Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: Terror panics and the war imperative, in reply to Ken Double,
ISIL are like no other animal we've encountered
People say that every time, but it's never true. People worry about what they're doing, but they've still killed fewer people in the last year in that region than the US has.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Rob Hosking,
This use of the word ‘witness’ to characterise Hager’s role: really?
Because – without necessarily buying into the whole ‘receiver of stolen property’ thing – it seems to me that to characterise Hager’s role in all this as just a witness does quite a bit of damage to the English language.
I thought you cleverer than that, Rob. If not “witness”, what word are you suggesting?
[edit] It was the police who used the word, just so you know, so we can probably assume it to be technically correct.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to izogi,
I haven’t seen the wider context of this tweet, but apparently Police claimed something about it having taken that long because he was being given the right to claim journalistic privilege, whatever that means.
That link has a rogue 'g' in it. Should be this
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Grant McDougall,
Why so long ?
Sekrit panels...
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Jack Harrison,
Yes. Still I wasn’t bought up in Jesusland for 16 years without knowing this.
"As long as you do it to these, the least of my brethren, you do it unto me."
I lasted 2 years longer than you, full metal catholic as well. Very handy when debating evolution with fundies...
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Jack Harrison,
A true human does not write the headline , “Feral dies in greymouth, did world a favour.
Fixed that for you
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
So the victim(s) are left wing, the journalist is Slater, everything else is basically the same – are we still holding the same position? Slater isn’t being charged, but his communication with the hacker are being investigated as he’s a material witness.
I'm neither left wing nor right, but I confess I don't see Slater as a journalist, regardless of what the judge said. If 5 policemen spent 10 hours in his home, taking everything they could find, yes I would call it excessive unless their warrant cited as grounds that there was a reasonable suspicion that he had hacked the information himself. Because we now know he's got form in that area. Nothing about Hager's previous activity as a journalist indicates that he has broken the law or been a party to the breaking of the law. Quite the contrary.
If you' are going to offer up hypotheticals, at least make them equivalent.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
…although I think the stolen hard drive that Slater received would be. Although I don’t think it was proven that it was stolen.
Apparently a filing cabinet full of documents as well