Posts by Sacha
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Campbell Live's story on the jersey pricing rort (7 min clip) includes the Rebel Sport/Briscoes head, Rod Dukes, estimating an unjustified 35% wholesale difference which he has unsuccessfully complained about to Adidas local and regional head offices.
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Bart Janssen,
it's not called the deep south for nothing
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Brian Edwards compares the treatment of a recently publicised prosecution.
Ashish Macwan, whose son Aarush drowned when the family’s van rolled into a Central Otago lake, has been discharged without conviction. He was not fined and was allowed to keep his licence.
Though the father had pleaded guilty to a charge of careless driving causing death. Judge Charles Blackie found that he had suffered enough.
...Nonetheless, in saying that the father had suffered enough and discharging him without conviction, Judge Blackie demonstrated the capacity of our courts to deliver verdicts that are both rational and humane. The judge is to be applauded.
No such applause is due to the New Zealand Police, whose pigheadedness in deciding – against the wishes of the court and of the couple who own the property – to continue prosecuting 25-year-old Aspergers sufferer, Cornelius Arie Smith-Voorkam, for ‘looting’ two lightbulbs from an empty quake-damaged Christchurch shop, beggars belief.
I suspect that most ‘rational and humane’ Kiwis would take the view that a beating and 11 days in custody really ought to be sufficient punishment for a crime of this magnitude. But not our police prosecutors. Get a grip, gentlemen – you look like asses.
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to James Bremner,
I have repeatedly seen
on denialist websites? I'm sure you have.
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to James Bremner,
that never transpire
there's your problem. tell it to the polar bears
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Bart Janssen,
ridiculously improbable
That's the sort of language I like. :)
Alongside likelihood, the potential scale of impact seems relevant with things like climate change, nuclear energy and genetic modification.
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Hard News: Science: it's complicated, in reply to Martin Lindberg,
Having the support of those with deep pockets will always trump other things if it's funding we seek.
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Hard News: An open thread while I'm down…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
When falling try to avoid sharp corners and animals
those sharp animals will get you every time
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Hard News: The Orcon Great Blend 2011 in…, in reply to BenWilson,
Emma, sorry about the dire nightlife of Thursday night Auckland
Seconded.
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Hard News: Friday Fun with Brickface, in reply to Russell Brown,
suburban debrief
more code like 'business lunch' eh