Posts by Howard Edwards
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Reminds me of the kea recipe:
1. Place kea in large billy with a stone and cover with water.
2. Bring to boil and simmer for 5 hours.
3. Throw away the kea and eat the stone.
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Hard News: The Language of Climate, in reply to steve black,
I wondered about this during a Holmes interview (remember Holmes? It now seems so intelligent when compared to its replacement) on vaccination - they had the public health advocate lined up against the mother with a child who had some terrible birth defect. Surely with all the CGI expertise now available they could set up 10000 avatars of mothers with perfectly healthy children behind the public health advocate?
This would translate the esoteric concepts of odds and risk into a (sort of) concrete reality that the audience could relate to and hopefully understand
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Is this discussion is still active?
I tried to access the Auckland library Freegal page
http://aucklandlibraries.freegalmusic.com
yesterday without success. I emailed the library about it and received the following response from Karel.Brooke@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz:
Hi Howard,
Thanks for your email. The library no longer provides the Freegal service.
Kind Regards,
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Am trying to get to grips with the whole analog/digital/terrestrial/satellite/dish/UHF aerial/Freeview/SKY/built-in Freeview/Freeview box/MySKY/TIVO issue right now. Feeling hopelessly confused!
Present setup:
1. House has two CRT TV sets, one plugged into old analog socket on wall, other with two inputs plugged into a) same plus b) SKY box (not MySKY) attched to SKY satellite dish. Have tried a Freeview box with analog TV, does not recognise signal on either the wall socket or the SKY dish antenna - does this mean we need a UHF aerial for the house? The current aerial looks like a UHF but how does one tell?
2. Cottage has its own SKY dish (but no antenna) with socket. Tenants have digital TV with Freeview built in, cannot get signal on SKY dish, uses coax cable running up wall, can get some but not all Freeview channels (e.g. no PRIME). They have just bought a secondhand TIVO box yesterday. I have purchased a UHF antenna today and will install it on the cottage in the weekend - I hope it works!
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Hard News: Moving on, in reply to izogi,
Fortunately there are plenty of more important reasons why NZ trumps Australia for where I want to live, but I already miss the SBS and ABC networks, even despite the lack of on-screen NZ culture, which I seriously missed.
Amen to that. We lived in OZ for 6 months back in 2009 and apart from sport our telly viewing flicked between the ABC channels and SBS. It took some time to accept (again) that NZ has no public television service other than Maori TV (which does a fantastic job, but is not meant to be a channel for "the public"). RNZ National programme (and BBC world radio) helped us to recover.
Amen to all the thank yous Russell. Any thoughts about getting involved with RNZ's Mediawatch and joining Colin Peacock?
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Hard News: Moving on, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Maybe I should now take them on trips, to chuck rocks at TV3 and Sky HQs?
In SKY's case, just post the date,time and location on this forum please (and also whether we should bring our own rocks or not).
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Hard News: Event Season, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
I have a theory that interest in the America's Cup is inversely proportional to actual sailing experience. It seems to just be a national victory ritual that could as easily be enacted over Formula One, tiddlywinks or cane toad racing.
If you measured interest by numbers, then you are probably right as there are far more NZ nonsailors than NZ sailors. But if you measured it by proportions then I seriously doubt your hypothesis.
And as for AC beating Cunliffe to the top of the news - at least they were leaning seriously to the left at the time! (Although you could say that they moved back to the centre immediately afterwards - a predictor for Cunliffe's furture behaviour perhaps?)
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Hard News: The shaky ground of…, in reply to Andre Alessi,
Sounds like they subscribed to "zee floggings vill continue until morale improves" school of management.
I can't claim to know much about psychometric testing, but my dealings with psychologists lead me to believe that
a) Issues of reliability and validity are crucial but are easily overlooked by naive users of psychological methodologies, and;
b) Many of their models suffer from low R-squared values, which should make anyone skeptical of their predictive value on an individual basis.
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Hmmmmm .... 0 out of 2 for the Rodney ward. Looks like my local body rep will join my MP (the hon. John Key) as living out of my area.
I'm waiting for Kim Dotcom to be eligible to stand for election!
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Hard News: This time it's Syria, in reply to Euan Mason,
Ban frivolous vetoing - perhaps the UN could adopt a system like tennis and cricket where you can only use three vetoes per year?