Posts by AndrewH
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"Take a look at the graphs in the Vox article. He has real problems."
Yes, it does look that way. I read last week that Russia, China and Iran had been discussing non-US dollar-denominated trade (again). The triumphal Vox article doesn't consider the possibility or consequences if the economic incentives to those parties were sufficient to make that actually happen. -
I'm not sure why you brand Pilger's article bizarre. Anyone who's been following events via non-MSM channels will have heard this take, along with some pretty compelling evidence.
I also didn't read anything in his article that branded all the actors as Nazis, and it's hard to deny that the far right has had a conspicuous presence throughout.
I was (unusually) right with Bob Jones in his Herald column on the absolute tripe that the MSM has been delivering around the Ukraine. Cartoons with Putin as Hitler?? puleeease.. -
This looks like a promising adjunct product for encryption further down the tcp stack: http://tcpcrypt.org/index.php
I shied at the package compilation hurdle, but perhaps Keith with his doctorate in geekery can make sense of it..?
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I think the strongest rejoinder to "Trust Me, I'm John Key" is that was Obama's image a few years ago. And just look how far that image of trust has fallen, without even a change of executive.
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If I were Campbell i'd be assembling some of the knuckleheads who know nothing on the show tonight to take down key's talking points one by one.
For me, the idiotic Norton av point would go with "we all have a choice to uninstall norton".
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"The banking system basically lends on tangible security: property, plant and the like. It’s role is not venture capital provision, for the very good reason that when people put money in a bank, they want it back."
That's the official story but it's such a crock. My bank sent me an invitation to apply for a personal loan. I called and told them I wanted one for capital investment in my growing manufacturing business, and could fund it from solid earnings int he day job. "No dice, can't loan for that they said". So my partner and I spun them a yarn that we were getting married in Europe, needed $50k to fund the event. "No problem" they siad and we got the cash.
We recently had the business banking manager out visiting after we received a small business award that they sponsored. We told him the story. "Yep, he laughed. Go on ya, that's exactly how it works inside the organisation.." They're not at all unused to customers doing the same thing.
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I'm seem to be missing something here..
WTF has the depradations of Al Queda in Iraq to do with Bin Laden? The linked Wiki article on AII mentions Bin Laden exactly twice, and it seems to me fantastical to suggest he was in some way personally directing it's activities.
To describe it as an Al Queda "franchise" is a trite simplification - great for tarring the ogre but more than a little disingenuous.The argument reminds me of extreme Dawkins.. ie tarring the Jesus or Mohamed franchises with everything done in their names.
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Oh, FFS, this is pointless. Now that we're all in agreement about the descent of the Listener and the root cause of the problems with the world, let's return to a discussion of footwear.
Footwear - 1. Debate - 0.
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Yeah, I do see your point Megan. And I think that's where I read the Listener article differently. I saw the article as pointing out "you know it's really stupid to behave like these people are doing". Which I still think it is. But I don't honestly believe the reality is that women in most parts of New Zealand need to don a burka or be home before nightfall in order to have a lairing good time. When I go out in Wellington, I see heaps of women enjoying themselves, and also a group pretty much as described in the Listener - pissed off their faces, dressed like they came out of a ganstarap video, plainly not in control of where/how they end up. I would point the finger in whole lot of directions, including the dirnking age, the whole gangsta culture/ho thing promoted by the music industry, the emerging 'laddishness' of young women. And, you know, I sure as hell don't have any answers to a lot of that. But (and this may well get me shot..) I think the feminist movement could really do with fronting up to these kinds of issues instead of staying locked in the victim role, 'cause I think that pushing the "sister, what the f*ck do you think you're doing behaving like that?" line could be much more effective in keeping women safe than gunning for the "rapists". And in saying that, *please* don't misinterpret that as condoning rape in any way. I'm just trying to point out, that if we're not careful, rapists are the new terrorosts which we should all hide from rather than go about our business mindful of their existence and responding appropriately.
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Emma - um, no. Women have no more or less rights than men in my book. There's times and places where it's not safe for me to go, and in order to protect myself, I don't go there. You seem to be saying women should have the right to go anywhere at anytime. Which is stupid. And I think, part of the issue. It's part of the "entitlement" mentality which is so toxic. Lots of entitlement, less of the self-responsibility.
Just so you know, I have absolutely no bravado gene going on here, neither am I getting off on the controversy. I actually believe what I'm saying, and I'm trying to express it rationally. And I think you should reread your last post before you accuse me of being closed minded. You certainly can influence my thinking, but not like that.