Posts by Don Christie
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OT - except they keep getting mentioned.
I really think PA should switch off those personalised icons until the system serving them up can cope with the load.
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Whist I am in PA mode Sam Vilain has several posts on Internet Peering and a possible solution:
We work together but that doesn't stop me from agreeing with most of his posts on this issue, even when he's channeling Ayn Rand.
Money shot:
How can you sell an "internet" connection if the vision that underpinned the founding of the internet is not just flaunted, but poked with a sharp stick and then squirted with juice from a bent lemon peel?
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and forgive me for shooting fish in a bucket
Eh, what, is that frowned upon here?
Didn't we have a handful of enjoyable threads doing just exactly that on Coddington's thin understanding of of the mechanics of statistics?
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It also ignores ease with which one or two players can totally dominate the NZ market place, both horizontally and vertically - hence the failure Rod talks about.
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One of the main issues, for NZers wanting to exchange data with other NZers has nothing to do with capacity. There is shitloads of that.
It has to do with the very well documented and very well understood fact that two main Telecos, Telecom and Telstra refuse to play nicely on the data exchanges.
That is why Radio NZ place servers in the *USA* to deliver streaming audio to Xtra and Telstra clients. That is why YouTube would not have been invented here.
Yes, it *is* stupid, very stupid, and that is why Rod is talking about nationalisation. The property pincher that he is.
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A really interesting observation. I've heard similar statements maybe a dozen times over the last week -- people who initially favoured the status quo, but then changed their minds when they saw the arguments presented by their own side.
And to tidy up my rather blunt statement before - seeing the sort of disciplinary approach these folk seem to want to use the status quo to justify (you know, spare the rod and spoil the child) is what convinces me that the status quo and probably the Burrows amendment are not what is required.
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I recently discovered that I am in fact one-sixteenth curmudgeon.
Only 1/16th?
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I thought this was a pretty good response to the anti-Asian "new immigrants bad" but "my wife's from Singapore" line put about by Brash and Franks a while ago.
The squeals of anguish now that folks like my own good self are being targeted are a wonder to behold. Trouble is, no one seems to see the irony. Is it because white folk are less likely to be Muslims (in some minds at least)?
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Well David, is your own "DISCUSS" button broken or what?
I have a child. I am not a perfect parent. I am at times a poor one. I am sure sometimes I would end up stealing the pen, which is still *legally* theft BTW. Given that analogy, plus the fact that so many fuckwits seem to be lined up against the bill places me more in favour than against.
Someone said:
its about breaking their will.
God, ain't that the truth. No matter what the punishment it is their will that needs to survive our parenting.
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I suspect the pro-choice phrasing was adopted so you couldn't come back with this argument (i.e. it's less one-sided than abortion).
Sure, but if you followed that to its logical conclusion you wouldn't be "anti" anything. Which I guess is the libertarians' somewhat reductionist point.
The rest of us live in a real world where gray is the normal scale and we research, discuss, disagree and feel our way to what might be a reasonable manner for society to run itself.