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Hard News: That's Entertainment!, in reply to recordari,
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I've been advised I may have to retract that comment, but first I better go check my tie (not wearing one) and blow dry my hair.
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Hard News: That's Entertainment!, in reply to Danielle,
That man knows how to do a cover or two.
We loves him, yeah, yeah, yeah, but... I'll stop there, because I don't want to get into trouble.
I prefer this Smokey offering.
It's an ABBA thing. After listening to Arrival all through my formative years, I arrived somewhere and and realised I hated them.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to Sacha,
I am confident the system is referring to the wrong post, not the humans involved.
It's only a matter of time before it becomes self aware, then we should all move away from the keyboard very quietly. Shhh, it might hear us.
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[Looks for the 'Reply all' button.]
Thanks, x 3.
ETA: The problem is mostly human error though I think Sacha. Although if you quote text, it should only allow a reply to the original author. At the moment you can push any reply button willy nilly and it works.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to BenWilson,
No, Islander read it, not me!
Another reply button fail. Meant to be asking Islander.
Open Source nerds, the only people who cared enough to bother.
OSS nerds will save the world. Hadn't you heard?
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to BenWilson,
There is a science fiction short story that plays with this idea: there is a lonely ‘normal’ in a world of instant portals and extremely widespread experiential&knowledge sources
Any chance you can remember the name? It sounds like I need to read it.
Iain M. Banks seems to have a knack of changing the foundation of belief, at least from his characters point of view. The sky is a ceiling which is also a floor being one of my recent favourites. And a virtual hell for us to atone for our worldly indiscretions. My problem is I find too much of his SciFi plausible.
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Hard News: Rough times in the trade, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
And, sadly. it’s funny because it’s true. Crap.
There’s also no accounting for taste. I mean, this seems to take no account of taste.
Just take the Wham Whim for example.
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Adele does a Tiny Desk Concert.
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Hard News: Perception and reality in the…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Since no significant part of the anglosphere was occupied, we didn’t benefit from this “inoculation”.
A different scenario than both Japan and China, post their respective wars. Of the many places I would choose not to be a criminal out of shear bloody fear, Japan and China would be right up there, right behind America.
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Hard News: Perception and reality in the…, in reply to Richard Aston,
What ever happened to the Roper Report (1987) I can’t find a copy of it but from memory at the time it was suggesting a whole new approach to prisons, moving away from the punitive to the trans-formative, using prisons to change people.
Interesting question. It is referenced extensively here.
This quote seemed interesting, in the context of the ‘pro-arrest’ policy.
Overseas studies have shown for example, that neither treatment alone nor punishment alone, is very effective in reducing family violence. A combination is. The offender needs to know that his apprehension will be sure and swift. Victims have to be similarly assured. Under the current legislation, the practices of the Police, the ignorance of the public, and the unwillingness of helpers to invade the sanctity of the family, these results are by no means certain. Our recommendations, therefore, attempt to address the issue by urging that existing legislation is utilised to its fullest extent and that new legislation, public education and practices are introduced to make families safer (Roper Report 1987:101).
With a lay persons view of the subsequent 24 years, I’d say government bodies, including the police, adopted the arrest part wholeheartedly, but have continued to fail spectacularly on the ‘treatment’ side.
Pita Sharples pet project Whare Oranga Ake tries to address some of this.