Posts by Grant Dexter
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Che - if they can't even administrate who can or cannot march down Queen St. then there doesn't seem much point.
Craig - I'm glad we can agree to some extent. :)
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Dylan. It is irrelevant what might happen in other situations. My point is that in this situation the council has been shown as impotent. If you agree that, even with such a trivial matter like deciding who can or cannot march down Queen St., the council is next to useless then what point even having a council?
Would you like to address my point?
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I'm certain that you do. But all those numbers mean nothing if the assumptions made in setting up the study are wrong.
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Dylan, I understand why you would ask, but it really is irrelevant. That the pornographers are prepared to reject proper authority is not surprising. I most likely would not. But then again I am not likely to promote something they would disapprove of...
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I can't share my view on their work as I am not going to spend a thousand dollars paing for it. Regardless, I do know what I'm talking about and I do know that it takes more than a few statistical models to show causation for a complex relationship claim such as this.
I fully agree that welfare correlates to mortality rates. Unfortunately for your point to bear some weight you will have to account for the vastly different cultures being brought in. Each country has its own set of factors that will skew statistics. I could probably name you 6 factors for both sets of data that will need to be adjusted for. Statistical models just aren't equipped to analyse such things and your acceptance of the papers you cite does betray something. The evidence is not fabricated, the correlation is real, but the conclusions are not necessarily warranted.
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Wait .. whose hit rate are you referring to? :noid:
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Craig, lighten up, mate. :)
We both have opinions. We disagree. Shall we talk about something else now?
Michael, did you just call me a hit man? :rotfl:
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Thanks, Sacha :)
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Craig, you're entitled to your opinion, I guess, as ludicrous as it is...
When porn stars, employed by a porn maker, ride down a street topless I consider it pornographic. Unless you have some definition of what pornography is that excludes this example then my opinion is perfectly valid.
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Dylan. I think your questions are irrelevant. Had the council acted to try and stop Destiny or the street preacher then it seems they would have to go through the same channels and would have met the same ruling. So my disapproval of council action is not the issue. The point I entered this thread on is that a council should be able to rule on such trivial matters as they see fit. If they cannot then there seems little point in having a council. Do you have a comment on that?
As to civil disobedience .. I disagree with your use of the term 'right'. I would have said 'ability'. There does come a time when the law of the land is perverted and it is time to stand up and say, "Enough!" In a democracy, of course, such action will only ever likely be taken by minority groups (If the majority disapproves of the law they simply vote in someone who says they will change it enough times till it gets changed enough to satiate the masses ;). So unless they (civil dis-obey-ers) are extremely well funded or extremely dedicated there is little chance that anything will happen other than a few arrests...