Posts by Lilith __
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All right, if we’re bringing out the funguses, I found these flying saucers in Dunedin in March last year. Autumn.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to JacksonP,
you all don’t leave mush room for improvement…
Jackson, you're a fun guy! ;-)
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Big props to this Lyttelton couple for their equanimity in the face of adversity.
ETA: if you want to see a large mudflow in action, try this . [warning: may scare your pants off!]
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to Steve Barnes,
why should the victims need protecting from public knowledge? they are victims. I find it quite sickening that society still treats the victims of sexual assault as if there were a stigma attached to being a victim
There was a famous case here in Chch where automatic name suppression of a sex-abuse victim was lifted at the request of the victim. He spoke out for exactly the reason you give - the offending was not his fault and he wanted everyone to recognise that. It was a courageous thing to do, knowing that people might always recognise him as "the sex-abuse victim" rather than for any of his own qualities or achievements.
That's the sad thing that happens to the victims of notorious murders - their name is always linked to their killer's.
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Sacha,
To be fair, it’s a huge job.
Of course it's a huge job. I just want to know which bit of it they're doing.
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Buggered if I know what CERA actually spends its time doing. If they're not making policy and they're not seeing what's going on in the community. And they didn't write the Blueprint, they got in a team for that. So, what? Serious question.
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Can anyone believe that
Cera did not have any specific policy for heritage buildings in blueprint areas but would "certainly" consider a building's heritage value when deciding whether it could be retained
[ source ]
How can they not have a policy?? Seriously?
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Interesting, Ben, thanks.
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Field Theory: Never alone with Metenolone, in reply to Greg Wood,
Channel 4’s amazing game-changing Paralympics ad
Fantastic!
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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to BenWilson,
The lengthy dispute over whether light is a particle or a wave is a good example of this – in the end it really doesn’t matter too much, it gets treated in the way that is most useful for the problem at hand. The idea that it can’t be both shouldn’t really be stopping science making progress.
I thought this issue was resolved a century ago? Light is neither a particle nor a wave, but has wave-like and particle-like properties and can be treated as one or the other depending on context, as you say.
I think it's pretty hard to argue from "best-fit" pragmatic solutions to irrationality or extremism.
