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Published by Matthew Davidson on Sun, 29/07/2012 - 11:57am
I was reading about the increasing scope of Jewish dietary restrictions in post-biblical antiquity (I think it was in Rugby League Week, or maybe 4x4 Magazine), as succeeding generations of Rabbinical scholarship interpreted Leviticus more and more expansively, and it occured to me that this is a classic example of an inherent problem with blacklists. Once you've committed to maintaining one, you've also implicitly conceeded that it's only going to grow larger over time.
Published by Matthew Davidson on Sat, 28/07/2012 - 11:37am
An open letter to the Coffs Coast Advocate:
Dear Sir,
I wish to protest in the strongest possible terms over the lack of photos of Cr. Kerry Hines in your publication.
On most days the photos are scarce and shamefully small, and although I regret that I cannot now locate this issue in my collection, I am certain that once there were no photos of her at all!
Published by Matthew Davidson on Sat, 28/07/2012 - 10:07am
When I submitted this comment:
Is it beyond the Advocate's capabilities to find a photograph of the subject of this article? Or is it Advocate policy to only run photos of their advertising clients?
The article in question was hastily amended to replace the photo of Cr. Hines with a photo of Rodney. The comment of course was not published.
Published by Matthew Davidson on Tue, 24/07/2012 - 6:24pm
I seem to be making some more progress in adumbrating (word of the day) the contours of acceptable discourse in the Coffs Coast Advocate's reader comments.
Published by Matthew Davidson on Sat, 21/07/2012 - 8:49am
I'm not sure whether I should be taking this personally. I've lost another final sentence of plodding curmudgeonly wit at some point in the Advocate's comment approval process:
The way that this issue is framed, even by people who should know better, is profoundly misleading. These are not "anti-downloading measures". Viewing data from a remote machine without first downloading it would be a very neat trick.
Published by Matthew Davidson on Wed, 20/06/2012 - 2:33pm
I only read the Australian Financial Review once a week (on a good week) these days, but I've held it in very high regard for a long time. For anybody interested in following events that have actual consequences, as opposed to celebrity gossip or party political sideshows, it's Australia's only quality daily newspaper. But lately I've been getting the distinct impression that standards are slipping.
Published by Matthew Davidson on Sun, 17/06/2012 - 1:30am
Douglas Adams was quite wrong about this: If the problem is somebody else's, it's not invisible; it's endlessly fascinating. If the problem is our own, that is when we find ourselves somewhere between reluctant to and incabable of recognising it's existence.
This is why computer games are so addictive. They permit us the joy of finding a solution without the burden of having to live with it's conseqences.