Posts by stephen clover
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to ,
"whale oil -whaleoil -slater -beef"
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to mark taslov,
where’s all the money going?
"Fiscally neutral" tax cuts, wasn't it?
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Awesome work, Laura (and team.) Respect.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Michael Homer,
Michael, I love you :)
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to izogi,
In relation to this, I’d contend that John Key isn’t leading National at all, at least in a traditional way. Sure, he’s the party leader and the PM, but his main criteria for selection has been as a marketing figurehead to sit in front.
Exactly. He’s basically a very powerful mascot. I for one am rather looking forward to the entertainment when he becomes a liability and gets thrown under the bus.
This thread has some incredibly good writing in it; congrats all round & keep it up! I would also add: I suspect the most effective way of dealing with a troll of “Jake Starrow”’s* persistence is literally to ignore him. He will eventually literally go away.
*I’m sure I detect David Farrar’s cadences in some of his utterances, but that could be wishful thinking and an over-eager imagination.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
I liked their cover version of “White Riot”.
* boom boom * :)
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Jack Harrison,
They are not paying Eminems publishers any commercial respect, they have probably violated copyright laws.
Weeelllllll… if as they say they bought a commercial “soundalike” track licensed via APRA/AMCOS, I’m not actually clear whether the Nats are culpable for anything – unless they’ve been duped.
And then it's just unfortunate, not really a pattern of behaviour.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to AndrewH,
By all means discuss it -- I'm not trying to shut you down -- I just think that other older existing thread would be a better place. That way them who need or want to not read that can avoid it.
Craig:
actually affects two women whose day in court has been denied.
Yes. Those poor women, having this drag on like this. I really wonder if Swedish law allows for him to be tried in absentia. Or, after last night -- why not a bloody video link-up!
[ PS @Russell I think I have just found a bug in the commenting feature, if you're interested I can post deets / steps to replicate etc. ]
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Jack Harrison,
with a headline calling him a “Chills” member.
You know he was in the Chills, right, as in founding member? But yes, not their finest moment.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to adam hyde,
2. For anyone that knows software, Snowdens point in the Intercept Op Ed that “analysts have a checkbox on a top secret system that hides the results of mass surveillance in New Zealand ” means absolutely nothing.
My recollection is this feature was labelled "Five Eyes Defeat" and checking it excluded from search results data relating to Five Eyes partner -- agencies? Countries? Anyway I didn't have any trouble imagining that intel collected by Five Eyes could be tagged as such and excluded as desired.. but I use similar features across numerous search engines every day :)