Archive for 2020

Open mike 03/09/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, September 3rd, 2020 - 239 comments

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …

Daily review 02/09/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, September 2nd, 2020 - 56 comments

Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …

Pollwatch: August Roy Morgan poll, reported 1st September 2020

Written By: Matthew Whitehead - Date published: 4:30 pm, September 2nd, 2020 - 30 comments

Pollwatch returns, with a Labour majority government no longer a complete certainty, and with another poor result for National.

The background traffic is loud.

Written By: lprent - Date published: 8:41 am, September 2nd, 2020 - 16 comments

Along with the grey weather, the weather around our local net is downright annoying at present. There are a massive increase in attempts to break into this site via backend systems and brute force front-end logins, a surge in scans from the search engine spider bots, and a lot of requests for putting up paid content. All of which have been ignored or dealt with. Good thing that we aren’t a target like the NZX, banks, mainstream media and the MetService are.

How Trump Has Changed New Zealand’s future

Written By: advantage - Date published: 7:00 am, September 2nd, 2020 - 28 comments

Post Trump how is the world order looking?

The Herald’s idea of balance

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 6:30 am, September 2nd, 2020 - 43 comments

The Herald yesterday posted a story suggesting that Aucklanders were split over the second lockdown when the actual reality was the vast majority were supportive. And a subsequent article pointing out how positive the result was does not clear the perception of negative bias.

Open mike 02/09/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, September 2nd, 2020 - 242 comments

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Daily review 01/09/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, September 1st, 2020 - 31 comments

Left wing twitter is the worst *

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:42 am, September 1st, 2020 - 69 comments

* but you should see what Judith Collins’ husband has been posting.

No Right Turn: If police think this is lawful and ethical, why did they try to hide it?

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:05 am, September 1st, 2020 - 42 comments

“The Privacy Commisisoner has said explicitly that any use of facial recognition needs a high level of scrutiny, which for a government agency, effectively means their approval. Police deliberately avoided doing that.”

Open mike 01/09/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, September 1st, 2020 - 114 comments

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …

Daily review 31/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, August 31st, 2020 - 77 comments

Labour’s Hefty Carrot-And-Stick For Water

Written By: advantage - Date published: 8:37 am, August 31st, 2020 - 16 comments

New Zealand’s local and regional councils have been given until August 31 2020 to sign up to a ginormous fund that would help them improve their water, wastewater, and stormwater systems. The implications for them doing this are significant and could see the end of Council control of the supply of water.

Open mike 31/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, August 31st, 2020 - 176 comments

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Open mike 30/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, August 30th, 2020 - 204 comments

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Kia kaha Greens

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:06 am, August 29th, 2020 - 304 comments

The Green Party is facing major push back from members relating to a decision to give shovel ready funding to a private school involved in education about the environment.

Open mike 29/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, August 29th, 2020 - 195 comments

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Daily review 28/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, August 28th, 2020 - 44 comments

Greenland ice sheet is disintegrating

Written By: lprent - Date published: 4:48 pm, August 28th, 2020 - 34 comments

For the last 30 years, earth scientists have been warning that Greenland was nearing a tipping point into complete disintegration. Now authors of a new study published in Nature has claimed that, even if the climate now reverted to the levels where it was stable a few decades ago, that would still happen. It is now clear that the IPCC worst case for Greenland is what is now being observed.

Open mike 28/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, August 28th, 2020 - 283 comments

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Daily review 27/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, August 27th, 2020 - 101 comments

Everybody got together on that day as one brother

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:45 am, August 27th, 2020 - 32 comments

The sentencing of the Christchurch Mosque mass murderer was shaping up to be a circus and allow the person in the dock to spread his message of hate. But so far it has been a cathartic event and has given the victims a chance to vent their feelings. And it has provided a chance for us to reinforce our solidarity with our Muslim brothers and sisters.

If National wins the hope for clean water and swimmable rivers will be gone by lunchtime

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:03 am, August 27th, 2020 - 40 comments

National has promised that if it gains power rules designed to improve water quality in our streams and rivers will be “gone by lunchtime.

Open mike 27/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, August 27th, 2020 - 195 comments

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Daily review 26/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, August 26th, 2020 - 21 comments

National’s latest deception

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:45 am, August 26th, 2020 - 98 comments

National’s social media team has published an edited version of a response to a written question by Chris Hipkins to suggest that returning kiwis in quarantine were not subject to compulsory testing, when the reality is anyone refusing a test can be held for up to 26 days following the fortnight stay.

Open mike 26/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, August 26th, 2020 - 172 comments

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Daily review 25/08/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, August 25th, 2020 - 10 comments

US v China: new Cold War or new Opium War?

Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 10:27 am, August 25th, 2020 - 23 comments

The Trump administration has declared war on China, and there is much speculation in the punditry as to whether or not this is a new Cold War similar to that waged post World War 2 against Russia. In my opinion, the 19th century Opium Wars may offer a more appropriate analogy, albeit with a likely different outcome.