Posts by giovanni tiso
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I'd hope NZ is a bit more enlightened, but I wouldn't be surprised to see something like it happen in the 51st state across the Tasman there.
Seven year olds? I don't think so. Then again, the parents probably would be charged with something.
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Are you saying we're curbing the entreprenurial spirit of seven year olds? I'm not sure I understand. If you're saying that we're excessively infantilising children, for instance by pretending that prepubescent boys and girls don't have a sexuality, I'm right with you, and it's why I brought up the Buten book. Not sure if that extends to encouraging children to record themselves and share. But even if it did, I'm pretty sure that a child so minded wouldn't be prosecuted for child porn, no?
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if we'd filmed it, it would have constituted child porn. but at that age we were in a legislative nowhere land.
You know perfectly well that it's not how child porn is produced, come on.
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It does sound like you'd enjoy Howard Buten's book When I Was Five I killed Myself, chris, if you haven't come across it already.
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The analogy with the Holocaust and other historical events that you didn't cause just by watching reconstructions or documentaries or whatever is way off the mark, by the way. The point is not that you produce those events by watching their representation, is that you encourage the production of more representations. Hence the Hitler Channel on your telly and so forth. The big difference is that nobody is hurt in the making of documentaries about Hitler or about Hiroshima, whereas in the case of child porn... be a dear and finish the sentence for me, eh?
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"We don't even have a literacy test to be eligible vote"
Heh. Classic.
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You really think there'd be a stink about CCOs doing business in secret with unelected Directors and little linkage with the Council if that's not what is proposed in the Thirds Bill?
It's right there in the name: "Hide".
Between him and Simon Power and Mr Key, they appear to be vying for some sort of James Bond villain cabal.
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Personally I wasn't being dramatic, and Sardinians really can be quite lovely.
(And if anybody needs me at the time, I plan to be drunk but in Christchurch, so North Islanders need not fear.)
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And you'd have to be careful never to let the ace and eight of spades, the ace and eight of clubs, and the queen of diamonds in the same room together.
Cool!
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I'm quite frightened at the prospect of the CBD overflowing with drunken English tourists...
A cost-effective way of dealing with that would be to import a busload of Sardinians. They have a proven track record when it comes to that particular problem.