Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: Three months after, in reply to Russell Brown,
Wow. Eloquently put. Give your friend a virtual hug from me, which is all I can do from here.
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Hard News: The Political Lie, in reply to recordari,
Google tells me they had something called ‘BackRub’ on Stanford servers in 1996. BackRub? For a search engine? They must have been philosophy grads.
I think BackRub was totally internal, but I do remember using Google on Stanford servers soon after it hit the wild. Made AltaVista look like a pig’s arse.
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Hard News: The Political Lie, in reply to BenWilson,
Middlemarch, Ch 33
Google has taken all the fun out of being a knowitall.
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: Now with 70% less wordiness!, in reply to Keith Ng,
The $2.6b cut to KiwiSaver subsidies is real. Whatever the growth rate turns out to be, this savings will still exist
"Reduced expenditure" != "savings"
Go and sit on the naughty step for that one.
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: Now with 70% less wordiness!, in reply to Ian MacKay,
increasingly a need will grow for Key to be more specific. Can't fudge questions forever
He only wants to fudge them till November 26...
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: A Credible Path to…, in reply to andin,
So why dont those people who shit themselves at the thought of liberalizing society, just F** off and take a good hard look at ..well… themselves
To follow Goldacre's reasoning, they can't by their nature.
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OnPoint: Budget 2011: A Credible Path to…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Are there more people working at TradeMe than used to work at all the record stores and bookshops that have closed?
No, but there are many people using TradeMe to make a living (or part of one) that had no access to e-commerce before. They're operating as dealers where they would never have had the capital to set up a physical shopfront. With something like TradeMe, it's not just the employees who are affected. And I hardly think that TradeMe is what caused record and bookshops to close, so false equivalence there.
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Hard News: Friday Fever, in reply to Sacha,
1972 hit
Eurovisionish
According to Wikipedia, they did do Eurovision in 1974 finishing 3rd behind ABBA and some Italian. It must have been traumatic as they broke up in the same year.
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Hard News: Friday Fever, in reply to 3410,
further challenge anyone - even Jackie - to get through the entire song.
Made it! But I'm checking for damage as I type.
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Sadly, they never covered Foreigner, but here’s my favorite cover band of all time
Sweet Home Alabama is also worth a look.