Posts by Ben Austin
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Well it is kind of brief, but better than nothing.
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Well that parody of the police ad campaign has totally tainted the real campaign in my head at least. Not that I was planning on applying to the police force.
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I read exile regularly for about 4-5 years, funny, disturbing and occassionally sickening all in one. I had a surreal moment one day when I was reading it in a Otago computer lab (Burns Cal) and I saw Dolan walk past the door (IIRC his office was in the same building). His columns were so angry that I was always a little too afraid of talking to him, for fear of ending up as a cruel aside in his column.
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Suprising ommission: Enid Blyton - A group of friends have a dilemna, solve a mystery, all the while eating well and often then returning home for bed sounds a hell of a lot like modern Wellington living to me (just substitute Soames Island for Kirrin Island).
I finally read Tom Brown's School days a month or two back and here was I thinking it would be just another private boarding school romp when in fact it is really a "how to raise a good solid gentlemen who will one day sit in the Commons and represent his constituents justly in a Whiggish way yet firmly centered in the timeless nature of the English countryside".
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Asterix & Obelix - My primer and reward for learning to read as a small child. Also sparked a strong interest in Roman history, although I'm not sure if Asterix would approve, but I've made my peace with his proto Gaullist propanda long since.
The Tyrannicide Brief: The Man who sent Charles I to the Scaffold - Made me finally come out as a republican, to slightly misuse a phrase.
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Marcus, I for one refrained from pointing it out because I didn't want that particular debate colonising this discussion thread. Russell is one of the few people working hard to keep the copyright discussion in the news and I appreciate that.
Oh, and yes I have paid the princly sum of $24 USD for a podcast (50 episodes or so). However it was more of a donation than a fee, as it could be downloaded officially for free. Now that it has advertising I no longer pay.
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Wow...
"or an automated process to identify and selectively record certain sound recordings from a communication work."
I shudder to think of the potential scope of such a clause.
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I see you have found the kryptonite
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Juha, if you won't man up and read the urban dictionary then I'm not going to man up and do it for you.
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Ataturk's life makes for an interesting read, pity his successors don't man up about Armenia, or Kurdistan for that matter.