Posts by Keir Leslie
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
And then, off to the right again, there's a sociologist saying: maths is a social construct...
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Hard News: Higgs Live!, in reply to Russell Brown,
Which is pretty ironic, given what half the difficulty in high energy particle physics is!
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I find the comic sans hate pretty hilarious. Most typefaces are horrible. Times New Roman? Ugh. Etc etc.
The real problems here are around visual noise and clutter, which have very little to do with type choices. Also much harder to fix. Structural as opposed to surface etc.
One of the second year projects at Ilam in design is to layout spreads from a science textbook.
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They don’t confer magic powers of discipline and pride in kids, but they’re a democratising outfit.
They are not democratising. They remove the fundamental freedom of every human being to control their appearance and self-presentation, and give it to some jumped up busy bodies.
Apart from anything else, no one would ever dream of making teachers wear a uniform these days. But wouldn't that be just as democratic?
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OnPoint: Pants != Journalism, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Hmmm? We have had an apex court for longer than a decade, although not this one. The other apex court — the Privy Council — never wore robes, and still doesn’t, on account of not being originally a court.
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Of course our apex court has never worn robes, so it is actually more traditional not to be robed.
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Actually I think the policeman would say, “Well now I have to arrest her, because it’s domestic violence and it’s police policy to always intervene in domestic violence so that the courts and victim support can be involved with both sides”.
Interestingly, this was precisely the policy that the Kapiti Police operated in AG v Hewitt --- that is, always arresting in cases of domestic violence --- and the High Court ruled that a policy of always arresting without regard to the circumstances of the individual case was (a) not a proper exercise of the discretion to arrest, and (b) arbitrary under s 22 of the Bill of Rights Act.
So now there is a presumption-of-arrest-unless-exceptional-circumstances policy, not an always-arrest policy.
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Oh Lucy! I am uh, ah, how to put it, uh aware of the whole College thing. I, uh ah, I also managed to avoid going to Wgtn College by avoiding those wankers.
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It is deeply hilarious that when you started this conversation, it was all summary offences this and nature-of-precedent that, and now it's plain-English-word-in-plain-English meaning. You can't have it both ways, Matthew.
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Lucy, Roseneath is just more au fait with Wellington College values than Hataitai. It's all about the character of the school...
Hilary: yeah, I imagined something like that would be the case.