Posts by Andrew C
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Speaker: Living under bridges, in reply to Bart Janssen,
There is also the aspect that roads are really designed for movement of people and goods, not for parking.
Not really, at least not for residential roads anyway. They build those roads with space enough for both parking and driving.
The idea that you should be able to leave your lump of iron on the (public) road is perhaps a little unreasonable.
Why? Especially given the road was built to do just that. If we go and visit my family what are we supposed to do, take turns circling the block while the other person pops inside for a bit?
There has to be a balance somewhere between “it’s our street, go away” and “we’re taking over your street”. At least from what I’ve read from the Skypath folks there is a real intent to reach a compromise.
Clearly, and that's the sensible thing to do. Much better than "tough"
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Speaker: Living under bridges, in reply to Brodie Davis,
Auckland Transport tends to disagree with that position
Not sure about that given that they administer and run residential parking permit schemes. Eden park would be a relevant example here.
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Speaker: Living under bridges, in reply to Brodie Davis,
and one of their main complaints is that the onstreet parking will be taken up by people who are not them (and the correct response to that is “tough”)
Oh come on. The promoters of SkyPath are predicting weekend crowds of people not too dissimilar to that which attend a Blues game, with an entry/exit point located outside their front door. This is their home, their neighbourhood, and its about to be massively changed.,
And your response is - too bad, fuck em?
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Speaker: Abortion: morality and health, in reply to kiwi_guy,
If a women CHOOSES to be sexually active she can take RESPONSIBILITY for that, not the tax payer.
So the rich are fuckers, and the poor are wankers? Something to please all sides of the spectrum I guess...
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Hard News: The other kind of phone tapping, in reply to Angela Hart,
Many of the tertiary institutions have displays of treasured artefacts like that.
Auckland Uni has some old telephone switching circuits on open display:
https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/historydisplays/FifthFloor/LogicAndSwitching/LogicAndSwitchingMain.php
The historical displays in the computer science department are really interesting for anyone who has been involved in the computer and/or tech industry, there's tons of "oh, i remember those..." items all throughout.
Its open to the public any time the university is open, and I'd say there's more than a good chance that the curator, Bob Doran, would give you a guided tour if you simply asked him nicely.
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Hard News: The other kind of phone tapping, in reply to Pete Sime,
I remember when I was a kid in the 80s, there was a bank of 4-6 public telephones outside the Post Office in North East Valley. I’d use to get a fairly decent rate of return by pressing the coin return button for pocket change.
One of the older boys in my Boys Brigade troop worked at the Post Office as a phone technician, I guess he was about 16 or 17. He bought some public phones in and showed everyone how to insert little blockages up inside the coin return hole so that if someone hit the coin return button the coin would be released but then get caught up above the blockage and not fall into the hole. Popsicle sticks worked a treat apparently because you could easily snap them into the size you needed and make fine adjustments until it fitted just right. Later on the kids would go back to the phone and remove the blockage and retrieve the coins.
It was obviously a common enough scam because lots of my mates would look for them in any pay phone they came across, just in case they chanced upon one rigged by someone else.
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Hard News: The other kind of phone tapping, in reply to Gregor Ronald,
136 did something as well, can’t remember what though.
When you hung up it immediately rang back but without the gap between rings. So instead of ring ring pause ring ring it would go ringringringring<etc>
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Speaker: Women, science and superheroes, in reply to David Hood,
Thanks David.
I have listed the top 20 from the 2010 survey.
1. Hairdresser
2. Kindergarten teacher
3. Air hostess/steward
4. Primary school teacher
5. Lawyer
6. Doctor
7. Police officer
8. Architect
9. Chef
10. Veterinarian
11. Journalist/reporter
12. Waitress
13. Physiotherapist
14. Fashion Model
15. Florist
16. Nurse
17. Scientist
18. Farmer
19. Pilot
20. Armed forces
I would really like to see the equiv for boys the same age. -
The top two most-desired careers are airhostess and hairdresser
Out of interest, has there been a survey of boys the same age too, and if so what were their top 2?
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Capture: Laneway 2015, in reply to Russell Brown,
the constant flow of free water
and free cups to drink it with too, that's such a good idea.
Speaking of water, a buddy of mine had his empty 1.25L water bottle taken off him by security on the way in. Their reason - the bottle is too big. wtf is that about?