Posts by BenWilson
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I managed to play 12 seconds of my music when I worked in McDonalds, before management caught me and gave me my daily reprimand. It was only Led Zeppelin, but that was far too hardcore apparently. Then it was back to The Big Chill on endless loop again. I can't stand to hear any of that now. It makes my hands feel greasy, fills my nose with the stench of lard (sorry shortening) and makes me want to head to the basement to compact garbage. Pity there was never a McBadge for garbage compaction, that was seriously my favourite job there.
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Lemme try again!
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I see that [[http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10462040|it's not likely NZ will be graced] with the expensive-music-with-your-expensive-coffee option.
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Paul, I feel the same way about computer games. As a kid they were one of my chief loves. Now computers are a job and computer games feel like work to me. Anything to get out of this damned chair!
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There's nothing nicer than a long cup of hot vanilla-essence flavoured milk, and listening to Born In the USA in a squishy seat designed for a kingsized arse, just-like-me. Why would I ever leave?
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Then again, you miss any improvements that happen subsequently. But it would be useful if you are 'quoting' Wiki.
And I have to applaud them again. I've just spent 3 frustrating days proving to myself that a particular line of development I was following was a dead end. I went onto Wikipedia to see if there were alternatives, and found straight away the answer that it took me 3 days to work out myself, and some useful alternatives. In my defence for the stupidity of not having looked earlier, the last time I looked was not that long ago, and Wiki had about 1/20th of the detail on this topic that it does now. So it's growing fast, and for uncontroversial topics (and this one was uncontroversial, highly technical and specific), it's as good an overview as any text. In fact it seems to be written by the same people.
Controversial topics are a different matter, then it really pays to read the edits and do some other checking. But that aside it's still the best starting point to begin to understand something you don't already, it lets you know the issues and the broad overview. Which is why it seems to come up as the #1 hit for most searches in Google now. Clearly the internet in it's Googlized wisdom has found Wikipedia to be the first link of choice. It's an amazing achievement in the time it's taken them. Most other organizations would labour for years to get to the first page of Google for highly specific keywords relating to their business. Wikipedia ranks ahead of all of them because everyone links to it.
So ragging on linking to it is ragging on the whole internet.
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Is there a way with Wikipedia to link to a particular edit? Then at least there would be some permanency to what you are linking to.
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Unlawful protest is still an option, no matter what the courts say. It should mostly be reserved for things that really matter. I'm conflicted about whether getting in Bush's face is one of those things. It's likely to be as physically dangerous as everything else associated with the man.
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Craig, commenting that Clark is a woman is not utterly irrelevant. It's been historically much harder for woman to become the PM of NZ, so it makes it more of an achievement. Certainly way more of an achievement than Moore's laughable term, and I think that's what Kyle's saying.
Sure, it's an ad-hominem. What people have achieved in their life doesn't necessarily affect the quality of their opinions. And much of what Moore had to say is true. The gripes that people have with him are mostly around what a desperate backstabbing hypocritical twerp his rants make him look like. As for the content, it's not new, and is well played out on every political blog already.
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I wonder whether Basset is ghosting these columns for Moore, there seems to be a certain consistency of approach.
Or is it just a lack of imagination? Perhaps he isn't fit to lead ACT after all.
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