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It's one of the few kid friendly sports films that takes the sport seriously. Comes up with a outlandish premise and then plays that premise straight.
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Am reminded of the time Gen. Angus Campbell interrupted a press conference to ensure other officers weren't in shot once journalists moved to questions about the politics of the day
www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03...
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it do
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There was a tweet(?) a couple of months back that may have changed my opinion on non-citizen voting (which we currently have in NZ, but lots of other places don't).
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The Stalking Legislation has now been reported back from the Justice Committee selectcommittees.parliament.nz/v/6/766a9d72...
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Is a high retraction rate supposed to be a bad thing (these institutions are sloppy and will allow people to publish anything)
or a good thing (these institutions take seriously issues of integrity in their published research, so if this hasn't been retracted, you can trust it)
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So when I say that trust is in decline "deservedly so," I mean this: Institutions that were supposed to embody VDA actively undermined it. The loss of trust wasn’t irrational. It was earned, over time, through abandonment of democratic purpose.
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The closest I can think of is the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki? JSOC involved so active duty military, but even then mostly CIA, I think.
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With the exception of Sweden, infant mortality when Jimmy Carter was born was higher in every country on Earth than it currently is in any country on Earth.
Sweden, by far the global leader in 1924, was at roughly the level of Sierra Leone today, but lower than present-day Afghanistan.
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if they wanted law schools to not teach tikanga, they'd have done something else.
I suggest that they don't really care whether its taught, but they know there is some populist backlash to it, and wanted to do something to blunt that criticism.
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The government intended that law schools be permitted, but not required to teach tikanga in whatever courses they wanted. Law schools are doing so. This is what the government voted for?
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Looks like a file photo? Not taken today, any way.
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Speaker forgot to rule it out of order. Later did.
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spelled it out as l-o-r-e earlier in her speech
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I'm not suggesting he suggest a lesser suspension. Hipkins has already done that. I'm suggesting someone move a non-suspension amendment. But perhaps another TPM MP will and then Ferris can speak again.
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He held back on proposing an amendment to reduce the penalty.
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He didn't resign over this, so Imma guess no
www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...
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The Crimes Legislation (Stalking and Harassment) Amendment Bill was introduced last year. It is currently before the Justice Committee, with submissions having been heard a few months back. The Committee is due to report later this month.
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To get a fair comparison, I feel we should also ask voters about possible suspension lengths for other breaches of Parliament's rules. Maybe they think six weeks for the van de Molen stand-over thing?
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We're looking for a new quiz! Moved first because our usual got a new host who did not seem to care much, and again because three weeks after arriving, the new changed to have random prizes. Can you give an example of a tough question I can show the rest of my team? Or a sample list of rounds?
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Were the literal quotes from Police about their criminal investigation insufficient to answer this question for you?
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One possibility. I was more thinking eg that you tick a box saying you oppose/support the bill. Add your name and contact details, and a sentence or two, which gets added to a petition like submission, which includes the list of names alongside the short comments.
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I have been thinking about process changes that could allow people to indicate their views while avoiding the proliferation of what amount to DoS attacks on the legislative process. It would be good, eg to move some shorter submissions, which eg are only a sentence or two long, to a petition.
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This is not really their job. The suggestion is to (in part) replace the public servants who would read and summarise submissions with Public Servants who will be assisted by AI. Committee members will likely read about an many submissions as they usually do
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$1.4 million!!
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despite?
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With all the other people whining about it, I wondered if it was an error! I can imagine more people caring about a damehood.
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The Herald says she didn't get a knighthood/damehood. Does someone else have a list?
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Surely this is a "take the win" situation?
"you're right, this isn't what you voted for, your values are no longer shared by the Republican Party" is a better message to help build a better America than "yes you did, you bad person, please stick with Trump because we don't want your support"?
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Yes I have. The author derides the one aspect of the law that deliberately weakens the proposal so it cannot be used this way, and implicitly suggests a change that would make the thing he says he fears much more likely.
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Aaron Swartz was railroaded by ridiculous over-protection of copyright and hopefully we learned from that?
The solution to past injustice isn't future injustice to ensure things are 'fair'.
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The RSB is drafted to be unenforceable in Court. How will companies use it to force anything?
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I have no idea what move seymour has made, so maybe I can!