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A vote for National equals a vote for lower wages

Jul 30, ’08 9:12 AM

The Stand­ard points out National’s record on wages (via No Right Turn).

Vote for National to lower your wages people.

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Photographobia: an irrational fear of photographers

Jun 5, ’08 10:33 PM

A couple of weeks ago I was on the over­land train to Cam­den Town, Lon­don when a tour­ist was tak­ing a photo out the win­dow. Some local got up and har­assed him, telling him he wasn’t allowed to take pho­tos on the train, then went and sat down again. Rolling my eyes I sug­ges­ted he ignore the wan­nabe fink, but he meekly com­plied, not know­ing any better.

Bruce Schneier has a the­ory on why some people think pho­to­graph­ers are a threat: because that’s what the ter­ror­ists do in the movies, right.

He also includes some handy links to wal­let doc­u­ments on photographer’s legal rights that can help you if you get har­assed. Here’s a UK one.

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Why the meaning of “anti-Semitism” has changed

May 29, ’08 7:48 PM

Here’s just another example of why the term “anti-Semitism” has increas­ingly come to mean “mild cri­ti­cism of Israeli gov­ern­ment policies,” rather than “hos­til­ity to or pre­ju­dice against Jews.”

Some­thing I’ve exper­i­enced myself.

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Fired for plagiarising plagiarism?

Mar 24, ’08 5:44 PM

At the begin­ning of Feb­ru­ary, when I arrived back in Lon­don from a trip to New Zea­l­and, I was sur­prised to find my inbox full of mes­sages alert­ing me that a per­son named Ty McDon­ald had been fired from a news­pa­per for pla­gi­ar­ising me.

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Plagiarism and intellectual loot

Jun 11, ’06 9:58 PM

The mar­ket­place of ideas, like any mar­ket­place, is fit only for looting.

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It’s all just a big misunderstanding

May 21, ’06 10:09 AM

Kirk Mac­Gib­bon, a New Zeal­ander liv­ing in New York, says that Kiwi’s are pre­ju­dice against Amer­ic­ans and that this comes from, amongst other things, “their lim­ited under­stand­ing of Amer­ican for­eign policy.”

But we’re not the only ones to lack under­stand­ing. Much of the world mis­un­der­stands U.S. for­eign policy, espe­cially those who have to deal with it at the end of a gun barrel.

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They murder while we accidently kill

Feb 13, ’06 10:31 PM

I’ve lost count of the num­ber of times I’ve run into right-wingers who seem to have an unwaver­ing belief that the crimes of their foes are be loudly pro­claimed and harshly pun­ished while their own crimes are to be wholly jus­ti­fied in the pur­suit of their ideo­logy. The ends jus­ti­fies the means apparently.

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