Posts by bob daktari
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As much as I agree with you on the battles that Pike should spark - those same flash points are found in the world of beneficiaries and the seemingly lack of care and action surrounding the vast number of the young who are under employed (if lucky) or simply stagnating for lack of opportunities in the workforce
Where is the anger? Are we all just numb to our reality trying to get by these days?
Of course there are many who are angry, incensed by the treatment of the miners families and the miners themselves... they are on social media and blogs (http://thestandard.org.nz/tag/pike-river/) - they won't find you, you have to go find them
Thing is never expect middle class liberals to fight a class war
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Hard News: Softly, softly, in reply to Russell Brown,
Take a look at the graphs in the Vox article. He has real problems.
all of which are current, short term (probably and potentially) and suggest not a lot except to reinforce the authors case - again all short term, theres a much bigger picture and longer game at play... the Ukraine is but a part - Russia's ongoing involvement in Syria is also one example
The USA most certainly doesn't want a war and will do everything in their power to ensure this doesn't happen as will Russia...
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I'd be interested (but aren't holding my breath) as to what the US involvement in the destabilisation of the Ukraine and formation of the crisis was - something we're still very much in the midst of.
I doubt Putin is doing anything but playing for time, which is very on his side...
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Hard News: Friday Music: Content with…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
yes and no - most promoters know who are real talented at their craft... they also know who sell tickets - the two are often not the same
Generally though we've been well served for a long time by our local promoters, they serve up a good mix of the musically awesome and the popularist and market them accordingly (clue - one market is often targeted via the use of girls in bikinis on promotional material)
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Hard News: Friday Music: Content with…, in reply to Russell Brown,
I'd say in relation to dance music its been over a decade of some gaming the system, its the target that moves the underlying motive always being the same - used to be way more about motivating a audience to vote/like/preview
Its not like the retailer in question isn't against manipulating their chart themselves , (or I would wager most online retailers), - its the fact others are doing so out of their control that makes them grumpy
tbh I find it all quite bemusing... and a little punk rock plus very music biz
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oh yeah... Ron Hardy mix from 87 - its a sunny day, whats not to like?
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Chart boosting as you've called it is older than EDM and would no doubt stretch back to the very first compiled chart I'd wager. If anything you've got to hand it to some genres and the people within those genres in their being able to build businesses around fixing things on a chart -beatports moans ring hollow to my ears as does a huge chunk of the souless crap they peddle
Is buying votes any worse or different than asking people to vote the audiences lottery wheel of funding? Yes is the answer but only by degrees I'd suggest in response... @peace got a vote outta me today, I love the musical road they travel...
Is it all that different than "paying" for a free download with a like?
Gaming the system ain't new... it just seems to be resident in a certain part of Mexico city currently - if only I could say the same for EDM
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Hard News: Weirder yet, in reply to Russell Brown,
Aaron also referred to his bipolar syndrome on Facebook yesterday. It seems there are people looking to his welfare, which is good, because things are pretty wild at the moment.
oh, cool, it does sound like he needs his friends at the moment... and to focus on his music not a negative experience
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Hard News: Snowden and New Zealand, in reply to Steve Barnes,
Wake up... and demand our spy services are closed down pending a fully independent review and possibly new entities formed that serve us not some foreign interests - I think we're safe from invasion or whatever the hell they protect us from in the interim
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another installment http://dubdotdash.blogspot.co.nz/2014/05/aaron-tokona-on-kim-dotcom-pt-ii.html
Given there are allegedly eight parts in the series by part 3 I expect a full on denouncement of the sugar additives used in the tea room (the horror)