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The '46-year-old celebrity' has spilt the beans. Now he just owes an apology to John Campbell, Simon Dallow and Mike McRoberts.
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Condolences to the both of you Emma and Joe.
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Deb Hill Cone's take on Amy Chua's Pressure To Succeed 101.
"There is one school of thought that the next great human rights movement - after civil rights and feminism - will be the fight for the rights of children not to be emotionally stuffed up by their parents. Remember, it was only about 100 years ago that Freud came up with the newfangled concept that what happens to us as kids has an impact on us as adults. Wacky. Before that children were treated as property."
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Jonathan King,
UN committee on the rights of the child says 1 in 5 NZ children live in poverty.
Paula Bennett on Radio NZ: "In general NZ is best place in the world to bring up kids," [meaningless cliché] "but I do appreciate that for some people life is hard." [that's just the way things go, isn't it].
So depressing.
Translation: "In general NZ is doubleplusgood in the world to bring up kids, but I do appreciate that for some people life is unsimple."
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Plus it gives hope that our own cells will retain these memories as we can't guarantee the great Entertainment Corporations will be able to!
Personally I don't think tape and vinyl are forever either - both are susceptible to heat, and tapes can be erased by powerful electromagnetic fields...I am reminded of the BBC Domesday Project, where the Domesday census books were digitalised - on Acorn BBC Micros. It turned out the machines didn't age very well, and there weren't many of them left to access the data. The solution? Emulation and reverse engineering.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
War is peace.
And the way things are going, freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength.
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to Sacha,
We don't even have the balls to implement a capital gains tax to make crystal clear to everyone that speculative property gambling and bigger and flasher houses are not productive investments for this country's future.
The sad fact is, turkeys don't vote for their own thanksgiving. And it's had the side effect of cartellising the housing market. Speaking of property, the way things are going, razor wire installers and bodyguards could well become the new plumbers and sparkies.
We have no shortage of know-how, but a lot of it goes overseas or otherwise struggles, for the simple fact that there's a shortage of relevant capital for it. The Sam Morgans and Richard Taylors of this world have shown the way forward, but they're oases in a desert of commercial mediocrity.
And I've said it before, but a very, very good first step to restoring investor confidence is to invoke counter-terrorism law on a certain pair of fiscal fugitives in Switzerland.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Sacha,
Katha Pollitt considers the political landscape around gun control in the wake of the Arizona shooting.
And according to Urban Archipelago, the Dems should never have bothered with 'NASCAR dads' in the first place, and concentrate on the cities instead.
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to Joe Wylie,
They keep hinting at a soylent green-style solution, but none have yet displayed the cojones to actually propose it. Far easier to scold the unwashed for such moral slackness as their low level of savings, while writing fawning pieces about bank CEOs who profit from encouraging personal debt.
Or otherwise work out how to make the security walls and razor wires blend in with the McMansion shrubbery.
If Kyle had made it plain that his beef was with the selfishly affluent, rather than an entire generation, I'd have no problem.
Specifically the ones who became what they rebelled against in the first place.
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Hard News: Media 2011, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Dr Haywood didn’t get to that part of his terrific series on ‘energy and civilisation’ but I got the impression he was hinting at an analogy between Rome:slaves/Us:petrochemicals. :-(
A startling analogy, but a potentially accurate one.
It's been posted before, but Clive Mathew-Wilson has previously written on the subject.
Today's Julia Hartley-Moores... tomorrow's Colonel Strakers.
And today's Orange Countys... tomorrow's Comptons.