Posts by Kerry Weston
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
Mind you, I thought Easy Rider was a great and a well acted movie then as well....
And as for the most underated song ever, 'Since I've been loving you' Led Zep from Zep III
Me too. Steppenwolf and Byrds albums followed - still rather like "the Weight" - and all that hit the road philosophy. There was a film of "Siddartha" back then, from the Hermann Hesse classic - reading Hesse was pretty hip.
Love that Led Zep song too.
Context is everything - NZ was unbelievably dull, rugby ruled, men wore walk shorts, socks and sandals - there was a huge compensating energy for change that I've never seen since.
-
I miss albums, double albums with gatefold sleeves, booklets and Artwork. I also miss having to take care of things: vinyl records and stylus cartridges. And I miss listening to music, in a chair, with speakers separated and angled for perfect sound forever; listening to entire albums rather than hearing random downloaded tracks on somebody's iPod.
Me too, but I shifted the stereo into my studio where I can be as loud as I like & play cds not LPs - though I've still got them all. I'd never downloaded music until I was inspired by the notorious copyright thread and rediscovered Jethro Tull, David Gilmour, Hunters & Collectors etc - now I can drive my sons insane on car journeys. Ha.
-
the routinely vile Michael Laws" himself
believes that "to love and be loved" is what it's all about - life, that is. Now, ain't that sweet? As heard on Radio Live the other day ....
maybe he's turning into a mallowpuff.
-
There are people in Corrections who are employed to design and build prisons following international best practice. They've spent quite a bit of time learning to be good at it, and our recently built prisons rate quite well.
How anyone with access to The Herald's 'your views' pages can be reasonably considered to be able to do a better job I have no idea.
Oh dear. So we're not allowed to discuss it unless we're architects or cost analysts with experience of building prisons? Cheap shot.
-
Kyle, the containers are 20' or 40' long and they can be joined together or re-cut to make whatever size bed/bath space required. I'm not seeing poky little rabbit cages here and the idea of having smaller compounds seems more humane to me.
Smaller compounds would mean being able to house similar prisoners together, keep rivals separate. Smaller might mean prisoners having more time out of their actual cells and in the communal space. it might mean having more small, even relocatable, compounds around the country that are more accessible for visitors, hooking into training etc. They might be easier to manage in terms of security if the low-risk prisoners are housed there.
-
-
"Consultation" nudge nudge
My Research and Consultation offer is in the mail to Crusher as we speak :-)
-
But shipping containers are terrifically strong - eight times stronger than required by US building laws (I got that off the sites Tom Beard linked to) - if they are built in, say, an octagonal configuration with a roofed communal area in the middle, the only strengthening required is a Beagle Boy-proof entryway and however they do windows - double glazing and bars??
If containers cost $3k each at the cheap end, I fail to see where the $300,000 (each) do-up cost comes from. Disallowing Mr Barnes' analysis of govt. contracting practices - surely not in Honest John's New Zillland??
-
Architectured containers would seem to lend themselves to a different living configuration - ie, it's easy to connect them and build roofed spaces between them , so you could have a small complex with bed/bath spaces around the perimeter and communal area within. Rather than the huge fortified barns. Surely this kind of model would have much lower construction costs and meet similar objectives? They would also be transportable if designed well.
-
Do you mean use them as slaves?:)
You may very well think that, Steven, i couldn't possibly comment :-)