Posts by insider
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Hard News: Interview: Glenn Greenwald, in reply to matthew,
How on earth can key or the gcsb stop the NSA accessing hotmail, gmail and Facebook traffic originated by nzders? This is the organisation that tapped the German PMs calls. There's no special label on my hotmail that allows me to be NSA free when using a us based service, and nor would I expect it because most of those services say their user agreements are governed under other countries laws.
anyone who thinks that using those foreign services is somehow immune from searching by the government of the services' host country (ie the USA) must be seriously naive. Same as I'm not immune from their laws when I pass through their airports.
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Hager's name keeps getting converted to Hagar by my iPad autocorrect.
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Hard News: Jones: The contender leaves, in reply to Idiot Savant,
Winston Peters created the position of Climate Change Ambassador in 2006 without too much problem. Position still exists. No big dramas.
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Hard News: Crashing the party before it starts, in reply to Russell Brown,
No, 15k people registered for free tickets to a free party by a well known rich party guy. The only kind of cut through that shows is that people like free parties and hope other free stuff will accompany it.
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to andin,
Read the post to the end would you
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OnPoint: The Source, in reply to Islander,
Sure bear. Read the second last line of Keith's post - "But asking to be compensated for his troubles is not unreasonable, either. "
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What exactly were the 'troubles' he wanted compensating for? The trouble of Not being able to find his flash drive in the directory? The trouble of exploring msd's files? The trouble of making a phone call to ask for money?
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Hard News: Time to move on, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Also, this could have been dealt with very differently: a quiet word from the community cops to someone like Tamati Kruger - just let them know that TPTB know what they're up to and it would be a good idea to tone it down.
What makes these idiots deserving of such special treatment? They were gathering recruits around the country, and gathering weapons and ammunition and disseminating them. Kruger said he knew all about it anyway, so if he was such a leader he should have done the right thing off his own bat.
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I'm just as happy to laugh at accountants as all the other science and arts grads on here, but to dismiss them as contributing nothing is academic snobbery.
Accountants are engineers just as much as a guy designing a physical structure; they just work with a different type of material. The structural engineer doesn't have unlimited steel and concrete to work with and part of his role is be as efficient as possible with what he has available. Change structural engineer to accountant and steel and concrete to cash and what's the difference?
It's like reading Not PC with all this unqualified lauding of engineers and scientists as heroes of society.
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Hard News: The Vision Thing, in reply to Russell Brown,
That said Russell, surprisingly for the times, the political attack lines being used this year and it being a Labour leader's speech, the word 'inequality' (or variants thereof) was never used.