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N.B. Moa Point is the site of one of Wellington’s main sewage outfalls: those figures are just as likely to cover the CBD as anything happening in Miramar.
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Legal Beagle: A (non-)submission on the…, in reply to Sacha,
...and most pests are such amateurs, after all...
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Legal Beagle: A (non-)submission on the…, in reply to Pete,
a lot of bunnies down South soon
Wasn't use for professional pest control an explicit exception?
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I think the intended point was: As predicted, police stations are not secure enough (and/or police procedures not stringent enough) to cope with the increased pressure (in this case, from weird gun collectors gone rogue).
Though. again, such theft is actual criminal activity, prosecutable under already-existing laws. -
Hard News: Psychedelic Therapy: an…, in reply to ,
Seventh along bottom row, from under the table.
which I'm reading as "disturbed enlightenment"
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Legal Beagle: A (non-)submission on the…, in reply to andin,
Why would you buy guns back off legal owners, but not off the owners of illegal weapons? It makes no sense
Well, if those are illegal e.g. by having been stolen, why would you want to provide a way to profit from that crime, or be less inclined to prosecute such offenders?
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
social morays
All together now:
“When an eel swimming by
Bites a chunk from your thigh
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Legal Beagle: A (non-)submission on the…, in reply to Richard Glover,
But what is included in the overall death or homicide figures? The Australian law wasn’t (and the NZ one isn’t) really intended to reduce the overall death rate significantly – there’s no way it can reduce the number of hunting accidents or suicides, for example. They’re specifically intended to reduce the massacre rate. So … are you seriously suggesting we wait until we have a large enough sample of massacres to permit a statistically valid before-and-after comparison?
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Legal Beagle: Why the censor's total ban…, in reply to Neil,
Once someone is explicitly inciting specific acts of mass violence, how much time should be spent in text analysis or (far less reliably) psychological profiling? (Let alone unhelpful speculation about mental disorders.)
There is also a limit to predictive linguistic analysis imposed by the algorithms of social media platforms (the language of hate groups gets adapted until no longer automatically banned; the algorithm gets adapted to cope).
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Speaker: An attempt at demystifying Sharia, in reply to Moz,
NZ’s death penalty for treason was abolished in 1989 (Abolition of the Death Penalty Act 1989). The Cook Islands abolished capital punishment only in 2007, but had never actually used it. There are currently only two nations in Oceania with capital punishment still on the books, namely Papua New Guinea (where the relevant crimes include murder through sorcery), and Tonga (where it was last used in 1982).