Two things I really hate about Microsoft today are:
Unlike Apple, Microsoft appear to have a 1-child family policy. Check out the Windows 7 family pack. You get three licenses (dad + mum + 1-child) compared to 5 in the Apple family pack. And the price is horrendous compared to Apple’s family pack price! Ok, you say, Apple’s coming new release 10.6, is just a service pack for 10.5. Really? And Win 7 is not a service pack for Vista? Yeah, right! I think that Windows zealot Paul Thurrott makes it …
Dr. Glenn Peoples writes:
As plenty of readers will already know, New Zealanders are currently taking part in a postal referendum on the issue of whether or not a parent smacking a child under any circumstances should be a crime. I have already voted no.
In 2007 Sue Bradford of the Green Party was successful in having section 59 of the crimes act repealed and replaced with a new version. The former version provided exceptions to the law concerning assault, providing a defence. It permitted parents to use “reasonable force” in the …
We have Vodafone wireless home phone ($25 per month) + one best mate. Great idea, but it has never worked properly
Today’s trial…
Call Vodafone.
Their answering system message says it is 8:00am.
Their answering system message says I have called outside biz hours which are 8:00am to 8pm. Doh!
Eventually get answer from foreigner. Explain problem. Get transferred.
Next foreigner I can hardly hear the level is so low. Transfers me again.
This time I get an answer, but wrong department, but at least I can hear the guy …
Source: Stuff
ACT party leader Rodney Hide has warned Prime Minister John Key of a public backlash if the government ignores the result of the controversial smacking referendum.
Snubbing the referendum result sends a message that politicians know what’s best for the people and that the government is running a "nanny state", Hide wrote in a letter delivered to Key’s office on Friday.
The referendum question asks: "Should a smack as part of good parental correction be a criminal offence in New Zealand." The postal ballot, which is voluntary, opened on July 31 …
Yup, 2 Degrees is here and you can check out their pricing here:
http://www.2degreesmobile.co.nz/pricing
It certainly looks like an improvement over the overpriced incumbents. 9 cents per text. Lots of free “magic” TxTs when you top up. 97% coverage.
Here is their “about the company” page:
Two Degrees Mobile Limited (as we are officially known) is New Zealand’s newest mobile company. But we’ve been around a little while, and we’ve been busy. Over the last few years we’ve spent $250 million constructing a brand new mobile network in New Zealand.
2degrees is a New Zealand …
Dr. S. H. Watkins, Executive Director of the National Academy of Scientism, has released this astonishing photo from one of the Top Secret (but lost) Mars rovers.
The photo caused immediate controversy in the scientific community. Many researchers called for a conference to be held on Mars in order to carry out an empirical study. The National Scientism Foundation is already raising funds for the construction of a spacecraft.
Watkins, visibly hyper, struggled to maintain his composure in the news conference: "Another Mt. Rushmore was bound to turn up somewhere in the …
If you are anything like me, you may wince at the thought of trusting Google with all your personals. Furthermore, you may shudder at the thought of America’s most liberal president having direct access to Google. If so, then the following snippet from PCMag should scare you:
With all rational explanations shot down, there’s only one other, slightly more sinister possibility: Google has a lot of juice in the Obama administration, and they’re throwing their weight around. After all, Schmidt is one of the president’s technology advisors, and Obama’s deputy CTO …
Dear President Obama,
I note with dismay your appointment of Dr. John Holdren as Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Although Dr. Holdren’s experience in academia and administration may be adequate, his publicly expressed views regarding population control disqualify him from holding office.
I will set aside objections to Dr. Holdren’s scientific competence. Despite his strong scientific credentials, he advanced theories in the 1970’s and 1980’s that …
Stephen C. Meyer podcasts on intelligently designed DNA
The Making of an ID Theorist: Stephen C. Meyer and the Origin of Life
Click to play the podcast NOW! [podcast]http://intelligentdesign.podomatic.com/enclosure/2009-06-24T12_34_29-07_00.mp3[/podcast]
This episode of ID the Future tells the story of how philosopher of science Stephen C. Meyer first began his quest for the origin of life. How did one of the architects of the intelligent design movement move from the oilfields of Texas to the study halls of Cambridge to pursue the mystery of where biological information originated? Listen in and find out. (MP3 …
Dr. Glenn Peoples responds to liberal Ian Harris.
Ian Harris tells us (“Honest to God,” Dominion Post, [Dominion Post. Saturday July 11, 2009. Page B5], reproduced at the YesVote website at http://yesvote.org.nz/2009/07/17/the-bibles-harsh-view-rejected/) that we should reject the “harsh views” on child rearing found in the Bible.
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Mr Harris, unfortunately, joins many of those who promote the criminalisation of good parents by muddying the waters. He notes, for example, that someone who defends the right to use physical discipline also believes that children …
Ben Witherington III, one of the leading evangelical scholars alive today, will be visiting New Zealand for a conference at East City Wesleyan Church (Auckland) next weekend. Dr Witherington will be speaking on “The Johannine Literature: The Legacy of the Beloved Disciple” in two parts and also “Personal Observations about the Church around the Globe”. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to hear him.
More here.
Source here.
SPCS Media Release 22 July 2009
The Society has filed a further 28 complaints against Company Director Stephen Peter Crow with the Legal Team of the Companies Office and the Enforcement Unit. It alleges he has committed 28 breaches of the Companies Act 1993 as a director of CVC Group Ltd and sole director of Vixen Publications Ltd in his use on official company documents of the company name “Eden Digital Ltd” (Co No.2122974 – formerly Vixen TV Ltd,) which was incorporated on 23 April 2008 and first registered as …
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This is an interesting development re criminalizing what we are and are not “allowed” to say.
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/07/20/1550224/Ireland-Criminalizes-Blasphemy
Press Release from the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards Inc.
FOUR of Steve Crow’s porn companies of which he was sole director have gone belly up. Critics of his hard-core putrid porn promotion will be crowing loudly, but creditors, including about 30 New Zealand companies, will not be. The shrivelling of his now anaemic porno empire has left him impotent he claims to recompense any of his many unsecured creditors who are owed at least $714,000. In addition his companies owe at least $323,753 to the IRD. The …
Press Release from the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards Inc.
The Society has today filed 16 complaints against Porn Company Director Steve Crow with both the Legal Team of the Companies Office and the National Enforcement Unit, pertaining to 16 breaches of the Companies Act 1993. These alleged offences relate to his use on official documents of the company name “Eden Digital Ltd” over a period of five years, before such an entity was ever registered with the Companies Office.
Eden Digital Ltd was first registered on 26 March …
Press Release from the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards Inc.
This morning Stephen Peter Crow (Steve Crow) – NZ “Porn King” – had his former wife, Senior Police Sergeant Gaylene Sharon Rogers, resign as co-director of HWGA Co Ltd (Co. No 661946), according to the Companies Office on-line records. This leaves HWGA Co Ltd, which has its registered office at 45 Stanhope Rd, Ellerslie, Auckland, with only one director – Steve Crow (Rogers was appointed on 20 April 2006 and unlike Mr Crow was entitled to vote at director’s …
MandM have posted a link to a video of Senator Jim Demint on a Proposed Hate Crimes Amendment in the USA. I loved this line from the speech (starting at 7 minutes and 30 seconds):
Today only actions are crimes. If we pass this legislation, opinions will become crimes. What is to stop us following the lead of European countries and American college campuses where certain speech is criminalized? Can priests, pastors, rabbis, be sure their preaching will not be prosecuted? In Canada…
Here is the YouTube video link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM6wtYp2o5E
Three of Steve Crow’s porn companies of which he was sole director have gone belly up. Critics of his hard-core putrid porn promotion, including the Society, will be crowing loudly, but creditors, including about 30 New Zealand companies, will not be. The shrivelling of his now anaemic porno empire has left him impotent he claims to recompense any of his many unsecured creditors who are owed about $714,000. In addition his companies owe at least $323,753 to the IRD. The debt will probably increase once the final liquidator’s reports are …
