Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Judge Harvey: My part in his downfall, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
our backpacking opportunities :)
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Hard News: Good Intentions, in reply to Tanya Black,
“well it was fully funded so there was no financial consideration”
Worth noting that for years the NZ government has been bribing state agencies to employ disabled people by fully subsidising their pay for a couple of years. We can guess how long many of the jobs lasted.
That could have been used to fund broader understanding and workplace support for more people, but it has all been done with the best of intentions.
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Hard News: Good Intentions, in reply to Tanya Black,
Thanks for joining the conversation, Tanya. Loved your recent John Kirwan episode, by the way.
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Hard News: Judge Harvey: My part in his downfall, in reply to Russell Brown,
has to be some marketing mileage there. Attract Swedish migrants, etc.
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Hard News: Judge Harvey: My part in his downfall, in reply to Russell Brown,
did the Herald story go for a more sensational angle?
Hard to fault Nat's summary:
the article’s flow was “SCANDAL! POSSIBLE SCANDAL! Some fact. (probably not scandal)”
But I suspect the damage was done by the overseas tech blogs not doing things as thoroughly as say the BBC.
Judge Harvey made the comment at the NetHui internet conference in Auckland on 12 July.
He had been taking part in a discussion about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) treaty - a proposed intellectual rights agreement involving the US and about a dozen other countries.
The judge had noted that at present it was legal for citizens in New Zealand to hack DVD region codes to watch disks designed to be restricted to other countries, adding that TPP would change this.
"Under TPP and the American Digital Millennium copyright provisions you will not be able to do that, that will be prohibited," he said.
"If you do you will be a criminal, that's what will happen.
"There are all sorts of ways this whole thing is being ramped up and if I could use Russell's tweet from earlier on - we have met the enemy and he is US."
The reference was a play on words adapting the quote "we have met the enemy and he is us".
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Hard News: Judge Harvey: My part in his downfall, in reply to Robert Fear,
Phonetically: "he is you ess".
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Hard News: Good Intentions, in reply to Russell Brown,
Happy to be at your next meeting. :)
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Hard News: It's not funny because it's…, in reply to mic weevil,
oh I'd say Labour are noticing, wouldn't you? :)
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Hard News: Judge Harvey: My part in his downfall, in reply to Thomas Beagle,
the connection is so strong that they'd be failing in their job if they didn't mention it.
Quite. It was an obviously standout line even for this non-journo sitting in that session.
And the whole event was so constructive that those standard 'news' angles about conflict and angst would have provided thin pickings otherwise. Getting editors and journos to see the news value in hope without going all pollyanna is a bigger challenge that needs tackling.
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I deeply admire Harvey's ethics in realising that a perceived conflict counts and stepping aside in the interests of his profession and of a fair hearing for all parties, even though I have no doubt he was personally very keen to be part of it.
Imagine if more public figures had the same moral sense?