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Great graphic!
I don’t know anything about this event (click on the image to read a description) but the graphic just pulled me in. Great work! I don’t have any association with this event. I don’t know if the logo image is original to ‘Kim Knight – Qi Gong Instructor Auckland’ or not, but I like it.
A few thoughts on copyright
Intellectual property can seem very like real property, especially when it is yours, and not some faceless corporation’s. As a result people feel that once they own it—especially if they have made it—they should go on owning it, much as they would a house that they could pass on to their descendants. from a short […]
Is cloud-based e-mail ‘private’? Depends who you ask!
From Google’s friend-of-the-court submission to a case where the US Dept of Justice is trying to get access to Yahoo users’ e-mail for law enforcement officers to read: “…users who store their e-mail in the cloud enjoy a reasonable expectation of privacy that is protected by the U.S. Constitution.” “Society expects and relies on the […]
SEC says “FRAUD”
So the SEC says Goldman Sachs defrauded Its own investment ‘clients’ and cooperated with Paulson & Co to effectively weight the bets against them — bundling bad debt then betting against the bundle. Engineering failing investments to sell to ‘the little people’, retail investors or ‘pigs’ is a time-honoured (but dishonourable) tactic on Wall St. […]
Bill O’Reilly is a shallow man
Watch this to see how shallow and glib a denial can be.
National Security Agency chief says his iPad is ‘wonderful’
We’re not sure what this means, if anything, about the security of Apple products. But in a [US] congressional hearing today, Apple’s wonder-tablet received the very unofficial endorsement of the country’s top security geek. Calls it “wonderful”. via Forbes
Exaggeration not just limited to property spruikers
Have a look at this: Verizon Claims To Cover More Countries Than Actually Exist via http://consumerist.com Oops!
“It’s simple, details matter. A lot.”
ThePaepae.com ISN’T an Apple fanboy blog … there are plenty of those … although I have, for years, appreciated Apple’s elegance, lack of cheap compromise (except for those PowerBooks made by Acer! 5300(?) Yikity yik! during the sans-Steve-Jobs era) and their obvious investment in great industrial design. It’s far, far more than skin deep. This […]
Andrew King back into the fray
I saw Andrew King speaking up again in the NZ Herald recently. Good on him. He’s also fighting the good fight for oppressed landlords (in some circles they’re being painted as villain of the month/year/generation) in comments threads on interest.co.nz — that bastion of reasoned argument (now, where is that sarcasm emoticon when I need […]
Rear vision mirror?
Quite a nice comment over the weekend from fellow Cassandra financial advisor/columnist Brent Shearer who points out this comment isn’t completely true 100% of the time… “NZ has a dreadful record … for staying silent when speaking up is the responsible thing to do. How many people knew about … Bridgecorp, Nathans, Capital + Merchant […]
Critical? Who, me? Naaaah!
Some people might think my canine love story or Shaun Stenning: Monkey or Organ Grinder or Dean Letfus claims DEFAMATION! comments have been a bit harsh… but look at this recent campaign ad from Arizona… Imagine if I used language like that! (Roll on Friday, eh boys?)
Window dressing — Time to pay the piper?
I know and respect both of the former cabinet ministers Doug Graham and Bill Jeffries who, it was announced today, will face civil and criminal charges brought to bear by the Securities Commission in relation to the Lombard Finance collapse. There’s no doubt their role as window dressing was an act of ‘exchange’ — they […]
A likely story?
Accountants to blame, say Feltex Five Monday Apr 12, 2010 | NZ Herald The five former directors of Feltex Carpets are blaming their accountants for irregularities in financial statements. Well, it’s possible, I guess …
