Posts by Lyndon Hood
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The quote from the cop in that story about how you never know what kind of thing you'll turn up in these situations - makes it sound like they only ever use this search power to go on fishing expeditions.
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Budget 2013: $2m for ‘New Zealand Story’ project
Just because I saw the headline and thought, 'Oh, it might be an arts press release.'
It isn't.
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Apparently Finlayson is tweeting a series of reasons (#1 - Frankfurt book fair.)
Anyway, Finlayson's announcement of this was immediately recast by Dave Armstrong:
Shortly I’ll be tweeting reasons why I think we’re at the beginning of a #goldenage in the political satire sector in NZ
Dude has a point.
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Scoop's coverage will be at http://www.scoop.co.nz/features/budget2013.html
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It’s worth recalling that this whole thing began when he attempted to take a knife onto a commercial flight.
Like it's not the screening he objects to so much as being required to obey the rules.
I can't help noting it would have to be larger than the standard 6cm pocket knife blade, which is exactly the size that have been allowed on domestic flights since 2005.
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Well Mr McCoskrie tried that argument for civil unions too
The Queer Avengers became his new favorite activist group when they mentioned polygamy mid last year
(More recently someone looked at the links on Bob’s list of slippery evidences and wasn’t impressed)
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The thing about the TPP is we are all whistling in the dark
Well, there’s been a fair quantiy of draft-leaking, and countries have varying degrees of openness about the current agreement and their negotiating position. That said, my impression of the drafts is they are a big pile of options.
This guy http://gordoncampbell.scoop.co.nz/2012/12/03/canada-weighs-in-peter-clark-on-the-tpp/ (in the PDF) seems to go through positions country by country.
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Just because it happened to be around today – Neil Gaiman repeatedly mentions the ‘changing the world’ thing:
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Nah, I'm calling it: it's knowledge.
It's the equivalent of "comics aren't just for kids any more!" - it looks like an exciting story to someone who hasn't been paying attention.
Tech saw the way specialist fields get treated in Parliament during the file sharing debate, and they saw it from the media ('these people think you should be allowed to download anything you like') then, and now.
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“accessing the information wasn’t easy”
I'm guessing WINZ would happily send someone on a course to develop the skills it takes.