Posts by David Ritchie
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AOL has just bought Bebo for USD850M -- about $20/customer.
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As usual, Ben "Bad Science" Goldacre strikes a badly-needed note of clarity.
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Back when raising the school leaving age to 18 was an freakin' NZ First policy (1990 I think), I had the dubious pleasure of spending a lunchtime sitting in our school library, listening to the candidates for my electorate wank on to the student body (case in point: Peter Dunne).
Anyway, I asked the NZF candidate about students like myself who were in the "young half" of the class -- turning 12 while their classmates turned 13, for example -- and what impact this would have on my 7th form year when, at the end of it, I would be 17. She helpfully informed me that the situation was to do with "birthdays" (yeah, no shit) but failed to provide me with any workable solution.
Did I mention she was an immigrant from somewhere in Europe? Presumably *white* migrants are okay, even if they're shitty politicians and can't fob off a 14yo (whose voice has barely broken) with a pat answer like "yes, we're aware not everybody will be 18 when they finish 7th form, it's a good point, blah blah blah".
3 years earlier in a similar forum, Jim Bolger was asked a question by a male student with long, blond hair, and then referred to 'her' in his reply. D'oh.
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SMH: It's Bennelong, long time coming.
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Did you spot the first three letters of the YouTube content ID in the link Graeme posted.... ?
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I have to say that one thing which came out of the MediaDefender email malarkey was that I've gone and changed the password to my gmail account.
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Anything else is not just hyperbole (and getting back to the sport=war metaphor talked about earlier) it just plain inaccurate.
A slight derail, but it warmed this curmudgeon's heart when the latest series of Doctor Who used "decimate" in its correct form.
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If Impey's so keen for this to go ahead, why doesn't he take his hardware and staff off shore to, say, Australia, and try broadcasting ads there on Sunday mornings for a while? I'm sure they could show some choice-as toy and fast food ads.
Thom: don't make me choose.
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Since when is Phil "Golf" the Foreign Affairs Minister? Don't tell Winston!
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Argh: heckles = hackles.