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A lot more to do with human ego and an obsession with scoops and feeding the 24/7 news cycle beast
Not to mention a corporate culture where admitting mistakes is considered a weakness.
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He's clearly somewhat trying to deal with.
Meh. BSA is for judging complaints, not complainants.
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The Don McDonald thing, in short:
[T]he report on the [10 year old] Canadian girl featured the following line of voice-over:
"The Canadian Astronomical Society says Kathryn’s supernova was in a galaxy 240 light years from Earth".
That should have been 240 million light years – because the supernova is a very long way from Earth and therefore very difficult to discover, even with a powerful telescope...
BSA says:
"[W]e consider that Mr McDonald’s complaint was dealt with adequately and appropriately by the broadcaster [TVNZ], which accepted that the figure was incorrect, but explained that it was not material to the item".
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Getty
God, I hate them.
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Google didn't have the new alternate motorway by Upper Harbor Highway, when I went there the other day, and insisted I was hurtling through farmland at 100km/h.
Better that than the other way around, I suppose.
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To me it feels like the politics of most of my adult life have been both wrong and horribly dull, and we stand on the cusp of a big rethink. When we realize we've been wrong for many years (something I've believed for many years), the future of possibilities opens up. Nothing is off the table now, either for me, or for the world.
I had a very interesting discussion with my Grandmother recently, who lived through the Great Depression. She told me something interesting - it was the most exciting time of her life, that everyone partied like there was no tomorrow. The parties were cheap as could be, but that didn't make them less fun. Faced with adversity, people can work together, and that can be extremely enjoyable and empowering in the way that a secure future often isn't.
Can this year be the year of parties? We've still got 4 months to make it so.
What we really need is one of them Jamaican sound system trucks.
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(Sorry, Bart, if I rudely interrupted. Trying to manage without always completely reading the thread. :))
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Probably "Psychopaths and big money - it all adds up" from NZH.
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I got my MIDI-USB stick today - any recommendations for software? On Windows.
Cool. Honestly don't know what's the right thing these days.
Something like Reason? -
I don't even need to listen to music anymore. I can tell if I like it just by looking at the waveform. ;)