Posts by Chris Waugh
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Hebe,
Cool moon colours. Which reminds me: Mid-Autumn/ Moon Festival is Sunday. Must try and get pictures of big, round, unusually close moons.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Nora Leggs,
I love how liquid the colours of the spin posies are.
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No flowers, but certainly things that sprout, and rapidly. In this photo are the building I lived in when I first moved to this part of town, where I was living when I met she who is now my wife, and two buildings that were mere holes in the ground at the time. Taken from the classroom (in another building that didn't exist back then) just as this afternoon's brief storm passed.
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I'm wondering, particularly given the comments attributed to John Key in this story, whether there is room for the responsible GCSB officers to be prosecuted under the Crimes Act.
'Responsible' is no longer a word I would use to describe John Key.
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Quite a tangent, but I can imagine the NZ police and perhaps SIS and GCSB now saying "Oh, yes, can we have some of that, too?". Australia worries me.
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Legal Beagle: Kim Dotcom and the GCSB, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Ah, thanks for the clarification.
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Guess I should've checked with the GCSB first..
The GCSB is subject to all New Zealand law, although specific exemption provisions are contained in some legislation (for example the Privacy Act, the Public Finance Act, and the Radio Communications Act). Other more general exemptions are contained in the Human Rights Act and the Public Records Act.
Now I guess I need a lawyer. Seems to me the Privacy Act and Public Records Act would be the laws deciding whether or not the GCSB can check somebody's citizenship or residency status without knocking on their door and politely asking. The Privacy Commissioner doesn't list the GCSB or SIS under their exemptions in their introduction, though I guess Principle 10:
(c) that non-compliance is necessary -
(i) to avoid prejudice to the maintenance of the law by any public sector agency, including the prevention, detection, investigation, prosecution, and punishment of offences; or
and Principle 11
(e) that non-compliance is necessary -
(i) to avoid prejudice to the maintenance of the law by any public sector agency, including the prevention, detection, investigation, prosecution, and punishment of offences; or
allow Immigration and DIA to disclose a person's citizenship or residence status if GCSB's assurance that the person is under investigation is enough for them to believe, on reasonable grounds...
But I'm not a lawyer, just a pleb with an internet connection and spare time.
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Legal Beagle: Kim Dotcom and the GCSB, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
it’s hard to figure that their processes *wouldn’t* involve a check on the databases of Immigration and Internal Affairs.
Well, yes, but considering all the documentation I had to supply to Internal Affairs to claim my daughter's citizenship, I'd be surprised if any such processes exist. And wouldn't that require an information matching programme under the Privacy Act? I don't see such a programme on this chart, although I do see Passports, Births and Citizenship have programmes with each other - which just adds to my annoyance with the amount of stuff I had to provide.
Of course, the GCSB should be capable of just hacking into the DIA and Immigration databases, but we're supposed to have laws to limit the powers of government and allow maximum civil liberties, aren't we?
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OnPoint: Re: Education, in reply to Islander,
Thanks Islander. I'm trying to avoid the hatreds and teach my wee one the loves. Life seems to go better for all of us that way.
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OnPoint: Re: Education, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Sorry if I came across as overly pro-books. Within my own whanau there are all kinds of people with all kinds of strengths. Myself and my siblings were always read to and always encouraged to develop our particular strengths, whether those strengths lay in books or outside. I guess the key is in parental engagement, and reading to kids would seem to be a pretty good measure of that at least in the first few years.
