Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Perhaps those headlines need to be rewritten to read: "Christchurch father charged with assault for probably doing a fair bit more than flicking his son's ear".
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I didn't notice any drive-by shootings in my neighbourhood this morning, but I did pay attention to the petrol price at the gas station.
While serious crimes are gratefully still rather rare, they do happen.
And if one of them did take place in your neighborhood, I bet you'd be taking a lot more attention to it than petrol prices.
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Christchurch tops it:
A 50-year-old man charged with the murder of a teenage tagger in Manukau should be allowed to "get away with it", Christchurch City councillor Barry Corbett says.
Lovely.
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what do you see as the ramifications of that for creative content?
I think we've had a bunch of decades where the primary music model has been about bands getting a recording contract, getting radio play, going on tour etc. Primary in that, is the music company. I think that dynamic is shifting, and the internet is breaking down that interface and more directly linking producers of music with consumers.
I think more and more bands will be recording music off their own back, using their own systems to mix it, and distribute it online. A lot will still use music companies, but their role will be reduced.
I think producers of music who are young now, are going to be less uptight about having their music flowing around, with them not getting paid for it. I think they'll work on building closer connections with fans, because they'll become more aware that it's a moral issue, and if their fans feel close to the band, they're more likely to pay to get the music that the band produces.
I like a Canadian band called the Barenaked Ladies, which friends of mine introduced me to. They've released a double album worth of songs via online video, of a couple of members of the band playing their music in the bathroom. They release some of their live stuff straight onto a CD/USB that you can buy as you leave the concert, they arrange boat trips where you can go on a cruise with the band, they're very folksy and funny and it works well. Their fans are fanatically supportive and very connected to the band.
In 2000 they released a new song directly onto napster, which got interrupted in the middle with the band advertising their new album. They encourage their fans to share their music with friends as it builds their community and the fanbase. They're publicly opposed to DRM and think that a band suing people who are actually their fans, is kinda stupid.
I think the world changes. The current musical model is going through a fairly decent sized shift. The winners will recognise this and shift with it.
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how banning youtube in Turkey isn't working at all,
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I did a 10 second search on the Turkey youtube thing, and yes I was right, people have found umpteen ways around it, including a couple I guessed at.
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/03/howto_evade_tur.html
If they want to stop the internet, they should get a big pair of scissors and cut the line.
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__Either Key doesn’t know what he is talking about or he is deliberately playing to the crowd.__
Since he is a politician and all, my money would be on (b).
Or possibly both?
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where's the link Emma? I'd be interested to see what you consider skanky
Heh. Cough cough. Vitally important research involving looking at attractive 'skanky' women? Suuuurre.
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Kyle, a boot is a boot, whether Key wants to call it a Fresh Start or not.
I was under the impression that a boot camp was simply a camp run by the army? Key says, quite specifically, that the camps would be run by the army, so... I don't understand why anyone could say this is a misrepresentation by the media.
Key mentions in the speech Project K, Big Brother, iwi-based services, "We'll ensure there's a range of programmes available that cater to the individual needs of the offenders and their whanau", Foundation for Youth Development. He says that Fresh Start will have a 3 month residency period at a NZ army base involving both the army and experts in youth rehabilitation (out of a year). Fresh Start is clearly one of the options that he is talking about, not the only one. He doesn't say that I saw how a youth offender would end up in one and not the other, but presumably this would be ordered by the court, probably in negotiation with youth workers and the family/whanau.
I can't see where he says it's run by the army, but I haven't read it all and it's entirely logical that the 3 months period at least would be run by the army, in consultation with whoever was running the Fresh Start programme.
Key clearly distinguishes in the speech that it wouldn't be military style training with sgt majors yelling at the youth offenders. He then specifically points out Graeme Dingle as having the expertise to develop this programme. He lists umpteen things (including NCEA credits) which the army would have nothing to do with.
I can see why the media has jumped on it, and I'd guess National probably isn't discouraging the label. It's just misleading at best.
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my point is that it is possibly to control what people download.
see turkey filtering all youtube, see choking high users in nz, see packet inspection etc.Umm, see my posts about how banning youtube in Turkey isn't working at all, as people are getting around it. And my post about how if you're being choked, you should change isp.
your point will be proven when france gives up, but since they've only just announced the initiative maybe wait a couple of weeks before you claim victory :)
Actually, I think your point will be proven when it actually impacts upon people downloading in France. At the moment, as far as I know, people in France are still downloading a crapload of illegal music, which is what I said would happen. Until that changes...
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I don't want to jump and down in support of Key, and I'm not.
But everyone's discussing 'boot camps', where if you look at his actual speech (here, I presume this is fairly accurate as to what he said), the word 'boot' doesn't appear once. The word 'camp' appears once:
I want to make one thing clear, however. Fresh Start Programmes are not going to be some sort of short-term camp run by a tyrannical sergeant-major, which attempts to scare kids straight. What I'm talking about is a much more modern approach that tackles the underlying causes of criminal offending. I want to take the effective elements of army-type training and combine them with the most advanced expertise in youth offending and rehabilitation that New Zealand has to offer.
Of course the headline on stuff talks about 'boot camps'. I wonder if the TV news will use the words tonight as well.
Whether or not this is good policy, it'd be helpful if everyone in the media (and on here) could talk about what he actually said, rather than... y'know. What the media have transmogrified it into.