Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: Dirty deeds done by Digger?, in reply to Russell Brown,
The irony, it burns. I wonder if he really believes any of it? Especially about monopolies and personal responsibility?
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Up Front: Hitting That, in reply to Islander,
I rather suspect that us asexuals are a necessary part of the continuum then. 8>)
Absolutely. So much damage has been done to people by this stupid quasi-religious reluctance to talk about sex and to revile those who do. It one of the things that really makes me angry and a significant factor in why I gave up on religion in my teens.
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This is the gift that keeps on giving ;-)
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Legal Beagle: Search and Surveillance:…, in reply to Moz,
Doing it if you're an indymedia journalist being raided by a terror squad at 6am seems unwise.
I think I'll be looking seriously at wireless video surveillance at multiple points inside my house for just this situation, streaming directly to a server housed nearby but not on the property. Not that I'm that much of a threat to the gummint (I think) but because once these things start, you never know where it will end.
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That's a great article. And a good post by you. It took a while for me to understand my sexuality. Some gay friends were convinced I was gay, but I knew boobs still featured highly on my radar. Like Emily, I'm a serial monogamist (20 years with the same partner and counting), and I've kind of forgotten what the dating/mating game was like, but I was never very interested in it anyway. Like her, it's about the person, not the peripherals. Someone wise said to me "Sex is just friction. Know who you're rubbing against"
ETA And I have no problem with anyone being a slut. It's a freaking spectrum after all. We can't all cluster in one place, it'll tip over and we'll fall off.
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Hard News: Dirty deeds done by Digger?, in reply to Russell Brown,
Holy shit. I wonder what other dirty deeds are detailed in those emails?
The pile on from all quarters on Murdoch shows that everyone was just waiting for someone else to make the first move.
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1. You don't have to expose a backdoor in order to use it
2. Work on the basis that any and all equipment can be exploited - act accordingly
3. Test the gear you get rather than worry about hypotheticals.
4. The Search and Surveillance legislation will have far more effect on NZ security than any potential Chinese spying.
5. Anything coming from the USG should be treated as a corporate ploy; any thing from ASIO should be treated skeptically because a) their heads are up the US's bum and b) their proven level of competence is not high.
6. Politicians, however, only know what their officials tell them, and the officials at this time will be keen to have a situation that justifies not cutting their budgets.
Paul, I appreciate your long experience but you're not on a winner this time. If the reporter was able to misquote you like that, you gave him the ammunition by drawing the connection to Echelon, which we both know was spurious.
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Also in response to a tweet
Audrey Young's story for tomorrow's paper. Labour and NZF press govt on #teapottapes in the House: http://t.co/v6Rl5wBf
Last para:
Mr O'Rourke, referring to the part of tape in which Mr Key reportedly says that New Zealand First's supporters were dying off, asked "has the Prime Minister sought or received any information on how many elderly New Zealand First supporters died during the course of the police investigation?"
Nice.
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Hard News: Dirty deeds done by Digger?, in reply to Russell Brown,
Needless to say, Mondex never launched in New Zealand and the banks walked away from their investment.
I think that was the response all over the world, actually. The Swindon trial was their first big one, they also had trials in Isreal and Canada. http://www.mondex.org reckons there were reports of 23 separate trials in the media, but they haven't been able to track them all down.
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Hard News: Dirty deeds done by Digger?, in reply to Russell Brown,
Ah, Mondex! So much hope, so little delivery. And DigiCash was another. This is one reason I print to PDF web stories if I might want them for the future, so that I still have them when they disappear from their sites. Wayback doesn't gather everything :-(
ETA and as for Rupe, the chickens are roosting, and there have been a lot of them over the years...