Categories: Social commentary, International events
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02/05/07
Censorship is dead. Long live the revolution
Since I live in a country that, thus far, doesn't honour the DMCA, I'm free to say "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0"
What's so significant about 16 pairs of hexadecimal digits? They're an encryption key for HD-DVD, and the MPAA are fra… more »
20/03/07
Lazy people fuck me off!
I work on level three of a seven-storey building - basement through five. Now, I don't think it's unreasonable to take the lift when you're going up three or four floors. Most people would agree, I suspect. So I'm not against the use of lifts, per se.
B… more »
31/10/06
Who needs commonsense when you've got the law?
This has to be the funniest thing I've read in months. Obviously there's something of a flaw in that electoral legislation that it takes a coin toss to decide who wins when one of the candidates is dead! more »
16/03/06
So, our population's too light for real broadband?
Well, based on population-density data and the OECD Broadband Rankings, I've established that we are being beaten by no fewer than three countries that have dramatically lower PD's than we do, and by another one that has the same PD as NZ. Those countri… more »
24/02/06
Here come the conspiracy theorists
The census forms are only just going out and already people are alleging that it's just one big trap.
One of usenet's resident loons says that they ought to be renamed to "Inland Rvenue entrapment forms", insisting that there's no way that Statistics Ne… more »
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