Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Hmmm, must be a generation thing. I have only every been to hairdressers and usually female ones.
To me the shampooing and cutting is an intimate act. The sort that I would only wish a female to do.Yes, definitely a generation thing. I 100% prefer a female hairdresser, and half the reason I go to get a haircut is for the shampoo and that brief period where they massage your scalp. I couldn't relax if a guy was doing it.
And no matter how they cut my hair, it's still a mess the next day. So if it's feeling relaxed under the attentions of a cute female, then at least I get something out of it.
The first thing a hairdresser asks me to do is take off my glasses. Then she'll cut my hair, and ask me how it looks. For some reason, "I don't know, I can't see it" always goes down badly, so I've just settled for 'great'. Saves time.
I always fight with the gown to put my glasses on so I can check it's not too bad. Glad too. Once a woman gave me a cut, and I'm amazed that I never saw/felt her put the bowl on my head. "When I said blend it in...."
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I've never seen Dylan live, and I suspect that I never will, given that I couldn't afford to see him this time, and he's not exactly young anymore.
But if I was to see him live, I want it to be him, an acoustic guitar, a stage, and no more than a few hundred people in a cafe or bar. Preferably in Greenwich Village.
I suspect that would cost about $1000 each of course.
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Jason: yeah, an online-only newspaper is not going to earn the returns demanded by its shareholders.
I think we're waiting for the next generation of newspapers to break open online news.
Currently we have 'traditional' newspapers, that have gone online. The herald, the odt, the press, etc. Based in a city/region, gone online to complement what they're doing. It's taking an old model and pasting it on the internet.
I think the next generation will be a national newspaper. Once you get away from the idea of printing the newspaper, then there's no physical reason to be restricted to one city. At least half the news in the paper is national or international news anyway, gotten off the wires. It's a waste of money to employ a local journalist and a local editor to tweak it and then a typesetter to re-fit it into your local paper, and then put more work into putting it online on your local web site.
Once you move to an internet-only model, there's no reason to be restricted to a region/city. You can have a national newspaper, which produces all the national news, the same for everyone. You could have local reporters producing local region news, which people could either pick and choose from, or perhaps automatically get their local region's news based on their subscription/login.
You change your potential readership from the number of people that live in your region (1 million, half a million, quarter of a million), to four million. You compete directly with the local papers, but use economies of scale and the complete lack of newsprint, to get ahead.
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I resisted the temptation to go back and make sure I spelt your name tie right way, and clearly made the wrong decisions. My bad.
Add me to the list of people wondering when the long rumoured edit feature will be here.
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A good post Graham. I was impressed enough to make a 2 minute submission, very harmless.
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It's a question of priorities: if you also "heartily approve" of full, timely investigation of alleged burglaries and/or email thefts ... and if it's not forthcoming, then it's sensible enough to wonder what else the Police are up to.
This line grates every time I hear it. There are specialist sections in the police to deal with burglaries, homicide etc, and while they use 'ordinary police' as resources, the investigative work is done by detectives. Detective is a qualification that you get in the police, it requires some training, and sitting an exam. Constables just don't do much of that work.
Saying that general cops who are out doing general cop work, can suddenly go investigate burglaries and rapes, is like saying my workplace can take everyone who's working in marketing, and put them on IT support.
The Business Roundtable... They're just people, all too human.
I refuse to believe this until there is medical evidence. I've always thought they were zombies escaped from the set of a George Romero movie.
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I think that's unlikely - the leaked e-mails arguably cost the National Party the election. I don't think there are any 'principled conservatives' in the National Party so unflinching in their convictions that they'd be willing to let Labour have another 3 years in power rather than see the sacred cause of conservatism tarnished.
You can argue for or against what Nicky Hager says in his books, but I'm not aware of any history of him saying "here's where my information came from" and that turning out to be untrue. And some of his books have used information with a lot more 'top secret' stamped on it, than emails between Don Brash and the Exclusive Brethren.
The real damage done by the leak was done after the election. If we presume that was the intention of the leaker, then either they thought national was going to lose, in which case, good time to change leader, or they hoped national was going to win, in which case, changing leader gives you almost three years to recover before the next election.
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I think what we now need to know is how, despite all this 'uneasiness', Rickards still managed to be promoted up thru the ranks to become Top Cop?
'Culture' is a word which needs to be tossed around a lot in relation to NZ Police, particularly historically. I'm sure some people involved with promoting him either 1. didn't know, 2. overlooked as 'not too bad', 3. thought his good points outweighed his bad, or 4. Thought 'good on him' for what he did.
I would suspect there would be a lot of explanation within 1. People either didn't know, or had heard vague rumours or stories, but nothing more. You can't go not promoting someone based on some vague rumour you overheard at drinks after your shift finished ten years ago, with no further evidence.
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I know there's a 'process' but surely his own evidence has made his possition untenable. Even if there is a point of employment law crossed any payout would be cheaper than keeping him on the books for the cost of his $ & evil reputation.
There's a time limit on misconduct of this sort. Internal discipline can only be applied if the misconduct is brought within two years of when it (I can't remember if it's "took place" or "was first raised"). Either way, they can't use this historical misconduct to get rid of him, as it both occurred, and was known about some time ago.
So in order to get him out, they either have to have him PERF out, voluntary redundancy (the blank cheque), or get him for misconduct for something he did much more recently (given that he's been inactive for over two years now, the only place he could do anything constituting misconduct would be at court, and the worst thing he did there was wear his uniform).
I suspect at the moment they're in a long term holding pattern hoping to keep him out of work as long as possible. The last thing they want at the moment is TV footage of him walking back into a police station.
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Why was Dewar allowed to even testify at the second trial if his evidence had been compromised?
I don't know the details of the case/s, but I would presume his evidence was important to the case.
It's not that his evidence was contaminated, I believe he was bringing up other evidence when other oath, which wasn't allowed in the trail, and he knew it.
They still needed him to give his original evidence, they just needed him to do it without bringing up whatever other things he was mentioning.