Posts by Kyle Matthews
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I can't help but feel what should have happened in the first place was the Government saying "we'll give $5m to whichever of you win, but you're operationally independent TV companies making a tender to the IRB so it's not a political decision"
I'd much rather the government didn't give anyone money for one-off populist events to appear on TV.
As much as I'd like to see the world cup on TV, the amount of money that the government gives is probably amount that will drive the market up. Give 5 million, that's what it will cost. In the end, there's four free to air options in New Zealand, if the best bid the IRB gets is 1 million, that's probably what they'll take.
Otherwise every week someone is going to be coming cap in hand to the government for the commonwealth games, olympics etc. If lots of people are going to watch them, surely that should rule them out of additional government funding, as they're commercially viable.
I'd much rather, if the government is going to shell out for TV, it be NZ on Air, digital transition, non-commercial programming for kids, adults etc. Rugby isn't exactly a weak market in NZ.
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Yes. Thanks for repasting that here, entirely appropriate use of PAS.
Must take that site down at some stage.
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And what's better than four wheels AND two legs? Both together!
Awesome segue.
Given that they're quad skates, one of those two figures is wrong. Segue fail!
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And here we are again - NZ getting rooted up the anal passage by international Rugby. Again!
I don't buy this. Any major sporting event will try and get as much money as possible out of broadcasting rights, sponsorship, etc. The fact that our two government owned broadcasters have decided to both reach into the public purse to outbid each other, probably ratcheting up the price as a result, is good for the IRB, but down to our incompetence rather than anything on the IRB's part.
What else would you have them do? Give broadcast rights to NZ for free?
But ... yes. I ... feel ... sorry ... for ...Murray McCully.
Look on it as him owing us for fifteen things that he's done in the past. This doesn't come close to making up for it, you can drop the sympathy.
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I was under the impression that you where a serious intellectual, Kyle.
No, I can still work the photocopier and my computer, and I never leave the office without my keys.
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And the website you link to is sick. I suggest you reconsider, strongly.
I'm not even going to consider following that link.
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Doctors are entirely responsible for the over-prescription of antibiotics. How can anyone else take the blame, given that only doctors can prescribe? If the medical profession won't stand up to patients who think that antibiotics are some kind of magical cure (and there are plenty of otherwise intelligent people out there who think that antibiotics should be prescribed for everything), who will?
I've had a doctor try and prescribe my daughter antibiotics for something that he clearly told me was viral. When I said "well if it's viral, antibiotics won't do a thing will they?", he muttered something about how they might help her general health and assist her with fighting the virus.
I shook my head, took the script, didn't fill it, and she was better three days later.
I suspect as much as pressure from patients, it's just something doctors do as part of their business. People come to you for treatment, they should walk out the door with some medicine. Telling them there isn't any medicine, doesn't make for good business. Sad.
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Nobody came in here using the tragedy to discredit psychics, though. Quite the opposite.
Yeah, my comment went both ways.
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Well my apologies Kyle but I'll call exploitive bullshit like that any time.
Up to you. Just feels like standing over a body saying "see look, psychics are crap!"/"psychics can be right!" Dead two year olds shouldn't be part of anyone's causes, except maybe their families.
Time and place and all that.
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To have this charlatan of a woman effectively saying "she's probably dead" on TVNZ makes me so freakin angry...
I don't know why, but I find both sides of this discussion of physics and Deb Webber over this little girl's body distasteful. I didn't really connect with the story until last night when it was clear that they'd found her. To raise anger at anyone at that point... man.
If the family are unhappy with TVNZ, Paul Henry, Deb Webber, they have every right to say so. Doesn't feel like it has anything to do with the rest of us, we're not the ones whose daughter was missing.