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  • Southerly: Tower Insurance Have Some Bad…,

    Another fortnight rolls on and I've been a bit reluctant to talk about Chch, given that I'm not - and wasn't - there... Bearing that in mind (and all other relevant disclaimers) may I just ask of Chch people:

    We're now about, what? about 14 weeks out from an election. Is it an issue that certain commitments from govt./business/other should or must be extracted before then?

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving,

    Allow me to dissociate myself from the idea that Mossad caused the earthquakes.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving,

    :

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving,

    It seems to be a bit cavalier to allow open USB ports on machines with PNC access. Really, information like that should be on locked-down machines with no USB or drives, no internet connectivity and controlled access.

    and why [-tf?] have they let someone who doesn't understand that do their security? Utterly amateurish.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • OnPoint: Easy as 1, 2, 22.8 billion,

    On asking Max Cryer

    At the age of about seven or eight, I wrote Max Cryer a letter complaining that he had incorrectly marked a contestant's answer wrong, and that the loss of the unjustly forfeited points had, in fact, cost that contestant the match.

    He wrote back to say that, yes, they'd been made aware of that fact, but that since that had happened only after shooting was completed, there was no way to fix it. Somewhat disillusioned was I.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving,

    When is the fall out going to reach NZ?

    Currently, the prime minister says that it's "not in the National interest" to talk about the police-central-server-illicit-data-capture scandal, but the Israeli ambassador has just been summoned to appear on Nine To Noon.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving,

    It's an unexplained/no-suspicious-circumstances-type death, ie suspected sucide/overdose

    ...according to the Met? Just saying, it's not the sort of situation in which you can be confident of police impartiality.

    Agreed. Like I said, ", so... who knows either way, really?"

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving,

    Anyone linked to this column yet?

    Good stuff:

    Twelve years later, in the summer of 2008, David Cameron was transported in a private plane – laid on by [Matthew] Freud – to the Greek island of Santorini, from where he was ferried to Rupert Murdoch's 184ft yacht the Rosehearty, for an important meeting. The following year, the Tories began to harden a new antipathy to the BBC, floating the freezing of the licence fee and urging the corporation to do "more with less": messages that were in accord with the chippy anti-BBC lecture James Murdoch gave at that year's Edinburgh TV festival. Just over a month later came achingly predictable news: that the Sun was swinging its support behind the Conservatives, and dumping Labour.

    etc.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • OnPoint: Easy as 1, 2, 22.8 billion,

    Mazda "Bongo Wagon" GSX Field Runner?

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

  • OnPoint: Easy as 1, 2, 22.8 billion,

    My sons names are Morris Oxford and Austin Cambridge.

    What next, Hillman Humber 90 Super Minx?

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report

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