Posts by Craig Ranapia
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A little bridie told me it was standing room only in the Concert Chamber last night - and they're expect similarly packed houses tonight and tomorrow. So, if you're going it might be a good idea to come early - and bring your dinner. :)
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Hard News: Reputation and remuneration, in reply to Sacha,
Why should tourism industry companies get no-strings handouts more than say software exporters?
The simple answer is they shouldn't, and everyone who claims to live by the market should be left to die by it as well. But good luck porting that over to the world we live in, and where one man's "corporate welfare" is another's "essential investment in the economic common good".
Hell, if you've got any easy way to square that circle please share. I'm all out of easy answers. :)
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Hard News: Reputation and remuneration, in reply to Islander,
You seriously think 100,ooo people of any interest group are actually EVER going to come to any kind of convention here EVER?
Islander, if you can't be bothered responding to what I said - and trying to wrap your head around the full context - I'm not going to repay the discourtesy.
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Hard News: Reputation and remuneration, in reply to merc,
No convention centre ever produced anything useful to a city that I can think of, including coin.
Really? You might want to try making that argument in San Diego -- because the 100,000+ geeks who pour in the San Diego Convention Center for Comic-Con sure seem to produce an awful lot of value for the city's hoteliers, restaurants and public transit.
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Hard News: Te Qaeda and the God Squad, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
It would be stupid for the Crown to try again, surely? Waste of, yet again, taxpayers money.
In this particular case, I agree with you. But as a matter of general principle I get twitchy when folks use the "waste of taxpayer's money" argument when it comes to prosecutions the speaker happens to disagree with.
Want to run that line, why not just abolish Parliament, the Police, the courts and pretty much anything that helps maintains a civil society under the rule of law? It would save billions every year, the downside is that you'd end up with a country no sane person would want to live in.
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Is it OK to not feel much sympathy for anyone in this horrendous (and not very amusing) farce?
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Muse: Confound The Ignorant, And Amaze Indeed!, in reply to Sacha,
Sorry. Again. Where is that bloody desk...
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Hard News: A fiction of unalloyed darkness, in reply to 3410,
For the record, I was somewhat playing Devil's Advocate.
Which you do beautifully, cherub. :)
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So on Media7 this week, we'll bring the two Fair Go veterans together to discuss what it's okay to sell when your most valuable asset is your reputation.
Which you be an interesting question to put to Doctor Edwards - considering what he does to earn a crust nowadays. :)
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Hard News: A fiction of unalloyed darkness, in reply to 3410,
My question was really in relation to the craig-supported proposed general rule, rather than to the Daisey case specifically.
Have you ever heard of Spalding Gray - he was a "performance artist" who developed quite a reputation for his first-person autobiographical monologues. But part of their charm is that Gray was candid to a fault that everything was filtered through, and almost certainly distorted by, his mare's nest of neurosis, frequent episodes of suicidal depression and messy relationships with women. He never claimed to tell "THE TRUTH" just what he remembered with a whole lot of caveats attached.
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