Posts by Simon Grigg
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James:
Here's another couple of links to try:
assaults
murder
Murder with gunsBased on governmental stats rather than a telephone survey.
Victimization can mean a lot of things from a slap outside the pub to a gun in ones face with menace. And I wonder how many of the potential assaults in the US had a fatal consequence which they would not have had in the UK, thus moving them from one statistic to the next.
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[Eric B]: Yo Rakim, what's up?
[Rakim]: Yo, I'm doing the knowledge, E., I'm trying to get paid in fullThe remix that Eric B & Rakim Hated in Full....but they still took that large cheque.
I think Riddley's point is that it is often very difficult to "get paid" without compromising the integrity of the art.
Now playing on iTunes...totally coincidently..EB & R - Follow The Leader
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OK, so apparently there are 30,000 deaths as the result of guns in the United States every year.
20,000 of those are suicides, although clearly it's reasonable to argue that the availability of a quick pull of the trigger to end's one's woes certainly removes that moment of reflection that must come as one takes the time to hook up the hose to the car, or climb the bridge.
Yeah, logically, handing each hot blooded male (the sort that career wildly up and down the roads of most nations) an Ak 47 each, is clearly going to reduce the bloodshed in schools.
Sometimes I wonder about the ramifications of the first amendment too...
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hat experience made me realise that Sacha Baron Cohen is either incredibly brave or a complete idiot.
Norman Gunston put a white sheet on his head and wandered South Central asking Afro Americans for directions to the KKK meeting. Most folks asked simply started laughing, but there were a few.....
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The phrase that terrifies me is:
The overwhelming majority of murders that take place on campus
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The ultimate reply to the "if only everyone was armed this wouldn't happen" is "yes, that works so well in Baghdad."
And at what age do you start to arm the students...do you start with flick knives for the pre-teens to keep those playground bullies in check, moving towards Ak-47s for the mid teens, and M-16s with grenade launchers for the under-graduates. Maybe a bazooka mounting on the Hummer just in case. Its a nonsensical argument that no reasonable person should need to address. That it has some traction speaks volumes about the culture it comes from.
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Response from TVNZ and TV3 - not one - not one - alteration to programming. Not one extended bulletin. No "Close-Up". Nothing. At All.
A little like the response from the rest of the world since...much of what was pledged, including the governmental aid, didn't turn up. That mighty US pledged highway out of Aceh remains a pipedream, and only $156 mil of the One billion promised by Australia has been received to date.
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Isn't that ebcause they don't buy anything for your defence forces?
They do actually, now and then....new helicopters recently and the LAVs (with some controversy as Juha points out). The New Zealand Defense Forces are fairly well aligned for the purposes intended. The F-16As, however, almost bought by Mrs Shipley, were an item which served no practical purpose (beyond placating the likes of the odious Greg Sheridan).
The Australian forces on the other hand seem to have a history, and reputation, for buying hardware they don't need to counter enemies that don't exist simply because the US has it on offer. The F-35s are a perfect example.
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But I recall that there was a reproduction right implicit in the price. Do I recall correctly? Anyone know how that works? Who grants the right and who gets the money?
My understanding is that the Family Trust in Colin's case has control over the name and the reproduction rights. Te Papa administers the web site (which is excellent) on behalf of the family.
My wife was given a piece by Colin as a child, which we, with the family's blessing, put on the market a few years back. The attitude of the art mafia as such to this was incredible...the number of people out there who felt they had some proprietary rights over the sale of his work was depressing. It really bought out the worst in some people who will remain unnamed.
Who's paying these prices, BTW? European collectors?
Sat Night was an NZ collector..the rest..European, Japanese and Americans pay big money for NZ's musical past.
Russell, you must've met Ron Kane over the years (via Murray)....
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But seriously, I think comparisons with music have limits, other than to suggest that a collection system is viable. You're selling copies of works, not the originals.
And that's true..my tongue was firmly placed....but there was, and still is, a move afoot in the US to license secondhand CD retailers, exactly because of the issue raised by Craig. Various country acts some years sued a second hand chain for depriving them of royalty income..with little success to date, but I don't think the concept has gone away.
However it could also be argued that the intrinsic value in the recorded artform exists in the sale of the copies of the original, whereas the value in the visual artifact lies with original.