Posts by Kyle Matthews
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I'm now trying to work out how to go to my next fancy-dress party as the Civic...
Balance a couple of cats somewhere and put red tinted contacts in their eyes?
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old skool rules/laws governing mainstream media dont apply online in much the same way copyright laws aren't respected. Generation 2.0 really dont give a shit eh...
If you could test this theory out elsewhere, that'd be great.
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By comparison, the Dr who admitted mutual fondling of genitals with a 16yr old babysitter & then continued an e-affair 15yrs later. Subsequently agreed to pay $50K in compensation, but didn't cause she went to the media.
Has name suppession currently and still maintains he "did not have sexual relations with that girl" after the above admission- from RNZ.I don't know the details of that case, but in cases involving sexual offences against a minor normally both names are suppressed, and they are suppressed to protect the minor, not the offender.
But to play devil's advocate for a moment, am I wrong in feeling highly ambiguous about "judicial discretion," because it sure seems to benefit people who look a lot like the people exercising it?
I think that's true Craig, but it's worse if you go to other alternatives - juries, media etc. Jury stacking in the states defies the term 'peers' in many instances.
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Somewhat off topic, but this is worth looking at, promo for the NZ Book Council:
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Ask the family of the old indian fella that was knocked off in a road rage incident if they agree with you that what people do with a rush of blood to the head should not have any bearing on the rest of a persons life.
I'm going to guess that the incident of road rage didn't involve being drunk and then getting totally the wrong end of the stick and doing something inappropriate and stupid with a unconsenting young woman and then admitting it was wrong and offering restorative justice afterwards.
Do people convicted of road rage offences even get name suppression?
Not really a valid comparison.
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Isn't that what every other museum in the world does?
I don't know. But it must be a hell of a difficult job. Sure, this guy is a quack. But this one?
I was thinking about this on my way home, and for the life of me I can't see why a tall building collapsing from the top down would be expected to do anything other than fall pretty much straight down.
Oh see, you've just bought into the whole 'gravity' conspiracy.
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What happened? I read all the time. I listen to different people Andrew.
Deborah, I make it a policy not to like people who were in Act, even a little bit, but you're making it difficult.
If the next answers out of your mouth, no matter what the question, could be "less taxes", and "three strikes, throw away the key", that'd be great, thanks.
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My ISP certainly does, seeing as it caps its traffic and has a tiered structure that gets pretty expensive if you download a lot.
I suspect that's because they pay much of their costs based on volume, because it's the international traffic across the cable that is the real rort in NZ internet access.
Their most profitable customers would be people who get broadband, 5GB account, but only use a hundred MB or so a month for email and some light web surfing. There'd be thousands of users across NZ who do that.
Me, I overrun my 20 GB cap every month (fairly significantly), and only pay them twice as much as the above.
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Good on all the people who made the mocking signs and turned up. They're no doubt over-represented in the photos but a good sense of humour is often the best way to deal with these sorts of things. My favourite was "My arms are getting tired!". Deep on so many levels.
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An equivalent statement to Prof. Ihimaera would have required him to withdraw the book and correct the "error" and if he didn't he wouldn't be getting his salary.
I suspect that would breach employment law. You can't stop paying someone just because they've broken the rules. You could be warned and eventually dismissed, if it was serious enough.
The situation is not necessarily usefully compared with students. If a student submits plagiarised work, the university won't accept it, they won't graduate. If a professor submits plagiarised work, it doesn't go through the university, it goes through the publisher. To some extent it's a private contract between the writer and publisher, the university's involvement is that they employed him while he wrote.
The university doesn't therefore have the same powers that they would over a student. The response has to be different, and probably more limited in options.
So Auckland Uni gets Witi's royalties and pays him a salary in return?
If he's anything like the academics I know, they keep their royalties. There might be an upper limit or a sharing of them, particularly for a more popular book like a textbook or a novel.
However, if a plant biologist does some woodwork then his homemade cabinet (a poor Krenov copy) is not really of interest to the Uni. If on the other hand he does some private consulting for a breeding company and it becomes clear he falsified results then that is the concern of the University. Essentially it is the use of the same skill set for which the University is paying.
Prof Ihimaera wrote a novel and is employed to teach his creative writing skills. The overlap is obvious and hence any question of his integrity in his private novel writing reflects directly on his role in the University.
It's not a case of overlap. Books are his research output. They form about 40% of the work of an academic. This book would have been written entirely on university time, not some private contract on his own time.
We cannot be sure, but it seems very likely that Ihimaera's creative output would be used by Auckland to justify its share of PBRF money.
We can be sure. His books and many other creative endeavours (musical composition, theatrical writing, poetry) will all be in the PBRF pile. This one might be included in a very small font however.
Is it true? Is this a common practice, does anyone know? Amongst writers of the Historical Fiction genre?
Slightly off topic, but having read some abstracts of the book on The Unfortunate Experiment, and some strong criticism on them which will be published shortly, it gave me the impression that Lynda Bryder employed a research assistant to go collect all the quotes, and then used those quotes without context to make them say something quite different. It was like some sort of soundproof wall between researcher and writer through which only notes passed.