Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Hard News: The Crazy Gang Nation, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Maybe they should just accept this, follow the pattern of the rest of the world and have the House Majority Leader run the US while the President spends four years playing golf.
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Cracker: Lundy and Me., in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I'm pretty sure 90's Nokia/Ericsson phones usually had a computer interface that would have let you do just that. You could certainly text from your computer using the phones of that era.
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Hard News: Who Guards the Guardian?, in reply to Russell Brown,
The loss was mostly impairments, not real money. (In any large company the reported bottom line is largely a matter of accountants whimsy).
The group made $48mln in EBITA and assets increased by $28mln, so I doubt they are going to hit the buffers imminently.
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Hard News: Who Guards the Guardian?, in reply to Barnaby Nicholls,
I'm sure the advertising department would take your money to display "We heart the Guardian" in whatever format you wish to afford.
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They still own half of Trader Media Group, which is still I think a major cash cow, and various other media investments (the company that started Big Bruv was Guardian-owned at the time).
I suspect that the loss of advertising from a paywall would outweigh any revenue, and the influence of the paper would slump. Paywalls only work where there is a large body of readers with a professional need for the paper and a company willing to pay (like the Wall St Journal & FT, which have both been available in various online subscription formats for over 20 years).
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OnPoint: The Big Guns: Truecrypt and Tails, in reply to Chris Waugh,
The European Court of Human Rights and indeed the English Supreme Court do a reasonable job. As indeed does our supreme court, when it gets a chance, see R v Morse, for instance.
The problem is that we have a Buckley's bill of rights that is free to be ignored by politicians - if we made it supreme law (and added social rights and the Treaty to the mix) we'd be a lot better off.
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OnPoint: The Big Guns: Truecrypt and Tails, in reply to Stephen R,
It's part of why I stopped voting Labour
Me too - whenever I think of voting for them I remember the long list of things from Zaoui onwards they did when in office (and have largely not repudiated), and stick to the Greens.
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A national emergency declared when temperatures nudge 20C.
Must be where NZ gets it from: Met Office warn of drizzle bomb.
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Hard News: The Crazy Gang Nation, in reply to Russell Brown,
What Americans pay for prescription medicines is insane.
They can always make them from cheap, illegal drugs.
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One day, someone into the reggae will realize what a great name for a gig Rockfreesmokequest would make.