Deciding where the balance of competing party's liberty lies will necessarily be a moral judgement. Here, there is space for fitting it to the judgement of the populous.
Oh come on.. The campaign overspending is a typical NZ small politics and typical, perhaps, of a party in power too long. It certainly doesn't indicate a death-spiral.
46 murders in 2003/2004, 42 of the resolved. This is truly low by international standards, even if it is rising (though this isn't at all clear). http://www.police.govt.nz/service/statistics/2004/ fiscal/stats-national-20040630.pdf
The increase in safety regulations are the same as in many places. I do miss double happies and bumblebees though...
MS literally has a golden-egg laying goose? So that's where all their money comes from...
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However, I do know that in Britian, libel suits are often used by the wealthy to keep unpleasant facts out of the press.
It's successful in keeping unpleasant facts out of the press not because truth isn't a defence. It's successful because it's hard for the defendant to prove that the allegations are true.
I'm not a lawyer, but the three defences to libel in the UK are:
1. Prove that the statements are true.
or
2. Show that they were made under privilege (eg report court proceedings, or show responsible reporting - responsibility is defined).
or
3. Show that it is a fair comment.
It seems that the buyer's only defence would be to show that the statements were true. It would probably be difficult to show that the laptop left the seller in the broken state. If I was the buyer and I was sued, I wouldn't be too confident.
But considering court costs and that the seller probably wants this to disappear, a court case is incredibly unlikely.
I've just finished a university assignment with a classmate. We worked on http://www.jot.com/ where you can get a wiki. It was far easier than having emails flying between us, and easier than always trying to figure out which file was the latest. Instead, the latest work was on a private webpage, and I could see what she'd done since I last looked at it.
Passwords are like toothbrushes; change them every three months and don't share them with your friends.
I can't help but compare email security with filing cabinet security. I don't think I'm alone in leaving my filing cabinet open with friends unaccompanied in my house. So why is it such a sin to share an email password? Occasionally I've asked a friend to retrieve an email when I need and am unable to check it myself.
In the end, for my email account at least, I don't have much worth protecting. And even then, I trust my friends.
By that logic, it would be cheaper to group the entire country into 1 large group, and have everybody in the country under the same insurance plan. Then, to make it even cheaper, you remove the insurance company, and have a government run insurance plan that takes no profit.
Well...yes.
Most of western Europe has similar or better health indicators than the US, but spends far less on healthcare as a proportion of GDP. Of course there are other factors involved, but...
I live in Hong Kong, where the top personal tax rate is 16% (the majority don't pay anything) and the top corporate rate is 17.5%. Even we have a good public health system that works.
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Deciding where the balance of competing party's liberty lies will necessarily be a moral judgement. Here, there is space for fitting it to the judgement of the populous.
Is this a problem that needs fixing?
Oh come on.. The campaign overspending is a typical NZ small politics and typical, perhaps, of a party in power too long. It certainly doesn't indicate a death-spiral. 46 murders in 2003/2004, 42 of the resolved. This is truly low by international standards, even if it is rising (though this isn't at all clear). http://www.police.govt.nz/service/statistics/2004/ fiscal/stats-national-20040630.pdf
The increase in safety regulations are the same as in many places. I do miss double happies and bumblebees though...
MS literally has a golden-egg laying goose? So that's where all their money comes from...
However, I do know that in Britian, libel suits are often used by the wealthy to keep unpleasant facts out of the press.
It's successful in keeping unpleasant facts out of the press not because truth isn't a defence. It's successful because it's hard for the defendant to prove that the allegations are true.
I'm not a lawyer, but the three defences to libel in the UK are: 1. Prove that the statements are true.
or
2. Show that they were made under privilege (eg report court proceedings, or show responsible reporting - responsibility is defined).
or
3. Show that it is a fair comment.
It seems that the buyer's only defence would be to show that the statements were true. It would probably be difficult to show that the laptop left the seller in the broken state. If I was the buyer and I was sued, I wouldn't be too confident.
But considering court costs and that the seller probably wants this to disappear, a court case is incredibly unlikely.
Now imagine what it's like for someone like me who doesn't know what the hell a config file is.
In the Shi Tao case, it was the Hong Kong division of Yahoo that provided the incriminating information.
This wasn't a case of complying with Chinese law, but of Yahoo trying to get onto the side of the Chinese government.
At the time, some said that it was blocked to remove competition to local companies providing alternative encyclopedias.
Pictures would denote buried hazards and human faces of horror and revulsion.
Wouldn't you want to know what repulsed those primitive humans so much?
I've just finished a university assignment with a classmate. We worked on http://www.jot.com/ where you can get a wiki. It was far easier than having emails flying between us, and easier than always trying to figure out which file was the latest. Instead, the latest work was on a private webpage, and I could see what she'd done since I last looked at it.
Passwords are like toothbrushes; change them every three months and don't share them with your friends.
I can't help but compare email security with filing cabinet security. I don't think I'm alone in leaving my filing cabinet open with friends unaccompanied in my house. So why is it such a sin to share an email password? Occasionally I've asked a friend to retrieve an email when I need and am unable to check it myself.
In the end, for my email account at least, I don't have much worth protecting. And even then, I trust my friends.
By that logic, it would be cheaper to group the entire country into 1 large group, and have everybody in the country under the same insurance plan. Then, to make it even cheaper, you remove the insurance company, and have a government run insurance plan that takes no profit.
Well...yes.
Most of western Europe has similar or better health indicators than the US, but spends far less on healthcare as a proportion of GDP. Of course there are other factors involved, but...
This paper http://dll.umaine.edu/ble/U.S.%20HCweb.pdf cites some WHO statistics related to this.
I live in Hong Kong, where the top personal tax rate is 16% (the majority don't pay anything) and the top corporate rate is 17.5%. Even we have a good public health system that works.