Posts by Heather Gaye
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Ah, but Family First doesn't have the numbers: it's Bob McCroskie and a mailing list.
(shrug) Family First Wages Onslaught Against Free Speech = a couple of companies get a bunch of ranty letters from a vocal minority, and...what? Bully-boy tactics? Family first aren't the consummate evil, just the advertisers are being weiners.
...and I LOVE Hustle right now, just as much as before. It's nice to have a slightly new angle; the old seasons were coming to the point where I was just sitting around waiting for the plan b to be revealed, zero suspense.
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From that editorial:
The complainants have every right in a free society to express their opposition to the show. But in demanding that companies pull advertising slots during the programme, and several have done so, or that viewers boycott TV3 altogether, they go too far.
Gone too far? For crying out loud, it's not censorship, it's market economics. If family first have the irate numbers to convince companies that sponsoring the show is going to affect profits, then more power to them.
With that in mind, I/O's suggestion of counter-protest is perfectly appropriate. I will refuse to eat burger king until they stop being strong-armed by other-group-with-which-I-vehemently-disagree. That works out for me because I was already refusing to eat burger king after they screened those stupid lame ads. Which also worked out for me because I don't eat burger king anyway.
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(sideways-head-bobbing)
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...oh.. response was retrospectively to Stephen as well.
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crap, too slow by far. That was a response to Rich Observationz.
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Oh, really? Man, if I'd known that I wouldn't have bothered shelling out for the mac. Good to know, thanks. 8-)
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No truly geek couple would use XP, especially without a domain controller (the icons, user switch and other cutie stuff only appear in that case).
*coff* OSX has cutie login icons. N00b.
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And yet I know all these people - and some are quite young and interweb savvy - who share an email address with their honeys. Why?
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I don't take these on-line polls seriously to begin with, but obviously the Herald does
..which is bloody insidious. It's a bloody internet poll, but the way the herald is trumpeting about it, I'm not bloody surprised that the great unwashed have gotten the idea that it actually means something; "we discovered we'd been hacked, but we can fix it so that our future polls will be 100% representative of the views of the entire country". Ref: bloody blutters ululating over ridiculously-worded anti-smacking polls. Bloody.
Also, on the subject of the Herald, by boyf bought a paper a few weeks ago and discovered that the main news section appears to be running at about 80% advertising. BLOODY BLOODY!
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...sorry, should've double-checked the spelling of Graham's name before posting.