Posts by nzlemming
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Russ, I hope you're checking the IP addresses on these new users that have suddenly appeared...
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Alfie,
Ha! I missed that completely! :-D
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I just noticed this in my Facebook feed (some misguided friends have "liked" it. My impression is that Willams and co are intimating that buying elections is a good thing.
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At the risk of derailing, this just in
If you want me, I'll be in my corner laughing myself to death.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to Jake Starrow,
“I’m pretty certain that innocent people had or have nothing to worry about.”
And this would be why you post under a pseudonym, yes?
And, before you say "so do you" (which isn't that much of a response but *is* the most likely one you'll pull out of your playbook), most round here know that my name is Mark Harris, I make no secret of it. But there are many Mark Harrises, so I choose to use an identifier across social media and elsewhere online that is pretty much uniquely me, and have done for 20+ years. Whereas you have used 3 different identities in a week.
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OnPoint: "Project SPEARGUN underway", in reply to Che Tibby,
devil’s advocate: what if the kit is developed by a different source and only needs to be implemented? that would be still be capex, and opex would be BAU for the agency.
I'm guessing you mean some benign third party develops the kit and donates it to the GCSB? Yeah, right. Actually, I'm not sure what your point is.
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OnPoint: "Project SPEARGUN underway", in reply to Matt Crawford,
There are only two possible ways for this to be so – 1. Either the GCSB are the most frugal and efficient IT experts in whole of Government and can sniff our whole IT infrastructure with a figurative piece of no8 wire, or 2. CORTEX is relatively cheap to set up and run as it is piggybacking off other GCSB infrastructure.
Very good analysis, Matt. And they're good, but they're not that good.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to stephen clover,
Wendyl Nissen comes out swinging.
Last week I resigned from my regular Friday morning slot on NewstalkZB, which I have been doing for 15 years, because I didn't want to be on the same platform as Cameron Slater, another commentator on the station, while there are allegations that his views involve cash for comment.
Wow.
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OnPoint: "Project SPEARGUN underway", in reply to ChrisW,
Keith - your third bullet seems to have been spiked?
I can see it.
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
In terms of political theatre, I’ve got to say The Moment of Truth was a gig where the support acts blew the headliner out of the water.
Agreed, but more important anyway.
