Posts by Kyle Matthews

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  • Field Theory: Great game of netball or…,

    No - nothing can help the New Zealand cricket team.......

    As preperation for next year's world cup on the subcontinent, this tour of Bangladesh has been a disaster.

    Media reports before the tour that New Zealand should be able to win all five games now look somewhat idiotic. No wait, it's not the reports, it's the team :(

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • OnPoint: On Freedom of Speech,

    Ask the Outrageous Fortune team, they just got a slap fom the BSA for using the c word last Tuesday. Cheryl was referring to Draska.

    That feels like an entirely fair description of Draska, surely?

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Hard News: Morning in Auckland,

    Census data is publicly available data. Any use the government puts it to can be countered by anyone else.

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  • Southerly: At Last, David Haywood's 2010…,

    Being able to circumvent queues and crowded foyers by bellowing out "let me through, I'm a doctor!" would one of the unacknowledged benefits of having a PHD

    Unless the queue is filled with other medical professionals, especially nurses, orderlies etc. They'll tell you where to shove it :)

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Hard News: Veitch,

    Without knowing what he's been doing in the interim and how different he is from the person that assaulted and abused his partner, I think we should keep in mind that allowing people to return to be productive members of society is a major factor in reducing recidivism.

    Given that reporting on sports is his career, it's not surprising that he's returned to it.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Hard News: Yet More Hobbit,

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  • Hard News: Veitch,

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  • Southerly: At Last, David Haywood's 2010…,

    newly-crowned PhD

    That's not a crown, that's a pin-cushion.

    Because we apparently like to make our (supposedly) brightest minds look really silly.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Voting Local 2010,

    I say this with love, but could Kerry Prendergast please shut the fuck up.

    The reports I saw yesterday were embarassing. "STV cost me this election."

    Which is nonsense. There's no way you can take the first choices of an STV election (or the results of an STV election before special votes are counted) and say that they equate to a FPP election. People will vote differently under STV, people that have no chance of getting elected will get a lot more first choices because people know that their votes are still going to count.

    Fail at winning elections, fail at being gracious afterwards, fail at attacking the voting system for being the cause. Way to go out on a low note.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

  • Voting Local 2010,

    I think the electoral system actually works with 9 decimal places, they've probably chosen to just round to two for presentation.

    My first stap at a visualisation of the D.C.C. is a Frienemy graph made with GraphViz.

    Clear as... I got nothing.

    Since Nov 2006 • 6243 posts Report

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