Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Up Front: The Surprisingly Sincere Up…, in reply to Simon Lyall,
That proscribes the exit polling of advance voters, surely? Not voters voting *on* polling day.
I'd be interested in how they think they have (criminal) jurisdiction over an act outside NZ.
http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1961/0043/latest/DLM328024.html#DLM328024
http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1961/0043/latest/DLM328023.html
http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1993/0087/122.0/whole.html#DLM3486936 -
Given there is an efficient system for people who haven't registered to turn up and vote *before* polling day (and to vote anywhere), could this be extended to allow unregistered voters to vote on polling day (with some more technology to speed registering them, maybe).
And then possibly get rid of registering at all so people can just turn up and vote.
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Can we drop the trailing 'T'?
It's only the government/education sector who use it. Everyone else calls it IT, or "tech".*It's all information, whether it's travelling (being communicated) or at rest
See https://royalsociety.org/~/media/education/computing-in-schools/2012-01-12-computing-in-schools.pdf. That paper recommends losing the 'ICT' term from UK education because the subject had become (in the space of 20 years) perceived as 'boring' by most learners.
( A later report may or may not have recommended that 'History' be renamed 'Nazis and wars and other cool shit' )
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nominate non-pharma-grade products that could be prescribed
“You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.”
Is it really acceptable for doctors to prescribe (e.g. advise someone to take a medicine on a basis of their authority and standing) something that hasn't been properly monitored for quality and efficacy?
Wouldn't it be much better just to legalise weed in some form (non-commercial sale, no advertising, whatever) and let doctors advise a patient of the possible risks and benefits of using it to help their condition, but not hand them official endorsement in the form of a script?
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Hard News: Media Take: Scandals, selfies…, in reply to mpledger,
Rugby, Infratil*, Weta, SAP...
(although the leading cheerleaders for us buying Infratil a fairly useless new runway are our Labour councillors in Wellington, one of whom is now running for parliament).
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I've been trying to expunge the whole thing from my life, if I didn't have to do something whilst waiting for the computer occasionally I'd succeed.
I have no idea what's going on though. Peters had hundreds of deceased NZF members bequeath him their super entitlements and thought that was ok? Something about Hoskings and ATM? Ewww.
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Oh, I see: It was in relation to:
[Former Green staffer] Morris-Travers was appointed chief of staff in May last year. She was an MP from 1996 to 1999, first with NZ First and then as an independent. She was a minister in the National Party-NZ First coalition.
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Another interesting fact: maybe six times more water is used making a plastic (or glass) bottle than the bottle contains.
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to linger,
Oh, I was (those plants are all in places where NZ First attracts its votes. Marsden Point is right next to Peters' electorate. I guess some of his voters might work there).
I thought they wanted to know how big industrial plants use water.
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Hard News: Metiria's Problem, in reply to Sacha,