Posts by chris
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Hard News: Kia kaha, Helen Kelly, in reply to Russell Brown,
Hopefully one day soon we’ll see some serious attention given to CBD as a low-impact medicine for anxiety disorders.
While giving high quality products from overseas provisional status as pharmaceutical grade medicines would provide more options, what many chronic pain sufferers need right now is dispensation to import and grow strains such as these which have already been bred to provide a comparable and even better CBD:THC ratios than Sativex e.g. CBD Critical Cure THC: 5,5%, CBD: 8%.
Given that once cannabis is planted in can be kept alive indefinitely using artificial light regimens, the overall cost to the producer/consumer/ Government would be negligible compared to the NZD our Government is prepared to squander on Sativex and for that matter any other importable value added products. Currently this is no holy grail, it’s not rocket science, it’s biology. The existence and availability (or lack of) of this refined produce, cultivatable in a garden with little maintenance, highlights just how ludicrous this situation has become.
The only thing more ludicrous than our elected representatives’ shamanistic aspirations is the general population’s entrenched desire to kowtow to these farcical ambitions by complying with these preposterous antiquated authoritarian regulations. I would be laughing if it weren’t for the chronic pain.
Still, if I myself harbored designs on controlling and manipulating others’ pain and were contemplating a career as a witch doctor, Simon Power would be high on my list of potential nom de guerre.
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I recall an incident back at school where a student was sexually assaulted in the shower with soap; big cover up – the perpertrators were suspended for a week or so, the victim left school, the police were not called.
Massive question marks hanging over a growing list of organisations on this. One of the comments below the article you linked to states:
There was another open thread running on the subject.They not only closed the comments, the also delete the entire string of posts.
Mind you that being said it was being swamped with nasty fanboys club and their typical “leftie are this” type rants. when its hardly a case of a left / right side of the political spectrum issue.
This appears to still be the case days later
*Comments on this story are now closed.
Far longer than would be necessary to moderate out the filth and present the criticisms of the PM by commentators.
Even diving through the rabbit hole and giving John Key the benefit of the doubt:
White Ribbon reached out to the prime minister and were told he had no idea what he was about to be involved in. Key also did not understand the rape reference.
It should be clear as day to him now. White Ribbon publicly state:
White Ribbon Day celebrates the many men willing to show leadership and commitment to promoting safe, healthy relationships within families and encourages men to challenge each other on attitudes and behaviour that are abusive.
The clock is now ticking on Stuff.co.nz to represent its readerships’ views against rape culture, it’s most prominently ticking on whether John Key’s actually has the courage to challenge abusive attitudes and behaviour after the fact and it’s arguably ticking on White Ribbon’s preparedness to put consideration for victims and awareness of what constitutes abuse ahead of celebrity endorsement.
Some agitators have gone to pains to point out that White Ribbon as an organisation is specifically focused on violence by ♂ against ♀. It’s possibly also now worth asking just how useful such a delineation is in protecting the widest scope of individuals and maximising awareness of the spectrum of issues that society faces.
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Hard News: Cheers, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
http://www.downloadhelper.net/install
There's possibly a Mac equivalent also, I only test downloaded the one video. It was successful but at 8.7MB the res left a bit to the imagination.
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Speaker: The Spirit Level, in reply to linger,
It is, if only it worked on people.
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Speaker: The Spirit Level, in reply to linger,
Here you go linger: http://www.piliapp.com/generator/strikethrough-text/
and while It’s on my mind: Çatalhöyük (7500 BC -5700 BC) pop. 5-7000
Çatalhöyük had no apparent social classes, as no houses with distinctive features (belonging to royalty or religious hierarchy, for example) have been found so far. The most recent investigations also reveal little social distinction based on gender, with men and women receiving equivalent nutrition and seeming to have equal social status, as typically found in Paleolithic cultures.
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Speaker: The Spirit Level, in reply to tussock,
being a libertarian.
Like, it’s obviously a ridiculous thing to believe in.
Noted. So
1. ̶R̶i̶g̶h̶t̶-̶l̶i̶b̶e̶r̶t̶a̶r̶i̶a̶n̶i̶s̶m̶
2. ̶L̶i̶b̶e̶r̶t̶a̶r̶i̶a̶n̶ ̶s̶o̶c̶i̶a̶l̶i̶s̶m̶ -
Hard News: Victoria Crone and what…, in reply to Steve Withers,
I wonder how Contact’s power customers / shareholders feel about paying for her to run for mayor of Auckland?
Not particularly stoked ttytt. We only joined Contact the day that Pryke stepped down, and we’re currently going through the motions to get an export meter installed. I called them earlier this week to make some inquiries about the to-do list they’d sent through and I was told the relevant department would call back the same day. It’s Friday now and I’m yet to hear back.
Crone is just one director, she was only appointed to the Contact board a couple of months back, but for that kind of salary I’d prefer that board members would at least make a marginal effort to maintain the appearance that they’re dedicated to improving services, as opposed to, say, broadcasting that this director who is earning as much as two front line staff has the time to mug it up for the cameras as part of what is likely to be an incredibly intense campaign to secure a completely different job, while we wait.
it’s a shit look.
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