Posts by Lucy Telfar Barnard
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Hard News: Not yet standing upright, in reply to Vivid,
The Hundertwasser heirs are very protective and very litigious . They even stepped in and nixed a poster for a kids holiday art program in Masterton. They refuse the use of words on pictures of his, and all sorts of strange rules around use of his work. Things that would be fair dealing here.
But wouldn't parliamentary sovereignty trump copyright? If parliament passed a law saying "this is the NZ flag", then so long as it made a token payment to the estate so as not to confiscate property without compensation, wouldn't the heirs be out of luck?
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On the logo front… they’re just discussing on the radio at the moment, this:
http://www.swimming.org.nz/visageimages/Swimmers%20Resources/HPSNZ/HPSNZ%20White%20Logo.jpg
Which rather proves the point.
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The tune was originally a drinking song, IIRC.
I picture people sitting on trestle tables in a pub, singing the tune rowdily and waving their beer mugs sloshily in time. Much more fun! -
Hard News: Not yet standing upright, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Nope, sorry, not.
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There's a vague similarity I'll grant you, but definitely not the same or even nearly the same.
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Hard News: Not yet standing upright, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
baked in a cake
There's another good test for simplicity! How easily can I ice this on a cake?
Stars are easy, I can use star cookie cutters. Koru are fine - I'd need a template but I could whip one up easily enough. Straight lines, no problem. Fern fronds? Sod off! Fiddly. Annoying. Difficult.
Hypnoflag, on the other hand, would even be easy on cakes, cupcakes, or coffee crema (as previously mentioned). In fact, I reckon if I got super excited with egg white and food colouring, I could make a hypnoflag pavlova.
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Hard News: Not yet standing upright, in reply to James Butler,
Ha! No, not a dragon. I went to school in Wales for a bit. That bleeding dragon is a bugger to draw. All the Welsh children had trouble with it too, and they'd been seeing it all their lives and no doubt had had a bit more practice. Mind you, maybe the miserable little blighters' hearts weren't in it or anything else, what with the slag heaps and the 90% unemployment that were the prevailing features of Pontypridd in 1981.
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Hard News: Not yet standing upright, in reply to Bart Janssen,
That's not the point though. The point of saying that a child should be able to draw it is meant to be indicative of the simplicity of the design.
Also, why does being able to draw it imply blind loyalty? Any time we had to do a school project on a country, we'd draw its flag. So it's not just for the children of NZ that choosing a simple flag is a kindness. -
I wanted a new flag. But I don't want any of the final four. So I'll vote against them, in the hope that maybe in 20 years we'll get another crack at it, and a better option.
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Also, restaurants generally don't buy their mince from supermarkets.
Also, I am an epidemiologist and I eat chicken away from home all the time. First, the rates of campylobacter in chicken have plummetted since the poultry industry finally saw reason and changed their handling and packaging practices. Second, as far as I'm aware, most of the chicken campylobacter cases occurred at home anyway. Of course, there's the difficulty of not knowing the denominator for calculating and comparing rates, but I've not seen any evidence that eating away-cooked chicken is or was any more or less risky than eating home-cooked chicken either now or during the campylobacter epidemic.
Mince meat should be cooked thoroughly to preven E. coli. That means reaching at least 70C all the way through. However, I don't know if it's possible for mince meat to reach 70C and remain pink. Anyone?
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I don't think there's any need to put all or any crown prosecutors up on any sort of pedestal. But nor do I think it would be fair to attack this Crown prosecutor for representing her client as best she could.
For all we know, she was as shocked and horrified as anyone else in the community when the judge announced the sentence. She was, after all, as RB notes, only asking for the same sentence as the Crown had asked for Neil Philips of Kerikeri, who the judge then sentenced to 12 months home detention. Noone was suggesting people picket the Crown prosecutor then. So it really is wrong to try to make the prosecutor responsible for the judge's decision in this case.