Posts by Hamish
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edit: through should be throwing.. :D
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On the whole Hawke-eye thing - I was in Australia during the Ashes and they had some very nifty technology at work, the best being an infra-red camera that would pick up the heat from the ball hitting bat/pad/ground/glove - you could see exactly where it had been by the big white spots it left.
Re Whale Oil - you have to wonder how long it's going to take for the novelty of annoymous shit peddling to wear thin. You'd think people like him would realise that the internet is awash with rhetoric, and contributing more of it is a bit like through a cup of water into the ocean.
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Call me a crooked kook, but how many people really give a crap what the law is on ripped tunes? I can see that it can affect the way big companies deliver new music formats via new revenue channels, but when it comes to ripping off music, is anything going to change?
I supposed the important point is that people who make the 3rd party tools for 'fair use' (if not legal use) become possible targets. No doubt there will always be people willing to give their time and knowledge towards creating/breaking codecs to rip various formats, but it's getting riskier.
BTW, totally agree with Russ about the various blogs/people/commentators who get very vitriolic on Hager but fail to address anything about the book itself. Probably couldn't be bothered reading it.
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Evan Short vs Run DMC.
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Barbara Dreaver looked a bit miffed at being sidelined after her work covering the first days of the coup. I don't agree that he added much substance though.
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Condominia is a valid (albeit a bit pompous) alternative to condominiums.
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I resigned for family reasons... Yeah right
The irony being that he does have worthy family problems of his own causing to deal with :D
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does this make public figures like John Key mass debaters
Heh. Yes.
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...not every journalist is a good journalist...
Burn! Love it.
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Neither Nelson Mandela nor Aung San Suu Kyi are 'minorities'...
Nor did/do they represent the values of the societies they lived/live in -- they were/are both rebels by the standards of the prevailing doctrines of their times.
Rather it would seem that 'mainstream' New Zealand demands an idealised conformity on immigrants.