Posts by Ian Dalziel
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At least scaredy-cat Key was honest at the end of that piece, when he said he didn't think he'd go on the Campbell Live show, great opportunity for the other parties to fill the vacuum.
Key is a karmic vacuum all by himself, as well as a whole new bad taste - Usmarmy any one? -
Legal Beagle: Gordon Campbell…, in reply to Andre,
'Smith's Dream'
Perhaps TV3 could put Sleeping Dogs on the telly for the masses
(I can't see the Gov't owned ones running it at the moment)
and it is such a groundbreaking film for NZ, serious story, great soundtrack, first feature for Roger Donaldson, and early movie for Michael Seresin, great vehicle for the young Sam Neill and Ian Mune, et al - so why not a groundbreaker for social change, now, as well
and if TV3 or the others won't show it at least NZ on Screen has the trailer
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Nega-Tory
...the government’s insistence that not only does New Zealand want or need any further discussion of this striking piece of legislation, but that New Zealanders themselves aren’t even interested.
"...not only does New Zealand not want or need any further discussion..." surely?
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to Rich Lock,
Utah Stains!
The NSA does. In Utah.
Telecom does. In Christchurch and 19 other sites around NZ.
Telecom's information technology subsidiary Gen-i has today unveiled its new $10.5 million Christchurch data centre.
The new data centre would add to a combined network of 14 other Gen-i data centres and five Revera Homeland data centres across New Zealand.Ya gotta worry about an IT Data storage firm that thinks Homeland (trademarked!) is a reassuring word to use in relation to information management...
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to JacksonP,
soggy bottom buoys…
…a cardboard building not being water tight might be considered, um, problematic?
I understand the cardboard cores are purely cosmetic, not load bearing as originally conceived, they couldn’t wind the cores to sufficient thickness here, there are laminated wooden beams inside each core…
see this Press article<snap, joe>
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PS: this was interesting in the Herald at the weekend:
The ability for US intelligence agencies to access internet data was used as a bargaining tool by a Telecom-owned company trying to keep down the cost of the undersea cable from New Zealand.
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I'm sorry Barack, I can't let you do that...*
Not to worry the NSA won't let pesky humans and their foibles and scruples get in the way, no, they're gonna let the machines decide!“What we’re in the process of doing – not fast enough – is reducing our systems administrators by about 90 per cent,” Alexander said. The NSA currently employs approximately 1,000 systems administrators.
“We’ve put people in the loop of transferring data, securing networks and doing things that machines are probably better at doing,” he said, going on to describe how technology will make NSA secrets “more defensible and more secure.”
Gen. Keith Alexander, NSA- nothing about making America more defensible and secure - just their secrets!
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Southerly: My Life As a Palm Tree, in reply to Paul Brislen,
is it any drier in the Powder Room?
...The Trough.
“EWWWWW” we all shriek together.
Eventually we depart the mensroom firm in our agreement that we shall never speak of it again.quite an arc from the plight of the trough through to the blight of plighted troth...
;- )regarden garden danger
Sticking four prongs of a garden fork through four toes,
tidily two on each foot.Good tines!
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Southerly: My Life As a Palm Tree, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
So this is where that horrible ALAC advert came from.
I always thought it came from that baby swinging scene with Donald Sutherland in Bertolucci's 1900 - shudder!
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Nora Leggs,
don’t even think about turning the heater off
Luxury - I've never seen a cat eat strawberries so daintily before...
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