Posts by Richard Grevers
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ok, I'm in heaven. A "missing" 1990 documentary about The Blue Nile on their US tour has just resurfaced. American imagery just suits their music to a tee.
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All your meme are belong to us
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Why Why Why?
At Wales vs Namibia we had at least four different Tom Jones songs. If I'd been a Welsh fan I think I'd have been offended by that summation of the culture. The fans around me clearly weren't, because they sang Delilah themselves several times.I had been fearing that we were going to get the Feelers' cover of Right Here Right Now at every possible occasion, but I haven't heard it once, thank gawd. Did that bad idea actually get squashed?
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It is interesting that for many Americans discussion of OWS immediately reduces to Capitalism vs Socialism. I am viewing it more as growth vs sustainability. My economic nous is insufficient to know: is there any model of capitalism which can flourish sustainably, i.e. with zero growth or degrowth? Do we need to start measuring capital in a range of units, not just money
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Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
Occupy Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin and, er, New Plymouth.
Don't mock New Plymouth! We have more than the usual share of multinational corporates active locally (e.g. TAG Oil), and are one of the bastions of unsustainable WTO-dictated agriculture - palm kernel is one of the major import flows through our port.
From the emails I've been receiving, protesting the Food Bill will be one of the focuses here. -
Hard News: About Occupy Wall Street, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
You’ll note it’s not ‘the 800-year-old skeletal remains of a woman’ but ‘the skeletal remains of an 800-year-old woman’ – scary stuff!
After reading the article I'd attribute that phrasing to a journalist who doesn't know the difference between the two.
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Simon, I think the one child policy is causing a monumental change in Chinese society. Suddenly, all the aspirations of two or three older generations become focused on one individual. We've observed this first hand through a number of homestay students we've hosted - it can manifest as stress, escapism and a sense of entitlement. And can lead to beliefs that any means justify the end, as exhibited in our news headlines from time to time.
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Hard News: Thanks, Steve. For everything., in reply to Russell Brown,
Undeniably they are, Russell, but is that purely because of the hardware and OS, or is much of the credit due to software pioneers such as Adobe who were slow to port their excellent products to PC, and thence to industry pressure*. The smile often vanished from print industry sales reps' faces when I told them copy would be from Corel, or on a PC-format zip disk.
* For graphics - I think Mac really was a better platform for creating audio, which is never a field I got into. -
Ed Piskor, whose great comic "Boingthump" wound to its conclusion a few weeks back, just posted this. I assume it's something he prepared earlier.
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Hard News: Thanks, Steve. For everything., in reply to Anonymous Author,
What encoding?