Posts by Kyle Matthews
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I agree with Yamis, actually. You're making a characterisation that may well apply in many cases, but I don't think it's endemic or inseparable from the culture. It might be "well established academic knowledge", but it's also a generalisation based on what you've read.
It's also a label that's been attached to thugby/rugby, because that's the sport it comes out in here. Other countries it'd be different. In Australia it'd probably be more likely to be league or AFL. In Canada it'd be ice hockey. Basketball and NFL in the states, etc.
10 days ago I refereed a game of ice hockey down here where 14 kids were sent from the ice after a 90 second brawl developed between two high school teams. Kids punching each other all over the ice. I wrote a report about the incident to their two schools. That Saturday the teacher of one of the teams was quoted in the ODT saying "was just a bit of a scuffle, just some of the kids getting annoyed with calls going the other way".
You really do despair if that's the attitude of teachers/parents/schools to youth being violent in sport. "There's no excuses but..."
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Perhaps, just perhaps, if we spent our hundreds of millions developing and deploying an electric vehicle infrastructure built on the existing roading infrastructure then for commuters the outcomes might be quicker to achieve, and better for everyone.
I think the point the chap was heading towards on Media 7 was that, in lots of places in the world fossil fuels are burnt to produce electricity. A worldwide movement to electric cars would mean we wouldn't require oil to burn in our cars, but it would require a lot more oil to burn in our generators to cover the increased demand for electricity.
If there were countries which could meet all their electricity needs from sustainable sources, and still have more potential energy production, then it wouldn't be such a problem, but I don't think there are many countries that fit that description.
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Nothing's immune to a dedicated examination of its flaws. Mac OS X has plenty of holes allowing remote privilege escalation, which is all it takes for a virus to do its thang. Throw some criminal money and minds at it, and bad things happen
Apple is based on an open source unix system. No system is ever secure, but Apple's base system is out in the open, and is worked on by thousands of people with access to the base code, but outside the organisation. It releases updates to fix problems when they are found by the 'good guys'. Windows is as likely to release updates to counter the rapidly approaching bad guys.
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In general I agree....... but for maybe two possible exceptions..... If reality is actually WORSE than the rumours, you might tend to stay silent.....
Or, more likely, if reality is bad, and the rumours are "close enough", you might prefere to live with the rumours staying just rumours than by refuting them in a legal setting.....
The third is "you've overshot with your speculation, in my tell-all interview with Paul Holmes you'll see from my side that it's actually less than what you've been talking about for a week, and you'll reach the logical conclusion that "oh, that's not so bad"".
I'm more of the: "You had the opportunity to clear up what happened; your side of the story would have been prominently conveyed on every news service in the country. And yet you settled for a two-word euphemism."
I thought the use of the words "lashed out" was very interesting. I presume that the words were specifically chosen by his lawyer. Difficult to say in a court what "lashed out" means. Could mean physical, but as Craig says, could be a good verbal tongue lashing. Even if it was physical, could be "just a push". Yet if the details do get confirmed and it turns out that he hit and then kicked her as the Dom said, then he might be able to justify "lashed out" as being "honest that violence happened".
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Kyle, it is not just a "private" matter. unless you are Owen McShane of course.
I didn't say it was a private matter. Just that whether I thought his apology, restitution etc was sincere or not, as much as they're being discussed in public, aren't a basis for anything other than gossip.
They're matters to which the victim should have an opinion, to which a judge/jury should have an opinion, and to which his family and friends should have an opinion.
Everything else is just blood in the water for the rest of us, but it's not the basis for anything useful.
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I think that's part of why I'm feeling conflicted. Too much PR speak in the apology, the 'I was tired and stressed' excuse - it doesn't feel sincere to me. I get the feeling he's sorry to have been caught, not sorry for the appalling attack in the first place.
I felt the same.
And now today I'm wondering how much that matters. This is public only because he's a media personality. Maybe the peace he made in private with the victim was sincere, meaningful, and backed up with a real change in himself. Or maybe it wasn't.
I'm not in favour of him getting a better break in life, just because he's a media personality and well-off. I'm also not in favour of him getting a worse break. Joe Bloggs doesn't have to satisfy me with his sincerity if he bashes up his partner, he just has to satisfy, a judge, the victim, and the people that know him.
Him making the statement is all very 'good' TV and so forth. But I'm not sure that I need to be happy with what he's done as restitution. I just need to be happy with the system that deals with domestic violence.
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The redemptions just come sooner and sooner these days ...
Implement career rescue plan, step 3: The tell-all interview.
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You can have ours. We don't want him, honest. I don't think even the staff want him, and the students definitely don't. In less than the length of a basic undergraduate degree he's managed to make himself roughly as popular as a pork pie at a Jewish wedding.
No we'll keep our new one thanks. Last pay round every other university was on strike trying to get the same percentage that we got offered first-up. He's come up through the ranks and is well liked.
And on about day two he got rid of that stupid bridge that they wanted to build over the Leith here. About five years of my life arguing against that thing.
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Glad you liked it, Ann (if 'like' is the right word). It was written a decade or so back, and I just thought I'd post it at the same time as 'The Moon and McNulty', partly to answer this request from Kyle Matthews
My first and last piece of work as a 'publisher', and I use the word liberally.
Again, very nicely written.
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I'm sorry, there's a list of PAS commenters who have or haven't been raped and you've checked it? That comment is way out of line.