Posts by rodgerd
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There's no intrinsic right in any of that.
Well, there's no intrinsic right in any kind of property, really. It's a social convenience that we have property rights that go beyond "what you can take, or stop others from taking."
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In the case of Britain, though, many neighbours seem to have implemented it.
The other concern I personally give most weight to are the artists who are worried that if the speculator market is undermined they'll lose exposure. Dealers and suchlike? Feh. I'm inclined to see middlemen as at best a necessary evil.
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The paper is reporting the royalty period as 70 years after death, not 50.
Personally I can see no particular reason for copyright to run even 50 years past death; 25 seems perfectly adequete. A famous relative ought not be a sinecure.
Other than that, I'm relatively relaxed, so long as it isn't implemented in such a way as to encourage art to be whisked off to a nearby country with no reciprocal laws for sale.
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Dave, your capacity for mendaciousness is limitless. This psycopath has beaten her children for years, sometimes with weapons, badly enough to be hauled up on charges for it. He hit her because she started in on yet another one of her frenzied attacks ("At one stage his mother suggested he had no respect for the man. When he agreed he did not, he said his mother slapped and punched him in the face at least three times."), he fought back.
Bravo to her son. If more vicious bullies got a taste of their own medicine, they might be a little more restrained.
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Holmes has already recieved his punishment in life; his grandeloquent departure from TVNZ and his obvious belief that his absence would wreck TVNZ has come to nought, as have his petulant attacks on Helen Clark would bring down her govenment.
The proof that no-one actually cared to watch him, and that he was not an opinion leader for "the people" that he thought must have been bitter blows indeed. I am happy for him to caper about on Dancing With The Stars, which seems the right sort of vehicle for his talents.
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- we're witnessing sheer bloody incompetence on a national scale.
There was a fine article in Unlimited three or four years back that noted an international study (OECD, perhaps?) which found that while New Zealand managers rated themselves as the thord or second best managers in the world, all the measurements applied in areas like financial management, strategic management, and so on, saw them rated 30 - 40 out of 45. Communist Vietnam had better management that New Zealand.
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Hopefully he'll now stop depicting these people as victims of their terrible children and think a bit harder about the violence in this family.
Well, if they are terrible, it's not hard to see how they got that way.
You are so right about Ralston.
Actually, one thing Russell missed is the 20-30 year comment which, for me, was the real joke. I may be biased, seeing as how my father in law is a former TVNZ news editor who was cleaned out in the Great Purge of the late 80s, when TVNZ was shifted to Auckland, but for me that's a far more notable period when TVNZ started turning to shit. The last 20 years has been the decline, in my opinion.
Have a look at the TVNZ docos Maori TV replays from the 70s and 80s and ask yourself how much of a similar quality you've seen in the 90s, for example.
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xactly. All men are privileged over women by the actions of a few, whether men want to be or not, because of the fear of violence they can induce.
You want to be careful with that line of "indirect power by proxy = personal power". Otherwise you'll be needing to accept that since the royalty of late medieval Europe got themselves into debt to powerful Jewish financial families, and opressed peasants to pay the bills, Joe Average European Jew really was a legitimate target for the average hard done by peasant. It's much the same quality of argument.
Sheesh, men are so sensitive! Why am I not surprised that even here there is (seemingly) no support for the idea that men as a group need to address this issue?
I don't know. Perhaps you can commiserate with Deborah Coddington. I hear Asians are ungrateful humourless bastards when asked to do something about their crime problem.
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__(And since I've brought it up: the schoolboy rape story is awful; esp on the heels of our own Police rape allegations. When are MEN going to own this problem?)__
Unfair, I suggest. I've never perpetrated a sexual assault, and have twice stepped in to prevent one.
Misandric crap is indeed no more attractive than misogynistic crap.
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The middle classe experience of the Police is pretty much limited to recieving traffic tickets from them, and that when we're burgled they do nothing.
Actually, my middle class experience of the police is not getting speeding tickets, and having them locate, successfully prosecute, and retrieve the greater part of my stolen possessions from the two burglaries I've suffered. Perhaps it's a question of where you live.