Posts by Joe Wylie
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rodgerd:
And can I register my immense distaste at and irritation with the crying-little-kid-my-pet-is-dead-because-mummy-and-daddy-didn't-get-kitty-insurance ad at the top of the page?Me too. A sneaky form of kiddie-porn.
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The resulting .docs are near-idiotproof.
So, they can nearly be opened by idiots?Hey, if I can open them, anyone can : )
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The need to understand the difference is almost irrelevant, as long as you save the document as .doc then it can be read and edited on almost any machine, unlike saving in most "new" Microsoft formats.
Not my humble experience. Even with Word for Mac's inbuilt compatability check, the resulting .doc doesn't always open at first try on a Windows machine. Other apps that output .doc files don't necessarily preserve their formatting when opened in another .doc-compatible program, even on the same platform. As I need to exchange .doc files with a number of users on a variety of OSes I've minimized the problem by running Word for Office 2007 on Windows XP inside Parallels on my Mac.
The resulting .docs are near-idiotproof.
It's a case of the devil that everyone knows. Perhaps I should become a little more muscular about promoting the use of that other Microsoft innovation, RichText. It's just that there are still people out there who'll email you back when they receive a .rtf attachment, asking how to open it.
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And big gay Dalvainius Prime did more for modern Maori culture Tamaki or the Harawira mob, I would submit;
Amen to that, though I do wonder if the great Dalvanius would be happy to be remembered as 'gay'. As he famously - and proudly - once claimed: 'I'm trisexual - I'll try anything.'
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Ancient brewery discovered on mountaintop in Peru:
. . . hot-burning llama and guinea pig dung, along with other refuse from the settlement, were used to boil water and other ingredients . . .
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idCategory=24&idarticle=829
Where's Riddley when you need him, dammit?
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Funny that Ben should mention Epson, HP, etc. - it was an Australian magazine ad for a high-tech copier back in the 90s that focused my attention on this issue. The gadget was shown descending in a beam of light into the centre of a group of nine or so 'typical' office types, their arms raised in adulation. A bit like the monolith 'n monkeys in 2001. Amongst these rent-a-models were a photogenic male and female token Asian. Why no Aboriginal, then? Well, that's easy, innit. They don't buy copiers.
I believe that image was specifically created for the Australian market. Ben's right when he suggests that multinationals produce ads for global regions, and I believe our particular region is centred on Sydney. This may not reflect our values, but it certainly shapes them. In the meantime, Mike King flogs pork, but not office eqipment. -
I don't agree, Ben - I believe that Asians are deliberately targeted as a high-income group. Polynesians aren't. And I'm referring to ads that are specifically created for local markets.
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The thing that annoyed me the most with her piece was her attempt to join-up Asian disadvantage (eg. petty racism on the street) with that of Maori disadvantage (e.g. employment, health care discrimination issues) as some sort of meta-phenomenon.
It's a little reminiscent of early feminist attempts to link educated middle-class female disavantage with wider economic oppression based on race and gender. The sentiment of solidarity was well-meant and welcome, but it failed to analyse the root causes.
In Australia and NZ asians feature prominently in advertising for high-value products and services. Polynesians and Aboriginals, practically never.
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Après la nouvelle vague, les cochons de l'inde.
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why do politicians feel necessary to downplay or ignore their Christianity in the public arena? Perhaps it is because they know the electorate/nation won't have a bar of it?
Because they at least sense that the electorate knows that, after country music and patriotism, religion is the third-to-last refuge of a scoundrel?
BTW it wasn't Pauline Hanson's being jailed that made her a 'martyr'. It was the public exposure of the silly moo's having been duped by her manipulative backers. It earned her a degree of pity, but mostly contempt. Australia is perhaps the only Western democracy where voting is compulsory, and participation enforced by law. The vast majority of Hanson voters (and remember, this was almost a decade ago) knew that were giving the finger to the electoral system by voting for a joke candidate.