Posts by Rich of Observationz
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I thought the word "meme" was invented by ultra-pretentious American dud-prediction comic Wired and disliked it accordingly.
Also the metric tonne is within 2% of the imperial ton - so there pretty much interchangeable for the purpose of discourse.
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Conrad Black was (before his trial and conviction) in business both to make money and because he enjoyed the power and influence that owning influential publications like the Telegraph and Spectator got him.
I think if he had acquired Hello or Womens Day he could have made much more money more easily than by owning the Spectator. But it wouldn't have helped him have dinner with world leaders.
Most of NZ's media isn't owned by people like Black - it belongs to corporates out to make money.
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I have no problem with wire services. I used to work for a firm that resold Reuters and Dow stuff. I'd just point out that their copy is, shall we say, functional and different from what one might expect in a newspaper.
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Just watched the Media7 feature. I think that Kerr's right in what he said to Deborah Hill-Cone - there is a limited business advantage in having quality journalism wrapping a publications ads. NZ has the other disadvantage for freelance journos that the whole APN business model is based around filling newsprint with the cheapest possible content (with exceptions, like Robert Fisk). It doesn't help that the newspapers are all monopolies and would be read to some extent even if they just had wire stories in them.
So you have a job that many people want to do and quite a few are able to do, plus employers that don't regard quality as a business edge. Are you surprised rates are low?
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This is not politics, this is science.
You can debate appropriate levels of public spending or whatever, because they are a matter of opinion and societal preference.
But when *all* the people who are trained in this area and have done proper research are of one mind about the existence of anthropogenic global warming, then hearing somebody with zero qualifications comment: oh it was a bit chilly this morning, doesn't that mean we're cooling not warming is of *absolutely no relevance*.
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s/ISP/mobile telco
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I used to use a service in the UK which gatewayed an 0845 (national toll rate, 2p/minute or so) number into email - you got a mail with an MP3 of the message. Did fax as well.
I haven't heard of that here, but we don't have the inbound revenue share thing.
I think (but am prepared to be proved wrong) that the service Paul wants won't be provided in "official" functionality by any phone thats sold by an ISP on a subsidy plan. You could probably hack something together on Windows Mobile - or maybe Android, if it ever happens.
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In some European countries they do subsidise home generation. Typically, they do this as part of a subsidy on all reusable generation - which is partly a rort to make nuclear power appear an even slightly economic proposition. Because (some of) those European leaders really, really want to glow in the dark!
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Are there going to be Hobbits in The Dambusters?
"I say ginger he's on your tail, he's on your tail"
"Sorry wingco, I'm too short to reach the controls, being a hobbit and that, old bean"Or Jackson could remake his best film, Braindead but have hobbits instead of zombies in the climactic "lawnmower zombie shredding" scene.
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the issue for us in Auckland will not be heating in the winter but cooling in the summer
How many Aucklanders have aircon? Even the apartment blocks and (most) hotels I've been in don't.
Or do you mean that with global warming, it'll become essential. Harden up. Or move to Wellington.