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• Hard News: The scandal that keeps on giving, 13:06 Jul 19, 2011

  I think it's fairly likely Sean Hoare was assassinated - probably not by News International, but by Met officers working in an unofficial capacity, sending a not-very subtle message to other potential whistleblowers that if you speak out against them they can murder you with near total impunity.

  It's an unexplained/no-suspicious-circumstances-type death, ie suspected sucide/overdose, so... who knows either way, really?

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• OnPoint: Easy as 1, 2, 22.8 billion, 10:10 Jul 18, 2011

  Great post, Keith.

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• Hard News: An inspirational record, 14:32 Jul 15, 2011

  Can anyone give me a quick rundown of what the different formats mean for the @peace download. It sounds really beautiful and I want to to purchase but not sure what each is, other than MP3. Is it just bigger file is better?

  FLAC is - give or take - about 4 times better than 320 (it equals CD quality, essentially). Worth it, if you can afford the bandwidth and want higher quality. For most listening purposes 320 is plenty sufficient. v0 is a variable bitrate mp3 (at the highest setting, ie a variable version of 320; a bit smaller in file size, but with similar performance). Not too familiar with the performance of the others formats.

  Recommendations, in short:
  For hifi? FLAC
  For iPod? 320

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• OnPoint: It's real, 13:38 Jul 15, 2011

  I'd be more inclined to agree if pretty much everything David Farrar has said on the issue since yesterday afternoon hadn't been such obvious, disingenuous, unmitigated party spin.

  True dat. I'm getting a bit sick of these "new" ways of reporting tax figures.

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• OnPoint: It's real, 13:29 Jul 15, 2011

  Am I supposed to be happy that RNZ couldn't get a basic COI disclosure right from the start? No, I'm not.

  Merely noting your emergency feedback serve.
  :)

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• OnPoint: It's real, 11:39 Jul 15, 2011

  I expect a little more from RNZ’s flagship news/current affairs shows than the lame magazine fluff after lunch. I'm not talking about the media ethics equivalent of the Higgs bosun here, just disclosure 101.

  Happy now, Craig?

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• Field Theory: It's not yours, but you…, 15:06 Jul 14, 2011

  DB boycott anyone?

  Okay, thats:

  Amstel Premium
  Budejovicky Budvar
  DB Bitter
  DB Draught
  Double Brown
  Erdinger Weissbier
  Export 33
  Export Dry
  Export Gold
  FLAME
  Heineken
  Monteith's
  Murphy's
  Sol
  Tiger
  Tui

  Barrel 51
  Barrel 71
  Fuse
  Vudu

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• Up Front: P.A. Story, 12:29 Jul 14, 2011

  Also, at Hadyn's request I'm changing the name of the pink-shirted ref character (who was, let's be honest, never really hadyn). So he needs a new name.

  Seth Orlan.

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• Field Theory: 65 bottles of beer on the wall..., 16:16 Jul 8, 2011

  After a great party I never ask "How much did it cost".

  You would if it was you paying for it.

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• Hard News: The Orcon Great Blend 2011 in…, 12:55 Jul 8, 2011

  Norwegian medieval IT support:
  

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