically implement. Not by a long shot.
Perhaps worryingly the ISP's may see this as an option for entrenching their positions in the NZ marketplace and as a means to guarantee a stream of revenue....so let's think about that. Reduces the ability of new entrants into the ISP marketplace because of the requirments of the ISP responsibilities and drives up costs for the consumer.