Posts by chris
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I am going to use it as much as I possibly can, out in the wider community, from now on. Hey, it's the holidays soon, and I can be as profane as I want. Huzzah!
It'll be interesting to see how it fares.
The surging and cycling of fashion is not the only internal dynamic that decides the fate of words. Even if tastes remained stable, the success of a new word would depend on lexical epidemiology—the way a neologism spreads from its coiner to a new speaker, who then may infect others, and so on. Eventually the neologism either dies out or becomes endemic, depending on how many people a word-knower talks to in a day, and on how readily they notice and remember it. As with real epidemics, it's hard to
predict what will happen. Depending on small differences in how catchy the word is, and on how well-connected, trusted, or charismatic its first adopters are, it may or may not reach the tipping point that would lead it to become entrenched in the community and perpetuated down the generationSteven Pinker- The Stuff of Thought Language as a Window into Human Nature
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with this stuff there’s a lack of anything to focus your outrage on. No one from Dyncorp is here, there’s no one from Pfizer here,
Well there’s always the US Embassy. Or closer to heart, the New Zealand Government’s (taxpayer) complicity in this US led festival of death and depravity of the last ten or so years.
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There seems little evidence that those so offended by the cable releases are showing similar outrage or even concern over this story.
True. Even here at PAS I'm surprised. Rodgered posted this a couple of days back raising nerey an eyebrow followed by umpteen pages of Assange. This horrifying find alone positively dwarfs the Assange issue. I was so incensed reading it that I went to discuss it with my military history guy, but was more or less shut down by comparisons to the XE and what they've been getting up to for years.
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Well, no, not entirely. I don’t understand why you’d refuse to grant bail to someone on the basis that they could disappear, when they just handed themselves in. Why would they do this, if they were intending to disappear once they were granted bail?
Out on a limb, but there is always the possibility that knowing what they know, they're doing it for Assange's safety.
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Sadly, a couple of people I follow on Twitter have already reported their servers being caught in the crossfire. All this macho talk about “infowar” gets on my tits a bit.
You can access Twitter.
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Ka tae atu a Confucius ki te waha o te poka. "E hoa, ka nui tōku aroha ki a koe, engari he aha koe i heahea ai ki te taka atu ki konā?
Suspicious activity included:* an unconvincing explanation for why the items were required;
* routine installation, training or maintenance services are declined;
* payment by cash or offers above the ticket price;
* you cannot substantiate the nature of the a new business;
* excessive requirements for confidentiality;
* the customer or end-user is a foreign military or government research body;
* a cancelled sale replaced by an identical order under a different name;
* the customer uses a generic email address;
* reluctance to offer information;
* asking for the goods to be transferred to a forwarding address in New Zealand or transhipment point overseas;
* reluctance to provide clear answers to commercial or technical questions;
* requests for unusual shipping, packaging or labelling;
* an installation site with strict security controls;
* requests for confidentiality about final destinations, customers or specifications of items;
* requests for additional equipment not normally associated with a particular item or a lack of interest in parts.
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This stuff is MAD arbitrary.
Damn straight, the biggest dickswab of late has been the blocking of IMDB.com. It infuriates me. The quickest way I found in is returntojail.com, but 23 popups for the University of Liverpool Master's program is obscene. Come on University of Liverpool, are movie trivia obsessives who routinely violate internet restrictions really the ideal prospective market for Online Masters programs in Management, Technology and Public Health?
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I was castigating the people tempted to romanticise the abuse of personal privacy and the infrastructure of internet because they like one side or the other. No one who does this is good.
Yeah. Fair dos. I concede it was rather ill conceived and untoward of me to attempt to imply anything there.
1) Wikileaks is important and does good work
2) Julian Assange may be a rapist
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3) The pursuit by the authorities for the rape charges may be motivated as much by Wikileaks as by a desire to see justice done
are not in any way contradictory positions and could all be simultaneously true.”
Well put Danielle.
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No, it would not. And neither were the original attacks against Wikileaks. You really, really don’t want reciprocal DDoS attacks becoming a commonplace tactic. It’s a very, very bad thing.
There's no denying it's bad. And expending more words castigating the reactionaries than the initial attackers is a telling insistence.