Posts by Dismal Soyanz
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Hard News: Done like a dinner, in reply to Quentin Davies,
That's not time travel. That's a temporal loop. But either way it sucks.
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OnPoint: H4x0rs and You, in reply to Bart Janssen,
But every scientist I know would be only too happy to spend the half hour or hour to explain in lay language, preferably with access to a pencil and paper to draw pictures.
Absolutely.
Although I prefer to use a whiteboard. From my interaction with experts in my own field and across other disciplines, getting an explanation in simple terms is never that hard. Getting them to shut up, sometimes is...
Given the time/space constraints inherent in either TV or print reporting these days, it is almost a truism to say that they will not get the whole picture. After all, some of us have spent whole careers/lifetimes trying to understand the damn thing.
So I have plenty of sympathy for the journos who are trying to push the square story into the round time/space slot (Dr Who, anyone?). But the answer is surely less about expressions of loathing aimed at the those who work within the mainstream and more about strengthening the alternative. Yes, there will always be those who believe that Granny tells us the truth (the whole truth, and nothing but) in the same way that there will be those who think cage fighting is fun and tobacco is not harmful. They will be with us always. What we need (and have, to some degree, praise be to the Omnipotent) are informed voices who have the willingness and ability to (loudly) call the mainstream on their errors.
Long live teh interwebz.
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Hard News: A welcome return - and pirates!,
And just when you thought it was safe to be a pirate.... as Tony Abbot says "Shit happens".
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy, in reply to Matthew Poole,
To be honest, why should the police be the immediate owners of the footage? It's not really the realms of Star Trek to have a blend of HORansome's ideas and what you are saying with the footage going to an independent authority. That way, there is never any question that it could have been tampered with.
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy,
I like. Greg O'Connor - maybe not.
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy, in reply to Matthew Poole,
An exaggeration on my part, Matthew but who gets to be the custodian of the footage?
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy, in reply to HORansome,
NZ version of "World's Wildest Police Videos" anyone? We can trust Fox to be fair and unbiased.
"No idea where the footage went, Sarge. Musta dropped out of the car during the struggle."
Funny how reality TV seems anything but.
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to TroyHoward,
Hilarious. There is hope for journalism in this country yet.
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Hard News: Perverse Entertainment, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Been a while since I read The Black Cloud but I thought the guy's brain fried because he couldn't handle all the information the cloud downloaded into his brain (possibly because of preconceptions).
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Amazingly no bodies found in the Cathedral site. A second best to finding survivors. Peter Beck's response is spot on. </threadjack>