Posts by Juha Saarinen
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While we wait for David to come to, let's draw up a list of "safe" career choices... here's mine:
1) Estate agent
2) Accountant
3) Lawyer
4) Local politicianAre there any productive professions that could go in there?
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It's more of a smoking crater now, but yeah, unhealthy describes it quite well.
Should let David out so he can respond actually.
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"Ten days ago I said goodbye to the Crown Research Institute (CRI) that has been my home for the last couple of years, and set off on my own as a freelance writer. Yes, I am really that stupid."
"No, Haywood. You're this stupid," I said, sinking my boot hard into the groin of the supine doctor-schmoctor. Eyes bulging, Haywood tries to scream but the tight ball-gag turns it into a muffled, saliva-bubbling mouth-fart.
"Look, Haywood... don't take this personally, but you're not cut out for this." Sweating bullets, Haywood looks at me. There's sullen defiance in his eyes. I stick his one free hand into the drawer of dull knives brought over from his house with him. Haywood tries in vain to scream again as his finger tops are amputated as by magic.
"See? It's just not you. There's no safety, no comfortable retirement, no nothing ahead." He seems to have got the message, but to be sure, I smash the floorlight into his genitals, toasting his bollocks nicely until the circuit breaker stops the fun. The acrid smoke of burning pubes makes Haywood cough in a choking fashion.
"Thank me later," I say while walking upstairs out of the dungeon and ponder as I leave whether to call an ambulance or let Haywood toughen up. Deciding on the latter option, I padlock the dungeon door and hope someone will find Haywood while he's still somewhat useful as a scientist.
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Damian, you dirty blutter. I didn't need to know about that matches to nipples thing.
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Why not apply a technology solution instead? Correct me if I'm wrong, but Bradford's Bill doesn't cover tasering tots and toddlers, does it?
Silly to hit the little buggers anyway. You might break a nail or a knuckle, and at the rate children grow up today, you only have like a ten year window before they'll retaliate by breaking your nose or something.
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Oh, and Hard News: Gay made me think of Hard Gay for some reason. Jonathan Woss looks hot in that!
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"Can you imagine Maori tolerating a "Maori programme" whose format was ordained by pakeha TV executives, was produced by a pakeha-run company, and was focused (to an extent that's almost grim in itself) on the lighter side of being Maori?"
Yeah, I can actually, and also a programme on the same theme made by Maori. Well, the ordaining thing maybe not. Really depends on who makes the programme though. If that's not on, we'd have to weed out all the gays involved in straight programming and where would we be then?
It's really only for shows like "One man and his dog" where you need... errm, special talent.
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Think further: if everyone at TVNZ were made to pay for their choccie bikkies, the broadcaster might become as profitable as AirNZ is.
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What do you mean by "sharing your piece of copper"? Customers normally get their own separate line pairs. Otherwise it'd be a party line surely, which won't work with DSL.
I'm not sure what the techie you talked to means exactly, but it sounds like he was concerned about the power requirements possibly being exceeded through Telecom allowing too many sets to be connected by customers - this could be the REN or Ringer Equivalence Number. I don't think it has any bearing on the high-frequency DSL signal though.
Telecom can in fact do an awful lot to improve the quality of the last mile copper by maintaining it properly and not taking short cuts like excessive jointing instead of replacing with fresh lengths.
The 8Mbit/s top speed down and 1Mbit/s up is the maximum determined by the first generation (not quite, but that's accurate enough for this discussion) ADSL. Presently, Telecom is installing the next generation DSL, which can provide up to 25Mbit/s tops, and 15 or so Mbit/s on average down, with 1 to 2Mbit/s upload speeds, depending on which standard is being used. ADSL2+ is also meant to have more robust signalling so goes further and has better performance at the same distance than existing ADSL.
Testing DSL modems is... interesting. You have to simulate a multitude of realistic line conditions but even then your results may be off because the manufacturer issues a firmware upgrade that makes the modem behave better.