What "went wrong" for Wall was that there was only one nomination for the candidacy, which required the NZ Council to make a decision. Read 8.9, p46
And, technically, an incoming warhead is an "ammunition explosion" in its own right - just Ukrainian ammunition, not Russian...
The B29 killed more people with incendiaries than the Silverplate mod did with nukes. It's a little-known fact that the delivery platform cost more than the device, but it's a mistake to add the two together.
The blockade idea was actually working - not cruisers, but US submarines had basically obliterated maritime traffic of all sizes around the Home Islands. It was just a matter of time until surrender. But also, I haven't seen any example of any part of US ...
A wind tunnel? George St? It ain't Lampton Quay.
And yet the urban redesign in Dunedin is still happening.
Not just schools. Otago uni sent an email around today basically removing all mandates - vaccine & mask, except where required as a legal minimum. I'm so amazingly pissed - they added some bullshit about providing support yadda yadda to folks who didn't ...
Oh, little changes can happen, and they add up. First Dunedin transitioned to a bus hub system. Now they're cutting main street traffic to one lane to make it more pedestrian-oriented. Next step will be a performing arts precinct in the Octagon - multiple ...
Or it's maybe more difficult to control a class if you're constantly telling people to mask up, so either the rule gets ignored or you lose the rule? Not an ideal public health policy on its own, but then that's why these things go through cabinet: the ...
And Sakhalin, where this took place, has it's own somewhat complicated, somewhat recent history. Circles in circles...
No metering at the household connection doesn't mean they can't meter along different sections to find faulty infrastructure. Similarly, there's no reason councils can't be required to run their systems responsibly, rather than handing everything over to a...
Not directly in relation to that technology, though. That's all them. And don't forget, they've been fighting since 2014, so they've had plenty of time to figure out what works and what they need. The training would be more in moving from the top-down ...
Apparently home-grown laser-guided artillery. Ukraine and Russia stopped cooperating on the tech in 2013, according to the link, so it's telling in some regards that one seems to have such an advantage in that tech over the other.
:roll:
Apparently Wall was a member of the notorious ABC faction. Wall said she supported Cunliffe, so the opposite of "Anyone But Cunliffe". Against Robertson. So it might be a grudge, or could be about future stability/transition of leadership in the next few ...
Metering also easily progesses to userpays, which Dunedin voters have rejected for decades.
The contrast between Hosking and Bloomfield is stark. Hosking has been paid and encouraged to foment outrage and hyperbole to increase media engagement, in the same way that Facebook sees us engage with content more in anger than approval. Bloomfield has ...
Did the original letter cross that line? Apparently not, according to the RS process. TS moderators put in a lot of effort regarding robust debate, for sure. But if I see some commenters in the activity feed, or particular patterns of specific people ...
Given that the complainants had to be identified before the initial investigation could proceed, the events seemed to be that they received five complaints. They knew who the complainants were, otherwise the complainants wouldn't have been able to be ...
Couple of separate topics there. 1) Academic freedom should not be an excuse to distribute outright misinformation, especially if it endangers people's lives and is out of the particular academic's area of knowledge. There has to be some line between ...
In one of the links, Wiles states she was not one of those complainants. So Ad bringing up Wiles in this context is still inappropriate. Also, the investigation was initiated by anonymous complainants... but "the society required they be identified for the...
Wiles didn't physically threaten the 7letter writers. Completely obvious difference in circumstance. Seems to me the anti-wokists have each jumped on their usual bandwagons without actually bothering to see if any cancelling was attempted - and by whom. ...
You really want to go down that math-hole? ok. On Feb13, we had had 649 hospital admissions over the pandemic. Now the number is 5899, so 89% of our hospitalisations are in the last couple of months, and thus probably omicron. About 90% of people admitted ...
Sigh. What proportion of the population are "fully vaccinated or boosted"? If they were hospitalised at the same rate as unvaccinated people, how many admissions would that be? Oh look. You've refused to keep up for at least a year now.
fair call, I mixed ukraine/russia fertilizer exports. Russia was like 7BUSD, Ukraine 700mil.
Oh look, vaccine mandates for certain professions are legal.
zouch
They might also notice that the ruble isn't looking too shabby while the Euro is going south along with the pound. So which is the historically weak currency recovering after halving its value in early march for some reason, and which one has been ...
I think the Nato hope was that Ukraine would retreat to its western areas and do some assymetric insurgency in the occupied areas, slowly bleeding Russia. But Ukraine is still using conventional forces, and holding its own. There's also the war crime thing...
Don't forget the old "foreign volunteer, ok last week they were a specialist in xxx armed forces, but totally unaffiliated now, don't know how they got that equipment, either" move. But as soon as the numbers start getting into the hundreds, the chances of...
Putin's likely already lost, the question is "how badly". Yeah, the escalation curve tends to get pretty steep after mushroom clouds of whatever size. Mostly because of any perceived imbalance of how many of the smaller nukes one side has/can take vs ...
Recent Comments