Posts by Riddley Walker
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i agree the list stephen's provided is a good one.
i guess the licensing/moderating objectionalbes goes back to the old free speech thingy. what isn't often mentioned by those apt to squeel about free speech rights (and sorry for sounding like a grandpa), is that they also invoke duties. so to keep the right you have to observe duties of care. free speech has never been an unqualified right, hence defamation laws, the offence of yelling FIRE in a crowded picture theatre when there ain't no fire, etc.
so from that pov, there's no problem in limiting particpants' input. and following the the guidlines in the abovementioned list gets pretty close to as good as it gets in terms of the moderator/despot issue. -
pash the antelope che
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oh alright. well on the positive side, the bravest people i know are the people who don't do one amazing thing, but the men and women in emergency services.
a friend of mine attended an absolutely horrific child fatal the other day, and is back at work again (believe me you wouldn't want to know the extremely gory and tragic details). i've been to a couple and it is intensely awful - the people that do it on a regular basis are way brave and of genuine service to humanity, even more than like Mike McRoberts in the Kabul Sheraton. -
he he great. i expect he loped off to the toilet for a few minutes?
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oh no fear of that, this is just about payment for words
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wow, what an impressive line-up of opponents to the bill, no comparison to those tinpot half-baked crackpots supporting it like:
UNICEF New Zealand, Save the Children, Barnardos NZ, Royal Plunket Society, Office of the Children's Commissioner, Families Commission, Jigsaw – Child Abuse Prevention (representing 14 member organisations), IHC, Amokura Family Violence Prevention (representing 7 iwi Chief Executives), Churches Agency on Social Issues (represents Presbyterian, Methodist, Quakers and Churches of Christ), NZ Council of Christian Social Services (represents 6 major church social agencies), National Council of Women New Zealand, NZ Federation of Business and Professional Women, National Network of Stopping Violence Services (33 members), Relationship Services NZ, Paediatric Society Of New Zealand, Action for Children and Youth Aotearoa, NZ Foster Care Federation
Women's Refuge (49 member refuges), NZ Psychotherapists Society
Parents Centre, NZ Psychological Society, NZ Child Care Association, NZ Playcentre Federation, NZ Federation of Graduate Women, CCS,
Brainwave Trust, Child Development Foundation, Pacific Foundation (founder Lesley Max), National Council for Young Catholics, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, ParentingWorks, Youth Law Project, Wellington Community Law Centre, NZ Association of Counsellors. -
what's the going rate for 'political correctness' references these days, they must pay quite well?
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I think we should keep one Yellow Peril thread alive and hold it hostage until Tze Ming agrees to return
good plan
our nation's newest national (no, global) heroines
yes that was good, even got airplay on BBC world, and gave TV3 the chance to quote the trite old favourite of all tabloid stories, the "David and Goliath" line
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a better strategy is to write an insider expose of what's wrong with your former political allies that panders to the prejudices of the mainstream
why that sounds just like Michael Bassett.
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it seems to me that the SWP are hard at work on the Labour and Green parties in this country right now, in preparation for what they hope will be a Key victory.