Posts by Danyl Mclauchlan
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And your ebonics is terrible ...
Don't be hatin on a playa.
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Wayne: Okay, it's getting late ... what do you want?
Shayne: "Happiness. That's what I want."
Wayne: "You mean you're not happy now?"
Shayne: "Yeah, but if I was twice as happy, I'd be ... twice as happy."
John: "Can I say something really cosmic?"
Go ahead!
John"I'd like to be godlike but not immortal. How's that?"
Patricia: What is your greatest ambition in life?
Parvulesco: To become immortal... and then die.À bout de souffle (1960)
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Hah - while that Kiwiblog thread DID degenerate into a primo twat calling session, Danyl's explanation to Boysmum of where AIDS came from is priceless.
Thanks. I love her idea that scientists are 'too lazy' to cure cancer - because cashing all those cheques for your billion dollar patent and having to get out of bed early to make it to Stockholm for your Nobel would be SUCH a total drag.
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Then comes the kicker: Say the alphabet … backwards. "Well, shoot, you got me. I'm not drunk, but I'm obviously too stupid to be driving, God damn it."
Bill Hicks, on field tests for drunk drivers.
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I think there will always be aspects of experience that science will be unable to say much about which is why I've got time for the purely reflective reasoning of some of the post-structuralists such as Derrida and Baudrillard.
I'm deeply impressed that you were able to figure out what Derrida was even writing about. I've never been able to make it to the end of any of his sentences, let alone a whole paragraph.
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I want John Key to do well, but I have reservations about him, all of which are very elitist and snobby, and which Russell has touched on in his post.
My wariness stems from an Agenda interview Key did earlier this year in which Lisa Owen attempted to 'flesh out' John Key. She asked him about his favourite books, films, taste in music ect.
Keys answers were frighteningly banal. He didn't really watch movies or read books. He liked Robbie Williams. He gave a very strong impression of being a very clever man who was an intellectual lightweight. A classic technocrat, in other words.
This will probably be a bonus during the election but I think it will cause huge problems if Key ends up running the country. How can a leader chart a consistent and articulate course of policy if they don't have a philosophic basis for their decisions? They can't, and that makes them vulnerable to the influence of their advisors and minders. John Key may turn out to be more Jim Hacker than David Cameron.
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why settle for a crappy MPwhatever (Apple etc) file if you really like music? I'd rather have a CD (or an SACD or 24-bit CD or whatever - but CD's all right. vinyl's better!)
A couple of months ago I was looking for a CD recommended to me by a friend. I strolled into Real Groovy and asked if they had a copy in stock.
'Sorry', they said, 'but we can order it in from the states. It'll cost about $120 and take three to four weeks. Is that okay?'
'__Huh__,' I thought to myself. '__I could do that. Or I could just go home and download it myself for free in about an hour__.'
You know there's something horribly wrong with your business model when your customers are faced with a choice like that.
You ARE still stealing though. So I'll happily pay for music and download it online. My ears aren't sophisticated enough to tell the difference between a CD and an mp3 file and it's way more convenient than wandering around a bunch of music stores trying to find what I want.
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I shouldn't, but I can't help myself...
How about one of those red|blue billboards worded thusly:
Honest | Don
Nice.
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the scenario of someone creeping into Dr Brash's office and accessing the hard-drive of his desktop was always a bit "mission improbable". Perhaps all it took was "can I use your computer to check my email" to someone in the Nats... and then hurriedly hitting the "let windows remember this password" button.....
That wouldn't explain how Hager was able to get copies of Nationals internal polling results, schedules, minutes of meetings, and interoffice memos, let alone the emails between Keenan, Long and Sinclair.
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Michael Bassett is claiming that Hager has both forged the emails cited in the book and illegally hacked into the Parliamentary email system to obtain them.
Quite a trick that.