Posts by Don Christie
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My review:
Absolute Power brings down Government...
Could someone please let them know?
(ok, haven't read it, even at speed, but I would like a prize)
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I've seen a few more pieces putting forward the argument that the drawn out campain is beneficial -
I agree. They are getting media attention for their positive aspects as well as their negative ones. The campaign is robust and sometimes petty but in general that debates and speeches I have seen or read have great. Can you imagine Key and Clark doing a dozen two hour head to head debates over the next few months? It's good for democracy.
Neil, you have only just discovered "Craig's rule of equivalence"?
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Neil, where are these "more votes"?
NYT says "she still trails Mr. Obama in the popular vote and the delegate count".
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The fact that you cannot find this service locally is probably because there is not enough business to support a service like this in NZ to the scale needed to make it economic.
No, it's because of the lousy peering model Telstra and Telecom introduced 4 years ago.
Sucks, but may revert to something useful again sopmeday soon.
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Good. This probably puts both parties on a reasonably equal footing WRT commitment to IT infrastructure.
The TV report mentioned focusing on municipals, schools hospitals and business first. That is pretty similar to the MUSH networks that have been or are being rolled out so not much new there AFAI can tell. Fibre to homes is something that has been mooted for a while and good to see it being taken up and run with.
Free access for business to KAREN would be a great and very simple thing instead of the shonky bloody way access to that *existing* advanced network is run now.
Free Wifi is something a bunch of us in Wellington are working on as well.
Stephen Moratti, I whole heartedly agree. As I see it the problem is similar to good roads. All they do is facilitate access to drinking dens and other places of vice. We should stop building and maintaining them.
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I lost my way, once.
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Whoah. What Craig said...I agree.
(with stomach unchurned).
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Now maybe APN went nuclear too early,
No shit. Bit like the way they reacted to the reporting of the John Key "wages" gaff. Is there a track record forming? Should Scoop have a page a month for each APN action that has curtailed freedom of speech? Where are the Mugabe posters now?
I don't think this is journo vs jorno. It's corporate vs an individual. And I agree, from personal experience, even the hint of this sort of stuff is very chilling.
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I am amazed at the amount of money the FG seem to have to cloth their bands and run their shows. Does it all come from their individual supporters? How wide is that support in NZ?
Not a fan of repressive regimes myself, but nor am I a great fan of cults.
The Zapatistas are a very different beast, honest at least. Conflating the two is disingenuous.
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Thanks Simon and Samual. I realise is should have attributed my William the Conq. claim.
"Who killed Cock Robin?" "I," said the Sparrow,
"With my bow and arrow, I killed Cock Robin."Harold was know to his Sasonax mates as "The Cock" for reasons that are unclear to historians today.
Was William displaying poor taste with that nursery rhyme? An ungracious winner of battles, thief of yeomen hearts?
Perhaps this should be a topic for the next enthralling installment of Media 7.