Posts by Percy Flage

  • Up Front: Casual, Shallow and Meaningless, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,

    The late Marcel Marceau had little patience for phatic discourse. His response to the the 'and what do you do?' question was, 'I breathe.' Succinct and truthful, albeit rather rude and dismissive.

    Since Apr 2011 • 5 posts Report

  • Busytown: What was lost,

    I'm sorry to introduce a tangential note, but I am much distressed by Ms Amanda Gillies, 'journalist', and her 'compassion' for the family of Benedict Dacayan: [http://www.3news.co.nz/Tornado-victim-a-devoted-husband-father/tabid/423/articleID/209788/Default.aspx]. How has this come to pass in New Zeaalnd? Is this what we are now?

    Since Apr 2011 • 5 posts Report

  • Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to 3410,

    Oh. Oh dear. Thank you. So this law will, generally, stop people getting for free now that which they might get from a Warehouse bargain bin for $5 in six month's time?

    In practice, could this have an impact on my freedom of expression (or opportunities to express myself freely) or is this all about ensuring that I'm a compliant, meek and obedient consumer? Viscerally, I would like to be affronted by the law, but if it merely curbs people's opportunities to swap nonsense...

    Since Apr 2011 • 5 posts Report

  • Hard News: The file-sharing bill, in reply to Rich of Observationz,

    I think the Letters Patent and, especially, chapter one of the Cabinet Manual might be a good guide to the limit of the Governor-General's discretion over making Orders in Council.

    Please forgive a newbie asking a dullard question, and I don't want to sound like someone who can't programme the VCR or anything. It's just that thanks to the good services of the stupendously rewarding Aro Video and lovely Wellington Public Library, I've never had occasion to share a file. What is in those files that people are people sharing? Is it, I don't know, copies of bloody 'Sucker Punch' or Lady Gaga songs (or whomever, Katy Perry, I don't know) or what?

    Since Apr 2011 • 5 posts Report

  • Hard News: Limping Onwards, in reply to nzlemming,

    An English novel. Or a brick.

    Since Apr 2011 • 5 posts Report