Posts by Tristan
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I'm so glad the clark entry has been protected...
Awhile back the residents of Wikipedia had kittens over photo copywrite issues.
In US law offical photos of thier politicans are considred public domain and can be used. Everywhere else in the world unless the photo was taken in a public place you need written permission from the copyright holder.
I had to jump through a number of hoops to get a better photo of our Prime Minister (love her or hater surley she deservers a little respect for the office she holds no?)
I firstly got permission from the Labour party to use the photo. Then I got permission from the Prime Minsters office...
That was no good enough according to wikipedia the copy right holder has to give persmission for everyone to use it not just wikipedia!
Thankfully there are some nice people over at the PM's office who did just that, hence unlike John Howard. We get to have an offcial photo of our PM on Wiki.
At one point during this whole thing I asked what If I just went out to a 'public space' during election time and took a photo of a billboard would that be ok!?!
as an earlier poster quiped...
Co-pendants unite!
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Disintrest in politics = HIGH
most people are doing pretty well, government dosen't want to upset apple cart. Oppisistion can't think of much they would do if the were government...
both parties engage in sniping to fill the dead air...
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I have done something entierly good for the last two days...
I have not turned on a televison.
I have missed what can only be called pornography if its anything like previous tragedys.
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Many people are going to try and score points from this both from the left and the right such is the nature of politics.
I don't like guns never have, never will. But I reconise that some people do and nearly all of them are law abiding responibly owners. I am sure those people are just as appuled as we are and I hope one day that organisations like the NRA might say...
"look we are law abiding gun owners and we have a right to own guns, however there are to many criminals and unwell people who also have access to guns who shouldn't have them. We are prepared to make it harder for everyone including ourselves to get guns so that only law abiding people like us can have them"
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It was intresting that the boy tried to take a soft ball bat to his father and punched his mother...
I wonder where he learned that hitting people and using objects to hit people is an effective way to get what he wants...
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I've come to realise that there are so many people with disabilities out there who live ordinary lives
Reminds me of a Documentry at the NZ Documentry Festivle on the love lives of the intellectually disabled.
What struck me as we viewed the trials and tribulations of a number of couples is just how everyday they were.
Affiars, Angst about children, finding love, all the things you expect to find in everyday life dosen't stop just because you have a disablity.
Oh and being the Doco festivel we got to meet the director and particpants afterwards which was great!
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ah back on the wierless again russ.
You can get Bill Rolston on to fill your spot while you were away and as long as he wasn't allowed to make up his own lines we would be none the wiser :P
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'The forgotten man of the fish and chips photo"
is the best way to describe Bassett. While everyone else in that photo is immediately recognizable and all have left their mark on NZ. Almost no one can pick him out. A isn't he just so damn bitter about it.
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He completely fudged on the tour issue!
He says he wasn't big for him a the time then we find out that
1. He was in his first year at uni at the tme (how can it not be a big thing while you were at uni?!)
2. he was always interested in politics and has been a National boy. (so what he just turned that part of him off for his first year of uni?!)
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classic!