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My entry in the Otago Uni Arana Hall yearbook, circa 1998:
"Come back at 1am when I've rolled out my 15m modem extension cable."
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Some wisdom from, believe it or not, the free trade lobby...
Trade Liberalisation Network: Australia/US FTA - Confirms TLN's Worst Fears
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Steven C:
There seems to me, to be an oxymoron in there.
You get that with questions that are more loaded than a Tommy gun.
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If the 4th Estate/5th Column really are making up shit (or over-inflating it), wouldn't there be grounds for a Press Council complaint?
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Steven C:
How about 3D life sketching. Now thats awkward, we walk around a nude model with slabs of clay. I found it particularly uncomfortable doing the genitals. Holy mother of God, I'v just realized that I'm into producing pron, BC style.
They make pr0n in British Columbia? I always believed Montreal was the centre of Canuck pr0n. ;)
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In the pre-broadband era, taking advantage of Freenet and ZFree to the max until the loopholes were closed. Including all-nighter sessions of Camper-Strike and the earliest P2P programs. And I haven't yet mentioned when Otago Uni IT dept started relaxing its Internet access policy...
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Ren's had 'don't come crying to me when you get raped' from a radfem.
I've always taken with a grain of salt any attempt to link rape and erotica/porno together. 'Sexual violence' seems to owe much to violence and little to sex, rather than the other way round.
From a technical standpoint, rape is GBH with a penetrative tool, whether biological or manufactured.
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For a while now, there's been a bit of a lively hubbub within the wider feminist movement between the adherents of Andrea Dworkin and Betty Dodson. The Dodsonites argue that the Dworkinites have more in common with Jerry Falwell; the Dworkinites argue the Dodsonites support female exploitation.
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In the words of Lyndon Johnson (who unfortunately squndered his Great Society goodwill by launching into the Vietnam War) ...
But freedom is not enough. You do not wipe away the scars of centuries by saying: Now you are free to go where you want, and do as you desire, and choose the leaders you please.
You do not take a person who, for years, has been hobbled by chains and liberate him, bring him up to the starting line of a race and then say, "you are free to compete with all the others," and still justly believe that you have been completely fair.
Thus it is not enough just to open the gates of opportunity. All our citizens must have the ability to walk through those gates.
Most will agree that social welfare is an elephant in the room. But with apologies to Jim Bolger, it's easy to abolish the welfare state but how would you govern the country tomorrow?
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I can recall that one of the nastiest bullies in my local community from J2 later turned up, a couple of years ago, on a list of fine defaulters who owed more than $500. Coincidentally or not, his father is the big cheese of a share broking firm, and also a board member of a trans-Tasman free-market think-tank.
On a related note, this is more a high school thing, but still relevant: