Posts by Idiot Savant
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Craig: Actually, from looking at the closing scenes of episode 1 and comparing it with Google Earth, I think its the Millennium Centre, AKA the "armadillo".
(Assuming that is the building Emma is looking for, of course)
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Damn right. Can't wait for series 2 to hit the wires. Interestingly, creator Matthew Graham says it will be the last: "We decided that Sam's journey should have a finite life span and a clear-cut ending and we feel that we have now reached that point after two series."
If only they'd made that decision about the first season. It seemed to be a story with a very definite plot-arc, and I felt rather cheated by the (lack of an) ending.
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There's shagging in every episode, predatory lesbian aliens, the lot - Russell T. Davies appears to be having some fun.
And Welsh cannibals. I tell you, the country is an evil place.
Meanwhile, for all the The Wire fans, Slate has a comprehensive interview with David Simon. The next season will be asking why we aren't paying attention to the dire state of affairs explored in the earlier seasons - so it will be looking at the demise of journalism. Sounds interesting.
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Yeah, I've had that going through my head since she posted it.
Damn earworms.
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Hamish: we all know that politicians are liars. Very few of them however pretend that it is a virtue - at least, not where we can see.
It is really a question of how much dishonesty we are willing to stomach. And unfortunately we won't know how dishonest "honest Don" has been with us until we get to read the book and see those emails.
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Andrew:
Er... come on guys, private conversation there - who is the Whalerider? (I have my suspicions).
Please Cthulhu no. I don't know, and I don't want to know. That's Wishart territory.
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(Clatter of dice; Idiot fails SAN check)
H P Lovecraft said that that "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents". Reading the innuendo above, I think he was right.
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IP:
You keep repeating the claim that the documents were leaked, without any substance.
And to flip that around: National party supporters keep alleging that they were stolen by government hackers or some such conspiracy theory, on the basis that Brash has apparently asked his close associates and staff and all have denied it. Well, they're hardly likely to say "yes Don, I dunnit", are they?
It's a simple matter of evidence. We know that National is a hotbed of ambitious, backbiting politicians who will at least occasionally work to undermine the leader they publicly support. And we know that they leak material to the media if it serves their purposes - as all good politicians do. Furthermore, we know that there is no evidence of hacking, and we have people who say that they acquired the material from National Party Sources. I'd say that all makes for a compelling case for the existence of internal leakers.
But clearly, that would require admitting that National's PR that it is a united party full of upright, honest men who fully support the leader is false. So obviously, it must have been Labour's secret team of elite stealth hackers instead.
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David Slack:
The question it leaves us in this context is: in what other contexts, if any, does he take the view, for high, low, paternal, or other motives, that what he tells the public need not square with what he actually knows?
Well, I've documented a couple since the election:
And I have my suspicions about his sudden change of heart on asset sales and climate change as well.
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Tristan:
there is gathering speculation that the emails have already posined brash and the next person that it might take is John Key.
This means good news for Bill English.
Which makes him a prime suspect for leaking the material in the first place...