Posts by George Darroch
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It really was an in depth analysis of the issues wasn't it? I mean it's only the education of almost every child in the country, doesn't matter how it's done does it TVNZ? Ohh look! Sheep! Cows! Pretty pictures!
In New Zealand, criticisng the media is our patriotic duty. If we lose public discourse, and the ability to discuss how our country is shaped, then the power goes even further out of our hands and into the 20 or so around the cabinet table.
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I have a kid who absolutely will not do stuff like writing unless he can see a purpose to it (and getting better at writing is not a purpose for writing thank you very much) so, for him and probably many other kids, subjects like science are the way to teach him literacy and numeracy skills.
Isabel, that is one of the most intelligent comments I've read in a long time.
I tautoko that. I have a pretty extreme version of that kid.
Yeah that was me too. My parents took me out of school when they realised how much it was driving me insane, and homeschooled me (not perfect, for a number of reasons, but better). When I eventually did go back to school I hit that wall again.
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It does seem odd that the Skeptics (and we're talking here about a movement rather than just specifically the New Zealand variety) are willing to suspend their method of inquiry when it comes to Climate Change
Not to me. I'm no longer surprised by the ability of people to suspend a body of evidence if it would mean giving up a "fact" that has become dear to them. If it means giving up an entire worldview, or at least accepting contradictions in it, the stakes are even higher and acceptance even more difficult.
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It really does seem to me that there is an active hostility in this Government, among some Ministers at least, to expert opinion. There's a desire to see things as simply black and white, the solutions as a matter of common sense, and those who say that things are more complicated as hand-wringing and politically-correct people who would rather not face up to hard facts.
I hesitate to say this with boldness at the moment, because it is a strong claim, but the evidence of this demeanor seems to be accumulating. In education, it seems clear.
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South Park'd
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Oh, and you get to pay for it all over again?
Cause it's new!
It never ceases to amaze me how people will pay a great premium on something simply because it's the latest model of X.
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Leo says we should lock it in a box where it will stay for 700 years before being used to disable SkyNet with its unmatched ability for FAIL. That sounds like a cunning plan.
It might be needed, now.
We live in a world where there are actual fleets of robot assassins patrolling the skies. At some point there, we left the present and entered the future.
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Doh...
That video clip was supposed to be this one.Of course it was.
I plan on having an awesome Ubuntu 9.10 install party. Everyone will get a go with the GIMP.
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Ubuntu 9.10,Karmic Koala launches in one week.
Try it, you might like it. (And it won't cost you anything).
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Reply posted cross-thread, for coherence.