Posts by stephen walker
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quiet american
Saigon, he needs to go to Saigon.
(Joanna from RB's thread might even explain why) -
greater productivity of labour involves producing more in the SAME amount of time
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producing the same in LESS time.
have i missed something? and yes, more cpaex will likely increase labour productivity.
surely mr key is just advocating for a greater share of GDP for business owners at the expense of people working for those businesses.
wage rises don't cause cpi inflation. increases in prices of goods and services do.
btw, visiting nz and seeing all these restaurants charing 10-15% extra on holidays was a real hoot. when i was on the "award wage" 20 years ago, we got double-time on sundays, but the restaurants charged the same prices no matter what day it was. must have repealed one of the laws of thermodynamics, eh?
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talk about a red herring.
spam is abuse. pain and simple. you haven't refuted that.but DRM? you must be joking, right?
if i buy a CD and want to listen to the music on it on several types of devices, why should the record company be allowed to install spyware on my machine or stop me from format shifting? i have no intention of doing anything but use the music recording i bought for my own pleasure.after you dismally fail to coinvince anyone of the merits of your argument re spamming, you change the subject. right. whatever. as you were. no prob. thanks.
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and then expect the government to help them out in doing so
nah, they just expect rampant abuse to be illegal and punishable.
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and it's of course easy to blame your problems on Bad People than on your own poor systems.
in other words, the "Bad People" (TM) should be just left to get on with it, and fcuk everyone else, they should get better mail servers?
glad we've cleared that one up.
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And that 95% figure (which doesn't match any of my experience)
well, it perfectly matches my experience.
in the late 90s, i foolishly had an email address for a domain name i was using posted on a web page for sales enquiries.
within a few years, i was getting about 200 to 300 spam messages a day versus one or two legitimate messages.
now, of course, things are much worse. a friend who registered at various seemingly kosher sites using her main email address now gets 100 or so spam a day. same thing happened to my mum.
yes, i know, use filtering, don't give out your email address, blah, blah, blah. but abuse is abuse and it should ne illegal, no?
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"Joe 90" is by Bored Games.
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and from the other skinny-white-boy-stephen,
a big おつかれさま！
(otsukaresama!)as we say over here.
best of luck in all your current and future endeavours.
i just hope [redacted] sends you over here for a power-noodle symposium at a certain large building on Aoyama Dori. or something.p.s. the prices of things in Tokyo will seem like Ho Chi Minh compared with Geneva (ˆ_ˆ)/
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but it wasn't mine, so I didn't want it.
one of the most important things you can teach your kids:
if it's not yours, don't take it.
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Have to say I pretty much agree with Keith (haha, for a change ;-)
But Graeme's contribution is also much appreciated. Which makes it even more annoying that the Herald seem to be making it out as a villains versus good guys b-movie.
the Herald is truly appalling.
and to linger:
jees, those fascist jiminto pricks really need to be nuked. haha, just joking! already tried that once(twice). wheeled the fascists back out wholesale to stand firm against the commies five years later.[cheap sarcasm]now it's those evil middle easterners, supplying japan with all their evil oil. wouldn't want to get too friendly with them, now would we.[/cheap sarcasm]
isn't it going to be fun, all this foreigners=tearzm shit.
have a nice day!
(if i didn't live here, i wouldn't bother coming back having to put up with that kind of shit)