Posts by Islander
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Mrs Skin says
"Which is what the the SST does."Assuming that you mean the "Sensible Sentencing Trust", I would disagree with you to an extreme.
They are very clearly a racist body - any words from them about Mr Veitch?
No?
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Paul Williams - yes. We've yet to augment something other than the several legal systems in place round the world (I'll exclude the religiously-based ones) as a way of dealing with all the crimes/errors/disputations that our species inevitably fall into-
it is WAY better to argue/talk/dispute (however imperfect the processes)our ways to some kind of settlements (however imperfect the settlements) than resorting to -o, stonings? Trial by fire or feat of arms? The Gods?
I think there are large imperfections with our current justice system here in ANZ, but - it is an ongoing ongrowing system-
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As a law student a looong time ago, I learned that Law (which is manifold), and Justice, and Equity are very different things indeed...
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OOps. sorry, that was to Kyle, who undoubtedly does-
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Ur Jolissa - do you know one of the Scots meanings for 'jobbie'? Just askin'-
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What have the marketers got
against bare feet?Must get one of them scooters for youngest grandnephew-
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Ye gods&little fishes!
We could forget about any kind of stuffing and just layer the moa down to a rifleman! -
Hell, why did we eat out the moa! The possibilities!
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RE : CCL
Mark Harris wrote: "They will also collect on behalf of authors who have not consiously subscribed to their scheme. Their response, when I questioned this practise of collecting without authorisation, was "No-one ever complained about getting a cheque."
CLL does *not* send ANY kind of information with their cheques: over the 26 years I've had books in print in ANZ, I have received precisely *2* cheques from them - one for $2.58c, and the other for $1250 (apparently half of what they sent publishers VUP.) They laud their 2 miserable non-fiction scholarships ($35,000 each) as the most lavish available in ANZ (not so) and have said that it's way better such are awarded than individual authors receiving 'petty amounts of money."
I've yet to find any financial accountability in the CLL - e.g number of copies from what titles over what period of time., and funds dispersed to which copyright owners-
meantime, they build a bigger bureaucracy (new offices, bigger computer system, more staff.) Forfend that any such crappy outfit is set up for e-rights-
yours, passionately, while wrestling with a maxed out card & an overdraft near its limit (and dont even mention the bloody mortgage-)
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For MUCH less than his kind of eternity I trust-