Posts by andin
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Legal Beagle: Kim Dotcom and the GCSB, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
Wellington is a small place, with its own communities. I know a number of people who work or have worked at GCSB. I went to university with some of them.
I dont see that as any great recommendation of workplace neutrality and transparency. Seems more like a breeding ground of some sort
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Legal Beagle: Kim Dotcom and the GCSB, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
I know it’s natural to be suspicious of spies, but really guys, they’re not 007 or Alias or Men in Black or Moulder and Scully or Reilly or any of the pop-culture representations of the business,
Ummm they are also just people or clever apes, and on this downward jag in the ongoing evolution of human society become prone to investing too much importance to the position they hold in what is rapidly becoming a hierarchal order. And to thinking they have a right to do as they do. Those, who in previous eras took holy vows, also fell prey to the same phenomenon.
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If “Panderer-in-Chief’ is the best spin you can come up with, Angus, that’s Romney’s problem in a nutshell.
Im laughing my arse off at that one
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free speech dimension of the dreadful The Innocence of Muslims film and its violent international fallout free speech dimension of the dreadful The Innocence of Muslims film and its violent international fallout
The film is bad in so many ways...10million views phew!
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Hard News: Tired and emotional, for reals, in reply to Jdrinnan,
Sorry to disappoint you, I think its in the genes. Oh, and a good education helped.
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Jdrinnan sez
Its his opinion and he stands or falls on it – at least he puts his name to what he says.
I have to think about things, takes me some moments. So I'll never make a journalist. Wrapped around a very obvious fact this statement occupies that nebulous territory between vacuous claim and vain boast. And depending on your method of propulsion, well, you could be on either planet.
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I sometimes think about the vagaries of popularity when I walk past homeless people on the street.
The connections in peoples minds eh! Homelessness is a lot more complicated than not being popular. And every story (if you bothered to find them out) will be definitely individual with some common elements perhaps. As for life's apparent 'unfairness' as you put it, the reasons go even deeper. I dont relish seeing the theatre of the upcoming US election. All the pomp seem's tinged with a sadness I dont know how to describe. It's probably just me
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Hard News: Yes, there is a Media3, in reply to WH,
Romney’s message is complicated by the fact that Obama inherited a mess that was made by Republicans.
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muse on the US Presidential race
My muse says WTF! in a tired kinda bemused fashion. I think she shakes her head left 2 right…left 2 right…as well…. and hums lala lala laaaaa
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The format is codified in a so-called ‘production bible’,
How apt! How to codify bullshit and flog it to as large a number of people as possible. While patting yourself on the back, and telling yourself you deserve all the moola. Bet this "sheew" is a damn sight more entertaining tho, I dont have a gogglebox
OK, I confess, I know what a PB is. Run across 'em before in my lifetime.