Posts by Grant McDougall
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Regarding 'Randolph', let's not forget that Peter Jefferies is one of the great unsung figures of NZ music of the past 30 years. His works spanning This Kind Of Punishment, several superb collaborations and his outstanding solo albums really are to be treasured.
Also, as I said here a week or so back,given the Brockville reference I can but hope that Shayne has a particularly special gig of this nature lined up for his Dunedin constituency.
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Fergie's daughter's just looked gauche, didn't they ?
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Ian Dalziel, you're on the right track and your train of thought is spot on. (Although the Burnside tunnel you refer to has been closed for decades).
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Hard News: The Ladi is a champ, in reply to Russell Brown,
Shayne Carter’s back-pages special Last Train to Brockville
There's at least one obvious pun in the tour title, but what is the other one ? I know it, do you ? Answers on a postcard to the usual address, etc.
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Hard News: The Ladi is a champ, in reply to Sean Murgatroyd,
Saw Husker Du live in the Powerstation sometime in the early nineties. Magical.
No you didn't. Husker Du split very acrimonously in 1987 and have never reunited. Bob Mould played the Gluepot solo in '89 and Grant Hart came through NZ early last year, that's the closest.
I suspect you're confusing Husker Du with someone like Sonic Youth or Mudhoney or Buttlhole Surfers who did come through in that era.
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Russell Brown,
However, unless there’s a surveillance camera in every home, it’ll be impossible to tell who actually clicks and d/loads stuff. Even if you live alone you could probably just say it was a friend mucking around on the computer while they were visiting.
I’d be a bit pissed off if my friend was running down my data cap by launching a bunch of torrents and letting them seed while he visited, so that I got a warning letter. And then doing it again. And then a third time inside three months without me twigging what was going on despite the warnings. That’s just rude.
I agree, but my point was to do with the impossibility of the authorities identifying the actual individual culprit.
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Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Gaddis,
It's not like speeding, where the camera picks you out
Yup, it is. If you were to lend me your car and I went for a hoon it is still your car, your fine.You're getting the wrong end of the stick. The point I was trying to make is that there are cameras that will pick out who is at the wheel, regardless of who owns the car.
However, unless there's a surveillance camera in every home, it'll be impossible to tell who actually clicks and d/loads stuff. Even if you live alone you could probably just say it was a friend mucking around on the computer while they were visiting.
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In general, it's real locking the door after the horse has bolted territory, isn't it ? I'd love to know how many relatives and friends of politicians and NZFACT d/l stuff. Chances are it's many, many of them.
This bill is egregious to the nth degree. It's much like trying to clamp down on home brewers because it's taking money away from breweries.
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Apart from the obvious legal and IT flaws of the bill, it's also flawed on a practical level, in that it'll be basically impossible to police who is actually breaking the law.
For example, while a parent may own the computer and pay the connection bills, it's more likely to be their kids that d/l stuff. Yet there's no way of identifying the actual perpertrator, but the parent will be the one to wear the penalties.
There's all sorts of possible scenarios where it'll be impossible to know who did it.
It's not like speeding, where the camera picks you out.
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election year "damn Maari" dog-whistling
As indulged in by that toe-rag Rodney Hide the other day, when he whined about the waka. Hmm, guess he's conveniently forgotten about the $25m that went down the drain getting Don Brash to spout ACTisms under the guise of the Aussie 2025 sinecure.