Posts by Mark Harris
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Oh, and the gravatar link you posted doesn't work, sorry
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Hmmm, not seeing a change here on your gravatar, Russ. Still the orange microphone to me
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Good lord. I was taking the piss because I thought you meant this
I had not known there was such a term...
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there goes that kiwi self depreciation.
How long is he amortizing himself?
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Kevin,
Linking to more of your assertions is not evidence. Linking to a survey of householders is also not evidence.The graph does not show exponential growth or anything like it. As you note on that page, it shows less crime.
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Fer sure, Islander.
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Err NZ is in the top 15 countries in the world for crime victimisation.
What does "crime victimisation" mean and what statistics do you have to back up your claim?
We have a very high crime rate, thats why it gets reported.
"Very high" in comparison to what, or who? (Please don't say 'no crime at all', that would be facetious)
We also have a falling conviction count and a low rate of not guilty people serving either community or prison sentences.
I would hope we have a low rate of not guilty people serving sentences. "Not guilty" means they didn't get convicted and so should not be serving any sort of sentence.
If, however, you meant "guilty" people, then why are our prisons having capacity problems because we're imprisoning more people per capita than 158 other countries?
He have always had almost none serving sentences for which they were actually innocent.
Some evidence please?
Although its a FACT that the violent crime rate is still going up exponentially despite what you may say and think I hope the media chase it all the way down to zero.
I think you misunderstand the meaning of the word "exponentially" but, on the off-chance you have a point, again some evidence please.
There is one simple way to stop the media reporting sensational crimes - thats for the crims (real-contumelious-little-turds) to stop B(*&(* commiting them, simple.
Yes. This is true. It's also unlikely.
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Where does this leave parody and satire?
Still out in the cold, at the moment. MED were talking about releasing a discussion paper on this in September last year but never got around to it. They have flagged to the new Minister that Cabinet approval is required to release it, and that the decision was required by December 2008, but the Minister may have disagreed.
There's a note in the Briefing to the Incoming Minister of Commerce about it:
Decide whether to seek Cabinet approval to release a discussion document on parody and satire as exceptions to copyright infringement
http://www.med.govt.nz/templates/MultipageDocumentPage____40227.aspx
The Copyright Council appears to have read it (so that makes 2 of us ;-) - I blogged about BIMs last week with specific reference to ACTA)
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Judge Dredd was 2000AD
He is the Law, Citizen!
(I'm one of the few people I know who actually says "Drokk!" with feeling)
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Nae problem, lass ;-)