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    Will KPT kena?

    it was an appeal for an illustrative example, not a trap
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    Will KPT kena?

    I guess in terms of regulation of companies itself, there is no direct regulation, but I was thinking more in terms of judicial means of indirect regulation... but food for thought Newspaper Permit (from http://www.mda.gov.sg/Licences/Pages/NewspaperPermit.aspx) - permit fee: free - bond...
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    Will KPT kena?

    while personally I think this regulation is a waste of everybody's time, especially considering it deals with big media companies that may effectively be dealt with, and have been dealt with in the past, by existing legislation, but being a unique piece of regulation is hardly necessarily a...
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    Will KPT kena?

    nope, I'm not shocked... but will you be shocked by these stories? Al-Jazeera Gets Rap as Qatar Mouthpiece - Bloomberg Al Jazeera Criticized for Lack of Independence after Arab Spring - SPIEGEL ONLINE every news agency has some form of bias in some way... that is not to say that all...
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    Cloud only, by subscription - Adobe to stop selling boxed copies of Creative Suite

    there's no reason why they can't implement a similar system of frequent call-ups by the software over the net to the Adobe server even with perpetual licensed software...
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    Immigrants...

    but even then, that's a failure in the measure and practice of meritocracy, not so much a failure in immigration policy...
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    Immigrants...

    so what is this national policy? that there are not enough people filling positions in an economy that is still suffering from labour shortage?... while it is all nice and good to say that we can just boost productivity and all that to cover the labour shortage, until those gains in productivity...
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    Will KPT kena?

    just a question though: which news agency do you believe offers 'balanced and real investigative reporting'?
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    Well done Singapore taxi uncles... And ComfortDelgro and SMRT

    in case anyone wonders about Hong Kong, their fare works out to 9.415km, according to data from (Transport Department - Taxi fare of Hong Kong)
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    Murder or Suicide?

    the coroners inquest is still ongoing, with evidence being brought out and witnesses being called; why jump to conclusions now?
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    Do anyone here uses IE with a wide gamut calibrated monitor?

    for colour management reasons, it's best not to use IE on a wide gamut monitor... early versions of IE ignore colour profiles in your image and assume it is sRGB, giving you all sorts of possible colour, and usually display it assuming the monitor's colour gamut is only sRGB or less (IE does not...
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    New and lower priced 4K TVs from Sony

    I believe they don't produce the LCD TV/monitor panels any more (they just terminated their JV with Sharp that produces LCD panels mid last year, with Sony selling their share to Sharp)... so they have to buy the panels from suppliers, I believe these panels come from LG, and produce the...
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    New and lower priced 4K TVs from Sony

    exactly
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    Passenger Hijacked CityCab And Knocked Down Cleaner At Budget Terminal

    it is understandable, but really, our justice system is not as bad as what some of their critics, local and overseas, would like to portray it... they are, especially the rank and file police persons, just ordinary Singaporeans like we are, not some clique of evil poised to crush the will of the...
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    Passenger Hijacked CityCab And Knocked Down Cleaner At Budget Terminal

    in the full report of the story in today's Straits Times, pg A9, it was written that the the court-requested psychiatric report concluded that the hijacker was considered legally sane and therefore the judge ruled that the hijacker was aware of what he was doing and took that in account... thus...
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    Passenger Hijacked CityCab And Knocked Down Cleaner At Budget Terminal

    the Singapore justice system in this case acted within its system of laws, and this case would have been considered a rash act rather than murder or manslaughter by any international standards... please don't denigrate your own country's legal system without proper justification...
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    Passenger Hijacked CityCab And Knocked Down Cleaner At Budget Terminal

    he was not jailed for murder, neither was he charged for murder... murder involves premeditated killing, manslaughter requires intent to kill... this is killing a person by doing something rash and stupid...
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    2nd Korean War

    headlines tomorrow: North Korea Launches Attacks Claims South Spying Across Borders South Says its Tourist from Singapore :bsmilie: :bsmilie: :bsmilie: :bsmilie:
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    Brainless idiot on bus 196

    if one has the luxury of letting someone through without causing oneself to miss an opportunity (of getting off the bus or in some other way), whether one has the right of way or not, why not just let them through... it'ld make everybody's day :) I accidentally took a train during their rush...
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    2nd Korean War

    while the eastern part certainly still needs catching up with the western part, and there is much work to be done, indications are that the tide is turning in their favour: Trend Sees Increase in Eastern Germans Returning from West - SPIEGEL ONLINE
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