Posts by Russell Brown
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I'm thinking a quick once-over from the script editing genius of Dr Gracewood might get them out of 'Development Hell' pdq!
Script Doctor Gracewood ...
I like it!
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I went to Drinking pretetiously tonight at the Lundun bar.
Good grief. Has ever a bar gone so far downhill? (Gluepot excluded) I would rather drink vomit from a vagrants sock than suffer the excuse for beer in that hell hole.I know what you mean. I enjoyed the company and the show at the last one, but I was shocked to see how few ales are on the pump at that bar now.
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Damian Christie peeks behind the curtain at Auckland Museum's Secrets Revealed: The Backstage Mysteries of Your Museum, with museum director Dr Vanda Vitali as his guide.
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Yes, that may form part of the consideration. Or they may just being lazy and looking to improve their prosecution record for 'child sexual offenders' so they can run for an AG post or something.
The way "sexual offending" is defined, pursued and prosecuted in America can verge on the obscene in and of itself.
Male teenagers put on life-wrecking public sex offender rosters for having sex with girls their own age, but under the local age of consent (which can be 18); the friend of a friend put on such a roster for taking a piss down an alley next to a small-town bar late at night. Karen Fetcher will be put on one of those rosters too.
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When I was a kid, we used to play in the abandoned quarry across the road from my mum's house. We had a regular wee village of huts and bivvies down there.
I've always been quite grateful for growing up in: (a) an expanding suburb with access to vacant sections and building sites (also very handy for skate ramp materials later on), and (b) a house up against the bush line in Greymouth for three years -- no one could mess with you once you hit the bush.
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As of last report, the kids are fighting back, in a gentle, insistent way, but the city won’t budge and the neighbours are putting up surveillance cameras. Oh, the irony! There’s nothing to see but kids having fun! On a piece of land that has been used for games, on and off, since the Second World War veterans returned to town.
This reminded me of danah boyd's stuff about online social networking spaces, and how they emerge because people keep shutting down kids' real-world public spaces. The friggin' surveillance cameras kinda nailed that.
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I knew a lesbian couple who went to Lesbos for a holiday. One of them came back pregnant. True story.
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Bur damm you for getting le tour in HD, I am soo soo SOOO jealous
and you get it just in time for the final stage of the alps
did you notice how it was also broadcast in windscreen last night
so prtuttyI did notice, and I thought that the non-HD picture looked amazing. Sky can toggle the bandwidth for individual channels at will, and I think they're chucking quite a bit into the sports channels at the moment.
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Let us know how the HD is... :)
One totally geeky point. They said at the launch the broadcasts would be 1080i, but the HDMI connection is showing up as 720p. I guess I should make a phone call before poking around in settings ...
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Personally, I think Emma has jumbled up several different issues. On the one hand there is the question of "where to draw the line", and then there are the "mitigating circumstances" that apply to this particular woman.
On the other hand, her point is also that the FBI has jumbled up several different issues. Texts that depict sex with children should give any reasonable person pause, but the agency also cited stories about apparently bizarre but adult practices when it raided her home. That's an unnerving precedent.
The fact that Karen Fletcher was charging for access -- $10 monthly to 29 people -- certainly has a bearing, but I can't help but feel that this would have been handled differently in another jurisdiction, given the circumstances.
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