Posts by Rochelle Hume
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Raymond:
Of course a university campus is the real world, or no more surreal than anywhere else.
OMG, Craig said something that I completely agree with and have actually said regularly myself!
I've been quite startled, reading National's policies, at how brief they are,
I suspect that if/when National get in power, they don't really have many ideas that are very different from what is happening now. AS to their employment policy, if they think its difficult to fire encumbents now, wait until your current problem employee realises that they can't go any where else without losing their employment rights for 90 days.... Quite a blunt policy for what is more a perceived than a real problem, in my view.
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Laws like section 92A which we have managed to have delayed but which will come into force no matter what apparently on 29 Feb 09. S92A effectively requires ISPs (which includes schools, libraries, universities, businesses as well as the more traditional ISP) to terminate completely users' internet access on the basis of a few unproven ... ahem ... cease and desist notices. There are so many things wrong with this regime it is hard to know where to start.
I couldn't agree with you more, Rick.
Both sides of the argument presented above seem to agree that creators need to be protected to a degree, the question is where the lines are drawn. s92A draws that line in the WRONG place.
I hate to think what else will be changed when the US fta is negotiated - Australia had to agree to a few rules around copyright to get their FTA with the USA, including parallel importing being 'banned'.
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OMG, my husband went to that school. We never even considered single sex schools for our sons as a result.
An intelligent quiet bookish lad, asked to leave school at 14 because he didn't hand in his homework - and got told he couldn't play league for his club if he didn't play rugby for the school...Society copped a few years of trouble for that decision - he chose neither and just got into trouble for a while instead. Brilliant.
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Love the apology website - who thinks of such things?
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Cockles (apparently actually clams) fresh from Whangateau harbour - Lockie's electorate and all - only just cooked, and eaten, still hot, off the barbie...(mind your fingers)
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Speaking as a former journalist-defendant (albeit in a non-defamation-related case) who's not a lawyer and can't really afford lawyers, I would argue that it's the non-legal avenues that are the most effective. Last time, we had to go through the whole High Court process to overturn an injunction (and pay lawyers to do so), when ultimately, the process was useless.
Believe or not Keith, I agree with you completely. It is a rare case indeed where it is actually worth it to file in court...(convincing clients of that is not always easy) - but having the legal remedy available can change the negotiating power im/balance...
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A more useful change of defamation law might to make it illegal to threaten defamation action - without proof of actual defamation.
If the allegedly defamed accuser can't prove defamation - they have to pay special damages to the publisher/author...
It would be one way to remove some power from a deep-pocket litigant.
It works in the Patent Law context, where it was made illegal to threaten breach of patent if the action complained of does not in fact breach the published patent. The intent was to prevent 'bully boy' tactics by deep pocket patent owners. I would have thought free speech was just as important as continuing innovation...
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Is this the book that he was advertising a month or so ago without naming the title or subject? But still wanted you to send the money in to buy it???
Oh, I'm sure every fact is independently verified, and the subject matter is dealt with completely objectively... [Yes, tongue is firmly lodged in cheek].
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Thanks for sharing the icons - I hadn't seen those before. Having litigated/mediated in many disputes involving Chinese business people, the 'Approach to Disputes' one was inciteful...
But I had to laugh at the party one! I had totally forgotten that when I was an exchange student in Sri Lanka - most birthday parties consisted of a round circle of chairs with everyone sitting in a circle talking - until I went to a classmates birthday last month in Auckland (her entire family emigrated here a few years ago) and all the Sri Lankans and me sat around in a circle, while all her Kiwi friends sat at the side talking to each other...
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They sell fatal-looking brightly coloured rubber slingshots at the local Hunting & Fishing store....
I've always fancied having a go with one.....bet it would be fun!