Posts by BenWilson
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
Hard News: A welcome return - and pirates!, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Right. So we've got a policy plank (coat, getting) for the NZ Pirate Party - recovery of our fishing stocks, by hook or by crook.
They still need a ship. It's not real until there's an actual pirate ship.
Edit: See, it's not even expensive
-
Hone had his heart almost in the right place - by talking about how Maori deal with death, he was taking the discourse away from how Pakeha feel about it, which can often be projected as the same as how everyone should feel about it. But the problem is that Hone doesn't speak for all Maori, not by a long shot. Nor is there any clear Maori OR Pakeha way of dealing with the death of Osama Bin Laden. I'd like to hear other perspectives on his claim that Maori never speak ill of the dead. It sounds like total bullshit to me. I can't believe that Maori didn't often do what most people in the world have done at one time or another, actively celebrated the death of an enemy, and tried to humiliate that enemy's people by disrespecting their death rites. Warlike people have always done these things, it's part and parcel of being warlike, that you need to dehumanize your enemy in order to override the sympathy instincts.
-
There are 2^n types of people, where n is the number of people.
-
Hard News: You know what ..., in reply to Steve Parks,
And one should always yell ‘fire’ in a crowded theatre if the theatre is on fire.
What if it's full of Nazis?
-
Hard News: A welcome return - and pirates!, in reply to ChrisW,
I thought there were 10 sorts of people. Those who get binary and those who don't.
-
Busytown: What was lost, in reply to Islander,
And your ear in- I live a place of bird music, which helps - but the other sounds we can store, from drums, human voices, all the world of birds & our musics and the long sound of the sea...it's our's-
OMG, how freaky. I was just lying in bed contemplating getting up, and I ran a program on my Android, which creates a choice of ambient sounds. I selected bird songs, drums, ocean sounds and a low hubbub of people talking, all pleasantly relaxing.....
.....until a loud chirrup in my ear announced that one of my American colleagues had seen me come online on Skype, and he wanted to discuss a bug in my code. That sort of thing never happens in my idle fantasies of a simple life by the shore.
-
Hard News: For the kids, if nothing else, in reply to Russell Brown,
I apologise for how I expressed myself.
Coming to be his catch-cry.
-
Hard News: For the kids, if nothing else, in reply to Russell Brown,
Phil Goff's rejection of Harawira and his party is starting to look quite wise now
Similarly with the Maori Party's rejection.
-
Hard News: A welcome return - and pirates!, in reply to Lilith __,
It's interesting what a romantic, affectionate view we have of pirates, though, isn't it?
Yes, for some reason they have a particularly strong grip on public imagination as being somehow nobler than other thugs who are involved in murder, ransom, extortion, theft, and slavery. I guess that's possibly because in the Caribbean the various warring nations weren't too much better.
-
Hard News: For the kids, if nothing else, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
"stop bombing a whole country because one guy might be hiding there", actually.
Especially when it turns out he is not actually there.
Last ←Newer Page 1 … 597 598 599 600 601 … 1066 Older→ First