Posts by Martin Lindberg
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Isn't it not only not a valid reason, but a "no firearms licence for YOU" reason? Which is an utterly different attitude to the US in every possible way.
Correct. Stating that you want a firearms licence for purposes of buying a gun for self-defence during the vetting procedure will guarantee that you won't get one.
If you can think of anywhere more relevant, go to it.
No, I can't think of anywhere relevant at all to compare the situation in America with.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to BenWilson,
It can and has been done, it wasn't even hard.
I suggest that it would be significantly more difficult to do this in America and that it was successfully done in Australia isn't really relevant. The groups owning firearms are completely different and handguns were never allowed to start with in Australia (with the same exceptions as exist here - sport etc).
NZ and Australia only allow ownership of firearms for the purposes of hunting and sports. Self-defence is not a valid or legal reason.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Maui Smith,
"Tragedy in School. Madman With Loaded Revolver Opens Fire On The Children Two Dead; Nine Wounded"
Man, that's some story! Wonderful straight and understated reporting.
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The apocalypse she expected never came.
No, but an unexpected one did.
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Hard News: Looking at Leveson, in reply to Kumara Republic,
More often than not, it’s a euphemism for suicide.
Certainly in this case: http://www.smh.com.au/world/nurse-at-kates-hospital-who-took-prank-call-from-sydney-djs-suicides-20121208-2b1u2.html
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Russell Brown,
I suspect this comes under the heading of feeding the trolls.
Yes.
Yes.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Farmer Green,
Michael Kelly
Michael Kelly was one of the 16 scientists who signed the thoroughly umm, debunked opinon piece in the Wall Street Journal earlier this year - No Need to Panic About Global Warming
And seriously:
recent letters to a NZ weekly
is not where I would expect to go looking for scientific guidance. There are journals for this kind of thing.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to DexterX,
Where can I go with old paint?
http://www.aucklandcity.govt.nz/council/services/rubbish/alternative.asp
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Field Theory: The Force will be with…, in reply to Danielle,
but lord. I think I've decided that I don't need that kind of emotional sucker-punch pretty much ever again
In that case I'd probably recommend that you stay away from Dancer in the Dark.
I totally agree that his films are...umm.. challenging. Butnasty little misogynistic troll
as Craig put it?
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Field Theory: The Force will be with…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
my contention that Von Trier is a nasty little misogynistic troll
I'm not his biggest fan, but really?