Posts by Heather Gaye
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Hmm, sceptics don't often mention ozone depletion in their examples of wacky doomsayers. Why is that different to the Y2K bug or climate change?
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Oh, the amstrad with the tape drive was our second computer. I'd get up at 6am just to play Roland In Time before my siblings got up, and/or our mum kicked us outside to play.
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Happy Birthday!
My family's first computer was a grand ol' Dick Smith VZ200, about 1981. I was jealous of my uncle's ZX81, and then my best friend got a Spectrum... WOW! Made our VZ200 look like a relic. Heh.
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You have an opinion on music and culture which is cool, but there are plenty of others who are equally or better equipped to make calls in this field than you, no offense meant.
Well, there's a whole bunch of them are over at nzmusic.com, have been debating the finer points of NZOA funding for about 6 years (every time another funding round is announced), and most of your arguments would trigger a bout of eye-rolling and a whole swathe of references to old topics. You've previously made a few good points in another PA thread, but generally your complaints have already been addressed and re-hashed numerous times in far more relevant fora by far more rational people.
how about discussing the issues instead of shouting them down.
How about not turning Russell's offhand observation about a gig into an anti-NZOA soapbox? It's so old.
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...the rise and rise of the kiwi supergroup, I guess.
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I met Heather Gaye after the gig.
Ha, bit of a shake-n-run.
I thought the sound was a bit off, all the cool little details got kinda mashed in together.
LOVE the new songs though. The new album's like a Greatest Hits, except with greatest hits that noone's heard. About half I can even pick the albums they would've been on.
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I think Sue could have more successfully promoted the fact that the Greens were pro-regulation. "Anti-Bill" could be conflated with "anti-regulation", as is quite plainly demonstrated on this forum.
Yes. The rhetoric I heard was of the "stop attacking our enlightened naturopaths!" variety. Granted, considering the fine state of MSM in NZ, that may not be Kedgley's fault.
..although WRT:
7. Ensure Aotearoa/New Zealand retains regulatory control of the dietary supplements industry and does not proceed with government plans for restrictive trans-Tasman regulation of dietary supplements.
I thought half the point was that NZ doesn't really have any regulatory control? What's there to retain?
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And if you're right, and the Green Party leadership are that far out of touch with their own membership and support...
I suspect there's truth in what Don's saying. I'm of Tom Beard's ilk, & I'm a card-carrying member of the Greens. I'm gradually getting pretty pissed off with both Sues' latest soapboxes. My original intention had been to get involved in policy development, but these days I don't have any time.
& I think that may be one problem the Greens have - the hippie element have more time & resources to invest in party politics, or at least are more willing to make it a priority. I wouldn't be surprised if there's a silent (perhaps narrow) majority in the party's support that believe in green ideals, but don't have any time to inject some rationality into more specialised platforms. As a result, we end up taking a stance dictated by Sue Kedgley's jerking left knee.
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must....take....control.....
must...spurn...(nggg!)..facebook!!! arrgh!
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Really? I know millions of readers can't be wrong, but I find JKR's prose style -- those clumsy, hackneyed sentences -- unbearable.
Same. The plot itself is quite impressive; particularly the way she throws in seemingly offhand notes in earlier books that have significance later on. But stylistically, it's a lot like short stories I was writing when I was 14.
I wonder if the problem is with using a plot that's driven more by straight action than dialogue or character development? You can't just write "this happened, then this happened, then thingy did this..", but that's kind of what both JK Rowling and Dan Brown are trying to do, and I think it'd take a more mature/innovative taste for writing than they have, if that makes sense.