Posts by BenWilson
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Cracker: Johnny Foreigner & the Auckland…, in reply to Brent Jackson,
Because I plan to live here for a very long time, all the increased value does is increase my rates.
I wish I had your problems.
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to Amanda Wreckonwith,
EVERY internet user would be implicated in the “war on terrorism”
Would this ‘gum up’ the Utah facility and make it redundant?We'll drain their data crystals. But that might leave us vulnerable to the Faceborg!
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Actually I've just realized this a terrible idea. There's a small but catastrophic chance that kittens might end up being considered terrorists, and Gareth Morgan would get his evil way.
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to Aidan,
I think it would be a nice form of protest, too, might lighten up the day of the agents dedicated to looking for terrorists, to see more kitties.
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to Steve Barnes,
A simple form of this is to use a book known to both parties then assigning numbers to reference page, line and word.
Don't trust that to be secure! If you must DIY your cryptography, at least generate your own random keys!
Well any way, perhaps we should all start using code…That’ll fuck ’em. ;-)
I was thinking that even more difficult would be if we just starting sending random dummy data around all the time, pure random, bulk data. Endless resources could be wasted cracking something that has no solutions at all. Or perhaps encrypt pictures of kittens. Lots of really big pictures with keys just long enough that they could be cracked by wasting a few hours of some computer's time out there.
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Cracker: Johnny Foreigner & the Auckland…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Heh, it was a good day today. Got to see an astrophysicist demonstrating Calculus* with a flying spinning kick, that sent his box of pens and other paraphernalia skittling across the room. Rock star lecturer.
*Cuthbert Calculus - think Flight 714 when he's introduced to Carreidas.
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Cracker: Johnny Foreigner & the Auckland…, in reply to BenWilson,
The only sure way to drive prices down is to let Chuck Norris buy a house in NZ.
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Professor X can drop prices with mind power alone! But only on the weak willed.
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Cracker: Johnny Foreigner & the Auckland…, in reply to Damian Christie,
Except it doesn’t. Or it hasn’t
Ponsonby is a poor example. It used to be a Pacific Island and Maori area, at least when I was a boy living there. I went to Ponsonby Primary, and Ponsonby Intermediate. They were 50% brown people, in the 70s. We moved to Herne Bay later. Across the road from me was an orphanage. Now, it's a mansion and belongs to the Sultan of Brunei. I've probably got a rather more jaded view than you, having spent most of my life in the suburbs that went from being slums to the most valuable property in NZ. No one who owns property is complaining. And pretty much everyone else is gone.
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Cracker: Johnny Foreigner & the Auckland…, in reply to Damian Christie,
who are suddenly “rich” because of some realty hyper-inflation, won’t be “stoked”.
If they're genuinely forced out of their suburb, that would suck. It would be like being unable to pay the rent and having to move, as happens to poor people all the time, except that they don't get a massive chunk of cash to do it with. Those would be people I'd feel really sorry for, and they could certainly be victims of an as-it-goes-up property tax - landlords would have to hike rents to cover the tax. Of course landlords will hike rents as a suburb gentrifies anyway.
But anyway, we’re arguing about a PAS posters’ hypothetical which isn’t on the table, so….
Yes, there's no danger of a wealth tax under either major party. They're full of property millionaires.
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