Posts by Kyle Matthews
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It seems to me that the less is known about the nature of our role in Afghanistan, the less likely NZ will become a target of international terrorism. Is that not the thinking behind the NZDF’s secrecy?
Given that the SAS are in their country shooting people, I think the cat might be out of the bag on that one.
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Our plan is a 20Gb per month plan, which is absolutely fine most of the time. IN that 20Gb though, there is also a 2Gb daily restriction which, if breached, knocks us back to dial-up speed for the day afterwards. So buying a game through Steam takes planning and foresight and a close eye on the download speed and meter, so I can pause it when we're close to 2Gb and the resume it the next day. It annoys me.
That sounds like vodafone. That annoyed the hell out of me as well so I changed.
Depending on which plan you get, Slingshot broadband has a data cap free period overnight. I think mine is 1am - 7am. So my 25 GB cap runs me out to about 40 GB. Could get out to 60 or something I'd imagine if I went and found a way to just run the software at the right times with a cron job.
I’m a bit surprised that ISPs like Orcon haven’t got with that kind of programme yet – I have to say that it’s going to be one of the slight annoyances about returning home to NZ.
A bunch of ISPs have offered free downloads from iSky, so it is happening for some.
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This site is largely populated by thinking people who basically believe in the fundamentals – rule of law, so forth. It behooves you, I believe, to consider not only that this is a situation where (as is always the case) an exception to the fundamentals should not be made on the basis of convenience or public mood or righteousness or anything else – but also that if we truly believe in what we say then this is the very situation where we should prove that we do.
Well said Creon.
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I’d like to hear other perspectives on his claim that Maori never speak ill of the dead. It sounds like total bullshit to me.
Probably is bullshit, and in that claim he was therefore probably wrong.
However the question wasn't put to Maori, it was put to Hone Harawira, so I can understand him having a position (wherever he got it from) that he won't speak ill of the dead.
He didn't do it very well and he's dug himself a hole as a result, but it's not an unreasonable position to hold.
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That is a very interesting point Steve : I am irritated to the max that I cant – any longer- transfer all my previous iMac contents to a new machine. Which is why I havent bought a new machine. And wont.
Yes you can. If the machine is really ancient and doesn't have firewire you might have to do it manually, but the contents of your mac hard drive are just files and can transfer via network or external flash drive or hard drive. Firewire and use of the migration application is the best way however.
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(Is there a NZ parallel – ‘I was, in four and a half years, never a New Zealander; I was immediately an Aucklander’?? OK, maybe Wellington?)
Several people have posted here in recent months about how the earthquake made them realise that they were from Christchurch in ways they hadn't thought of the city before. In terms of an event affecting your thoughts of place.
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And Shayne’s mother was in the audience too!
That's nuthin'. He did a gig backing up his mother last year (at what used to be the Outback in Dunedin), with the wonderful Hannah Curwood on backing vocals and lead-in act. Was good fun.
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When assessing how I feel about the death of Bin Laden, I note that Osama Bin Laden would have happily killed me and anyone on this forum by cutting our heads off with a stanley knife, if given half a chance.
I hear he drowns puppies and pulls the wings off flies. He really is the cartoon ultimate super villan. I suspect he's probably actually quite civilised in person, and having read a bio of him earlier tonight, I'd imagine he's hardly ever done anything like stick a knife in someone. Mass murderer yes. Interested in you if he passed you in the street? Probably not.
I think you’re absolutely fine in the large urban areas – Jakarta / Semarang / Surabaya – I’d head there without any hesitation.
Bali?
So, Danyl, the post WW2 war crimes trials in Nuremberg and Tokyo (flawed and ambiguous as they were) didn’t achieve anything – as opposed to going past the judge and jury and straight to the executioners?
I'd imagine that the soldiers were given not very subtle messages that if he was to come out in a body bag, that would work out fine. Large segments of the USA were having kittens a couple of years ago about holding trials of terrorists in New York. Having a trial for the big cheese would have led to the motherfuck of all headaches and fears. And for what purpose (from their point of view)? Easier for him just to get shot and move on.
Major feather in the cap of the Navy Seals to have gotten the mission. There's some serious crowing going on in that section of the US military. That one is going straight to the pool room.
(And the aftermath of Katrina is…really not their biggest budgetary concern right now. I mean, really not.)
Sadly, they managed to not make that one a very big budget priority. Large parts of it are still a horrible mess I understand.
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Lovely Jolisa.
It’s very unlikely that a draft would come back in the States. The military tends to be opposed to it from what I’ve seen on the basis that it doesn’t produce as good a soldier.
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I'd imagine the reason he's gone with the by-election is to get to campaign once before the actual election - media coverage, establish his brand, celebration party etc. Good dry run, and a pretty much free chance to get publicity and rack up a win with at least a reasonable amount of media attention.