Posts by Kyle Matthews
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I borrow five dollars from you, with the proviso that if I haven't paid it back within a month, Craig will pay you back.
I'm not disputing that as long as it gets paid back the workplace doesn't end up coughing up.
Using the fact that it's on credit to claim that money hasn't been 'spent' seems to be trying to worm around the actual issue. It's employees using employer credit for personal expenses. I can't imagine the people who wrote the laws meant to exclude that by using the word 'spend'. Spend is about the money going from the purchaser (in this case actually the employer via their credit card) to the supplier of the good or service.
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I haven't seen every episode yet, but Homicide: Life on the Street seems very cop-centric (as I imagine "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets" was as well).
Is that any good Graeme? I read a review which said it was at least as good as the Wire, but the reasoning in the review looked stretched to me.
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No, actually until repayment is due the money simply hasn't been spent. It's abusing a line of credit at best.
But only on the basis that a bank has agreed to give your place of work a credit card and that's how credit cards work.
The goods or services have still been paid for. The provider of the goods or services have the money in their bank account, and your workplace credit card shows the expenditure. Seems pretty 'spent' to me, and the fact that the bank allows you to actually pay the bill a month later doesnt' change that.
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If the politician puts funds into the account before its due.... did any public money get spent?
Umm. That's don't work.
Just because interest hasn't been charged yet, doesn't mean money hasn't been spent.
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Yes, but does Rock of Love Bus have Wendell Pierce in it?
The Bunk would have driven the Rock of Love Bus.
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Also, the party answer was, I presume "I'll be fronting up to the caucus rather than resigning now", which was what Jones said on the day. Which will be a whole 'nother round of front page stories and recaps and "coming up on one news..." and another body blow just over a year out from the election.
The party should have had an answer to what was to be done with him and it should have been done then. Get it all done quick limit the time that the media can play with it.
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I thought Jones, at least the clip I saw of John Campbell ambushing him (at the airport) handled it reasonably well. There's a limit to how well you can say "well, I fucked up didn't I?".
But if Labour knew that several 'wineboxes' full of papers were going to be released, there's no way Goff should have been off overseas.
They needed a person who came out clean in the 'audit' to front the coverage with a solid beating of Jones and a lashing for Carter and the others. The leader would be the best choice.
In his absence, John Campbell just loads up his table with porn movies because there's no Goff to interview and there's no way they're going to put Jones or any of the others out there to look stupid.
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That last thing you said - that's the crux of it I think. "More difficult" is not an excuse I find especially compelling.
Yeah. I'm not sure if that has to do with the original source material as compared to the TV shows - I haven't read the originals. But Generation Kill was probably a fair reflection of what an embedded journalist would have seen - the inside of the US army, but not the inside of the Iraqi army/people. Perhaps the reporter that spent a year with the Baltimore Police provided a lot more on the criminals etc?
It certainly would be easier as the producer and writer of a TV show to go learn about the Baltimore drug trade (still going strong) than about what life was like for Iraqi people during a war that has supposedly already finished. Certainly you couldn't go observe Iraq now and say "well it was like that during the invasion", because a bunch of things have changed significantly for good and bad.
While recognising the criticism, I still thought it was good, without being as great as The Wire. I certainly didn't see it as war porn.
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OK, well SPOILERS follow then.
I thought the behaviour of the unit commander looking for glorious missions for his troops, the incompetent officer who went crazy at the first sign of trouble, and the attitude and actions of the ordinary soldiers drew on similar themes to the wire.
It didn't really have "the other side" like The Wire did, though I can see why that would be more difficult.
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We'll agree to disagree, but nice to see TVNZ can always find a slot for glossy war-porn.
I think Generation Kill is as much glossy war porn as The Wire is glossy police porn.