Posts by Richard Aston
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Were those kiosks actually useful ? Not having been in a WINZ branch for a long time. -
OnPoint: The Source, in reply to Islander,
Ben Masters -your intellect is sort of on the level of a paua – cling on to the same old same old and never question anything-
Thank you Islander you made my day , great image , much better than IQ of a fence post.
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Keith on your Nat Radio interview this morning you mentioned being tipped off .
Implies others know about this security hole.
How many and for how long? You are clearly doing the right thing handing over files to the privacy commission.
It begs the question how many people have already accessed MSD files, how deep did they go and what are they doing with that data? -
No-one who’s ever done tech support for their parents is going to believe that older people are less susceptible to manipulation.
As a newly arrived "older person" - I turned 60 this year - I don't buy this.
I have seen so many cycles of ad promises and the inevitable disappointments that I have become very skeptical. Not saying the manipulation is not working , of course it is. Its just that I have become far more aware of it . I notice my hand moving to the brave new world of toothpaste - clinical tests prove it will solve everything - I stop and deliberately buy some brand I have never heard of, just to pissed them off. -
Speaker: Key: Concession Not Recession, in reply to Jonathan King,
how and where we see ‘our culture’ on screens is definitely changing
You bet and film is becoming a bit player making the odd cameo appearance in a wide range of "nz culture" on screen. Yes I agree with Sacha even sport as a big screen entertainment event is reflecting part of our culture or at least our national psyche , like it or not.
Kinda begs the question what do we mean by culture, such a loaded word .
It used to mean cultivation of the human being through education art etc
Post modern anthropology seems to define it as the human capacity to represent and classify human experience and to act creatively. -
Speaker: Key: Concession Not Recession, in reply to andin,
I apologise unreservedly to the plot. Which ever one it is, where ever it is
Great laugh to start the day Andin , thanks.
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Speaker: Key: Concession Not Recession, in reply to Graham Reid,
You are absolutely right and I am wrong. I withdraw and unreservedly apologise. Seriously.
Good on ya Graham that shows character , seriously
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Speaker: Key: Concession Not Recession, in reply to Graham Reid,
BUT . . . this “Labour Party” we have . . . hmmm . . . ho ho ho
Belaboring the Labour party problems is so Laborious
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Speaker: Key: Concession Not Recession, in reply to Graham Reid,
I had credited PA readers with more humour/sense/wit etc.
Wow Graham sounds a little, I dunno, smug . Your piece was great, I enjoyed reading it but aside from saying "good writing Graham" there wasn't much to hook into in terms of debate. So a rambling debate emerged around, over and under what you wrote , so what.
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Speaker: Key: Concession Not Recession, in reply to Sacha,
Unless creativity is zero sum, I don’t see how. Paid work on other projects has subsidised grassroots local film-making for years. And so long as the govt does not cut culture funding or further screw the distribution system, local stories should still make it onto our various screens.
Glad to hear your optimism Sacha and yeah you are probably right , I hope.