Posts by Hamish
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Could you sue for Coddingtons comments about insane bloggers? Clearly you are much higher mental capacity and a firmer grasp on reality than most of the N&S staff.
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When I control all the keyboards in the world, people who put two spaces after full stops will be hit on the head with the automatedrubber mallet attached to their monitor.
Amen.
Although - Cactuslab people - don't think it isn't noticed that italics are in a different font (*gasp!*). Yeah, I'm down with Lucida Sans like you mooooom.
Oo, which reminds me, again coming back to anal retentiveness, who else wants to Put the Sans in Comic Sans?
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has anyone noticed that you can't underline words in documents these days because people complain about broken hyperlinks? everything has to be bold or italic
For computer text I think it's a good thing - but I find myself occasionally trying to handwrite italics... it really doesn't work does it.
Has anyway said: "Decider"?
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Also: 10 points to Juha for using inimicable.
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It's pretty geeky 'round here and pwned is always pronounced p-own-d, although I have heard it pronounced 'pawned' (but the individual was mocked for being a noob. I'm pretty sure there is only one way of pronouncing that).
So that would be "pooned"?
Hehe, no that is something quite different :D.
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Amen, tomorrowpeople.
Truthiness is a good one, but NZ Specific? Some nominations:
Hollow
Cancerous
Coddingtonswallop...and although this makes me super square, all time favourite word (at the moment):
Soniferous
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BTW - Robert & Rich - from an I.T. perspective:
In practice email is highly unlikely to be read unless someone *really* wants to. It's a bit less secure than a telephone call, but not much.
Actually, a lot much. Unencrypted email is viewable by just about every network admin (and suitably priveledged lacky) of every organisation the email happens to pass through. The email is permanently stored on a number of servers. Unlike, say, a phone conversation where intercepting a call takes special software and/or remarkable timing. Relying on the ulturistic tendancies of geeks is a bad idea.
Email contents can be encrypted, but this (though freely available) is rarely used, except by IT security geeks.
I would say I was surprised that parliment didn't use encrypted email, but I'd be lying. It makes me wonder about how more sensitive information is handled.
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Yeah, he is a bit posterboy-ish. I can't imagine too many National voters will be dissapointed, despite (or because of) Brashs strong points.
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...stick a traffic cone up a tree
Look left next time you go over the Newmarket viaduct heading into the city.
How on earth did someone got that cone on that tree!?
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James, it is fairly clear from your posts that you'll follow the Republican line regardless. It's frustating to read all the false and crass analogies (ie comparing leftists to Communists, Iran to Hitlers regime,) and outright lies (__"Most countries the USD supports with foreign or military aid and equipment are reasonable countries"__.... yeah like the Iranian Contras... the Taleban... Pinochet... let's count all the evil regimes propped up my American interests) and know that you'll never accept that any of the axioms you base your world-view on could be wrong.
That has been the problem with the US administration - the refusal to accept that they could be wrong, even when the experts say otherwise (eg the strategy in Iraq), and they continue to manipulate the public to support their agenda (eg the non-existant link between Saddam and Bin Laden). It's as if in the process of generating the lies that support their hegemony they have come to believe that facts don't matter all that much.
I mean, please, you're so adament that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is not actually the agency responsible for the management of federal emergencies. But hey, who cares right? Lets play pass the buck one more time.