Posts by Martin Brown
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But look, the whole thing's here. http://www.danielgrove.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Baxter-v-Coleman-2016-NZHC-2693.pdf
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So much dodgy in TheSpinoff's expose today of the High Court case between Avalanche City's David baxter and Matt Coleman from Let The People Speak. And the full judgement should be a 101 for artists and managers, But this paricrlar paragraph, number 267 was just weird:
"Another payment of $20,000 was received by the defendants from Radio New Zealand and was on-paid to the defendants. The defendants claim this was income and therefore a commission of $4,000 should have been deducted by the defendants, but was not and is therefore owed to them…I accept Mrs Parson’s evidence that this was a “radio plugging” grant, paid out to cover costs.
Excuse me? Surely a mistake. Payola at RNZ? Yeah, right. But, huh?
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Tom Hanks, surely. I think he was PM material and a shame they double-tapped him. Plays guitar too, as I recall.
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E-bike meets cafe racer https://www.wired.com/2016/09/tempus-electric-bikes-cr-t1/
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As a committed cyclist, I love the idea of these things but the design of most leaves me cold. This is probably the nicest one I've seen - Kickstarted project - and check out the USD price http://gosondors.com
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Legal Beagle: On Gell-Mann Amnesia; or…, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Surely Male Assaults Female?
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But...so what? Does it matter what the 'Press Council' rules. To a digital magazine-thing in 2016? Will people be arrested? Will their servers be seized? Isn't this finding completely redundant?
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It's all quite absurd really. Black mould in a state house bedroom would be several magnitudes more dangerous to the inhabitants than than microscopic traces of methamphetamine that constitutes "contamination!" and a massive payday for the decontaminators. It's not like anyone's going to be licking it off the ceiling - which they probably could with nicotine...
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Hard News: Obscuring the News, in reply to Alfie,
To be fair, I think NZME has a commercial arrangement with ODT and the 'byline' was not actually that - just a reporter's email for further info. The story was also attributed to the NZ herald.
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Much as I enjoy this forum, I am missing RNZ's comments thread. On this and many other issues. I can't imagine they were attracting so many trolls it was impossible to manage. Perhaps just couldn't afford the salary of a part-time moderator.