Posts by George Darroch
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Simon Grigg has a beautiful Jane Ussher portrait of Fuemana on his blog.
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This song was on Mai constantly throughout the 90s, and blasted through Mangere, at the Town Centre, at the pools, through car and house windows... if there was a soundtrack to my youth, this song would feature pretty prominently.
And it felt so, so good to have a hit from someone from your own community, to show you that it was possible to make it across the world, even from Manukau.
Nostalgia is a pretty powerful thing, and I wonder if the impact this is having on me is that it so positively identified with a particular time and place, both of which are now gone.
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There are legitimate complaints about the App Store from developers. But compare the world before the iPhone, and after. There just isn't any comparison. For one thing, Apple made it possible for the people who developed this here site to move into mobile application development, where they now have an international market. No one else did that.
And one reason why Apple is still consistently preferable to Linux, who as yet have provided no way for developers to earn the fruits of their labour. Ubuntu/Canonical are considering changing their app store model to allow for that, but a strong community adherence to the free software ethic is causing caution.
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Don't be silly, that went out with Ubuntu 7.2.4.5.7 rc. The Chicken has been replaced with a Heron.
That was three release cycles ago. It's a Koala now. Keep up!
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I could listen to Tony Allen drum solos all day.
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Typeset and paper makes a huge difference in readability. If I'm going to spend money on something I'm going to read properly, and am likely to want to read again, then it seriously influences my decision on whether to buy.
Thankfully, things seem to be improving over time.
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For the first time in my memory, Goff has said something sensible about crime - prevention beats cure, young kids must be a priority.
Despite Goff's shift, I doubt that any of New Zealand's so-called journalists will even attempt to actually take these ideas seriously.
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I remember Campbell giving a lecture on the media to an undergraduate politics class I was in. He railed about the failure of the New Zealand media to take politics and society to account.
What a bitter taste those words leave in my mouth, 8 years later.
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Well, one fantasy involves hurting, possibly killing, another person, and the other involves consensual sexual pleasure, so I think the difference is more than taste.
I think that's the key thing there. The second involves an active invitation of consent in an activity involving yourself, the second involves acts against others entirely without their consent.
Unfortunately, what seems to have happened is that the court has conflated consensual group sex with non-consensual gang-rape.
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Not surprisingly, I'd never read that part of the Crimes Act. Not only is rape described in a very limited way as explained above, but there are other curiosities.
The maximum penalty for incest is 10 years, which seems extreme (not withstanding whether incest is or is not a healthy form of relationship between two consenting adults). Bestiality, defined as "penetration" gets 7 years, while indecency with an animal gets 3.
As far as I can tell the parts of the Act written in 1986 or later are much more consistent with the nature of offenses as they are understood in contemporary New Zealand, as you would expect.