Posts by Steve Barnes
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Joe Wylie,
“decent people who are boiling with rage at being disenfranchised by an entire political class which seems determined to destroy their civilisation.”
So they seek to destry it themselves
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OnPoint: Easy as 1, 2, 22.8 billion, in reply to Sacha,
Yet watch wanker Barry Colman try to deny the numbers
Ah yes but. John Keys (sic) says...
Mr Key has described the list as a "joke" which underestimates the net worth of those included while missing many other seriously wealthy people.
So, who do we believe?
Are there really all those quiet achievers?
And, even if there are more that the list claims then how does that compare to the 1 in 4 children living below the poverty line, what does it mean? 1 in a 5000 or so people have hoarded more than they deserve. Greedy C**ts rather than National treasures I reckon but treasured by National they will be. -
Hard News: Friday Fun with Brickface, in reply to Lilith __,
I did a hyphen and then cloned it out with graphics software.
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Lilith __,
No one is asking the obvious question, “How long is it?” ;-)
Twice as long as from the centre to the end?
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Sacha,
how do you get to be one of those?
The position tends to be self appointed.
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;-)
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Hard News: Friday Fun with Brickface, in reply to Amy Gale,
…no, wait, that totally wasn’t what I meant. Brain not awake yet. Oh, the shame.
I thought it rather clever, Bricked iPod.
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Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Russell Brown,
“what are our criteria, if any, for restricting speech?”
Fear of association seems to be a common criteria..
e.g.
"I may secretly think what you say is fine but I fear others will be offended so I will side with the objectors for fear of association" so you stick with the rest of the flock.
This can be a curse on intelligent discussion, even taking the position of "Devils Advocate" can find you treated as a pariah "The fact that you could even think that proves that..." and when the weight of public opinion gathers momentum then you become the enemy, never to be treated with respect again.
There are things that were quite acceptable in the 50s that are frowned upon now and vice versa, I could give examples but then I may run afoul of those "Arbiters of Good Taste" amongst us and we wouldn't want that, would we?. -
Hard News: How much speech does it take?, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
dangerous ideas…
Well, thanks to people like these knuckle dragging small government bible thumpers, America will have nothing to worry about come Tuesday, nothing at all.
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Hard News: Friday Fun with Brickface, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Craig, I must ask. Why do you have an image of a cat trapped under a toilet seat as your Gravatar?
