Posts by Steve Barnes
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I dispair, more total buldhit from police.
Yesterday the Herald was shown figures from Waikato police that showed cannabis was a contributing factor in more fatal road crashes than alcohol was in the region last year.
The Waikato recorded its lowest road toll with 22 deaths last year. Five of those deaths had cannabis as a contributing factor ahead of the three that were alcohol-related.
Those figures?
Drugs, drink and driving
Of 1046 drivers who died between 2004 and 2009, nearly half (48% or 500 drivers) tested positive for alcohol or drugs in the ESR study.
• 72% (365 drivers) had either used cannabis, alcohol and cannabis, or a combination of drugs.
• 27% (135 drivers) only had alcohol in their system.
• 19% (96) had used cannabis alone.
• 28% (142) had used both alcohol and cannabis.
• (127) had used a combination of drugs, which may have included alcohol and/or cannabis.
Source: ESR
There is no indication, let alone proof, that cannabis was a “contributing factor”,its the old Correlation equal to Causation bulshit again…
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We now have a surplus of around $370 million, great says the Nat fanboys and girls.
But National has been borrowing big for all the time they have been in office...
Blinglish says..."Paying the interest on our debt this year will cost $3.6 billion - more than we will spend on the police and early childhood education combined,"
So, no real surplus at all then?
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Ok now its a nitpick but an unclassified thing, document or whatever, just means it hasn’t been classified, so you couldn't tell if it were meant to be secret or not, It is like no-one has looked at it and made that decision yet.
they could, I suppose, classify a document as “Public” and refuse to let you see it on the grounds that it is “classified”.
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Hard News: Snowden and New Zealand, in reply to Paul Campbell,
– we spend almost exactly the same amount on economic espionage as we do on actual research
Well, its cheaper to steal good ideas that do the research.
Oh, you didn't mean that?
;-)
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OnPoint: Budget 2014: Yeah okay., in reply to Russell Brown,
Competent Budget
Erm...
Sound like a Labour budget almost. As for that surplus.
As Winston pointed out, the amount of surplus is less than the amount than the insurance payout for Chch, which went into Govt. bonds thus showing as a positive amount in treasury. -
And of course. They do all this spying stuff to keep us all safe from harm...
U-2’s flight plan was like malware to FAA computer systemthe system ignored this manually keyed altitude data. It started evaluating all possible altitudes along the U-2’s planned flight path for potential collisions with other aircraft. That caused the system to exceed the amount of memory allotted to handling the flight’s data, which in turn resulted in system errors and restarts. It eventually crashed the ERAM look-ahead system, affecting the FAA’s conflict-handling for all the other aircraft in the zone controlled out of its Los Angeles facility.
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And of course we all knew how safe Skype was eh?
"PRISM has a new collection capability: Skype stored communications," a previously confidential NSA memo from 2013 declared. "Skype stored communications will contain unique data which is not collected via normal real-time surveillance collection." The data includes buddy lists, credit card information, call records, user account data, and "other material" that is of value to the NSA's special source operations.
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Hard News: Snowden and New Zealand, in reply to Russell Brown,
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Perfectly cromulent sir...
On the subject of security clearence. We used to have the "Official Secrets Act" enacted in 1951, repealed? dunno.
I had to sign it back in the UK, for that is from where it henced.
I was working in one of the Royal Parks, Greenwich, as a gardener. I had the joy of saying, when asked by an elderly lady as to what I was planting "I could tell you but I would have to kill you"
Wasn't all fun and games though I can tell you.... actually I can't. -
Hard News: Weirder yet, in reply to Russell Brown,
I suspect that there are people who don’t care about his welfare but will be only too happy to use him. Ask Bevan Chuang.
Indeed, some whales care more than others.
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Hard News: Weirder yet, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Fay?
Rich! White!
That is funny!Indeed, I thought so... in a sick way...
And the Rich White Wong* guy Xion Qui seems to be able to trash his opponents with impunity from a distant room on the 9th floor...apparently my name has popped up on the 9th floor of parliament and someone there has referred to me me as a “whale oil feeder” and thank god for that!
It ain't Got that Tokona should be thanking and if I were him I would be feeling shame. He, unwittingly, maybe, is helping the Rich White wrong guy.
* sorry 'bout that, too hard to resist...