Posts by Gareth Ward
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Re the iPhone - you can't do it over any hard-wired format, as the dock connector/headphone out only handle music, not phone calls.
What you're after is an A2DP Bluetooth capable car headunit. That will stream music AND phone calls wirelessly with the 3.0 OS, even fading your toons as a call comes in etc. Will be in the many hundreds of dollars though I suspect.
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Key has read the mood of an electorate not hungry for radical change
This seems about right - he's a perfect "modern conservative" in some ways. He gently reassures the country that we're going to keep truckin on because everything's pretty much fine as is.
That doesn't work for me personally, as I'd like to keep lifiting NZ in various ways, but works in the polls when you're at the tail end of a pretty sunny period in NZ history.It completely undermines his "keep the best and brightest in NZ" lines of course.
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Stephen I read that as someone murdering someone by wringing their neck with my pantywaist. Plenty of DNA to go around in that case...
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You'd be forgiven for not noticing, because 'Ad-gate' was apparently a more important political story than Parliament giving Police powers to forcibly take DNA from alleged criminals without consent or judicial approval.
Abso-fucken-lutely. How about for one second we all take off our Duncan Garner Halloween masks and realise that a public discussion with the Minister of Finance is actually a potentially useful thing? And that while he's a career politician (and the aww-shucks-I'm-not-wearing-a-tie-and-saying-Aussie-is-nauseating), being two years out from an election with a 30-odd point majority government means this isn't exactly a vote grab?
And yet DNA-seizure from innocent people just merrily rode it's way through both sides of Parliament. Christ on a stick.
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The one time I "did" Movember I had three different guys say "come on mate, it's not meant to look good". I wasn't doing anything remarkable, but because it wasn't comedy horseshoe I was some kinda poofta...
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The English thing seems pretty legit - apparently TVNZ7 is running a pretty wide-ranging "Focus on the Economy" theme. A live-feed-twitterfied program fronted by Mr Economy seems all very modernTV2.0...
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a completely different kind of Batfuck Crazy:
She calls the sun salutation... the "Son" salutation...
In 1989 the Vatican issued a document saying the practice of Eastern traditions like yoga "can degenerate into a cult of the body," warning Catholics against mistaking yoga's "pleasing sensations" for "spiritual well-being."It's refreshing to see good old-fashioned Christianity still has its place. Ya know, one branch proclaiming "pleasing sensations" from "the East" as a bad thing whilst another branch co-opt it and make it all Christ-y...
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"If they do nothing other than teach our children to read and write and do maths and be good socialised New Zealand people then they've done a really good job."
Good lord.
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Apple NZ finally realised the USD/NZD ain't 50c anymore - everything (new and old) got a decent price slash (about 20% for Macbook Pros and the new Macbook).
A 27" new iMac for $2900 seems stonking value when you look at the old 24" prices which sat around $3.5-$4k (although that says more about the old pricing than new value) -
Trevor Mallard was then, is now, and ever shall be a waste of perfectly good skin
I'm sure he'll appreciate the compliment on his complexion... =)