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ma.ttrubinste.in » The Second Amendment is the bug in America
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The Second Amendment is the bug in America. By Matt Rubinstein at 12:33 am. Even so, sometimes a law or a contract will have a typo in it, or an undefined variable, or an unfortunate choice in language or even punctuation that means that the thing doesn’t work at all, or doesn’t do what you want or expect. That is: it has a bug. It seems to me that the Second Amendment is the bug in America. What other country would do so little in response to so many gun deaths? Share on Facebook (Opens in new window).
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ma.ttrubinste.in » Copyright infringement is more like trespass than theft
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By Matt Rubinstein at 11:06 pm. In the wake of the Australian High Court decision in Roadshow Films v iiNet. Though not entirely apropos of it, Prof Stuart Green. Of the Rutgers School of Law tells the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. That illegal downloading is more similar to the crime of trespass than of theft:. And come what may. So what are the lessons in all this? This is not merely a question of nomenclature. The label we apply to criminal acts matters crucially in terms of how we conceive...
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ma.ttrubinste.in » Death of the Book? Death of the Author!
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Death of the Book? Death of the Author! By Matt Rubinstein at 6:21 am. I’ve been talking rather a lot lately about e-books and alternative publishing models, but I haven’t really put my money where my mouth is: apart from occasional stunts like Equinox. But sometimes you don’t have the option. To take a random example: my third novel turned out to be. A Little Rain on Thursday. But for quite a while it was going to be a postmodern serial killer thriller called. Death of the Author. Interleaving the hunt ...
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ma.ttrubinste.in » Turn, turn, turn
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Turn, turn, turn. By Matt Rubinstein at 7:08 am. The more astronomically-aware of you will already know that today is the vernal equinox. In some countries, including the US, the vernal equinox (or a day near it) is the first day of Spring, though we in Australia have reverted to the first of the month. Some say the precise moment of the equinox is the only time you can balance an egg on its end, but others. Have found that you can do it any old day, if you care enough. Well, both and neither. But mo...
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ma.ttrubinste.in » Fair use is especially not theft
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Fair use is especially not theft. By Matt Rubinstein at 9:31 am. By Linda Jaivin in today’s. Is undermined, I think, by its conflation of copying and theft. The obvious point is that the example given is much more like saying it’s OK to sit outside a designer’s atelier with a sewing machine and make your own versions of whatever outfits you fancy. Which is indeed allowing others to. Our creations but it’s a long way from letting them. Our actual stuff. That “. Kind of profit from. I don’t think the...
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ma.ttrubinste.in » Equinox
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By Matt Rubinstein at 1:37 pm. With its currents wearing its sandstone away, Sydney seems like one of the elements, sinking with the tides, pulled by the stars. It moves to the long pulse of the universe as its rhythms drift in and out of phase. It waxes, it wanes; it is lost and rebuilt every year. Was launched on the. On 22 September 2004. Is the sequel to. A harbour city lies becalmed. At midday on the equinox. City and citizens are charmed. To silence by a paradox:. Between eternal highs and lows,.
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ma.ttrubinste.in » A Little Rain on VerseDay
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A Little Rain on VerseDay. By Matt Rubinstein at 1:00 am. I’ve now been tweeting my verse. For six months, which means it’s halfway through, and in honour of the actual equinox autumnal where the book is set, vernal where I am now I’m releasing the whole thing as an e-book through the Kindle Store ( US. The equinox, the height of autumn. If autumn ever had a height,. Contains both post- and ante-mortem,. The morning after and the night. Between its tallest and its deepest. A sense of balance and of stasis.
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ma.ttrubinste.in » Could I please speak to Kate please
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Could I please speak to Kate please. By Matt Rubinstein at 6:41 am. My favourite film in the 1990s was probably Terry Gilliam’s. Jack is finally silenced by the unfolding report. In the filmed version, he manages a manifestly inadequate, and yet somehow perfect, “Fuck.” You can see in his face that he’s not just worried about his career or the public recriminations: he’s devastated because the world has just revealed to him that he’s an arsehole. As they say. But their near-identical interviews with.
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ma.ttrubinste.in » Equinox is coming to Twitter
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Is coming to Twitter". Is coming to Twitter. By Matt Rubinstein at 10:36 pm. I’ll be tweeting. My novel in sonnet form, in its entirety over a year starting on the actual equinox, the 22nd of September 2012. The novel, which is a sequel to my earlier. Follows four characters through Sydney, Australia over the course of a year, capturing each day in a single Pushkin sonnet. That’s fourteen lines of iambic tetrameter every day, which fit pretty comfortably into seven tweets. Was shortlisted for the. And a ...
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ma.ttrubinste.in » The next iPad mini (or the one after that)
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The next iPad mini (or the one after that). By Matt Rubinstein at 8:07 pm. The original iPad hadn’t been out for a week before we started hearing rumours. Of a smaller version. I was interested right away: like many people I bought the iPad without knowing all the things I’d end up using it for, but I knew I’d be reading some sort of text on it most of the time (and this turned out to be true, apart from a brief thing with Real Racing 2 HD. As John Gruber and others predicted. Real Racing 3 HD. Share on ...
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