Posts by Danyl Mclauchlan
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Basically, NACT own the media. They are never going to portray any party to the left of John Key as other than crazy or incompetent. It's time to realize this and work around them.
Yeah, that's what Labour thinks. It's bullshit. Total bullshit. The media runs every anti-Key smear story Labour gives them, it's just that the public doesn't respond to them.
As Rob Salmond pointed out a few days ago - when Labour talks about policy the media COVERS IT and they go up in the polls. When they smear Key the media ALSO COVERS IT but they go down in the polls, because the public likes Key and Labour's 'scandals' are almost always trivial bullshit. Premier House is getting repainted? Give me a break.
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What have we done to deserve such all round awfulness?
My thesis is that Clark and Cullen were brilliant and driven enough to run their party, and then their government by themselves, aided by very high calibre staff (Heather Simpson, Mike Munro, Grant Robertson). To secure their own position they stacked their cabinet with people who were personally loyal to them, and incapable of challenging them.
Which worked really well, until all the people who ran the party left at once. That's why we currently have a vacuum instead of an opposition.
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Mallard seems to spend most of his days posting bizarre conspiracy theories on his blog and exchanging insults with Cameron Slater over Twitter.
He who fights with monsters . . .
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Call me a skeptic but how do we know Bin Laden is dead . . .
If it was a fake attack it would be pretty easy to prove, and then Obama would be impeached, sacked and and disgraced. Political leaders tend to operate with pretty low risk thresholds when it comes to things like that.
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Could you elucidate? I'm prepared to believe they had DNA (familial?) for comparison, but obviously I have no idea what they might have been able to show.
Although our DNA is roughly 99.9% identical, there is such a huge variation in the other 0.1% (which are mostly non-coding regions) that you can usually nail down a statistic like: 'there is a 1 in a hundred million chance this is not bin Laden or one of his brothers, all of whom are accounted for'.
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Personally I’m feeling extremely uncomfortable about the fact that he was killed (together with a bunch of people with him) rather than being captured.
I get the sentiment, but I'm not sure what that would achieve. There's no doubt about his crimes or culpability. And he was living in an armed, fortified compound a block away from the Pakistani military academy. It seems reasonable for the US to decide that capturing and holding him was simply too problematic.
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They’re going to go after the low-hanging fruit, the people with enough understanding to successfully torrent things but not enough to be smart about it.
I don’t know how it’ll work, but I suspect they will go after people seeding new or unreleased albums/blockbuster movies.
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@Ben re Falling Down: That's interesting, because my memory of the film is that it stands up for us unappreciated middle-aged white men, who are horribly discriminated against in modern society by members of various minority groups. Is that a valid interpretation, or have I totally misremembered the film?
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He basically ignored me everytime I did so and referred only to the fact that "Falling Down" was pretty OK
It'd be kind of interesting to watch 'Falling Down' again to see how it's dated. I suspect - from my hazy ~20 year old memories of it - that it's incredibly racist.
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the second is an online argument I had with a guy eleven years ago over the general crapness of the films of Joel Schumacher
God, I would love to argue that point, since all of my comments would consist of paraphrased quotes from Batman and Robin: 'Ice to read your reply', 'My supporting link; read it well for it is the chilling sound of your doom', etc.