Posts by George Darroch
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So you keep saying. I honestly think we should just leave this alone and get back on topic.
But if males, why is copyright?
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Animalisticpenisbrain.
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Everywhere, violence inflicted against males (at the hands of themselves and others) takes a huge toll on the world's health.
Worth the look are the visualisations of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington of the massive and compehensiveGlobal Burden of Disease (free, registration required) study. In every region of the world, violent deaths make up a large part of morbidity and mortality of males. It's one of the reasons why men consistently die earlier than women.
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A friend on Facebook made the point that the US has 9 gun related deaths per 100,000 population, while there 13 suicides per 100,000 in NZ a year.
They're not the same statistic. Neither do they have the same solutions, though they affect proportionately similar populations. But it does indicate the magnitude of suffering faced here. Before we start to feel like other countries are warped and bizarre, and we've got our shit sorted...
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Amplifier's 2012 Top 20 is a great shopping list of NZ albums.
It's also a good catch-up for someone who's far enough away from a local FM radio. Great sounds.
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Actually, that video is highly indulgent. Don't watch it unless you already like Grimes.
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So much good music here.
I too like LDR. I've always liked pop. Video Games (Copycat's Night Drive remix
Also, Grimes:
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Field Theory: The Force will be with…, in reply to BenWilson,
Wow, that's mean.
Nah, it meant I could develop my own tastes. I didn't have to be inflicted with all that is terrible. Though it also meant that I saw Solaris well before Alien. That's the machete order, right?
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This person was born in late 83, which makes him the early side of Y. I also had conservative parents who didn't like television or science fiction. I didn't see any of the films til sometime in the late 1990s or early 2000s, by which time they really had no impact on me. Meh. Same goes for almost everything else that blew young minds before the year 2000. By that stage I was trying to understand David Lynch, hoping there was something profound.
The original Matrix though. That blew my fucking mind. I have no idea how well it's aged. My children will have to find out for me, though they'll find the sequels of their own accord. Fight Club came along about the same time and hit me to the floor. Nobody made a sequel, right?
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Hard News: Triangulated by Fools, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
There are approximately 100,000 registered cricket players in NZ.
Slovakia has 8000 ice hockey players (12th in the world) and won silver at the 2012 world champs.
I often think about these kind of numbers, but in the context of politics. There are approximately 3 million adults in NZ. A small section of these have the personal qualities required to be a good politician - smart, hard-working, a magnetic personality, good communication skills, reasonably photogenic, and the ability to negotiate conflict and competing requirements. Add in a requirement for a measure of success and experience, and some subject knowledge, and you still have thousands of such people in New Zealand. I know plenty. Yet the pool of applicants into Parliament is constrained, for a number of reasons. We don't get the best, and we frequently get people who lack in a number of areas. This is why the debate we have about the future of Labour is so obviously disappointing: we know that the pool of applicants are people who can't fulfill what is needed of them. National is similarly constrained, but they mostly do well in keeping these people away from the limelight.
Perhaps the parties should be looking to the outside a little more often? There is a risk, in that a person from outside the club might not know or care so much for your ethos and ways of doing things, and frequently they underperform relative to their success in their former domain. But the payoff is often high.