The left's complaining because there will be two sides to any argument again. Hey, but don't fret I'm sure the so called hate speech laws will put paid to that, along with our democracy but then everything comes with a price, right?
I too live in Island Bay and can assure you Paul Eagle only understands how to use an issue to enhance his chance of getting where he wants to be. You mention the bikelanes, he initially opposed them, even going so far as announcing a joint ticket for ...
You stated "Wellington must have one of the most disempowered of New Zealand's city mayors. No useful control of any water, road transport..." etc I was pointing out that no NZ mayor (other than Auckland) has control of any of those things because the ...
I don't believe it's the role of the mayor to have control over those things. The Local Government Act 2002 states in section 41A; Role and powers of mayors (1) The role of a mayor is to provide leadership to— (a) the other members of the territorial ...
Not just National, possibly it's just more common from the right of the political spectrum. Don't forget David Garret from Act, he had apparently told Rodney Hide of his conviction prior to the election but nothing was disclosed to the public. That ...
Dave Armstrong has it sorted out. I'm wondering where he stayed in Hawaii, did he get the keys to his mentor Sir John's apartment ;-)
IT is an impressive, very solid and informative talk, all the university academics and students should carefully taste&study and take actions please ! :) Will@AUT
I suggest that 'Joe and his wife' (doesn't she have a name?) aren't part of "The opposition to cycling infrastructure" which was clearly the target of the sentence you quoted. They'd likely be overjoyed to have jobs that paid well enough to live on that ...
I gained my Goldcard three years ago so I probably qualify as old. I do my supermarket shopping by bike, there's a front carrier with plastic crate, and panniers on the back. This contradicts the claim by Reality & yourself about old people. "Auckland and ...
Hi Weka. The home page where this post is linked from has an error. The first sentence says "More people in the US have died from Delta than Omicron." Umm!
His father was Phil Verry, who had dubious connections with Kelvyn Alp, who is deep into the present shit at Parliament with his counterspin site.
Ross, as you compare the protestors to gar rights activists, I'm just wondering what you think of the rights and freedoms coalition... Given that Brian Tamaki famously blamed the chch earthquakes on gay people. As for the mandates, if only that were the ...
Well, it is a residential restriction, and while the Speaker does live there, I imagine the parliamentary complex is regarded as commercial. From the link from Poisson it's not till level four restrictions (drought) occur that all outdoor use is prohibited...
Bob Jones?? Lawyer Mike Bungay certainly did.
"Well, they’re at risk of lots of things including being run over or being injured or dying in a car crash. But for good reasons we don’t lower the speed limit to accommodate this low risk. " Actually we do lower speed limits to reduce risk. You're ...
It is not unprecedented. In 1975 after the Hikoi led by Whina Cooper reached Parliament a Tent Embassy was setup in the grounds. That was occupied for about six weeks.
"The FDA accepts legal aid from Pfizer and delays releasing licensure pages till May" https://lynnwoodtimes.com/2022/01/31/fda-pfizer-may220131/
To be even more pedantic, because of the way our eyes operate, what that quote calls the primary colours are actually magenta, cyan & yellow. They are the primary colours in subtractive colour mixing, what we dabbled with when mixing paints at school, and ...
I'm flicking back & forwards between this thread & making a submission to Wellington City Council regarding the completion of the Evans Bay Cycle Lane. While looking at recent comments made by others I came across this gem posted this morning: ...
Act is still mainly being treated as in their lonely past, as though Seymour is their only MP. They have yet to work out how to allow the other MP's to front issues for which they are the spokesperson, without revealing how nutty they are.
I know this might be slightly off-topic, but I would be interested to hear people's thoughts on this: "Antihistamines and azithromycin as a treatment for COVID-19 on primary health care – A retrospective observational study in elderly patients" https://www...
I have one more question to ask if I may? We are told that children only get mild cases of covid, is it known whether this means that for them the virus is largely confined to the upper respiratory tract and generally does not get down to the lungs? In ...
Thank-you for that reference.
I've been reading through the recent Hendy and colleagues modelling paper. In Table 1 they assume that vaccination reduces the probability of transmission in an infected individual by about 50%. My understanding was that Oxford University had shown that ...
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Does anybody know where to find a copy of the Shaun Hendy modelling report?
I wonder whether it has been moved to a previously blank wall, or have National 'cancelled' another painting to create space. Hopefully a journo will follow up this important matter :-)
electricityMap can show the carbon intensity of different sources. You will probably need to select NZ from the list of countries & then select the North Island from the map (for me NZ automatically shows but I suspect that's because of a cookie having ...
It's not only mother nature giving the well timed finger, our overseas income that farmers crow about earning could also be at risk. "Last week, lawmakers in the European Union and the US announced proposals to put levies on foreign goods that aren’t ...
Your quick calculation misses transmission & distribution losses (~7%), and losses in charging the ev battery (12-15%). That's about 20% of the energy wasted. Then there's the consideration of whether allowing business as usual mobility is the best use of ...
"Like NZ cyclists everywhere they complained bitterly and at length." My observation, especially after last Sunday on the Harbour Bridge, is that it's motorists that complain bitterly and at length. There's an interesting contradiction in your comment ...
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