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Re:DAESH, not ISIL
Nor have I seen any Budist or Jews or Christians or Athiest or Hindu actually attack schools full of children like what happened in Beslan.
You want Buddhists torching schools and killing children? Here you are. All religion is fucked up, no exceptions.
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Re:What?
Citation Granted:
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Re:Public opinion doesn't matter
Interesting. I have just asked around the table who was able to watch videos at either tvnz news or tv3 news about the GCSB saga and found that out of three people, two had tried and neither were able to watch any of the clips. Admittedly, this is in a localised area but in my case I have been unable to watch any news video on the GCSB debate for the past two weeks. They just failed to load. Everything else seems to load fine but not videos related to the GCSB. Now I feel paranoid. It is probably a local problem, but has anyone else in NZ had this?
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Re:Public opinion doesn't matter
OP here. New Zealand has a Proportional Representation based governement. This makes it less of a two horse race as every vote counts. Quite minor parties will have representation in government. There are also quite small spending caps for campaigning leading up to elections. For the most part it works quite well, and I still believe it is one of the most truely democratic countries.
This is what makes all of this so much worse, it is the first time in living memory there has been such strong public opposition to a bill and it has been passed anyway. A recent poll suggests 89% of New Zealanders oppose the bill.
There is more than meets the eye here, the way the Prime Minister is forcing this through is very fishy to me, it seems like he is being pushed into it. Here is a quote from a recent press conference:
“Prime Minister, numerous legal jurors have informed us publicly that they disagree with you wholeheartedly, that you are taking broad powers, which would allow you to invade privacyand you are saying that all those people are wrong” a journalist said to Key. “Correct,” the Prime Minister said before immediately interrupting the rest of the question by asking, “Is this a question buddy?”
So, the Human Rights Commission, the Law Society and the general population don't want the bill to pass, and yet it does (just).
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Does it look like this?
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Re:Slashdot - interview this man
This is Kim spinning his own side of the battle. I think it covers your interview. And he has done no more or no less really then youtube, and people like youporn or redtube have.
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Re:Who's a good police force? You are! Yes you are
Media reports that there were shotguns in the house, two were sawn-off shotguns, and Kim locked himself in his safe room with one of the sawn-off shotguns. Kim didn't have a gun license, so owning these guns was illegal in NZ. Guns were to protect my family, says Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom
He had gun safes, shotgun in panic room was in gun safe and had 1 rubber bullet, and Kim was nowhere near the safe when arrested.
Since noone has bothered to give Kim DotCom a chance to say anything or defend himself, one NZ reporter tried to present things from different (one that doesn't burn witches) angle. You should watch the videos, at least for amusement factor.
Links are listed in the order reports were broadcast:
http://www.3news.co.nz/Kim-Dotcoms-mansion-seized/tabid/423/articleID/242276/Default.aspx
There might be more reports, I might have not seen them all.
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Re:Who's a good police force? You are! Yes you are
Media reports that there were shotguns in the house, two were sawn-off shotguns, and Kim locked himself in his safe room with one of the sawn-off shotguns. Kim didn't have a gun license, so owning these guns was illegal in NZ. Guns were to protect my family, says Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom
He had gun safes, shotgun in panic room was in gun safe and had 1 rubber bullet, and Kim was nowhere near the safe when arrested.
Since noone has bothered to give Kim DotCom a chance to say anything or defend himself, one NZ reporter tried to present things from different (one that doesn't burn witches) angle. You should watch the videos, at least for amusement factor.
Links are listed in the order reports were broadcast:
http://www.3news.co.nz/Kim-Dotcoms-mansion-seized/tabid/423/articleID/242276/Default.aspx
There might be more reports, I might have not seen them all.
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Re:Who's a good police force? You are! Yes you are
Media reports that there were shotguns in the house, two were sawn-off shotguns, and Kim locked himself in his safe room with one of the sawn-off shotguns. Kim didn't have a gun license, so owning these guns was illegal in NZ. Guns were to protect my family, says Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom
He had gun safes, shotgun in panic room was in gun safe and had 1 rubber bullet, and Kim was nowhere near the safe when arrested.
Since noone has bothered to give Kim DotCom a chance to say anything or defend himself, one NZ reporter tried to present things from different (one that doesn't burn witches) angle. You should watch the videos, at least for amusement factor.
Links are listed in the order reports were broadcast:
http://www.3news.co.nz/Kim-Dotcoms-mansion-seized/tabid/423/articleID/242276/Default.aspx
There might be more reports, I might have not seen them all.
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Re:Who's a good police force? You are! Yes you are
Media reports that there were shotguns in the house, two were sawn-off shotguns, and Kim locked himself in his safe room with one of the sawn-off shotguns. Kim didn't have a gun license, so owning these guns was illegal in NZ. Guns were to protect my family, says Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom
He had gun safes, shotgun in panic room was in gun safe and had 1 rubber bullet, and Kim was nowhere near the safe when arrested.
Since noone has bothered to give Kim DotCom a chance to say anything or defend himself, one NZ reporter tried to present things from different (one that doesn't burn witches) angle. You should watch the videos, at least for amusement factor.
Links are listed in the order reports were broadcast:
http://www.3news.co.nz/Kim-Dotcoms-mansion-seized/tabid/423/articleID/242276/Default.aspx
There might be more reports, I might have not seen them all.
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Anonymous responds
US Dept of Justice and Universal Music are down. Source
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That seems excessive...
You can get less jail time than that for manslaughter.
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Re:Scam Magnet
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Re:Train Company is burying evidence
If you are looking for references, it's all over the news, at least the Chinese news. Here are a handful that I easily pulled off Google News:
http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/07/30/idINIndia-58534820110730
http://www.christianpost.com/news/china-train-crash-social-media-users-allege-cover-up-52793/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/25/us-china-train-censorship-idUSTRE76O1IG20110725
http://mg.co.za/article/2011-07-29-anger-mounts-as-families-mourn-china-train-crash-victims/
http://www.3news.co.nz/Toddler-found-alive-in-China-train-crash/tabid/417/articleID/219948/Default.aspx -
Re:Monsanto seeds in there?
Thank you for that one link to back up your wide ranging assertions regarding vaccination, quack doctors, and GMO foods. Me wonders why you are so defensive that you have to use terms like woo-woo to get your argument across.
Here's an interesting video clip about a man called Allan Smith who was in hospital in New Zealand. The doctors decided he was beyond hope and were going to turn off life-support. His family demanded that he be given high doses of Vitamin C and it was administered although the doctors tried their best to stop it from happening. Poor old Allan then came back from the dead. It's terrible that quack sites push the idea that modern medicine doesn't have all the answers.
Every single thing you have stated above can be contradicted by using Google. You may even find peer reviewed scientific papers supporting the assertion that GMOs aren't proven to be safe/beneficial.
And everyone knows that a tin foil helmet can protect a person from the voices in their head.
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Re:international effects
Sometimes it is good to be a New Zealander. First it was nuclear ships now software patents. There was recently a really cool ad on tv for steinlager (beer), with Willem Dafoe going on about NZ telling the US to f-off with your nuclear powered ships. it even made it onto the news: http://www.3news.co.nz/Brewery-using-American-actor-to-sell-Steinlager/tabid/369/articleID/82050/Default.aspx
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Re:Mothers
Where I live now, we have little gun crime. But we're right next to a city with moderately severe gun laws.
And what does "moderately severe" mean to you? You say "severe" as if its some dreadful term! What you might call "moderately severe", I might deem as "not strict enough".
Again, I live in a country where there are essentially NO guns, I never have to worry about what other people might do to me. I am 1.95 metres tall, I am very muscular, I can defend myself in the exceedingly rare situation that I were attacked. I do not want a gun pointed at me. Anyone can feel "powerful" with a gun in their hands.
Countries where gun ownership is "low" are "gentler", are "safer" and are "less violent". In New Zealand, even the police generally DO NOT have guns. We do get "moral panic" about "the police need guns!" in the media every now and then, but the majority of my country would be against armed police officers.
Here is one such story, an undercover police officer shot to death by an AIR RIFLE: http://www.3news.co.nz/Firearm-laws-need-updating---Police-Assn-gun-sellers/tabid/423/articleID/160821/Default.aspx
The police are now trying to have greater restrictions on more powerful modern air rifles. What would you suggest, have every other citizen armed? Have the police toting assault rifles? I know of friends who visited Italy, and noticed police officers standing about with guns...they were *SHOCKED*.
I dont believe a gun "wants" to kill people, I dont believe a gun is "inherently evil". I do find the idea of "normal" people having guns awful, if your problem is too many guns already, adding more will accomplish nothing. -
Reminds me of New Zealand Kereru
A national news story about local Kereru ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Pigeon ) being drunk, and flying low over roads.
http://www.3news.co.nz/Motorists-warned-to-be-wary-of-low-flying-kereru/tabid/423/articleID/155234/Default.aspx
Birds get drunk everywhere. I suppose it is an interesting story though, I covered the Kereru on my Animal Rights podcast. http://coexistingwithnonhumananimals.blogspot.com/2010/05/episode-27-drunk-kereru-and-humane-calf.html -
Re:Gender segregation in school.
But By God, It Might Just Work With Boys.
Fixed that for you, it's the men their trying to separate, because you know, they're stupid. But yea, here's some evidence that boy's perform better segregated, and girls integrated. It's a moot point I suppose, because like you suggested it's unethical, and "performance" is only a small aspect of high school performance.
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Re:Anyone here old enough?
You are a pig-ignorant cunt-of-a-trogolodyte mate. (just a rebuttal on behalf of the generation that gives a shit about something known as "reality")
The fact of the matter, is that we have this stupid situation where there is an artifice known as a "corporation" these don't have morals because they are not human, yet the humans that run them are not liable for the actions of the corporation.
The only possible solutions are to either regulate them or to remove the limited liability.
So far all major legislators have chosen the first, because of some ignoble reason like "not wanting to scare off investors", or likely persuaded by some astroturfists.
So now we have this situation where we need to make a second set of laws to address these amoral entities. (notice the word amoral is not immoral (a rock is amoral Hitler was Immoral))
This fancy legislation works by rewarding those that our Govt. thinks are good for the country and punishing those who they think are doing bad
Recently people (and more recently legislators) have realized that in fact, unless they are encouraged otherwise, corporations will not dispose of their waste in a responsible manner, because its not cheap enough
(hopefully)Some legislators determined that to encourage corporate responsibility, sanctions needed to be applied.