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I have been one acquainted with the night.<br />I have walked out in rain — and back in rain.<br />I have outwalked the furthest city light.</div>
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I have looked down the saddest city lane.<br />I have passed by the watchman on his beat<br />And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain.</div>
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I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet<br />When far away an interrupted cry<br />Came over houses from another street,</div>
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But not to call me back or say good-bye;<br />And further still at an unearthly height,<br />One luminary clock against the sky</div>
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Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.<br />I have been one acquainted with the night.</div>
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According to some robotics experts, in the next 20 years we will reach a tipping point where humans are no longer in control and machines are the main locus of control in society. Watch the documentary <a href="http://aeon.co/film/what-will-the-future-be-like/" style="border: 0px; color: #5a741a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Future Dimensions</a> by clicking on the picture and visiting Aeon Film.</div>
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According to expert <a href="http://robotenomics.com/tag/anders-sandberg/" style="border: 0px; color: #5a741a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Anders Sandberg</a>, on the surface society will appear similar to today. However on the level of our values, these will fundamentally change.</div>
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When we think about the Victorian era, if a Victorian were to walk around in 2014 they wouldn’t find the technology so shocking, it would be our values that would be the most abhorrent to them, such the modern day rights of gay and transgender people.</div>
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Likewise, if we were to step into the future 100 years from now, the moral fibre of society would have changed dramatically.</div>
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We need to start thinking about the ethical ramifications of developing robots to the extent that artificial consciousness is equal in sophistication to human consciousness.</div>
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This throws up lots of novel questions, like do robots have rights? For example <a href="http://aeon.co/magazine/altered-states/how-will-sexbots-change-human-relationships" style="border: 0px; color: #5a741a; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">when sex robots are used as slaves</a>, at what level of consciousness and intelligence do we accord these robots rights as sentient beings<br />
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<a href="http://contentcatnip.com/2014/06/12/what-will-the-future-be-like/">http://contentcatnip.com/2014/06/12/what-will-the-future-be-like/</a></div>
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Food giant <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/nestle" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from the Guardian on Nestlé">Nestlé</a> has become the first leading manufacturer to commit to paying the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/living-wage" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from the Guardian on Living wage">living wage</a>.</div>
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The firm already pays at least the living wage to its 8,000 staff but the move will benefit contract employees and agency workers. About 800 contractors working with Nestlé will implement it by December 2017.</div>
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The announcement was described by campaigners as a significant milestone in the drive to persuade employers to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/money/pay" style="background-repeat: no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; color: #005689; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from the Guardian on Pay">pay</a> the living wage, which is currently set at £8.80 an hour in London and £7.65 elsewhere, compared to the national minimum wage of £6.31.</div>
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Nestlé UK & Ireland's chief executive, Fiona Kendrick, said: "We are proud to be the first mainstream manufacturer in the UK to become a living wage employer and see this as an opportunity to be a positive influence in our sector.</div>
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"As a major UK employer, we know that this is the right thing to do. Not only does it benefit our employees but also the communities they live and work in."</div>
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Living Wage Foundation director Rhys Moore said: "The accreditation of Nestlé as a living wage employer marks a significant milestone in the campaign to tackle in-work poverty. We hope that the leadership they have shown will encourage others in this industry to follow suit and improve conditions for those at the lowest end of the pay scale and sub-contracted staff.</div>
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"We are aware that Nestlé is going above and beyond the basic requirements of becoming an accredited employer, and is extending their commitment to graduate, internship and school leaver programmes."</div>
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Len McCluskey, general secretary of Unite, said: "With in-work poverty on the rise, many employers are simply ignoring their responsibility to pay staff a decent wage. They should take note from Nestlé's positive stance which shows that paying a living wage is not just good for communities but makes good business sense too."</div>
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Tim Roache, of the GMB union, said: "Nestlé have always recognised their greatest asset is their workforce and are demonstrating this with action, not just words. This shows once and for all that if one leading manufacturer can pay a living wage to all employees including young workers and those contracted out, then many more are able to do so."</div>
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The business secretary, Vince Cable, said: "I welcome Nestlé's decision and encourage all businesses to pay their staff above the minimum wage when it is affordable and not at the expense of jobs."</div>
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The shadow business secretary, Chuka Umunna, said: "It is fantastic news that Nestlé is announcing its accreditation as a living wage employer, having worked in collaboration with Unite, GMB and the Living Wage Foundation to achieve this.</div>
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"We want to see as many businesses as possible take the decision to become living wage employers, so I hope other firms will follow the strong example which Nestlé is setting."</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05952914908453937218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903287831577516270.post-86894686291704237402014-06-27T01:32:00.001-07:002014-06-27T01:32:53.599-07:00Texas Marijuana death sentence claim not true...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption zemanta-img-attribution" style="text-align: center; width: 350px;">English: Marijuana plant. Español: Planta de marihuana. (Photo credit: <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marijuana_plant.jpg" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>)</td></tr>
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There’s an article which has been making the rounds on social media today about a Texas judge sentencing a man to death for marijuana possession. To put it bluntly, it just isn’t true.<br />
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A satire website called Empire News put out an article about an Austin Superior Court judge sentencing 34 year old Joseph Goldsmith to death row yesterday after Goldsmith was picked up on his third offense for marijuana possession.<br />
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While you can’t get put to death for possession in Texas, you can get what amounts to a life sentence. It takes possessing over 2,000 pounds in order to get the possibility of serving a 99 year sentence, with a minimum of five years.<br />
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Selling on the other hand just requires over 50 pounds in order to receive a 99 year sentence.<br />
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If you’re Jacob Lavoro or anyone else caught with concentrates, essentially pure THC, the ingredient in marijuana which produces the high, it’s very easy to face a life sentence.<br />
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As few as four grams of concentrate can net you anywhere from five to 99 years. With the way the law reads, anything the concentrates are found in can be added to the total weight. In Lavoro’s case, they weighed the eggs, chocolate, flour, and all other ingredients in his pot brownies, which turned a few grams into about one and a half pounds.<br />
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Over 100 people rallied in support of Lavoro last week at his initial court hearing where he turned down a plea deal and his lawyer moved to have the evidence dismissed on the grounds that it was illegally obtained.<br />
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So while you can’t be put to death for marijuana in Texas, you surely can spend the rest of your life behind bars for it.<br />
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The last time a satire article swept across the web concerning marijuana in Texas was last year when an article put out by Tribune Herald told of a legislator dropping a joint in the middle of a legislative session as he argued against legalization.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05952914908453937218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903287831577516270.post-11999215573786159102014-06-26T03:14:00.001-07:002014-06-26T03:14:24.187-07:00The worst age of all...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?” The other friend replied “When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it . But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”</div>
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“You always feel like you have to pee. And most of the time, you stand at the toilet and nothing comes out!”</div>
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“Ah, that’s nothin’,” said the 70-year-old. “When you’re seventy, you can’t even crap anymore. You take <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laxative" rel="wikipedia" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out; border: 0px; color: #1abc9c; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.25s ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Laxative">laxatives</a>, then you sit on the toilet all day and nothin’ comes out!”</div>
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“Actually,” said the 80-year-old, “80 is the worst age of all!”</div>
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“No, not really. I pee every morning at 6:00. I pee like a racehorse on a flat rock; no problem at all.”</div>
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“No, I crap every morning at 6:30.”</div>
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With great exasperation, the 60-year-old said, “Let me get this straight. You pee every morning at 6:00 and crap every morning at 6:30.</div>
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So what’s so tough about being 80?”</div>
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“I don’t wake up until 7:00!”</div>
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A <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C4%81ori_people" rel="wikipedia" target="_blank" title="Māori people">Maori</a> gunner lay dying<br />
In a poppyfield north of Bamiyan,<br />
And he said to his pakeha cobber,<br />
“I reckon I’ve had it, man!<br />
‘And if I could fly like a bird<br />
To my old granny’s whare<br />
A truck and a winch would never drag<br />
Me back to the Army.<br />
‘A coat and a cap and a well-paid job<br />
Looked better than shovelling metal,<br />
And they told me that Te Rauparaha<br />
Would have fought in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=34.5333333333,69.1333333333&spn=10.0,10.0&q=34.5333333333,69.1333333333%20(Afghanistan)&t=h" rel="geolocation" target="_blank" title="Afghanistan">Afghan</a> battle.<br />
‘On my last leave the town swung round<br />
Like a bucket full of eels.<br />
The girls liked the uniform<br />
And I liked the girls.<br />
‘Like a bullock to the abattoirs<br />
In the name of liberty<br />
They flew me with a hangover<br />
Across the Tasman Sea,<br />
‘And what I found in Bamiyan<br />
Was mud and blood and fire,<br />
With the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.amazon.com/Yanks-Richard-Gere/dp/B0006IIPM6%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB0006IIPM6" rel="amazon" style="color: white; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Yanks">Yanks</a> and the Taliban taking turns<br />
At murdering the poor.<br />
‘And I saw the reason for it<br />
In an Afghan’s blazing eyes -<br />
We fought for the crops of kumara<br />
And they are fighting for the poppies.<br />
‘So go tell my sweetheart<br />
To get another boy<br />
Who’ll cuddle her and marry her<br />
And laugh when the bugles blow,<br />
‘And tell my youngest brother<br />
He can have my shotgun<br />
To fire at the ducks on the big lagoon,<br />
But not to aim it at a man,<br />
‘And tell my granny to wear black<br />
And carry a willow leaf,<br />
Because the kid she kept from the cold<br />
Has eaten a dead man’s loaf.<br />
‘And go and tell <a class="zem_slink" href="http://www.johnkey.co.nz/" rel="homepage" style="color: white; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="John Key">John Key</a><br />
Sitting in Wellington,<br />
However long he scrubs his hands<br />
He’ll never get them clean.’<br />
<strong><em>Original by James K Baxter, updated by Omar Hamed.</em></strong><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05952914908453937218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903287831577516270.post-26955580327399475382014-04-29T01:01:00.000-07:002014-04-29T01:01:33.152-07:00Seeking info...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Seeking information to rectify posting problems.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05952914908453937218noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903287831577516270.post-55149925834830119352014-04-25T00:41:00.001-07:002014-04-25T00:41:41.553-07:00Socialist Aotearoa: Justice for Blair Peach<a href="http://socialistaotearoa.blogspot.com/2010/04/justice-for-blair-peach.html?spref=bl">Socialist Aotearoa: Justice for Blair Peach</a>: 31 years after his murder, the London Metropolitan Police Force admits it's murder of Blair Peach. Joe Carolan now argues- it's t...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05952914908453937218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903287831577516270.post-80202773387220512142014-04-11T03:34:00.000-07:002014-04-11T03:34:13.328-07:00Love on the moors...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
Love on the moors<br />
by KateM<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<br />
Oh,John Joe was a farmer’s son<br />
He lived up in the hills<br />
When he went to tend his sheep<br />
He saw the cotton mills.<br />
<br />
The rivers ran with water pure<br />
And so provided power<br />
Yet over these dark ruined towns<br />
The heathered hills did tower.<br />
<br />
Mary was a local girl<br />
She walked out on the moors<br />
She wore a dress of silky cloth<br />
Printed with small flowers.<br />
<br />
John Joe saw Mary<br />
When he was dipping sheep<br />
She peered over a dry stone wall<br />
And saw the new lambs leap.<br />
<br />
Her hair was long.Her hair was gold<br />
Her eyes were sapphire blue.<br />
In John Joe’s eyes she was so fair<br />
What was a man to do?<br />
<br />
He watched her walking all alone<br />
Was she sad or sick?<br />
He showed her how his dog behaved<br />
And showed her shepherds’ tricks.<br />
<br />
So one day,he held her hand<br />
As they walked to the Pike.<br />
They stood up there and gazed all round<br />
So John thought he would strike.<br />
<br />
He bent down on his right knee<br />
And spoke to Mary then.<br />
I’ve loved you Mary since we met<br />
I hoped we’d meet again<br />
<br />
Mary smiled with her blue eyes;<br />
Her lips were pink and bright.<br />
I love you too and love the hills<br />
And. love the summer light.<br />
<br />
The next year they were married<br />
Mary wore white lace.<br />
She looked so happy then<br />
To know she'd her own place.<br />
<br />
The church bells rang,the people sang<br />
John and Mary wed!<br />
And naturally, when evening came,<br />
At last they went to bed.<br />
<br />
When Mary lay in John Joe’s arms<br />
She knew this was her home.<br />
And so for many many years<br />
On the hills they roamed.<br />
<br />
They cared for sheep and hens and goats<br />
They cared for children three.<br />
They never had a falling out…<br />
But talked beneath a tree.<br />
<br />
Fro youth to age the years went by<br />
But John still loved his bride.<br />
And Mary too was happy<br />
With John Joe by her side.<br />
<br />
Their faces,lined, were full of cheer<br />
Their hair as white as snow<br />
And everywhere that JJ went<br />
Mary too did go.<br />
<br />
Until the day came for his death<br />
He lay down in the grass<br />
Mary ran and held him close<br />
And thus dear John did pass.<br />
<br />
The muffled bells rang from the tower<br />
John Joe was carried in.<br />
The parson prayed and hymns were sung.<br />
The sheep dog made a din.,<br />
<br />
In the dark earth John was laid<br />
and Mary wept and cried.<br />
what will I do now,my sweet John ,<br />
without you by my side?<br />
<br />
So Mary grieved and wept and sighed<br />
And thus she spent two years...<br />
The loss was great and bent her back<br />
with the weight of care.<br />
<br />
For when we open up our hearts<br />
We feel both joy and woe.<br />
This is tha pattern of our love,<br />
Which like the river flows.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05952914908453937218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903287831577516270.post-67294217102650566092014-04-09T23:40:00.002-07:002014-04-09T23:40:38.433-07:00In the end...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #433b37; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: white; color: #433b37; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #433b37; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">-by Martin Luther King Jr.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05952914908453937218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903287831577516270.post-68522525874424671772014-04-07T14:45:00.002-07:002014-04-07T14:45:09.823-07:00Is this indicative of where NZ is heading?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05952914908453937218noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2903287831577516270.post-12731482796729236102014-04-07T04:00:00.004-07:002014-04-07T04:00:42.564-07:00Relax with your friends...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<img alt="Relax" src="http://data9.blog.de/media/612/7753612_1d519c40bf_m.jpeg" /></div>
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