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  • Hard News: Little pieces of a big picture,

    @Craig Young:

    What if Hurricane Katrina struck Mangere & Otara? I suspect the SAS would be sent in, instead of disaster relief workers. And not for relief efforts either.

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  • Busytown: The shakes,

    The real problem is that the Herald stable now seems incapable of not living down to George Bernard Shaw's snark that "“Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.”

    Next thing they'll be reporting will be that Dr Evil, the Quantum Organisation, and/or the Taliban deliberately triggered the quake.

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  • Hard News: Meaning well with the money…,

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  • Cracker: Sintax,

    I fidget with the digit dots and cry an anxious tear
    As the XU-1 connects the spot
    But the matrix grid don't care
    Get a message to my mother
    What number would she be
    There's a million angry citizens
    Looking down their tubes at me

    Actual design pending. Watch this (8-bit) space. For an outside artist's take on it, the artist who destroyed a McCahon with laser-toting pixellated aliens.

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  • Hard News: Meaning well with the money…,

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  • Hard News: Meaning well with the money…,

    The whole point of the deposit guarantee system was to discourage bank runs, which were a major factor in the Great Depression, and more recently the likes of Northern Rock.

    Problem was, analysts warned of runs on higher-risk finance companies if they weren't covered as well. Vested interests, methinks?

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  • Hard News: Meaning well with the money…,

    Has anyone picked up on the potential urban-rural divide that could emerge from this? John Armstrong summed things up in one sentence:

    Timaru is the kind of swing-vote provincial territory National must hang onto to win next year's election.

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  • Hard News: The Southern Apps,

    It's a (minor) problem even in fairly benevolent work environments, where management are usually inclined to turn a blind eye to personal internet use, unless it seems to be really spiking higher than the norm. Resource-hungry banner ads tend to really add to that.

    Or rootkits.

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  • Hard News: Meaning well with the money…,

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  • Hard News: Meaning well with the money…,

    Cancelling the world cup would just about leave us level.

    Or ditching/scaling back the Holiday Highway for that matter.

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