Posts by BenWilson
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Well you do know what you looked like when you were younger, whereas I can only judge you by what other people of various ages look like.
IIRC, you are quite small. That helps a lot.
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If "impacts upon others" stopped unions taking industrial action then industrial action would never happen. If it didn't adversely affect someone then it would just be ignored.
There's an aspect of proportionality to all of this. If industrial action causes catastrophic damage to huge numbers of people, far in excess of the interested parties, it's not justified. That's why I want to know the numbers. It's not irrelevant just because "principles" are involved. That's a cop out, a way of hiding self-interest behind words. Sure, we want to hear the principles, because even hearing what they are might shine a light on how reasonable they are. Preferably from the people these principles are supposed to be representing.
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Life need not be predicated on the ‘tyranny’ of the majority, the ‘sharp end of the spear’ is often vindcated and embraced down the track.
I don't think the tyranny of the minority is an improvement.
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I'm not sure if "my petition is bigger than your petition" is particularly useful. When did principles become a popularity contest?
I'm interested for informational purposes. Who, how many, why, where are they? Helps to inform whether this alleged union is actually representing who they say they are.
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Why thank you, very gallant of you to say, though you have not seen me by daylight.
Nor sober, but I'm still surprised.
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Well there are a few names you will never see on that list!
How about you make your own list, then compare sizes? If the rabble is 20 times the size of those making principled stands, where does that leave your principled stand? Somewhere near the Little Bighorn, I think.
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I expect there's actually quite a few actors outside of NZ who'd jump at the chance to work on The Hobbit and won't give a shit about SAG's boycott. I wouldn't shed a tear if there isn't one single American accent in the entire movie.
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And there is a roll of what I predict will be termed, dishonour, in the near future at http://www.PetitionOnline.com/nzhobbit/petition.html which confirms that some generally liberal people have lost the plot on this one.
It's starting to just look like a general roll-call of the industry, man. The plot is simple - they want to work on The Hobbit, even if you don't want them to.
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dyan, you must have a Ring of Power stashed away. I thought you were early 40s, at the most.
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It doesn't seem gratuitous to mention that she's married to Jackson. But it is rather rude not to speak of her other qualifications to fame.
I personally think of her as a voice, having listened to her give hours of director's commentary on LOTR, in which it became pretty clear that she was a major force in the creative direction of the movie. I constantly felt that she and Phillipa were the ones who went in to bat for the fans, when Jackson wanted to over-Hollywoodize the story.
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