Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Yes, I had no memory of it. I don’t recall the codes from the 80s having any specific mention of different rules of right of way for 2-way entries into two-lane roads, and I’m not surprised – it just doesn’t seem like a rule that would cause much trouble from failing to know it.
It was certainly in when I sat my tests in 1990.
I wish more people knew this rule. Numerous times I've turned right ( several years ago) or left (more recently) into the closest lane only to find someone jumping across their lane to move into mine. You have to turn into the closest lane.
In Dunedin this happens a lot turning onto the one way north at the bottom of Queens Gardens. It's a three lane road but the left hand lane only lasts for a block before it's a compulsory left turn. So people turn left will cross over that whole lane, and often the second one to get into the right hand one, thinking they have the right of way because they're turning left.
It used to happen the other way with right turning people going into the left lane in order to turn left a block ahead.
It's a problem because if the other person suddenly has to stop, they're now sitting across the opposing traffic swearing and they're about to be blindsided by straight through traffic coming the other way.
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Sacha: I think there’s a lot of resentment outside of Auckland about all the money being spent there to mitigate simple geography you can’t really do much about – you already have motorways up the wazoo – Dunedin’s been waiting 30 years now for them to simply finish building the 2 lane divided highway south out of town (to our fastest growing dormitory suburb) I’m told there are bulldozers in Caversham, we may yet see it in my life time, no sign of even plans for the single required overbridge yet though
Paul, here are the consultation plans. They've moved beyond that now, they start building the overbridge and associated road changes next year as stage 3 of the current upgrade - they're doing stage 2 at the moment.
So it’s damned energy efficient. But it’s still lugging that petrol engine around for commutes…
I wonder if someone will develop a model where the petrol engine is a module that can come in out of the car - leaving a cavity like the boot. Would be fairly heavy to get out I guess, but it really doesn't make sense to haul around the engine when you're not using it.
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Capture: Got the blues, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Blue buildings, blue sky
What's that second one of Nora? I can't tell if it's the side of the building or a tiled floor or something else.
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What would make it work is if someone organised a big, visible Offsetting Campaign, where people who were going to EG could very obviously donate to a specific pro-marriage-equality fund.
Orson Scott Card-bon offsets?
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Yeah, age appropriate is going to be tricky. My 14 year old makes short zombie movies in his spare time. They're probably M rated rather than R18. This sort of site would be perfect to get a wider audience for them, it would be a shame to limit it to G rated stuff.
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People are starving because they can’t grow enough food on their own land, the solution has nothing to do with food bags and certainly does not belong in this thread.
Actually in numerous instances, they can grow enough food on their own land, but they only grow one crop and they're getting screwed down the line in terms of money back to buy the food that 100 years ago they might have grown themselves. Or their ability to grow their own food has been affected by drought, access to water, salination, civil war etc.
In reality there's enough food in the world to feed everyone a decent meal. In the west we tend to eat too much (and too much of intensively farmed things like meat) and what we don't eat, we throw horrendous amounts away.
But I'd struggle to link any of this to food bags too.
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The Steubenville rape case (on top of the Jerry Sandusky / Joe Paterno case) is making me wonder what about sports?
Sports teams tend to try and avoid any political issues like the plague of course. They'd much rather have the homophobes and the PFLAGs and everyone in between support the team without realising that they're opposite sides of an issue.
Hence that Greek footballer getting major headlines with his nazi salute the other week. When they step outside that small field of play they look like a mess.
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If that were the only issue then you probably don’t have to worry about the movie. It’s quite likely he does not get residuals.
That seems to vary movie to movie. Tolkien's estate got a share of the profit of LOTR I believe.
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good on the man for turning up though.
I reached the end of the show wondering why we bother having a minister of broadcasting. He won't intervene in anything, won't advocate any funding for anything, isn't interested in the structure of a 'free market' or how the government has got tangled up advocating frequencies.
Felt like we could put him on the back bench and at least save the salary and the ministerial car and really not notice any difference.
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How many people here have seen The Wire? How many watched it live-to-air at 12:15 am on a Tuesday? Bet the Nielsen ratings weren’t that good…
We're comparing Public Service TV with a critically acclaimed HBO series which was a ratings failure?
That means that I can point out that Star Trek was cancelled after three seasons in support of my argument. Or something.