Posts by izogi
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Legal Beagle: Voting in the Flag Referendum, in reply to Rosemary McDonald,
No platform for Our Leader. None of this bathing in the reflected glory. None of this seeing him wrapped in the cloak of others’ achievements. Maybe folk would see him for what he is.
Tempting as it sometimes seems, I prefer to give people the benefit of the doubt that they're not stupid because they choose to vote for an option whose leader is someone I don't really like.
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Legal Beagle: Voting in the Flag Referendum, in reply to Bart Janssen,
I’m a little torn. I strongly believe everyone should vote as a general rule. It is one of the few times we actually get to exercise our personal view in this democracy. Yet I personally hate all the designs proposed (yes even red peak).
I’m also torn. But to me it doesn’t feel as ugly as that referendum where the question’s phrasing declared that smacking was “good parental correction” and then asked me if it should be a criminal offence.
That postal referendum had a 56% turnout (87.4% for no criminal offence, 12% saying that “good parental correction” should be a criminal offence). Obviously it’s not the same as the flag thing in many ways, but afterwards it could still be interesting to compare the two.
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At the time I didn’t see TV3’s Story episode when Simon Lusk was interviewed (first time on TV apparently), but this evening I caught the Radio NZ Mediawatch segment which looked at how that interview was handled.
Here is the Story segment, for everyone’s reference. I recommend having something handy for wiping off Garner’s saliva.
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Legal Beagle: Voting in the Flag Referendum, in reply to Mick Buckley,
Not really, as Graeme said. You only ever have a single vote. But if your favourite fern flag gets into position where it can't possibly win, your vote is then transferred to your next preference, unless it has already been knocked out by having so few people like it. So rank your favourite one first, then your next favourite.
Everyone else's single vote also acts the same way and transfers as their higher preferences get ruled out, so it's not as if your vote is somehow any more powerful.
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Legal Beagle: Voting in the Flag Referendum, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
As much as red peak being added makes the whole process a farce.
I'm sure opinions vary but personally I see it more as a symptom of a farce that already existed. Maybe even a laughably hopeless attempt to mitigate the potential damage of what was already a terrible farce.
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Legal Beagle: Voting in the Flag Referendum, in reply to Emma Hart,
I was mildly annoyed to see Annette King (I think) on the news the other night advocating that if you wanted to keep our existing flag, you should vote 1 (or 0) across all the flags in this referendum.
It's probably not without tactical consideration, though. If she'd not previously told people to spoil their ballot papers, it'd be harder to later say "See! All those people agree with the exact reasoning I expressed for spoiling their ballot papers!"
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Well, we received four sets of ballot papers in the mailbox today: One for me, one for my wife, and two for the couple who shifted out of this house more than a year ago and have never bothered to update their address for anyone who sends them mail. We’ve gotten to the stage that we forward their mail when we can be bothered.
Yay for postal ballots.
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OnPoint: The Whaledump Saga: Scooby-Doo Edition, in reply to Paul Campbell,
isn’t using someone’s internet connection without permission theft of service …. wont it effect evidence gathered that way, fruit of the poisoned tree and all that
Re-reading Juha Saarinen's column, I suppose another interpretation is that Police couldn't clone the laptop without internet, so they (huh?) ... took a photo of it. I really don't understand what's being stated here.
If his internet was "borrowed" then I'm curious as to what they actually did. Did they borrow a network cable? Did they guess or hack a wireless password, or obtain it from one of his devices? Or did they just use his own connected laptop to do their job before bagging the laptop up as evidence, or whatever happened?
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OnPoint: The Whaledump Saga: Scooby-Doo Edition, in reply to Alfie,
From that link by Juha Saarinen:
As part of cloning of one of Hager's laptops, the police took a photo of it to record the information on the screen. This was apparently because the police needed internet access because they didn't have a 3G/4G mobile data connection with them. You'd think that a mobile data connection would be standard issue so that the police don't have to obtain internet access via the systems they're investigating.
I don't fully understand the flow from taking a photo to needing internet access, but if it's true that Police needed to use Nicky Hager's internet connection, from the evidence they were supposedly investigating, to facilitate their own investigation, that's insane.
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Hard News: A cog in the Mediaworks machine, in reply to Alfie,
And lo, only one lonely scout remains.
Meh. This is merely a case of MediaWorks refusing to deny a baseless accusation, and that doesn't prove anything.
Also, it's very impolite to spread gossip.