Posts by Russell Brown
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Oh, and here's a religious cult you can really despise.
The Scientology droids have come to visit The Fundy Post.
I thought Mr Litterick had a funny look in his eye last night.
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I would politely suggest you and your group might want to look a little more carefully at the cultural context in which you live -- a liberal democracy as it happens -- and consider that Falun Gong (whether you or I or anyone back home in China likes it or not) has a legitimate right to take out advertisements in Craccum. Just as you do.
Quite.
I'm disturbed by what Falun Gong practitioners have suffered at the hands of the Chinese government, but I don't have a lot of sympathy for the group's supernatural claims, nor the leader's pronouncements on the "terribly degenerate" practice of homosexuality.
Their evasiveness over the provenance of Epoch Times, determination to muscle in on Santa parades (and mislead local councils about what they're going to do), and the generally cultish air of some members' public statements don't impress me either.
But for goodness, sake, they have the right to put on a musical and advertise the bloody thing.
Tim Hume's recent story in the Star Times presents what seems to be a balanced view of the group.
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__Does anyone have any insight as to whether the separation of Telecom Networks might resolve the stand-off over peering?__
Yes, it should result in a fairly swift resolution.
Really? Well halle-freakin'-lujah!
It's obvious, really, but it hadn't occurred to me till today that a separated Telecom Networks would behave differently in the market.
If this comes to pass, it's a great result. And a much more rational market.
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John,
My mom was a delegate in Dallas this past weekend. She arrived at 7AM and didn't get to leave until 8PM. She said that it appeared the Clinton delegates were trying to drag things out so long that people would have to leave. She thought they challenged about 3,000 delegates and each of them had to go through the credentialing committee.
One of the Clinton delegates from her group challenged the validity of entire precincts. One of the precincts she challenged was almost entirely African American. Towards the end, after this group was credentialed they came by and shook their fists at the Clinton delegate and chanted "we're still here" in her face. My mom said it was a little tense.
She also said that it was sad to see all of the elderly there having to sit in stadium seats for 13 hours. She didn't know of anyone leaving without an alternate to replace them though. A very pregnant woman in her group had to lie on the concrete floor at times.
I don't know why this didn't make bigger news. She said it was obvious to everyone there what was going on and she thought Clinton had made many enemies from inside the democratic party that day.
Lisa
Poulsbo, WAAnd Obama still won Texas, 99 delegates to 94 ...
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Yeah, alright, couldn't help myself ...
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I think Dean could wind up having to make the very difficult decision since his appointees to the credentials committee will have the deciding say on whether or not to seat Michigan and Florida. As Dean has been saying, some one is going to loose with 49.8% of the vote.
The appointees probably won't hold sway anyway. Apparently the committee is mostly populated by Senate-type representatives -- three per state. Obama has won way more states.
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Another reason for the Clinton campaign to call it a day: it's millions of dollars in debt and stiffing small service providers.
Money, or the lack, might end up making the decision.
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RSVP .
Uh, sorry -- you needed to reply by email Michael. But I'll put you down for next week ...
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Have a great launch, Russell. When you get a mo (and I know you are very busy chappie) could you give me some info on hooking up to Freeview (ie fitting it around Sky Digital). Maybe there isn't a problem but the Freeview people haven't been very helpful.
Is it Freeview satellite? You just need to run the coax from your dish into the Freeview box first, then out from there into your Sky decoder. From memory, our MySky needed a soft reboot, then was fine.
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Looks like the way the credentials committee is constituted means she can't win that either. Sigh ...
Still, at least the delightful Mr Scaife is right on board.
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