Posts by Tom Beard
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"They've made it their mission to side with people against power"
The fact that Roughan can write this with a straight face, on the assumption that everyone would nod and agree that this is a bad thing, is astonishing.
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Hard News: Media3: Standards Showdown, in reply to Russell Brown,
If I wasn't out of the office, I'd add a bit more about tensions with the principle of open data -- and the importance of public entities complying with the OIA.
It's an important and complex problem. There's so much possibility of misinterpretation or hyperbolic reporting, especially if the metadata is either missing or couched in technical terms that look like plain English but have different or nuanced official meanings (e.g. "earthquake-prone", "no more than minor").
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OnPoint: Re: Education, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
The Herald could usefully consider this well-known graph. (Except I’d rather they didn’t, because I can already imagine the headline.)
Lucy: what's the Arrrrr! value for that scatter plot?
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OnPoint: Re: Education, in reply to Bart Janssen,
That's the default for everything in Excel.
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Up Front: Submission Pun Goes Here, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
That’s why I’m going to let my sub rest for a couple of days
That's often a very good idea, beca... I'll stop right there.
I wrote mine in a bit of a hurry. I hinted at the argument that in my ideal world "marriage" could be deconstructed and extended to a range of different relationships, but concentrated on the simple equality argument. At the moment, one (adult, human) couple can get married and another cannot, purely based on their sexuality, and that is unjust. Extending civil marriage to include same-sex couples is a simple way to right this unjustice and make that world just that little bit fairer.
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Shall we play at guessing the rest of the inaudibles?
Secretary Clinton and I share the goal of securing a high quality, (inaudible) free trade agreement, would be a significant (inaudible) countries involved, indeed to the region as a whole.
might be
Secretary Clinton and I share the goal of securing a high quality, (anti-democratic) free trade agreement, would be a significant (fuck up for the) countries involved, indeed to the region as a whole.
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And Twyford's a yes. Tide's turning.
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Up Front: Choice, Bro, in reply to JoJo,
Which somewhat militates against the "human rights and basic decency" argument. Perhaps ACT on Campus have been a ... I'm struggling to write this ... force for good?
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My initial response is that someone at ACT must have got to him and said "Oi, we're supposed to be classic liberals, not reactionary conservatives!' But if he really has made the decision based on human rights and basic decency, then good for him.
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Hard News: Keeping our heads on "bath salts", in reply to Russell Brown,
And I honestly don’t think supermarkets are where under-age liquor sales are happening.
But think of the messages you're sending by selling booze at supermarkets! People might get the warped idea that wine and beer go well with food.