Comments on: Will Conroy be “Cnut of the Week” yet again?

By: Stilgherrian · Conroy’s Cnutful Hat Trick

Stilgherrian · Conroy’s Cnutful Hat Trick — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:08:38 +0000

[...] had so many nominations, ranging from “NSW wheat farmers” (who, despite record crops in some areas, are still [...]

By: Viveka

Viveka — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:50:57 +0000

Damn, I nominated Conroy in the wrong thread. It’s looking muddy! Hanging chad, anyone?

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:48:37 +0000

Nomination have now closed. Thank you everyone. Stilgherrian Live starts at 9.30pm Sydney time (in about 40 minutes) at stilgherrian.com/live.

By: Wolf

Wolf — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:35:02 +0000

I nominate fielding for his refusal to understand how the senate works and his inability to let the phone call to bush go so we can all get on with some real issues

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:04:59 +0000

Wow! So many nominations this week! I’ll close nominations at 8.35pm Sydney time, which is roughly 30 minutes from now.

By: Andrew Mitchell

Andrew Mitchell — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:03:20 +0000

It’s not all Conroy’s fault. It’s not all Kevin’s fault. I blame the federal ALP and everyone in the party for having such a stupid policy.

By: Bigmac

Bigmac — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:51:38 +0000

If this is true, I nominate all the people of Arkansas who apparently voted (by a 57% majority) a proposition to make adoption of children illegal by homosexual couples, thus allegedly resulting in the removal of 400 children from homes they were already placed into!!

http://digg.com/politics/Undeniable_proof_that_Arkansas_is_a_backwards_hellhole

By: Jay Preston

Jay Preston — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:27:23 +0000

I nominate Nathan Rees for obvious reasons. Great budget mate.

Special mention for lifetime Cnut award goes to Bill Caralis. If you are familiar with any of his 35+ radio stations (2SM anyone) you will understand how much this tightarse regular at Industrial Relations court has totally f&$@?! Radio.

By: mpesce

mpesce — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:24:05 +0000

And I also want to nominate Twitter, for blowing up on @KevinRuddPM and thereby losing his 670 followers. Every time you think its stable, Twitter assplodes again. It’s getting dull.

By: mpesce

mpesce — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:40:33 +0000

I will nominate Ted “Series of Tubes” Stevens, the current senator from Alaska, recently convicted of perjury, and who is slowly, slowly, slowly losing his senate seat as the votes cast in Alaska last week get counted.

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:34:35 +0000

@Ragnarok1971: I should point out that iiNet has joined the trial to prove its stupidity.

[iiNet CEO Michael] Malone’s main purpose was to provide the Government with “hard numbers” demonstrating “how stupid it is” — specifically that the filtering system would not work, would be patently simple to bypass, would not filter peer-to-peer traffic and would significantly degrade network speeds.

“They’re not listening to the experts, they’re not listening to the industry, they’re not listening to consumers, so perhaps some hard numbers will actually help,” he said.

“Every time a kid manages to get through this filter, we’ll be publicising it and every time it blocks legitimate content, we’ll be publicising it.”

Still, it gives me an excuse to mention that.

By: Ragnarok1971

Ragnarok1971 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:05:55 +0000

Optus and IINet for signing up to take part in the trial

By: Stilgherrian

Stilgherrian — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:48:19 +0000

@Michael Meloni: Wow, it's a bit early to say that @KevinRuddPM's entrance to the Twitterverse "turned sour", isn't it? I thought give it 48 hours, and it's only been a little over half that. @Andrew E: Actually you're right. This is the Prime Minster we're talking about, and they're online with a Twitter presence and haven't even worked out whether they're speaking in the 1st person or the 3rd. And it's not like they don't have people they can turn to -- though of course that'd mean going to someone new instead of the usual party hacks.

By: Andrew E

Andrew E — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:36:06 +0000

I’m nominating @KevinRuddPM, for creating so much debate with so little input and so little result. They might have hit the Twitter ground running if they’d thought it through a bit more.

By: Michael Meloni

Michael Meloni — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:36:00 +0000

Maybe it’s time the big man himself, Kevin Rudd, also shouldered the blame for filtering. Especially after his entrance into the twitterverse turned sour.