Posts by Simon Grigg
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I get the notion that the seemingly ardent over-zealotry of the US DOD in this case may ultimately prove to be a string in the defence bow:
Neil MacBride, the US Attorney for the Eastern District Of Virginia, has a message for anyone who lost personal data when his office swooped on the MegaUpload operation in January: “Fuck you, I’m a fucking US Attorney and I can do whatever I fucking like”. Well, I’m paraphrasing slightly, but that’s certainly the sentiment expressed by the official in his latest court submission relating to the Mega saga
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Kumara Republic,
If you're after a far better sounding "Saturday Night"...
TBH I think I'd rather have the Rollers than Jimmy.
But I'd rather have Weller than either:
and, since we're there:
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Bevan Shortridge,
this counts as spoken word
It's a fairly epic five minutes of utter hogwash, but if it was good enough for Martin Scorsese then I'm not one to argue:
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Hard News: Belief Media, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Which is why I wrote "There are those for whom faith certainly is a crutch. It’s easier than fronting up to the full complexity and uncertainty of our existence."
I'm not sure that really covers Kurt Wise. I don't think he sees or relies upon his belief in an almighty as a crutch at all. Rather, he has an unbending belief in the certainty of the fundamentals of his faith and no amount of logic, evidence or anything else is going to change that.
When confronted with evidence he's able - and willing - to compartmentalise his not insubstantial ability to understand it, and make that subservient to blind faith.
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Hard News: Belief Media, in reply to Chris Waugh,
There are those who reach the current limit of their knowledge and who decide that whatever currently lies beyond that is a matter of faith to be updated as new evidence and knowledge arises.
Although there are scientific reasons for accepting a young earth, I am a young-age creationist because that is my understanding of the Scripture. As I shared with my professors years ago when I was in college, if all the evidence in the universe turns against creationism, I would be the first to admit it, but I would still be a creationist because that is what the Word of God seems to indicate. Here I must stand.
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For Danielle:
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A great talking record:
A great cover of a great talking record:
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Hard News: One man’s Meat Puppets is…, in reply to Tom Beard,
I see your Underworld and raise you one Leftfield:
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Ikea does indeed have only one store for the 20 million-odd people of Beijing
Same for the 15m in Bangkok. And it's also tapped into the Asian distribution networks so supply isn't an issue. 5 million people spread across two islands is not an attractive customer base for stores like this.
Likewise with Zara - a dozen stores in Bangkok but they are reliant on centralised Asian distribution nodes.
We suffer from population and geography when it comes to attracting these guys - and our malls mostly look downmarket and shabby.
Instead, we have a whole range of really quite wonderful smaller retailers filling niches rather well. There is much better menswear in Auckland than Singapore or KL despite their retail muscle and population density.
Show me a Strangely Normal or a Marvel in Singapore? You can't mostly because the mega-chains have suffocated the retail spaces.
And, hell, I like Queen Street now.
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Hard News: The Huawei Question, in reply to Chris Waugh,
But then again, I probably have a very different world view from anybody on the Auckland City Council.
Or the NZ Herald.