Posts by slarty
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Well deserved. Take another bow :)
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How sweet is that?
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I'm feeling a bit inadequate. My mother pointed out that the briefing on climate change I received in 1990 from Greenpeace has remained in their loft for the last 17 years. I took no action except always using low energy light bulbs and installing solar hot water systems. Sorry guys.
Thank god Augie has put me right.
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Yeah Che... here I am, still blogging from the inside. And no course yet :) When do I get my invitation?
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At the risk of facing a sedition charge, I think we should boycott the police too. Any sensible constable would have leaned strongly on the franchise owner not to press charges (there are all sorts of tools to "encourage" irrational people to do sensible things).
But no, whoever made this call has just tripped nicely into the waiting arms of all those people who said that existing police discretion was enough in the case of s59...
Perhaps the officer in question was trying to make a political point?
Franchise agreements always have very strong brand protection clauses in their contract, so corporate Subway are talking out of their arse when they say this is nothing to do with them. Do McDonalds leave their franchisees to their own devices over matters like spilled coffee and body parts planted in burgers? Of course not. They sell one thing - their brand. And they will crawl over broken glass to protect it.
I'll bet there's someone on their way over from the States as we speak to kick some PR Ass in the NZ office...!
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Let's see if it has the same effect as this did to the MoD's servers in the UK.. :)
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BTW, any idea why they aren't wanting the unedited ones pulled? Surely that's a greater infringement...?
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But... what happened to Stacey? Were there really lots of little warts inside? What did they look like? Don't suppose you took photos? If only we'd had camera phones in those days eh? Maybe you could do an article for Clitto or something?
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I deal with lots of lawyers - my own firm has several... and AirNZ's are pretty typical. The best lawyers keep ther clients out of court... but not the richest ones. You should read Justice John Hansen in The Otago Law Review last month. Sounds like he's as sick of his profession as I am. We simply train too many lawyers in this country, and because we don't allow personal injury claims they have to make work some other way.
Unfortunately none too bright most of them. It's the same with accountants; they expand to fill the available space. Now that the airline (btw if you ever work there you just call it "the airline") has drawn my attention to it, I shall ensure it spreads amongst as many people as I can get it to. I would imagine their 9000 (?) staff would be a good start. Can anyone spell Torrent?
When will they learn...
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Thanks Robyn - that's nearly the one. i wish I could find it... maybe it's a conspiracy.
Today I was ranting on about identity authentication, and it made me realise that the reason we stuff up our proof of ID (eg. passports, ID cards etc.) so often is that we can't menatlly distinguish between the medium and the content. We are not our body, we are our mind.
It's a very similar problem to Rights Management - music is not a CD or a sheet of paper, it is the intellectual content.
Yet we continue to fail to educate people about this difference, and then we end up with compliance (rights) issues...
Hey, maybe there's a philosophical work in this :)