Posts by Kyle Matthews

  • Field Theory: Just one point in it,

    136 comments!? I worry for this sport sometimes

    441 comments now. Disappointingly, most of them aren't "don't have you something important to do rather than write this article?"

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  • Island Life: Driving around Mt Eden,…,

    Kyle your comments are contradictory. Either the prisons follow best practise, such as the basic site selection and geology reports or they don't.

    Best practice in prison design which means the layout and structure of the buildings, not what's underneath them. I'm not sure why they decided to build there, but could find out.

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  • Up Front: A Kink in the Pants,

    But I think there are perfectly legitimate questions to be asked about whether discharges without conviction are being applied dispassionately, or whether there's levels of bias involved.

    See also the diversion scheme.

    There's several doors out of the (container) prison for us middle class white folks.

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  • Island Life: Driving around Mt Eden,…,

    Ngāwhā Prison anyone?

    Well that's not building prisons, that's building anything. Prisons are no more resistant to geology than other structures.

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  • Up Front: A Kink in the Pants,

    From that Herald story:

    Ambach's defence lawyer, Peter Kaye, said the jury would hear evidence of the spiking of drinks with drugs.

    Drugs that involuntarily cause you to bash and stab someone with a banjo? Don't sound very useful for date rape.

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  • Field Theory: Loss on two scales (2),

    Zac Guildford's father died in the stands some time at the end of watching his son with the U20s.

    Crappy.

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  • OnPoint: What gorilla?,

    Keith Ng: Asking the actual questions so that other media don't have to.

    No wait, something's backwards about that...

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  • Field Theory: Just one point in it,

    I think it is bloody tasteless the way the NZRFU has taken the dead of WW1 and turned it into a marketing ploy for rugby.

    I believe he was the captain on the originals tour who played the French on the way back home - the first match between NZ and France. That might be more significant to his name being on the trophy than his war service.

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  • Island Life: Driving around Mt Eden,…,

    Oh dear. So we're not allowed to discuss it unless we're architects or cost analysts with experience of building prisons? Cheap shot.

    What Sam F said.

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  • Field Theory: Just one point in it,

    Leopold is right, it is in black and white. So it seems 6 points wouldn't have mattered

    If that wikipedia article is correct, then the trophy was lost 9 days ago.

    Doesn't say where it got the text from though, just the table.

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