Posts by Simon Chamberlain
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Stuff are reporting that Untied Future have taken one seat.
Typo........or metaphor?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/vote08/4754563a28435.html (first paragraph)
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Deborah, that's what I've been doing. But sitting alone in a cold flat with a laptop and no alcohol makes it slightly boring.
(Next time I need to find a chatroom or something).
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evening all. I can report that overseas voting was bril. Simply download print, get witness (a person), sign & fax. Piece of cake.
Tactical voting all the way.
Now listening to National Radio but wine at 9am is a little early. The champers wil be flowing later.Agree 100% about how easy it was. If only following the election over here was as easy; I can't get TV3's streaming at all, and Radio NZ's keeps cutting in and out. The US election was much easier to follow ;)
And no champagne here.
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On the spam topic, Gmail has a useful way to determine who is spamming you: sign up (e.g. to an ACT mailing) as yourname+ACT@gmail.com. It will still get delivered to your inbox, but if they start spamming you, just add a rule that sends all emails to that address to your junk folder.
Now I must go listen to that VU; downloaded it after seeing it on Metafilter a few days ago, still haven't got round to unzipping and playing it.
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I can't read that any other way than 'stabbing of a teenager is a petty crime', which presumably isn't what he meant. But still, talk about not seeing the forest for the tiny sapling.
My interpretation was 'if we don't have zero tolerance for petty crimes like tagging, then people will take the law into their own hands and stab people'. Not quite as egregious as yours, but still pretty bad.
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Sure you've all seen it already, but electoral compass asks your opinion on various topics and tells you which candidate is closest to your position.
I got Obama. Furthest away from Huckerbee. Both of these make me happy.
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Did you see Richard Long in the Dominion yesterday? Going on about the spate of dairy robberies, and how bad it was, because 'some burglars turn into rapists'. Probably not many teenage dairy robbers do, though.
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Craig, you need to get with the programme ;-): contemporary mainstream morality is that violence is fine, but sex is the problem: Janet Jackson's nipple is more offensive than graphic violence; sex in GTA via Hot Coffee was far worse than the violence which was the whole point of the game, etc...
Anyway: Shakespeare is literature. And literature doesn't affect people. Only popular culture does. Clearly.
Russell: glad to see someone taking the Press to task on this. That article really annoyed me.
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White boy...going to miss your posts....good luck with everything....said more eloquently by others...etc etc....
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One job that amphetamines have been conclusively proven to be a poor idea for is warfare.
Bback when I studied industrial psychology, I read an article about some research during WW2 where they gave amphetamines to radar operators. Probably unsurprisingly, it enhanced their concentration and alertness.
On the shelving (also called plugging in the US) topic: there's a perception among those who've tried it that it enhances the effects (because more of the MDMA is absorbed). I'm not sure I've ever seen actual scientific evidence for this, though (I'm pretty sure there's nothing on Erowid, for one thing). Can anyone point me to anything definitive?