Posts by Martin Lindberg
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we already have a station for old people, how about something for teh yoofs. This was under Labour, and didn't get very far.
Another one or two stations that broadened the RNZ content is a great idea, and could achieve the balance I'm talking about without impinging on Concert FM. This would be a win, IMO.And you don't need to look very far to find a station just like this. JJJ (or Triple J as the kids call it these days) is a government-funded station which is a part of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
And when I lived in Sydney, I thought it was teh awesome.
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... our designers using their creative skills on something that matters. It is because I value the designers we have in NZ that I want them using their powers for good not evil.
I'm sure all NZ designers are touched by your looking out for what's best for them.
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There's lots of examples of people who are not particularly qualified to do something having a crack at it
I blame these idol and cooking shows on tv for the idea that the whole amateur vs professional distinction is a con.
But why stop at singing or cooking or graphic design? Why not let everyone have a crack at being an architect? Or an engineer? Or a neurosurgeon.
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We could become the world's first No Logo supercity.
True. Although it's only a supercity for those familiar with the historical separation of Auckland into different councils. We're not yet at the stage of Judge Dredd's New Pacific City.
Logo design ... er not for me thanks, but feel free to spend your rates on it if you like.
Fair enough. We'll just have to disagree.
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No effort is more important than ensuring a city logo is created, by professionals, that can carry us through the next century.
Since there will be a logo, regardless of how ridiculous some of you seem to think that it is, would it be too much to ask that it's one created by professionals?
Is this dismissal of design as a profession also, as Patrick Reynolds put it in his guest-blog
..a neat and neurotic corollary to our self-avowed anti-sophistication
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Is this "pick on designers" week? I didn't get the memo.
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When I visited there some years (in the dead of winter), they were contemplating legislation that would mean that wealthier traffic offenders would pay proportionately higher for their transgressions than lower paid Finns.
In use: Day-fine
ETA: Rich, snap!
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thought 50 billion, myself. All those keen rugby fans out there on Betelgeuse 3 and Alpha-Centauri 7.
Well, according to that Reuters article the last football world cup had a total of 30 billion viewers for all matches. And that's only counting our solar system.
But apparently rugby is now so popular that the US national team even got a sponsorship deal with Sony.
I really like rugby (although it doesn't make up for not getting (ice) hockey much), but that kind of promo-story is just embarrassing.
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I'm not sure what to think about young but adult actors performing in sexually explicit under-age roles. The problem is that the acts they perform can't just be acting, as in someone pretended to kill someone and they used ketchup to simulate blood. They are actually illustrating abuse. Images of children being abused are illegal because the children are actually being abused. Right there in the photos.
This is a different story though. No children (or animals) were injured, because there were none there to start with. It's animation. Would this be illegal here?
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And it's expensive.
Sorry, but how is it expensive? Is it because there is a greater demand than there is supply? Or is the methodology protected by licensing fees?