Posts by Stephen Judd
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While registering the Snapper is not compulsory, the only way to check one's transaction history, in case of overcharging for example, is to submit personal details to the database.
That's not exactly true. You can successfully register with nothing more than a throwaway email account and a false name. It breaks their T&C, but screw them, I saw.
Also, I have had some discussions with people from the Office of the Privacy Commission, and in principle Snapper are very constrained as far as sharing their data goes. The issue is really whether they need to collect as much data as they do.
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I actually have met an NZ-resident Tibetan who shares a wife with his brother back in Tibet, where polyandry is a long-standing tradition, even though his dad's quite well-off - 50 yaks!
(My understanding is that bride prices are steep in Tibet, so going shares in a wife helps. Also, the carrying capacity of the land is low and so polyandry helps reduce overpopulation).
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Yes. There are many high quality (and even more low quality) bloggers who will produce opinion pieces for free. This is not an activity that needs funding.
Journalistic spadework is a skilled job that requires leaving your desk. That does need funding.
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How does "Pundit" fit in the scheme?
While some pieces on Pundit are definitely fact rich and deserve to be called news journalism, what I have in mind would be focussed on longer-form writing that was not merely an extended op-ed. Pundit has some good stuff, but I don't see a big new story breaking there, do you?
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Dinah: that sounds just like what i had in mind.
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I wish we had a "vanity" paper like the Independent, as opposed to National party pamphlets.
We have canvassed a similar idea in this forum before (establishing a non-profit org to fund journalism).
If nobody else steps up, organising it might become my project for next year.
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Keith! Keith! KEITH!!!
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My grandparents house, built in the 1920s, had a large garden and chook house. Now there is a second house.
Mine too. My granddad fed a family with 6 kids out of that back garden. My dad likewise (we had chooks when I was small).
My dad has a large, unsubdivided section in Hamilton. It's already quite productive but there's a lot of wasted lawn. Come the depths of the slump, we'll hitch north and help him cultivate it.
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I favour The Great Bubble, myself, but I'm also open to blaming the Pillage Idiots.
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I am a Braunias fan. He is not always on form, and he can descend into self-parody, and I find some of his posturing and tics annoying. But unlike 90% of other writers in New Zealand periodicals, he knows about timing, pace and tone, and actually seems to care about his language. For example, that chap who has the back page column in the Herald's weekend supplement would like to sound like Braunias, but can't pull it off.