The value of rental housing just went up. The risk has gone up not down.
If a kid chases a ball towards the road and an adult grabs the kid to stop him running onto the road - is that assault or is that physical contact to avert risk of an accident? Intent is important. It's like the Japanese subway - they have marshals to push...
For there to be an assault there has to be intent. Did the elderly women push/poke the other person to cause her physical harm or to try and keep some sort of social order (perhaps so there wouldn't be greater harm)? To me it sounds like she was trying to ...
She is there to get name recognition. If she fails spectacularly it won't matter because in four years time it will be her name that is remembered not the outcome.
I would guess Iran is playing to Russia's tune. Russia got the world off it's back over Ukraine when Iran set the Palestinian attacks on Israel in motion. What's the bet some rubles changed hands to get that going.
Her lawyers will be telling her to keep quiet. And if you think that is from a position of guilt watch this illuminating video from a defence lawyer who recommends never talking to the police even if you are innocent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-...
I guess not, he'll just recommend choking it to death as he tried before... https://www.greens.org.nz/greens-call-bill-english-stop-disciplining-housing-new-zealand
The "decline" is against international tests that test things in a way we don't teach or test, or new countries that selectively put kids into the tests. Overseas they tend to put an emphasis on very exacting, rote learning while NZ tends to put much more ...
David Seymour was silly to let Winston have first go at Deputy Prime Minister. What's the bet there will be a new election before Seymour gets his shot.
I think Luxon will change his mind because more time in the chamber is more time for Labour/MP/Greens to make them look bad. And time in the chamber is not their only working time. It's just fixed hours while time outside the chamber is more floaty which ...
There might not be any evidence for the two occurrences but the likelihoods of those occurrences happening are distinctly different. Who has the most to gain by crapping on ACT - National - National want their voters back. I have to say whoever put ...
The big deal is the undecideds. I have seen polls take big swings when the undecided firm up their choices. There is nothing Labour can do about the economic position as we are screwed by global trends with the added bonus of unfortunate weather events. ...
Universities were never in a position to make themselves sustainable. There are all sorts of crazy rules about how much loss or profit they can make (~3% per year) that means that every year is a scrape to get into the margin. There is no ability to build ...
House prices are only falling because interest rates are going up. People are still shelling out the same amount of money, just more of it is going to the bank in interest. What people need is for interest rates to go down and for house prices to go down. ...
Links, please. Directly quoted speech preferred.
Probably suicide counts are the best way to measure mental health distress at that time. Although they are probably undercounts since there was still quite a stigma to committing suicide.
Selling the airport shares is insane. You don't sell something that is giving you a profit unless it's for something that makes you a bigger profit. Give a man a fish and he eats for one day. Teach a man to fish and he eats for life. Someone wants Auckland...
Wikipedia has a nice page on how gender evolved from it's meaning as terminology in describing language to it's use in academia to talk about the socio-political roles of women rather than the use of sex, as in the science/medical sphere, where it's about ...
You'd actually think there had been a lot of govt focus on Auckland rail given they are spending $5.493 billion on the City Rail Link, on top of all the work they have previously done to link up the south and east/west rail networks. But Aucklanders gotta ...
That's because, almost 60 years ago, they were using gender to have a different meaning then it has today. People separated into groups by sex or gender gave identical groupings but sex was related to their physical being while gender related to their ...
But some cultures could calculate square roots and some couldn't and that made a difference in what they could build. And buildings matter to culture - for law, government and arts.
I don't think it's that. I think they are trying to give children the tools to use as adults to fight back against people who want to impose an idealogical position on adult minds.
After adjusting for socio-economic factors, private schools and states schools have similar outcomes. You don't get a better education at a private school, you get a more advantaged network. I had a quick browse through the docs. I don't think they are ...
Apparently, https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/03/23/donald-trump-shares-fake-ai-created-image-of-himself-on-truth-social/?sh=71c680fc71f6
I'm trying to take a step back because a vast majority seems to have got firmly on one side or the other and believes they are completely right so the other side is completely wrong. And the extreme opinions of a few people seem to be making usually ...
I have two relatives who have done these tests. The thing about them is that they don't matter - there is no incentive for the kids to try. Ask a bunch of 14/15 year old boys to spend 2 hours doing tests that mean nothing to them then a majority are not ...
Ross Ihaka (one of the originators of R, along with the Canadian, Robert Gentleman) is Māori but does just being Māori mean that what you do comes from Mātauranga Māori? The R programming language is an implementation of the S programming language and S ...
From a health perspective the mandates were absolutely the right thing. The mandates made the unmotivated get their jab and there were way more of them then the vaccine-opposed. However, it gave a way for the people with very toxic views to rile up the ...
I agree - Labour/National have very different voter patterns for men and women. The misogyny was leveraged to draw male voters back to National.
National haven't opened their mouths yet so there is nothing to put people off yet. Once they start trying to talk people into their ideas, I think people will go "You tried that, it failed, haven't you got anything new?" and the tide will gently swing ...
3 waters is a dead issue in the cities. Small pockets in the rural areas might be making a lot of heat and noise but they have turned people off.
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