Posts by Simon Grigg
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
And that if three hundred million people are repeatedly exposed to that idea,
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Sacha,
Reducing it to the actions of a deranged loner avoids the bigger picture all too nicely - but no one acts in a vacuum
They were looking for a second person a couple of hours back. That still be seems to be active as the police have just released a picture.
Just to end the day on a low six more people have just been shot in a Baltimore night club.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I'd like to think nobody standing next year for the party I've supported for twenty years would even think about being associated with shit like this.
Or this, now redacted, in the the current speak. It's what Ebert was directly referring to in the tweet I think.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Neil Morrison,
ever hear of the 60's?
Yes, Neil. Ever thought about reading a link before posting a response?
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Keir Leslie,
What matters is that she legitimised a culture of violence where shooting your congresswoman seemed the responsible thing to do.
I agree with everything you say (and Neil nobody here has suggested a direct causal link) but to be fair shooting politicians you don't like is hardly a new thing in the land of the free.
It's just not as common as it was twenty years back and before.
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Or as Roger Ebert tweeted:
Sarah Palin rummages online frantically erasing her rabble-rousing Tweets like a Stalinist trimming non-persons out of photos.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
In other news, Herald media columnist (and Russell's BFF) John Drinnan unearths Public Address' role in the downfall of civilization:
And also writes:
Taxpayers gave Annabel Fay's record company
and a few words later follows it with:
but gives subsidies for pop pap to people who can afford to pay their own way
suggesting that a business column may not be the best place for someone confused by the chasm between the two.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 2:…, in reply to Steve Parks,
I used to work at a bank, and as I recall we never advised a Telegraphic Transfer would take 15 days to process, even to a credit card account (which added a day).
It really seems to depend on the country. I do a lot of TTs using the NBNZ's DirectLink system - sometimes 10 a day on a busy day. From NZ to, say, Indonesia, can take a week because their systems are so inefficient and I think banking efficiency and systems play a big part wherever you send it or it's sent from. The USA is about always 1-2 days. From the US back to NZ is sometimes longer because, I think, they need to clear via third party banks (NBNZ uses Chase in NY) but it's mostly as Paul says overnight too.
Europe is always 24 hrs either way.
On the other hand NZ to Thailand is, if I catch the morning, same day cleared here. Thailand to NZ is however 2 days. Not sure exactly why, once again perhaps its routing. Singapore is the same.
Mostly when people tell you it's gone and you don't receive it in a day or three, it's because they haven't actually sent it in my experience.
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
...will Rupert and his Saudi chums ever solve the problem of making money online...
One can but hope not. However as that Guardian / Assange story that's caused a wave says, many newspapers only survive under the wing of their more profitable siblings - Fox in Murdoch's case.
The Times I imagine serves its purpose for Rupert as both a voice and fetter of the UK elite.
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Just about everyone else in the world has got the blame to date so I guess it's Mark Zuckerberg's turn: Facebook killed the Radio Star.
Debate closed. Next.