Posts by giovanni tiso
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Right, but if it's your intention to predict an outcome, undecided is not one of the options selected at the polling booth by those kind of numbers, so you have to work out how to project their behavior. What other way is there to do it than split them on proportion?
Er... liist them as undecideds? The Research 2000 poll in the US today tells me that Obama is leading McCain 50 to 42. That tells me where the race is and how many people currently support the two candidates, within the margin of error, etc. If OTOH you tell me that National has 51 per cent of the support of voters when in actual fact it's only bagged, say, 45 per cent of them, than the reporting of the poll is silly. It's already an imprecise science, let's not make it more so by arbitrarily deciding how undecided voters are going to behave.
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Not sure what else you can do
You can always list them as undecideds, as they do in the US of A.
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I find it really pleasing that the top google result for my name is this chick.
Nice! Spare a thought for my son, though: even though his name is spelt differently, my son's Google top result is always going to be this delightful fella. Unless Joseph finds a cure for cancer or something.
(The chances don't look great at the moment, unless said cure happens to be hiding in the pages of a comic book).
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People with the same name as me posting their psuedo political ramblings to the Letters to the Editor page of the Herald.
The top google result under my name is a young right-winger bozo's Facebook page. I rule the rest of the top results, but that's even worse because that will just make it look even more like we're the same person. To the, ahem, throngs of people who google my name, you understand.
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One year a friend gave me a copy of Rogue, by Fabio. We had a competition to see who could get the furtherest through it without
a)hurling it across the room
b)hurlingThis is not a book to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
(Dorothy Parker)
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Almost as clever as when they think "refute" means the same as "deny".
Or "imply" the same as "infer".
Shit, we're a boring bunch.
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Perhaps Americans do understand irony after all!
I'd add to the list people who make stupid generalisations about "Americans"
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Here's a hint: when your movie is two hours long and you can remove an hour without losing a line of dialogue, you're doing something wrong.
Whoah, that's so wrong for so many reasons, the latest of which has to be Wall-E.
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My inner pessimist says that the public would get very tired of it very quickly. To which the only response is "fuck them". The idea of Maori exercising real political power should not be considered automatically horrifying in this day and age, and the fact that it is says rather a lot about how far we still have to go as a society.
Yes, although so far this scenario has been played entirely inside your head, it has to be said - I wouldn't mind seeing it tested in reality. Not saying you're going to be proven wrong, necessarily, but we'd have to just see.
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Every news report about giant squid absolutely has to mention the 90cm pre-hensile penis thing.
Prehensile?!
Also, that one big eye looking out of the tank through a misty solution of formaldehyde just creeps me out.
And you're talking about the squid, right?