Posts by Gareth Ward
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Up Front: Choice, Bro, in reply to Gareth Ward,
Forget the name of the case sorry...
Wait found it, c/o Kyle Matthews: "The case is Quilter v Attorney-General (Court of Appeal in 1997, reported in 1998 I think)"
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Up Front: Choice, Bro, in reply to DexterX,
Yes - I looked at what was prohibited under the Marriage Act and couldn't find anything - I would be interested to know the specific nature of same sex marriage being prohibited.
Asked this question previously - it was tested through the courts, and they ruled the intent of Parliament in the Marriage Act was for it to be man/woman only. Hence this amendment is just explicitly stating Parliament's intent as to who it applies to. Forget the name of the case sorry...
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I shouldn't think Banks' conversion came at the hands of ACT on Campus, but from the Board. As much of a sham as they've become, they couldn't walk against such a basic concept of personal liberty...
I really can't fathom this not passing into law (not just this first reading hurdle). Feels like I may be jinxing it but surely? -
Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to Russell Brown,
Ah, found it. He will be subject to an Extended Supervision Order for 10 years after his parole expires in 2015.
Cheers. I believe that's the maximum ESO length? Given he served 85% of his sentence before parole and has been hit with the maximum ESO allowed I'm guessing he's not held in particularly high estimation by Corrections et al. So yes Matthew it feels like a "leave a bunk waiting for him" approach.
I wonder if they begin to loosen the restrictions with, say, a couple of years to go if he did manage to make it that far? Rather than suddenly "unshackle" him in society...
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But I can't quite bring myself to the belief that the system has failed by not allowing him to re-integrate into the community.
I haven't been following this particularly well, but I assume this is parole release - if so, how long does he have left on his sentence/under parole? Even if he gets recalled the issue is going to be when that sentence comes to an end...
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Legal Beagle: MMP Review - The Proposals, in reply to Ben Curran,
i don't get how it reduces proportionality. Surely it increases it? Maybe not as much as setting the threshold lower, but still it's offers more proportionality than 5%.
The 4% improves proportionality, but removing the electoral seat lifeboat (likely) reduces it - a party that wins 3.5% of the vote as well as an electoral seat currently gets its full 3.5% represented in Parliament. Under these recommendations it won't.
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Hard News: Future shock for the media, in reply to Russell Brown,
Performance-based advertising tends to be bent around the need to try and make people click... it’s basically impossible to get anyone interested in targeted creative for an audience like ours
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Firstly, it pushes creativity out of advertising in favour of mechanical accounting.
How so? The ads delivered still need to be creative and couldn't you see a wider range of creative output as multiple ads need to be created for the more granular segmentations?
Second, it is very bad for independent editorial publishers, because they are small and this is now a business all about scale.
Yes, although it probably always has been about scale - there just wasn't the tools and metrics to make it work that way.
Third, it steadily disengages advertising revenue from the creation of content, and editorial content in particular.
Unfortunately we will see generic ads served to your "social graph" rather than to the specific site, but IMO the successful ads will (still) be the ones that work in the context of when/how/why you're viewing them...
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This genius tweet from Scotty Stevenson
I mentioned last night that perhaps we should have been suspicious when they changed that girl's name to Yay She Won before the Olympics even started...
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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to Emma Hart,
Re the sacrament, I actually had the reverse - got married by a celebrant in a friends restaurant here in NZ, then had the full-noise CoE sacrament in the UK for our second ceremony. Which did everything BUT the civil part as it has already been done here; Dean of that particular Cathedral was quite clear on how separate the State and Church parts are...