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Maybe a leopard can change his spots?
Oh, a leapard can change it's spots, all right, just very rarely in that direction. WOW!, indeed. That was one of the classic interviews of the year.
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And they also have, as the SST reveals today, discussions about assasinating Clark, Key and (had he visited as planned) Bush.
That vist was cancelled months ago. The threat can only be considered credible if it occured before that, so why are they acting on it only now?
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BREAKING:
Grey Warbler wins 2007 Bird Of The Year by landslide.
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Rex,
Interesting perspective. Any chance you'd be interested in joining the fight to ban the dangerous chemical Dihydride Monoxide? -
Jarno,
I'd be interested, if you felt like trying again.
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3410, I never said it was unjustified
You said:
Only people who really don't care about the real outcome, for whom the actual goal is the violence itself, or the notoreity, would seriously contemplate it.
Anyhow, this is getting tedious. I've conceded ground where you've convinced me (and will again on "repulsed"), but you seem to want to spend all day being the only correct person in the room so, whatever, I'm going outside to sit in the sun. :)
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"repelled", surely.
Interesting comment, Ben. I'd generally agree with your reply. I guess analogy is not my strong suit. Nevertheless, my point is that violence is not *necessarily* *always* an unjustifiable response, and I think that holds.
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Only people who really don't care about the real outcome, for whom the actual goal is the violence itself, or the notoreity, would seriously contemplate it.
Ben, try this on.
Consider whether it is wrong to punch other people in the face.
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Now consider whether, upon stumbling across a man repeatedly punching a young child in the face, it is wrong or right to punch that man in the face in order to get him to stop.
I'm certainly not necessarily saying that unjustifiable behaviour by the state would legitimise violence against it - there are other issues at play - but it's not as cut-and-dried as you make out.
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'analrapist' themes. (I hope someone is going to get that Arrested Development reference, too.)
Yep. Analyst / Therapist. LOLed just thinking about how funny that was.
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But whoever encoded it neglected to fill in the ID tags that would have identified the track [...] and no pirate would be as sloppy with a file as that.
"Every Mistake Imaginable", as they used to say 20 years ago. (Truth be told, plenty of pirates *would* be that sloppy; perhaps a better analogy is "No unsigned little garage band posting their tune on myspace would be as sloppy"). Either way, it seems likely that no-one involved in that promotion even understands the (very simple) difference between "file name" and "id3 tag info". And zipped? Why?
I'd go with "clueless", rather than "sloppy".
Some of the vandals were easy enough to identify. One, [...] whose private school clearly taught him little about decent standards of behaviour.
I hope the implication is not that the privately schooled would normally be more likely than the state schooled to exhibit decent standards of behaviour. Having been through both systems, I can confirm that some of the most amoral bastards you're ever likely to meet were privately schooled.