Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Makes no sense. My argument? that Churchill's quote is drawn from lack of experience or that jurors are under qualified?
5 year plans is not a good phrase to support an argument that democracy doesn't allow central planning. 5 year plans were not good planning.
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As others have said, if there were a bigger chance of winning a smaller prize, instead of astronomical odds against winning an astroniomical prize, I might be more tempted.
Wouldn't work though. It's not the thousands of mini-prizes that everyone buys the tickets for. It's the chance to win the big one.
If you cut the top prize in half, and distributed that money at the bottom prizes, you'd sell less tickets, so have less money to distribute.
(I'm not sure if the prizes are related to the likelihood of winning them)
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The illusion of empowerment for individuals is insignificant in a nation where our government can't even make a truly attainable five year plan.
The phrase "five year plan" isn't really something that supports your argument, unless you think we should transform our entire economy to produce only coal and tractors.
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You probably aren't allowed to shoot them if they attempt to run away either.
If I lock them up will the red cross bring them packages? Because that would make my food budget go so much further.
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Isn't it idiotic to do X with the hope of achieving Y when there is no chance of ever achieving Y. What is idiocy other than doing really irrational things?
A local sports team here is selling 40 $50 raffle tickets, with a $1000 prize at the end.
40 * $50 = $2000, minus the $1000 prize is $1000, helps get them to Auckland for their national champs.
Clearly if I buy one I'm an idiot. Or possibly people have other reasons for gambling which are not quite a simple as the rather obvious statistical likelihood that you're going to lose money on the deal.
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(Regarding my lack of PE prowess: if feminism was a sport, I would *waste* you, Kyle. ;) )
If men can be feminists, then I suspect I'd be an average one at best, so we can take that as a given either way.
You gotta be in to lose, I thought to myself.
I've started buying lucky dip lotto tickets semi-regularly as an experiment to see how long my losing streak (I've never won a cent and I've bought about 40 tickets in my life time) can run for.
Over 20 years it could prove to be an expensive experiment, but I'm hoping we'll find the answer before that.
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Normal people wouldn't think of such perverted shit...
Yes, but what's the percentage of 'normal people' on PAS?
I apologise in advance for this complete swerve of topic, but does anyone else share my total lack of interest in Big Wednesday?
I completely fail to understand how it works. They seem to put letter boxes on the TV screen and then someone wins $37 million. There must be more to it than that though.
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No chance. I was 10 when Muldoon got the arse.
Was I the only one who read this and thought "been drinking too much soy"?
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But it would be okay if this guy's girlfriend had been sent to her room or told she couldn't watch TV?
Let me counter that.
I coach and referee a contact sport. The team I coach is under 13s, and we have behaviour issues from some of the kids that we have to deal with. Some of it is dangerous, some of it is disruptive to the rest of the team, some of it is just plain annoying.
If I was to hit one of the kids, as their coach or referee, I would be in a seriously big hole and likely wouldn't be doing either job again for a long time, if ever. In both roles I'm allowed to physical restrain the kids, for their protection or the protection of others, as well as sending them from the ice for some period of time, or other punisment (laps, push ups etc).
What about the parent/caregiver - child relationship makes it the only one where violence is allowed to play a role? It's not part of the coach-player relationship. It's not part of the boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. It's not part of the caregiver-elderly person relationship. It's not part of the sibling relationship (at least in law). It's no longer part of the teacher - student relationship.
There are lots of instances where people in authority can apply punishment to people, including children. We have moved past where violence is part of that suite of tools.
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Up to a point, Kyle -- but I'd suggest that not everything the public is interested in is a matter of public interest. And when you're legally compelling everyone to participate, and disclose some pretty intimate information, then I'd argue the onus on on to make sure there's a water-tight public interest justification for every question.
The reason is 100 years from now no one answering the census will be alive and we'll really want to know the answers to these questions.
There are whole libraries full of books which rely in whole or part on various censuses. We would be poorer as a society if they didn't exist. Imagine how our knowledge of the medieval world would be if the doomsday book was never compiled.