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Comment Re:Debt (Score 1) 467

If I lend you something, and while it is in your care it disappears, you owe me for it.

If you fail to tell me you have lost it, and leave, "ignoring" my phone calls and letters - to me, you have absconded with my property that I have left in your care.

So, even though jail time is a bit much in this case. Arresting someone with a warrant for theft and spending 10 - 20 minutes sorting it all out is not.

Submission + - NZ PM a Reptile? Staff have "no data to disprove the theory" (stuff.co.nz)

Master Moose writes: Who's to say NZ Prime Minister John Key isn't a reptilian overlord in disguise?

Key's own office certainly can't; its response to an official information request was that it had no data to disprove the theory.

The response came after a request for "any evidence to disprove the theory that Mr John Key is in fact a David Icke-style shape reptilian shifting alien ushering humanity towards enslavement".

Comment Re:3 Day Old News (Score 2) 412

Kind of.

I had a friend go for a local version of "who wants to be a Millionaire.

They had all sorts of out clauses in that the show was pre-recorded well in advance. One of the major ones was that unless they aired an episode featuring you, they did not have to pay you, and no payment would be coming until after airing.

I am sure that this was incase of dispute or a question - or other reason, but just by agreeing to their terms,if the show deemed because you weren't entertaining enough - No matter how much you won, you could end up with nothing.

Submission + - NZ Govt is relaxing privacy laws for US citizens and ex-pats (stuff.co.nz)

Master Moose writes: New Zealands Government wants to override privacy laws to supply the US Government with private details about Americans living in New Zealand.

As part of a global tax-dodging crackdown, the US is forcing banks and other financial institutions to hand over the private financial details of US "persons" and companies based overseas.

From July this year, Kiwi banks and insurers will be required to provide US tax authorities with American customers' contact details, bank account numbers and transaction history.

  The move comes amid continuing criticism of New Zealand's participation in Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement talks, aimed at securing a wider-reaching free trade deal with the US and other countries.

Critics say the secretive talks could restrict New Zealand's ability to make its own laws on everything from the environment to employment.

Comment Re:How about more sports for playing, not watching (Score 1, Offtopic) 253

Some of them are organized in a way that you can go to national championships (usually only at the highest levels of leagues, of course).

In the insular world of American sports isn't that as far as most sports are organised? Reminds me of the quote by John Cleese:

The three differences between American and British people:
- We speak English and you don't.
- When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite teams from other countries to play, as well.
- When you meet the head of state in Great Britain, you only have to go down on one knee.

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