Posts by BenWilson
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Speaker: How the Key transcription gaffe…, in reply to Sacha,
State also have advanced real-time semantic monitoring beyond what the rest of us have access too.
Maybe. I don't think it's out of the question that there's just people in the State Department who are genuine followers of Russell as an opinion leader in this country. The "real-time semantic monitor" could be someone who follows social media, has NZ as one of their charges, and read the tweets and blog and went "Oh fuck, better tell Alec". So there's one person getting a slap for poor transcription and another getting a pat for keeping their ear to the ground.
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I wouldn't be surprised if it's just a case of laziness. Who really cares what John Key says? Only the people who will be sure to correct the transcriber anyway. Mission accomplished, the internet has done the proof reading, cheap as chips.
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Hard News: Before Lust, in reply to Heather Gaye,
Hard to be sure if self-selection isn't at work with that, though. Anyone who had a real problem with the clothes might be put off the sport from the start, before they even walked in the door.
But I agree, self-confidence can definitely be lifted by that kind of training, with the right crowd, and it can flow on to greater general self-confidence. Actually, most kinds of training raise confidence, to a point.
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John Key did not have sex with that woman, Hilary. He had seven, FFS.
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Hard News: Before Lust, in reply to Emma Hart,
but I've noticed no correlation
I guess figures are the only way to be sure of a correlation on something like this. I do see one, but of course it's nowhere near 100%. Mostly the perception comes from people who have changed their behavior as their shape has changed.
Body confidence seems more related to other kinds of confidence.
I guess so, but a feedback loop is highly credible - other kinds of confidence might well be eroded by a loss of body confidence too.
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Hard News: Before Lust, in reply to Samuel Scott,
Why have we become so fearful of our own nudity?
I think we're not afraid of nudity so much as embarrassed about not having perfect bodies. People who are super buff have no shame, so far as I can see. You wouldn't bother with all the trouble of buffing to then not let everyone see.
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Up Front: Choice, Bro, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I don’t know what planet My Evil Namesake lives on
Planet "any publicity is good publicity". It's a sad planet, on which rich people spend huge sums to prove they are hateful dickheads.
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Have we seen the "pornification" of society?
And did porn itself drive this, or is it simply an offshoot of what society is already becoming?
There is relatively little sexual display in our culture.
Is there? What constitutes sexual display?
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Hard News: Paying for what doesn't come…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
And cellular data is almost reaching the pricing where it's affordable to use a smartphone for all-day radio listening over 3G.
Even if you had no other network than 3G, it's affordable. But the places most people spend most of their time, the workplace or home, are easily equipped with WiFi networks, and non-stop internet radio would hardly show up as a significant part of a home broadband bill.
This morning I was curious about Yamis' request, so I checked it out on the Android market. For the princely sum of 99 American cents, I purchased TuneIn Pro, which gives me the ability to record any of the radio streams or pre-recordings they have on there. There are 70,000 stations available, and over 2 million recordings. Recording can be scheduled. Every NZ station I've ever heard of is on there. I recorded a couple of hours of a station just to satisfy myself it could be done. Interestingly the recording is cleaned up, the occasional dropouts you get while streaming were entirely absent. Naturally, I could jump past advertising breaks.
Here's the really interesting part, though. The freeware version of the software, which doesn't support recording, has 20 times as many downloads. So only a fraction of the people who are listening to internet radio with that software see any point in recording it (I can't believe that the price of the software is a factor, considering that live streaming over 3G isn't free). I think the reasons I already gave explain this - that once you are streaming internet radio at all then your thinking about the value of pre-recording changes. You want the immediacy of actual radio. Or you might as well just be listening to your actual library of music.
Maybe this will change. But I don't think so - we've been able to record radio since audio cassettes were invented, but most people didn't prefer to listen to the radio like that. It's a niche market.
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Up Front: Choice, Bro, in reply to Paul Williams,
Very foolish idea to put Brash up against a Social Credit candidate! Practically their only strength was arguing against neoclassical economists.
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