Posts by nzlemming
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Carson doubles down on the crazy http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/ben-carson-brings-lucifer-the-political-conversation?cid=sm_fb_maddow
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Berkeley Breathed is doing his best. My world became better when he started publishing again.
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Hard News: Obama's Mana, in reply to Steve Todd,
Anyway, my argument is not, of course, with you, it was with Craig. I was actually agreeing with you.
Fair enough ;-)
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Hard News: Obama's Mana, in reply to Steve Todd,
Rather than blame the Green Party / Ralph Nader for the 2000 outcome, he should be blaming the antiquated18th Century, broken, FPP electoral system that the US persists in using.
That's a problem as well, but you've got to vote within the system you have, not the one that you want. And it's not strictly FPP either - there are a few wrinkles - but it's certainly got room for improvement. And the Green/Nader vote did have an impact in bringing the election all the way to the Supreme Court to be decided. That is a fact, however much you don't want to believe it.
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Hard News: Obama's Mana, in reply to Craig Young,
That was largely due to the utter stupidity of Ralph Nader, standing as a spoiler presidential candidate which split the left vote and insured that George W.Bush presided over his reign of error for the next eight years. The US Greens deserve to suffer for that, sorry.
Which is set to happen again, with the "Bernie or Bust" rabids swinging over to Stein and the Greens. And when you try to point this out:
Then Trump will win. :-( I would love to see President Sanders, but that's not going to happen. Stein can't get elected because they can't even get on the ballot in some states. I understand and share the distaste for Clinton, but not voting Democrat means a Trump presidency, which means a Republican Supreme Court for the next 50 or more years. Please don't do this.
you get:
DO NOT TELL ME HOW TO VOTE! And KEEP YOUR SCARE TACTICS AND BULLYING TO YOUR OWN DAMN SELF!
Rationality has left that building.
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Hard News: The war is still with us, in reply to Russell Brown,
You know what's banned, Marc C? You.
Thank you, Russell. He certainly broke the Prime Directive - Don't Be A Dick.
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Speaker: A Disorderly Brexit, in reply to John Farrell,
So, what is your point, Marc C?
Oh, good. It's not just me, then.
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Hard News: Monday Music! Outrageously right, in reply to TracyMac,
One also has to wonder why TVNZ prices their footage so high, since one assumes it's not exactly a hot market internationally for NZ news footage.
Because the gummint told them they had to operate in a business-like manner, therefore charging as much as they can. (An alternative theory is that they have made a pig's breakfast out of managing their footage that they put huge fees on it to discourage people from asking for stuff that they can't easily find. That's anecdotal, I have no evidence for it.)
In America, anything generated by a Federal government entity is automatically public domain unless it's specifically classified. Better in some agencies than others and there's an endless battle to get some stuff declassified, but well in advance of our "open" government.
EDIT When I was in the E-Government Unit in the early 00's, we did suggest following the American PD model. Went down like a lead balloon and that was with the relatively light-handed Clark government. Key's ultra-politicised public sector is very unlikely to adopt such a view.
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Hard News: Back in Christchurch, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
I think I should stop now, it all makes me very, very irate…
Ah, an irate payer...
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