Posts by Steve Barnes
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Now I know the Ad your going on about. When I saw it my first thought was "Fake, OSH doesn't allow after work drinks anymore, someone might walk into a desk and graze a knee or something"
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Any one who claims "Paid content is King – Consumer Generated Media is the Foot Soldier". has fallen at the first hurdle of on-line media understanding. The backbone of the Web is the people that use it, the end user. Why go to a website to read the opinions of those who already dominate the bigger media picture when you can so easily read the opinions of your peers on the world wide web? Users of sites like Digg and its ilk sort through the dross,of mostly paid contributions, and find the gold, mostly blogs and interesting stories grabbed from print media around the globe. They help us share the diversity of opinion and analysis of the many as opposed to the few.
Paid content is the dying corpse of the traditional media, the decaying flesh falling from the bones of a once proud tower of authority. User generated content is the new dawn, the fresh face of freedom, the rise of the collective conscience against the oppression of the old guard. -
So, the denial of a secret agenda by members of national was because only Key, English and CT. know about it?
Where are those psychics when you need them?
I constantly worry about the collective intelligence of the "majority" There is a saying that goes "you are what you eat" and with the constant diet of shit that the major broadcasters and indeed the general media, dish up for our consumption I have little doubt that National have a good chance winning the next election lottery. If the average voter is to choose between good well thought out social and economic policy, or a stream of consciousness type of sound-bite drivel about how National will be "better" they will choose the latter. Wake up Sheeple, don't you know that National is going to look after their own, ie. big business, and roll back most if not all the good social policy that Labour has delivered over the past nine years?
Sure, no-one's perfect but better the devil you know than letting a bunch of slippery greed-mongers take the purse strings.
The mantra of the average National supporter is "let us keep more of what we have earned and let us spend it how we wish" yeah right. I can see it now. Privately funded organisations to look after the poor and the sick. People selling their Bentleys to help a homeless family get a roof over their heads or going without that yacht to put some strangers bright kid through university.
My father used to say that people that have an "I'm alright Jack, fuck the rest of you" mindset are the worst kind of people and he voted Conservative fer Christs sake.
Greed is NOT good. Choice is good but it is also a privilege that comes after the necessities are sorted out, when every child is educated, the poorest members of our society are not hamstrung by their poverty and the sick can be cared for without having to sell their home, when Busses are free to roam our streets with impunity and policemen hand out lollipops and ermm. Well, I'm sure you get my drift. -
I'm a heterosexal atheist Communist. :)
Outed at last ;-)
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I don't own an ipod or anything like it, and I would like to know which would be the best one to have, really. An mpeg player would be best since most of my extensive music collection is on my PC drive, specifically on my WMP. Help, please?
I have a Toshiba Gigabeat. Mine is an s30 (30 gig) had it for a while now, syncs perfectly with WMP and plays .wma lossless and h264/mpeg4 video and has a built in radio. I can't seem to find those anymore but the Dick Smith 20 gig offering looks worthwhile at $199.00.
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And, while we are talking about Africa and Russians and looms and ......................
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A bit more history for you Craig about the Unacceptable Face of Capitalism
Rowland's career personifies that of capital the world over. His methods are standard practice today, and no contemporary politician would bat an eyelid. In so far as he was then the "unacceptable face" of capitalism, it was because Rowland did not take the customary care to don the disguise of aristocratic "concern" and "responsibility" perfected over decades by the British ruling class. That mask has long since been discarded, as Thatcher and her successors celebrated the ruthlessness and selfishness of corporate money-grubbing.
You could substitute the African references with New Zealand rail and Papakura water if you wish.
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For once I kind of agree with Michael Laws.
I remember saying that about ten years ago (it may have been longer, it wasn't that memorable) he has a keen mind but acts like a boy racer when he opens his mouth and puts his foot down with a firm hand. Doncha just love a mixed metaphor?
Let's not judge people for their mistakes, if we are to judge at all it should;d be for their deliberate actions, like asset stripping or some thing. -
Point in there?
Yes. 'Though it's hard to see through Blue tinted glasses.
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A little bit of history. Tranz Rail in 1997