Posts by Angela Hart
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Chelle, it is a big deal and a very difficult thing to deal with. I'm not sure you really have a choice, but your decision is made and it's one of hope, faith and trust. Now that the uncertainty about what to do is gone, you can focus on getting through it and recovering. Provided your infection risk is reduced, I suspect you won't look back, once you're out of hospital. Have you planned for rehab? All the best.
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So, are the comments being censored and skewed? Is it that bad?
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Speaker: Prospects for inclusive…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
The cost of such equipment is the main issue, also the availability of it and people who know how to fix it when it breaks down. Currently all beyond the Ministry of Ed.
Yes but- you're talking about a small group with specific needs and equipment which lasts for a good length of time, the cost/benefit equation works.
And yes, although I'm out of education now I can see it would be utterly beyond Minedu. For shame! -
Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to mark taslov,
told me it was the tip of the iceberg and basically spun off the same kind of line as Michael Hadyn had that you just need to embrace it because Government surveillance of NZ citizenry has been going on for ages, mass surveillance for over a decade,
It's only one view point. If it's the case, that still doesn't mean that we have to accept it, this is still our country- isn't it?
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Hard News: A call from Curia, in reply to Tom Semmens,
Given the polls have been open for general voting for the last two weeks, allowing any polling, let alone push polling, is an appalling lapse of regulation.
If we are going to open the polls two weeks early for general voting, then we need to forbid the conduction and publishing of all polls during that period.
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Why encourage him? He's distracting, he's annoying and he's wasting time we could be spending in a valuable exchange of ideas and information. IMHO he's best ignored, attempts to get him to engage in sensible discourse have been made aplenty.
On the other hand we wouldn't have had Ian's pearl without Jake's irritation. -
Thanks for this work Gio- hope it's okay to echo Mark and call you that. You've shown that there is significant progress and that if there is a change of government to the left, we have a chance to address some serious issues in education for children with disabilities. My (now adult) daughter went through physically handicapped units for her primary schooling, in the days before ORS funding. She vehemently insists that they are NOT a good way to go and I agree. Neither can we afford to allow the current situation where schools are effectively disadvantaged if they enrol disabled children to continue. New Zealand needs every child to have the opportunity to perform to his or her potential if we are to regain a successful economy and offer a reasonable quality of life for all our people.
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Hard News: Vision and dumbassery, in reply to mark taslov,
Mark, I think you've nailed it. Back in the days of landlines we had a reasonable expectation that a telephone call was a private communication (unless it was a party line ;-) ). Perhaps we no longer have that with mobile calls, certainly for the meta data aspect, if not for the content. We've been told for a while now not to consider e-mails private, so what is considered private communication is arguably more limited than most of us realise. At the very least there is a substantial argument that in the legal sense private communication excludes e-mail, non encrypted internet services and meta data.
This sits strangely with the cup of tea affair, arranged as PR, in a public place, surrounded by journos but with an angrily claimed expectation of privacy from the PM himself.
It seems to me that Angela Merkel, John Key, the supposed watchdogs and others in positions of power may in fact have little idea what their intelligence agencies are actually doing or how they do it. Who then, really holds the reins of power? -
Prime Minister John Key acknowledged today that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's claim that New Zealanders' data is accessible through the controversial XKeyscore system "may well be right".
However, he maintained that information will not have been gathered under any Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) mass surveillance programme as the agency doesn't have that capability.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11326387
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the current situation with Slater's court action is not sufficient to explain the silence. The decision permits publication of non personal information.