Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: In the red zone, in reply to Lilith __,
They’re supposed to be public servants.
Technically speaking, they're not.
SSC has a list of all the public service agencies. MPs are employed by the Crown via the Parliamentary Service budget, and PS is most definitely not part of the Public Service. -
Hard News: In the red zone, in reply to Sacha,
public servants
ahaha
+1
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Hard News: Political Idol, or whatever…, in reply to Sacha,
The total tonal difference between his launch event and that Maori TV appearance should give some commentators pause.
That different circumstances require different approaches? You don't have to be a politician to know that. Hell, I learned that from my grandmother.
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OnPoint: Ich bin ein Cyberpunk, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Provided you assembled the compiler from scratch and verified the source code of the tools you’re using the build the keys, of course :P
Before or after you change your name to Richard Stallman? ;-)
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OnPoint: Ich bin ein Cyberpunk, in reply to TracyMac,
You need a third-party-signed certificate, but there are free providers
And you know these haven't been compromised because...?
The biggest advantage of rolling your own keypair is KNOWING that there was no compromise in the process, IMHO.
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Hard News: So long, and thanks for all…, in reply to Russell Brown,
On a lighter, Shearer’s arrival at Auckland Airport yesterday: when media scrums go wrong.
Did I hear someone call out "Mr Cunliffe" at the beginning of that. ROFL.
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Hard News: So long, and thanks for all…, in reply to Lilith __,
Labour lost the last election mainly because many left-leaning voters thought National was bound to win and so didn’t bother to vote.
Yes, because National spun it that way through their friends in the Medja.
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Hard News: So long, and thanks for all…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
You know, Tom, perhaps the homophobic Watakere Man wing of the Labour Party need to stop using Pasifika as human shields for their own feckless fuckery, and expecting the queers to STFU until it comes time to open their chequebooks and work the hustings.
And maybe we can stop regarding Tom as the sine qua non of the Labour party, eh, mon vieux? With all deserved respect to him, I don't think he speaks for or necessarily reflects the nature and makeup of that organisation. Shall we move one now?
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Speaker: Naked Inside the Off-Ramp, in reply to Richard Love,
It is not being seconded that was illegal, it was spying on NZers that was illegal. Being on secondment didn’t mean it suddenly became legal for GCSB agents to spy on NZers.
Correct. And thinking it was legal didn't make it so, or excuse the actions. "Ignorance of the law is no excuse" must apply to government as well as citizens.
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Thanks for connecting those dots. I downloaded the docs but haven't got round to reading them yet.