Posts by Moz
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Hard News: The Digital Natives, in reply to Richard Aston,
I am not convinced IP/Mana will fit neatly onto the old Left/Right spectrum.
Do you expect them to fit worse than The Greens or Maori do?
I think that's a complaint like "National doesn't fit neatly into the communist-fascist continuum" or "Labour doesn't fit neatly into the green-brown spectrum". Yup, it's sort of relevant but it's not a prime focus of the party so they're likely to make decisions that range over the spectrum.
That said, I agree with Mr Geddis that it would be hard for ManIP to side with National.
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OnPoint: The Big Guns: Truecrypt and Tails, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
They recommend using the built-in functionality in Windows and OSX instead.
That's annoying. The problem is less that the USA can break both of those, as that the techniques they use might be accessible to others. There doesn't seem to be a similar cross-platform FOSS solution just yet but I'm going to have to find one. Bugger!
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Hard News: The Fine Line, in reply to TracyMac,
there may be a trickle of "political refugees" who simply can't stomach the current govt.
That Nice Mr Key{tm} is doing his very best to make sure they don't see NZ as an attractive refuge.
Australia's job market and economy is going to have to free-fall a lot further before you'd expect to see many Aussies chancing their arm in NZ on a substantially economic basis
Hahahahahaha. The numbers are not even close. And did I mention that the other day I was chatting to some Canterbury famer's wives at the Opera House? "culture", there's more of it in a bigger city (whodathunkit). But as far as "draw me back to NZ" goes, the money is a long way off.
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Hard News: The Digital Natives, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Laila Harre.
Stuff says it's a real rumor :)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/10094154/Laila-Harre-to-lead-Internet-PartyEven Wikipedia has the rumor. I'm bemused.
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Up Front: Lighting the Dark, in reply to Danielle,
Thank you. I did put "... want to..." in there specifically to try to allay those concerns, although it looks as though that wasn't enough. Hmm.
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Up Front: Lighting the Dark, in reply to Danielle,
persuading them to want to flirt back
Or... maybe not doing that.I'm sorry, can you explain that? How is it bad to flirt such that people want to flirt back?
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Up Front: Lighting the Dark, in reply to Grant McDougall,
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Up Front: Lighting the Dark, in reply to Josh Addison,
wrote a thing a while ago that tangentially relates to this
Which was an interesting read. I think there's something to it, although I got to the same place by being somehow attractive to a woman (not via any great deliberate strategy, either). I'd possibly modify your "hook up, later form relationship" by emphasising the "flirt with anyone you find attractive, work on getting them to flirt back" (which, for any readers unsure, means persuading them to want to flirt back). At heart it's a combination of skill and numbers, but a supportive social environment is important - and that means the people around you have to tell you when you get it wrong.
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Up Front: Lighting the Dark, in reply to Emma Hart,
Yeah, the "masculinity box".I don't like it, but it's disturbingly common that I find myself falling to bits of it.
men and women, who see the entire opposite sex as one undifferentiated mass.
Aspergers makes it easier to see everyone as one undifferentiated mass. For me, the more (especially social) stress I'm under the harder it is for me to see people as individuals. I can see how that would make some of the PUA stuff more attractive, and I can imagine someone missing the whole idea that at some point a sexual relationship might cross over into an intimate one.
I wonder if it’s partly a function of being Bi that I find it like trying to talk to someone from a different planet.
I suspect that just shifts your qualifiers, you still have "attractive people" and "other", but because that doesn't lock tightly with the gender-fixation everyone has it doesn't cross you up the same way as it does many others. One alternative is that once someone has climbed out of the homopobia box and accepted that s/he's bi, it becomes easier to see that other boxes are not as mandatory.
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We’re kind of in that position. Mid-30s ...
We're in the even better position that I'm in my 40's with a top-quintile income and no net debt 5 years ago when we started seriously saving. What I'm concerned about is that the situation just keeps getting worse. My loan after post-grad was smaller than most just-a-bachelor's 10 years later, and it's grown since then. House prices keep going up faster than inflation, which in turn is more than wage growth.
As with a number of other long-term problems I could mention, the main obstacle to fixing it appears to be a small number of extremely wealthy people.