Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to giovanni tiso,
When have I done that, pray?
I believe Chris is saying he told you he does not like the term, and he is one of us. I'm not sure the second part was clear earlier.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to chris,
the difficulty in doing so is a distinguishing feature of the labelled
Good point - for ages I've wanted to build a proper conversation space that works well for us, both online and offline.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to chris,
Condescension reached new levels
There's a role for playfulness with this sort of conversation, surely?
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to chris,
fortunately it's not a popularity contest
Agreed
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to 81stcolumn,
I am compelled to avoid the term Aspie because in the new DSM-V (due in 2013) the category will no longer exist.
To continue a theme, homosexuality was a diagnosable condition in the DSM until the 1970s. Hardly a bible for living.
And while Aspergers Syndrome may vanish as a diagnosis, being an Aspie might continue. Perhaps we could think of it more like an ethnicity than a clinical defect; a group you belong to rather than something a doctor says is wrong with you.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to chris,
Asperger's sufferers
However, I am confident most people beyond the medical fraternity would find that alternative unpopular
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to chris,
slapping on cutesy patronizing monikers
Who's doing the 'slapping' does count though, eh.
You might also think that "gay" trivialises homosexuals, but history suggests you'd be on the losing end of that argument. This one's got a way to go.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to chris,
was a unanimous consensus reached?
doubt it
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to izogi,
Also, this link works, with 'dominion-post' in the URL
Their website seems to allow mulitple paths to the same stories, confusingly.
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Yesterday eve's Herald story updates Key and Brownlee's hasty estimate double act.
Responding to a question from Mr Goff in Parliament today, Mr Key conceded he had received no official advice that some areas would need to be abandoned.
He also conceded he had not consulted with Civil Defence director John Hamilton before making the statement.
...While only about 70,000 of the 190,000 homes in Christchurch have so far been inspected, a Civil Defence spokesman said it was unlikely that number [their total of 2198] would rise significantly.
Mr Key this morning said the estimate of 10,000 houses requiring demolition was "very much back of an envelope".
Earthquake Recovery Minister Gerry Brownlee today defended the estimate, saying it was based on initial advice from the Earthquake Commission's geotechnical engineers and was not based on the red-stickering process.
He said the estimate took in the 3500-odd houses that already needed to be demolished after the September quake, as well as aerial observations of land damaged in last month's quake.
"The number itself is a realistic estimate of where it may end up," he said today.