Posts by stephen walker
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well, i've never clapped eyes on Investigate magazine in my life, so just imagining what it looks like is pretty creepy.
But that list of advertisers is an eye-opener. What are these companies thinking? To be directly funding this muck is pretty sad indeed. As the pink ginnea pig said, a bit of letter-writing might not be a bad idea...
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And really, back in the day any sort of home projection (rugby, porn or otherwise), would be much more novel than it is now.
huh? in 1981, video was VERY new and novel in NZ. In 1980, one guy in my class (from a very wealthy family) had a VCR imported from the US. All videos had to be brought in from overseas too. There were no VCRs in the shops and no video rentals in NZ in 1980. So I doubt 1981 had changed significantly.
OTOH, film projection equipment was quite common. A LOT of people in the 70s had standard- and super-8mm cameras and projectors. Home film projectors were NOT rare in the late 70s/early 80s. -
perhaps the current lack of NZ jurists on the privy council is because NZ canned new cases going to the council several years ago and the supreme court pinched all the judges?
and as another person said, how can you tell where a judge is from based on their (concocted) aristocratic title?
and if nz's legal system is so damned good, an occasional bit of outside scrutiny is not going to do anyone any harm, is it? maybe even some good.
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rats...NI got in before me!
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You obviously didn't go to A Certain Bar
...or Quays...or Zanzibar...
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What has outraged me though has been the very fact a bunch of British judges, who may not have even ever stepped foot in New Zealand, presume to pass judgment on our legal system.
Well, your outrage is based on ignorance, obviously. It has been convention for decades that the top judges from an overseas case's home appeal court sit on cases at the Privy Council.
Many of NZ's leading jurists have served on the council. As have judges from many commonwealth juristictions.
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We used to do two week tours of the Church Halls of Auckland or two weeks of school lunchtimes
lol! i saw the meemees in the school hall at lunchtime in 81 or 82. The gig was only announced that morning and i had to run around begging to borrow the small change needed to get in. we were pretty pissed off they didn't play in the theatre because the acoustics were appalling in the hall. Those catholic boys were so much cooler than us, we were so jealous!
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I wondered if there had been any link established between the incidence of Terra Preta soil sites and Maori cooking practices: i.e. hangi?
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Great post David!
And very topical considering the International Agrichar Initiative in Australia linked by Joe.
Would you be kind enough to add the energybulletin.net Terra Preta links page to your further information section?
cheers!
[**REPLY:** Thanks, Stephen, I've done that -- DH]
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But hey, how often do us white middle-class males get to call for some Political Correctness to demarginalise us?
Yeah. Too right. Let's all pile in and tell this...person, where to get off! How dare she use loaded terms to describe our poor, marginalised selves. I mean...
white!
boys!
playground!Jeez, this is pretty close to the bone, I reckon. Calling it offensive is a pretty mild reaction if you ask me...