Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Russell isn’t hidebound by a priori conceptions of felafel.
Danielle can now go into Easter a much happier person having made this comment :)
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Yeah, except that there are many good safety reasons to park behind them, none of which is related to capturing things on camera. Or are you talking about the cops who pull people over for the specific purpose of doing them mischief, as opposed to the ones who pull people over for some valid exercise of their legal powers?
Yeah, I was referring to (what other people referred to) was if officers were out to do something which they knew would get them in trouble, getting/wrecking a copy of the recording wouldn't be the way to approach it. Just point the car away from the action via pointing your car away.
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Yeah, but nah. Unless you're suggesting the "struggle" includes going to the boot, breaking into the secure drive storage bay, removing the drive, and "losing" it.
I'd imagine that the camera will be fixed in the car (this seems to be how they work in the states where they often provide video for "crazy fucking crashes" video clips) that the easiest way to get around them will be to park in front of whoever you pull over, or point your car the wrong direction, etc, if there's ever a time you really don't want to be filmed.
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If Labour is against something then they should vote against it, and when the shit hits the fan they can say “National did that, and that’s why you should vote for us, not them”.
Well sometimes. But the proposed legislation might be something that you’re not happy with, but which is better than the current state of affairs, so you might vote for it.
In this instance, for whatever reason, the govt clearly made an offer to labour to improve the legislation as long as Labour voted for it straight through, no amendments etc.
It’s possible that if Labour hadn’t voted for it, the government would have pulled the improvements and due to them voting against it would be worse law.
So sometimes there are clearly judgement calls to be made.
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Given that a bunch of people tried to get Jackson's film adaption of "The Two Towers" renamed to something else after planes flew into two towers on 9/11, people clearly have a fantastic ability to draw stupid shit out of anything.
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You’re getting the wrong end of the stick. The point I was trying to make is that there are cameras that will pick out who is at the wheel, regardless of who owns the car.
Not really Grant. The bill is sent to the car owner. If you can prove that your car was stolen you will get off. If it's your son/wife/friend driving, it's your responsibility to get them to pay the bill.
I never would have shelled out the very large amount of money for the Region-1-only Firefly DVDs if I hadn’t watched it through rather less legal means.
I'm the same. I ended up buying the complete set of The Wire end of last year after torrenting it down on people's recommendations here.
I'll also buy the entire set of Friday Night Lights once the distributors actually bring it into the country, until then I'll keep my torrented versions on my hard drive.
I heard him on bFM about an hour ago. He’s very clear, very forthright, and I believe, will some day be PM.
Maybe if he switches parties. Despite the world moving substantially over the past 20 years to adopt green ideas, the Greens aren't gaining substantial support, probably because they've been successful enough to have the major parties adopt their "radical" ideas 10 - 30 years after they have them.
Of course there is the youtube of him floating about wherein he promises to resign from Parliament if he doesn’t get the student loan scheme cancelled. So he may be a tad tender about the intertubes…
Student fees. He introduced the student loan scheme so promising to abolish it would be bizarre even for him, but campaigned on "abolishing the $1250 fee" that Labour put in place in 1990. Of course he did abolish the fee - by allowing the universities to set their own fees, and then he hacked their funding every year.
Dave Cunliffe is a Fulbright Scholar with a Masters from Harvard. And Dave Parker has a background in bio-tech.
Nick Smith has a 1st class engineering honours degree, an AFS Scholar to the US, and holds a PhD on NZ landslides. There's no shortage of people who have done well academically in parliament, or indeed done well in business, there's some structural problems beyond who is there.
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It didn't help that he was an enormous arse as well.
He was an enormous arse yet he was offended by being called "from the south of a bridge"?
If it was, then for this thread as I write, that's 87 posts out of 1888 views - or about 1 writing for every 22 readings.
I presume there will be some duplication in the views. I will have viewed some threads on three or four different computers (I presume it can tell when I move from page to page in the thread and ignore that), some while not logged in. So your 1888 views might actually be... 500 people viewing some part of the thread.
Because this week I saw no in depth analysis of the Labour party list, no commentary on the balance and worth of the people.
Pundit.co.nz has got two good (somewhat contrasting) posts and analysis of the common perception and media reporting of the Labour list.
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Hey Russell, for a future Friday post, can we ask people to list interesting podcasts that they've found?
Since I got an ipod last year I've been eating them up walking to and from work, but I've tried a couple and want to drop them, so I'm looking for other suggestions.
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I was struck when I talked at the launch of the Humanities Research Network about blogs and other modern communications by the way that nearly everything I said seemed to be news to those present.
I'll blow an academic colleague's trumpet: University of Otago Legal Issues Centre blog
In the Ancient Greek city-state the equivalent of the Roman Forum was known as the “Agora”, a public space where free citizens would gather to engage either in politics or commerce. “Agoraphobia” refers to a fear of critical public situations and is a condition that one trusts will not inhibit New Zealand’s legal community from coming forward to debate proposals for the reform of civil justice.
Just starting, being launched at parliament next week. There's a facebook page if you search for "university of otago legal issues centre" which will pick up the important stuff once I link it to the blog tomorrow.
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Meanwhile, here's a direct quote from Tolley in the last story you linked to.
My immediate reaction to Key's and Tolley's comments were "Ministers suddenly discover there is bullying in schools" followed by "Ministers offer no practical help to deal with it". I'm not surprised that NZEI members who are trying to deal with this problem and umpteen others every day get a bit pissed off.
Bullying to me feels like a problem which could benefit from a similar strategy as the "it's not OK" adverts, but targetted more towards youth in medium and presentation.