Posts by Lyndon Hood
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there has barely been a squeak out of her since
Well, me being someone who deals in press releases, and the actual foreign minister seeming to be above putting out actual statements on things like international wars and so on, I've come to regard her not so much the 'shadow' as the 'default' minister of foreign affairs.
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Burning organic material (like wax and wood) produces CO2. Tell your friends.
Well, yes, but surely unless you plan on burying the wood it's part of the short-term carbon cycle anyway?
Not that have any wish to detract from the awesomeness of your post.
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Obama Sides With RIAA, Supports $150,000 Fine per Music Track
and apparently considers such fines not punitive enough to be considered a criminal penalty. If anyone wants to wade through and find out what it really says, feel free.
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... at about 14:20. If I may say so myself.
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Audio of announcement though it has to be said Key talked about a bunch of other stuff as well.
Announcement near the start and I managed a couple of questions about it somewhere in the middle.
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Speaking of statistics, have we all seen xkcd 552?
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Legal remedies may be disappointing (absent defamation etc). Generally, free speech implies the same price in egregious errors of fact as in pernicious opinions.
Media do however claim to have standards so there's the Press Council and BSA respectively, even if their main penalty is embarassment. The power of Keith's number crunching has a mesmerising power over these institutions.
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Admiral of Vice?
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Jim Anderton tried to table this in Parliament, and I couldn't resist following it up:
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that would be "mad enough". Though "made mad enough" is also fine.