I worry about A.I
The Hoyts theatre chain has an appalling website.
I'm hanging out for an Android phone
Telling people they deserve the laws they get for not paying attention to politicians is just short hand for saying only politicians have rights.
Apart from being annoyingly awkward, Bliuetooth has one particularly annoying facet....
The nonsense the media says
Markup and styling are inseparable in web technologies, so they ought interact appropriately
The pace of technical developement is ferocious, and the diffilculty in keeping up is especially troubling for computer Operating Systems.
Prescriptionists who insist 'man' is gender neutral as talking bollocks, not English
Is it economic competiton that drives quality down?
Bloody Ldap nonsense!
What sort of ignorant coward advises others not to go to Gallipoli because it scares them?
Eclipse sucks.
I just checked out Firefox 3.5's geolocation feature, expecting it to maybe get my city and it pinpointed my home address.
It's quite easy to compel standards compliance
A long time ago I took Economics 101 at university and dropped it as a load of bollocks.
Websites that rely on flash should be added to a black list so we can all go about blissfully ignorant of their existence
Doesn't patronising parochialism get your goat?
Every computer language has flaws.
I chose Ruby over Python
I'm thinking people who bang the Law and Order drum do it to drown out the voice of dissent and liberty.
NATO's aid to a successful rebellion does not give it ownership of the success.
Would someone, please, pay a good designer to work on desktops for Linux.
Android has a bit of a problem in it's variety of hardware.
I've just been watching a program about the future of media consumption, and it made the same old mistake about TV/Computer convergence that people always make.
How many movies do we see that end satisfyingly?
Troops killing civilians, no matter what rules they follow, are murderers...
New Zealand has the worst government it's had since the nineteenth century.
Aren't some of the connections between some scientific studies a bit obvious?
The very concept of patents on software is ridiculous, even more so the preposterous idea that prior art means anything.
Fantasies about reality and authority may comfort some, but have no place in civil governance
What difference is there between my ethical position and anothers' religious practice?
Corporate entitlement has gotten ludicrous
The mainstream media keeps whining that the world needs them to keep a check on power.
Mother Earth can be a real Mutha
Companies that abuse openly available standards (even if proprietary) really get on my wick. For instance...
Remeber the Jetsons? A world where automation meant people only needed to work an hour or two a day to afford a comfortable life. Who ever thought economics could work that way?
The National Party of New Zealand wants to make NZ citizens bitches for wealthy people; peasants servile to their needs.
The single most important thing for civil society is the rule of law and repression of corruption.
I am not scared of the wider world attacking me, my government oppressing me is the more credible danger
What's the point of news snippets for the brain dead?
Why did Fox's attempts to emulate Jon Stewart fail?
People eager to constrain their identity within a recognisable national sterotype are pissing me off
It's Anzac Day, and some moron just always has to piss me off on Anzac Day.
While watching a good documentary on the landings at Gallipoli, where Brit, NZ and Turk historians deliver succint summaries of events an ad-break had a driveling jingoistic slobber over the idea of patriotism and how lucky I should feel to have freedom given to me by past warirors.
As long as, it appears, they were lily white skinned.
I live in a country that like most has issues with the waxing and waning of colonisation and conflict of nationalities and race. A damn sight less disaster and shame than many have to deal with, but there's historical conflicts still shadowing us today. That's no big thing, it's in the nature of humanity and our grasp for wealth.
But for someone today to try some ham fisted socialisation and engineering by insisting everyone should honour past warriors who fight for what we've got, when, y'know, they were white and British (via heavy exploitation of the Union flag) when maybe plenty of people in NZ don't think British warriors are something to be too grateful about - including those of us who had relatives lives squandered in a stupid British war fought over what European power got access to exploit the rest of the world (like y'know, NZ) offends the hell out of me.
I recall Anzac day as the time we learned to tell those sort of jingoistic wankers to fuck off. Not grovel with them.
The unthinking sort of retarded oaf that's been over-priviledged with a brain when it seems their spine is all they need to walk lockstep with orders that imagines flying a flag and aping thankful words to other peoples sacrifices makes them wise in the world drains my empathy for humanity.