Posts by BenWilson
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Russell Brown,
And anyways, you're just bitter that kiwicentrefolds.com featuring all my most beautiful chicks made more money than Public Address just from misdirected AdSense clicks. Someone was going to reap it, why not me?
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Russell Brown,
Known Kiwi groomer. Sayin'.
I took those Kiwis from a hard life grubbing in the bush to easy street in my organic petting and "biggest eggs in town" business. What have your puritanical mores ever done for destitute Kiwis, huh?
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Hard News: Name That Food Blog, in reply to Kebabette,
Oxymoron much?
LOL, or "The Italian Job", where the pizza was actually reasonably priced, rather than the daylight robbery the name suggested.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Damian Christie,
Because everyone knows it's never just petting with you Ben, no matter what you promise. And no-one is buying the "I just want to cuddle" line either.
Look I can't help it if I petted the Kiwi too hard because you made me wear a rubber glove and I couldn't even feel the feathers through it.
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Savour? Devour? Let's not name it after Grey Lynn establishments. I went to Savour and Devour, and they told me I could only stay for 10 mins, had to vacate to a tiny table, no savouring allowed. So I went to a nearby shop, called The Cake Shop, and asked to see their cakes. "We're out of cakes, sorry". FFS. So I crossed the road to the Gypsy Tea Rooms to see if I could get a cup of tea. "Nah, we don't serve tea". If they ever open a place called "The Warm Welcome" I'll be too frightened to go in the door.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Sacha,
>atomic propositions
shady deals
I can smell the uranium in your privatization bill.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Damian Christie,
Completely different organisation.
Still a bunch of fascists, though. Why can't I pet the Kiwis, huh?
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It's a mistake to think that the binary nature of classical logic is its greatest fault, and that things might work better if truth had more than two values. Propositions can only have two values, yes, but they can be arbitrarily long and complex, full of caveats. The entirety of every position could be parsed into one statement - a bill is such a statement. There is also no limit to the number of statements that can be made in succession, forming a very, very complex picture.
The real fault of logic, binary or otherwise, is that the basic meaning of atomic propositions, or predicates if we go past first-order logic, is only given meaning in context to the humans and their understanding of the meaning of the symbols the logic uses. The entire system can easily be subverted by refusing to use the symbols the same way, or pretending to at the start, and then later changing. Or leaving something deliberately vague, to be changed at whim. Which means all discussion retains a human element to it, it can't really be turned into a calculator, no matter how much effort is spent doing so. The inputs are human, and the outputs are interpreted by humans. We are the machine. We must always remember that. If we become servants to the machine, small wonder when we get chewed up and spat out like bad data, or replaced like a faulty part. There is no machine we can't smash to pieces, if need be. Yet.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Damian Christie,
Part of the reason I often find the Green's message attractive (and that's why I have voted for them, rather than because I voted for them) is precisely because their solutions don't always fit on that left-right spectrum of less intervention/more regulation.
Neither does NZF, but you openly despise them. Defining a vector passing from the central point of the NZF cluster to the central point of the Green cluster, and looking at it side on (from whatever point on the plane formed from all the perpendicular bisectors of this vector* that you like), what would you say are the core differences? Racism vs inclusiveness? Old rural vs young urban? Nationalist vs internationalist? Movement vs personality cult? Piss vs pot? Rugby, racing and beer, vs Soccer, music, and social media?
*ETA Yeah I know mathematical purists are going to get bitter on me fudging the difference between a vector and a line segment, and a line. Feel free to make this model more accurate, my higher math is quite weak.
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"yeah but those are for people who have training, well paying jobs, credit lines, assets. It might be righteous to do that in a vague way for society, but I've really got to find some cash right now before that scary looking bastard comes back and takes my car. And I really don't want to shit my boss off right now by asking him if I can take the time off to go vote. Anyway none of them are going to free the bloody weed, like everyone knows should happen. And quite frankly, right now, my only chance of ever getting out of this bloody dive is if that rich great-uncle dies and leaves me something, so I can't claim to be too much of a lefty anyway. And fuck those greenies telling me I shouldn't eat fish and chips, it's the only fucking lunch I can afford these days. Smug fucking hippies. The asset I really need right now isn't an expensive bike with no gears, it's a bloody plane ticket"
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