I received a late xmas present last night from a school mate. I thought ahh yup – money, chocolates, game. This was not to be. After opening the parcel I find a copy of the National Party’s infamous ‘Ambitious New Zealand’ CD. I was quite excited actually, to be able to finally view this completely. I put the CD in to find it made ticking noises whilst in the drive and didn’t seem to work. I took it out and tried again to get a message on my screen saying “Faulty disk, please remove immediately”
I wonder how many other people found that their “Ambitious New Zealand” CD’s made illegally by the National Party were faulty. Maybe the CD on behalf of the National party was stretching its arms and legs, breaking the boundaries a little. Or seeing it was distributed by the National Party maybe they would jut give NZ a clear example of how faulty National really is.
I didn’t miss much, did I.
December 30, 2007 at 12:47 am
Hi all
At least National put their hands up to the mistake made by the recording company, not hide behind some bullshit and change the law to suit.
Your thieving scum party would have followed this path no doubt, [Tui billboard].
Have Coldplay made a big deal of this, no, so this is old news, now move on boy.
Yours
Adolf
December 30, 2007 at 1:19 am
Adolf is right, if Labour had done it they would have denied it immediately and changed the law to make it so.
An eventual investigation would prove Labour wrong but by then Helen and co would be cooking up other dodgy schemes to spend taxpayers money bribing them.
National didn’t do anything wrong either – unless you’re saying that National too are not allowed to promote their alternatives to Labour?
[James: Piracy is unlawful]
December 30, 2007 at 2:27 am
Hi all
The Pledge Card was unlawful as well, hence the vile self preserving legislation passed in 2007 making it legal in 2008.
Tell me James, which of these 2 offences is reviled more in NZ? Also, did Coldplay give a flying fuck about it, not really. So get over it , it is a real dead issue now. Be more concerned about the back lash against the EFB, pledge card etc.
Also, your mates must be half wits giving CDs to you, usually pimple faced teens get music CDs, not political ones.
Yours
Adolf
[illuminatedtiger - I would appreciate it if you could leave the language at the door. It's just better for everyone that way.]
December 30, 2007 at 8:36 am
Hi all
Sorry about the languge, I will be happy if you removed the words vile and reviled (replace by hate).
At the end of the day the 2007 legislation legallising the Pledge Card was very bad and basically stuck a finger at the public.
Makes JK’s CD mistake look pretty minor don’t you think?
Yours
Adolf
December 30, 2007 at 11:26 am
I’m shocked that you think that “piracy” is the big crime here and not the lies/cheating and theft of tax payers cash to keep Labour in power.
That’s astounding.
January 14, 2008 at 3:53 pm
[...] posts so far have been enjoyable, my favourite James’ story of receiving a copy of John Key’s Ambitious for NZ DVD (our review here). James reports [...]
January 14, 2008 at 5:01 pm
I have just been made aware of this post by virtue of the last comments section at the top of your blog.
While not wanting to accuse you of being a liar, i don’t really believe your post.
The error you reported does not exist on any windows operating system i have ever seen and i have a long and wide ranging work experience using windows platforms.
If it was a Mac OS i doubt that they would have phrased the error “Faulty disk, please remove immediately”
Nor could i find any reference on the internet to the error you provided.
If of course the error was produced by a software error this would be more likely attributed to a drive problem (your cd/dvd ROM is faulty), rather than an encoding error on the disk, as a software error would have only occurred if the DVD was being read and therefore not faulty at all, as you claim.
Amazingly enough i was sent a dvd to my flat at least 3 weeks after they were recalled and other than being overly retarded, it worked for me.
So i ask James, can you post a screenshot?
Don’t get me wrong i don’t care if you do. It’s just that if you did i would find it hard to question your integrity in future.
Personally I think you needed an excuse to post the YouTube vid without looking like it being a blatant, pathetic attack on John Key.
Sincerly yours,
Jeff
January 14, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Jeff, I am sorry I sent it to a friend in New Plymouth.
Just the novelty of it…..
He can send it to you if you want.
January 14, 2008 at 5:23 pm
You went to the trouble and expense of sending a faulty disc to a friend just for the novelty of it?
Meh, i wouldnt worry about it mate.