Posts by Steve Barnes
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Thank you Graeme. I have been thinking about this for weeks and I couldn't agree more..
I have been thinking about the things we, as a society, tolerate. On one hand we see tolerance as a good thing but then. again, we see the toleration of other things as a creeping evil.
I would think that most people would be aghast at the idea of advertisers having editorial control over content of an "opinion" show, well I'd like to think that...
But then some people like to complain, Mary Whitehouse springs to mind but even back then we said "Well, if you don't like it, turn it off" when they have no listeners they will listen. -
Hard News: Housing: the Feudal Model, in reply to tussock,
Yes, I’m sort of kidding. You shouldn't have to have played the various Sim City games as much as I have over the years to know all that.
I think sim city should be compulsory playing for everybody in Council.The concepts are really simple. You build where people want to be, build infrastructure, rinse and repeat.
It gets to a point where the whole thing gets out of control which leads to cost cuttings in maintenance and the central hub becomes a ghetto and the city rots from within.
Why do we even have this problem? we were told that te interwebs would mean we could all move to some bucolic paradise and work from home. Average Mr&Mrs Joe Bloggs wants shopping mall, casinos and restaurants and seem to be prepared to pay 10 years salary to spend an inordinate amount of time sitting in traffic going between pointless job for money to spend on getting over the fact that you have a miserable life. Why not smell the grass, watch the wind in the trees, etc.
It has been said (just take my word on that) that the ideal number of people in a community is around 150, outside that number all kinds.of shit happens, the size of a small village.
They sat it takes a village to raise a child, I say it takes a city to ruin one.
Anyway, as I was saying, I had onions tied to my belt, it was the style at the time....
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I blame that Elvis Presley all that hip shaking. Next thing you know we got damned Hippies. All that flowers and lovin stuff, gave War a bad name.
Damn kids today, dunno what the World commin to I tell ya.Sound familiar eh?
With the ease that you can find hard porn on the net its no wonder some kids will think its normal behaviour.
Our respective generations parents were possibly as disgusted at our behaviour, somehow this seems much worse.Dunno what the World commin to I tell ya.
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Dreams: To become a Police officer.. If not then a famous Singer/Rapper
Judging by the apparent dis-concern of the police and the “Bravado” of many members of the “Rap community"he would probably fit in well in either group and that is part of the problem right there.
The Police need to take a good hard look at their culture on this one. -
Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Russell Brown,
Sorry I’m late to the conversation but I have been busy doing plumbing, not plumbing the depths of depravity but doing the real thing. ;-)
We know now, of course, about about Palino’s highly active role and his idiotic cunning plan.
Indeed, a plan so cunning you could pin a tail on it and call it a Prime Minister.
And more to the point, Chuang – who has been extremely forthcoming – has given no indication there is anything beyond Brown agreeing to be listed as a referee.
If only Monica Lewinsky had been a little more forthcoming with the facts and not just blindly “Following Instructions” the world may just have been a slightly better place but as with all these Right Wingers with their over inflated sense of entitlement and purity their vision of a “Better World” does not include sharing the spoils of growth with the Hoi Poloi.
I said at the time, and risking being abused by the usual suspects. “What is the point of becoming the most powerful man in the world when you can’t have a bit of totally legal fun with another consenting adult in the privacy of your own Whitehouse”I have to admit that I phrased it slightly more crudely back then but there are some sensitive souls here and God forbid I should upset anybody.
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Is that Zappa link working for anybody else?. Its weird. While I was posting the link kept redirecting to other youtube videos that others posted before me, now it just won't play. What gives eh?.
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Had to post this for the three people that have not heard the song . :-)
Not insinuating anything but I have seen Rusty dance… -
Speaker: The Strange Tax on Your Internet, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Your entire conspiracy delusion falls apart at that point.
Unless...
ComputerWorld April 2003
Tapping fiber optic cable without being detected,....and making
sense of the information you collect, certainly isn't trivial, but
has been done for the past seven or eight years
Gartner GroupIt makes sense then that local interception would be capable of being hidden more easily than international traffic,
UK’s GCHQ Reportedly Intercepting Data By Tapping Fiber Optic Cables By Adnan Farooqui on 06/23/2013:the Government Communications Headquarters or GCHQ, is allegedly intercepting large quantities of web and telephone call data by tapping fiber optic cables directly which carry internet and telephony traffic. The program is called Tempora and is based on two components called Mastering The Internet and Global Telecoms Exploitation.:
One day conspiracy theories might well be known as history.
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Capture: Spring Breaks, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
‘Dolphins – Humans and dolphins’, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 9-Jul-13 URL: I found this image.Gay Golphin? I smells something fishy… or mammaly I suppose.
I find it amazing that nobody has followed this up. A government site foisting a photoshopped photograph by Eric Lee-Johnson on the people that pay for that site, ie. us. Let alone the copyright issues.
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Speaker: The Strange Tax on Your Internet, in reply to Sacha,
Think about uploading. Better still, think about real-time hi-def video-conferencing that’s as good as being across the table from someone you’re dealing with.
Don't think so. We all know Deals are done behind closed doors, why would you do it over a video link with all five eyes watching your every thrust and parry.
I would agree that it would be nice to have deals done in the open but we would have to wait for a Labour Govt. for that to happen.