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There was a case in New Zealand a few years ago where the evidence of two policeman was contradicted by the video recorded by the camera on a taser gun.

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-new...

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/...

You've been.... put on home detention!

The person you've quoted is a shill for the boob industry. Baby suffocated by breast, plenty more stories about these sacks of fat smothering and killing babies.

With various approaches but its not clear that they are so successful. Your particular conversation sounds like it may have been an outlier.
http://www.smartplanet.com/blo...
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-new...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

The first autonomous cars wont be by Google, in fact I doubt there will be a Google car, the first autonomous cars will be Merc's or Toyotas built using Googles technologies

Audi seems pretty committed to driverless. Their car's autonomous ability looks to be behind Google's, but they're gaining good real-world experience.

For our money, the real magic is in having your driverless sports car lap a race track, at speed, without piling into the barriers. That’s just what Audi has accomplished this week, sending 'Bobby', a heavily customised RS 7, around Germany’s Hockenheimring in just over two minutes. That's about as quick as a racing driver could accomplish in the same car, Audi reckons.

http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/s...

Most of us are completely confused as to how spending tax dollars to subsidize TV shows and movies that nobody watches actually helps Canadian culture.

If Lost Girl is something you subsidize, please increase your taxes. Or Continuum.

Almost as good as the New Zealand show This is not my life.

As if Prime Minister John Key does not have enough problems, Kim Dotcom has revealed that he will drop a bombshell on him. He is warning that something big will come out on September 15, just five days from the election. He says WikiLeaks founder and fugitive Julian Assange, who's holed up in Ecuador's London embassy, is set to take part in a pre-election attack on John Key. The addition of Mr Assange confirms the event will be about New Zealand's spying.

http://tvnz.co.nz/vote-2014-ne...

It's for exactly that reason that he gets any traction in public opinion in NZ. The first time he came to the attention of most Kiwis at all was when the NZ police raided his house with swat teams, helicopters and the works at the behest of US law enforcement. For ... copyright infringement.

Then it turned out that our intelligence services had been spying on him illegally, (along with 80 or so other foreign-born NZ residents) Some of our politicians had been taking political donations from him and later denying all knowledge, and our Prime Minister claimed to know nothing about the illegal spying despite being briefed on it 12 months earlier

In addition FBI agents in NZ sent copies of his personal files to the US despite the ruling of NZ courts.

In essence, our local politicians and law enforcement acted like such complete and total dickwads that they made even a guy like Kim Dotcom look the good guy by comparison. The let him into the country for his money, despite his convictions. Then when the US law enforcement came knocking they turned on him like a bunch of weasels.

In fact public opinion is starrting to swing against him. Kiwis typically aren't impressed by the kind of excess and showboating he is famous for. I don't think is party will get that many votes, but in a country the size of NZ, and due to the peculiarities of our version of MMP, a small party can sometimes gain a couple of seats and be in a position to act as kingmaker.

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?

Larry when you learn not to cheat in the AC45 class maybe just maybe will listen to you.

Oracle Admits to cheating

http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/edward-snowden-applies-asylum-in-norway-5484164

When was the last time N Korea arrested visitors saying they were CIA spies? On the contrary, N Korea is very welcoming to foreigners, including Americans.

Charges as CIA spies? How bourgeois. It is much simpler and a better reflection of North Korean socialist morality to just hold a trial.

2 U.S. reporters get 12 years in N. Korea - June 08, 2009

Two American television journalists today were convicted of a "grave crime" against North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of hard labor, a move that increased mounting tensions between the U.S. and the reclusive Asian state.

Laura Ling and Euna Lee, reporters for San Francisco-based Current TV, were sentenced by the top Central Court in Pyongyang in a two-day trial that started Friday as U.S. officials demanded the release of the two women.

The state-run Korean Central News Agency reported that the court "sentenced each of them to 12 years of reform through labor" but gave no further details.

Because the pair were tried by the nation's highest court, there can be no appeal.

Of course the North Koreans are not especially shy about grabbing Americans.

North Korea says it has arrested American citizen - Sun December 23, 2012
North Korea arrests American; continues shelling near disputed border - January 28, 2010
North Korea arrests US man - December 29, 2009

And foreigners? The North Korean government loves foreigners. . . in a sort of "collect them and trade them!" kind of way.

Japanese kidnapped by North Koreans return home in tears
Kidnapped by North Korea
Armed North Koreans kidnap Chinese sailors
Jenkins Photo Proof Of Kidnapping? - ". . .she is a Thai national who was kidnapped by North Korean agents. . ."
Did North Korea Just Kidnap Two American Journalists?
Kidnappers Incorporated
Japanese families fear that North Korea is still abducting - North Korea had kidnapped nationals from at least 11 other countries, including France, Italy and the United States.

It seems they want to impress them, not arrest them.

Impress them in a Potemkin village sort of way, yes.

Welcome to Lenin Disney: North Korea’s otherworldly tourism experience

The surreality of visiting North Korea begins at customs. Officials in full military dress — and there are a lot of them, judging by this clandestine video shot by a Canadian tourist — announce that anyone carrying a cell phone must surrender it, to be returned on leaving. The experience gets weirder from there, based on the numerous travelogues and reports that have emerged since the country lifted many of its restrictions on American tourists in 2010.

Tourism is an opportunity for North Korea, whic

Here are some details about the circumstances under which the law was passed

The original Pacific Fibre project failed technically because of lack of funding, but just as much from international politicking. International infrastructure (intrastructure?) attracts these sorts of issues it would seem. The US didn't want China funding it and really didn't want them providing technology.

And of course theres's already speculation the US would take the same attitude to Kim Dotcom's involvement given they are trying to prosecute him for teh internet crimez.

A cynic might see this as a cynical PR move on his part. He offers The People of NZ goodies and the US government takes them away. He gets to look like the good guy again and it ultimately costs him nothing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeHTziiFVx0

so yes, transparency.org might list NZ as high - but what does't get told much is the relationship between big business and MP's, and the fact that corporate law in NZ is the fastest changing in the world.

http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/warner-bros-sought-job-law-change-film-the-hobbit-nz-135087

"Warner Brothers used the threat of filming The Hobbit movies elsewhere to gain changes to New Zealand's employment laws, it was reported tonight. An email obtained under the Official Information Act showed the production company wanted "stability" to film the movies in New Zealand and was worried about "grey areas" of employment law, Radio New Zealand reported."

http://tvnz.co.nz/technology-news/us-lobbied-nz-over-copyright-laws-wikileaks-cables-4149178

"The cables also show that the US offered to spend more than $500,000 to fund a recording industry-backed IP enforcement initiative. According to the cables, the US actively lobbied several cabinet members while New Zealand was working through its copyright reform in 2008"

"A February 2008 cable notes that Consumer Affairs Minister Judith Tizard and Trade Minister Phil Goff were presented with a list of shortfalls to submit as the legislation was being drafted. "Post has presented the list of noted shortfalls in the draft legislation to Minister Tizard (Consumer Affairs), Minister Goff (Trade) and to officials within the Ministry of Economic Development, the agency primarily responsible for drafting legislation and monitoring IP enforcement. "Post remains engaged with Bronwyn Turley, Senior MED Policy Advisor for IP issues to maintain a dialogue to address the needed technical corrections," the cable noted. New copyright laws were passed in April 2008."

• Total costs: NZ $533,000 (US $386,158)
• Start-up costs: NZ $78,000 (US $56,510)
• Salaries: NZ $215,000 (US $155,768)
• Operating costs: NZ $240,000 (US $173,880)
• Start-up costs (NZ dollars):
• Furnishings $25,000
• IT costs (equipment) $45,000
• Sundries $8,000
• Salaries (NZ dollars):
• Unit head $90,000
• Intelligence and policy development $60,000
• Licensing and enforcement officer $40,000
• Administrative support $25,000
• Operating costs (NZ dollars):
• Accommodations (rental, utilities) $55,000
• IT support $15,000
• Legal costs (investigation, prosecution)$75,000
• Training (internet piracy, law) $50,000
• Travel costs $35,000
• Employer liabilities $10,000

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Includes some CCTV footage.

(New Zealand here) In the news a couple years ago was a prank gone wrong. A case of a guy lit his friends hawaiian grass skirt as he sat on a portable toilet at an xmas party. he put his lighter under the gap at the bottom of the door. The intention was like a movie scene - guy runs around with a bit of smoke coming form the skirt and the couple small flame are patted out and all laugh heartily.

Unfortunately, the guy was incinerated, and died. The offender recieved 2 years jail, and 9 months concurrent for the serious injuries to a woman who tried to extinguish the flames. Story here

These guy's have built a pair that don't need crutches to support them, they look a little bulkier, but more stable.

It was revealed today that a member of parliament had been arrested for stealing the identity of a dead baby and thereby falsely obtaining a passport.

The Government here has a few thousand monkeys that spend all their time browsing through the various redundant overlapping government agency databases to catch you out for identity fraud, benefit fraud, unlawfully riding a train without a ticket or forgetting to tie your shoelaces in the morning. But yeah, we have some nice beaches, so it's worth the risk :D

I think I have a complicated view of the entire copyright idea (shorter time frames with stronger enforcement is my preference I think) but here in New Zealand we have a very difficult time maintaining our local film and television industry and piracy can have a much stronger impact than in the states. Recently the film "Boy" (which is fantastic and very very local in style) has had some trouble because it's already being pirated before it has even had a chance to be released internationally. It's not like the producers wouldn't like it to have a large international release on the same day or something like that but it's just not an option with our small industry. Here's some more info on it:

http://tvnz.co.nz/entertainment-news/boy-illegally-uploaded-internet-3606531

http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/new-moore-no-more-island-disappears-3433079

It's not clear what they mean by Easter Period, but I'd guess either Lent or Easter weekend. Especially if it's Easter weekend, a drop from 14 to 0 deaths over 3 days in an area the size of about 1.5 Massachusetts towns

They mean the Easter weekend, which is traditionally the most lethal time of the year on NZ roads. The Easter road toll is counted from 4 pm on the Thursday to 6 am on the Tuesday (the Monday after Easter is a public holiday).

However, as I've also pointed out in another post on this page, there is no way in hell that that or any other district in NZ had a road toll of 14 in the Easter weekend of 2008, as the road toll for the entire country that year was 8 (or 9; I've now found one report that gives 9, but I can't find anything to corroborate it. In 2009, according to the same report, the nation-wide Easter road toll was 6).

although the indefinate jail term is pure nonesense he should still expect to go to jail for 6 months or so over it.

If this even makes the courts, I highly doubt he'll be held indefinitely.
Our courts are quite reasonable (some argue that they're too forgiving), and he'll probably walk out with a slap on the wrist (diversion maybe?).

As commented in the article:

Unfortunately we don't jail people for being idiots in this country.
If you read through his website, he has all sorts of shit there - yes he was sentenced to 6 weeks in Mt Eden Prison, however it's not maximum security - it's Low/Medium Security - hell you can walk there from town in 10minutes if you really wanted to.

>In no court in the land is that perjury.

No court except U.S. district courts, the U.S. Supreme Court, and the Arkansas Supreme Court, that is.

"Medicinal nitroglycerin is chemically identical to the explosive, but it is safe because it is far more dilute than pure nitroglycerin, and is bound to other inert substances that disrupts its perfect oxygen balance."

It's also put in condoms to improve erectile function, as it's a vasodilator.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4829991.html
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5741511-description.html
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_health_story_skin/529240%3Fformat=html

On a kids show called "Lets Get Inventin", Alex Drinkwater built exactly this device - and got a full working prototype going.
As you can see by the picture (half way down this article) direct image link the design is not only identical - it's BETTER with a built-in cellphone carrier! Somebody, give the kid his patent!

Your reading the wrong link. I'd suggest you read peoples posts more carefully next time, but for your convenience, heres the link again:

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/1318360/1336811

Maybe somebody at the police station where he picked up the cars was careless with inventory, and he swiped a couple.

The subject in this case, Ralph Williams, has been arrested for theft of property. See http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/1318360/1336811 for a more recent article.

I suppose the police will argue that listing the items as police bugs on an auction site shows awareness that the bugs weren't his to sell. Thus, he'd "stolen" them by their logic.

Mr. Williams' day in court promises to be interesting...

-Isaac

Personally, I think it's rough justice myself, after the New Zealand Red Cross insisted that an orange juice vendor stop using an orange cross as the symbol for his product.

Personally, I think it's rough justice myself, after the as the symbol for his product.

It is well known that that quote is a mistranslation, either deliberate or not.

It's not well known. That is one political opinion. In fact, the European Union disagrees with your assertion:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id =2&ObjectID=10352469

Apparently the leaders of the United States (obviously), Russia, ex-Secretary General of the UN Kofi Annan also disagree with your statement:

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425822/622940

Too me, it is splitting hairs as both interpretations threaten the existence/right to exist of Israel. Perhaps it is acceptable, to you, to make such threats. I wonder how you feel about Iranian President Ahmadinejad's willingness to sacrifice half of Iran to destroy Israel?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1689559/p osts

Parhaps you read too much propaganda and are absolutely completely clueless as to how the real world looks :)

Attach ad hominem. Asshole =)

USA supported various groups in southern America that did things like throw over elected governments, torture and dissapear people who didn't agree with them, kill and loot randomly and what not.

No one is arguing that. In fact, it seems like your changing the subject as your previous arguments where mostly fallacy and unsupported assertions. If you want to have a conversation about the US's actions during the Cold War that's an entirely different subject with its own gray areas.

As I read the rest of your post I am struck by a realization: You honestly believe (along with many in today's world) that the US is somehow just as bad as Iran. I find your talk about propaganda interesting, because I can't see arriving at this conclusion unless you the buy the Iranian propaganda hook, line, and sinker.

It may be falling on deaf ears, but let me explain why the United States is nowhere near Iran, no matter the US's actions.

1. A mostly free media. Say what you want about 'propaganda', in the US any whack-job with an opinion can express it. Just look at me. The only reason we know about Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, secret CIA prisons, torture, Iran Contra, the Americas, etc, is because of a mostly free media. While you see those things as failures of the US, I see the fact that they were revealed as the system working. Evil people WILL get into power and WILL make mistakes. There MUST be a system that can correct for that.

You seem to like the Cold War; I'll point to Stalin's Gulags as a perfect example. They weren't revealed by a media. There wasn't a free media in Russia. The entirety of Soviet society was unaware their comrades were being shipped to their deaths in Siberia. If it weren't for the unilateral actions of Soviet President Kruschev, those crimes against humanity may not have been revealed.

The little that does leak out of Iran paints a picture of a society destroyed by years of theocratic rule. Women are subject to honor killings. Art, music, and literature are officially suppressed. Unemployment stands at 25%. The economy is crumbling due to criminal mismanagement.

During the previous president's rule (Khatami) dozens of independent newspapers were opened. However, since President Ahmadinejad rose to power most have been closed on "technicalities". Peaceful demonstrations are not allowed. Just this March police beat hundreds of its civilians for gathering to support International Women's Day.

2. The separation of church and state. How much different would things be if it were the Mormon States of America, or the Catholic Republic of the United States? Religion plays a tremendous role in American politics, but at least it isn't officially sanctioned.

Your assertion that Doing the later would actually

No wonder she bemoans the availability of mulching in the US.... she has a *patent* on it in 35 countries!! Don't believe me? Read http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425822/614084, one of the articles your google search turned up.

Imagine having a patent on burial or cremation. I'd bemoan whole countries not owing me royalties too!

The russians tried something like that...

Killed quite a few people. The distance between unconcious and dead is quite small
with many of these drugs, and requires different doses for different people.

Typical the silly chimpanzee Antenna gets all the attention yet the important part is the fact that some bunch of yokels got off there arse and actualy did somthing for them selves. The WOKFI thing is nothing but the TV station is quite a feat and I'm suitably impressed. Hopefully that might inspire someone to do something similar in their area. By the way the CCC have even made their own DVB-T station which you can buy so it's not all that impossible ...best of luck all

http://images.tvnz.co.nz/tvnz_video/windows/one_ne ws/southtv_300107_56k.asx
http://chaosradio.ccc.de/

--It would certainly go a distance in explaining the actions of some of the supposedly fundamentalist Islamic terrorists in the prelude to the grand 9-11 performance acting in ways most un-Islamic. (Booze and Cocaine and Women [gnn.tv] won't win the devout many points with Allah.) So what's the story here? Were they fundamentalist terrorists, or were they dupe mercenaries who didn't know what they were signing up for, and who were allowed to bring off their clutzy plan while the US secret services conveniently looked the other way [tvnewslies.org], while the secret/shadow government [washingtonpost.com] provided access to the remote controlled [911review.com] jets actually capable of performing the precision flying which badly-trained mercenary goof-balls could not have been asked to manage, and while the Israeli-owned security companies [whatreallyhappened.com] which held contracts at each of the airports involved during 9-11, gave them fast-lane service at the boarding check points?

There is a great antidote to some of that confusion: Debunking 9/11 Myths

Dudes with bombs and box-cutters working independently is still the false reality which needs to be understood here. The myth of terrorists is the preferred tool for building the fascist state. Luckily, this is increasingly well understood. It's the 'How' which seems to be causing some hiccups.

Here are some victories the good guys won against terrorism around the world in the last couple of weeks (this list doesn't include terrorist attacks):

11 suspected Islamic radicals arrested in Spanish African enclave
Spain arrests Chechen rebel suspect wanted in Russia
Turkey Arrests Suspected Regional Al Qaeda Leader
Turkey arrests 10 with suspected links to al-Qaeda
Pakistan arrests 47 suspected Taliban
13 foreign nationals arrested in S. Afghanistan
Police Claim Arresting Taliban Commander in Ghazni
Pakistanis Arrest 90 Afghans at Border
Saudi detains 139 suspected militants
Security forces scrambled to disrupt Asian summit terror plots
Court freezes Islamic group's bank account
Top aide of Qaeda chief in Iraq killed
Morocco jails 14 Islamists
Eight French Islamists Returned To France
4 Dutch Muslims Convicted of Terror Plan
and another trial: Denmark: Muslim terror trial begins
Terrorist plot targeting Illinois mall foiled
Man accused in Taliban arrest ordered held without bail
And reaching back just a little further just to inc

At Bathurst subway/streetcar/bus station in Toronto, they play classical (well, baroque actually) music on the PA to keep teenagers away. It seems to work quite well, actually.

In Whangarei, a New Zealand town, they do it by playing continuous Barry Manilow music, 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Personally I think it's a wonder the local retailers get any customers at all.

What I see there is a Pakistani woman caught with a water bottle full of "possibly explosive" material. They don't know what the material was yet.

This certainly could be "a terrorist caught with explosives", the conclusion you jump to; given that it was a real possibility, evacuating the airport and investigating further as they have done was of course the appropriate course of action for the time being.

But it also seems possible this is a false alarm, similar to this morning when a bomb sniffing dog detected a suspicious container that turned out to be full of completely ordinary rags, or the day before when an "unruly passenger" was widely reported to have "Vaseline, a screw driver, matches and a note referencing al-Qaeda" and then it turned out she had nothing of the kind and was just having some kind of nervous breakdown and peeing in the plane aisles (?), or a couple days before that when three men of Arabic descent were arrested with a bunch of cell phones on suspicion they were going to blow up a bridge but then turned out only to be buying cell phones to resell in Dallas at a profit.

Again, it could be that this woman arrested in West Virginia was part of a real terrorist plot, and it could be that some unhinged lady was inspired by recent media reports about plane bombs to pour lighter fluid in a couple of water bottles and attempt to board a plane. Perhaps there really was a legitimate threat to passenger safety there. I shall be watching the news on this one with interest to find out exactly what happened.

But until we do find out exactly what happened, it seems awfully odd in this case to say "reality has intervened" when in fact what you mean is "partly speculative media reports have intervened".

Its funny.. in the UK Blue's Clues is the worsts childrens TV show ever to make it to air - it involves a manic guy following round a blue blob (meant to be a dog called Blue) with terrible cartoon items such as a notepad.. http://images.tvnz.co.nz/tvnz_images/tv2/kids/blue s_clues/bluesclues_d.jpg

"We realised we were in trouble. It was just too dark and too narrow and it was dangerous. We were looking down to the bottom of the cliff and at some points couldn't even see the bottom" said Hoiberg.

Seriously, though, someone had a go at flying a plane into a tower in the land of "The Lord of the Rings", New Zealand, just last week. The plane crashed into a lake, and the pilot survived the crash. Like many of the film sets, it was all in miniature: the plane was a light plane from a flying school, and the tower was only 650 feet high. Those crazy New Zealanders :)

And, Lord knows, this was a slashdot-specific story, and you certainly couldn't have gotten details anywhere else before you opened your mouth.

Lets start with: http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_national_story_skin/46 9987%3Fformat=html
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3 1&art_id=qw1106022963550R131
http://boards.historychannel.com/thread.jspa?threa dID=300034074&messageID=300411450

Showing the southpole has been holding steady temp: http://www.giss.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/update/csci/show_ station.py?id=700890090000&data_set=2

On the other hand, when I was a teenager there was a Sega Genesis game by the name of _Mutant League Football_

That game was made by Electronic Arts back when EA didn't suck. Many Slashdot readers would agree that EA jumped the shark when it stopped using the box-ball-cone logo and started putting the EA Sports logo on non-sport games. Sorry, but you're probably not going to get a sequel, as EA would rather sell more Madden games so as not to have to maintain an extra SKU using the Madden engine.

And on the other side of the equatorial line, NZ has 1000 new businesses created from online auctions.

That article's old, here's one from yesterday.

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_national_story_skin/46 1237%3Fformat=html

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