Posts by Russell Brown
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Polity: Unity, success: Chicken, egg?, in reply to Pharmachick,
I don’t believe in communism
Think of it as enlightened self-interest, then. Every child whose education is hampered by hunger, or who suffers a poverty-related disease will be a drain on the public purse for decades.
In South Auckland, we're already facing a public-health time bomb that was set ticking in the 1990s when various "third world diseases" rocketed. This stuff does hurt us all.
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Speaker: Abortion: morality and health, in reply to kiwi_guy,
She HAS got the right to decide – whether to hop in the sack with a guy or not, or use contraception aware that there is a very tiny risk it doesn’t work.
What's the guy in the sack doing?
Hey, look, no offence, but I have to go and make a TV show and I don't want it on my mind that you might be saying something harmful or really upsetting while I'm doing that.
Further, your shouty capital letters and selective moral judgement are probably already deterring women who might have some actual experience to bring to this discussion.
So, sorry, but I've blocked you.
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Speaker: Abortion: morality and health, in reply to kiwi_guy,
If a women CHOOSES to be sexually active she can take RESPONSIBILITY for that, not the tax payer.
Just as soon as people like you have removed any choice she has about bearing a child, right?
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Polity: Unity, success: Chicken, egg?, in reply to Sacha,
Well, Josie (?)
don’t be mean
Quite. It was a good-faith comment.
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Polity: Unity, success: Chicken, egg?, in reply to George Darroch,
It certainly smells like a faction of the disaffected from over here. I’ve been told Nash polled on running as an independent in the last election, before deciding to stay with Labour.
And then had a big whine about being left out of Little’s caucus rankings altogether. He has a higher opinion of his abilities than his colleagues do.
There’s a reasonable degree of coherence in Labour at the moment, driven by a recognition that it’s a centre-left party that will advocate for a degree of regulation in most sectors of society, and a considerable redistribution of resources from the top to the middle and bottom. Some argument over the details, but not the philosophy – except from marginal ‘third-way’ types such as Pagani.
As noted here previously, the Future of Work project is coherent and electorally relevant. Robertson sounded quite impressive in his interview with Brent Edwards over the weekend. I think there’s more in that in anything Pagani says.
Assuming, of course, they can make the step from discussing policy directions to clearly presenting policies.
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The Drug Foundation is back into its winter Speaker and Soup series and the one on July 3 is about drug information and early warning systems.
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Hard News: Nelson Street: Not too…, in reply to Glen Koorey,
I think you want to take the opportunity to be best-practice, and “fast/slow bike lanes” ain’t it (who exactly is “fast” or “slow”?). But separation by direction and from pedestrians is.
Thanks Glen. I had been wondering about this.
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Hard News: Friday Music: About Apple Music, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
As I’ve said before, one reason to go with lossless if you can is transcoding, you might not be able to hear the difference between MP3 and lossless, but you are more likely to be able to notice a file that’s been transcoded from MP3 into Ogg Vorbis or whatever.
I have done this, and yes.
Another point: It’s possibly all going to sound a bit the same squeezed through the DAC in your computer. I generally only really notice a difference when I have the subwoofer going and I’m playing direct to HDMI with Apple TV, or through my cheap, boxy external DAC.
(I *really* notice the difference between headphone output from my Macbook and USB > DAC. DJing without the DAC is very sucky.)
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Here's how the Medicines Act allows for consent for unapproved medicines, unapproved indications for approved medicines, etc.
It's actually quite permissive. The precedent here is getting past the cannabis bugaboo, not the consent for an unapproved medicine. That's not uncommon.
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Well, this is pretty big. A $34 million grant to the University of Sydney for cannabinoid research.
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