Dunno what you're trying to slide through all those equivocations, and I'm not sure I care.
"a lot of history" is not grounds for self defense, according to the Crimes Act. But I guess with the right history, with the right jury, and the right victims.... anything is defensible.
I don't have too much problem with the wood, or even beating the shit out of him more than strictly necessary - easy enough to chalk up to panic in a legitimate self defense moment. But arguing "self defense" to amputate a finger of a guy? How is that ...
I missed that this was your particular point of concern. Frankly, how it "plays" to seniors (or at least those who are aware of the realities of endemic c19) is how it plays to everyone else who understands that one can't just stare down a virus. The ...
Basically seems to say that next time we should have an "urgent" category as well, i.e. everyone gets evaluated as "emergency" (within 2 weeks), "Urgent" (priority place in a month or two, the Bellis situation), and the rest take their chances once the ...
I suspect the govt feel that any mandate measure has been effectively undermined by the fuckwits, so the next-least-bad is to "encourage". Pisses me off, but at least we got to a position that saved thousands of lives before the wreckers succeeded.
HES doesn't pick up billionaires, but (by definition) it doesn't pick up homeless people, either. It's a rough snapshot of the population, with little detail in the fringes, because it's a survey of a few thousand households out of 1.8million. It has its ...
The dude spent over a quarter of an hour beating someone to death.
"Semi-functional garbage" that helped keep us safe while most of the rest of the planet fudged their numbers of dead. Sure, if you could come up with a workable alternative or point to someone who knows what they're actually talking about, maybe we could ...
Nope. Because basic economic theory isn't just one chart of supply vs demand, or economies of scale, or monopoly vs competition. But keep arguing the supposed advantages of having a duopoly supply the bulk of groceries to a country's population. Really ...
perfection is often the enemy of the good. Apparently we should have had some way of keeping the pandemic away for almost two years while causing no problems for anyone.
In that case, your characterisation of Arkie's comment is equally false. Whatever the economies of scale save in "production" duopoly power hands directly over as profits rather than lower prices. Basic economic theory suggests increasing competition will ...
The curious thing is trying to suck up to business. They're not exactly known to be floating voters, so I guess he's hoping to claw some back off ACT. The incessant cost of living problems will hurt the government, but those are the times we live in. Even ...
The link about left-handedness also showed the same phenomenon regarding age. As for the rest, I've been skipping the threads I personally regard as the daily hate. Transphobia, tankies, PRC champions. All of that usual stuff. Skipping it has actually ...
Luxon now championing "give a holiday, take a holiday" jars for hospo and retail workers lol Luxon wants to get rid of Labour Day. Does he think the number of workdays needs to be strictly rationed at [checks notes, 365-11=] 354 days a year? Or could he ...
Funny how things increase as public acceptance of them expands. It's almost as if a bunch of folks feel a need to conceal something innate about themselves in order to avoid public discrimination and abuse.
We've known solutions to the bulk of our problems for decades: non-punitive access to benefits a living wage as minimum wage better funded and resourced education better funded and resourced healthcare (especially primary healthcare) better funded and ...
If a particular set of circumstances is all one has ever known, I'm not so sure how much of a "choice" leaving it really is. But a lot of the prevention measures cross over multiple issues: sex education and free contraception lower surprise pregnancies ...
But state intervention (KO) is becoming increasingly unpopular and undesirable. KO? Housing? It's very easy to focus on one cause of our societal clusterfuck - FAS is a massive problem, but so are legal/illegal drugs (often acting as self medication for ...
I often wonder what the differences were that made folks take such different paths, and have such different endings, when we all start out as the same sort of lump of cells. One of the key concepts in healthcare is "intervention point". The earlier the ...
Not misfortune, his killing. On consecutive days, too.
Trouble is that the higher you go, the larger the distance you have to project the laser over. In low earth orbit there's still enough air in the thousands of kilometres range ICBM interception requires, and tens of thousands of km for a higher orbit. ...
The main problem is attenuation in air, if I recall the old Star wars projects. Air scatters the beam. Wider spot means longer to heat up, so either more power or some manner of beam refocussing to get back to a small dot - ISTR a fair amount of crossover ...
The new thing seems to be independent targeting of multiple lasers onto the same spot. The trouble with lasers, unless you're using frequencies that can also fry electronics, is that they're not a destructive kinetic kill - one focuses the laser on the ...
There's a big gap between being completely honest and not bothering about any shred of truth. If I go into noel leeming for a toaster, they'll sell me a toaster. They might try to screw me on "insurance" or say my preferred colour isn't made when really ...
Salespeople are legally obliged to be honest within certain criteria. And I think that's the difference in politics today: every politician in history has massaged, stretched, and polished the truth (or at least rolled it in glitter) to their best ability....
OK, fair call, it turns out the selection had three candidates, but was delayed to check the eligibility of some members. And Wall eventually withdrew her candidacy after NZ Council felt that Williams' nomination was in keeping with the LP constitution. ...
It's but a scratch.
A capitalist isn't going to "fix" the problems that capitalism has spawned and profited off.
Looks like Twitter will be going even more abysmal pretty soon, then.
Pretty good summary. The Russians have not been happy about this, so are threatening to attack Ukrainian command centres. I love the idea that the Russians have been mounting a full-scale invasion without targetting enemy command centres.
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