Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Of course, any real organised criminals will have their assets buried offshore and won't suffer any risk of confiscation.
The confiscation (aka raupatu) measures will just be used against brown people and possibly activists (especially once McCully becomes PM) to bankrupt them without due process.
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not currently supported on Windows 7
See, that's a fail. It's been in beta for a good six months (longer for big outfits like Tivo) and is very compatible with Vista at the API level. Not having support on release day suggests that they aren't giving the details of software production the energy it deserves. IMHO.
Also, I assume the interfaces aren't documented to allow open source support?
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I heard that John Key was negotiating a ground-breaking FTA with Molvanîa this month.
If so, a moustache would be unwise. According to Eric Newby, a young Molvaniard grows a moustache when he feels ready to pass through the "sex with goats" phase of adolescence. Should Mr Key flaunt a 'tache, he is likely to be offered the services of many of his host's finest animals, resulting in considerable offence and damage to our yoghurt exports should he decline.
Also, he'd look like a twat.
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I think Lydon is liable to go off at anybody, irrespective of race.
The late-70s British Punk bands were pretty anti-racist - most bands gave some sort of support to Rock against Racism. Some bands (like Sham69) acquired a nazi following despite being left-wing themselves.
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Kyle Chapman has moved into being a Mormon
Mormons regard Polynesians as being amongst the alleged Chosen. I wonder how that sits with Kyle. Keeping track of who is and isn't an ubermensch must be quite hard these days..
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the overwhelming bulk of that nation believes that Gallipoli was a substantial ANZAC victory
Since the Turks, Brits and French *must* have been on the other side, and since as Craig points out more of them got killed, then surely "we" did win?
From an old Aussie beer ad:
They said we'd never make it, as we stormed Gallipoli
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Apropos of the ministers suicide comments, I was thinking that a few T-shirts with: Nick. Just Do It. might be amusing.
On the SSTs opinionators, I think on balance I prefer that dickheads like Lhaws get a platform. At least it enables us to know that the majority voters of Whanganui are a bunch of moronic rednecks, as opposed to being lulled into voting for the twat in ignorance of his views.
Incidentally Stephen Franks is acting for a port company that's in litigation with Whanganui council. Life's a riot with Bigot vs Bigot.
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The Windows registry has been on the way out as a place to store application settings since .NET, which uses .config files. However, system settings need someplace to go (which often needs to be independent of the file system) so the registry is still the choice for things like TCP/IP settings.
In any case, for older Windows apps to work, they need the registry, or a complete emulation thereof.
Linux uses flat files in a wide range of formats for all config, which is by no means ideal.
Also, like James says, services are just processes that are designed to run in background. Most operating systems of any scale have an analogue of these, and I'd suggest the Windows implementation is well designed (services can be stopped and started, have dependencies, etc. and this all happens in a consistent manner).
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My Vista Ultimate SP2 laptop has no major issues, considering the abuse (drivers) it gets.
I forecast that releases as we know them will die out in the next few years, and MS will move to a Google-like model where new features ripple out as updates (possibly with a "Labs").
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If you support a party, but don't like the local candidate you would have a bunch of choices with single voting, including:
- vote for an alternate candidate, encouraging the party to select better people or lose votes
- join the party you support and lobby/vote for an alternative candidate (or indeed for them to introduce a primary system)Favouring individuals with geographical support super-serves their supporters at the expense of parties with broad based support. Jim Anderton, for instance would never have got himself elected with 15,320 votes spread around the whole nation.