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Can't believe how much rent they had to pay for that site!
And the United Video outlet just down the road was paying $23,000 a month just before it shut its doors.
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Can public execution and being burned in the hand be far behind?
Why stop there, when you can have snuff TV à la The Running Man?
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Josh D:
So does this. But of course, nothing like this could ever happen here.
I sure as fuck hope not. If it did, there'd be another 1981.
I've said it before, but I'd be even more concerned about Los Angeles '92 coming to our shores. Most of the common ingredients are already there - global recession, higher-than-average unemployment & poverty at ground zero, yellow-vs-brown/black tensions, Pihema Cameron = Latasha Harlins. All it needs now is a good dose of state-sanctioned brutality and a Rodney King to trigger a meltdown. What would Judith do?
And there's a difference between safety and comfort, Mr Garrett.
Prisons to use double bunkingACT law and order spokesman David Garrett said criminals had lost their right to have their comfort considered.
He said the prison population was growing and something had to be done.
Mr Garrett referred to Dr Newbold's remarks about rapes increasing.
"Rape is a crime wherever it occurs, and can be dealt with in the same way as any other offence committed in prison," he said.
"The fact is if you don't want to be assaulted – or worse – by a cellmate, avoid prison by not committing a crime."
Tony P:
What pissed me off about the attack on the teacher last week were Key's and Tolley's responses on TV. Both were trying to sweep it under the table and neither mentioned or showed any sympathy for the teacher.
If that was referring to the Korean student at Avondale Col, then would they send in the army if it happened at Tangaroa High?
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Wouldn't ACT prefer a sclerotic, unimaginative government doing the minimum it could 'get away with' to one which is activist, thinks creatively and unafraid to intervene where it could contribute something useful?
Rodney Hide's much-touted 'bonfire of regulations' is all well and good. But where there's fire there's smoke - the smoke of the litigation industry. The kind of litigation as seen in the days before ACC. And what if, for instance, de-zoning is challenged by a Brown vs Board of Education-type lawsuit?
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Nothing, so long as you keep paying judges to put kids inside and keep the cells full. Perfectly sensible business model.
Must be this one...
Pa. judges accused of jailing kids for cashAnd I suspect I can detect a whiff of molotov cocktails from miles away before they've even been thrown.
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Incidentally, who is that on the cover, making free with Peter Jackson/King Kong in perhaps the weirdest mixed visual metaphor ever to stand for Auckland's alleged awesomeness?
Madeleine Sami, I think.
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Matt P:
Interesting, Tim, thanks. I hadn't realised US copyright law was quite so fucking complicated. I knew it was bad, but that's ugly beyond my worst imaginings.
It comes as no surprise that the prime offender, the Sonny Bono Act, is nicknamed the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act' in the States. And all because public domain is perceived by Big Media as some kind of underground Soviet conspiracy.
Russell:
Non-gambling revenues are the only growth area. Bring on the dancing girls. Literally.
Even Vegas recognised that fact to start with.
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Where are the Sensibles now? This case appears not to be open-and-shut as first thought. Even vigilantes have standards, don't they?
DomPost 4/3/2009: Two families accused of intimidation
The Granny 4/3/2009: Jury frightened into verdict, says lawyer
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"We've got too hung up on people's rights," says Garrett, a claim that would possibly raise a few eyebrows in ACT HQ if they were actually 'The Liberal Party' and not a sorry collection of failures who should go and get into business if they love it so freaking much and who need National voters to give them a pity electorate vote even to get them into parliament...
What exactly does Mr Garrett want to change the BORA to? The Patriot Act? The Internal Security Act? Or maybe even the Reichstag Fire Decree?