Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Hard News: The GCSB Bill: eleventh-hour arguments, in reply to nzlemming,
fool some of the people...
one of my pet peeves
+1
...and is it too late to save 'decimated' as well !?
PS My devil's advocate has piped up and pointed out that: egregiously
is another of those morphed and debased words...egregious
adjective
1 outstandingly bad; shocking : egregious abuses of copyright.
2 archaic remarkably good.guess we cleave to what we can...
buggercleave
1: split or sever
2: stick fast to...it's a bloody minefield the English language....
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Tamure never comes...
It looks like Key may free up the demand on the nation's thought processes...
Now possibly they can all think about the GCSB bill now that their Snapper haul isn't threatened.Prime Minister John Key has sent his strongest signal yet that the Government is poised to back down over plans to cut anglers' bag limits on snapper.
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Hard News: Fluency, ease of manner - and…, in reply to WH,
C’est dommage..
…and get the sense that being the Prime Minister
must actually be quite annoyingNo one is forcing him to be there.
Heat, kitchens, tolerance, etc…. -
Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Jos,
littorally slipped by your piers...
I’ve made up a new poster for NZ
New Zealand it's Not Bad...
...and it's Not Good,
it's what you do with it!If you look after New Zealand
it will look after you!*Now can someone tell John Key that...
*I'm sure the BNZ wouldn't mind
an investment in the future, as it were....
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Hard News: Fluency, ease of manner - and…, in reply to WH,
This debate is not really about 88 instances
of serious offending, spread over a decade....it's also being mindful of who they're getting
'us' into bed with, as it were...This video is a good reminder of who is in control, and puts a spotlight on the revolving door between Big Gov and Big Business in the States.
Plus: this piece in The Atlantic implores the big Internet companies to stand up to the NSA, et al...
It turns out that the NSA's domestic and world-wide surveillance apparatus is even more extensive than we thought. Bluntly: The government has commandeered the Internet. Most of the largest Internet companies provide information to the NSA, betraying their users. Some, as we've learned, fight and lose. Others cooperate, either out of patriotism or because they believe it's easier that way.
I have one message to the executives of those companies: fight.
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Hard News: Fluency, ease of manner - and…, in reply to DexterX,
sine qua non...
I fail to see the “public good” and I have not been given or seen an adequate explanation of the need for the law to be changed particularly in the absence of a more thorough and honest facts based review.
Totally, and why the rush to push it through under urgency - is it the only option, 'without which there is nothing'?
Have they even explored other alternatives? (y'know, like not being part of a spying cartel and tinkering in other people's countries and cultures, to start with...)
The Obamas and Keys of this world seem to believe that the E pluribus unum* concept, confers on them demigod-like status, when it is really more holistic than that...* out of the many, one its origins and early uses connote more to do with aggregation of information - in fact it would be a great slogan for the Web!
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Hebe,
alma gantry?
...the remainders of the rocket.
So fortifications are essentialWelcome to Rocket Science 101...
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Hebe,
Cr Sue Wells not being on the list
Wells quits council.
so that's 3 dubious ex-broadcasters out of the equation
And I can cope with a new one, Ali Jones, if she rids us of Aaron Kleown... -
Hard News: Friday Music: Bright pastel…, in reply to ChrisW,
...is still resonating.
Man, they are getting hammered up there in Seddon
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Hard News: Friday Music: Bright pastel…, in reply to Russell Brown,
And a later version of the band plays the same song at the Windsor Castle in 1985.
Is that Alan Haig on drums?
I see he has a fine photography website these days.
(and nicely constructed by Jay Clarkson's son, Sam, no less)