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Ask
the staff # 9!
Here's your opportunity to ask the staff anything! Anything at all about
Natalie or whatever you feel like asking us, and we'll reply as best as we can!
Just send a mail to Dazza
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| Question: |
Have any of you met one another
in person, and if not, would you want to
meet each other in person? |
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| DAZZA: |
No,
I haven't. If I was in Europe or America I'm sure I would
have by now. I'm a pretty shy introverted guy around people I'm not comfortable with so it'd take me a little while before I am myself. But
other than being worried about that, yeah, I'd like meet some of my online friends someday. |
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| Sanj: |
i haven't met anyone but i wouldn't
mind it. it'd be fun. |
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| Kris: |
No, not yet. Atleast not to my knowledge.
But we've spent so much
time on ICQ that we know each others internet-personas pretty
well. And sure I wish to some day. |
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| JC: |
nope.. would love to.. |
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| Mart: |
I have never met any of the others face to face. I would be up for
meeting the other guys... they are crazy. |
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| Sub-Zero: |
on the staff? No. and sure. |
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| Alex: |
i've met a few people off the message
board. they were all
successful encounters, with much drinking involved. it was
really cool each time, and
i'm sort of unhappy that in 6.5 years i've only met 4 NPMBers. |
| Question: |
Where do you guys/girl see yourselves
in 10 or 15 years into the future? |
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| DAZZA: |
Hopefully
making money writing film scripts. I'm not sure where
I'd like to be living. I love Cape Town but this country has serious
problems. I'd like to live in Australia...if there weren't any Australians there.
Maybe Europe...I dunno. Other than that I'd like to be married
to my girlfriend, Andie...or at least still together.
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| Sanj: |
fit as a fiddle and ready for love. |
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| Kris: |
Living
in the mountains married to a psychologist. :) Seriously,
I'm
living my life on a "week-by-week" basis. I've
given up on planning my life
anymore than that because it rarely turns out the way you
want it. And it
also depends so much on other people. |
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| JC: |
hopefully married and focusing on
my wife..
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| Mart: |
Dream, dream, dream. Hopefully married,
with kids, living out of
Britain, with a big car. Ha ha.
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| Sub-Zero: |
still a slacker. |
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| Alex: |
no idea. my life is lived a week at a
time, with crazy unexpected
changes always going on. it was a crazy unexpected change
which brought me
to the US, and i'm doing a crazy semi-expected change in
a few weeks when i move to finland. so i really have no idea. i'll either be
a) dead in a gutter
b) snorting lines of bolivia's finest off a suite
at the las vegas hilton
c) your ad here |
| Question: |
If
or when Natalie gets married, will any of you still want
to work on
the site? |
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| DAZZA: |
Why
would her getting married change anything? Because she'd
be "unavailable"? I don't think anyone on the
staff is warped enough to think
they have a chance with Natalie. |
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| Sanj: |
i guess. |
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| Kris: |
That depends on alot of things, if
Natalie's personality changes into
a direction I'm not into (i.e "if she marries the 'wrong'
guy") I'd have a
hard time motivating myself to put in hours of work on the
site. |
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| JC: |
no, i will be focusing on her..see my
response to
question 2 above..hehehe.. |
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| Mart: |
Interesting, I don't think I do this
site in the hope that I will
marry Natalie Portman. I feel I do it as Natalie is an amazing
lady and she
inspires me to try and better myself. I have dedicated my
time to np.com, so
as long as the site is there I would express myself via it. |
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| Sub-Zero: |
Uh... |
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| Alex: |
i
don't see why it would make any difference. the only reason
it'd make a difference would be if i was "working" (hoho.
hoho) on the site to somehow try to woo her. then her marriage
would break up my plans. but since i work
(more hohos) around here for no reason whatsoever, it doesnt
matter. if she likes someone well enough to marry him, more power to them. |
| Question: |
I'd be quite interested to hear
each staff members brief thoughts on the
impending war. |
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| DAZZA: |
Touchy
subject.
Lemme start by saying that these are nothing more than my
opinions. I never claim to know everything.
Saddam is a bad man and the Iraqi people would probably be
better off
without him. But I do not agree with this war. There are
just too many things that don't add up.
If it's about saving the people of Iraq where was the concern
during the
last decade or two? And if we're now so humanitarian what
about all the
other awful leaders around the world who make their people
suffer? Why Iraq
and not Zimbabwe?
So is it the threat? Possibly. But for the first time Iraq
was looking
serious about disarming. How can you attack when they've
finally begun to
co-operate? What is the point of the weapons inspectors if
nobody cares what
they have to say? And if America knows for sure the Iraqi's
have weapons of
mass destruction, why not tip off the inspectors and please
everyone?
But I'm also annoyed and disillusioned with the UN. They
need to make a
decision and stick to it. Even if it means sanctioning USA
and Britain. If
they feel the war is illegal, which I think it technically
is, then they
must stand up and do something about it. You can't have countries
doing
whatever they want. International law must be enforced. What's
to stop
Pakistan going to war with India for Kashmir now? USA and
Britain can do it
so why can't they?
The bottom line is innocent people are going to die in the
bombings and
attacks. And each person that dies is gonna have a son or
a father or a
brother who will now hate the killer country. I worry that
this is just
going to fuel the hatred in the region. Plus the US has a
very poor record
of doing a good job after wars. Hell, Saddam and Osama became
strong because
of US support. Who's to say the next guy they put in power
won't eventually
do the same?
But perhaps worst of all we've gone from a situation of total
unity after
9/11 to where Muslims hate the west and USA hates France
and France hates
Britain and Russia....man, it's just a total screw up. There
is so much
hatred and it can only lead to more heartache. And people
like Saddam and
Osama must be laughing their asses off. It's exactly what
they would want.
Perhaps I'm a silly idealist but I honestly believe the way
to solve these
problems is with understanding and compassion...not shock
and awe. |
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| Sanj: |
i think it's the best thing that's ever
happened to me. i can't
wait to watch the rest of it on tv.
i'm not really for it
or against it. i guess that if they can get rid of
saddam hussien then that's a good thing. innocents die.
that happens a lot. it's too bad we live in this world. |
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| Kris: |
De-throning Saddam = good
Killing innocent people = bad
Back in the September last year I was pretty much against
it (as I am with
most Bush-ideas). But since then alot has happened and I'm
finding myself
congratulating US & UK for getting their hands dirty
to do their job,
because it certainly wasn't gonna go away by itself. That
france and germany
took this opportunity to promote the "US isn't the boss
of the world"-idea,
which is an idea I support, was way bad timing and a bit
cheap. And even
though I am a pacifist at heart, I can't deny this is something
that had to
be done. But what do I know, I'm from sweden, known for being
neutral and
just observing things... |
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| JC: |
ermmm, what *impending* war?? more like
undeclared
war.. seriously, the US had s/ops inside Iraq last
year..
ok, that was *brief*.. |
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| Mart: |
Oh
god, to be honest, I actually feel that the way this has
all been
handled my the UK government is very admirable. There has
been a threat from
Iraqi government to many people, even those living within
its boundaries. I
do not feel they can be trusted, based on past cases, and
there is no reason
they would have changed. UN inspectors were removed during
Clinton, that
should have been sorted then, putting them back now clearly
did something,
but only with the combined threat of force. Iraq stalled,
not giving full
information... discrepancies in their arms dossier were constantly
found,
and no evidence of what happened to their chemical / biological
agents they
possessed. The UN threat collapsed with the attitude of the
French and
Russians, namely vetoing any resolution that threatened military
action. But
surely that is the point of the UN? It cannot say 'please
show me where your
chemical weapons are' it has to say 'tell me where they are
or else!'. Force
had to be used to stop the UN from being weak. Before WWII
there was the
'league of nations' which had no power at all. The UN cannot
fail, its
resolutions must be taken seriously. Now war has started,
I think it will be
whole heartedly beneficial. Civilians are not being targeted
by the very
accurate bombing, and the army is being given every chance
of surrender.
After the conflict, Iraq will be a much better place, admittedly
after a
hard period of time. This will be funded by oil sales, it
seems, with the
money going directly to Iraq. It always seems insensical
to put the conflict
down to oil - the world supplies of oil drown the Iraq supplies,
any
conflict cost would out weigh the gain from oil, and the
oil will be sold to
regenerate Iraq. That is a summary of my feelings, but it
is a very complex
issue. Sorry. |
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| Sub-Zero: |
Death to America! |
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| Alex: |
it's a complicated issue really. saddam
is a bastard, yes. bush is a bastard, but a more subtle one.
americans are all very subtle about their
bastardness, until they get caught (see: enron) and then
it all goes to
poop. i don't think the war is such a great idea, seeing
as it'll almost
certainly have far-reaching implications, such as everyone
and their
grandmother wanting to fly more planes into american buildings.
they should
hire a team of SUPER SNIPERS to take out saddam, and then
the job's done.
none of this war business. so my official stance is SADDAM
SUCKS, BUT WAR
SUCKS TOO, SO I'LL JUST GO PICK MY NOSE AND IGNORE IT ALL. |
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