Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Because, to be blunt, she's the only one who benefits from it. And she doesn't have to 'ask' the N.C. GOP to do a damn thing, just issue a statement along the lines of "We don't need your Rove-ian bullshit in our primaries, thanks."
At which point I'd presume the Republicans to tell her to bugger off and stop telling them what to do with their own adverts.
Yes hopefully McCain would actually be forthright and really not want the advert. I am however cynical about American politics in general. If there's a trough to be rooting in, it seems that the American political system has no shortage of pigs on either side.
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In a well-known Christchurch watering-hole, I was recently served a pint of beer with ice-cubes.
I was visiting a girlfriend in Baltimore in 1995, which is where she lived. It was June and really hot. We got a bottle of red wine, and since it was so hot, and the wine wasn't cold, she very nicely put three ice cubes in my wine glass. Apparently if we'd gotten it earlier she would have bunged it in the fridge to chill it, but since we didn't have time she thought she'd try ice instead. In red wine.
Needless to say, I broke up with her shortly after returning to NZ.
Emerson's on tap? You lucky bastard -- which pub?
Several finer establishments in Dunedin serve what I like to call 'nectar of the gods' on tap. Eureka on Albany St does Emersons Bookbinder and Pilsner on tap. Nice outside garden bar if it's a warm afternoon too. The Inch Bar at the Gardens used to, but I haven't been in a few years to see if they still do.
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Has Senator Clinton done the same? And will the N.C. GOP take a blind bit of difference, or is race-baiting too useful a fundraising tactic.
I'm not sure why Clinton should have to ask the Republican Party to not run a particular advert. In fact, it would just seem bizarre to have any leading democrat getting involved in what is essentially an internal Republican issue.
It'd be interesting to find out if McCain actually expects the advert to be pulled, or if he's just publicly distancing himself from it, then when the advert runs the opposition get tagged with it, and he can tut tut and come in and heal the wounds by saying sorry and getting the state chair fired. Double win.
So if you overturn the rules, ignore the delegate count, and count votes from two banned primaries where Obama didn't even campaign, the supers could declare Hillary the winner?
One where he didn't campaign. The other he didn't campaign, and wasn't even on the ballot. There's no way they can include that one, the party will tear itself to shreds.
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If 90% of your customers are in the US then your data should be as close as possible to them - after all, every time one of these customers hits your page the same data is sent over the same link, this is highly inefficient. Far better to send one copy (your content) to a repository close to your customers and minimise the distance over which replicas are sent.
I agree with this in theory. But in principle this distinction should matter less as the internet grows. The very nature of the design of the net is that it should work around these things. Our relatively weak international link, and the fact that we have international data charges means that it doesn't work in NZ.
I'm not an expert in tcp/ip, but isn't the delay less the distance, and more the number of hops? I mean, comparing the speed at which the signal travels, to the time it takes to get through a computer and get re-sent at each hop... it's the two feet from one side of the server to another that slows it down as much as the 7000 km across the Pacific.
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depends a bit on how the maths is done and how that's interpreted.
As of this moment Clinton ahead in the popular vote
Well, given that delegates choose the candidate, not the popular vote, you're using some strange maths there. The maths relates to the delegates, and the only ones of them that are up in the air are those where primaries/caucuses have yet to be held, and some of the undecided/swinging superdelegates.
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CNN currently has a 6% gap, which if it holds will mean she'll get... 9 delegates closer? 10?
Enough for her and her to supporters to justify keeping on, but I don't think the maths has changed.
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I'ld hardly consider most of those essential infrastructure (& don't know too much about many) but sure Terralink does some good work.
Well you originally said "PRIVATISATION DOESN"T WORK!". Clearly in some places it does.
Personally I prefer the SOE model for a lot of these things. If Telecom had some good competition in the home line area, that'd work well. It did wonders for toll call prices about 15 years ago.
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I'm trying to think of a positive example & I just can't.
Auckland International Airport? Government Print? Ministry of Works and Development? New Zealand Steel? Natural Gas? Government Supply Brokerage Corporation? State Insurance Office? Government Printing Office? National Film Unit? Terralink International?
I don't follow all those closely and what they do, but some seem to have worked out OK (State Insurance are a crappy insurance company though, but I don't think that's privatisation, they just screwed me over when someone hit my car :P).
I think we all tend to think more about those that haven't worked. NZ Rail, Telecom, BNZ, Air NZ etc with bailouts are the headlines.
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PRIVATISATION DOESN"T WORK!
That's a broad statement inviting 15 BUTS of exceptions.
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Which begs the question, since one can get 24Mbit with current DSL copper technology, and VDSL2 is even faster, why do we need fibre to the home? Is this a subsidy for a small minority that want HDTV movies in the time in takes to make a cuppa?
I suspect that once our connections kick up to a sufficient speed and cap (or capless), you'll start to be able to subscribe to (say) American cable TV via the internet. You'll stream BBC straight over the net.
You won't go to the store to get your DVD, you'll get the movie by clicking your mouse. Etc.
Took my computer about an hour to download a relatively low resolution version of my Anaheim Ducks losing to Dallas Stars in game 6 yesterday. About 120 minutes of video. Up that to full HD in full screen, it would have taken 3 hours or so (and speeds at my house seem to have doubled recently). When it takes 5 minutes, that'll be fast enough.