Mandy Henk writes about how the NZ research industry gives away all (most of) it's output so that a few transnational companies can profit from it, and locals can't see it. Universities and CRIs can't afford to see each other's work, business people and ...
Mistaking fair use for fair dealing is an absolute beginner's mistake in NZ copyright law. That their spokesthing wasn't able to distinguish them shows they simply have no idea. Again.
Go see "The Death of Stalin" and see if you still agree: Iannucci is a master, someone who can lampoon Beria, and not underplay the tragedy that was the Stalinist regime.
My interest is in what Judith Collins will call her new party, as she splits the conservative right off the National Party. "Tru Tories"?
Snap! I only kept novels that I knew I'd want to lend to people (and never expect back) , so the Pratchett and le Guin stayed. I took a bit of a survey of the reading I'd done for leisure over the last 12/18 months - virtually all fantasy and space opera, ...
This has made me wonder about how many MPs have signed something like the Official Information Act, and can't legally discuss their activities. I'm sure this guy is in the same spot. People who have been in the armed forces in other countries. Does this ...
Ah, fair enough. I just have a lot of sympathy for those that trip over themselves in their late adolescence. A bit of a shabby love affair, getting sick and recreational activities can all get in the way.
I'm not sure doxxing someone with their academic transcript is very kind. I was getting similar results myself at the same time. In my defence, I was pretty much stoned to bits, but maybe he was too.
I had the privilege to see "An Island of Good" last night: a documentary about an alternative education provider who decided to take 22 really naughty kids to Nepal. There was an interview about it yesterday on Natrad: http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/...
I have much the same problem. Party vote Green, electorate vote tactically, I suppose. Labour, I feel, is coming home.
This is such a reductionist view of the world, I wonder if you mean it seriously. And if you do, are you well?
I have no evidence to back this up, but that's never stopped me before. The US private prison system is backed up by an explicitly corrupt environment. Kickbacks for individuals, slave labour for business, contributions for political organisations. That's ...
I hope this doesn't man that all the other prisons don't get the limited amount of tikanga and Te Reo input they have now, because "that's for the Māori prison...". It works for Pākehā too, I'm also interested in this current theme from the right at the ...
Or we just eat them. I'm not saying mobs and pitchforks isn't the answer.
One of the things i like about the sensible rich, is that they know that if they don't make these minor concessions, its mobs and pitchforks time. The gluttonous rich, and their libertarian dupes delude themselves they live in vacuum.
Great to see David Clark up there too. When people complain that pollies are a bunch of lying self serving trough feeders, he's my go to example of exactly the opposite. I'll be proud to support this lot with my party vote.
Is democracy the legitimised tyranny of the majority? If so, f*ck democracy.
And Nats response? Spaghetti on pizzas (avec pineapple). When you see the whole spaghetti pizza post from English as a direct response to this article in the WW, it looks oh so contrived and cynical. "Adern and Little look human! They don't like pineapple ...
I shook the hand of a watersider on a picket line this very morning. To think that time simply evaporates issues around worker's and human rights is inane. Its powerful to be in a left progressive heritage that stretches back to include generations of ...
If your comment about flash games didn't show you are out of touch, your one about why and how people use library computers certainly does.
I do. I care deeply. So do all the councils and other organisations that have fossil fuel divestment and other ethical investment programs (or at least their constituents care). This is a real thing, and to ignore it will be dangerous for the kiwisaver ...
This a good, silly game. http://w3w.co/humans.skill.rats
If it means more money for those living in cars, going to school, for research and public media, more for the very young and very old, then tax the crap out of me.
Virtually all research is paid for directly by the government, or subsidised through tax breaks, or the final product (in the case of pharmaceuticals) subsidised by the government. I'd love to see an ideologically pure right wing libertarian telephone. It ...
Doing this at Lincoln is very cool. As a combined research and teaching 'hub' it could become a powerhouse for sustainable agriculture. I was privileged to work there for a while last year, and was amazed at what was going on. Some management issues, sure,...
So you don't listen to RNZ, but you know they are biased. I stopped paying attention to srylands when he suggested poor people should live in tent ghettos, and this is my last straw for you. I honestly try to understand the positions of those who differ ...
I agree. He should just get over his son, and be resilient. Otherwise he's just another moaner, standing in the way of reconstruction. (sarc).
His son died in the earthquake. His protest, as naive as it was, is pretty widely supported in the East of Christchurch.
Archives occurred to me too. Not the publicly facing ones, but the ones being made by the Internet Archive, or various public bodies who are allowed under legislation to swipe a copy of your site and pop it away for future research. Which is a Good Thing. ...
This was precisely the rhetoric used before the election of George Bush the Second. Then the world happened, and isolation proved itself untenable.
I'm sure he will release his thesis under a creative commons licence. Victoria are good about offering students this option, where others seem to want to hide their student's theses!
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