Jacinda’s using this language to signal that low calibre semi automatic firearms used for hunting and pest control are specifically excluded. This means that the majority of New Zealanders will be on board including hunters, farmers etc.

It’s a bit like porn v. art. You’ll know it when you see it.

Do you live in New Zealand? Is there an actual reason why you care or are you just being a dick?

The “fruit of the poisonous tree” metaphor is used in criminal prosecutions when authorities discover a piece of evidence as the result of an unconstitutional or otherwise improper search or seizure. In that case, the principle is applied to benefit a very specific, very concrete person: the defendant, whose freedom…

Besides that, do we want “I was not aware crimes were committed on my behalf so we’re cool, right?” to be a thing?

If my friend commits fraud and gets a ton of money, and lends me some money to start a business, and that business does very well... should I be disgorged of the assets and money I made via the business because the seed money came from the fraud? I mean, I understand having to pay back the loan... but if I turned $10k…

So your solution to not giving them the black mark of being kicked out for their parents’ fraud it to... given them a different black mark that will follow them for the rest of their professional lives? How is that more equitable than just kicking them out?

I think their spot at that particular school should go to someone who earned their way in. If they’ve participated in classes and their grades are good enough, they can apply to other schools and transfer those credits.

I’m going to have a hard time believing anyone in that family who claims ignorance when it benefits them. I’d expect most students to recognize that a big jump in their SAT scores or admission to a good school with a middling GPA is hinky.

I mean if you hired a doctor or something and found out someone lied about their qualifications and abilities

Unknowing or not, they should not benefit from their parents’ fraud.

They define what is considered military style in the law.

I’m less concerned about the fact that he hired an investigator, than I am about the possibility that he could use the investigator (or some other hired lackey) to try to intimidate witnesses. I won’t begrudge any criminal defendant the right to conduct their own fact finding, but obviously there’s a different between …

military-style semi-automatic weapons and assault rifles.

Why overcomplicate things? Extremely wealthy people don’t have to go to college. Period. (or work, do anything but laze about)

I understand why he resigned—having an affair of this sort is unprofessional, scandalous, and probably fireable. But is it a #MeToo situation if the only potential victim doesn’t feel aggrieved, didn’t take umbrage, and has neither raised nor is pressing a claim of abuse or harassment?

Watched the video just now to see how I felt about it (had written my comment not actually having watched the video in a while). I think it’s so completely fantastical and unrealistic that the repugnance of what his probable crimes just isn’t connecting with the literal horror movie monster on screen, or the horde of…

please tell me what you thought of the ‘redemption’ of Theo

Well that’s nice to hear.

The fact that it’s Okoye on the poster and not Shuri is mind blowing to me. Shuri has actually worn the fucking mantle of Black Panther in the comics—she could do so again for this movie (make herself a badass robot panther suit, or reverse engineer the black panther flowers—or both, or whatever). Okoye is like the…