Posts by Islander
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How I envy Foo Camp attendees...but I'm not a geek, and not a happy camper, and people give us these brillant post-
Russell's gravatar still hasnt turned black (I'm using a 10.5.6 iMac running Safari...)
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O the difference an i/I/eye makes...
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Kevin - your last paragraph was incoherent.Maybe go to bed for a while? Cheers,Islander
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Kevin: my whanau are *very* widespread. NONE of us are - or ever have been (except for a Mouat, long ago) in prison. (Now, the law cogniscenti should know about that one! It was one of the first tests of habeus corpus...)
I simply do not understand your comments apropos 1/4 etc percentages - Kai Tahu accept ANYONE who is on our 1848 roll. We have no 'elite'. We have whakapapa-
o, take a moment to understand that more Pakeha/nonMaori kids were killed than Maori kids last year?
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O dear...I dont think I'm going to have ANY kind of conversation with Kevin...
*o, 'us' in my above post means "those of us of Polynesian descent." -
Kia ora Kevin: one of those links came from you; the other drew up a "Not Found" flag.
I am happy to discuss matters with you, and I would agree - because all the evidence is there- that "those over-represented in crime are intergenerational users of the welfare system." Unfortunately, a rather large percentage of them are us...*
*And* the number of people incarcerated of Maori/other Polynesian descent is *3 times* our percentage of the population of ANZ...now, we are capable creative very intelligent & industrious folk (the history is there) - so, what's gone wrong?I'd suggest
a)colonialism
b)subsequent destruction of social & economic systems
c)drug use - Maori did not have drugs (aside from the adrenalin of warfare or seaclash etc.) and alcohol was a known British measure of invasion. & control, and
d) deracination- my tribe is just starting to work on the fact that it is not good for *any* young humans to be apart from the the natural world.Anyway, I still despise Garth Vicar, but am happy to talk- no reira, n/n Islander
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Kevin, check real world crime stats instead of SST propaganda. Garth McVicar's statements are vicious, and my comment about him being a contumelious little turd is both accurate (within the bounds of slang) and deserved.
Yeah, I'm a mongrel (Kai Tahu/Orkney Scots/Lancashire English, here for centuries/nearly a century, all of me-) & me & mine belong here as creative, law-abiding, long-term citizens...how about you? -
Actually McVicar-the-contumelious-little-turd has said a thing about the sentence - to wit, Emery shouldnt have to serve a custodial sentence.
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DAMIAN - that smush sound is my forehead meeting the concrete in grovelling apology for not getting your name right..smush again. I blame it on the ad strip which must've primed my eye & primitive brain with "David" just as I was recovering from facing a blank letterless space...
if you/anyone gets to read "The Girl From The Sea Of Cortez", you'll see he's got the film angle covered (the manta smashes the baddies' boat, rescues - nah, go read the thing) but he is a marine biologist and diver, and what he writes in that guise works for this surface swimmer-
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Mark, that was really useful post for me: yes, I have a copy of the 1994 legislation, and a bit of practical knowledge about copyright, but that was a succinct summation of the differences between fair dealing & fair use. Thanks.