Posts by nzlemming
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Suggestion for PAS x.1, can we get some whizziness that lets you select some text, hit reply and PAS copies the text and pastes it into the reply box with the quote tags around it? That would be really awesome. KTHXBAI
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Russell Brown,
But I’m sure we’ll all agree any comparison with Wishart is not really appropriate. Whatever Assange is, he’s not that.
I’m glad we can agree on something ;-)
[oops – moved this bit to the “New PAS” thread]
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Tim Hannah,
Fair point. However:
If Assange is truly serious about openness, he should be more careful about driving competent people out of wikileaks. They might be needed if he gets got.
At this point we have a number of (largely) anonymous sources doing a "he said, she said" and in foreign languages (to me) to boot. It's hard to know exactly what is going on in what passes for the Wikileaks organisation and whether the people we are told are leaving are a) actually competent, b) actually leaving or c) ever existed. No matter, to me at least. No-one, not even the US, is disputing that the cables are genuine, or that the Afghanistan release was genuine, or that etc. etc..
That's the meat worth discussing. The rest is distraction (and, I believe, deliberate distraction).
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Hard News: Going Social, in reply to David Hood,
That’s a good point, David. The key, good or bad, to Twitter is its immediacy, and to Facebook its pervasiveness.
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Hard News: Wikileaks: The Cable Guys, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
He "preaches" openness of governments and corporations. Wikileaks has redacted names where individuals might be at risk. They even asked the USG to help them redact, but the USG declined to engage. Really not sure what your actual fucking point is, Craig. Is this "Be a contrary twatcock week" and I missed the memo?
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Hard News: Going Social, in reply to chris,
Workman, tools, sweets ;-)
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Ever been to a magic show? Which hand do you watch? The one the magician wants you to.
In a forum where we urge each other to read what a person said, rather than respond based on what you might think of the person, it seems odd to see people questioning Wikileaks because they aren’t completely comfortable with what they hear about Julian Assange. The guy may be a total creep but the point is that he did not write the stuff that appears on the Wikileaks site – people in governments and corporations did, and they don’t want other people to see it. You’re making the equivalent error of dismissing 3News because Ian Wishart used to be a reporter for it. (There are plenty of other reasons for dissing 3News, but that’s not a valid one)
I’ve never met Assange so I don’t know what sort of person he is. I have encountered many of the people (and sorts of people) who want to demonize him as a terrorist. Them, I seriously don’t trust. So I read what Wikileaks publishes, compare and contrast it to what I know from other sources and make my judgement on the material, not the publisher.
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Late entry: I'm a bit tired of "heartwarming" as well.
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Hard News: The Public Address Word of…, in reply to Jacob Powell,
[No offence intended Waikato. It’s not you, it’s me…]
On consideration, I think it's probably Waikato...
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In a conversation in Twitter the other day, I referred to Facebook as "a legacy application". I signed up to view my sister's pictures (you had to be a member to see anything back then), played a few games of Scrabble, joined a few causes and connected mainly with people I already knew IRL. Now, it's there like my landline is in the phonebook - people expect to find you there and I'd rather they found me than someone they think is me.
+1 to Lilith's comments about privacy settings and understanding what you're doing. I know that no-one can out me for embarrassing moments on FB, because I never put anything there. (Except for a few of my sister's photos, dammit)
+1 also though, to Sacha - yes, it's Facebook's ever-changing of the rules about "your" data that is the problem. The answer is the same, though - don't give them anything to mine.