Posts by Lyndon Hood
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Sam F - You're right, but I wasn't clear there - I actually meant the difference between physically looking and using streetview (the database I was referring to). While all the images are legitimate to take under the current state of privacy, they add up to something qualitatively different. But still not alarming.
And if you were a criminal wanting to case a place, I think you wouldn't use imagery that was 11 months out of date. And where you couldn't see down the back.
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On the privacy thing, I'm interested by how little I care about this as opposed to NZ Post offering to take notes on peoples' houses.
I think it was mostly NZ Post is a state-ish agency that's there to deliver bloody mail, whereas google's job is to take over the world, so they're not overstepping. And in NZ post's case it seemed more like personal information and probably could be associated with a name. The fact that Google's version is public actually seems a bonus to me in this case.
It is one thing have the information (what your house looks like) available if someone goes and looks and another to have it all in a database. And it probably is part of the collapse of privacy. But I quite like it myself so far.
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it was against an Australian side that doesn't have the necessary spread of quality players yet, and a South African squad under the command of an excitable novice and with a backdrop of familiar infighting
I'm not a great follower of the game, but am I to understand that winning doesn't count if the other side isn't as good as you are?
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Streetview in time would be fantastic.
There's google earth for Rome in 320AD. A very clean Rome in 320AD, it seems.
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I don't think google and/or Big Bro have enough cameras to have a video feed of everywhere, all the time.
Except in London.
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how do I get a link that I can cut & paste
That's the one - there's a "link" thingy on the top right of the window.
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They were spotted in Warrington in January. Sure enough, there it is. The terrain mapping's new too innit?
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"first black President"
Shortly thereafter I saw an improv scene where someone in the audience asked for a black master and a white slave. Punchline being, "Oh yeah? Well one day this nation will elect a President that's half white!"
While your point is worth considering - the default label falling in one direction - does he have to have two black parents to be black? People's heritage is such that, if you want to talk about race at all, I'd have said you have to treat it as ethnicity and let them sort it out.
I'd use it over 'mullato'.
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Rolling on the floor laughing, contemplating the vacuity of human life?
I was thinking, contemplating the futility of human rolling on the floor laughing, but that also works.
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Rofflenui = Roll on floor laughing, big time (greatly).
Not to be confused with Rofflennui