Posts by Steve Barnes
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Muse: What The Frig, Police?, in reply to Russell Brown,
It’s actually turning out to be a hard venue for anyone to use for a gig.
Almost as hard as getting a job on Operation Cycle -path, or actually working on a wharf, or a Meat Works for that matter, or looking after Old People
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It's OK though, we have shares in Sky City
According to the Companies Office, two government bodies have extensive share-holdings in Sky City. Which raises questions regarding why ACC and NZ Super Fund are investing in a company that, essentially, makes it’s profits from vice and causes considerable social problems and human misery with gambling addiction,...
And they Do their bit for local Democracy. Apparently it is not corrupt if you bribe both sides, even if one side stays schtum.
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Without the shears it is just stupidity.
Just another topping wheeze from this bunch of Cu ts. -
Hard News: The war over a mystery, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
The great cycle continues – now the Police are moving to centralise their efforts, by closing suburban stations to the public –
When I was in the UK a few years back I had occasion to call the police as I had lost my wallet and as you all know, that can be a real bastard when abroad. Anyhoo, I looked in the phone book and found the number of the local police station and the phone was answered almost immediately by the desk Sargent, a chatty woman who made me feel at ease and took my details without fuss or threat. Contrast that with the situation we have here, in a much smaller population (which in cases such as this is surely an advantage?). Here you would be diverted to a call centre in god knows where and dealt with as an inconvenience , the case of Irene Asher springs to mind,
Her father, Mike, said they felt let down by police, who failed Asher by responding to her 111 call by sending a taxi.
and that was a 111 call, you try phoning an actual police station.
All this leads to the police removing themselves even further from the community, the mere idea of shutting the public out of police stations is shear stupidity. -
Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to BenWilson,
“yes, there’s some good and bad things about utopias, aren’t there?”.
Yes.
The thing about Utopias is the lack of wriggle room. As we are all different and have individual ideals one persons fish is another persons cabbage as it were. This also applies to the level of desire, it varies from one to another and in some beliefs, the lack of desire is perceived as an attribute of enlightenment, another utopia. -
There is such a thing as "Accepted Truth"
If that Truth is accepted by those with power then that is "The Truth."
That History is written by winners is an axiom that applies to societies that value justice.
It goes beyond the individual effort and reward and toward a sociatle symbiosis wherein the collective consciousness acts, outside the understanding of any individual, to encompass the realm of justice that is for "The Greater Good" thus rendering the concept of freedom mearly an addendum to the nature of life itself.
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That maybe how your boat floats, Steve, but it’s a bit presumptuous of you to speak for everyone.
I was speaking for myself but I can see how you could think otherwise.
there’s also the fact that sex is considerably more fun than shaking hands. If not, you’re doing it wrong.
You must let me show you how I shake hands sometime. ;-)
Apparently we are all extinct so the point is moot. -
Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Emma Hart,
That’s why we’re extinct.
I knew there was something funny going on.
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Up Front: Towards a Sex-Positive Utopia, in reply to Sacha,
what would erotic material for asexual people be like?
Eroticism (from the Greek ἔρως, eros—"desire”)
Car magazines and Cookery books,
Architectural Journals and picture hooks…
Whatever your heart desires.
And there’s the point, desire.
If sex became as socially acceptable as shaking hands then the desire would disappear, it is the “Naughtiness”, the forbidden fruit, the unavailability.
Constant availability makes one a grubby individual and that draught up the raincoat can be uncomfortable in winter. -
Not sure how this fist this tread but…
Court overturns conviction for theft of Goldman source codeThe court suggested it might have reached a different conclusion if Aleynikov had smuggled the source code out of the building on a CD or thumb drive. But because he uploaded the source code via the Internet, it could not be described as “goods, wares,” or “merchandise."
And…
Goldman’s HFT system was strictly for the firm’s internal use. It had not sold or licensed it to anyone else, nor did it intend to do so. According to the Second Circuit, this meant that the HFT system was not “produced for” or “placed in” interstate commerce. And so stealing its source code wasn’t a crime under the EEA.
So, the programme that collapsed the Global Financial System is Open Source now?.
OH, the Fucking Irony...
OTFI?