Posts by Rich Lock
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Anyone linked to this column yet? I'm having trouble keeping up.
Good analysis and looks outside the immediate details.
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Hard News: An inspirational record, in reply to Jeremy Eade,
he went to the other side of the mic.
The Dark Side of the Mic.
I guess a follow-up to 'The Sound Inside' is a few years overdue...
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Hard News: An inspirational record, in reply to Jeremy Eade,
Reminds me of that zane lowe chap, where is he now?
Seriously? He's over in the UK, doing quite well for himself.
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Field Theory: It's not yours, but you…, in reply to Peter Graham,
Here's the IPONZ decision, if anyone is interested.
And if you liked that, you may alos wish to track down a copy of:
Anheuser Busch Inc v Budweiser Budvar National Corporation High Court [2001] 3 NZLR 666; Court of Appeal CA 158/01.
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Field Theory: It's not yours, but you…, in reply to Richard Wain,
There must be a few others.
Dust Brothers/Chemical Brothers
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Otherwise what will happen with imported beer (correctly) labelled Radler, but now ‘illegal’ in NZ?
...it would be a breach of trade mark.
You'd probably be able to get round this particular example using the parallel import rules, if I recall them correctly (I may very well be mistaken and I don't have time to look them up at the moment).
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OnPoint: Easy as 1, 2, 22.8 billion, in reply to BenWilson,
You could quite easily make Mayfair an undesirable suburb by cutting the power and water.
Or combine 'monopoly' with 'nuclear war', as I did with some friends once (hey, don't judge me: we were young and going through an experimental phase, 'k?)
With one roll of a dice, make large tracts of the board completely uninhabitable desolate irradiated wastelands. Where's your Mayfair hotel now, eh?
Anyway, as you were.
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the system enabling various Wehrmacht grunts to make further operating errors
If I recall correctly from a doco I saw some years ago, one of the 'handshake' protocols when sending a message was to send five or so random characters to the recipient, who would have to send them back as an acknowledgement that a connection had been established (or something like that).
One particularly lazy operator used to just repeatedly hit the nearest key (E), rather than attempt a random string. The result was that the crackers had an instant 'in' for the frequency analysis.
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Hard News: The Orcon Great Blend 2011 in…, in reply to Noodly,
This will probably go down as one of The Times's more memorable front pages too.
I would dearly, dearly, dearly love the Guardian to run 'GOTCHA' as tomorrow's headline.
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Hard News: A Capital Idea?, in reply to DexterX,
Sub par housing is what people want - There is a real lack of wanting quality - people want cheap crap - that is the primary driver.
I take your point, even though that first part sounds a little odd - I don't think people actually want sub-par housing.
As Gio pointed out, it may be a problem of being able to afford anything better than cheap rubbish.
What I've personally found quite striking in NZ is how often, and across a wide range of areas and disciplines, the urge to cut corners and do things on the cheap appears, even with repeated upfront warnings about simply storing up trouble for yourself downstream.
It's evident in a lot of areas - leaky homes etc, and it's something I run into repeatedly in my own profession. I find it quite hard to deal with coming from a headspace that values a bit more effort upfront to ensure smooth sailing later on.
Not saying it doesn't exist elsewhere. It's just been more (admittedly subjectively) evident to me here.