Posts by Rich of Observationz
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the proper test Parliament should set for the Censor to apply when considering banning material
How about: "was anyone harmed who wasn't a willing, adult, participant".
Seems like enough to me, and it intrinsically cuts out anything textual or drawn.
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we’d soon have a LOT less content to enjoy
It's almost impossible to make a living as a musician in NZ. Does that mean we have less music? It doesn't seem so.
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Legal Beagle: Somewhere* it's National…, in reply to Pete Sime,
However, I'm sure there are a plethora of textbooks on explosives chemistry and engineering available to anyone who wants to order them.
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Legal Beagle: Somewhere* it's National…, in reply to Matthew Poole,
don’t try to tell me that nobody considers the presence of a book within a library system to be an endorsement of the book
I'm sure many do, but they're wrong. The (US) ALA says: The presence of books and other resources in a library does not indicate endorsement of their contents by the library. LIANZ say: No information resources should be excluded from libraries because of the opinions they
express.It's a fundamental ethic of the library profession.
As an example, the Auckland libraries have various versions of Mein Kampf. This is not an endorsement of nazism.
(I can't link their catalogue, because there's a vbar in the URL. Ironic, somehow)
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Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Don't go there. If you analyse TV news down, it consists of an A4 page of information spun out to an hour. Lose the noise, and we'd have a 3 minute news bulletin.
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Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to Kumara Republic,
I was interested in that. Stats NZ do a detailed survey of time use every ten years, and I wonder what the next one (in 2019) might show.
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Hard News: About Campbell Live, in reply to Simon Bennett,
That’s not because companies (and the public sector especially) don’t want to market to under-25s, there are a huge amount of dollars spent trying to do that. (Not least because the cheap beer, mobile phone and banking providers they choose might keep them for a fairly long time, statistically).
It’s just that that they don’t watch TV3 and TV3 doesn’t make programmes for them.
Also, I have a suspicion that the reason they don't explicitly target over 55's is that the advertisers just know their eyeballs are locked to the TV 24/7 and don't need to explicitly serve them.
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Speaker: We don’t make the rules, we're…, in reply to BenWilson,
I assumed you meant taking the afternoon off to physically go to the ground and watch?
And I assumed that with online multi-player games there was some advantage in being among the first in?
But then, I don't do sport (other than my annual ski trip), I don't watch telly and I don't do games.
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Speaker: We don’t make the rules, we're…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
These guys whole SOP -
1. don't understand a new area of business
2. set up a flawed operation
3. get the government to bail us out
4. profit!Remember Telecom T3G?
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Speaker: We don’t make the rules, we're…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I think that for those three events, they can only be done at the scheduled time. The telly is the same if you watch it now, tonight, next week or five years in the future.
(If you wait five years, it has the advantage that the hype is gone and you can make a reasoned decision to stop wasting your time after 10 minutes).