Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I'm open to the idea of requiring lobbyists to be on a public register (and I don't give a shit if they happen to be the BRT, Chen Palmer or the CTU), but it's the soft corruption of the disco round that makes me nervous
What makes me nervous is that there's far more that you and I agree upon than disagree, it seems ;-)
+1
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Sacha,
Just as well you've avoided much of the trad disability politics scene then. Rampant hair loss.
Yup. i used to have a ponytail...
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Bart Janssen,
No shit?
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to Russell Brown,
you have fatally aligned yourself with the espresso-swilling bourgoisie?
When did we switch from Chardonnay? And where can I find the merlot-swilling semi-bourgoisie?
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Muse: That Book, The Ban That Isn't,…, in reply to Russell Brown,
Nah. I think it’s vastly more likely that he’s simply made a major miscalculation.
Me, too.
Craig, I was making no allegation, just mentioning a possibility as suggested to me by someone else. Delete it if you want, but that would be ironic, wouldn't it?
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Muse: That Book, The Ban That Isn't,…, in reply to BenWilson,
The thing that I most dislike about this kind of moral panic is the way that it’s mighty counterproductive. Way to give the book a whole lot of free publicity
I commented on Kiwipolitico this morning:
One point made to me over the weekend by someone who knows Wishart and by another who is in the publishing industry was that they would not be surprised to find that Wishart himself started the Facebook page in order to prompt a boycott/ban. The benefits would be to a) give him a victim position and so be defended by people who ordinarily wouldn’t have a bar of him , and b) drive all the purchasing via his webpage. Not sure I believe he’s that clever, but just putting it out there.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to andin,
If it gets to that, using hard nuts because they don't care. We've all lost.
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/timeline/24/10
also
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/strikes-and-labour-disputes/5 -
If Wishart wants the material out there, let him publish it on the web for free. A boycott doesn't prevent freedom of speech - it's an economic action affecting freedom to profit.
In my view, the freedom of speech argument is bogus. No-one is preventing Wishart from either writing or publishing it, and that's where an abridgement of his freedom speech would actually occur. I'm not the biggest Farcebook supporter, but don't those people have a right to opine and act as they see fit (as long as it's lawful - I haven't read the page and will not, but I can well imagine the lunacy that some will bring to it)?
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Hard News: That's Entertainment!, in reply to Hebe,
Oh. My. God. Yeurch. But I must admit to being on YouTube watching the Jesus and Mary Chain just as the Feb 22 earthquake hit down here.
See, that's what did it. The earth just cannot stand that shit.
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Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
May I suggest a new term for the financial
repercussions rippling through Christchurch
now – Shaftershocks+1