Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Do e-bikes ease traffic…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Sounds like a great reason for their being open source and software controlled.
Might that lead to an extra layer of complexity? While I'm not up with the exotic $3000+ "lifestyle" bikes, the controller circuitry of your standard Chinese ebike, of which the SmartMotion appears to be typical, amounts to only a few dollars worth of electronics.
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Dennis Frank,
...he seems to have abandoned the guillotine as standard treatment for political opponents institutionalised by the prior (leftist) revolutionary government.
The guillotine was introduced as a claimed humane method of execution. It remained in use until France abolished the death penalty in the early 1980s. The National Assembly of the Revolution abolished the death penalty in 1795. It was Napoleon who reinstated it.
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Hard News: #eqnz: Okay?, in reply to Hilary Stace,
A name I recognise was one who opposed the election of new mayor Justin Lester, with a monster attack banner on one of his buildings.
That seems to be something of a Wellington tradition. No doubt you'll recall Bob Jones's "Labour Credibility Barometer" that hung around for probably the entire Muldoon era.
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to David Hood,
There are many reasons for seeing him as the most Trump-like president.
Including, perhaps, that his backwoods supporters trashed the White House at his inauguration pissup.
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to Farmer Green,
feeding out
Reminded me of these "chalky snacks":
"The last time I came across these milk biscuits was at primary school in the late 60s.I vaguely remember they were being sent to starving children in India and we were either eating them to see what it was like to be starving or as an incentive to raise money. I'm not sure which."
What triggered the memory was someone's suggestion back then that we'd diminish our dairy stockpile AND solve world hunger by "feeding out" milk biscuits to the 3rd world starving, who'd trail after the tractor saying "Thank you white man."
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Hard News: The fake news problem, in reply to mpledger,
Fake news and trolls spouting incoherent nonsense. We once hoped for better things from the internet.
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Hard News: #eqnz: Okay?, in reply to B Jones,
This guy says it better than me.
Yeah well, though the red zone he refers to is the one that encompassed much of the CBD. While that's gone now, the much larger and totally separate residential red zone, which was never sealed off like the CBD, has now been largely returned to wilderness.
Apart from red and green stickers, Christchurch also had yellow stickers. Unlike the red sticker of doom a yellow was supposedly provisional - you left with the understanding that it wasn't necessarily final. In practice it almost inevitably was.
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From Ben Smith's Personal Mythologies series.
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Speaker: No, there isn’t a popular…, in reply to Danyl Mclauchlan,
the left lost
Like so many of the online troll farm that form The Dimpost's commentariat you seem to have reduced "the left" to a gaggle of online dilettantes. In the endless sidetrack of online point-scoring it seems so easy to forget how the contemporary "left" has made genuine progress. Sue Bradford, who unlike John Minto rejected the opportunistic advances of Kim Dotcom, had already achieved greater gains for genuine social justice than the sorry Internet Party fiasco ever could. On US election day she was back in the Greens party room for the first time since 2009 to talk to them about ESRA.