Posts by Dave Howell
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nothing in these emails that I have seen ... is out of the ordinary for private communications between serious and ethical scientists
Or, as Peter Watts puts it,
Science doesn’t work despite scientists being asses. Science works, to at least some extent, because scientists are asses. Bickering and backstabbing are essential elements of the process.
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How many of the few ships that we have need protecting?
I took him to be talking about protecting our ability to move goods rather than ships per se. And he has a point in that as a remote nation surviving by selling people stuff they can get from closer to home if they need it, our economy would tank pretty quick in the sort of dispute between the big boys that resulted in people interdicting shipping lanes. It wouldn't take a lot of risk before Maersk decided calling in at NZ wasn't worth it.
On the other hand, he seems to have failed to notice that if the nations big enough to shut down the Pacific were pissed enough with each other to be actually doing so, the economy would be the least of our worries and we'd be thanking our lucky stars to be sitting on a food surplus in the opposite hemisphere from the upcoming nuclear winter.
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Maybe we should all talk about the Rugby, I think we can all agree we won that!
How about some bitching about copyright N*zis, that seems to be reliably good for some agreement. Today's contenders AP for charging bloggers $12.50 to quote 5 words, and Virgin for forbidding you to have an open wifi network.
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If Singh was a Cop do you really think they would have waited 30 minutes?
Um, yes. Just ask DC Duncan Taylor's widow.
Tell them he had a knife and they'll come busting in.
At which point one or more unsuspecting cops will wind up dead and you'll still be confronted with an armed offender, but now it'll be one with nothing to lose. And hopefully if you survive you'll wind up in jail too, because you'll deserve to.
Granted there's valid public interest in why it took them as long as it did to decide that the scene could be entered, but honestly, get a little perspective. Why's your life any more valuable than the next guy's, even if the next guy happens to be in uniform?
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It was left to Rosemary Mcleod in the Star Times to sing out of key
Much as I hate to say it, Kerre Woodham in the Sunday Herald had a point too:
The complaints about the time it took for the police to secure the scene seems to me that we're sending a message to cops that their lives don't matter. Only ours do. Think about that the next time you bemoan the lack of police recruits.